Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-11-19
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1881.

We call attention to the notice by Mrs.
B. Buck, who will give music lessons.
w. s. Smith has the foundation for his
new saw mill in and the frame is being
got ready.
Our Indian River correspondent gives
us an unusually good communication
this week.
Mr.. Clements has let the contract for
putting up shoe shop on the south side
OF his shoe store. ...1 ts.
The freeze of yesterday morning rath-
or interfered with steamboat navigation
on Main street canal. F'lrrD EtElfI
All of our young folks interested in
dancing should read the notice by Prof.
Sweet in another place.
1t has been suggested that company
be organized to establish a line of
steamers on Main street.
Mr.. Hess has finished laying the water
mains on OnuMain street and now is lay
ing them on Court house street.
VIM. Hess has the contract for build
ing the smoke stack, breeching, heaters,
&C., for W. S. Smiths new saw mill.
C. s. Dice was down from Burt Lake
this week and reports everything in
Tuscarora township as booming beyond
precedent.
We have no doubt the street commits
sioner built good cross walks Oh Main
street, but then tits decidedly unpleasant
to'haveto wade to find them.
EH J..AIiner expects to occupy his new
room in the Bennett block in week or
two. He will then have his already
large stock quite largely increased.
Potatoes, hard, watery and miserable,
are a dollar bushel all over the state.
Detroit Evening News. Not in this
part of the state, Northern Michigan
don't raise that kind.
Postmaster Ford has received notice
from the superintendent of mails for
this section to make up separate mail
pouches for Freedom, Mackinac City, ST.
Ignace and Mackinac.
Quite number of suspicious looking
female have been preambulating oul
streets this week. 1t is some cOnsola
ton to know they didn't stay long how
eyer-they were en- route for st. Ignace.
Since last Thursday Indian River get,
its mail daily direct from the Cheboygar
postoffice, thanks to Capt Keeny of tn,
Northern Belle. Previously it wen
from here to Petoskey and was SEN
back from there.
In announcing the new store of Mr.
Hampstead last week we made a blum
der in saying he had a stock of boot
shoes and clothing that he wOnld clos
out His stock consists of dry goods an
furs which are all new and fresh.
The scow Minnehaha, belonging t.
this port but which has been in the lum
Der trade on lake Michigan during tn
season, arrived home Thursday morn
ing. Capt. Todd reports having had
good run of business during the season
Be sure to read the lad" of H. M. e.
Hampstead in another column. MI
Hampstead will be glad to have all cal
and make his acquaintance at his ne,
place of business and will show 20
good bargains in dry goods and furs.
At ~ o'clock last Monday night tn
thermometer got down to 26 above zer
in Chicago. Other cool places wer,
Des MOines, Iowa, 10; st. Paul, MINI
2; Bismark, ID. t., 2, and Fort Carr
Manitoba, below zero. 1t was a mast
night here but not near so frigid as {
the foregoing places.
We heard one settler from Tuscaror
township state that he had occupied h
homestead but two years and yet durin
the past season had more than made h
living off it. This speaks volumes fl
the productiveness of our soil and Il
ease and rapidity with which 1t can
cleared and made to produce.
We hear rumOrs of large and fir
class grist mill that is to be built earl
next season in one of the best localit
for such an establishment in this Sc
tiOn of the country. The location
convenient for shipping, both by "a
and water and the parties intereste
we understand, are perfectly able