The Detroit informer., 1900-01-13
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

Calumet police officers are making an
effort to stop the gambling which has
hourished in that city.
Work on the Gull Lake branch of the
Battle Creek-Kalamazoo electric rail
road has been suspended until spring
Dowagiac has a chance to secure a
canning factory, and it is not likely
that the citizens will let the chance
get;by.
Regular service on the Detroit &
Northwestern Electric railroad be-
tween Pontiac and Detroit began on
the Sth.
Owing to defective walls new three
story brick structure at Battle Creek
collapsed on the 9th. 1t was known
as the Stewart block
Sheridan is without high school.
that building having been DESTROYED
by fire on the 7th. The loss is about
$4,000, with 81, 500 insurance.
The Sons of ST. George order at
Houghton have started fund for the
aid OF widows and orphans of British
soldiers slain in the Transvaal.
The organization of an independent
military company is under way at Sa-
line. No effort to get into the state
national guard is contemplated
lngham county will pay the expense
OF the recent grand jury and will then
ask the state to reimburse the county.
| The total expense will be about S4. 500.
j. Garrison is pushing a project for
| erecting beet sugar factory at Marine
City. Local capitalists are supposed to
| subscribe for $1,000 worth of stock.
A mummy from the cliff dwellers
of Arizona was recently presented to
the U. of NJ. by DR.. j. c. Leonard. 1t
has been placed in the museum of that
institution.
Barry county farmers who have be-
come interested in the breeding of
Shropshire sheep have organized the
Barry County Shropshire Breeders as
sociation for mutual benefit.
Port Huron is after the L. A. w. of
fer for the city sending in the first 200 |
applications for membership in the !
league to have mile of macadamized !
road and the four days festival.
Grand Ledge people don't believe in |
using adulterated products, and a To-
ledo firm which has been selling cider
there that was not made from the pure
apple juice was fined $50 recently.
Lumbering is going on with rush
since the recent cold snap Ice roads
are being made all over northern Mich
igan and if the weather remains cold
the output of logs will be immense.
Oner is to have new tub and pail
factory Saginaw parties will back
the venture. The factory will use Jack
pine, which has always-or rather un-
til very lately-been considered worth
less.
Branch county board of supervisors
has voted to submit proposition to
the voters of the county next April to
raise by tax $500 for the purpose of
repairs and additions to the county
house.
Miss Lena Kehil, af Tawas City, com ,
mitted suicide on the 7th by shooting
herself. She had been in poor health 7
for some time and it is claimed that a
love affair over which she was despon- {
dent caused her act. '
There is talk that the Caro- branch of t
the Michigan Central is to be extended
to Harbor Beach, and Bad Axe people
are hopeful that if it is done, the route
will be laid out in such a way as to
take in their village. )
The survey of the route for the ex- !,
ension of the South Haven e Eastern
'ailrOad from Lawton to Schoolcraft
las been completed and construction
work will begin as early in the spring V
is the weather will allow.
f. w. Wolf, of Chicago, sugar fac
ory contractor, who has visited the IL
Michigan counties where sugar fac
ories have been erected, is quoted as d
aging that Bay county beates all of
he counties in the state on the raising l.
f sugar beets. d
State Salt Inspector Caswells report IL
or the month of December is as fol- p
ows: Manistee county, 104, 104 barrels:
Iason, 50, 1876; Bay, 3S,512; Wayne, 81 p
26; Saginaw, 81. Ill; St. Clair, 32,276; OF
5,5Os; total. 300, O42. Decem- HI
err, 1898, 297 ,06S. is
Coldwater people may soon be in
osition to get the benefits of competi eN
on in the matter of telephone SER st
ice, as the council has received an APP 1t
lication for franchise from an indie C;
endent company which wishes to in NJ
all an exchange there.
Albert Linabury. progressive A,
lrmer of Metamora, has conceived the or
lea of stamping all the eggs which his
ems lay with the date on which they tn
'e laid, thus enabling purchasers to til
now. without breaking the shells, to
neither they are buying eggs or to
licken-. tr;
Kalamazoo supervisors cut Sheriff
low's board bill from 40 to 80 cents in
II day for each prisoner The sheriff I'M
Us he cannot feed the prisoners for wi
cents, and after certain. date will trC
fuse to board them leaving the SUI in!
rvisors to provide some other means avs
r their care. me
The supervisors of jackson county loo
lieve in patronizing home industries hin
d at their present session adopted a cor
solution that hereafter all printing 7
d binding work shall be done by ING
me concerns, instead of being sent at
tside, as has frequently been the thr
Sc in the past wit