Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-06-10
Our Reporter Oh the AIert.

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sin Root beer is healthful and G
day cellent drink in warm wealth,
-, Judging from the manner in viii
ath our devil "got away with sever
bottles of Gladwin's root beer O.
the warm day last week, Mr.. G. mu
lO- be doing an excellent bushes
This beer is made from roots, ar
ct, at this season of the year is fl
more healthy than so much water
in The tug Ransom, from Sault Ste
til Maria, stopped at Alpena last Sat
urday, on her way to Detroit.
~ The population of Bay City is
y 1860.
" The price of potatoes has fallen
: from Sl.7j to Sl.25 per bushel with
in the past week.
Strawberries, cherries, etc. in
market.
The tug Volunteer, not finding
it very profitable business to stay
here and do nothing, has gone to
Au Sable.
Last Wednesday Rev. F. N. Bar
low united Mr.. Henry Gear and
Miss Ida Nye in marriage.
A young man named Daurey was
seriously injured at the mill of
billiard, Churchill e. Co. last We'd
nesday. Some of the boys, for a
joke, tied the saw carriage fast, at
which Daurey was at work, and
while he was cutting the cord his
head came in contact with the saw,
cutting cash through the bone
from the forehead to the back of
the head. Physicians were called,
the wound dressed, and the young
man is rapidly recovering. Let
this be lesson and a warning
against playing with mill machin-
cry.
Mrs. Gonsman, wife of the bar
Der, accidentally fell down flight
of stairs last Saturday, receiving
several severe bruises.
August Patterson was fined s5
and costs, by Justice Dane, on
Monday, for being drunk the day
previous.
Geo. Robson has opened another
barber shop in the building with
John Thompson, on Second street.
The next annual meeting of the
State Publishers Association will
be held at East Saginaw on the
18th day of August.
The prospects for 4th of July
celebration in this city are exceed
ingly poor.
The person who found pocket
book last Friday, between the M.
E. Church and the corner of Lake
and Mill streets, will confer favor
by leaving the same at this office.
1t was lost by a lady, and contain
ed $500 in money.
The marble shop of Johnston &
Stocking has been removed to their
new shop on Lockwood street, OPP
posite the Congregational Church.
The firm of II. c. LETTERS d Co.
has been dissolved by Mr.. LETTERS
selling his interest in the store to
Creager q Davis, who will hereaf-
ter continue the business.
We learn that the building r.
Gently vacated by J. II. Bostwick,
has been rented for q restaurant.
The census of this city complet-
ed recently, shows our population
to be 1858.
Jason Gillett is laying a box
drain on Dock street, from his store
to the river, for the purpose of
his cellar.
What has become of the i'm
pounding ordinance Cattle and
horses are almost daily running at
large in violation of that ordinance.
The Thunder Bay House is do
ing some business. There were
twenty arrivals on Saturday and
Sunday.
In another column will be found
the timetable of the f. & p. M. r.
r., one of the quickest and short
est routes from Bay City East,
South and West.
One of the workmen in A. +.
Fletcher & Co.'S mill had a thumb
sawed off one day last week,
A little son of Mr.. Bosley had
one of his fingers badly smashed
one day last week, and DR.. Gour-
deau found it necessary that the
finger should be amputated.
One of the excursionists who
went to Sulphur Island last Sunday,
attempted to deliver an grafton,
and-he took q bath in Thunder
Bay.
The pipe connecting the mineral
we'll with the new bath house is all
laid.
Yesterday James Baxter, young
man, had the four fingers of his left
hand badly lascerated by the boiling
saw at Cushman's mill. DIR. Maid
en- amputated two of the fingers,
and we are confident that under
the doctors care the other two will
be saved. We are glad to see that
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