Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-10-04

The water works company have
commenced laying water pipe on
Miller street. II will extend up the
street only a few blocks.
Mrs. Fish left town last Thursday,
by steamer Pearl, for Duluth. Mrs.
Fish had been visiting her sisters,
Mrs. Avery and Mrs. Jones.
VIM. II. Robinson had a thumb
amputated by DIR. Maiden yesterday,
he having had finger and thumb
smashed at Richardson's mill the same
day.
Next Friday evening, at Firemen's
hall, the members of Hose Co. No.
will give a pleasant dance, and the
public are cordially invited. Bill fifty
cents.
The three masted schooner 5. u.
Marsh was loaded with $4,000 rail
road ties, on Saturday and Monday,
at the wharf of Bolton IL McRae, for
Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Clayberg start
ed on a trip to Saginaw and other
places, last Thursday morning, by
steamer Metropolis, expecting to be
absent about week.
Willie Potter and Albert Babcock
will spend the winter at business
college in Detroit. They took pas
sage on the City of Cleveland, last
Wednesday evening.
G. r. Hawley is now in New York,
where he meets Miss Smedley, who
has Just returned from Paris and Lon
don, where she attended all the grand
openings of fashionable goods.
Miss Clifford, the milliner for the
firm of G. r. Hawley q Co., arrived
by steamer City of Cleveland last
night, and takes charge of the millin-
cry department in that establishment.
The steamer Arundel, while wind
ing around, at Thomas wharf, last
Thursday morning, winded herself
out of some five or six dollars, having
done that amount of damage to the
wharf.
Mrs. j. Il. Bostwick, Miss Alice
Kerr and A. F. Dinsmore and daugh-
ter left town by steamer City of Cleve-
land, last Sunday, for Detroit and
other places south. The Cleveland
was several hours late.
Bishop Harris and Mrs. Jas. ID.
Turnbull and family took passage on
the steamer Metropolis, Monday morn
ing last The Bishop returns to De-
troit, and Mrs. Turnbull visits friends
in the southern part of the State.
Under-Sherif' Jones left town last
Wednesday evening, having in charge
John Berry, who was to be placed in
the Pontiac Asylum. Mr.. Berry was
attacked with insanity last spring,
but was not violent, his affliction be-
ing of mild type.
ID. f. Thomas, w. II. Sanborn, l..
Azure and f. A. Bishop returned
home by steamer Metropolis last Sun
day morning. Mr.. Thomas had been
on business trip to Detroit and else
where, and Mr.. Bishop had been on
a trip to Florida.
The saw mill for Hunt and Hyde
arrived in town last Friday by steam
or Flora, and on Saturday it was TAX
en- to Montmorency county, where it
will be put in position at Hillman, the
county seat. The mill is of the kind
known as the portable saw mill type.
The schooner A. G. Morey, from
Chicago, has been chartered to take
$1,000 bushels of oats to Alpena, and
will bring back lumber. She receives
&c bushel freight on the oats, free
in and out, and 80 per m feet for the
return cargo of lumber.--Free Press.
Hon. A. G. Maxwell, the Demo
cratic nominee for member of Con-
gress, Tenth congressional district, ar
rived in town last Thursday and left
for Oscoda on Friday. Mr.. Maxwell
will soon visit this city and address
the voters on the political questions
of the day.
Moses Bingham last Friday shipped
!. to Black river, for Alger q Co., a
large wooden tank, 12x12 feet. A
day or two previous, while the men
were rolling it to Warmers wharf it got