State Items

The Standard Oil compauy is said to be making offers to secure the lease of mucli farm land around Portland. Farmers Beent oil. The fruit erop around Port Austin is a failure with the exception of grapes, which will be about two-thirds of a erop. It is announeed that all the necessary financial backing for the Detroit-Toledo electric line has been secured and that a company will shortly be formed under tbe state laws. At Otsego Professor G. C. Nevins, while attempting to whip Milton Chase, Jr., for alleged disobedience in school, was driven from his office by the lad flourishing a knife and brandishing a chair. Having lost all records of their first marriage Richard Rye of Standish, 81 years old, was recently remarried to his legal wife, with whom he has lived for the past 64 years. The couple desired to have no doubt or mistake about their relations. Saturday, Sept. 16. The West Michigan annual conference of the Methodist Protestant church will be held at Bradley for one week beginning Sept. 19. Mrs. L. D. Redding of Muskegon was shot in the leg by an unkuown person while standing in the rear of her home on W'i-shington avenue. V,"illiam McCormick of Fennville is the fir,t man in the state to be fined under the new law for refusing to remove yellowsinf cted peach trees. J. H. Cleveland of Paw Paw, a veteran, returned from the Indianapolis Grand Army encampment on his bicycle in three days, a distance of 250 miles. Recent heavy flres in West Bay City have caused three large insurance companies to cancel all policies on lumber and milis here, and withdraw from the fields. Mondajr, Sept. 18. An epidemie of petty thievery andhighway robbery is prevalent in Niles and Ticinity. In point of accuracy the Alpena postofïice stands first amona; the 600 second elass ofBces in the country. The soldiers and sailorsof Macombcounty will hold their annual reunión at the Armada fair, Sept. 27, 28 and 29. The largest lynx ever killed in Chippewa county was shot near Detour recently. It measured five feet 10 inches in length. Paul Foco of Pinconning while at work In the woods had his elbow broken ancrais hip badly crushed by a tree falling on him. The veterans of the Fifteenth Michigan Infantry will hold their annual reunión at Monroe Oct. 4, the anniversary of the battle of Corinth. Tuesday, Sept. 19. Fred Stevens, a mili employé at Mount Pleasant, was caught in the machinery and received serious internat injuries. The woods surrounding Menominee are on fire, and unless rain comes soon, a repetition of the terrible conflagration of 1871 is feared. The West Bay City board of education has adopted a resolution to borrow ?ö,000 at 7 per cent interest for use until the school taxes are received. An Ottawa county farmer is the father of three sons who are of remarkable height. One is 6 feet 11 inches tall and the other two 6 feet 10 inches each. Nicholas Maurer, an old resident of Monroe county, and a prominent Raisinville farmer, died after a long illness. He leaves a widow and a family of grown-up children. Wednesday, Sept. 20. A. E. Ames will be principal of the Carleton schools this year. The Michigan Foresters will hold their Btate meeting at Pontiac, Oct. 10 and It. H. P. McConnell of Pontiac has a cherry tree in his garden in bloom for the secorU time this season. Nathan Fitch, a Niles pioneer, died Tueday, aged 83 years. He was a of the legislature in 18Ö2. John Corcoran, a Shiawassee county pioneer, is dead. He had lived at Woodhull slnce 1837, and had been a justicj of the peace for 52 years. Lewis Steson, aged 66 years, of Orion, i In jail at Pontiac on a charge offtttetnpO Ing to murder his son-in-law, Elmer E. Bailey. Some trouble aroseover a child and Steson used a knife to enforce .is ftrgumeuts. The remains of a tnan were found wbile digging a ditch in the snamp south of Otsego. They are supposed to l;e those of Archibald Dikeman of thac tuwn who disppeared three years ago. Thursday, Sept. 31. Wayland fruit men have been duped by an Indiana buyer who paid with checks on a bank where he hatl no funds. Traverse City will have a race meetin? the second week in October, includin horse and bicycle races and base ball games. W. C. Cunningham. formerly editor of the Alpena Echo, has been appointed a secretary of town board sites at Oklahoma, and has left for his post of duty. An employé at the Quincy mine bas devoted all his spare time for three years, in cluding Sundays, to constructing a combination writing desk and bookcase out of 53,289 pieces and 124 varieties of wood.