Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-02-02
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.

will purchase the Adrian street rail-
way.
Charleston Free Masons are raising
money for the purchase of business
block.
The Pontiac Poultry club has be-
gun the agitation for u new hall OF
its own.
Muskegon chamber of commerce is
going to make trv for the trade OF
resorters this summer.
Port Huron council passed an or
dinance limiting the number of sa
looms in the city 10 so.
Suttons Bay has voted to build a
$4,000 field stone school building. The
site has been purchased.
The erection of a hall to cost at
least 100000 is proposed by the Ger
man Aid society of Calumet.
The majority Of men have no hest
tation in assuming their ideas in poll
tics to be absolutely correct.
Mt. Pleasant board of supervisors
has voted TO submit the question of
local option TO the electors next April.
Jones & Haven, Clio grocery deal
ers, tell that they found a striped
snake crawling about their store when
the temperature touched 8 degrees be-
low zero.
Miss Anna E. Latin. 10 years of
age, died at her home in Eureka, CAL,
recently following an operation for APP
pendicitis. A brother and sister Of Miss
Latin reside in Battle Creek.
The annual meeting of the Michigan
| Postmasters' association will be held
| at Saginaw next September. 1t will be
made one of the big events of the sea-
| son, and $50 postmasters are expect
| ed.
The day of the big wind in Pontiac
Luke Shattuck's buggy was swept up
| by the zephyr and placed on the BACK
of his horse. Shattuck fell out of the
carriage when it was elevated but was
| not hurt
A Scotch collie has deserted her
master and is said to be living wild
in Laketon township, Lake county.
She has made lair for her eight pup
pies. 1t is believed that she has a
strain Of wolf blood.
| Clarence ,Mendenhall, a negro, who
was committed to the Kalamazoo asy-
lum, when he became insane through
the hallucination that he was wanted
for a serious crime, will be returned
to his home in Verbena. o.
Willard Robb, pinioned under the
wreck on the Lake Shore at Riga Sun
day night. prevented possible loss
of life by lettering passenger srom
! striking a match. The coach was filled
with gas, which would have exploded.
It is estimated that the loss in the
collision between two Michigan Cen
trail freight trains at Tekor3ha early
Wednesday was 100000. Fireman Ed
ward Blackburn, who was killed, is
survived by a widow and five chill
| dren.
William McCarty, stable keeper,
YVES burned to death along with five
horses in a fire that destroyed Steele
& Potvin's livery barn in Muskegon.
Five horses were literally dragged
out of the barn. Loss, $1,000; fully in.
sured.
Two former mayors Of Muskegon
are on globe-trotting tours. Theodore
ID. Morgan has just sailed from Mel
bourne, Australia, on his way home,
completing a circle about the earth,
and William Leahy is at China, out
ward bound.
Residents of Flint are sore on the
D. u. r. service between there and
Detroit. A trolley theater party was
recently hung up all night on the way
home after the performance at De-
troit theater, reaching Flint at $3.50 in
the morning.
Brighten. Carl A. Wagner has de-
livered to the war curio hall author
tiles at Washington the Hilltop trophy,
won by the Michigan State Rifle team,
in national competition in 1888 over
a large field of competitors. Michigan
never won another trophy for marks
manship.
Under the inheritance tax law there
have been collected since September
%, 1899. when the law went into effect.
81, III, S50.06. The David Whitney es-
tate In Detroit paid the largest single
item, $100,217.31, and the next largest
tax was paid by the c. H. Hackley es-
tate of Muskegon, $57,045.73.
Roy Campbell. who had been miss.
ing from his home In Detroit for
week, was arrested at a Sarnia hotel
and held until the arrival of his father
Roy wrote letter home that he had
died from an operation, and the news
nearly Frustrated his mother.
The officers who recently arrested
Fred. Black, of Goodells, on a charge
OF counterfeiting, are not satisfied that
they have broken up the gang, and 9TH
er arrests are expected. 1t is said that
Black and his friends have had no
visible means of support for two years
F. w. Pierce's three-story building
in Owosso was unroofed Saturday