State Items

STATE ITEMS.

Crystal Falls Iron company has a bonded indebtedness of $40,000.

The Mason high school will graduate a class of 11 this year.

As a result of the revival meeting at Lapeer, 90 persons united with the Methodist Episcopal church on probation Sunday.

Elaborate preparations are going on at the home of Miss Harriet E. Potter at St. Joseph for her marriage to Minister Thurston of Hawaii which event will occur on April 5.

Hiram Howlan, one of the oldest pioneers of Lapeer county, died at his home a few miles north of Almont, aged 83 years. He had lived in Michigan since 1836. He leaves five children.

On Friday the general council of the Seventh Day Adventists will meet at Battle Creek. The general conference meets once in two years and this body meets in the interval to do the business of the conference.

Mrs. Ellen A. Parker, wife of one of the oldest and most respected of Saginaw county's pioneers, died Tuesday morning at Saginawtown as the result of an injury sustained five weeks ago by a fall in which her back and hip were badly hurt.