The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1879-05-29
VOLUME VII.
HOME STARLIGHT.

Not very warm yet.
Tomorrow Is Decoration Day.
Not much for local, this week.
Garland has q new canvass awning
The Board of Supervisors conven
next Tuesday.
You can catch grayling for awhile
after this week.
]. b. Taylor is building an additio
to his boarding house.
X. Il. Sleeper is manufacturing sid
ing and selling it ''in the rough"
Geo. Abrams returned, last Thurs
day.
g. w. Shane is to help DeLamate
build the new grist mill.
A dancing party will be held at tn
county hall, next Wednesday evening
Lawyer Comstock has moved t
Charlotte, this State; where he will re
sumo the practice of his profession.
The guardians of Reed City have pu
q veto OH the business of allowing hog
to run at large in the streets.
The question of providing Holly Wa
ter Works for the city Is being agitatet
at Ludington.
The schools at Ludington have beer
closed on account of the prevalence o
scarlet fever.
Fires have been raging in the woods
throughout the county during the pas1
week, and considerable damage has
been done.
This locality is suffering greatly fol
want of rain. There have been two
or three sprinkles within the past week
but not enough to lay the dust.
We received pleasant call, Monday
evening, from Amos Fiandt, Jacol
and John Eichcnbergcr Of Chase town
ship.
There was good attendance at the
literary entertainment by the Women's
Christian Temperance Society, last Sat
urday evening.
The Big Rapids Herald says that
are plenty in thai market;
but that only millionares are eligible
for the feast.
Work on the d., T.. & n. R. r., from
Blanchard to Big Rapids, will COM
mence rs soon as the right of way Is
secured.
w. q. Cameron, latterly editor of the
Fremont Times, has gone to work on
one of the dailies recently started at
Several cords of wood, just this side
of Reed City, were fired and destroyed
by stray spark from a locomotive, one
day last week.
Don't you forget it, that there's a
handsome stock of Dry Goods, Grocer
les, Hardware, Crockery, Glassware,
&C., DC, ut S. l.. BACIIANT's,
Chase, Mich.
a temperance discussion in Manis-
tee, a few evenings ago, broke up in a
personal row among the
speakers.
Mayor Engleman, of Manistee, is
bound to keep thingsstraight. He col
Jared aud marched drunk and disor-
derIy offender of to Jail, IL few days
since.
The Farwell Register says 1t is esti-
mated that over one million feet of
logs were destroyed in the Gerrish dis
trict north of that place, by the recent
forest fires.
VIM. Charlesworth, of Chase, has re-
Gently purchased 100 acres of land I'm
and intends to remove to
that State, with his family, about the
middle of next month.
Hon. O. o. Stanchfield and ex-con-
iuctor Crawford have the contract for
ties (some so odd thousand)
On the extension of the Stanton Branch
D., L. & N. R'y to Big Rapids.
From Jas. Ashbay we learn that the
lumber camp ofThos. Quick, Elk town.
ship, was totally destroyed by fire, last
afternoon; together with two
trucks, some logging sleighs, hogs, &c.
The fire came from the woods. 1t was
! serious loss to Mr.. Quick.
There was change, last Monday, in
,ime i'm running trains over the +. & p.
N. R'y. The express from the west is
low due here at $3.50 a. M; from the
,ast, 9:33 p. m. The mixed train from
he west-10:25 q. M; from the east
:45 p. m. The corrected time card
will appear in our next issue.
A special dispatch to the Detroit Post
Tribune, under date of May 26th,
avs: ''The village of Paris, Mecosta
ounty, seven miles south of Reed City,
,as almost totally destroyed by fire at
80 this morning. The fire was first
I'm McFarlane's store, but
ne time at which 1t originated is not
nown at this writing. 1t burned five
ores, two hotels, two barns and sew
raj outbuildings, amounting In the ag-
regate to about $4,000, as follows:
.ndrew McFarlane's hotel and gener-
store, including building, loss SIC, 900,
18th no insurance; EN-. Elwood, who
coupled three stores, dealer in ready
,ade clothing, boots aud shoes, drugs,
'welry, hardware, agricultural imple-
,ents, -four and feed, ETC., loss SIC, 900,
lsured for "a, 900; L. M. Stickney, two
torres, buildings and barn occupied by
,lwood, loss %, $50, insured for 81 800;
frs. Annie Hall, of Detroit, one store,
occupied by Elwood, loss ST.
Do, not known whether insured or not;
he Paris hotel, owned by Morton
COMPTON and occupied by e. Cheney,
,ss on building and contents 81 200,