The Yale expositor., 1900-02-02


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 $1,000.
A bone fide boom is on at South
Haven-there is not an empty store to
be found in town.
Benton Harbor is TO have an overall
mandatory which will give employ
ment to 500 hands.
An Oxford man is the possessor of a
hen which has laid a double-yolk egg
every day for a week.
Fine beds of mari have been found at
Cass City and the prospects for a &C.
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 G3d anniversary of the admission
of this state into the union was cele-
brated at Washington on the evening
of Jan. %.
John w. Porter, Port Huron banker,
while visiting the south in the hopes
of regaining his health, died at New
Orleans on the 27th.
Frank Il. Roosevelt, Of Kecler, wants
DIR. 5. Stevens, of Dowagiac, to pay
him $4,000 for alleged alienation of
his wife's 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 flatiron
which has been in the family for $50
years, having been brought over from
England in the Mayhower.
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 Bali association has
filed articles of incorporation at Ian
sing and will eclipse all former efforts
in that line the coming season. '''''.
- A proposition to bond the city of
Muskegon for $4,000 to build muni-
cipal electric lighting plant, will be
submitted to the voters in the spring.
According TO the coun ty clerks re-
port there were SO 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 horse 33 years
old that is as spry as a 3-year-old colt.
The horse seems good for a score of
years more.
There is something in the atmos-
phere at Richmond, evidently, which
is conducive to longevity, for 81 of the
900 residents of that burg are over so
years of age.
Attorney General Orien in defining
the status of medical practitioners,
holds that graduates from the ''di-
ploma milf are not eligible to prac-
tice in this state.
Cassopolis has fallen into line with
the other places in southwest Michi-
gan which are hustling TO build them
selves up, and has organized business
mems association.
The supreme court holds that a per-
son is entitled to pay their taxes by
check if they prefer, but the same must
be cashed before the taxes can be con-
sidered legally paid.
Omer is to be lighted with electric
lights at once. A. Kent, proprietor OF
the Touring mills, will furnish the
light from his mill, which gets its
power from the Rifle river.
1t is now estimated that it will take
SIS, 900 additional to complete the $780,
600 public building at Menominee.
This is due, it is said, TO the rise in
| price of building material.
The supreme court has confirmed the
| conviction of Otto l.. Luttermoser, OF
Springwells township, Wayne county.
He was convicted of raising several
township orders from S3.75 to s13,75.
The Prohibition convention for the
Sd congressional district has been called
TO meet at Albion, Feb. Q, TO select
delegates to the state Prohibition con
vention, and nominate candidate foi
congress. This is the first convention
called in this vicinity for the coming
campaign.
There is at least one man at Orion who
will raise something besides sugar
beets the. coming summer. Last season
he planted five acres to that crop, anC
after paying for the seed, but not the
labor connected with the raising anC
harvesting of the beets, he was JUS
Si.24 60 the good.