The Yale expositor., 1901-06-07
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.

Monroe has a good chance to secure
a beet sugar factory, and may land it.
A fruit canning company, with $780,
600 capital, has been formed at Kala-
mazoo.
Martin Tiffany, of Manhattan. sui
cided at Chicago on the 3Oth by the
carbolic acid route. Motive unknown.
Coldwater has not far from 40 miles
of Portland cement side walks; in fact
the city claims to have the best side
walks in America for n town of like
size.
A small boy at Athens called the viii
lage marshal blockhead, and the of
ficer proved that the hoy was right by
arresting him and taking him to the
lookup.
The recent petty thieving at Detroit
has led the police TO believe that it is
the work of an organized band of boys,
and they are now working on this
theory.
1t is claimed that the Boype river
has wonderful curative properties, and
that many people have been cured of
rheumatism by simply wading in its
waters.
The Hessian fly is playing havoc
with wheat fields in the vicinity of
Coldwater. Whole fields have been
plowed up, and the outlook for even a
fair crop is discouraging.
The Office of the Wenona Coal Co.,
near the mouth of the Kawkawlin river,
was burglarized on the night of the
eth. The robbers got G9J in cash and
S27 worth of postage stamps.
Since promising coal indications have
been found in Meridian township, Ing
ham county, the farmers there are eu-
joyiug good times, as capitalists are
buying leases of all the land they can
secure.
The divorce business in Calhoun
county has taken big jump and all
records were broken during the month
of May. County Clerk Austin com
menced IL cases and issued only 81
marriage licenses.
Nearly 10000 people witnessed the
unwilling of the memorial cannon on
the court house square, Mt Clemens,
on the 30th. The monument was
erected in memory of Maj-Gen. Alex.
Macomb, for whom the county was
named.
The project of forming new local
military companies is being actively
agitated at Ionia and Ludington, which
cities are now not represented in the
state national guard. There is also
considerable talk at Escanaba along
the same line.
The Howard City high school was
the scene of much excitement on the
eth. Prof. Fuller undertook to pun
ish VIM. Steenman, who retaliated on
the professor in John L. style, giving
him three hard blows. The professor
then BACKED Steenman's eyes and put
him out of school. Steenman would
have graduated this year
Judge West, in the circuit court on
the 2sth ordered the state cases against
Chas. ii. Pratt, Edgar j, Adams. VIM
A. French and j. IL Brown placed on
the calendar. Prosecutor Tuttle had
requested that the cases be nolle
it in that light. The cases were con-
tinued until September term.
The project TO connect Saginaw and
Grand Rapids by means of an electric
railway is now assured of success, the
company having been Incorporated
with 81, 900, 600 capital and the bonds
having been taken by an. eastern syn
Il H. I, 4
Rapids to Greenville, thence to Stan
ton, Edmore, Lake Odessa, Alma and
st. Louis.
Can you give me two silver dollars
for this chicken feed?" asked local
wag the other day as he entered the
First State bank at Albion. Certainly"
said the obliging cashier, and he
handed out the coin. The wag then
produced the chicken feed-an ear of
corn. 1t is such incidents as these
that make life worth the living in the
small cities.
Edward Gordon, of Tekonsha, is
winning fame as chicken farmer He
runs large number of incubators and
breeders and raises chickens by the
IDOuSdHu. w men Jnc weigh
two pounds they are placed on the
market, the price being 10 to Is cents
pound. Mr.. Gordon claims the chicks
cost about five cents each when ready
for market.
DR.. d. C. Thomas, aged &C, of Ad-
rian. died very suddenly on the 30th of
heart failure. He was on his way to
the Lima Northern depot and ran a
short distance in order to get his train,
he being little late, and as he reached
the depot he suddenly sank lifeless to
the platform. He was on his way to
fill an appointment to deliver Memo
rial Day address.
A Mendon paper reads the riot act to
the townspeople thusly: "Mendon
needs a factory. The decrease of pop
ulation and the increase of empty
houses is soaring the property owners
and merchants. Heretofore every in
dustry has been discouraged instead Of
encouraged, but IL some employment
is not furnished the laboring class. in