The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-03-08
MICHIGAN News ITEMS.


There are IA cases of smallpox re-
ported ut Saginaw.
There is strong. talk of electric lights
in Armada this year.
Jaclison's school board has decided
to return to sun time.
Howell's oldest resident, Mrs. Sarah
Rubbins, aged 100, is dead.
Capitalists at Milan have formed n
company and will bore for oil and gas
Flint will erect two lo-room school
houses at u cost not to exceed S25, 900
each.
The Commercial hotel at Eimore
was destroyed by fire on the night of
the Goth.
Projectors are trying to mature the
plan to establish II $500, 900 sanitarium
at Coldwater.
The young men OF Burlington have
organized Carrie Nation club and
humane society.
1t is said that many iioclss OF quail
have died this winter, owing to the
heavy snow falls
A stock company is being formed ut
Holland for the establishment of u cam
ming factory in that city.
A cold storage warehouse is to be
erected at StoclIbridge for the con-
venience of local shippers.
There is u gambling war on at Kala-
ma2oo, and as result three saloon
keepers have been arrested.
A board of trade has been organized
at Central Lake to boom things for the
village in an industrial way.
Burglars operated at Waldron On the
morning of the 26th. They were cap
tured later at West Unity, o.
Promoters of the proposed electric
railway between Pontiac and Lapeer
are hustling for franchises, etc.
During the month of February there
were g. fires recorded in Detroit, ag-
gregating total loss of $250,000
brighton is to have two more saloons
very shortly, and there is talk OF or
ganizing Carrie Nation brigade.
A stock company has been organized
at Stock bridge for the manufacture of
brooms and other similar articles.
Country roads in Branch county are
almost blocked with snow, a condition
that has not existed there in years.
The liquor dealers of Lenawec
couny are preparing to fight local op-
tion before the board of supervisors.
The Congregationalists of Dundee
are raising funds for the erection of a
81, 600 church to be built this summer.
Cadillac Maccabees are planning for
a home of their own in the near future.
The proposed building will cost be-
tween $40, 900 and Sl5.O 900, and will be
an ornament to the city.
The contract for the grading of the
Marquette 81 Southeastern railway
from Marquette to the junction with
the Munising railway has been let, and
600 men will mt once begin work.
Dowagiac's village council has
granted 3O-year franchise to the Lake
Michigan * Eastern railway to build
and operate electric lines in and
through that place. The road must be
in operation within two years.
AS result of a curfew ordinance
passed by the common council of Ann
Arbor on the night of the 4th, the
youth must go in off the streets at 8
o'clock. A bell will toll at that hour
as warning.
There will be civil service examin-
alton of candidates for the positions of
clerk and carrier for the postofiice at
Cadillac in that city on April next
Applications must be made before the
hour of closing business March p.
Creameries are apparently not fail
ure financially in Ottawa county, MS
they have proven in so many sections
of the state. The one at Graafschap
paid a % per cent dividend on the bus
mess of the past year, and the one at
Crisp 10 per cent.
In all probability the Wolverine
Sugar company will move its factory
from benton lIarbor to Wallaceburg,
Ont. where the citizens have offered
to contract 5000 acres OF land for a
period of five years at 81 per ton for
all sugar beets raised.
All trainmen employed on the upper
peninsula division of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad have been or
dered by the company to- have them
selves vaccinated at once. This action
is taken in anticipation of the possible
spread of smallpox from the northern
woods when the spring movement of
lumbermen from the camps starts
The annual convention of the Michi-
gan League of Republican clubs was
held at Grand Rapids on the eth. The
following were elected as officers for
the ensuing year: President, Bert L.
Cady, of Port lIurn; vice president,
Fred Il. Fenton, of Detroit; secretary
Franc c. Kuhn, of Macomb; treasurer,
George Clapperton, of Grand Rapids.
A midwinter examination of the
peach buds in the orchards of this
township shows not only that the trees
are abundantly budded but that the
buds are in n healthy and vigorous
condition. The balance of the winter
holds but little danger in store, and
there is no reason TO doubt but that
the Oeach crOn of lo0l quality of