Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-12-29
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
TOWN TALK.

Don't forget the fi,emen's dance next
Tuesday night.
The Truscott made several trips to the
upper end of Mullet lake during the
week.
Mr.. s. Davis, of Lockport, N. Y, is in
town visiting his brother, Col. HI. G. |
Davis.
c. S. Ramsay started Wednesday for a
few weeks visit among his old friends at
Springfield, Ohio.
About twenty-five tons of Cheboygan
freight is laying at Petoskey waiting tor
an improvement i'm the roads. u
The news regarding the prospects of
an early completion of the Marquette s.
Mackinaw railroad created quite sem
sation.
The bulk of mail matter Monday and
Tuesday nights Were largely increased
by numerous packages of Christmas
presents.
A number of Christmas presents failed
to arrive on time, owing to the impossi-
bility OF bringing express matter from
Petoskey.
n letter from the Sault states that nav
isatit Ii is just as much open as it was in
July. Tie "Sooites" don't know what
10 make of it.
Our reporter heard a young man last
night returning from escorting some la
die hon from p;r y, sadly whistlng
Put Me "a My Little Bed" 1t was sug-
gestive.
Rev. j. L. Male, formerly OF this place,
delivered lecture in Detroit last week
upon the philosophy of Childhood. ,.
The Detroit papers spoke quite highly of
the lecture.
The next regular meeting of the Viii
lage Council takes place Tuesday night.
30 does he firemen's dance. We would
be willing to wager quite a sum that
there would be more dance than Council
meeting.
The Street Commissioner should en-
ploy men To keep the crOsswalks some.
what clear from mud during the present
soft weather. 1t is almost impossible to
TO cross some OF them. Most villages 90
to this expense, and certainly Cheboygan
should
The continuous fusilading kept up at
the foot OF Main street, Christmas. would
have made the unintiated think the
town was being bombarded. 1t was
only turkey shoot, however, but the
turkeys did not suffer much. Only three
were killed.
The best piece of wheat we have seen
this tall any where i'm the state of Michi-
gan, is p. NJ. Lathrop's about five miles
from town on the state road. The piece
contains about twenty acres, and was
cleared up during the past summer. 1t
was put in by f. Stead, Esq.
Tie ''olde,t settler" cllled at the
TRIBUNE office yesterday morning. He
says that 40 years ago at this time, the
mosquitoes were buzzing and the frogs
croaking, and as years ago, on the oath
of October, the snow was a foot deep
and remained on the ground until April.
Strange as it may seem, there are still
left few benighted individuals i'm diff
terent parts OF the country at large who
think the Cheboygan region must be a
land OF perpetual winter, ice-bound and
with deep SHOWS. For the benefit of
these people we would say that this is
the 2SSh of December, and there is no
Ice. no SHOW, and that the farmers are
blowing.
fetoskey pays twenty-five cents for a
teiegraphic message to Detroit or Chi
Cage. A line from here to- Petoskey
would put our citizens in communities
lion with these cheap rates. We are glad
to know that there is prospect that
the line can be built. If 1t can be, it will
save Cheboygan good deal of money in
the course Of year. A little interest
shown by our citizens will make it a
certainty.