The Yale expositor., 1901-03-01
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

The smallpox scare at HUDSON mas
completely died out
There is talk of building canning
factory at Port Huron.
A $25, 900 addition is to be added to
the Hudson sanitarium.
A building boom is looked for at
Kalamazoo the coming summer.
Norway is to have n new bank,
which will open for business about
April 1.
One case of smallpox is reported at
Pinconning. Many people have been
exposed.
Van Buren, county will have nine
canning factories in operation the COM
ing summer.
Traffic on the +. & p. NJ. Ry at Gus
ter was blocked for nine hours on the
Goth. Too much snow.
The total value of the railroads in
Michigan has been placed at $500, $780,
S62 by the tax commission.
Religious services by telephone was
installed in the First Baptist church
at Mt. Pleasant on the cath.
Considerable hay has been shipped
from Reed City this winter. AS a
usual thing this is imported.
Additional rural free delivery service
has been ordered esta blished at How
ell, Livingston county, March Is.
Alma's sugar plant will increase its
capacity from 500 tons daily to $50.
This will cost the company 100000.
The hearing of the contempt case
against ex-Gov. Pingree has again been
adjourned, this time until March 20.
A Cass City hotel proprietor adver-
tises that his house is convenient for
grip sufferers, being but one mile from
the cemetery"
The postotfice at Thompsonville will
! become presidential Office on April /,
| with salary for the postmaster of
81 900 per year.
The lumber sales at Mcnominee dur
ing the past week were unusually
iarge-2O, 900, 600 feet, all of which is
to be manufactured in that city.
A recruiting office to enlist men for
the regular army was opened at Lam
sing on the 10th, and II young men,
mostly young farmers, passed the ex-
! animation.
The taxpayers of Hesperia will vote
! on the question OF granting saloon
licenses at the spring election. There
has not been saloon in the village
for some years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Hunter, aged
! residents of Crocllery township met in
slant death at Ferrysburg on the 21st.
Their team became unmanagcable and
a train struck them
The water power at Morley has been
sold to some capitalists who will erect
large factory there giving employ
ment TO many persons. 1t will mean
big boom for Morley.
A black bear at the Page Fence Co. IS
park at Adrian became so ugly that
the keeper was forced to shoot him
and his ls5-pound carcass is in the
meat market of local dealer.
There are over 800 cases of the grip
in Hudson and the immediate vicinity,
and many of them are of very serious
nature. A number of deaths have al
ready resulted from the effects of the
, disease.
More than 100 cars of field stone have
been shipped from Reed City to Lud-
ington this winter and rs many more
will be shipped before summer. They
will be crushed and used on the streets
OF Ludington.
! The matter of the extension of the
Michigan Central railroad is at last
settled 1t will be made by the Pen
insula Refining company from Caro- to
Sebcwaing, and then running west to
the bay. Surveyors are at work upon
| the new line.
The growth of the free rural mail de-
| livery service will undoubtedly be
great help to the cause of good roads
when the farmers who want such SER
vice come to realiZ, that in laying out
| the routes the question of whether the
roads are good or bad is one of the i'm
portant things to be taken into consid-
Grafton.
In December last Gottlieb Kast, of
| Marshall, secured divorce, after he
and his wife had been trot ting in
double harness for 35 years. 1t was
not SO easy as they thought to part
after II companionship OF SO long n
time, and it didn't take them long to
patch up their differences, and on tho
18th they were remarked
Citizens of Grand ledge are divided
on the effect OF the announcement that
railroads will run no more Sunday ex-
curson trains. The papers see the
finish of the town rs resort aud do
not know whether to attribute the
cause to stricken conscience on the
part of the railroad officials or to the
fact that it is loss OF so much cash by
SO doing.
A Carrie Nation crusade was inau-
gurated at Port Huron on the 10th by
Mrs. Chas. A. Rodes, of that city. She
had repeatedly forbidden Saloonist
Jas. Wilson to sell her 25-year-old son
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