Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-12-04
TOWN TALK.

TOWN TALK.
Read the advertisement of the Star
Laundry in this issue.
Apples and onions received on the N.
7. steamers last Saturday were more or
less frozen.
A large stock of the popular Franklin
Square Library just received at Fexer's
news depot.
The sleighing has enabled the farmers
to bring their wood in and it has brought
an end to the threatened wood famine.
1t is time to begin to think of Christ
mas presents. If you wish to know where
to make your selections look at the ad-
vertising columns of the TRIBUNE.
Washington dispatches to the Chicago
Tribune make flattering reference to Mr..
Burrows, of this state, as candidate for
Speaker of the next House of Represent
atives.
That thaw that so many were prOphe-
cying was going to take off all the snow
seems to be slow coming and the indica-
tiOns are that it will not take place I'M
til next spring..
Mcdonald & Hendrie, contractors for
grading, tieing and bridging the Jack
son, Lansing &c Saginaw railroad from
is present terminus to ChebOygan, have
opened an Office in Detroit.
Notwithstanding the rigors of winter
are upon us the building boom continues
all over town. Anthony Siankiwicz has
the frame of his new building, next to
the postOffice, up and it is being enclosed.
Frank Todd is pushing the work on his
confectionery stand.
Geo. W. Simpson is building a sum-
mer resort hotel at Mackinac City. The
main building is 26 feet by SO feet and
two stories high with wing, one story
in height, 16 feet by % feet, Every sum-
mer Mr.. Simpson has been called upon
to accommodate number of guests and
as the number has been increasing each
year it has made it necessary for him to
have more commodious house.
The Postmaster General urges the
universal adoption of printing request
for return upon all envelopes. 1t is now
in general use among business men, but
private or social letters, partly because
it gives an air of business to them, are
usually destitute of any marks of that
nature. If it were only "in fashion" the
demand would soon induce statiOners to
provide unique designs. 1t would GER
tainly continue in fashion as its benefits
would be great.
The collapse of the Black River Slack
Water Navigation company is a sad
disappointment to a number Of home
steaders and other persons who secured
land in the Black Lake region when they
thought the improvement was an assured
fact. Quite number of Canadians have
recently taken up homesteads in the
southern portion of the county, thinking
the improvement would be made. The
giving up of the enterprise by the COM
pany leaves all these settlers in rather
poor shape, as they have no convenient
way of reaching a market with the
products of their farms.
II. A. Blake has moved his machine
shop into his new brick building and
got up steam for the first time, in the
new shop, last night. He is thinking Of
turning his old shop into mandatory
of agricultural implements. This il
something that Cheboygan needs. The
country around is being rapidly settled
and the demand for all kinds of agri
cultural implements has become such
that we believe, should Mr.. Blake carry
out the project, he would find it profit.
able investment and that it would be Just
what was wanted here, this new country
affording large field for such an estab
lishment.
A week or two since we published al
account of the remains of an old maj
being left for several weeks near the lin,
between Mackinac and Chippew;
counties. The body was at last takeI
care of, and wounds found indicated tina
the old man had been foully dealt with
The Sheriff of Chippewa county, las
week, arrested the young man who lief
Sault Ste. Marie with the deceased, a
Point st. Ignace, upon suspicion of muir
dering his companion, 1t was known
that the deceased had money when h
left the Sault, and none was on the bod.
when found, while the young man seem
ed to have plenty of money at Point st
Ignace.