The Yale expositor., 1900-09-14
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.


be held at Lansing.
Ann Arbor will use the voting ma
chimes in November
Ten cars of fruit are being shipped
from Hart daily for the west.
The summer resorts around Port HUI
ron report prosperous season.
Burglars broke into the Muskegon
Heights postoflicc but only got $500.
A condensed milk factory to cost
! 500, 600 is TO be built at Port Huron.
Eight horses were stolen from pas
ture near Camden on the 18th. No clue.
Ground has been broken for the erec-
tion of three new brick stores at Tc-
| l5onsha.
1t is said that gold in paying guam
titles has been discovered in Delta
| county.
Seventy three matrimonial knots
were tied ut Michgan's Gretna Green
on the 9th
The Oakland County Telephone Co.
has been granted 30.ycar franchise
at Pontiac.
A majority Of the wells in the vicin-
ity of Belleville are drying up owing to
the drought.
There is strong talk of bonding the
village of Carsonvillc TOR a system of
water works.
Twenty divorce eases have been
noticed for trial at Marshall, which is
record breaker.
A livery stable at Benzonia was
struck by lightning on the 18th and
four horses killed.
The business men Of Mt. Clemens
arc talking Of forming an independent
telephone company.
A Lansing priest has issued orders
compelling ladies to wear their hats
while attending service.
Tellonsha is again without lawyer,
the only one in the place having left
for more lucrative fields.
The 35th annual reunion of the Esd
Michigan volunteer infantry will be
held at Flushing, Sept. Is.
The school census Just completed
shows that Coldwater has 1920 chill
dren of the regulation age.
MuSsey township, st. Clair county.
on the 9th voted to bond for s., 800 for
the erection of town hall.
A deaf and dumb school has been
started at Menomincc, as branch of
the local public school system.
An unusually violent wind storm did
considerable damage in the vicinity of
Bcllairc on the night of the I'd.
The Indians in Miliado township,
Altoona county, have built a new church
One OF the tribe is the preacher.
The tax commission will raise the
assessments on copper mines in Hough-
| ton county more than $35, 100000.
VIM. a. Florence. farmer of near
Constantine, suicided on the 9th by
shooting himself through the head.
The new planning mill at Inlay City
has just started up, and will give en-
| ployment to quite number of men.
The number of births in Macomb
county in 1899 was 473, 2l5 males and
25s females. There were five pairs of
! twins.
Bicyclists in Port Huron will not be
obliged To carry lights hereafter and
will be allowed to travel at speed of
! 10 miles an hour.
A DeclServille young man put into
his digestive apparatus seven dishes of
ice cream at one sitting and is still
able TO be around.
Arenac County Agricultural society
will abandon its fair this year owing
To the soldiers and sailors reunion to
be held-at StaDdish.
Judge VIM. Newton's wife. of Flint.
died on the 9th from a pistol shot
wound which she inflicted on Aug. 81
with suicidal intent.
Diphtheria has broken out at Flynn
Center, SanIlac county, and several
deaths are reported strict quaran-
tine has been imposed.
INLAY City claims TO be one of the
biggest hay shipping points in eastern
Michigan, many carloads being ship
ped from there each week
Free rural mail delivery will be es-
tablished at Howell, Sept, Is. Length
of route, AZ miles; area covered, rs
square miles; population served, l ,2G0.
The August report of Salt Inspector
Caswen is as follows: Manistee county,
355, COZ barrels; Mason, %, 1876; st. Clair,
Gs,l7s; Bay, 52.625; Saginaw, 42,239;
Wayne, 20,73O; Iosco, 1927; Midland,
1850; total, Gao, 500. This is the larg-
est months inspection in the history
of Michigan salt manufacture.