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Michigan State News

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Day
30
Month
November
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Thirty-five years ago six trains left Detroit daily (oxcept Sundays), tbree east and three west. Now her single line of railway has increaspd to about a dozen, and ber trains to 160. A third of a century worketh niany chauges. Hurlson ought to be a happy town, as everybody is busy, with not an unoccupied store or dweiling ia the place. A Saginaw druggist paid a funny election bet ty grind ng away on a hand organ in front of nis store for four weary hours. A $11 ooUectioi was taken up and donated to the ohurches of the city. R. F. Jacobs, the noted Sunday schpol worker, will engineer tbe state Sunday school convention at Easl Saginaw Dea 40. A Laneing man, now bolding a government position at Washington, recently wrote a nutnber of letters to Lancmg people, but got them bad. y rnised in the envelopes. Auiong the numher was Rev. Dr. Jumeson wbo retuined the one he received with a request for the misive desi:ned for him. Preseutly it carne, liut turned ouc to be for tbe writer's wife. If anytbing is neodel to show that tome people are absentminded here's the evideitce. Michigan pedagogues numbered nearly 16,000 the iast year, which exceeds the number of schools in the state by about 40J. Tba frequent chances mado accounts for the excess of teachers. Saginaw ïiver milis have turned out 800,000,0(10 feet of lumber this year, and tbe saws will continue to hura until December l if the weather admita of the logs being handled. The state association of funeral directora wiil convene at Grand Rápida Jan. 9 and 10 to excbange grim saiutations. Thomas H. Bedell, a Grand Rapids citizen who was injured while in the employ of the "TripoJ eompany," recently secured a judgment lor damages of {8 875. Tbe Michigan Detective association held its annial meeting atKJilamizoon the20th. The 2,t()0 mimbers, owning $2,1500,000 worth of property, din not lose a dollar's worth of anything during the year. Thieves keep posted on the membership of the association, and aim to leave their treasuros untouched. W. H. Ciimmer, the Cadillac mili man who was elected mayor of that town last spring, has discovered" that he isn'can American citizen, and has "stepped down and out" A Detroit thief tried to burgle the house of Mra. John Westfall, but that lady discovered him and gave ehase, and although the burglar used the revolver peisuasion to induce ber to des st. sQe persisted, and witn the aid of a policeman effected his capture. Plueky woman. The hickory campaign poles at Clinton have been worked up into stovewood and donated to the poor widows of the town. After all, there's compensation in many things, even in politics. Seven horses, a quant ity of hay, grain etc., were cremated by the burning of G. V. Nash's barn at Norwood. While Josuph Liberty, a Newberry man, was examináis; a rifle, it was accidentally discharged, killing bis 14 year-old daughter It wasn'texaculy a didn't know-it-was-loaded case, 'though the result was the same. A Battle Creek man reformed himself by dropping a nickle into a savings bank of bis own every time he hankered for a glass of beer. The sum total amounted to so much the first month that he concludcd 'twas time to sti p making a filter of himself. The Belding Refrigeralor company is shipping its wares to Ireland, Germany and other foreign countries. Oid world people "evidently intend to keep cool. If this item should meet the eye of Frederick Lauberheimer, who was once a member of the Pif th Michigan infantry, we'd advise him to make tracks for Fairbury, Hls., as a fortune is awaiting bim, and seemingly anxious for his possession. A larget healtby and level-head deer mad the circuit of Deep River recently in broad daylight, and took in tbe sights, including those of every old musket in town. When the saiii deer had sufflciently amused itself and its would-be slayers, it complacently trotted away for its forest home unharmed. Joseph Clark, a Pulaski ruralist, fathers a beet that's more'n three feet in length and half as large around. Tbat is a long, bigwaisted beet story that's hard to beat. William Leighton shot John Siiine near the Soo becauae they couldn't agree to disagree about a disputed team. Shine is dead and Leighton is in jail. An Ovid girl broke an erg the other morniDg, preparatory to a baking expedition when lo, and behold, a lively little snake jumped out of the shell. As proof that this is no newspaper yarn, we give the girl's name - Miss Broinley. But she hasn't yet solved the problem of how the little wriggler got inside tha shell - or hadn't when we went to press. A Flint financier has started a mushroora farm. If variety adds spice to life Michigan seems to do her full sbare toward furnishing tbe spice. A $1 turkey winged its way through a $75 píate glass at Muskegon, but the owner hadn't auy use for the bird. 'Twould have been too costly. When bui'glars take to robbing churches it sort o' indicates that business in their lice is, not brisk. The Cliff ord church was relieved of $25 worth of goods by 'em tbe other night. Fred J. Stewart has been given a sixmonths' job in the penitentiary for embezzling $1,000 whild postmaster at Newberry. A light senteuce was imposed because he was well liked by his acquaintances. An East Saginaw man is the owner of a forty-six-pound Remington rifle that was made expresaly for his father, eighty years ago, at a cost of $3b5. 'Tis said to be a loud talker. The inmates of the Clare county jail ar ranged for a runaway expedition the other day, but the piucky wife of the sheriff, aided by a gleaming revolver, held 'em at bay until help arrived. Robert Morrison, charged with robbery, got away, however, before the brave woman discovered the prisoners' game. William öteele, an Ionia man, seems to enjoy indulging in costly luxuries. That aeO.mnts for his paying $6,(300 for justone cow. Perhaps ber milk makes golden button Game Warden Smith has kept a sharp eye out for violators of the game and fish laws, as the 900 convictions in the state during his eighteen-months' administration amply indicates.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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