The Yale expositor., 1900-12-07
MICHIGAN NEWS iTe.ms.

hoHoNSi thlS ioif.
The supreme court of Michigan will
convene ON Dec. 4.
saw mill at Glcndora.
Local option may be an issue in Len
awec county's spring election.
A cook book is being published by
the Plainwell Lady Maccabecs.
Wild cats are being killed in quite
large numbers in northern Michigan.
Game Warden Morse reports that
5000 deer were slaughtered in % days
this fall.
A party of IL Bay Cityites left for
Oregon on the 21th, where they will
COLOMBO.
Jackson. Horton and Hanover are
now connected by u metallic telephone
line service.
Holly is to have a new cement fac
tory ia the spring, which will employ
at least 300 men.
There is little doubt now but what
there will be a special session of the
legislature Dee. 10.
There are tO2 eases on the docket for
the December term of the Washtcnaw
county circuit court.
During the deer season At.51i pounds
of vcniSou or 400 deer were handled at
MenOmiuec by express.
| Tho Pontiac & Flint Electric Rail.
way Co, capitalized at $4,000, was or
gained at Saginaw recently.
The people OF lIarriette thinls they
cannot he happy until "A newspaper is
is established IN the village.
Twenty six new Christian Endeavor
societies have been organized during
the last year in the sd district.
The veterans Of the old 81 Michigan
infantry will gather at Grand Rapids,
Dec. -, for their Goth reunion.
Midland folks who have the inter.
csts of the town at heart have organ
rzcd an improvement association.
The next annual meeting Of tho Up
per Peninsula Educational association
will be held at Escanaba, Jan. 2i.26.
The X. o, 4. NJ. and l.. O. T. NJ, of
Kalamazoo county organized IL county
| association at Kalamazoo on the 27th.
While digging ut the dam in Buch-
anan worlmcn tapped IA assure in tho
clay which yields seven gallons of crude
oil an hour
In all probability the next lcgisla-
turc will be asked to make an appro-
priation for new addition to the cap
itol the present building being made
quatc
Miss Anna McKenna. Of Detroit. was
asphyxiated by the gas escaping from
jet in her room on the night of the
list. Her death is supposed to be an
accident.
Elmer f.. Ford, of Kalamazoo. will
be cashier Of the state treasury for the
next two years. State Trcasurcr-elect
Mccoy having announced his selection
for the place.
A queer business com bi alton exists
at Tustin. where lawyer is running
4 furniture store and undertaking es-
Ia adjustment in connection with his
law practice.
Up TO date, Nov &c. 2,42 deer car
casses have been shipped through
Msckinaw City. and 1T is cXpcc ted that
the number will reach 4, 900 before the
season closes.
The celery season of 1000 is practic-
ally over in Muskcgon. The season
has been quite successful aud many
thousands OF cases were shipped to
Chicago and other points.
The state board of health believes it
can demonstrates that the increase of
typhoid fever in Michigan during the
last two years, is due to the soldiers
who came home from Cuba.
Farmers around Dowagiac who grew
sugar beets for the Benton lIarbor fac
tory this season lost money on the ven
turc, aud it is doubtful if any bects will
be planted in those parts next spring.
David Whitney. Jr., OF Detroit, who
went TO New York, Oct. J., and was
taken i'll there, died on the night of
the 2sth. He leaves an estate esti-
mated at from Sic. 600, 900 to SIS f., 900, 900.
People Of Long Lake are undergoing
u reign Of terror on account of a number
Of wolverines which infcs. the neigh
borhood. They carry off large pigs,
and have even attacked human beings.
Chicago sportsmen have purchased
Chambers island, situated in Green
bay. about Is miles cast of Menominec,
and will convert it into game reserve.
a club house to cost S35, 900 will be
erected.
The prospects are bright for the es-
tablislnent OF condensed milk factory
at White Pigeon. To- employ 40 people
or whereabouts. A creamery has been
in successful operation there for three
years past.
After one short weeks experience
with standard time, the common coun-
cil Of Detroit on the night of the eth
voted To return to meridian or sun
tlpc The change will not take effect
until Dee 4.
A II, y patent for piece of land is
sued 10 Rarnabas Norton, during the
administration of Martin Van Buren,,