Neighborhood Notes
ITEMS BOTH LOCAL AND OTHER
Gathered With the Aid of Pencil, Scissors
Mrs. J. Warren Peake, well known in Danby, died at her home in Ionia Last Friday.
Shirt waists for men are being sold in the furnishing stores in Lansing, and many are being worn.
The population of Grand Rapids, as given out by the census bureau is 187,586, the rate of increase in the past ten years being 45 17.
James H. Brumm has been removed from the asylum for the criminal insane in Ionia, to Charlotte, where he will be tried next month on the charge of murdering Mollie Flagler.
The egg case factory at Smithville, near Eaton Rapids, which has been standing idle for some time, has been purchased by Lucas Smith, who will put it in operation once more.
The Clinton Republican now occupies its new quarters at the corner of Walker and Spring streets, St. Johns, Michigan. Brother Vaughan appears to be prospering and we are glad of it.
The nine milkmen recently arrested in Flint charged with selling embalmed milk, have all pleaded guilty and were fined $10 each. The exposure ruined their business, which was considered which they were given the light fine.
A Homer firm placed circulars in the mail boxes along the rural mail delivery route out of Tekonsha, and the matter was reported to the mail authorities. The offending firm got off easy by paying postage on all the circulars thus distributed, but were warned that such a thing happening again would make them liable to a big fine and perhaps imprisonment.
H. F. Miner of Hotel Miner, Lake Odessa died Friday morning at 6:30 o’clock from heart failure. Mr. Miner was one of the best known hotel men in Michigan, and had been engaged in the hotel business in Lake Odessa and Bonanza for 20 years. He built the Hotel Miner when Lake Odessa started, and had acted as night clerk continually, attending to his duties up to Thursday night. The funeral was held Sunday, under the auspices of the masonic fraternity.
The Grand Rapids authorities recently captured one of those smooth talkers who maintain themselves through the cupidity of their fellow mortals. The prisoner says, “De way dey bite on some of de grafts is a caution.” He was engaged in the snide jewelry and spectacle game and seemed to be doing thriving business. It is queer how some people will distrust a legitimate dealer in merchandise and in the next minute get “done” by a crook with a game as old as the oldest inhabitant.
Fire broke out in Parson’s hall at Olivet college about 7 o’clock Saturday evening. Strenuous efforts on the part of the students and townspeople saved the building. A student on the third floor left an oil stove burning in his room, which exploded, entirely destroying the inside of the room. Parson’s hall is a four-story brick building containing 60 rooms, including eight recitation rooms on the first floor and the Y. M. C. A. rooms on the fourth floor. It is used as the gentlemen’s dormitory and is one of the oldest buildings on the campus.
