Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1881-11-17


enrolhments than ever, with Miss Pres
ton, of Waterloo, jackson county, in
the chair.
There will be Thanksgiving Ser
vices at the School House i'm this vii
lage on Thursday morning next, the
Gath inst, at half-past ten o'clock, by
Rev. s. Edgcumbe.
Our two hotels, the Exchange and
Harder House, are doing good tran
sient business these days, and earning
n reputation Which will evidently be-
come permanent, as being good places
TO stop at.
M. $. Hartwick succeeded in bag
ging don't understand us to say he got
them in bag) three fine deer and
Rube Babbitt one, while on their hunt
last week.
While We only received barely
enough snow to cover the ground on
Monday afternoon and evening last,
Fredericville and vicinity received a
copious amount, which means about
six inches.
IA word to the wise is suffi cient,'
your subscription to the Avalanche is
past due. Bring it in or send it in,
any way to get it in-either in full or
in part.
Mr.. Graham Burk, of Saginaw.
and a step-brother of Joe Jones, is
spending a few days in these parts in
hopes of bringing down a fine buck,
but as yet has not succeeded in even
scrathing one, Notwithstanding he has
seen ssveral-tracks.
Mrs. John s. Harrington, who ac-
companied her parents to their home
in New York last fall, and where she
has since remained visiting, is expected
to return home next week.
-Messrs. Sailing, Hanson g. Co., the
enterprising merchants and mill men
of this village, have lately purchased
n large tract of valuable pine in town
% north of range A west, of DIR. David
Ward, OF Pontiac.
| Work on unfinished buildings in
this vicinity is being rapidly pushed
forward, as visions of cold fingers and
toes comes over them-the men, we
mean.
Mr.. II. s. Buck, of Maple Forest,
shot and killed two deer at one shot
one day last week, while the festive
sportsmen about here can't kill one
with two shots.
"A. F. Bradley, of Grove, having
taken a wood contract of the r. r.
company, will take his family with him
to the scene of his operations near
Fredericville, as matter OF conven-
fence and assistance, and who will be
absent from the homestead some three
months.
"A meeting of the Farmers Club of
Grove township will occur on Friday
evening of this week at the school
house in district No. 5, of that town,
at which discussion will be had of in
terest to our farmers. Turn out and
make it an interesting meeting.
Mr. r. s.. Babbitt, our venerable
boot and shoemaker, informs us that
his business is just a booming, and that
he has lately secured the assistance Of
two good journeymen, and means to
keep the ball rolling, and give salts
faction in all trade in his line. All
kinds of repairing done with neatness
and dispatch, and boots made to order
on short notice and moderate prices.
Mr.. Chas. Brown, reliable citi-
zen of the,neighboring village of Fred
eric, informs us that few days since
while out hunting he shot and killed a
250 pound buck, while Webster Dolley
and Tom Lewis each killed one weigh
ing some 200 pounds respectively; and
also, that p Valentine killed 50lb
doe all on the same day.
Mr.. Louis Sands, the owner and
proprietor of the Manistee river, while
going the rounds of his various camps
last week, gave some of his foremen
the g. b. The camp of which A. w.
Light was foreman having reached
Portage creek with their drive, entirely
disbanded and refused to re-enter Mr..
Sands employ.
According to the Bee Journal there
are 90, 173 colonies of bees in Michigan,
from which 1S5, 629 pounds of extract
ed honey and 752, 375 pounds of honey
i'm the comb were taken-the average
yield to the colony being rs pounds.
Michigan is beaten by only two States
in the number of swarms, Ohio and
New York having greater number.
New improvements in the shape of
a wood-shed, is what's the matter in
the rear of Hansons' store, while the
same complaint is the occasion of 30
much noundino I'm Sorenson's rear