The Yale expositor., 1900-07-20
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

county, has been discontinued. Mail
goes TO Elsie.
Sixteen sheep belonging to Oliver
Irish, of Franklin, were struck by a
bolt of lightning and killed.
The Michigan Women's Press associ-
alton opened its 18th annual conven-
ton in Battle Creek on the 10th.
The Republican convention for the
12th congressional district has been
called TO meet at Calumet on July 26.
A. b. Darragh, of st, Louis, defeated
Rep. Mcsick for the Republican con-
grcssional nomination in the 18th dis
trict.
Farmers around Middlcville say the
grasshoppcrs are cleaning up more
pasture land than are all their live
stock.
The postoHice at Sister Lakes was
robbed of $40 in cash and $40 in stamps.
The hotel safe was also blown open
and $500 taken.
During a thunder storm on the 14th,
lightning killed seven fine cows and a
registered bull owned by Scott Waldo,
of Williamson.
A four year-old son of Mr.. Hassan-
zall, living two miles east of Grass
Lake, was kicked by a horse and
fatally injured
q. Il. Hargreavcs, recently assistant
| managing editor of the Detroit Evening
News, has purchased the Lapeer Dem
ocrat and Press.
A special election will be held on
July 80 at Holland to vote on a propo-
stion to bond the city for $40, 600 for
sewerage system.
Clarence Levern and Chas. Darling
lost their lives in Phipps lake, south of
Metamora, while on fishing eXposi-
ton on the 10th.
For the year ending June 30 the
Marshall postoflice sent out over :, $780,
600 letters, and the gross receipts for
the year were SIS, s4O.4G.
A Barry county farmers hired man
painted one Of his employers horses
Il bright green and it cost him $50 and
costs to keep ont of Jail for dong it,
The colorcd residents of Battle Creek
arc making extensive arrangem ents
for the greatest emancipation day cele-
bration on August ever held in Mich
! igan.
Herman Kalbncisch, % years DID,
sent to Ionia from st. Clair county in
October, 1898, for three years, for lar
ceny from the person, died there on
! the 18th.
The first rural mail delivery from
| Alma started operations on the 10th.
1t entails drive of PC miles and covers
40 square miles, giving mail service to
100 people.
Unless some unforeseen conditions
arise the various companies of the ma
tional guard will leave for camp at Is
land Lake on Aug. Z, and will remain
in camp five days
Gov. Pingree has appointed w. f.
| Calender, of Bay City, agent of the
state board of corrections and charities
for Bay county, to succeed the late
Judge j. w. McMath.
Gov. Pngrec has appointed w. Z.
Calender, OF Bay City, agent of the
state board of corrections and charities
for Bay county, to succeed the late
Judge j. w. McMath.
A woman living on Beaver Island
( was milking a COW during recent
storm when lightning struck the
bovine and killed her, but never
harmed the woman in the least.
The farmers of Branch county lost
thousands of dollars by the storm on
the 10th. They had just cut fine
crop of hay and none of it had been
| stored when the storm came.
The last bit of work at the big
| Wheeler plant at West Bay City was
| completed on the 18th, inventory
taken, the worlimen discharged and
the works closed indefinitely.
The prospect of Mr. f. S. Neal, of the
Worthwhile Record, receiving the nom
! nation for representative to the lcgis-
laturc is more than good. Good for
the district to nominate a good man
Director Smith, of the state agricul-
tural experiment station, says that the
deer are devouring the crops on the
upper peninsula station to such an ex.
tent that it will be necessary to fence
the preserve in.
The Beaufort iron mine in Baraga
county will be reopened on large
scale by Oglebay, Norton IL Co., of
Cleveland. 1t is the most wealthy
mine in Marquette county and has
been idle 10 years.
A census enumerator in Clinton
county came across a family wherein
the SIX children were born in six con-
secutive Julys, the birthday anniver-
saries of the whole six coming within
a space of two weeks.
Chas. II Hacllley, Muskegon's bene-
factor, has presented that city with a
gift of SIS, 900 to be utilized in the con-
struction of an addition to the Haclley
manual training school, which is at
present cramped for room.
Sault ste Marie's new tannery is
rapidly approaching completion, and
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