Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1884-12-19
TOWN TALK.

A noiseless roller skate will never make a
n0iseless rink.
Pedestrians cross the river above the dam
ON the ice with safety.
Roland Reed IN Cheek" at Powers's
Opera House tonight.
The annual charity ball of st. Mark
Home will be held at The Morton, Jan. Is.
Champlin Post hop tonight at their hall,
corner of ScrIbner and West Bridge street.
The occupants OF the buildings in the
vicinity OF Campau Place, complain of sewer
gas.
There will be labor meeting at New Eng
land hall, PIainheld avenue, this evening ct
z:3O oelock.
Grand Rapids Is a sweet place. Between
four and five tons OF candy Is manufactured
here per day.
DIR. K. Button, OF this city, conducted an
Old Folks Concert with great success in
Petoskey recently.
The First Reformed Church donated col
lection, taken Nov. 3. amounting To $40, TO
the u. b. A. Home.
A drum corps of six drums and four flies
has been formed among the employees OF the
Buss Machlhe Works
The City Clerk has notified ward collec-
tors that they must make weekly deposits
with the City Treasurer.
fcu Dltlly kDt- I'D cdkludW tflt- iuOfIluk
to umpire a glove match between two as
pirants for hstic hOnors.
The New Year will soon be here, and then
1t viii be we'll To note how many resolutions
were kept during the old one.
The Ladies' Society of Grace Church hold
their annual sale to-day at the residence of
Mrs. Pike, No. go Fulton street.
Mrs. Ewing's cooking lessons were not ap-
preciated'at Muskegon, and she has shaken
the sawdast of that city off her feet.
Who wouldn't be policeman these clear
nights? All one has to do is to walk the
streets and peacefully freeze 10 death.
A taxidermist has stuffed, not Sheriff Kim
ney, but one of his defunct badgers, and the
latter Is said to look as natural as life.
Assistant District Attorney Hyde went to
Ionia yesterday To investigate the Colloden
counterfeiting case from Grand Ledge.
Blodgett X Byrne will put 25 200, 900 feet of
logs into the Muskegon river over their log
ging railroad IN Roscommon county this sea-
soa.
j. G.. West is the new operator In the q. K.
Il L. and b. Il .. office, who so cleverly takes
the United Press dispatches for The TELE-
GRAM.
The train from Chicago was four hours
behind time yesterday morning. The
weather was so cold as to render speed dan
gerous.
The thermometer last night stood as fol-
lows: At sO'clOck D : below, at midnight
1Oo below, at a. IN. 10 below, and 2:3O a.
IN. 90 below.
An employe IN the Buss Machine Works,
had several front teeth broken and his chin
cut yesterday By piece of iron which flew
from the lathe he was working.
Nellie Reber wants a bill of divorce from
her husband, Howard l.. Reber, on the
ground of adultery. Her complaint was
filed in the Superior Court yesterday.
An old man and two sons en- route north.
with tickets to Big Rapids, were put out of
the Union Depot last night and were oblige 4
to seek lodging ut Police Headquarters.
The millinery establishment of Mrs. Anna
l. Lord was closed yesterday on chattle
mortgages held by Messrs. Spring Il Co. and
Geo. 9. Wilmot, aggregating about $2OOO.
The Wolverine Cyclone strikes the earth in
this vicinity tomorrow. A "snipe' issued
from that Office reads, weather indications
for Grand Rapids and vicinity, cyclone,
Saturday, December 20"
A way-freight train on the Michigan Cen
trail had a small smash-up at RiveS Junction
yesterday afternoon, which delayed the ar
rival of the evening passenger train IN this
city until after 1880 p. IN.
In certain Michigan town thieves are
mean enough to tear off the street name
boards at corners and burn them for kind
ling wood. No such thieves IN Grand Rap
ids. Reason--there are no such boards.
Sheriff Kinney and several OF his deputies
will attend the funeral of Deputy Sheriff
Fred Snyder to-day. az Lowell. Mr.. Snyder
died on Wednesday after brief illness. de
was about 30 years old and leaves a wife and
three children.
Suit was commenced yesterday in the Cir.
cult Court in the action of debt, by the First
National Bank OF Grand Rapids, against
Isaac W. Pool. Isadore Cook and James X.
Johnston. for the recovery of a judgment ob
tanned June :, sSi5. for 81, ,l66.2S.
jefferson avenue was alive yesterday with
teams, varying from the 2:2O class to the go
as-you-p please plug. al bent on showing their
PAGES while the sieighing was good. Fancy
trappings, now sleighs and plenty of bells,
and bellies, made the scene lively and excit
ing.