State Items

The Capital wagon works at Ionia will stiirt up a.gain aboat Fel). 1, it is expected. A larce number of men at Menominee are employed at present in cutling and storing away ice, Hartford schools will receive I8O0 fcuition from foreign pupils duving the present fiscal year. A brasa band has been organizad at Coloma by 13 musically-inclined youths of that village. The Cass county poorhouse has 41 inmates, among whora la grippe has recently been epidemie. The city of Escanaba is supporting 150 peopje this winter, and there is already a deftcit of $10,000 in the city treasury. Lamb & Folsom of Dryden have enlarged their business by purchasing the hardware stock of J. W. Colé & Son. Joseph Hiuks, an ld soldier and pioneer, died Friday night, aged about 80 years, at the home of a granddaughter i:i Inilay City. During 1893 there were 73 carloads of wd&l, or something over 2,150,0uiJ ppunds, shipped from Constan tine to one Coldwater dealer. Fifteen years ago. Frank Eastoii of Hartford mailed a letter which has just been returned to him from tlie dead letter oflice at Washington. Lawton grapegrowers have taken time by the forelock and are improving the mild weather by givfcng their vineyards the annual spring plowing. A new bank has boen organized at Centreville, and will be ready for business in about.two weeks. It will be known as the First State Bank of C'eutreville.