Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-11-30

route until some time after the other
steamers had commenced business.
The steam barge East Saginaw and
tows arrived in port Saturday night
loaded with supplies. The Lowell and
barges arrived Sunday, all loaded.
Geo. ID. Bradford expects to remove
to his new meat market, in the store
recently vacated by Johnrowe q Don
nelly, the early part of next week.
The barge Georgia Kelly was un-
loading a cargo Of hay and straw, at
Bolton & McRae's dock, for various
parties, the early part of the week.
The barge Chas. Hinkley, one of
the Garden City's tows, arrived Mon
day, having on board quantity of
coal for Isbell d Merrill and others.
c. L. KimbaIl and wife have gone to
Battle Creek, where they enter the
Sanitary Hospital for the purpose of
receiving treatment for Mrs. Kimball.
The steam barge Lowell arrived in
port Sunday with about 5000 bushels
of oats and quantity Of other freight.
The grain was for Fletcher Pack d Co.
The weather, for this time of the
year, still keeps remarkably fine.
There is no ice to speak Of, in the river
and lake, and hardly any snow on the
land. $3.50.
Johnrowe & Donnelly have moved
into their new quarters in the corner
store of the Dawson block, where they
have an elegantly fitted up establish
ment.
On Sunday afternoon last a fire was
discovered in the boarding house Of
Mrs. Glennie, on Fletcher street. The
fire was put out before the Hose Co.
arrived.
The time for killing deer according
to law expires tonight. If you kill
any after to-day, and the State of
Michigan finds it out, it will be $50,
and costs.
Prof. B. F. Cheesbro will open his
class in vocal music, sight singing and
reading, at his residence OH Washing
ton avenue, on Wednesday evening,
Dec. 18th.
The arrival of the steamer Metropo-
lis Thursday evening, with the mail,
was a genuine surprise. We had not
expected to hear her whistle again UNI
til next summer.
B. Wolff is getting the stone on the
ground for the foundation to large
addition to his residence, on Washing
ton avenue, which he contemplates
erecting next spring.
A. Damn and family, who have kept
the Fletcher House for the past three
seasons, left town by steamer Flora on
Monday, for Marine City, where they
will spend the winter.
The mail steamer Arundel arrived
in port about noon Monday, bringing
the mails that should have arrived
Saturday and Sunday. She cleared
for Bay City yesterday.
Hon. J. X. Lockwood has taken the
general agency for Northern Michigan
for the Michigan Mutual Accident
Association, and VIM. Van VOORHEES,
is one of the local agents.
If you want bargains in clothing, go
to the store in Mason block, on Water
street, where the old Anspach stock is
being disposed of cheap for cash, at
auction and by private sale. 536
w. Fl. Phelps has commenced the
stone foundation for the new brick
veneered block of w. H. Phelps and
G. n. Fletcher, on the grounds north.
west of Fletcher, Pack q Co.'S Office.
You can obtain goods cheap for cash,
at the store on Water street, where the
old Anspach stock is being disposed of
ut auctiona nd by private sale. Auc-
ton three nights in the week. 538
The steamer Flora arrived in port
Thursday afternoon, on her way up-it
being her twenty-ninth and also her
last trip to Alpena this season. She
left here for Detroit last Monday after
noon.
The steamer Saginaw arrived in
port Sunday on her twenty-ninth and
last trip of the season. She did not
extend her voyage to the upper lake
shore ports, but cleared for Detroit
yesterday.
The commission of r. j. Kelly, as
IL LLAMA 4s