The Yale expositor., 1911-07-13
A TRIP TO HOWELL.
Some Interesting Information Re.
garding Howell and Its Sur
rOundinps.

from Yale might make bit of inter
esting reading for ours people this hot
summer weather, when heavy reading
is bore; and incidentally this article
will help fill space in the Expositor,
which otherwise might be plate matter
or medicine ads, news matter of any
description being few and far between.
This preliminary being over we will
get back to our subject.
After leaving st. Clair county and
Crossing Wayne, we find ourselves in
Livingston county where the land lies
rolling up and down, and numerous lit
tie lakes dot the surface here and there
all over the county. The trip from De
troit to Howell is very pretty. Howell
is situated just about in the center of
the county and is the county seat. 1t
has only about $500 population and at
that is the biggest place in the coun-
ty.
There is considerable waste land, the
many lakes, and the marshes incidental
occupying much space but the many
tracts of timber that abound are very
beautiful
The air is pure and free and certain
ly must be considered healthy as on the
highest point, about three miles out of
Howell there is a state institution for
the treatment of tuberculosis. Fresh
air is the keynote of this sanitorium
and a great work is being done. Ia
ken in time, in the first stages, this
treatment is almost sure of cure.
Howell is city populated largely
with retired farmers, prosperous, re-
fined, well educated people, in fact
very few are there of the townspeOple
on the poor list. All take the greatest
pride in their comfortable homes, keep
ing the buildings freshly painted, well
kept lawns and the beautiful shade
naples, which makes any town look at
tractive. The court house is n large
fine looking building, splendidly fitted
up and with one feature perhaps lit
tie out of the ordinary In the base
ment are provided nicely furnished,
rest rooms, for those who have business
there or are obliged to wait.
The jail is massive, well built idi-
fee, containing a small quota of occu-
pants.
Howell is one of those cities which
aspired to Carnegie library and got
it. A handsome structure is the Ii
y
plot with shrubery and trees. 1t is
largely patronized.
Howell has been dry town for two
years, and it is remarkable, we are
| told. that even with no pains being TIA
ken to enforce the local option laws
by the authorities, no "blind pigs -
are to be found in the city. Times
are much better, business has improv-
ed, where there had always been from
six to eight vacant stores now there is
only one When it was said that taxes
would increase heavily, they are not
increased one penny. There are very
view criminal eases but plenty of
chancery cases. With these results, it
is not likely that the town will ever
return to her eight or ten saloons and
! the "wet' condition.
We visited two extraordinarily fine
greenhouses while there. One is devot
! ed entirely to the raising Of vegetables.
We saw five glass houses 200 feet long,
10 feet wide, each filed with nam
moth cucumber vines, trellised and
stakcd up like grapevine with big
cucumbers and cucumbcrs in all stages
of growth. Before this crop there had
been lettuce and radishes. The com
ing affair. The flower greenhouses,
like all others, is II most beautiful
sight with it's myriads of plants and
blossoms and we passed through the
gardens also where the florist and gar
dener were transplanting chrysanthe-
NUNS and other plants.
The merchants of Howell have de-
livery system which is said TO work
very nicely. The contract for delivery
is given to one man. He provides a
rig and man for each ward and four
deliveries are made II day. Thus the
merchant is saved Il great deal of both
or and it is considered cheaper than
for each merchant to have a delivery
rig of his own.
1t is a matter of only snort time
when Howell will have free mail de.
livery the postoiiice lacking only n
little of the required conditions.
Another thing that this city justly
| boasts of is the record of having the
| largest producers of Holstein cattle in
| the United States. 1t is IA sight worth
seeing, driving through the country,
with the beautiful scenery, handsome
farms and herds of fine cattle.
The object of our visit in Howell
being to attend the graduating eXer-
cises of the high school, our niece,
Mildred Granger, being one of the TWEEN
ty-fve graduates, perhaps few words
in regard to how they did these things
in another place may be of interest to
our own students. The baccalaureate
sermon was, as everywhere, given the
Sunday evening before commencement.
On Tuesday evening, June 20, the
juniors gave their reception to the sen
iors, neat little booklets being printed
for the occasion. The banquet, menu
for which was written in French, was
served by ladies' club. On the next
page was the toast list, names of songs
being taken for the responses For
instance "Without you the World
wo mt Seem the Same Hearts of
Gold" Smiles and Frowns,' "Take
me out to the Ball Game,' etc, in
terspersed by orchestra music and solos.
A dance followed the banquet, the mum.
bers being printed on the last page of
the program. Wednesday evening
class day exercises were held in the