Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-03-04
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY, MARCH. 4, 1882.

Brothers. merchant tailors.
(, Lecture at the Town Hall on Monday
the 18th inst.
A large number of our merchants have
been taking an inventory of stock.
Quite number of our tOwnsmen are
clearing up their premises. A right
move.
These freezing nights and thawing
days should make good sugar-making
weather.
New building projects are developing
every day. some of them being of quite
extensive proportions.
w. S. Smith received one of COvel's
patent saw sharpeners for his new saw
mill by rail this week.
Fresh fish have been i'm big demand
for the past few weeks but it has been
impossible to obtain them.
The brick for Post & Van Arsdale's
new building are being delivered. They
are from Sullivan's brick yard.
When all tie buildings talked of are
put up there certainly will he no lack
of rooms for offices in our village.
good many potatoes are being
brOugh to town nowadays. The price
paid for them is about 70 cents per
bushel
The Board of Supervisors of Mackinac
county voted unanimously to submit the
question Of removing the county seat to
st. Ignace, to vote of the people at the
April election.
An early opening of lake navigation is
predicted this year. During the winter,
says Duluth, MINI, dispatch, there has
not been ice in Lake Superior sufficient
to interfere with navigation.
The Cheboygan Banking Company has
ordered a chrOnOmeter time lock for the
bank safe. 1t costs 1916, and when re-
ceived and put on there will be no get
ting into that safe until the time is up
each morning.
We understand that Deputy-COunty
Clerk Superintendent = Of the County
POOr-Secretary-Of-the Board of : Water
CommissiOners-Pres of the Fire
COmpaNv-a Board Of-Health-Of
Sutton will he candidate before the Dem
Ocraulc caucus for Village President.
In most places the crosswalks are put
down for the accommodation Of pedes-
trians, but in ChebOygan the order of
things seem to reversed and the walks
put down so as to accommodate those
driving fast horses. The walks are level
with the street, and as consequence
the mud is very near as deep on them as
anywhere else in the street. This should
be remedied.
Members of the National House of Rep
resentatives from Michigan are num-
bered among the opponents of the Rea-
gan bill for the regulation of interstate
commerce, Mr.. HOrr as member Of the
Commerce committee being particularly
OutspOken in his hostility to the meas
ure. Further consideration of the bill
in committee has been postponed until
the 14th inst.
Workmen commenced framing the
timbers for Sanford Bakers new ware
house Thursday morning. The shed of
the old warehouse has been removed and
the main building will be raised and
put i'm complete repair. The new and
old warehouse together will give Mr..
Baker warehouse capacity Of 3Ox15O
feet, one story high. He intends build
neat cOmmOdiOus Office at the south
end of the new warehouse.
Observers state that, as rule, open
winters similar to the present one, are
almost invariably followed by general
floods, extending far into the summer
months and cite as examples the years
1928, IA, 3 and SO. Floods do not effect
ChebOygan, our inland lakes act as re-
ceiving basins for the upper streams,
and lake Huron opens its capaciOns NAV
and receives all that flows through the
main rivers below those lakes.
Mr.. Rogers, the architect and builder,
who built the various stations and ware
houses for the railroad company in this
section, has prepared plans for quite an
extensive addition to G. W. Simpsons
hotel at Mackinaw City. The new adj
dltiOn will give Mr.. Simpson thirteen
additional sleeping rooms and three good
sized parlors or sitting rooms. Mr..
Simpson finds his present hotel too
small to meet the demand, and will erect
the new addition as early as practicable.