The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-10-21
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That furniture store has not been
started i'm Baldwin yet. Why not?
There was pleasant party at Geo.
Broeffie's "house warming" Tuesday
evening.
DIR. /. w. Howe, of Ellsworth town
ship, was in town last Saturday, and
gave us call.
John Miner, who lately moved
with his family to Grand Rapids, was
in town two or three days last week.
n. Lucas has started n meat market
i'm notwithstanding the low err part
of Caffery's building, on Michigan
avenue.
J. Miner, Of Whitehall, brother of
John and Dudley Miner, was in Bald
win last Tuesday evening, and gave
us call.
The ground was barely covered with
snow, last Monday morning, for the
first time this Fall. 1t didn't stay
with us many hours.
J. d. Garland has moved his boot
and shoe shop from Phillip & Dyer's
building to his own-two doors south.
Ifyou want good work i'm his line, give
him call.
Judge Whcelers statement as to the
times for holding the various sessions
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icial District, for the years 1876 and 1877,
may he found i'm this issue.
The children should all have chance
to read Golden Hours, that excellent
periodical for boys and girls. Price per
year, SLIGO, postpaid. Hitchcock d
Walden, publishers, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Outline has been awarded the
County printing" for Osceola county,
for the coming year, withouta dissent
ing voice among the members of the
Board of Supervisors. The Evart Re
rie,C also, bid for the work.
We have in our Office two specimen
potatoes, raised by j. a. Carpenter
father of l.. A. Carpenter), in Len
awee county, one of which measures
l0l and the other III inches in cir
cumfercnce. They arc huge tubers,
and hard to beat, even Oh the "plains."
The "S;cctions" on the west end of
+. 4 j. VI. Railway have been extended
tOsiy miles or more each. Charlie
Roberts has charge of the track work
east and west of town, and we notice
that the road is being put in nice shape
IA thing Charlie knows how to do to
perfection.
The attention Of orr readers is called
to the new advertisement of Emmett
Coon & Co., which appears elsewhere
in this Issue. Read the list of prices,
aud If You think you can do any better
in this vicinity, try it and sec how you
have deceived yourself. Ii only needs
trial to convince you that it "pays"
TO deal with them.
The Novcmlcr number of the Ladics'
R.posapJy is at hand. This periodical
is one which we can safely recon-
mend to enter each and every house
hold in the land. It's contents are al
ways such as cannot give oflcnse to
the most fastidious. The price has
been reduced, and for So. Send names
O Hitchcock d Walden, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Something of the value of the whor.
tlcberry crop grown upon the "plains"
Of Lake county during the past season
lin spite of frost) may he had when we
state that one firm alone,in Baldwin
Jones & HOllister-sold fourteen hun.
d'cd dOiiors' north. j. III. Croft also,
shipped quite largely; and if the pre-
else figures of value were known-of
all sold outside, together with the
amount consumed and preserved in the
county-they would doubtless astonish
us all.
In order to keep our paper running,
we must have prompt payments OF
subscriptions-in money, or its equiva-
lent. 1t is utterly impossible for us
to carry burden of from 500 to 5000
in delinquent subscriptions, month
after month. When we offer to take
"dicker," of almost every sort, it is
certainly unnecessary for patrons to
compel us to wait until our office is
sold for debt, before they think of pay
ing up. These are disagrecable facts
we are stating; and we give them as
kindly notes of warning. BE prompt
with us, and we will guarantee you full
return i'm improvement i'm the paper.
II you cannot afford to pay two dollars
for the paper for one year, say so and
end the contract ut once.
Peterson's Magazine, that Queen OF
the Lady's Books, is on our table fol
November. The principal steel en-
craving, "Mamma's Flower Girl" is
very beautiful. So also, is the mann
moth colored steel fashion plate. But
as u contemporary says, the stories, tn
fashions, the patterns. in short eueJy'
thing in" Peterson" is the best of its kind
For 1876 great improvements will bt
made. Among these will be series
of illustrated articles, describing tho
Centennial Exhibition, which will
alone be worth the subscription price
But, I'm addition to this, every subscrib
er wiHbc presented, asa Centennial Gift
,ciha superb steel engraving arge-sizet
for framing) of Trumbull's great pic
ture, "The Singing of the Declaration
Of independence" These very extra
ordinary inducements will make thi
mag""'--- cor 1879 more desirable thar
ever. Yet the prlcc ..ur ro,,a;p I'm
| same. viz. THO Dollars m ~. a..