The Yale expositor., 1904-09-16
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF.


The Lenawee Sugar Co.. of Bliss
! field. capital $4,000.
Ishpeming laid over four miles of
cement sidewalks this summer.
Gladwln village has voted TO spend
$4,000 On new high school building.
In most cities OF the state Labor day
was appropriately celebrated on Mon
day.
An eastern pulp and paper company
is looking for factory site at Man
istique.
Burglars broke into five stores ut De-
catur Friday night. but did not secure
much from any Of them.
Marshal Voetsch has closed the
gambling places of HoughtOn and says
he will see that the joints keep closed.
Detroit has been selected as the place
for the next national gathering OF the
Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan.
The annual fair of the Flint River
Valley Agricultural Society will be
held near Burt, September -. u and
22.
Charles Gordon of Three Oaks. was
seriously burned about the hands. arms
and face by the explosion of "A gasoline
lamp.
Occasionally men are candidates for
office because they can't help it, but
usually it's because the people can't
help it.
John J. Schairer. aged about 50
years. ran in front Of a train ut Lake
land Monday evening and was instant
ly killed.
Guy Corey. aged 81, was caught in
the shafting at the Bryant paper mill,
Kalamazoo. Friday, and torn to pieces.
He leaves IL family.
\ city school for the deaf has been
opened in Traverse City with an at
tendance of seven pupils. ard more
will soon be enrolled.
The fair in Flint was attended
Thursday by 1850 people. the largest
crowd that ever attended Il Genesee
county fair for one day.
The rapidly increasing population of
HOughton has overcrOwded the schools
to such an extent that new building
will have to be erected.
4 company will soon he organized
in Ludington to manufacture an inn
proved car switch invented by John
III. Fitch. Ludington man.
Jim Hansen. a man employed on .
farm two miles south of BeSsemer.
hanged himself 10 a tree Friday morn
ing. He has no family in this country.
While feeding meat into sausage
grinder Henry Shellberg. aged IL. of
Jackson. got his arm into the machine,
and it was ground off. He will re-
cover.
\ Calhoun county farmer found
strewn along the highway, in front of
his house, hundreds of artificial teeth
such as are used by dentists in their
work.
The higher salaries for teachers has
for the first time in the history of Ber-
rien county opened every rural school.
The enrolment has been increased %
per cent.
The total number of deaths reported
in Michigan for July was 2.S1O. or 6J
more than the number registered for
June. The number was -143 less than
for July. 1908.
Livingston county Republicans. ut
their county convention Monday, kept
carefully away from state issues. Chas.
Van Keuren was nominated for the
state legislature.
The postofllce at Graatschaf. Allegan
county, was burglarlZed Wednesday
night. Nearly $40 In stamps and money
were stolen and the work was evident
ly done by experts.
Grass Lake is experiencing a build
ing boom for the first time in many
years. At the present time seven houses
are In the course Of construction and
more are promised.
a falling off of AZ pupils Is shown In
the school census of Adrian. just re-
ported by the supervisors The figures
show 1,340 males and 1911 females, a
total of 2,651 pupils.
Fire caused the total loss of the
Thomas Bennett home at Lenawee
Junction. Sparks from n Lake engine
are thought to have caused the blaze.
Loss, $1,000; insured
-Four prisoners. one a forger and
three burglars, sawed their way out Of
the Cheboygan county jail while the
sheriff was playing with his twin ba-
bies in an adjoining Office.
Rev. George r. Abel, Phi. D.. of Prov
idencc. II. l.. has accepted n call to
Orchard Lake. where he will begin his
new duties September Is as professor
OF history and commercial law and
chaplain at the Michigan Military
academy.