Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1881-07-14

Mr.. Geo. Il. Shaver and family
left on Mondays train for Toronto,
Canad:., where they will hereafter re
side.
Mr.. Chas. Frantz, who has been
quite indisposed for IA number Of days,
is reported better, and will soon be able
to resume his place on the section.
Farmer Johnston, of Grove, It's
said, has very fine field of rye, which
looks well, and stands feet high-on
an average.
The Court House fence is receiv-
ing a coat ortwo ef white paint, at the
hands Mr.. Geo. Powers, which adds to
its attractiveness.
Mr. Walt Denning is going to
leave us. Won't some of our dear
Angelina's or Mary James present him
with delicate sunilower as a souvenir
of his short sojourn among us, if moth
ing morel
The Harder House is now orna-
mented with a stoop extending around
the north and east sides, on which its
gnests may sit and revel in these de-
licious twilight days. Charley done it
with his little hammer and saw.
They are going TO discuss the right
of the American people TO take the
mob law into thes own hands, in cases
like Guiteau's, at the next lycegm of
the Literary Society over in Grove, on
Saturday evening next.
Twelve days have now elapsed
since the attempted assassination Of
President Garfield, and so surely and
steadily has he improved that the anx-
ious fears of the peeplc that the wound
might prove tai, have about subsidized
and given place to hope OF his speedy
recovery.
Summer, beautiful summer, with
all of its transcendant charms, Of
which poets gush and lyrics sing, has
come, and in its soft eventide the joy
Gus lovers sit amid enchantments as
witching as of old, and lisp fond and
cndearing words of-you've been eat
in onions, Bit.
A young "medic," fresh from the
University city of Ann Aubaw, was in
town on Tuesday looking for desira-
ble place TO dispense tonics and pills,
but on returning from a walk to the
cemetery he didn't tarry long, for 'tis
said he saw no evidence Of encourage
ment there.
The Agents Herald is a sixteen
page paper published at Philadelphia,
Pa, and has for its object the protec-
ton of the public against the numer-
GUS advertising frauds, which, regard
less Of the efforts of the Postoflice De-
partment, are swindling the public out
of hundreds of thousands of dollars
annually. 1t is well worth the price OF
subscription, (50c per year., and should
he in the hands Of every business man
and merchant.
The recent rains and warm wealth
er have "boosted," " so TO speak, crops
of all kinds-more especially the corn
crop, which was badly nipped in thi.
vicinity by late frosts, but which is
now rapidly shooting up, so that farm
ers are hopeful now of getting Gf not
a fun crop, a part of crop, wherea:
they expected little or none a few
weeks since. Potatoes, in the main
are looking we'll and a good yield il
expected, and will undoubtedly be haC
if the bugs are promptly picked of
and killed, as they are very numerous
and Matching out now at lively rate
Mr.. Robert Lemoine, of Roscom
mon, has rented the old market build
ing just east Of A. II. Swarthout's Law
: office, of Mrs. T. W. Mitchell, for tn
purpose of carrying on the boot anC
shoe trade. 1t is a branch Of his larg
Roscommon shop, and will do custom
work Of all kinds ia the best workman
like manner. The shop will be con
Quoted by Mr.. VIM. Gunn, who sus
tains an enviable reputation as n first
class boot and shoemaker, and VIII
will be pleased TO receive orders, bot
little and great, and will fit your foo
whatever its shape.
: WHO SAW 1T FIRsT9-The questio
of who discovered the present come
has become a most momentous one
Over 500 persons have laid claim to III
a honor and the Warner Prize of 500
and all of them are within compars
lively the same time. 1t is desirabl
4 that no injustice be done in this ma
e ter, and to this end all parties who sa'
: the comet during the week endin
d June 25th, or previously, will pleas
o forward their claims without delay
, Prof. Swift, Director of the Warns
4 Observatory, Rochester, N. N. It