Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-03-06
TOWN TALK.
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Yesterdays mail arrived this morning
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The small pOx scare has evidently SUBJ
sided, for 'drummers" have been thick
in town this week.
The adjourned meeting of the Board
of Supervisors takes place at the court
house next Monday. $50 hf-.L
The Post and Tribune says the st.
Paul will probably leave Detroit for Al
pena next Saturday.
Election next Monday. Vote early and
for the best men. Polls open at eight a.
m. and close at five p. m.
Another bad week for business at the
skating rink Only two evenings OF
skating during the week.
The fire company will meet for prac-
tice next Monday afternoon. A full
turn out of the members is desired.
The Cheboygan machine shops are full
of business. H. A. Blake has orders
ahead that will keep all hands busy for
two months to come.
Those OF our citizens who, have not al
ready put up their. ice had better look a
"leedle Oud" or their crop of ice cream
might prove failure.
If cOons want to play daylight possum.
and soldier at the expense of the tax
payers of this village, they must steer
clear of Oakum and turpentine.
The old reliable wrecking tug Levia-
than came out Of Wolf s. Davidson's dry
dock at Milwaukee, Friday of last week,
having been thoroughly repaired.
The Secretary of the Treasury has is
sued an important circular to govern
ment inspectors of. steamb boats relative
to the examination of pilots for color
blindness. ~
One or two of our lumbermen COM
menced breaking up their camps Thurs
day. Friday morning they commenced
work again with renewed energy. A
foot Of snow did the business.
Post & VanArsdale have completed
large exhaust pipe for Thompson Smiths
new mill at Duncan City. 1t is made of
galvanized iron, and would make good
smoke stack for an ordinary saw mill.
The Students club meet at the resi-
dence of ]. P. Sutton next Monday even
ing, and will devote the evening to Julius
C8ser, giving each member an OppOrtu-
nifty to show their ability as readers in
some one of the various characters.
Robert Coners s. Co. have sold $4,000
feet of backing to Detroit parties at some
what better prices than backing ruled
at last season. They anticipate large
trade the coming season and expect to
run their mandatory night and day.
Smith Brothers have decided to call
their new hotel at the head of Mullet
lake, the. "Mullet Lake Hotel" and not
Lake View House, as they first thought
of doing, and retain the latter name as
the name of their former hotel at that
point.
Quarterly conference at the Methodist
church this evening. Rev.. A. ]. Rich
ards, Presiding Elder of the district, will
be present. He will also preach to-mor-
row, morning and evening, at the usual
hours. A cordial invitation is extended
the citizens to attend these services.
As contrast to the large egg, men
toned last week, B. j. Vanderbilt has
left at this Office about as small speci-
men of "hen fruit" as we have ever seen.
1t is an inch and quarter in diameter
the long way and seven Fights of an inch
the small way, and weighs two drachms
and half.
Postmaster Ford has received postal
from Mr.. I. Sells, attorney at Terrell,
Texas, making inquiry in regard to
Jacob Decker, formerly of this village.
Some valuable property at Terrell be-
longing to Mr.. Decker has been sold for
taxes, and there is only short time left
to redeem it.
Last week we printed an item from
the Saginaw Courier, stating that II. w.
Sage had taken the last $4,000 for the
extension of the Jackson, Lansing &
Saginaw railroad to the straits. The
Bay City Tribune says it was Mr.. West,
and that it was subscribed for the COM
pletiOn of the Detroit, Mackinaw and
Marquette road, and that the completion
of the Mackinaw division from Gaylord to
the Straits will be done by the Michigan
Central. That company has the means
and its early completion is necessary.
The Evening News says that Thompson
Smith commenced suit in the Superior
court, of Detroit, last Monday, against
Charles Bewick, of that city, for $4,000
damages, alleging that on April Is. 1879.
he made contract with Bewick> to de
liver the latter all the white pine and
Norway pine lumber Ee might wish at
Du mean City to be shipped from that
place to TOnawanGa, N. Y; that he ac-
cOrdingly delivered Great many thous-
and feet, but that Bewica did not fulfill
his agreement, to Mr.. Smiths damage to
the above amount.
Thursday Of last week while the work.
men employed in driving piles for the
charging Of the dock at Smith Bros
new hotel, on Mullet lake, were engaged
in raising large pile to get it in posi-
tiOn for driving, the anchors, reaching
from the upright of the driver to the ice,
forced themselvesth rough the ice, caused
by the weight, and the driver tipped
over causing the hammer, weighing 1900
pounds, to come down with crash, pas
sing through eight inches of timber, ten
inches OF Ice, and disappearing in IS
feet OF water, down into the soft bottom
completely burying itself in the soft
mud so that 1t could not be found. They
procured another hammer from Near
thur, Smith & Co. and the work is again
progressing.
Prospect" hill is coming out. Three