The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-05-10
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.

MlNOK MlCftlGAN MAI IERS.
There is an epidemic of scarlet fever
at East Tawas.
There has been eight national banks
established in Michigan since March,
1900.
An attempt is being made to organ
ize an Episcopal church society at Du-
rand.
1t is said that Michigan has one of
the finest displays at the Pan-Ameri-
can exposition.
Klatte's hotel in Wyandotte was de-
stroyed by FIRE on the night of April
80. Loss, $4,000.
The total membership of the L. o.
T. NJ. in Michigan is now SO, an
increase of t. 100 during April.
The streets in the business portion
of Ludington will be macadamized.
The work has already been started.
1t is said that the interurban electric
line between Benton Harbor and South
Bend, Ind, will hc in operation by
Aug. 1, as far as Niles.
Ex-Alderman Chris. Jacob, of De-
troit, after an illness of less than a
week, died on the 4th, aged 65. He
had been resident of Detroit since
1875.
Hillsdale has secured one new indus
try, a gasoline engine factory, and is
now hustling after another, the latter
shoe factory now located in Spring
field, o.
Genesee county farmers are just dis
covering that during the past winter
mice have injured much nursery stock
so badly by gnawing the bark from il
that it is worthless.
Alex r. Avery, collector OF customs
at Port Huron, died very suddenly at
Lakelands, Fla, on the 9th. Notice of
his death came as a great surprise to
his family and friends at home.
Burglars operated at Luther on the
night of the 4th. The safes in the two
secured in one, but the amount Sc
cured at the other place is not made
public
Galesburg's canning factory has been
completed and has been turned over TO
the company by the contractors who
built it. More than so acres of toma-
toes alone are under contract TO sup
ply the raw material for the cannery.
Meudon will be dry town for a
couple of weeks at least. The village
council refuses TO act on saloon bonds
until its meeting May 13, and as the
old licenses expired on the list, the sa-
loonkcepers will have 10 take little
vac ton.
That Manistique will have pulp mill
| is almost an assured fact. The coun-
try tributary to the city is being thor
oughly investigated by company
which will establish the mill if the Wis
ible supply OF suitable timber warrants
| the outlay.
Niles claims the distinction of hav-
/ ing the only woman chewing gum
| ''magnate" in tae world. Her name is
! Kate w. Noble, and she wages war
against the great chewing gum trust
and employs nobody but women in her
factory at Niles.
For the 'steenth time the people OF
Oceana county will, on June :, vote on
n proposition TO bond the county for
$4,000 for new county Jail. Hart,
the county seat, will give $4,000 to-
ward the new building in cIsc it is de.
cided to have one.
Benton Harbor and st. Joseph are
both hustling to secure new industries
but there are hardly enough houses in
the cities TO accommodate the present
population, to say nothing of the adj
ditional families which would come in
with the new factories.
Although he lived within so miles OF
Detroit for 65 years. Alfred Il. Hustead,
prominent farmer of Groveland town
ship, Oakland county, who recently
died, had never visited the metropolis
but once. That was in 1896, when he
walked into the city to file deed to
the farm he had purchased from the
government.
So many companies composed mainly
of wind have applied to the common
council of st. Joseph for franchises for
electric railroad lines into the city tina,
the council has finally adopted a reso-
luton that hereafter no proposed fran
ehise will be considered unless IL is ac-
eompanied by check for $1,000 as a
guarantee of good faith, the money to
be- forfeited in case the company does
not accept the franchise in case it is
granted.
In order to cypress their disgust over
the action of the council in suppressing
saloons. cit zens of Centreville sowed
J oats in the main street