The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-11-23
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

18th.
The county Jail at Monroe has been
quarantined-one of the prisoners has
the diphtheria.
A district school near Reading was
closed on the 18th, on account of an
epidemic of measles.
John Patton, mayor of Detroit from
1855 to 1859, died on the 10th after an
illness of four months, aged 10
Portland has dropped into the pro-
cession and adopted standard time.
The change will be made Dee. /.
The village board of Fenton has de-
cided to construct a sewer system there
on modest scale. 1t is badly needed,
From Three Rivers, Benton Harbor
and Kalamazoo came reports of regu-
lar old fashioned billiards on the 18th.
There is diphtheria scare at Spring
port and the attendance at the public
schools is much reduced as q conse-
quence.
The Northern Michigan Teachers
association holds its annual meeting at
Cadillac this year, the dates being
Nov. 80 and Dec /.
zThe annual convention of the Dis
ciple churches of Van Buren,, Allegan
and Kalamazoo counties will meet at
Bloomingdale, Dec. 3, A and 5.
If Romeo will donate the buildings
and land, and her citizens subscribe
for half the stock, $50, 900 condensed
milk factory will be built there.
Rochester has secured an addition to
her list of industries in the shape Of
window shade factory. The plant will
be in operation not later than Jan. /.
The main shops Of the Detroit Bridge
& Iron Works, covering nearly an en-
tire block in Detroit, was damaged TO
the extent of 500, 600 by FIRE on the
l4th.
IT cost Henry G.. Smith, Of Adrian,
e,27l.G3 to get elected TO congress,
while his opponent, Martin G. Loen-
neckcr, "blcw in" ST ,oS5 and was de-
featcd
At the annual reunion of veterans of
the Army of the Tennessee, held in De-
troit, on the 14th and 18th, Gen. Il. A.
Alger was chosen vice president of the
society.
Additional rural free delivery SER
vice has been ordered established at
Rlissfeld, Lcnawce county. with W.
w. Miller as carrier. Length Of route
24X miles
The people of Muslsegon arc blaming
the census officials because their city
failed 10 show more than few hun
dred increase in population in the past
ten years.
The carly arrival Of winter has fonnd
most Of the farmers of Van Buren,
county unprcparcd for it. Nearly half
the potatoes are not yet dug, nor the
corn huslled.
Christopher Munge, prisoner in the
Detroit house Of correction, suicidcd
on the 18th by first cutting his veins
with glass and then hanging himself
TO his cell door.
The contract has been let for the re-
building of the central school which
was burned at Clare recently. The
new structure will cost SIS, 500 and will
be ready for occupancy April /.
Quincy has landed another industry,
this one being a plant for the manu-.
facturc of brick, thing and ornamental
stoncworli from Portland ce ment. Bus
mess will begin in short time.
There is possibility of knitting
factory locating at Utica, and to cinch
the matter the village council has ar
ranged for n site to be presented free
to the projectors of the industry.
1t is cheering to learn, with Thanks
giving near at hand, that the turkey
crop this year is very large, and also
that the prices are sure to be agreeable
to the raisers of this winged tribe.
The state tax commission on the 18th
made formal complaint to the governor
through the attorney general, against
Otto Bauman, assessor in Manistee,
charging differentiation of property.
The estate Of Grace Newton, of Flint,
wife of Judge Newton, who died on
Sept from self-inllicted pistol shot
wound, will amount to S32, 900. She
owned considerable Standard Oil stock.
The farmers in the vicinity of Bay
City, on the 18th, received pay for the
bects and chicory they had delivered
to the factories during the past few
months, amounting in all, 10 S3l7,
3Sl0S.
There is more sickness in the vicn.
ity Of Sanilac Centre at the present
time than there has been at any time
before in IS years. About everything
in the disease line seems 10 DC going
the rounds.
The recent snow and transforms
found over half the farmers in south
western Michigan with their corn still
unhusied, in spite of the fact that
there has been .many weeks of excel.
lent weather, in which to care for it
The cornerstone of Cadillac's new
city hall was laid on the 18th. Cere-
monies such as are usually attendant
upon such occasions had been ar
ranged for. but the unexpected setting
in of winter resulted in their being