Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-04-24
TOWN TALK.

Cheboygan fishermen are getting ready
to plant their nets.
The latest styles and novelties in
millinery at Miss ShadbOlt's.
Thompson Smiths small mill at Dun
can City started up Thursday morning
for the season.
The carpets for Smith Bros. new hotel
on Mullet Lake, arrived on the Lawrence
Saturday night.
The wind Monday played havoc with
the ice in Mullet and Burt lakes and by
Wednesday it had all disappeared.
Smith Brothers have received from
Chicago, four elegant newell posts for
the stairways of the Mullet Lake House.
Last Tuesday evening Frank Bostwick
captured beaver on Huron street, in
the ditch in front of w. F. Smyth's resi-
dence.
Mr.. w. w. Davidson has arrived from
Chicago and is refitting his photograph
gallery and will be all ready for business
in day or two.
The wild geese have concluded
that the back bone of winter is broken,
a large flock passed over the village for
the north, Wednesday.
The boarding house of the ChebOygan
Lumber Company is about finished and
with its nice clean coat of white and
nicely penciled chineys looks refreshing.
Barclay s. Nation, have leased ground
on the east side of the river, just above
the premises of the Che5Oygan Lumber
Company, for piling the lumber they
manufacture for shipment.
The propeller Lake Erie brought two
families with their household effects,
from Canada, last Monday. The indica-
lions are that this line of steamers will
bring large numbers of settlers, to locate
in this section, this season.
The Detroit Evening News says tele-
gram received Tuesday, in Detroit from
Capt. Spalding, Superintendent OF the
Sault canal, states that the prospects
were the canal would not open before
May 10th, as the ice was as solid as ever.
The jacket to the battery Of boilers of
the ChebOygan Lumber company is COM
pleted and in position. The smoke stack
is finished and is ready to be raised, and
we should judge 1t would not be many
days before they would be able to fire up
and give the machinery a test.
The cOpiOus showers have kept the
streams all full and log driving has been
pushed with energy. There seems to be
no doubt about all being got out OF the
different streams and brought down.
The supply will be ample to keep the
mills all running to their full capacity.
A week or so since we stated that P.
Sullivan intended making 100000 OF
100000 brick this season. By the time the
item got to Alpena it had increased to
100000 brick. We believe that in the
course of time Mr.. Sullivan may reach
that amount, but his ideas are not so
large for this season.
The little folks of the Congregational
Sunday school had a happy time at the
Town Hall, Wednesday evening. A
bountiful supply of ice cream and cake
had been provided and the evening was
the larger folks seemed to enjoy the &C.
casiOn about as much as the smaller
ones.
The Republicans carried Sault Ste
Marie township at the recent elections
by majOrities ranging from 81 to 113
Editor Steere of the Chippewa County
News was elected Town Clerk over Geo
w. Brown by 60 majority. The News
says, "the sand-lOt orator Geo. w. Brown
of the Sault did it with his little
speeches"
The liquor dealers of Detroit and their
eminent attorneys" have found out that
the anti-license clause of the cOnstitu-
ton, under which they were going to
resist the collection of the liquor tax
was repealed in 1876 and they are not SO
cOmbatively inclined as they were and
have about concluded that they will have
to pay the tax or shut up shop.
Last Monday night the guardians of
the nights undertook to collect speci-
mems of all the different natiOnalitics
represented in our village, but only sue
ceeded in capturing an Irishman, Scotch
man and Frenchman. These were lodged
at the village boarding house and Tues
day were permitted to add to the treas
ury of the village by paying their fines.
Drunk
The boom of the Cheboygan Lumber
Company, at Swartz bay, broke last Mon
day night and let about 100000 feet of
logs loose. They flOated down, filling
the canal and lock and the river above
the dam full up as far as the bridge at
John +. McDOnald's. The company had
to make preparations Cor taking care of
them at their new mill, and they were
run down Thursday forenoon.
Smith Brothers new hotel, the Mullet
Lake House, is approaching completion.
The third and fourth floors have been
finished with the exception of hanging
some doors. The plastering upon the
first and second stories is on with the
exception Of the hard finish. which has
been DELAYED for lack of lime. There is
plenty of the latter to be had now, and
it will not be long before the work will
be completed.
The Otsego County Herald of the 18th
says: The survey of the extension OF
the railroad has finally commenced. A
corps of nine practical surveyors. assist
ed by full set axmen, etc., may be
seen FORMULATING the woods north OF
Gaylord, and the indications are "busi-
ness" A. A. FOsdick, county surveyor OF
Otseg0 county, is among the number. II
is utterly impossible at present to state
where the line will be laid, but as fast as
it is established we shall take pains to
post the public
Mr.. Wheeler, the sub-cOntractOr fol
carrying the mail on the route from here
to PetOskey has become Disguised and
has thrown up the job. Littlefield &
Crumley had sub-contract from Wheel
er to carry it until the ice was out of the
lakes on the inland route. 1t having
disappeared, Mr.. Crumley has taken his
teams off of the road, and POstmas
ter Ford was on the ragged edge of despair
trying to arrange for the regular trans
mission of the mails over the route, but
upon investigating the matter, he found
that the postmaster at Petoskey was the