Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-12-31
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1881.
A happy New Year to all.

happy new lear 10 all.
Are you going to make New Years
calls next Monday.
The Indian River mail now arrives
and departs by rail. t.La
Call at this Office and see our stock of
New Years cards.
The Bay City daily papers of yesterday
morning were received here by the train
last night.
The Christmas eve festivities at the
different churches were we'll attended,
and the little ones all made happy.
EThe soft weather continues and the
straits and harbOr are as free of ice as
in mid summer. Since the above was in
type there are symptoms of a freeze.
The Cheboygan Fire Company are to
give grand ball at the town hall
Wednesday evening, Feb. 22d. The pro-
ceeds to be devoted toward paying for
their new bell.
The week Of prayer will be observed at
the Methodist church next week and a
general invitation is extended to all to
participate. Services each evening COM
mencing at o'clock.
We would call attention to the notice
to contractors, in another column, for
proposals for building an addition to
the Town Hall. Proposals must be left
at Frazer q Browns Office by noon of
next Monday.
Mr.. j. M. Metheany, general superin-
tendent of the Grand Rapids and Indi-
ana, says the work of building the
northern extension to the straits will be
pushed vigorously now, so that the De-
trOit, Mackinac and Marquette will soon
have another outlet.
We see among the list of jurors for the
January term of court, the name of one
man who nearly always has his mind
made up upon all cases that come up
for trial and heretofore when on the
jury list has been very successful in
getting excused.
If it only had been known that the
fine weather would have lasted so long
as it has, the owners of small crafts at
this port might have made nice thing
working that coal mine deposited by
the steambarge II. B. futile and cOnsOrt
Ely near Hammond's bay.
Last Monday a misplaced switch
threw engine 1919 and two cars off the
track at camp No. 5, between Wolverine
and Vanderbilt, and tumbled them down
the bank. The Locomotive brought up
against pile of logs and stumps with
wheels up and was badly wrecked. The
two cars caught fire and were burned
up. Richard Dodge, brakeman, In
jumping from the train broke the bones
in one foot.
The Detroit Post and Tribune says a
through Wagner sleeping car will be
run on the night train from Detroit.
This would indicate that we are to have
two passeH ger trains per day. A night
train would be quite convenience t(
our merchants. They could leave here
in the evening, reach Detroit nexI
morning, transact their business during
the day and leave for home in the eve
ming.
TOpinabee, the third station on the j
L. & s. railroad south of Cheboygan wa
named by H. H. Pike, of Niles, who il
putting up large hotel at that point
1t is located on the shore of Mule
lake and affords a handsome view o
that beautiful inland lake. MIR. Pix
has the reputation of being one of tn
best hotel keepers in the state and will
doubtless make his new hotel one Of tn
most popular resorts in northern Mich
gan.
A correspondent Of the Ann ArbO
Courier pays our fellow townsman r. 4
Frazer the following high compliment
i'm speaking of a temperance address de
livered in Yysilanti week ago last Sur
day evening. He says: Many were tn
words of praise it brought forth. Sue
sentences as these were frequentl
heard. "The most mastery effort of hi
life," used more logic, good common
sense and solid argument than any ma
we eveve heard speak upon this subjeC
from the platform" "he beats them al
from home or abroad" etc.
The installation ball at the new MI
sonic hall last Tuesday evening was
decided success in every particula
About 65 couples were in attendanc
and dancing was kept up till thrt
O'Clock in the morning. Some of TIL
dresses worn by the ladies can be de
cribed as magnificent, and the cOmmo
expression by many was that it was tn
most dressy affair ever held i'm Chebo.
gan. If the hall had been little larger
would have been more convenient II
the occasion, still not much inconven
ence was caused, and the Masonic fri
terHity are to be congratulated on ha
ing such snug and cOmmOdiOus Quartet