Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-04-03
March departed very lamb-like.


ginghams, &C., 60 to Anspach & Co.'S.
A good suit of clothes can be bought |
at Nelson & Bullen's for from So to $40.
Many of the lumber camps have broken |
up, and the town is full of the men who
have come down from the different
camps.
R. X. HOrning has received his COM
mission as postmaster at Riggsville and
as soon as the necessary blanks are re-
ceived will open the Office.
Seventy-five or hundred men, from
the different lumber camps, have been
waiting the most of the week for
steamer upon which to get below.
Those wishing to purchase carpets
should not fail to call and examine the
stock at Nelson & Bullen's, they having
the finest display ever made in ChebOy-
gan.
The largest stock Of clothing and dry
goods in town is at Anspach s. Co.'S store,
and if you want anything in that line,
why, of course, that is the best place in
town to 60 and get it.
The Marine City arrived off the harbor
about two O'Clock. but could not break
the ice. As we 60 to press it is reported
that she has started to Mackinaw, going
on the north side of Bots Blanc.
Work on the mill of the ChebOygan
Lumber Co. is progressing favOrably.
They have commenced raising the huge
smoke stack, it being raised in sections.
They expect to have the mill ready to
start up sometime during the present
month.
few weeks since Geo. H. Prentiss, of
Detroit, sent a telegram to the foreman
of his saw mill al. Prentiss Bay, which
cost-him $27.70 to get delivered. The
fees OF the telegraph company amounted
to $40, and it cost $25 to have it con-
, veyed overland to The mill.
We would call attention to the lengthy
communication, to be found elsewhere
in this issue, from Nelson & Bullen.
They claim to have the largest and best
: selected stock of everything ever brought
| to ChebOygan; all selected with special
regard to the wants of this community,
, and that they are selling upon very close
: margins. Give them call and satisfy
yourselves both as to. assortment and
!, prices.
Every one should read the advertise
msnt of WetmOre &. Lathrop. Their
store is well furnished, and from what
we learn and from general appearances,
they will hereafter keep much larger
and better assortment than ever before,
} probably second to none in this section
7 Their reputation for keeping stock in
, good order, and for selecting stylish and
, good goods is well known to this com.
{ munity. We wish them hearty sue.
cess.
Alex Mcdonald expects to have the new
Jail and sheriff's residence completed next
/ week, and to turn it over to the special
. committee, appointed by the Board Of
: Supervisors, for their acceptance. The
work appears well done, and the build
ing is credit both to the county and
contractor. The county was very forum.
: ate in letting the contract at the time il
{ did jas it was taken when materials of all
{ kinds and labor were at the lowest. If il
| had to be let to-day it would cost very
considerable larger sum.
The new boarding house of the Che
boyggan Lumber Co. is being pushed for
ward to completion as rapidly as posi-
BILE. 1t would seem they had man at
work in every place where they could d.
any good. The house is much larger and
q more conveniently arranged than tn,
/ old boarding house of the company. They
+ have bored two wells, which flow up, Ont
into the kitchen and the other into thu
: mems wash room. The building is to b,
0 painted pure white and will show wei
> from the straits. They have put down {
plank road between the boarding hOus,
!. and mill.
t The men working on the landing O.
: Thompson Smiths camp No. 1, on LAX,
: Huron at the town line, between towns
81 and 38, east, report that abou
: March 4th they saw man floating il
9 the lake on large field of ice. They sa,
d they could distinctly see him walkin,
Q backward and forward. The field of ic
= seemed to be drifting from towards tn
= straits, and was quite distance out il
2 the lake. There was no possibility O
their rendering any aid, as the ice wa
all broken up toward the shore. The,
watched him for hours, but the win,
shifting drove the ice out into the lake
q and snow storm setting in he was los
l. to their sight. Who he was or where h
Is was from is mystery.
Personal.
l. Mr.. E. NELSON has been imprOyin,
+. rapidly this week, and it is thought tina