Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-02-07
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
THE CITY.

Mrs. G. r. Smith is visiting friends in
Chicago.
W. E. Smyth, of st. Ignace, was in
town Monday.
CIV. jerks. of Sand Beach, was at
Cheboygan Monday.
The G. R. & 1. R. R. wants breakwa-
ter at Mackinaw City.
Be sure to order your job printing done
at the TRIBUNE job rooms.
We hear Petoskey is to have tele-
phone exchange this spring.
The ice house at the Mullet Lake
House will be filled this week.
1t Is rumored that Capt. Boynton is to
have permanent charge Of tho Algomah.
The Benton House Is doing good bus
mess, having thirty men for tea Monday
evening.
Four young meu left town this week
for Washington territory to 90 in the
lumber woods.
There is now forty fish shanties on the
ice in the vicinity of Cheboygan, all do
ing fair business.
H.J. A. Todd has received during the
last week two orders from Chicago and
one from Canada for toys.
The best place in town to get fine COM
mercial printing is at the TRIBUNE
steam printing establishment.
A. R. Littlefield left for Detroit Tues
day morning on business connected with
his numbering operations at Prentiss
Bay.
Cheboygan should have weather sig
nal display station, and steps should be
taken at once to recommend it. All
mariners will recommend it.
s.H. Taylor displays some very neat
signs on the front of the Gsrow block,
representing some OF the insurance COM
panys which he is agent for.
George Fitzpatrick, proprietor of the
Fountain House, now drives fast horse
which he purchased last week. George
is bound to lead in everything.
The administrator of the estate Of M.
W. Horne gives notice in another col
umn of this paper the personal property
belonging to the estate at bargains.
The young Peoples guild. of st. James
church, will give social at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Mcdonald, Black River
avenue. Friday, Feb. 8. Refreshments
served from eight to ten p. NJ.
The small passenger bsat Wilson,
owned by Capt. James Wilson, of Che
bOygan, will be taken to Sault Ste. Marie
as sOon as ice will permit. when she will
be used as a ferry across the Ste. Marie
river.
The new directory for Cheboygan Co,
is being delivered. Over enc hundred
books have been subscribed for In Che
boygan. The book costs $3.50, and con-
tains over two thousand names and
places of residence in CheboygaD.
A company has been organized at Pc
tosksy to put in an Acoustic telephone
exchange in that city, on the same plan
as the one now in operation at st. Ig-
mace. ChebOygan seems to be the only
live town in Northern Michigan that
can support the Bell system.
Owing to tho difficulty Of procuring
whitsfish eggs at the Petoskey State fish
hatchery, what eggs were on hand have
been removed to Detroit. Had the hatch
cry been located at Cheboygan, and i,
might have been had our citizens inter,
ested themselves in the matter at the
proper time, there would have been nc
such difficulty, for last fall millions OF
eggs, 10th white6sh and trout, were
shipped from this port to the state hatch
ery In New York and elsewhere. and mil
lions more could have been had.
The question of saw mill on Skunk
Lake, Munro township, is at last def
nitely settled, and the work Of preparing
for the foundation was commenced Mon
day. Mr.. Myers informs us that a meet
ing was held Wednesday evening Of last
week, and all arrangements perfected
with Mr.. Smith to pnt In the mill
There was some opposition manifested
at the meeting. led by Supervisor He'll
man, Mr.. Myers states, but the propose
of Mr.. Smith was accepted by large