Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1876-07-26


Convention.
Another torch-light picnic at
Leins' garden, Friday night.
Fruit of all kinds is reported in
all over the State.
The 80 cent store remains in
town the balance of this week.
There is to be Il cotilion party at
Alpine Hall, Friday evening. Bill
rs cents.
A cargo of brick arrived on Mon
day, and the masons are again busy
building upward on the new block
of Deacon Hitchcock.
The firm of Eaton d. McTavish
was dissolved yesterday, ii. A. Nc
lavish retiring from the firm, and
u. j. Eaton remaining to conduct
the business.
High water is reported every
where. Rivers, lakes, ponds, etc.,
are unusually full. Thunder Bay
river has continued very high dur
ing the entire season.
Huckleberries are very plenty
this season, and scores of berry
pickers are daily at work, and bring
the reward Of their labors to town,
sell them for 8 to 10 cents quart.
To-day Prof. Strassburg COM
mences his second class Of dances,
and the lessons will be given at the
same hours as before, but the days
will be changed to Monday, We'd
desday and Friday.
On the next trip down, the steam
er Wenona will leave this port at
five o'clock on Tuesday afternoon,
in order to reach Cleveland in time
to give an excursion from that city
to Asthabula on Friday.
Bolton q McRae have commenc-
ed the work of taking down the
rear wall of their block, which was
damaged by the washing away of a
drain last spring, and will soon
have the damage properly repaired.
The entertainment given by the
Alpine Boat Club, at Alpine Hall,
last evening, exposing spiritualism,
was well attended, and was. highly
satisfactory to all present,-the
exposure being complete in all re-
spects.
On Monday evening of next week
the Alpena Cornot Band will give
q grand excursion on the steamer
Wenona, to the bay, and place the
fare at 80 cents each, the proceeds
being for the purchase of new in
struments.
This evening there will be ar
ice cream festival at the rink, un'
der the auspices of the Alpena
Ladies' Literary Society," the pro-
ceeds being for the purpose of pre-
senting the Alpena Guards with
silk American flag.
At Alpine Hall last Saturday
evening, Miss HOLSTER entertained
an appreciativc audience in yer.
able manner, by her reading, anc
we are pleased to state that all those
present were well satisfied with thc
exercises of the evening.
On Thursday night last, roll o
money, containing nineteen dollar!
2 and some odd change, in bills an'
script, was lost on Second, between
Chisholm and Lewis streets. Tn
finder will be suitably rewarded OF
returning the money to this Office.
The hay crop this year in Alpen'
county, is large one, and most
it has been secured. 1t is reporte,
as having yielded very largely j
some localities,-two and aha
tons to the acre,-and there is yer
little, if any,, doubt that Alpen
county will this year, prodrcI ha
enough for all home consumption
which it never did before.
1t has been suggested that il til
: Board of Education desires to p,
an end to the growing done b
Y the downtown "Nastiness,' j
;. manager be employed as Principi
:, of the schools for the period of tw
$ weeks, and at the end of that tin
:. he would doubtless he convince
&c that he was not the only man