State Items

A company of Coxey's army has been organized at Standish with 15 members. The hardware stores of Adrián have formed a closing compact, and from May 1 will lock doors and shut off gas at 8 o'clock. To counteract the influence of saloons, the Broadway Baptist church at Bay City has opened reading rooms, which will be kept open every evening. County Agent J. R. Benuett of Lenawee county took Albert Haltz of Adrián to the Lansing reform school on Wednesday. He is a lad of 14, who persisted in jumping npon cars and is not willing to submit to parental control. A bed of bituminous coal of considerable thickness bas been discovered on some land just north of Jackson. lt is hard, of a fine quality, comparatively free from slate, and is one of the largest deposits unearthed in Jackson's coal fields. Some of the citizens of Bancroft have taken active steps relative to Sunday saloon business and window screens. A committee has been appointed to back city officers in enforcing the law. One saloon has already gone out of business. The annual meeting of the State Firemen's assoeiation will be held at Hastings May 10 and 17. Everything is being done by the citizens of that place to make the occasion one long tq be remembered by everyone that participates in the festivities. The two boys, Boene and McKee. who escaped from the reform school last Sunday cight by tying sheets together and then letting themselves down from the window, were captured at Portland and taken back to the school.