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at Ionia.
eCalhoun county has 90 attorneys and
1o4 registered physicians.
There were 20 divorces granted in
jackson county last year.
The schools at Mendon are closed be-
cause of an epidemic of fever.
Fire destroyed SIS, 900 worth of prop
erty at Cheboygan on the Goth.
The Straits of MaclSinaw are frozen
over for the first time this winter.
Rural free mail delivery has been or
dered established at Portland, Feb. Is.
The both regime nt, u. s. V. l., the
Michigan regiment, will sail for home
Feb. Is.
Mrs. Martha Todd colored, of Mar
cellus, recently celebrated her 106th
birthday.
Plainwell citizens are discussing the
advisability of establishing a paid fire
department.
Many brick farmhouses will be
erected the coming summer by Sanilac
county farmers.
The 4th annual banquet of the CAL
houn County Lincoln club will be held
at Homer, Feb Il.
Sault Ste. Marie has daily paper.
1t is published by Railroad Commits
sioner Chase Il. Osborn.
The 50th anniversary of the LIST Con-
gregational church of Charlotte was
appropriately celebrated on the @7th.
2An attempt will be made to have the
military board select Whitefsh lake as
the new site for the state encampment.
Gaylord business men are talking of
getting up petition asking the legis-
lature to incorporate their village as a
city.
The people of Allegan county will
say at the spring election whether or
not they wish to raise SO, 600 TO build a
new Jail.
A irebug is making attempts to burn
property belonging to the Champion
Iron Co., at Champion. Two barns be-
longing to the company have been
burned.
Sheriff Brewster, of Pontiac, will
shortly add bloodhound to his force,
the animal at present being at a Can
adam boarding school, being trained
to track horses.
The Alma Argus has changed hands,
f. w. Blair selling ont the paper to
George Merritt. The former goes TO
Lansing, where he has a place in the
audi Office
Notwithstanding the fact that JAS
Greenley, an Ashley youth, had about
three square inches of his skull blown
away by the accidental discharge of
gun recently, he is in a fair way to re-
cover.
special election TO vote on bonding
the city of Holland for $4,000 for a
public park, the funds in reality to be
used for obtaining new factories, was
held on the 3lst and was carried by
439 majority.
Someone who has more money than
he can conveniently use is going 10
start newspaper at Marcellus. The
village already has one good paper,
and needs another about as much as "A
cat needs two tails.
The fish hatchery at Sault ste.
Marie had a narrow escape from being
destroyed by fire on the night of the
Goth. The active work OF the bucket
brigade saved the lives of 1000, 900
lake and brook trout.
Marquette is TO have one of the fin
est groups of school buildings in the
state. Recently the high school struc-
ture was destroyed by fire, and the
new buildings are to replace it. The
same will cost 500, 900.
Paris township, Huron county, claims
the championship for weddings, with
from two TO half dozen each week,
and each is celebrated by the entire
population. Nine were 'called" from
the Catholic pulpit on the Goth.
On the 21st Frank Curtis, of Luding.
ton, received a 15-year sentence in
jackson prison for rape committed
against his l9-year-old daughter. This
is the severest sentence imposed in
Mason county court in 10 years.
franchise has been granted through
Putnam, Webster and Dexter town
ships, Livingston county, to the Ann
Arbor & Lansing Electric Railroad
company to run electric cars from Ann
Arbor via Portage and Pinckney TO
Lansing.
The mutilated remains of Abraham
Sellers, hermit of near Milo, Oscoda
county, was found on the 23d. Rats
had gnawed the frozen body in several
places. He had evidently been dead
for some time. as he had not been seen
since before Christmas.
Frank Lewis, Geo. Douglas, Jas. Nc
Dermott and JAS II. Murphy were ar
rested at Caro- on the 23d, suspected of
being implicated in the wrecking of
The safe in Frank Miller's Office at Vas
sar on the night of Jan. 3, escaping
with about $500 in cash.
Mrs. Ellen G.. White, of Battle Creek,
the prophecies, of the Seventh Day Adj
ventists, is warning her people of the
nearness of the end of the world, and
issues an earnest exhortation for her
people to 90 out canvassing for their