The Yale expositor., 1900-01-05

A corset company, with capital
stock of $4,000, was organized at Kali
amazoo on the Goth,
Wild flowers are poisoning in the
woods near Pennington, or were pre-
vious to the recent cold snap.
Mrs. Kate Green, of Coldwater, was
born in Poland on March %, 1870, and
is therefore nearly 40 years of age.
She is doubtless the oldest woman in
Michigan.
At lie Roy, Osceola county, dry hard
wood is selling for 81 per cord and
green stove wood brings only 60 cents
per cord. Potatoes are selling at so
cents per bushel
The charter of the Grand Rapids Ma
tional bank, which expires on Feb. 5,
1900, has been extended another 20
years. The bank will continue with
its present capital of $500,000
Mrs. Perlina Butts. aged %, of near
Bedford, presented each of her three
children with check for $1,000. Be
sides this the old lady gave each of her
nine grandchildren check for 500.
Jas. Hinton, aged so, living near Sc
bewaing, while temporary demented
crawled through window one night
recently in his night clothes, and was
found the next morning frozen stiff.
The body of Geo. McCreery. farmer
of near Charlotte, was found in a
swamp short distance from his home
on the Goth. He was out hunting and
it is supposed he accidentally shot him
self
Judge Person, of Lansing, has de-
cided to go on with the grand jury in
definitely, probing the military deal,
and if necessary he will call in an out
side Judge to continue the September
term.
The popularity of st. Joseph as the
favorite Gretna Green of Chicago dur
ing the winter season as well as in
summer was established on Christmas.
Forty-two Chicago couple were mar
ried on that day.
Grand Rapids claims to be the banner
recruiting point of the state of Michi-
gan for the United States army. From
June 20 1899, to Dec. 2, 1899, the re-
cruiting station at that point enlisted
a total of 400 men.
2Albion is the latest place in Michi-
gan to get the cement factory fever,
and farmers all around there are turn
ing up the ground on different parts of
their farms TO see if any of the neces-
sary mari exists on their land.
Chae. Bayliss, of Temple, while hav-
ing teeth extracted by dentist in
Cadillac, suddenly expired. A physi-
clan was present and administered the
chloroform, but it is supposed Mr.. Bay
liss was afflicted with heart trouble
and could not stand the drug.
The old saying that the "mills of the
gods grind slow" doesn't obtain New
berg, Cass county. A young man there
got drunk and threw his father out of
doors one cold night recently, and
within an hour he had been arrested
and sentenced to 30 days in Jail.
If Paw Paw doesn't have basket
factory next year it Will be because
she doesn't think such an addition to
the list Of local industries is worth
$500. That amount, the price of the
site is all that is asked by the man
who proposes to build the factory.
Judge Buck, Of Kalamazoo. granted
n writ of mandamus compelling the
county supervisors to pay the full
amount of the city's claim for the care
of patients in contagious diseases. The
city claimed $3.50, which was cut to
Sl,254 by the board of supervisors at
their October session.
A short time ago William Smither-
man, of Stoclsbridgc, noticed blossoms
on some of the strawberry vines in his
garden. lie dug up the vines and re-
placed them in deep box, which he
placed in sunny bow window, and
now he has enough berries nearly ma
turcd TO furnish strawberry shortcake
for his New Years dinner.
The remains of Samuel Dryer, who
was employed at the Michigan Alkali
Co. S plant at Ecorsc, was found in Il
badly crushed condition between the
lime kiln elevator and shaft on the
Goth. How the accident occurred is n
mystery, as no one else was present
when il occurred. The unfortunate
man resided with his wife in Wyan-
dotte.
New South Wales on the 2lst author