The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1879-01-02
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Loose hay sells for $l3 and baled hay
for SIC per ton at Farwell.
John Watson and Orville A. Lincoln
are running the saw mill at RenOe.
| Mrs. VIM. Lacy, of Nirvana, has
been quite sick, but is better, now.
We are head quarters for choice teas
at lowest prices.
EMMETT Coon & Co.
1 We acknow ledge receipt Of a copy OF
the 7.pe Founder, published by Barn
hart Bros & Spindler, Chicago.
Read the prospectus Of the new pa
per--the Michigan Weekly Sun; pub
lished elsewhere i'm this issue.
Jno. Hammill, of Newark, New Jer-
sey, wants the STAR, and furnishes the
silver with which to obtain it.
1t came near being a Christmas pres
ent-only one day too late-a 9-pound
boy at V. E. Lacy's, Nirvana.
Circuit Court for Osceola county con-
venes next week, Judge Haight pre-
siding.
Bro. Cady, of the Manistee Advocate
has enlarged his paper to six-column
quartO. 1t looks prosperous.
Our stock is the largest, and prices
the lowest.
EMMETT Coon & Co.
We hear of considerable sickness i'm
this locality; more than was ever be-
fore known at one time since the coun-
try was settled.
Several of our old subscribers have
paid up their subscriptions and renew'd,
this week. Come along! The printer
certainly needs it!
Mr.. and Mrs. Gillett, of Nirvana,
started, last Monday, OH visit of few
weeks to their old home in Ashtabula,
Ohio.
All efforts to recover the body of Per-
~ Russell, of Manistee, drowned in
the Manistee river, some weeks since
have SO far proved fruitless.
Lee S. Cobb, of Yates, has been re-
quested by the u Signal Service De-
partment to furnish monthly weather
reports.
Odd styles, or old stock, at coa and
bclOD. EMMETT Coon Il Co.
Mr.. Muir, overseer ofthe elevate: at
Ludington, was accidentally struck by
an engine backing down the yard, last
Thursday morning and one of his feet
crushed 80 that amputation just above
the ankle joint was necessary.
The Farwell Register is authority for
saying that the men in all of Gerrish's
lumber camps, north of that place, had
a Christmas dinner, of which 200 gal
Ions of oysters, with turkeys, chickens,
&C., &C., composed part.
A seasonable and interesting account
of "Afghanistan," with illustrations,
begins the January number of the Ma
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one of the choicest and best for ladies,
i'm existence, and should have place
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publishers, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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We are informed by q party who
ought to know that our information,
last week, regarding tire marriage of
Mr.. z. b. Knapp and Mrs. A. Gates,
was wholly false. We are wholly at a
loss to account for any sensible reason
for the falsehood sent to us. Ifit was
intended rs joke, 1t shows shocking
ignorance of the true meaning of the
word. Great country, this.
Our old motto-"Good goods prompt
pay, and quick sales"
EMMETT Coon & Co.
Two boys, named Delos and Michael
Vincent, and aged respectively Is and
13 years--a few days since stole a steer
from Mr.. Kelley, Of Weare, Oceana
county, driving 1t to Hart and selling
it to Mr.. Underhill. Later, the boys
were arrested for the crime, and SEN
fenced to the Reform School until they
become of age. Their father David
Vincent, is resident of Mason county,
and was arrested some time since and
placed under bonds to appear for trial,
on the charge of shooting COW. The
boys claim he drove them away from
home, so they would not appear as wit
nesses to the shooting.
J. ]. Hanese, who had been q great
sufferer for months past, died at Bald
win, Mich, Sunday, Dec. 10th, 1878.
The funeral was held Dec. Slst; Elder
III. A. Bray conducting the services.
The remains were buried In Pleasant
Plains township cemetery. The de-
ceased had served In the Union army,
where he sacrificed an arm. Thus, one
by one, the defenders of the Union are
passing away:
On mountain and hilltop, in valley and glen,
In quiet graveyard, withiov'd onss OF weep
And sIshins to think they1l meet never
where the oceans wild waves are ccaselessly |