The Yale expositor., 1900-08-24


personal property at Sault Ste. Marie
has been increased 81, 10000 over last
year, by the tax commission.
The Marshall roller mills, which
were recently shut down because of
difficulty in securing wheat from out
side points at fair freight rates, will
start up again about Sept. l.
Berrien county reports that prospects
are bright for record breaking crop
of apples. The orchards have been
more generally sprayed than ever be-
fore, and the fruit is of a fine quality
in consequence.
Gladwin will soon have telephone
communication with the outside world,
arrangements having been made for
the extension of the Michigan Tele-
phone company's long distance service
TO the village, via Beaverton.
1t is stated that district school near
Dexter voted to hold no school the
coming year, but pay transportation of
children to other schools; but family
with seven children has moved into the
district, and the school will be held.
There is every prospect that many
of the Gogebic Range mines will close
down or reduce their working force by
one-half, as they have plenty of ore on
the docks which can hardly be moved
before the season of navigation closes.
A rural mail route has been estab-
lished through Flushing and Clayton
townships, starting from Flushing.
The first delivery was made on the 18th.
The new route is "a miles long through
a prosperous and thickly settled coun-
try.
Kalamazoo is passing through pest
of grasshoppers and crickets, such as
il has never before known, and even
the oldest inhabitant is at a loss to &C
count for it, The pest began about a
week ago, and has been getting worse
every day.
OF the rs incorporated cities of Mich
igan only "A have paid fire departments
that employ full time men. There are
also sos incorporated villages in the
state, but only l5s of them have organ
lied fire departments, and Isl of these
is simply a volunteer service.
A rural free delivery route has been
ordered for Charleston, Oakland county,
TO go into effect Sept. /. The length
of the route will be 1888 miles; area
covered, 40 square miles; population
served, 1872; number houses on route,
1863; carrier, Jasper Linsbury.
The good roads department, Wash
ington, d. c., has issued notification
circulars of a Michigan state good
roads congress to be held at Saginaw,
Aug. 81 to promote more general in
terest in the improvement of roads and
to devise ways to raise the necessary
funds.
A bantam rooster on the farm of
Albert Lord, in Marengo, is attaining
notoriety A few weeks ago he gave
every evidence of wanting TO 'set."
Mr.. Lord therefore procured number
I of eggs upon which the bantam per-
severingly operated, with the result
that he is now proudly "mothering' n
fine brood of chicks.
Although there is a state law maxi
ing it the duty of the highway COM
missioner to see that Canada thistles
are not allowed to go TO seed, yet an
instance of the enforcement of the law
is rare. A case occurred the other day
near Fowlerville, however, and il cost
the offending farmer SIS.
Reports TO the state board of health
show that diarrhea, rheumatism, chol-
era morbus, neuralgia and tonsilitis in
! the order named caused the most sick
ness in Michigan during the week end
| ing August IL. Smallpox was reported
at places, cerebro-spinal meningitis
. 4, diphtheria 13, whooping cough %,
| measles 80, scarlet fever A, typhoid
! fever % and consumption at 1872.
/ Alpena people who own bicycles
might just as well sell their machines
now, or else give them away, unless
| they want to go outside the city limits
20 ride. The council has ordained that
| six mi.ss per hour shall be the maxi
mum speed at which bicycles may be
ridden on the city streets, and it is be-
yond the ability of the average rider
to go at such slow pace as that.
II. T. Nash, of Adrian. is not sure
| but what he is still a soldier in the u.
S. volunteer army of the civil war.
Near the close of the rebellion he was
given an extended furlough, which
bore the date of May 10, 1865. Shortly
afterward hostilities ceased, and Nash's
regiment was mustered out without
his being recalled from his furlough,
nor has he ever received discharge
from the service.
The Detroit e. Toledo Shore line is
having all kinds of trouble in getting
its road completed. The latest report
is that portion of the track was laid
across property belonging to a city
park on the banks of the Maumee river,
at Toledo, and the park commission
yanked the track up and has an able
bodied policeman roosting on the site
Of the invasion until the road shall
have obtained the proper permission tc
lay its tracks over city property.
1t is hard enough TO climb over q
barbcd wire fence when one has plenty
I Il L..