The Yale expositor., 1900-10-19
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.


Tekon sha contributed nearly 500 to
tho Galveston flood sufferers.
Rural free mail delivery will be cs-
tablished at liarbor Beach, Oct. Is.
The new Presbyterian church at
! Hillsdalc will be dedicated on Oct. 81.
Midland business men have organ
lied an improvement association to
help boom the town.
The Occana county voters will dc
eide at the coming election PROPOSE
ton for new county Jail.
The poultry fancicrs OF Clinton
county will hold their first annual
show on Nov. 2e-24, at st. Johns.
Fenton has secured new industry,
factory which makes patent handle
bar for bicycles. 'rhe plant is now
located in Detroit, but will be moved
at once.
The diphthcria scare (?1 at Leslie
didn't pan out much after all. There
were but four eases, three of them very
J light. and all the victims are now re-
covering
Niles voters will decide at a special
election TO be held Oct. 20 whether or
not to borrow $4,000 for the building
of new bridge over the st. Joseph
river at that place.
The Three Oaks Creamery Co.,
( corporation whose membership is
nearly all farmers, has paid ont for
cream during tho summer between
/ 81 900 and 81. 200 per month.
Frank Nowlin of Iladley. is the pub.
! Usher of the smallest weekly paper III
! the world 1t is called the Jolly Roger,
and consists Of -four pages. each two
! inches long by an inch and "A half wide
Judge j a. IIubbcll of Houghton,
| chairman of the national Republican
/ congressional committee. in the Gar
| field campaign. and for tive terms CON
gresSman from that district, died ON
the 18th aged -.
This is surely phenomenal autumn.
! From numerous parts of the state come
reports of ripe wild red raSpbcrr,es
being found growing 10 the woods
| and 10y the roadsidcs And this is the
middle of October.
| Members OF the state tax commission
| take no stock in the statement of up
| per peninsula legislators TO the effect
that the tax rolls will be invalidated
! by the extension of this years tax on
the basis of increases made by the com
mission.
An Eaton Rapids man discovered
curiosity while picking apples the
other day large pumpkin sweet
apple had so grown into an old birds
nest that it was completely enveloped
! by it, the nest forming a network all
around it.
In those portions of the state where
/ potato raising is an important industry
the country school teachers are having
vacation for a short time The
schools are closed so that the children
may help dig potatoes before the heavy
| frosts come.
If all the canning factories are like
! the one at Lawrence they must be good
things all around The one there, ac-
cording to the local paper is paying
out $3.50 per week in wages and will
declare dividend of 20 per cent to the
stockholders
A Branch county man lost his pocket
book in Coldwater the other day but it
was promptly returned TO him intact
because it contained a receipt for
subscription to one of the local papers
bearing his name and address The
editor of that paper is now using the
incident in canvassing for new sub.
] o,,I L Il e.
pay mp.
People on Main street were shock ed
the other day to see the wife OF a local
parson emerging from the front door
of a saloon. says the Eaton Rapids
journal 1t was ut first suspected that
she might possibly have been looking
for her spouse but upon inquiry it
was learned that she had mistaken the
place for the meat market few doors
distant.
A run was started ON the First Ma
tionai bank at Grand Haven on tho sth
by idle rumors. and the management
finding its funds running low. tele-
phoned for assistance 10 the banks az
Grand Rapids, which was promptly ac-
corded The run was renewed the fol-
lowing morning. when the Grand Rap
ids clearing house took action by adopt
ing resolutions that no solvent bank
in that territory would be allowed to
60 down II IL could be helped. A
special train was sent 10 Grand Haven
with abundant money to see the storm
through. This stopped the panic.
The special session cost 1900.