Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1881-05-26
"Down the HlN." I"


The day IN dark aud chill and dreary,
Ny limbs are weak and stiff. and weary;
OF griefs for years I've had my ILL.,
I'm glad I'm going down the hill"
Yes down the hili into the valley
Where runs the river OF death. I'll rally
With Joy, my soul il tis His will
And soar to Him beyond the hill
Youth with It's sports and scenes OF beauty.
Mature years, with a sense of duty;
A mission seek and To fulfill
And then. the journey down the hill
Such is life; so short and so fieetng.
Precious moments; all are completing
Cycles of time, passing until
They bring all surely down the hill.
Are you going to attend the Ice
Cream Social, Saturday EVENING"
Mr.. Emile Scheib of Fredericville,
hasn't got near as many fingers as he
used to have. He worked in the shin
gle mill and left 'eIn in thingmybob
what does the business.
In order to have more room to fa-
cilitate the loading of lumber cars,
Sailing, Hanson IL Co. are making
ready to extend their mill side-track.
We understand thas 100 men are
wanted al Fredericville to peel hem
lock bark, for which from $22 to $26
per month is being offered, with board.
No book of the day has been half
so popular as the new testament Mil
lions of copies have been sold within
few days.
Mr. d. H. Buell. has finished up his
work at the mill, and is now engaged
in building a house for Jap" Hoyt.
over the river.
Our carpenters, masons and pain
ters are very much hurried these days,
which may be taken as evidence of inn
provements in the building line.
That hat that Mr.. ID. II. Buell. the
carpenter now wears, though not very
expensive, is quite extensive. and we
would request to be permitted to lay
under its shade, too.
Everybody wears 'em now, those
Government Sewed Shoes at Finn's
They're just immense. Go buy your
self pair for So 10 and you won't wear
anything else-in the shoe line.
Mr. Maurice Birdsall of Fenton,
Genesee county, who recently located
a homestead in Maple Forest, in the
Forbes neighborhood, came on this
week to remain and work his land.
Mr. A. ID. Price is renovating his
market building and putting it in or
der, having rented it to Mitchell g.
Stewart, the Milliners, who will occupy
it next week with large stock of goods.
Mr.. John Harder and family are
now occupying their new house, and
will soon be in readiness to accommo-
date the travelling public and take per
manent boarders.
MIR. n. Nicholson, of the firm of
Sailing, Hanson & Co., has gone to
Manistee and will return shortly with
his family, having made up his mind
to reside in Grayling.
Arrr.,r,o., M. ,.s Al, -
Good Templars' Lodge of this village
are requested to meet at the school
house on Saturday evening next, at
7:3O. By ORDER OF Com.
-Messrs. Hanson, Hadley and Finn,
are having nice little cottages, in size
14x22, erected on the banks of Portage
lake for the coming seasons use at that
charming resort. Carpenters Forbes
& Tryon are doing the work.
1t was thought at the time that
''Phir' meant to treat, and that he'd
really gone and got "spliced;" but
when he slipped out leaving the boys
in the lurch, he was Immediately classed
as very bad fraud, which opinion still
prevails.
Mr.. A. II. Swarthout has gone to
Saginaw for few days to visit his pa.
rents, and tell them of that little epi.
sode he had over on the Manistee last
week, where he and the high sheriff
were violently pitched into the drink
by a balky saw-log.
1t was their first night aboard the
steamer. 'At last, :" he said tenderly,
1--WE are all alone, out upon the deep
warters of the dark blue sea, and your
heart will always beat for me as it has
beat in the pastf' my hearts all
right" she answered, languidly, but,
my stomach feels awfnl. VI Brooklyn
Chronicle.
1T would never do to elect women
to all offices. II female sheriff
should visit the residence of n hand
some man and explain to his wife that
she had an attachment for him, there
would be vacancy in that Office in
about two minutes.
The Township Superiptendents, a,