Vicinity

- Ionia owes $8,500, t - Frod. Douglass speaks at Lansing ■ Aug. 3. -'The Cold water Reporter is advertised for sale at $3,000. i - The flrst new wheat of the season i was purchased at Jackson at $1. - The Port Huron methodist are clearing up the debris of their wrecked church. - Fur beating his wife Hub Germán of Adrián is rustioating in Ionia refor matory. - Port Iluron papers think $25,000 will easily cover the storm damages in that city. - The Flint Globe sets the Oenesee county wheat erop at 1,000,000 bushels this yoar. - Mrs. H. Shorwood of Flint died from injuries received by being throvrn from a buggy. - Battle Creek offers Prof. Huil of Ann Arbor a salary of $1,200 to superiiitend her schools. - Coldwater is trying to break up houses of diaropute by arrest and trial of proprietors, ininates and frequenters. - Orion people will uever forget Zch Chandler because ho failed to orate there July 4, as announced by the local papers - The Michigan Spiritualists will hold a State cainp-meeting in Lansing froin Saturday, July 26 to Monday August 4. - The godly people of Pontiac can't understand why three churohoa and only ono liquor Btore suffered ia the terrible storm at that place. - Charles Arthur goes to the Ionia prison, from Coldwater, for two years for pay ing for a watch by giving a check on a bank where he had no money. - Hereafter tramps are to be arrested at Battle Creek and made to work out their owq redemption with ball and chain ornamonts upon their legs. - Port Huron is organizing a ilriving park association with the intention of joining the Bay City, Flint, Port Huron, Detroit, and Grand Rapids circuit. - Senator Chandler's name does not appear in the list of annouuced speakers at the state temporáneo camp meeting to be held at Grosse Isle, Aug, 13, 14, 15. - A Lapeer girl went to Flint to do some shopping, and stepping into a prominent Saginaw Street store, ran up quite a little bilí. On being told the sum total, she asked if any reduction waa modo to ministers. The clerk asked her if she was a minister's wife. She replied demurely, "No ; but I am engaged to a theological student." The clerk said he wished he was that " theological student."