Michigan State News

Notwithstanding that Bronson's gas well was "no go," so far as gas was concerned, her merchants report the past year a prosperous one, none of them having failed or taken Canadian vacation during '87.
While trying to rescue a lady who was in imminent danger of being run over by a coasting sleigh, Thomas Maher, a Grand Rapids policeman, had both ankles broken by the selfsame coaster, but the lady was rescued.
Upon his retirement from the Jackson circuit, Judge Gridley was "called to time," and presented with a $75 clock. 'Twas merited recognition of the services of a jurist and upright judge.
One person in every four of Tekousha's 600 people read a daily newspaper.
Although Washtenaw county gave a majority of some 800 against the Prohibitory amendment last spring, she's going to grapple with the local option problem one of these days, and see what the result will be.
The Ontonagon river country seems to be good for almost any kind of crop you wish to grow. The latest find is a gold mine.
As a recognition of his services for the past year, the Grand Rapids city council voted the mayor a purse of $750, which they call a "salary." As the "honor" is supposed to be worth several thousand dollars per annum, it's probably all right.
The Caseville Record has gone to the happy hunting grounds. Another instance where the editor couldn't hold out forever on insufficient patronage.
The exhibit of the Pet Stock and Poultry association at Grand Rapids the second week in January promises to be a fine success. The number of entries is already unusually large.
Katie, a good looking lass, of Bronson, was engaged to be married to a fellow named Jim. Presently another suitor, known as Joe, appeared upon the scene of action, and then trouble began. Jim was handsome and an honest lad, but Joe had money. "Ah, there's the rub. " Both called at the same time for a final answer, and Joe won the prize. Jim was well nigh distracted. Katie relented, but her parents insisted that Joe was the proper boy, and so he and Katie were married.
A Sault Ste. Marie citizen by the name of Brown is going to see how it seems to travel after the manner of ye olden time. He'll make the trip to Grand Haven, a distance of 300 miles or more, with an old-fashioned sleigh, drawn by a team of dogs.
Recognizing the perils of the bewitching toboggan the Lansing common council has appointed a special policeman to look after 'em.
Lawyer Pratt, of Adrian, knows something besides the law. At any rate he has been commissioned to answer inquiries relative to the state dairymen's convention to be held in that city in February. The milk in the cocoanut is the lawyer's best hold.
The Flat Rock lodge, A. O. U. W., is doing what it can, that the widow shall not be left comfortless. During the seven years of its existence, it has paid $12,000 to the wives of deceased members.
At their October session, the board of supervisors of Sanilac county failed to make provisions for the assessment and taxation of mortgages, and now the "powers that be" of the state government have asked for an explanation of this neglect. This new addition to the tax law is not to be violated, it seems, with impunity.
Warrants are in pursuit of nine lonia county hunters who waylaid the unsuspecting deer out of season. When it comes to fooling with the sleepless game warden, be sure your sin will find you out.
Walter Johnson, a Port Huron carpenter, stepped upon a rusty nail and died from the resulting lockjaw.
The Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway company has nearly 1,000 employees in Grand Rapids, to whom it paid $800,000 in salaries during the past year. The monthly pay roll of the company exceeds $1,000,000.
The atmosphere of northern latitudes is said to be very dry. That accounts, we suppose, for the fact that Clare county supports twenty-eight saloons.
It takes a political campaign to bring startling things to the surface. The coming congressional contest in the Eleventh district reveals the fact that Negaunee has a citizen bearing the historic name of John Quincy Adams, and that if the folks up there insist on 't, he'll consent to represent 'em at Washington.
The Grand Trunk railroad brought 32,028 immigrants into the state, via Port Huron, during 1887. It's probably on the theory that the newspaper must be all things to all man that induces The St. Joseph Republican to run a German department for the benefit of its subscribers who are not familiar with United States reading.
The Seventh Day Adventists are stronger in Michigan than any other state in the union, having 119 churches, 4,355 members, who contributed "tithes" to the amount of $30,000 the past year.
Col. I. E. Messmore, well-known as an old time newspaper man of Grand Rapids, is trying his hand at law in Los Angeles. Cal.
Grand Rapids has three Masonic lodges, with 823 members. The goat of that town has evidently seen some service.
Fire got its work in on the cigar factory of Joseph Farrell, Battle Creek, and $3,500 worth of stock went up in smoke.
Elder Dewey and his estimable wife, of Hartford, were the recipients of a unique Christmas present in the shape of a rolling-pin that was stuffed with silver half dollars, forty-one in number.
The Grand Rapids & Indiana railway sold upwards of $10,000 excursion tickets during 1887. The wilds of northern Michigan, which a few decades since were jointly occupied by the red man and the black bear, are fast becoming popular as a pale-face summer resort.
St. Louis folks are "walking in the light" - the electric light.
Battle Creek people are trying to get along with five toboggan slides. What a giddy, gliding town the Creek must be.
The statement that the patients of the Battle Creek sanitarium are cured by being kept on thin board at a high price is doubtless incorrect, since they were fed 8,000 dozen eggs, 45,000 gallons of milk. 700 tons of ice, 1,000 barrels of flour, and fruits and vegetables by the wholesale. Meat and sugar, we believe, are inadmissible articles of diet, hence it required 5,030 tons of coal to keep the patients comfortably warm.
Greenville has a bang-up artesian well that is only eighty feet in depth, but the water has the full-blooded artesian odor obtained at twenty-five times that distance from the surface.
A long list of Flint's bachelors, a column and a half, recently appeared in The News of that city. If some of 'em don't capitulate before the close of this leap year, they're a Flint-y lot, indeed.