Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-29
STATE BRIEFS.

Mi'HlSdu FARMERS VIII receive 10
tai of about $5,000,000 for sugar beets
from the manufacturers this year.
Michigan has taken front rank In
the growth of beet sugar, according &c
VIM. II. Wallace, general manager OF
the Michigan Sugar Co.
All the Knights of Pythias lodges in
that section of the state will hold a
big rally in Albion, January 8, when
the degrees will be conferred by grand
lodge officers.
For a member of any state board
TO be removed 1t is necessary to file
charges and then follow up the process
of removal, the state legal department
has ruled
Mrs Jessie Otto Pearce, a former
Charlotte girl now wife of a mining
engineer, living in Mexico, writes that
reports of the revolution have been
greatly exaggerated
Suffering from exposure to the cold
Charles Milton Fremaine, of Bowling
Green, o., a stranded actor is dying
at Allegan He was found in the
snow behind a furniture store.
Miss Helen Hicks. teacher, at AL.
pena, is i'll with a mild case of small.
pox. The school has been closed and
the pupils vaccinated 4 rigid quar-.
antine has been established.
After three weeks of daily sessions
the charter committee which was cleo.
ted last month to decide a new form
OF government for the city OF Jack.
son, decided on the commission form
Harry Livingstone Of Grand Rap.
IDS, has been sent to jail for GO days
Tor compelling his wife to lead life
or shame Livingstone has been a
regular beneficiary of the charity or.
ganization for several months
George W. Lspgs, aged 80, living 10
miles southwest of Coldwater, was sen.
fenced by Judge Yaple to spend so
days In Jail or pay a fine of $3.50 and
costs for the illegal practice of medi.
cine Langs will serve the Jail SEN
tence.
Rev. Thomas Mckinney, the blind
minister of Battle Creek. who re-
quested the governors OF four states
TO have him electrocuted, has resumed
his street singing and is attracting
great crowds and much money as a
Shiawassee county citizens will ask
the legislature to divide up the assess
ment for quartering state troops in
Durand during the Grand Trunk strike.
They claim the troops were taken to
Durand because 1t would have been
easy to rush them to other points I'm
case OF trouble. Shiawassee asks that
these other counties help pay the S.
700
There is az least one state official
who is not worrying about a reap
pointment when the new administra-
ton takes hold January / He is State
Highway Commissioner Ely. Mr.. Ely.
an appointee OF Gov Warner, was APP
pointed in 1909 and confirmed by the
senate before that body adjourned
His term Of Office does not expire until
1913, and at that time the Office be-
comes elective
"You have no idea Of the number
OF applications for positions I am re-
ceiving,' said Auditor-General Fuller.
Look at the piles Of letters: there
are three of them, and the larger pile
represents applications received in the
mornings mail" Other state depart
ments are in the same position, evi.
IDENTIFY, according to the heads Of the
departments. There are thousands of
applications being received this year
for positions,
State Oil Inspector Neal made an
other help out for the state treasury
by sending in $4,000 more of the net
surplus money, which his department
derives from the fees paid by the
oil companies for the inspection of
kerosene oil. Neal sent in $4,000
December 1st and says he will Send
in over $4,000 more the first of Janu.
airy, which will make over $4,000 that
the department will have turned in
this year above all expenses.
With the intention of providing a
scholarship fund for worthy students,
who have no means for continuing
their education after they have gradu-
ated from the Hastings high school,
the members Of the junior class in
tend to hold various entertainments
for raising part of the required
amount. Subscriptions will also be
solicited. The scholarship will be in
corporated under the state law, and
will be controlled by five responsible
adults. 1t is planned to increase this
fund annually, and the alumni will be
asked to contribute.
second fire, originating IN che
basement of the ruins of the Y. NJ.
c. A. building at Kalamazoo. which
was practically destroyed by fire, has
led the police to the conclusion that
q firebug is at work.
Ice cream manufacturers in session
at Lansing declared that they pay
higher express rates in Michigan
than in any other state. and APP
pointed a committee TO appear be
fore the state railway commission,
Feb. 10, when shippers will be given
hearing. It was declared that the
ice cream business in the state had
jumped 100 per cent in the past FIVE
years.