The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11
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VIM. Wood has gone OH visit to hi
family at Matherton, Ionia county.
The snow-p,ow comes into use quit,
often OH the railroad, nowadays.
"T,cstaurant !" is the sign displayc,
OH Charlie Fullcr's building, south o
the depot.
Only a few days more Glapsc il
which the town trcaswers make thei
collections of taxes.
We would like some more good Try
wood, OH subscription. Length, six
teen inches.
Capt. L. Saunders, of the F. 4 p. M
Railway Land Department, was In
town this week.
J. ID. Garland and wife have returned
from their visit to their old home in
Eaton county.
Among the recent transfers of real
estate is Lot No. 5, of Block 1, Nirva-
ma, by ID. c. Mariner to Lee S. Cobb.
Judge Wheeler Is holding Court owe,
in Osceola county, this week, and the
session here has again been adjourned
till next Monday.
The little son of Lee s. Cobb received
New Years present from his grand
mother, in the shape of Lot No. 10,
Block l, in the village Of Nirvana.
We are pleased to add to the list of
our exchanges, Our DiOccses, 2-page
paper, published in the interest of the
Episcopal Church, at Detroit.
Read the card Of County Surveyor
Cobb, given elsewhere in thisiissuc. II
any desire work done. i'm his line, we
have confidence to believe he can sat
isfy you.
Parties desiring to trade yoke OF
oxen for mich cows, or purchase cows
for cash, should read the advertisement
of Henry Rowe, 10 bc found elsewhere
in this issue.
DO you want to purchase 100 acres OF
land, partially improved, log house,
&C., for less than 81 per acre. Then
take the chance offered in tho advcr-
tisemcnt given in another column.
We are sorry to soc that John \. Car
pcnter, of this village, has become
crippled in his left han'l, 10y jarring the
nerves, while working at his trade as
blacksmith, in Carson's camp.
Ifyou want snug little farm of 81
acres, within convenient distance from
village, secure the land advertised in
this issue rs for Substituted i'm Web
Der township.
Th0s. Lucas has purchased the build
ing formerly owned Ivy Peter Corby, in
this place, and is finishing it off. Mr..
Corby's family will, we understand,
occupy a part of the building till next
Spring.
"Doc." Saunders, Of Chase, is de-
tcrmned to assist in supporting the
county paper, whether it agrees with
him politically or otherwise, or not,
and so it is that he hands us another
years advance subscription.
Town Treasurer North informs us
that most of the orders against Pleas
ant Plains township have been pail,
and it seems that town financial mat
tiers are assuming much better shape.
Glad TO see it.
Chas. w. Holly, of Pinora township,
pays his subscription, but says that
somehow lie don't get all the papers,
and feels Disguised, and wants to dis
continue. Such are the trials and
Affections of n printer up here i'm the
back-wO6ls!
Esquire Little, of Ellen, that big man
whom we like to call one of our best
patrons, comes around, hands us q
grcenback, and says we may send the
STAR to one Of his friends In Pennsyl-
vania. Well never deny that we like
to receive such calls.
They have stenographcr I'm Circuit
Court, at Hcrscy; and one day this
week he became so bobHurcatcd that
the Judge ordered him out of the court
room. The poor creature went below,
and after vomiting freely about the
floor of the hall, brought up In cell I'm
the Jail.
The Board of Supcrv isors, last week,
voted to have II vault built for tlse use
of the Clerk and the Register Of Deeds
in storing the valuable books of record
of the county. It is the intention when
the vault Is completed, to give the
Treasurer exclusive control of the safe.
As VIC intimated In our last weeks
issue, the Supervisors have resolved to
have lookup erected on the lot pur-
chased ut previous session. 1t Is,
perhaps, desirable to have prison of
some sort; the only question that puz-
zles us Is rs to whether it Is an econom-
zeal policy to build so cheap and appar-
cnfiy temporary affair.
One of the jokes Of the season seems
to have occurred at the barn of +. ID.
Lacy, in Nirvana, few days since,
where his COW managed to climb the
stairs to tlr hay loft, and caused him
to build bridge in order to get her
down again. IL is difficult to imagine
which felt the worst over the affair
the COW In the loft, or the Professor In
placing her again on her proper level.
Layton Putnam, of Webber, writes
us from Durand, Shiawasscc county
that he has secured good job OF steady
work for the ID. & NJ. Railway, and
will remain there all Winter. Says,
also, that he don't get the STAR since
he moved from Laingsburg. Ill we
can say, Is, that it goes out ofthis office
all right, and that he ought to receive