Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-01-19
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY JANUARY 10, 1884.
Entered at the P0stofHce at CheboygaI
Mich. .asSecond Glass Matter.
THE CITY.

ring on the old time.
Order your printing at the TRIBUNE
steam printing Office
VIM. Callum, of Saginaw City, spent
Tuesday in Cheboygan.
Commercial printing, neat and cheap
at the TRIBUNE job Office.
E.E. Dayis. of Detroit, was in town
Wednesday and Thursday.
Dick Moore, of Detroit, spent Tuesday
in town, guest Of the Graud Central.
Everything in the line of printing at
the TRIBUNE job Office. as good as the
best and as cheap as the cheapest.
There is talk of Grummond's line of
steamers extending their trips to Man
istique. Mich. 1t has not yet-been fully
decided. *
A small party of friends were permit
ted to enjoy the hospitality of S. LeGault,
ST., on Thursday, and the day was joy
Ously spent.
Captain BOyntOn who took command
of the Algomah last Monday, is assisted
by Capt. Million, of Detroit, an old and
reliable navigator.
R. Taylor, of Buffalo, N. Y, passed
through Chsboygan on his way to Prentis
Bay,north shore. where he has extensive
numbering operations.
The masquerade ball at Bellant's hall
east side Tuesday night, was poorly at
tended owing to several other balls IN
town on the same night.
Mattoon & Robinson are going to in
crease the capacity of their mill boilers,
and to repair the mill generally. The
work will be done Immediately.
The party at Sweets hall Tuesday
night, gotten up by James Shields, was
a big affair. being over fifty couples pres
ent. 1t was one OF The parties of the
season.
C.E. Mould, general foreman for W.
| & A. Macarthur, took the train Wsdnes
day morning for Indian River, where he
will visit some of the company's camps
in that vicinity.
VIM. Patterson went to Detroit Tues
day, and returned Thursday. He goes to
Detroit to-day, and next Monday week,
with his family and sister, starts for
Los Angeles, CAL, their future home.
We learn the steamer Mary will be
fitted out in elegant shape this spring,
and will be placed as ferry between
Macklnaw Island and st. Ignace, where
she will run until she is wanted to re-
sumo her place on the inland route.
The south is making wonderful i'm
provement in their railroads. Every
where there is being built network Of
railroads. This is wise, and will bring
more glory and dollars than the shotgun
policy Of killing negroes and whites
who don't vote the Democratic ticket.
Cheboygan weather has been pleasant
favorable and enjoyable this winter.
The amount of snow up to date meas
ures 55 inches, and the coolest tempera
ature was last Tuesday morning, when
the mercury was II degrees below zero.
The Mining Gazette saws: "The fact
is conceded that the best potatoes raised
in the United States are grown on LAX,
Superior. What Is to hinder the culti
vation of potatoes up here for export ant
the business becoming very important
and profitable branch Of industry"
The guy wires supporting the larg
telephone pole on the corner Of Thir'
and Main streets, had to be changed
this week. The occupants of the build
ing where these wires were attached di
not appreciate the singing Of the wire
at night, although the music was furn
ished free.
F.M. Samm0ns has heard that DR..
P. Hill, of Aberdeen, Dakota, took
sleigh ride, his horses baked, and the Dl
spent the night In snow drift, with tn
mercury % degrees below zero. Sam
mons is painting his house, on the south
east corner of Huron and Third, and
anxious to bs of to Dakota.
The Three Rivers Tribune says
"Ths whiskey traffic is so horrible 4
its results-the cause Of 30 much crime
ruin, sorrow, wretchsdnsss and suffer
ing--and its evils are so self evident an
damning, that no argument Is needed
convince any reasonable being that II
q most moAstrous, unmitigatsd curse.