State Items

McBain will bond itself for water works. Carsonville's new woolen mili will be ready for operations June 1. Coldwater has scaroely seen a month for several years without scarlet fever withiu her borders. C. M. Colehasbeenappointedpostmaster at Atlantic Mine, Houghton cOunty, vice A. D. Edwards, resigned. The reeen tlyburned district in the business part of Burlington is being rebuilt, with better structures than before. Sixty cords of wood are daily used by the Marinette and Menominee Paper company in the manufacture of wood pulp and paper. The doors of the last saloon in Watervliet have been closed and the village will now have to resort to the drug stores. Willie Stevenson. a 4-year-old son of Frank Stevenson of Adrián, feil froni the porch and broke his arm just above the wrist. The Península Grove Campmeeting association of the Coldwater Methodist Episcopal district will hold their annual campmeeting at their grounds, near Coldwater, Aug. 9-19. Counterfeit silver dollars are in circulation in the upper península. They contain just as mnch silver as the genuine dollar, but they are only worth about 48 cents each. At a special meeting of the board of trustees of Albion college, it was decided to sell certain property willed to it by Mr. Margaret Anderson. They have receiv.d an oiïer of 43,000 for it. A young man named "William Par'; . s was arrested at Sarniaforobtaining money under false pretenses in Lenox. The same evening he was taken back to that place by the deputy sheriff of Macomb county. Samuel Hulett and family of Summit City, are in a precarious condition from eating toadstools supposing they were mushrooms. Their eldest child, a boy of 8, is dead and a younger child is not expected to live.