State Items

A Baptist church has been organized at Grant, Newaygo county. Charles Fitch of Otia, Newaygo county, had both of the bones of one of his legs broken while playing ball the other day. Bay City liquor and cigar dealers are up in arras bécause they have been notifled to pay their taxes to the deputy collector at Saginaw. Porter Avery of Cold water says he has an 1804 United States dollar. There are only about half a dozen in existence and their valué is put at $1,000. The Grand Army posts of Bay City have decided to hold memorial exercises ou the morning of Memorial day and attend a oornerstone laying in the afternoon. Alger county has not one saloon running at present, and everyone appears to live just as well without them: and it is probable some wives and children live much better. Muskegon Good Templars will on Thursday next celébrate the 40th anniversary of the introduction of the order into Michigan. The first lodge of Good Templars was organized in Detroit on May 34, 1854. Dewitt Moody of Shiawassee county has begun suit atainst Heury Hill of Owosso for Í10.000 damaees. Hill is the father of Moody's wife, and Moody claims he has alienated his wife's affections, offering her a 40-acre farm if .he would lcave him. .Iame5i E. Loxley's barn on South Center street, Bay City; va.s set on fire at'Jo'clock Sunday morning and badly damagad. An hour later another incendiary flre was started in a vacant store building near the corner of Lincoln and Columbus avenues. Nothing but unwashed wool is being marketeu at Ovid at present, and at prices ranging from 10 to 17 cents. Prices for washed wool have not as yet been established. The number of pounds of wool marketad in Ovid tuis season is 10,760.