Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-04-29
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY, APRIL 30. 1882.


Will Van Valkenburg's horse ran awaw
Yesterday and for time the fish market |
was lively.
The new house of Mr.. Rapin, on
Water street is about finished. 1t pre-
sents very neat appearance.
Painters are all busy, and as a cOnse-
quence manv of the houses in town have
an improved appearance.
Robinson & Thompson are pushing
work on the Carmody building. The
contract calls for the completion by May
LIST.
There still seems to be an immense
amount of travelling done on the rail
road; in fact the opening of navigation
does not seem to effect it much.
Miss. Emily Elliott opened up very
fine line of spring millinery and flowers
this week and as consequence her store
has been thronged with customers.
Mr.. Werner, who has opened market
garden on the Mackinaw road reports
his vegetables getting along finely and
expects to have some in market soon.
The Burt Lake Sabbath school will
have maple sugar social at the resi-
dence of Francis Train next Wednesday,
May 3. All are cordially invited to at
tend.
Read the advertisement of the Misses
Sweet in another place. They propose
to furnish fashionable millinery, and do
fine dress making good as the best, and
cheaper than the cheapest.
Arthur Watson has been improving
and renoyatlng his fruit and candy store
on the dock. He intends to run it him
self this summer, and promises to keep
first-class establishment.
No move has yet been made by those
having the matter in charge toward
clearing the streets of the rubbish that
has accumulated during the winter. 1t
should be attended to at once.
new postoffice named Mentor, has
been established in Mentor township,
with j. ID. Burked, postmaster, he also
keeps a general stock of merchandise.
They have mail twice week, Thursdays
and Saturdays.
Robert ConOr has made contract
with Henry AmiOt for moving the salt
well house. 1t will be put on scow
and towed up the river. They expect to
move itnext week. The new tubing is
now being made, and it is expected that
the work of boring will be commenced
soon.
Tuesday special car brought. up W.
A. yaugn, division superintendent; A. G.
Daley, superintendent Of tracks and
bridges; O. Waters, commercial agent,
and Road Master Shields of the Michigan
Central. The car was run down to the
dock, and the gentlemen visited the com
pany's dock and warehouse.
John DOdd, the submarine diver has
made pretty good time the past week. In
80 hours work. he raised 100 tons of iron
ore, which was thrown overt GARD from
the schooner Leonard Hanna last fall.
He also made an examination of the tug
Uncle Sam, and says she will be raised
and brought into the harbor the first Of
the week.
The third annual session of the Inter-
UNCONVENTIONAL Ministerial Association,
of Northern Michigan, is to be held in
PetOskey, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, May 30 and 81, and June LIST,
1882. In the programme as published,
we see that Rev. j. Male and Rev. j. II. w.
Carlisle, both formerly located here, are
to take part.
1t is stated that as soon as the extern
sion Of the Grand Rapids & Indiana
railroad is completed to Mackinac, the
Detroit, Lansing & Northern railroad,
which connects with it at Big Rapids,
will put ona through line of elegant
Pullman ears between Detroit and Mack
NAV City. This will be some time be-.
tween the 1st and 18th of June.
Conductor Bateman, of the freight
train, while visiting the site of the old
fort at Mackinaw City, picked up some
interesting relics of other days. among
them being an adze, piece of a gun bar
rel, tommyhawk, and number of pipe
stems. The latter were quite numerous
and it is supposed they were portion of
the stock of some suttler who was sta
toned at the fort.
Last week the Michigan Central paid