Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1882-03-02
All kinds of legal blanks at the post

All kinds of legal blanks at the post
office.
The large amount OF snow which we
had only few days ago-where, oh!
where can it be9
Who will go a-fishing and bring us
some spotted suckers9" Whosoever
will, we will pay them in "puffs" at
the rate of 25 cents per line.
A canvasser of cheap jewelry tramp
ed over our town last week. We guess
he made some sales, judging from what
we have seen-but then it is easy to be
mistaken.
1t is currently reported that Mr.. Nc
Kinley shot n couple of "sheep" a
short time ego. We don't believe the
rumor. Why don't we2 Because we
know "Mc" to be too good a boy to do
anything as naughty as that. Eli,
MOT" Bring us out quarter
A lady drummer did" the town
this week. She was selling hat racks,
comb cases and letter receivers. They
were nice and cheap for the money. y
We wanted tolbuy one of each kind, but
she said mix no trust" Oil tbs sweet
to be an editor!
Albert Savage and Joel Savage,
cousins, and both of tho township of
Albee, had lively time with ar old
beer and three cubs one day last week
in the above named town. While they
were in the woods making ties, they
saw bruin passing along some distance
off, and as they had their guns along,
they were ready for war. They i'm
mediately started alter her, and with
the efforts put forth they succeeded in
killing the bear. They captured the
three cubs without much difficulty and
calculate to raise thnm, we under
stand. ."-Chesaning sr;us.
The long-continued blast of the
whistle of the passenger locomotive
northward- bound, Monday afternoon,
caused considerable alarm as well rs
amusement. AS the train approached
the city she gave her signal as usual,
but something 1--WE know not what got
out of place in such manner that the
steam could not be shut of, and so she
kept up continual "yell for quite
n while after she arrived and stopped.
The many heads of the passengers
sticking out of the windows, others or
the car platforms, and large number
of our citizens running from all diree
tions towards the depot 10 see what
was tue matter, had tendency to ere
ate considerable excitement Things
were righted in course of time and the
train moved on. Nobody killed; dam
age, a little waste of steam.
Come along, l say" Are you
going to walk along or not2" YOU'D
better come along and make no more
trouble! do you hear what say p
"Well, come along, thenl" While
walking down the street last Monds,
night we heard the above exclamation
on the opposite side from us. and a,
we couldn't for the life of us" i'm
agine what such "pow-wow" meant
we crossed over to find out its mean
ing. And we did. 1t was nothing NOR,
nor less than our popular sheriff try
ing to induce a man against his toW t
stop with him at his popular hotel --th,
Hotel de London. The man argued
that as il was a strictly first-class hote
the sheriff would charge" him toe
high for n nights lodging, and th'
sheriff argued to the man that he would
"charge" him with the toe of his boo
, If he didn't come along. The resul
, was, the man finally yielded to TIN
gentle and persuasive argument" o
the sheriff. Cause of imprisonment
drunk and disorderly conduct. "S'
mote it be" with all evil doors.
p. S.-Yesterday noon the sheriff
with the assistance of several others
succeeded in inducing another fellow
to stop Mt his hotel. He was as lob
strepuous as a mule" but they all il
due time "give in"