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MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

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South Haven will vote on the propo-
sition to bond for electric lights.
An electric line from Flint to Long
Lake and Fenton is being agitated.
The free mail delivery service will be
established at Wyandotte on Feb. l.
Lawrence is to have local board of
trade and improvement association.
The Maryland Fidelity & Deposit Co.
denies liability under Gen. Whites
bond.
Slippery Corners, five miles north of
Mt. Clemens, was wiped out by fire on
the 25th.
Five business places at Traverse City
were scorched to the extent of $4,000
on the oath.
The Ogemaw county treasurer has
paid out Sal bounty for the killing of
AZ wildcats.
The Brighton Breeders association,
composed of 20 stockholders, has been
formed there.
During 1899, s5 divorce cases were
begun in Calhoun county and 81 DEGREES
were granted.
The cooper shop at Reading was de-
stroyed by fire on the 25th, entailing
loss of 5000.
A bone fide boom is on at South
Haven-there is not an empty store to
be found in town.
Benton Harbor Is % have an overall
mandatory which sill give employ
ment to 500 hands.
An Oxford man is fne possessor of a
hen which has laiu n double-yolk egg
every day for week.
Fine beds of mari have been found at
Cass City and the prospects for a ce-
ment factory are good.
A county bar association will be
formed by the attorneys of Calhoun
county on Lincoln's birthday.
A Detroit gentleman has offered to
buy any or all of the stock of the New
State Telephone Co. at 46 cents on the
dollar.
The Cad anniversary of the admission
of this state into the union was cele-
brated at Washington on the evening
of Jan. 25.
John w. Porter. Port Huron banker,
while visiting the south in the hopes
of regaining his health, died at New
Orleans on the eth.
Frank Il. Roosevelt, of Keller, wants
&c nnvuanian tn
him $4,000 for alleged alienation of
his wifes affections.
The Montcalm Telephone Co. will
| shortly be consolidated with the Alma
company. The former has connections
with 40 different towns.
Reading has finally purchased a site
| for her water works pumping station.
The test well sunk on the land has re-
suited most successfully. ~
In a Lapeer household is a fatiron
which has been in the family for 2sc
years, having been brought over from
England in the Maytlower.
The school for the blind at Lansing
is now open again, the diphtheria pa
tient having recovered and the quaran
tine of the institution raised.
The Otsego Base Ball association has
filed articles of incorporation at Lam
sing and will eclipse all former efforts
in that line the coming season.
A proposition to bond the city o.
Muskegon for $4,000 to build mum
cipal electric lighting plant, will b'
submitted to the voters in the spring
According to the county clerks re
port there were 50 divorce cases be
gun in Genesee county last year, 81 de
crees being granted and three refused
Lyman Ogden. Of Union township
Branch county, has a horse 33 year
old that is as spry as a 3-year-old colt
The horse seems good for score o
years more.
There is something in the atmos
phere at Richmond, evidently. which
is conducive to longevity, for 81 of tn
900 residents of that burg are over 8
years of age.
Acknowledgement Or;en in defining
the status of medical practitioners
holds that graduates from the ''di
ploma mill" are not eligible to praC
tice in this state.
Cassopolis has fallen into line wit
the other places in southwest Mich
gan which are hustling to build them
selves up, and has organized bushes
mems association.
The supreme court holds that pei
son is entitled to pay their taxes b
check if they prefer, but the same mus
be cashed before the taxes can be cor
, sidered legally paid
Omer is to he lighted with electri
lights at once. A. Kent, proprietor {
the Touring mills, will furnish tn
light from his mill. which gets il
power from the Rifle river.
1t is now estimated that il will TAX
SIS. 600 additional to complete the $50
600 public building at Menomine
This is due ii is said to the rise
price of building material.
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