Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-07-26
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w. G. Boggs is one of the happiest
men in town. All owning to fine
daughter at his house.
We would call attention to the list of
valuable farming lands and village
property, offered for sale by Geo. W. Bell.
The advertisement can be found in
another column.
b.. Vanderbilt, principal of the in
termediate department of our graded
school, is deyoting his attention during
his vacation to an infant department.
1t is girl-last Tuesday,.
Thursday W. W. Strohn and Fred
Boughton saw three deer near the high
bridge on the road to Black Lake. Rev.
R. M. Thompson and RObt. Robinson saw
one near the same place while returning
from Long Lake the same day.
Governor Croswell and the other State
officials composing the State Board Of
Control, are expected to arrive by the
inland route this evening, on their way
to Sault Ste. Marie on business connect
ed with the Sault Canal. They will pro-
badly stop and examine the Sturgeon
river cutoff as they pass through over
the route.
VIM. S. Smith, of the firm of Smith
Brothers, has gone to Milwaukee with a
view of purchasing an interest in the
steam yacht Mary. Should he succeed,
we believe it is the design to have her
run from the head of Mullet lake to
Mackinac, forming, with the Northern
Belle, daily line from the head of
Crooked lake to Mackinac.
The head men of the f. & P. NJ, the
]. L. s. s., and G. R. & L railroads are
talking of erecting large building upon
the State Fair grounds, to be used by
northern and Western Michigan exclu-
sively in exhibiting fruit and farm
produce. Any county wishing to exhibit
its products all in one collection will
have department set off in the building
for that purpose.
Sault Ste. Marie citizens are agitating
the subject of railroad to that point.
A meeting was held last week and H.
w. Seymour and c. Montgomery were
appointed a committee to attend the
railroad meeting at st. Paul, Mimi, last
Tuesday, at which the matter of rail-
road to connect with the Marquette and
Mackinac road and the Canadian road,
to secure through eastern route.
Mr.. R. A. McCarty, of the Detroit Free
Press is in the village, in the interests
of the order of Imperial Knights, as an
ISOLATION on the mutual benefit plan,
organized under state law, which is
meeting with favor in all parts of the
state. Mr.. McCarty has been very sue
cesful in establishing subordinate lodges
wherever he has visited, and hopes to
meet with like success in our village.
The Chippewa County News says the
farmers of that county were badly swim
died in their seed wheat. A $500" mer-
chant ordered 200 bushels of spring
wheat from parties in Detroit for seed.
Suitable seed could not be found in that
city at the time and the firm ordered it
sent from commission firm in Chicago.
The wheat reached the Sault in due time
and was sold to the farmers for spring
wheat. 1t was all sowed and now proves
to have been fall wheat and as a cOnse-
quence the crop is failure.
The Cheboygan Lumber company pro
pose to have the boss saw mill of this
section of the state. They have contract
ed for one of Wick's gang saw mills, and
intend pushing the work of erecting the
mill as fast as possible. The timber for
the frame is being got out. The ma
chinery in their present mill, which is
one of the best mills for its size in the
state, is to be removed to the new mill,
and with the addition of the improved ma
chinery contemplated, they will have a
mill that will be credit to our town.
The Sturgeon river cutoff is COM
pleted and promises to be success.
Some delay in its completion has been
cansed by the difficulty of keeping a suf-
ficient force of men at work. The pro-
life crop of berries with the high price
they bring induced many to quit the
work and 60 to picking berries. Mr.. VIM.
Macarthur, the contractor thinks there is
no doubt but that it will accomplish all
that was expected and prevent any fur
ther trouble on the inland route from
an inflow of sand into Indian river at
the mouth of the Sturgeon.
The Yellow fever seems to be on the
increase at Memphis and the situation
is becoming alarming, 1t is feared there
will be repetition Of last seasons horror.
1t is stated that the disease originated
from infected clothing which had been
preserved by the wife of the shoemaker,
who was the first person attacked with
the disease and who fell a victim of it.
Some of her relatives died with the disease
last season and left her their effects and
she boxed up the clothing and opened
them up this summer and the result has
been the spreading Of the dreaded dis
ease.
ExcuI sion to Mackinac.
Arrangements have been made with
Capt. Kirkland, of the Leviathan, to give
the Congregational Sunday school an
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