Michigan State News

An Adrián butcher displays a sign to the effect that his shop isn't opened on Sunday bcause meat will keep all night in winter. Covert is a quiet little town that has never had a law suit. One was started there receDtly, but the good sense of the parties prevailed, and the matter was settleil. One. house in Whittaker contains six families, but how they manage to live peaceably together is a great mystery to all the neighboiu Away back in 1844 Paw Paw had 1J4 voters, only thfrteen of whom are now living. Time worketh great changes with us all. The siüking of a deep well on the farm of Fred Myers, at Centreville, revealed the presence of natural gas. It is thought that gas in paying quantities will likely be obtained. In the trial of Eugene Brown, at Caro, for obtaining signaturas for Bobemian oats under false pretensa, the jury disagreed and were discharged. It rcquired the united efforts of flve men to pet a Hartford drunk into the local bastile. But it was a tougher job to get him out- it took $12.75 in hard cash to do that. The dead bonies of three deer were found on the premises of a Hubbard Lake man, and he was asked to pay a $3J fine or spend a season in jail. As money was scarce and time plenty, he chose the latter, and bas since decided that the new game law means something after all. A Clam Lake brother is winging his way to glory this winter, sure. He's invented a new religión and been arreated for the nonsupport of his wife. The next act in the drama isn't hard to guess. Delton will have a f 12,000 roller grist-mill the coming season. It will be run on the cooperative plan. This was to have been an open winter. And so it has. With the mercury vainly trying to find a resting place away down in the 80's in the upper península, we willingly concede that its open - wide open. Professor John Dewey. of the state university, is coHsidering a proposition from the Minnesota university, to flll the cbair of mental and moral science in the latter institution. The zeal of an Autrim county game warden faas gotten that official into tro u ble. He's discovered that his only son has been shooting ducks out of the season. The slippery condition of the walks in many Michigan towns is thougbt to be one reaaon (but only one) for the extra size of bustle now worn by the ladiea Mr?. Eliza Smith, wife of the flrst white settier in Sehoolcraft, died the other day at the age of H4 years, respected and beloved by all who knaw her. Cadillac folks amuse themselves and frihten their neighbors with make-believe burglars. They stuff an old suit of elothes, arm it with a flendish countenance and a butcher-knife, and then secrete the "animile" in some place that will surely startle the discoverer. And grown-up folks cali that fun. The Sunday evening meeting at the Bronson Baptist church was somewhat enlivened by a tumble taken by the chandelier. The kerosene blaze was finally subdued, but the odor and broken gjass were there, and so the meeting adjourned. A Chicago wholesale liquor house, whose sales were largely made in Michigan local option counties, has failed. Here'á a practical pointer that local prohibitioa may prohibid Battle Creekers are agitating a new hotel scheme. Tbey 've certainly room enough f or a good one. Nelson Rowe, the Hartford man arrestod on a charge of arson, has established a complete alibi, and been discharged from custody. This outcoms of the oase gives general satisfacción, as Mr. R. had horutofore borne a good reputation. Judge Morse, the gallant one-armed member of the supreme court, will deliver the memorial address at Union City. The monotony oí life at Koche3ter is being varied by aoine fellow who has eugaged in the anonymous letter business. If he doesn't desist, the people ot that town may have a surprise in store for him one of these flue days that he won't regard as a bit f unuy. It used to be different, but in these latter times the successful person ia the man who can inspire the most flnancial support. Judged by this rule, the Hancock Congregatioual preaeher must be a hutler, as he raised the necessary dust to extinguished a $3,001) church debt in a twinklin?. To remind him of the robin's song and spring1 posies, an Adrián man has orders for 4,000 corn-planters. The chap who can devíáe a specific for the slimmer drouth can lie ab?d mornings and let some other fellow juüd the fire. MicMean has about 7,(KX) Indinns, big and ittla A few of 'em till the soil for a liveliiood. Soms of thesquaws raake bead work and baskets. Huntiug and fishiug is nu ancient pastim, while they're unanimous on the subject of flrewater. IÍ you wish to thrill the Indian soul with unfeigned dolight, ask him to belp lighten your jug. Many of tile Michigan "wets" pronounce the local Prohibition move a "water pestilence" in dead arnest. Nevertheiess the majority of people prefer pure water to poor whisky, and believe that the nation can dispense with the evüs of alcoholic abuse to advantage. Burglars made a $403 haul in cash and stamps froni the Dexter poatoflice the other night, and then borrowed a citizan's horse and rode to Ann Arbor. The horse was recovered, but the burglars skippd. Gratiot, Osceola and Charlavoix counties have rangsd tuemselves on tha dry side of the fence by safe majorities. The Baptists of Richmond seem to have taken to the primitivo ways of the fatbers. Thiyhave eschewed the church lottery in all its forms, and decided to pay their p afor every Monday morning. How they propose to rai.se the f unds is not stated. Grand Rapids has a building and loau asüociation representing a capital of $.5,000,000. The second city is about as wide awake as western towns are ofteu made. Por the poorest old tumble-down rookery of a poor-house in all Michigan, Kalamazoo couuty is said to take the cake. And yet she has an assessed valuation of f-'9, 000,000, and is abundantly able to care for her uufortunate poor. The Y. M. CA. of Kalamazoo furnish moral aud physical ablutious at the low rate of 17 cents per month. And yet eome of the Celeryvilleites aren't any cleaner than they should be. A Kalamazoo benedict beat his wife and then skipped, but stern justioe overtook him at Decatur and dragged him back to tha land of celery. A burglar raided the pantaloons of a Kalamazulu, taking the last penny, $4'35, but in view of the state of the weatoer kmdly left the breeches for a fature raid. Holland is imbued with a desire to plough the raging main, and ia in pursnit of a shipyard as a preliminary requisita Port Hurón has a citizen, Jodge Bonce, wbo is over 100 yeai-p old and is bright and . active, and entertaias his friends as wsll as in his youner years. The moving panorama of packages that attracted so ir.ucu attention on the streets o Jackson the other day proved to be a lettercarrier festooned witu valentino packagea A Canadian eousin who carne over to Bancroft to attend a brother's funeral, does not estoem Michigan morality very highly. He lost $ 86 at Fort Gratiot tbrough confidence men The Imlay City öptic is preparing to illnstrate its columns with the pictures of delinquent subscribers. The man who would cheat the country editor out of his hardearued $1.50 must be worth looking at as a specimen of natural history. Two hundrod tons of perch have been yanked out of the Saginaw river since Dec. 1. Tbia seems to be a bard winter- for the fish. Hon. William L. Webber, a successfullawyer of Eist Sagiuaw, and mauager of the great Hoyt estáte, began life as a pedagogue. Teach school, young man, teach school. 'Tis generally supposed that when a man marries ha is conscious óf the faet. At any rate, that's the tostiuiony of thrga who have had experience in that line. But here comes a Grand RapMs bigamist who says that he can't be exactly certain about it. He's a benedict all right enougli, but wbother it's three or thirteen times ia wuut puzzles him. Hs's now boarding at the bastüe to recupérate his memory. Both Lsnsing and Grand Rapids people are agitatiug the workhouse idea. But whether they work it out to a practical result is a leap year conundrum. A chap has sued an Adrián saloonist $á,000 worth for being ejected from his watering place. Some folks entertain queer notions of what ill treatment may consist of. A Sturgis lady was terribly in jured by falling down a flight of cellar stairs. Her scalp was nearly torn off and she can not recover. The upper península people desire better telegraph service. They have the telegraph now, but claim that life is too short to wait for it to get around with the neirs, and Chicago parties will see what a new line can do for that part of the nortbland. The relativo valué of both the licsnse and prohibition systems will have a practical test in Michigan. Kalamazoo remains a "wet" county, while it will be entirely surrounded by "dry" territory after May 1. If banishing the saloon in jures trade and helps the "wet" locality, Kalamazoo will be in a posición to find it out. St. Joseph and Benton Harbor aren't overloaded with brotherly love for eacb otber, and still a line of herdic coaches will aid the street car line as a meaus of rapid inter-communication. Northern Michigan harbors are in a condition to use a generous slice of the surplus, and the people of that región are perfectly willing to 869 it devoted to that special purpose. Juat what conijress and the president think about it wiü be a matter of future con - sideratioa Gas wells in aoath western Michigan baven't been very "profitable, investments, either to tbe projectors or contractos. Contractor Percy, of the Kalamazoo well, offers $100 to be released f rom the job. John Shafer, boni in Maryland more tban a century ago, later a resident of New York and then an offlcer in the war of 18)2, taking the bold Britisher an un willing prisoner at Black Rock, is now a resident of Paris township, Kent county. If he lives to see the June roses he'Il count up 102 years' experience on this little planet Amneh Burdeck, a Fairfield pioneer,' 8 gel 87 years, died upon the farm wh'ch obtained of the goverameat way back in the thirties. Rocbester folks aren't exactly pleased over the large araount of fuel that a cold winter makes away with, but they are tickled to think that the mice are all frozen. Tbis life has 9ome compensations af ter alL The first wee bit of a robin has been seen, but it didn'h come quiek enough to save the peach erop in sorae spetions.