Michigan News and Local Ventures Across State Lines
Michigan University lists 1225 students while a Grand Rapids stucco batch is sent to Japan. Old Settlers meetings set for February in Eaton County. Kent reorganizes with Rix Robinson as president. Saginaw Poor Farm set at $175 yearly. Smuggling alleged near Alabaster and Tawas. Kalamazoo aims to establish lucifer antiteries plant. Copper districts of Lake Superior praised for future output. State Relief Committee seeks 400 plows for spring aid. Arthur C McKnight foretold to return to Michigan with Navid Queen shows. Detroit man cares for baby then trades it for a terrier. Greenville Stanton St Louis RR directors push right of way. Little Sturgeon Fall marble quarries valued high. Mendon and Nottawa tall men noted. State Board of Education pupil counts tabulated. Eaton Rapids woman attempts suicide. head injury deemed severe. Lansing Odd Fellows Institute thriving with near 75,000 in donations. Michigan Central RR plans 2.6 million in stock to fund double track and extra cars. Governor Baldwin orders Reform School inquiry into alleged cruelty. Board of Education president K Backus lauded. Buchanan opens new Union School building. J Laird principal. Lumbermen optimistic on log crop due to snow. Hon James F Joy advances Milwaukee to Sheboygan steamship link. State Capitol plan by N I Myers graded Palladian. cost about 1.07 million. Leap year jokes surface in Kalamazoo. Wheat fields green in Oregon. Minnesota fur prospects bright. Germany England extradition pact nears. solar eclipse observation in Australia blocked by clouds. Various European and global political notes and conjectures accompany local briefs.
Log men harvest favorable conditions in snowbound season
A correspondent from Lowville, Michigan notes logs can be drawn well as snow blankets roads. A. G. Bidwell near Lake Michigan experiments with 72 grape varieties on two acres and sixty peach varieties. He cultivates 300 fig trees, lifting roots each winter to protect them, yielding two crops per year but profits remain limited. Bidwell is regarded as Michigan’s top fruit grower.
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Fine Bill Head and Statement Papers At Statesman Job Rooms
To all readers with scarce material the Halford Table Sauce compared to butter on bread. Business men are alerted to a fresh lot of bill head and statement papers now available at the Statesman Job Rooms.
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Debate on Civil Service Reform and Chicago Relief Bill
The session featured a sharp debate on civil service reform with critics arguing against delays. Reports mention past reform efforts and partisan tensions as remarks reference 1961 Republican actions and presidential appointments. The Chicago Relief Bill for burnt district lumber duties drew support from Mr Chandler and Mr Perry, with amendments rejected and the bill passed 36 to 4. Steering by Chandler as “Nays” noted, and a motion to reconsider filed. Additionally, Chandler and Ferry introduced court-structure bills for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and extended terms for District and Circuit Courts.
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Massachusetts Temperance Convention Adopts Prohibition Amendments
The Massachusetts Temperance Convention in Boston closed with an address and fifteen resolutions. Key proposal urges restoring the prohibitory law with amendments including evidentiary liquor store implements, excluding liquor dealers from juries, limiting hydrating judges, and stiff penalties for unlawful traffic. Horace Greeley cites one term principle in politics amid national debates. apportionment bill moves back to House after Senate actions, Michigan to gain nine lower-house members in a 283-member chamber.
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