The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-17
Minor state Happenings.

Minor State Happenings.
-Neebish, Chippewa County. is new
postofice.
-Manistique harbor is receiving great
many improvements.
Book agents when they strike Man
istique are compelled to pay license of 81
per day.
| The Pioneer says that Manistique is
soon to have an Episcopal Church Society
organized.
Neither blossom nor peach has been
seen in Washtenaw County this year, says
the Saline Observer.
| M. II. Morehouse, of Clyde, has
thrashed 800 bushels of white chaff Egyp-
tan wheat from seven acres.
| Prof. c. b. Thomas resigns the Su-
perintendency of the Saginaw Public
Schools, after seven years service.
The New Orleans Exposition cost Mich
igan $S,934.6Z After paying all expenses
there is still balance of $5,3S3.62.
"A new stage route will soon be in
operation between Manistique and Es-
canada, touching at Fayette and other
points.
The finest Masonic temple in the State
| will be dedicated at Ann Arbor Sept o.
Regent Clark will be master of ceremonies
on the occasion.
"A Bay City man has tobacco plant
growing in his yard The plant is six feet
ten inches high and the stalk is five inches
in circumference. The largest leaves are
twenty six inches long and nineteen inches
wide.
1t is now thought Marquette will have
the branch State prison. Hon. Peter
White has offered to donate forty acres Of
land for site. The commissioners were
understood to favor a site half way be-
tween Ispheming and Negaunee. but no
land could be secured on any terms, the
mining corporation refusing to SELL
Almost every town of any pretensions
whatever in the State sends in complaints
of burglaries more or less severe, from no
Doodle up to goodly haul. The trade is
either becoming more fascinating or more
profitable, or else the times have made
more people reckless from being hard up
or without opportunity of employment.
| "A Michigan girl outdid her compan-
ions in craze for autograph albums by
having about one hundred letters from the
same number of men bound in volume
for her parlor table, AS the missives rep
resented her extensive and unusual senti-
mental correspondence since she had ar
rived at the age of chirography the collec-
ton proved very interesting to callers.
The imaginative individual who gave
description of that 80, 100000 ton rock
discovered near Negaunee was too previous.
All well-informed mining men draw the
line at 81 900, 900 ton, and a man whose
} rock exceeds this is looked on with suspi-
cion. A million dollars ton is richness
enough for all practical purposes.-Mar-
quette Mining Journal
The establishment of County House"
in Schoolcraft County seems to be paying
arrangement The Manistique Pioneer
says: Before the Poor House was opened
each pauper; now it costs $1.25. The poor
are cared for just as well, and in some cases
better, than they were before. Then, too,
the poor are where they can be frequently
seen by the officers; they are subjected to
better discipline they are better off.
The Huron Times recalls the memory
of the awful fires which devastated the
thumb of Michigan" commencing Sept
5, 1881. AS an anniversary reminder it
says: "Traces of the great calamity are,
each year, growing Linter, unless we ex-
cept the lines of care and suffering on the
faces of many who faced the awful dangers
and endured the privatlon and suffering
which followed. God grant that our peo-
ple may new r again be called upon to un-
dergo another such baptism"
Tho Midland Sun says that the oldest
log-scaler on the Saginaw River, and per-
haps in the State, is s. b. Brown, of East
! Saginaw, who has been engaged in the bus
] mess thirty-five years, having commenced
in Maine thirty-five years ago, and contin-
ued in the business since that time. Mr..
Brown has resided in Michigan about
twenty eight years. He once scaled $780,
600, coo logs in two hundred days--a feat
never before accomplished on the river.
Though Mr.. Brown is verging close on to
: 20 years of age he appears at least fifteen
: years younger, and is still in active service.