Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-06-18
TOWN TALK.


TOWN TALK. f4Fe's7
No services at st. James church to-
morrow.
VIM. Hess has completed the boiler fol
Clifford Brothers new tug.
Macarthur, Smith & Co., started uI
their saw mill Monday and it is doing
good work and running satisfactory.
DR.. Perrin has a handsome display OF
house plants in his new drug store
They belong to Mrs. Wiley, of Duncan
City, : IJst 80. 81 !. 8
The Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw rail.
road freight warehouse is being enclosed
being sided up with dressed and match
ed lumber.
Newton, Ellis & Co. shipped sixty bar
rels of hemlock extraction the Keweenaw
last Sunday Fifty were for Cincinnati
o., and ten for Bay City.
Macarthur, Smith s. Co. have made
two attempts to secure a flowing well
out on their lumber pier. They succeed
in sinking one to depth of fOrty-twO
feet but failed to reach water that would
flow up and the hard pan prevented 60
ing to greater depth.
Anew ii me. card on the G. R. & /. rail-
road goes int effect tomorrow, when
the night train will commence running.
The day train will reach PetOskey one
hour earlier, passengers taking supper
at PetOskey instead of MancelOna, as
they have been doing heretofore.
The Petoskey Daily Record put in its
first appearance last Monday. 1t is a
bright, newsy little sheet and should be
literally supported, and we have no
doubt will be, during the season it will be
issued. :, The publishers have our best
wishes for the success of their venture.
The Congregational church will be
open for services tomorrow. COmmun-
ion in the morning and praise service
in the evening. The interior OF the
church has been thoroughly repaired at
a cost of,abOut S175, and is now very
beautiful in its new dress of paper and
paint. ~
OjFishing for brook trout affords lively
sport these days. Wednesday POstmas-
ter Ford captured twenty of the speckled
beauties in the brook short distance
below Duncan City. He reports the only
drawback to the sport is the fact that
the black flies blight more voraeiously
than the trout.
Last Saturday afternoon while the
men engaged raising the sunken dredge
were working with a lever on lighter
it slipped its hold under the timber aud
dropped very suddenly, two of the men
being thrOwnin the river. muchstO their
surprise, They were fished out without
any damage, save good ducking.
The work of tearing down the skating
rink commenced last Wednesday. The
venture proved far from a profitable one,
our citizens not seeming to take to skat-
ing with any degree of enthusiasm over
the celebrating exercise. Hereafter
those who wish to indulge in the sport
will have to face the cold and blighting
blast of winter on the bay.
Macarthur, Smith & Co. completed this
week the driving of piles for the extern
sion of their lumber piers 600 feet more
towards the straits. This takes it out
into nine and a-half feet of water. AnOth-
er 100 feet would carry it into eleven and
a half feet of water, About half of the
extension has been filled in with slabs
and edgings ready for piling lumber.
Driving the piles at the outer end proved
quite task, the bottom being hard pan
and the heavy hammer would not drive
pile only a couple of inches at each
blow. 'Ho'" s'heyo1<t-t s7sf'e 'i.
Last Monday they raised the frame Of
the passenger station at misplace of the
Jackson, Lansing g. Saginaw railroad
and were engaged in putting up the raf-
tiers, having them nearly all in place,
when a sort of whirlWind came along
with such force as to blow it down.
Three men who were on topof the frame
were more or less hurt, one quite seri-
ously, having two or three ribs broken
and otherwise bruised, one other had his
lower lip cut through to the bone. DIR.
Gerow was called and attended to the
wounded. He had to stitch the cut lip.
The frame has been again raised and is
more substantially stayed. The build
ing is 22x64 feet, andwill be divided in-
to ladies and gentlemens waiting rooms
and ticket and telegraph Office in the
center, between them.
The fine audiences that have greeted,
nightly, the appearance of Wildman &
Peck's New York Comedy company DEM
Onstrates the hold that company has as
Cheboygan favorites. They opened Mon
day night with Little Barefoot" and
were greeted with a full house, all pres
ent being delighted with the entertain
ment. Mrs. Wildman showed that she
had lost none of her vlvacity which rend-
cred her so great yfavorite with Cheboy-
gan people during her former. visits to
our village. The support has been uni
formly good and coming, as they did, af-
ter two weeks performance by other
theatrical troupes the patronage they
have received cannot fail to be highly
gratifying to the management. To-day
they close their present engagement by
presenting Fanchen, the Cricket at the
matinee this afternoon and Hazel Kirke
in the evening, both pieces that cannot
fail to prove attractive. They will re-
turn foranother brief season commence