Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-01-03
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s4478 on deposit ia the Ausksgon banks.
Il viii be settled next Monday night what
viii be used 70 ght ths streets VI Ann Ar
Dor.
Line thrown into the eye OF a thirteen
yeaF-old boy al Maneslona destroyed tns
nght.
The AtheIstone Ciub OF Battle Greek has
issued four hundred invitations 70 party
Jan l6.
Two Port Huron churches are going 10
try what hight electricity can throw on thsir
services.
The schernerhorn Bros. will continue the
Hudson Gazette since the sudden dsath OF
their father.
A arm from Chicago haye purchased site
IN Muskegon and viii srect a curtaln-Folier
factory thereon.
Tbs Pontiac polo team plays at plymouth
next Monday night, and the Paw Paw team
&C ftW Paw on the Jth.
ffhe AVIATION Army and the Free Metho-
. dista Work hand IN hand at ST. Johns, ana
are gettsng numbers OF converts
Ishpeming citizens are becoming alarmed
al the prevalence OF dlphtheria at that place
The schools will not open next Monday.
A Casn0yia school teacher walked from
Whitehall 70 Muskegon and back, distance
z.Ss0gsr forty miles, ia one day last week.
g. A. r. and the Woman's Relief Corps OF
Maskegon wiil take place next Monday even
ing
The Michigan Central Is fortunate enough
70 secure nineteen hundred cords or dry
beech and maple wood at Bloomingdaie at
Sl.l0 cord.
January n the charter Of the Citizens Ma
tional bank, OF Niles, expires, and the Ma.
-z16onaf Bank viii succeed II with Soov,uO
O pltal stock.
A. Thayer, an alleged deserter from the re
Enlar army, was arrested at Bay City Thurs
day afternoon. lie deserted from Fort Nj
agra last May.
A Wayland dog saved house from burn
ing by whining and scratching at the door.
When the man of the house arose he found
the carpet on TIRE.
Burglars entered Lilienfeld's cigar store
at Kalamazoo tuesday night and stole sou
worth OF rneerschaums and other show case
goods. There Is no clue.
The Mechanics Institute of Kalamazoo is
20 have a lecture course consisting OF twelve
lectures. Sventy course tickets were sold IN
q days by two persons.
Convicts at jackson prison spent New
Years the same as any other day yesterday.
They worked the same as usual and got
nothing extra for meals.
For lack of patronagethe Lansing Electric
Light and Power Company determined TO
shut down last Wednesday. The plant will
bo removed TO some other city.
Paul Loerscher, who was found guilty last
week at Muskeg0n of numbering his wife,
was sent need on Wednesday TO Jackson for
hfe, solitary confinement and hard labor.
The Upper Peninsula's $l50,00O,0O0, in
vested directly and indirectly IN copper and
iron. object decidedly 10 the Spanish treaty
now before Congress for its considerations
MtRing Gazette.
A good many citizens of Ionia are rebell-
ing against the site of the new postothce.
They will not rent boxes in that building,
and some business men propose to hire boy
10 deliver their mail.
Jerome B. Davis, the enterprising proprie-
tor OF tho Standish House, has erected at his
own expense a telephone line from his hotel
in Standish to the Artnac House In Omer,
the county seat, a distance of eight miles.
<)ne South Bay citizeu offers to deed four
handsome lots and glve money besides for
I've erection of a Catholic Church IN that part
OF Bay City. The munihcent offer has stirred
the people, and meeting will be held To
take action on the matter.
man tried to sell. in Whitehall, a valu-
able COW which he stole IN Muskegon. But
the would -be-purchaser was suspicious and
made inquiries and advertised the facts until
he found that his suspicious were correct and
an owner was discovered
Messrs. r. t. Thompson, f. G.. Ash. Robt
Merrick, Milo Eastman, Superintendent of
the Detroit. Bay City Il Alpena Railroad, and
W. II. Clough, all OF East Tawas. have Just
purchased 100 acres of the gold land In
Minnesota. IN town 63, range east.
Masked burglars made raid on a toll gate
three miles from Bay City on Thursday morn
ing. They attempted TO murder an English
man but failed. They succeeded IN getting
sit in money and some lewelry. Three men
were Afterwards arrested on suspicion.
The Hon. Edwin Willis has accepted the
presidency of the Agricultural College at
Lansing. lie says he will try to render the
institution more efficient by adding school
of technology. at the same time not detract-
ing in the least from the importance of the
agricultural feature.
Bay City's lumber cut this year was 538,
$4,000 feet. She lacks more than hundred
million feet OF equaliug Muskegon. the lum-
Der queen OF the world. Bay City, however,
has the honor of standing second TO Mus
keuon. which Is indeed an honor 90 her.
Muske1on Chr0lsaets.
Robert Hoveden, attorney for Morse & Co.,
of Troy. ". Y. paid $500 tan under protest
10 the treasurer OF Wilbur township, I0sco
county. for personal property seized for
ffixes, consisting of logs and timber valued
af S1t $40. This IA now the second town IN
this county IN WHiCn tue taxes Hkt bttteStt-is
The finsl decision viii affect over <l,ou0oo
o. property
Postotnces have been established at Besse-
mer. Ontonagon County, and Snyder, Jack
son County. and the following Michigan
postfnasters have been commissioners Loren
A. Houghton, Blanchard; Robert II Ferris.
Burr Oaks; Alonzo Ackley, Edna: Albert
Rlakesley. Millbprg; Frank I. Jeffries, Bes-
semer; Samuel ID. Humphrey, Snyder; Adel-
bert +. Haines, Dover.
Jerome T. Cobb. of SchooIcraft, Secretary
Of the State GranCe, editor Of the Grunge
Flxifor. deputy oil Inspector. county agent.
fx-superintendsnt Of county poor, and 4
generally active and useful man IN the CON-
munity. was t3 years old on Wednesday,
and his friends and nei9hbors expressed
their JOY that the hand Of Providence had
spared him to them so long, and their wish
that Death might come 20 him very lats. By
gathering a ias heme for merry making.
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