The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-03-29
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.


of Sic, 900 on the 10Th.
A Jack the Kisser" has been oper-
ating at Lansing recently.
Hearing on the railroad taxation
bills has been postponed until April 2.
The Grand river at Eaton Rapids is
steadily raising and serious damage is
looked for.
The court house at Manistique was
burned to the ground on the 10th.
Loss, si2, 900.
The Montcalm county anti.saloon
league has Endorsed the action of Mrs.
Carrie Nation
lonia is to have an automobile fac
tory, local stock company being be-
hind the venture.
There is something more than ST.
600, 900 in savings deposits in the banks
of Clinton county
Baldwin is to have huge portland
cement plant, which will mean another
town for that place.
The bill raising the Detroit mayors
salary is now up TO the governor, both
houses having passed it.
According to the latest report Cash
Ter Johnson of the First National bank
of Niles is short $4,000
Michigan beet sugar manufacturers
will meet at Bay City, April TO or
! ganize a permanent society
The common council Of jackson has
| accepted Andrew Carnegies offer of
S7O,O 900 for public library building.
Charles Smith, treasurer of Bath
township, Clinton county, was robbed
of S64O in cash on the night of the 2lst
, Additional rural free delivery service
has been ordered established at Sagi-
nav, with three carriers, to take i'm
mediate effect.
Passenger train No IA, east bound
on the Michigan Central, struck and
killed a young man, probably tramp,
at Wayne on the cath.
After year of prohibition, Ovid, at
the recent election, voted in favor of
granting licenses for saloons, and il is
likely that one or more will be opened
on May l.
Homer stands good chance of Sc
curing "A stave and bolt mill All that
the men behind the project ask is a
long lease of piece OF land upon
which to locate the mill.
The newest Benton IIarbor industry
is fruit package factory. which will
begin business about the middle of
next month and give employment to
quite number of people
The disappearance of the snow shows
thousands of quail dead in fence cor
ners and other protected places where
they were caught by heavy snowstorms
and smothered and frozen.
The jerks Shipbuilding company's
i,plant at Port Huron was damaged to
the extent of SIS, 900 by fire on the
night of the 18th. Work on the boats
building there will necessarily be de-
layed.
Clinton county township treasurers
seem 70 be 'onto their job" In four
townships not cent was returned as
delinquent, while the unpaid tax for
the whole county amounts to only
S5,S3l.
st. Andrews Roman Catholic cathed-
raj at Grand Rapids burned at at early
hour on the morning of the 25th, as a
result of being struck by lightning.
The loss is about $50, 600, with only
$50. 900 insurance
A Paw Paw real estate man received
an offer from Chicago man who
wanted to exchange 81 900 gallons OF
rye whisky for Van Buren, county
fruit farm. And Van buren, is a pro
hibition county, too.
The business men of Middleton, Ora.
tiot county, believe that lin union
there is strength, and have formed an
improvement association to secure the
location in the village OF cheese fac
tory and other industries.
John d. Rockefeller, the standard
oil king, has disposed of his interests
in the iron business, including mines
railways and lake transportation lines
torthe L. S Steel corporation. Many
millions of dollars were involved in the
transaction.
Stock raising in the upper peninsulf
is soon to be given a practical test.
big stock farm will be established near
Sidnaw about April !. mainly for the
breeding of Shropshire sheep, although
cattle and Angora goats will also be
raised as "A side issue.
Word has been received at West
Branch from Eureka. Cal, that Jobr
w. Wood has surrendered To the polio,
there. He is cX-townShip treasurer
wanted in Goodar township charged
with embezzling S1a5. An officer ha:
gone To bring him back
In Leroy township Calhoun county
farmer has this sign stuck up invit
ing hunters to make themselves al
home: "FIunt all up d. please. ant
when you hear the bell ring, come NJ
to dinner" Several hunters had par
alysis when they read it.
Fergus, Saginaw county. is most pro
life. While boring for coal. rock sal
! was struck and now n salt block is be-
ing built The find proved so pleasing
n 4 l. L..