The Yale expositor., 1900-12-14

ture.
st. Joseph is to lose a land mark
the historic Braut hotel is to be torn
down.
three weeks revival closed al
Carleton on the I'd But few converts
were received
Burglars raidcd several stores n:
Cheboygan on the 9th, but did not sc.
cure any booty.
The hands of the Detroit city hall
clock were moved ahead rs minutes on
the night Of the 4th.
Lapeer physicians have organizedan
association for mutual protection, and
to weed out the dead beats
Clinton's oldest resident is dead.
Mrs. Ann Allen, of near that place,
died on the cd aged nearly 1Ol
Burglars got about $500 by cracking
the safe in the Grand Ledge postoffice
on the night of the Sth. No clue.
Musbegon's latest industry is the
| Automatic Wripger Co, formerly OF
Wupun. Wis They employ so persons.
An unprecedented business is being
doue at Albion this fall in the buying
OF corn from that vicinity for ship
ment TO outside markets
II is DOW SAID that Millionaire Wright,
next IN line for pardon. and that it
Will come before Christmas
w L Fr,nk. Of Elk Rapids. has lost
| 10 900 bushels Of potatoes this fall by
rot At the present market price that
means loss of about 81 500
hollands sugar factory has manu-
featured POO COO pounds of sugar to
date Dee. g. and expect to make 1,OoO,-
600 pounds more this season.
A genuine southern opossum was
captured by trapper pear Trenton a
few days ago Such ANIMALS are ex-
| ceedingly scarce IN Michigan.
The Wolverine Sugar Co of Benton
! Harbor, announces that tho firm is
| ready to make contracts for beets for
next season at price of IS per ton
A spasm of virtue has struck Trav-
| erse City, and crusade has been in
stltuted against slot machines and the
keeping open Of saloons after hours.
The entire 9Th congressional district
is to be mapped out immediately for
free cural delivery Forty new routes
Will be IN operation inside of u month.
The board of control Of Ionia prison
will ask the leg slature TO change the
| name To Michigan rcformatory, and
make 1T place for first term men eX-
clusively,
Tom Woods. the Negro desperate,
! who tried to escape from two Pontiac
! officers bv the aid of two revolvers
was sentenced TO 10 years at Jackson
on the 4th
The Kalamazoo Traction Co. has been
granted franchise TO build an electric
road through the village Of Plainwell.
The road must be completed before
Jan. 1, 1902.
Rumors are again in circulation that
the Caro- branch Of the Michigan Cen
trail is to DC extended soon toward Gage
Harbor Beach.
The postmasters OF Onaway and On
tonagon will have thcir salaries in
creased TO 81, 900 per year on after Jan
I. Their offices having been ia,eed to
the presidential class.
Four prisoners escaped from the Ann
Arbor Jail on the 4th A couple of gas
pipes were the only tools used. This
makes six prisoners who have escaped
from this Jail within six months.
The local option movement in Shia-
wassee county has gottc0 as far as the
calling OF Il county convention at Cor
unna, Dec. II, to put into circulation
the petitions for the special election.
MISS Annie McBraync, whose home
was in Canada. but who was employed
in Detroit, was run down by a street
car on the Sth. sustaining injuries
which caused her death a little later.
Yale business men have finally come
to the conclusion that bad roads are
bad for business. and they are going to
have some of the poorest highways
leading into the village put into good
condition,
There is a possibility that Midland
may lose the big Dow chemical plant
| now located there, and the business
men are hustling their livel'est to in
duce the proprietors not 10 remove
from the village.
Farmers around Elkton who ra,scd
| sugar bcctS the past summer are highly
| pleased with the results, and many OF
them will double their acreage next
year Some Of tic farmers have realized
over 500 pee acre
Melvin DcmpSie. Of Cheshire, near
Allcgan, recently returned from tho
Kloudlke with his pockets filled with
| gold nuggets and claims worth at
! least 81 ,OU0. 900 He bad been absent
from home only two years
! Edward Warner. Anna Pelkcy and
| VIII Baxter of Plymouth, became dis
couraged on the 9th. and thought life
not worth living They resorted TO
suicide Warner is dead and Baxter
aud MISS Pelkcy may recover.
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