Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-10-29

remain here during the coming week.
The Carleton building is about finish
ed and presents very fine appearance.
Empty houses or vacant places of bust
ness are hard thing to find around
these parts.
Potatoes are coming into town quite
rapidly. The price for them is from go
to 80 cents.
The dredge completed its job of filling
in the railroad cOmpany's dock Wednes-
day about noon.
Carpenters all seem to be busy and
there seems to be no abatement in the
building boom for Cheboygan.
DR.. Hill has fitted Kessler's old stand
for an Office and drug store. DR.. Solo
mon occupies the Office vacated by DR..
Hill.
Quite number of the lumbermen
were down from the woods this week,
and of course they all enjoyed them
selves.
Our business men are all putting in
immense stacks of goods as though they
contemplated doing large amount of
business the coming winter.
The ladies working ASSOCIATE on of the
Congregational church at its meeting
Thursday afternoon decided to purchase
furnace for heating the church.
Two different amateur dramatic So
cieties it is rumored, are trying to or
ganize. Competition is the life of trade
and besides there is plenty of talent in
our town to make them both success.
The Michigan Central is anticipating
doing large amount of business in the
lumber 1.-The when the road is finished as
they have already ordered $50 cars for
the express purpose of carrying lumber.
The Chicago Herald, published at 100
Fifth Avenue, is one of the neatest prin-
ted and newsiest sheets in the west. 1t
is two cent daily and the mystery is
how it can be so we'll filled with news at
such a low price.
Smith e Adams are evidently having
a rush of business. For few nights their
planer has been running by lamp light.
They are making daily shipments of
manufactured material to Mackinac,
st. Ignace and other points.
The first passenger car to arrive in Che
bOygan, put in its appearance yesterday
morning, being General Manager Led
yard'sspecial coach which arrived here
with Mr.. Ledyard, Engineer Phelps and
other railroad men, about o'clock. The
party inspected the work that had been
done here and being done, visiting the
cOmpany's new dock and warehouse, and
left with their car at 9 o'clock yesterday
forenoon.
The PetOskey correspondent of the
HarbOr Springs Republican say d. j.
Cushman proposes closing his hotel, the
Cushman House, in few days for the
winter. The landlords of Petoskey evil
IDENTIFY think the completion of the j. L.
& s. railroad to our village will deprive
them Of the greater portion of the GUS
tom they have enjoyed in former winters,
as the travel from this place afforded
them about all the patronage they re-
ceived.
On the inside will be found summary
of the crop report of the state for October
from circular issued by the Secretary
of the State. In the table accompanying
the same is given the average price of
wheat in the several counties of the
state for the month of September and
the price on Oct. 1. From it we find
that in very few counties in the state
was as high price paid as in ChebOy-
gan county, the average price for Sep
TENDER being at $1.29 per bushel while
in our neighboring county of Emmett it
was only $1.18, Chippewa $1.20, and
Grand Traverse $1.13. The price Oct.
1st is given as $1.36 for ChebOygan; $1.23
in Emmet; $1.1S in Grand Traverse and
$1.20 in Chippewa.
Ameeting was held at the COngrega-
tional church Thursday evening with a
view to an effort to secure pastor. The
expression of those present was unani-
mously in favor of getting pastor at
the earliest possible day. Some CORES
pondence has been had with Rev. Leroy
Warren, State Superintendent of the
Home Missionary society and also with