The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-12-20


Christmas, next Tuesday.
. municipalities on subscription.
We still take wood, on subscription
Circuit Court convenes on the 25th
A Merry Christmas! to the readers o
the STAR.
Mrs. b. X. Halliday, of Chase, 4
quite sick.
Mrs. J. B. Carpenter, of this town
ship, is quite sick.
! H. A. Bray preached In Court House
Hall, last Sunday evening.
| The weather has been remarkably
warm and pleasant for the season Of
year.
We understand that "Billy" Wood
Is running a saloon ut Matherton, this
] State.
Mrs. r.. HI. Hollister has gone on a
visit to her old home In Shiawassee
county.
The Sabbath School in the Bovee
District, Webber township, has closed
for the Winter.
The side track at Forman Station
has been heightened out, SO rs to reach
to Batchelder's mill.
The life was crushed out Of cow
near Black Creek, by the freight engine,
last Monday morning.
| N. 1. Kinne has sold his half interest
in the saw mill ut Kinne Creek to John
and Henry L. Watson.
In remitting subscriptions for the
STAR, send by money order or regis
tered letter, at our expense.
l.. A. Carpenter is preparing to erect
a shop OH the west end Of E. Coon's
lot, opposite G. w. Fuller's.
The Express Company will not re-
ceive any more venison for shipment,
till the 10Th of next September.
More than 100 pounds of venison
was shipped from this point by Amer
lean Express, last Saturday morning.
Nealand, numbering In the west part
of Lake township, is reported as hav-
ing about 10000 feet of logs now OIL
skids.
Baldwin promises TO be pretty quiet
OH Christmas and New Years. Not
even shop" seems among the proba-
bilities.
@. w. Trail, who is numbering OH the
county line, south Of Branch, expects
TO have l,OoO,0 900 feet of logs OH skids,
this week.
Where are our correspondents I'm the
county-dead, sleeping, or occupied
with the busy cares oflife SO much that
they forget Us?
The company engaged in manufac-
turing ribbed shingles at Chase, are
erecting u commodious building for
storage purposes.
The shipment Of grain and pork by
the new through line, via Ludington,
makes 1t much livlier OH this end of
the +. & p. M. Railway.
At Ncaland's lumber camp, Dec. 18th,
152 logs, scaling 1896 feet, were put
upon skids with one yoke Of oxen. 1t
is called pretty fair days work.
Don't forget the little folks and their
expectations ut Christmas time. Don't
disappoint them. Give them some
thing, hswever trifling it may be.
/. We couldn't ask for more accepta-
ble Christmas or New Years presenta-
tion from our delinquent subscribers
than to receive back pay and renewal.
Parties from Reed City have pur-
chased the old Hicks & Benjamin mill,
at Nirvana, and expect to have It re-
fitted and running again Ia about two |
weeks.
We learn that Tho's A. Ball, Of Mir
vana, while cutting trees In the woods,
Tuesday, was struck on the head by q
falling limb, which cut q severe cash;
but fortunately not breaking the skull.
The December number of Brain
ards Musical World Is ut hand, and
music valued at $3.50 in usual
form. An excellent periodical for low
ers of music. It will be sent one year
postpaid, for $l.5O. 8. Braidard's Sons
Cleveland, Ohio.
Read and reflect OH the new adver-
tisement of Emmett Coon q Co., to be
found elsewhere In this issue. Keep
ing full stock constantly on hand,
and selling at the prices enumerated,
they cannot do otherwise than secure
y liberal share of patronage.
Scyibner's Monthly for January Is al
ready on our table. It is a most well
come visitor; filed as 1t always Is with
choice, interesting, valuable and enter
taining matter. A years subscription
would be nice Christmas present to n
friend. See prospectus; elsewhere.
When one Of our subscribers is ap-
preached by smooth, oily-t0ngued
creature, and smiIingly asked The isn't
ASHAMED to take the starr" let him
(subscriber) just examine that crea-
ture's head and see II he don't find
sore spot there, made by a "whack"
that "repugnant" sheet, at
some time or other in the past.
The job Of getting the Board of Su-
pervisors together In special session,
on the 10th, has fallen through with
only two Supervisors having signed
the "call.n And 80 the taxpayers are