Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-12-04
THE CITY.


week ago.
They have organized cornet band at
the Island.
Our merchants are making extensive
preparations for the holiday trade.
The tug Geo, W. Cuyler is the only tug
left to wake the echoes with her whistle.
Smyth g. Co. have new ad. in to-day's
paper calling attention to their holiday
goods.
Spy of Shiloh Saturday evening. 7 rn
out and give the G. A. II. boys good
benefit.
1t is rumored that several saloons are
on the ragged edge. and will close up be-
fore long.
The st. Ignace Free Press has entered
upon its fourth year, better paper than
it has ever been heretofore.
The weather yesterday was quite
spring like and what little snow was on
the ground fast disappeared.
An infant child of Andrew Mccain
died yesterday, Wednesday, morning,
aged months Of congestion of the brain.
Prof. Eugene Lyons. of st. Ignace. was
In town Monday. Gene ia thinking
strongly of going to Marquette for the
winter.
Amateurs are to produce Ten Nights
in Barroom" at st. Ignace soon. Ten
bar rooms in night is nothing for the
average Saint.
Joseph Pellsnz has erected staging
to the height Of tina smoke stack at his
planning mill and Is having new spark
catcher put on the stack.
Money must be very scarce at Sault
Ste. Marie, or the newspaper men have
got corner on it. We hear Of a man in
that burg who wanted $3.50 per day on
loan of 1925, and the security offered
was good.
Mariners say that since the pier light
was lighted and the range lights changed
to red, Cheboygan has the best har-
Dor on the chain of lakes, and say that
it is easier to enter the harbor at night
than it is in day time.
Last Monday the Secretary of the
Treasury transmitted to Congress the
estimates of the Chief of Engineers of
the amounts that can be profitably ex-
pended for river and harbor improve
msnts during the next fiscal year. The
amount put down for Cheboygan harbOr
is $4,000.
Sheriff Lessard, Of Chippewa county,
arrived down from Sault Ste. Marie on
the Messenger Sunday evening, having
eight prisoners in charge whom he was
taking to comfortable winter quarters
at the Ionia house of correction. They
put up at the county boarding house
Sunday night and took the down train
Monday forenoon.
Col. f. B. Stockbridge, of Kalamazoo,
is president of the Mackinac county ag.
ricultural society, and Mayor S. B. Grum
mond of Detroit, is one OF the two vice
presidents. The grounds Of the county
are to be located at Mackinac Island, and
and no one need be astORished il horse
raee or two shall be seen there some
day.
Charles Hart. an old resident of Che
boygan, and we'll known to most of our
citizens, dropped dead Tuesday forenoon
while engaged in assisting to haul out
the small sloop Grayling at the foot of
first street, heart disease being the cause
He was the last man one would think
would be taken off so suddenly, being a
strong, vigorous man, of large and pow
erful frame. He built the schooner c.
Hart several years ago and sailed her
until last June, when he traded her for
the slOop Imperial. The season Of 1883
he was interested in the ship yard now
run by W. II. Bunker. He leaves wife
and several children.
The st. Ignace Free Press says: 1.-THE
Knights of Columbia council i'm this city
has surrendered its charter just as we
expected. There are too many secret So
sieties in st. Ignace, to be supported as
they ought. Still, every man that comes
along representing flap-doodle society
with hifalutin name thinks he is mis-
used If he doesn't start lodge with no
effort at all. There are too many one
horse societies started nowadays simply
to I'll the pockets Of their proprietors."
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