Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-05-27
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY. MAY q, 1882.


the village keeps the atmosphere full of
smoke about all the time.
Quite business is being done here at
present in shipping potatoes, both to
Chicago and lower lake ports.
The weather prophets are at a loss, over
forty days have pass since Good Friday.
and yet the prevailing winds are from
the eastward.
We understand movement is on foot
to organize club for the purpose of
bringing first class companies to Che
boygan to give entertainments.
DIR. A. B. Spinney, of Detroit, will be
at the Grand Central for three days, May
80, 30 and 81. Speciality, chronic, surgi-
cal, eye and ear diseases. Consultation
free.
DR.. Conkling was down from Macki-
nav City yesterday. He informs us that
the real estate market there is booming,
and that the demand for village lots is
quite large.
G. w. Simpsons hotel at Mackinaw
City has been undergoing repairs and
enlargement. About the middle of next
month he expects to have it finished. 1t
will be fine hotel for place of that
size.
Mrs. III. Hamilton would invite the
attention of the ladies of this vicinity to
her unusually large and choice stock of
millinery goods just received and marked
at the lowest prices. East side of River
Cheboygan.
The Congressional Committee for this,
the Tenth district, is composed as fol-
lows: Geo. W. Bell, of Cheboygan; VIM.
Crosby, of Emmett; T. F. Shepherd, Of
Bay; VIC. Stevens, of Iosco; H. Wood
ruff, of Clare; and A. Trotter, of Vassar.
The Board of Review met Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday of this week,
and received numerous calls. Several
were dissatisAsd at the wealth they
had amassed, according to the view of
the assessors, and entered pretty loud
complaints.
The railroad company begins to feel
the effect of the competition of the boats
and the freight business is Stacking up
80 as to necessitate the discharging of
some of the employees at the station, and
some of Them have been notified that
their services would be dispensed with
after the 30th inst.
A great many tag payers are in a
Quandry, as to which tax roll of Benton
will prove the legal one. 1t is a question
thai should be settled with as little de-
lay as possible. A number of our citi-
zens, both Democrats and Republicans,
have expressed a willingness to contrib
ute to fund to have the matter taken to
the Supreme court, and settled by de-
cision Of that court.
Cheboygan is phenomenal newspaper
town. The NORTHERN TRIBUNE, pub
lished there is one of the handsOmest
weekly papers in the state. Ordinarily,
it is a quarto Of 40 columns, but this
spring the pressure of advertising on its
space is so great that ten extra columns
are added every week. The presswork is
done by steam, and brighter, cleaner
sheet is not issued. The paper is we'll
edited and is always full of crisp, newsy
items. 1t is one of the remarkable pro-
auctions of the marvellous northern
cOuntry.-Bay City Tribune.
The dry dock project mentioned in the
TRIBUNE few weeks since, begins to
materialize. Parties capable of putting
the thing through are becoming inter
ested in the matter, and it now looks as
though it would not be long before Che
bOygan will have substantial and COM
modious dry dock, something that has
been badly needed on the straits for
years, and the great wonder is that men
of capital have taken not hold of the pro.
ject before, as the general opinion among
marine men is that there is no place on
the lakes where dry dock would pay
better than right at this port. In a
short time we hope to lay the full par.
ticulars before our readers.
A board the Steamer Dove on her triI
here from the Sault were some suspicious
looking characters and the captain went
around and warned all the passengers to
look out and not be swindled by them, still
just as the boat was entering the river
they succeeded in "roping in" one
innocent granger to the tune of $65