Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-01-09
TOWN TALK.


the Arnory tonight.
II you want 20 save the discount you must
pay your taxes tomorrow.
Judge FoIle.t Il having his court cham
beers kalsomined and papered.
The 81. Cecilia Society will give a public
concert the latter part Of this month
The occupants of the flooded Easements
on Canal street have resumed business.
The q. K. Il l. railroad Is getting together
all the cars they can TO use IA shipping ice
south.
The patrolmen are getting tired OF the
prolonged peace, only one drunk was run IN
yestel day.
There are 353 travelling men residing IN
this city, thsee-fourths OF whom represent
houses here.
Probably the dirtiest, muddiest and mean
est street 10 drive upon IA the city Is West
Bridge street.
Ii You want 10 laugh 90 TO Powers's Opera
House tonight and see Evans and Haly IN
a ParlOr Match"
The hopes Of the furniture manufacturers
are Frightening up, as buyers are beginning
TO apr CIR III town.
Sheriff Kinney has trained his English
mastiffs TO be useful. They carry baskets,
mail, etc, very cleyerly.
Deputy OucFH Ilhttc lOOh dt " Dltch W
Ionia yesterday TO serve sentence of ninety
days for simple larceny.
Col Stockbridge, of kalamazoo. bought
. A Forest Scene" by Van Elton, at Hart
mans gallery yesterday.
The wood aud hay market is overstocked,
and many farmers are obliged 10 drive back
home with their loads unsOld.
The sewer at the corner of West Bridge
and Broadway burst yesterday. Men were
set at work repairing IT at once.
The Seventh street school house is fast ap-
preaching completion. The roof is on and
the inside work is well under way.
The d., G.. ii. Il NJ. Railroad Company has
leased the store in the Nellls block, now oc-
cupied by the Central barber shop.
@. ). Hartman sold Evening"" one of
Fred Church's best art works, To gentle
man in Kalamazoo, on Wednesday.
City Clerk Belknap has excavated enough
curiOsities and freaks IN that West Side lot
of his 10 start a respectable dime museum
The Young Ladies' Missionary Society of
the Division street NJ. 4. Chnrch, met at
Rev. DIR. Gilberts residence yesterday after
noon.
The kindergarten school on Wealthy
avenue, taught by Miss Minnie Johnston,
will reopen Monday, Jan. II, at % Charles
street.
A good many of the West Side factories
are smut down, some for repairs and others
Ostensibly for the purpose of taking inven-
tories.
The roads outside the city are rough and
rugged. Nevertheless there have been
great many farmers in the city during the
past week.
Engine house No. is undergoing some
improvements. A new brick floor has been
a IL IL
are being plastered.
Mayor Belknap received notice yesterday
that he had been appointed one of the gen.
eral counsel of the American Exhibition, TO
be held IN London in 1861.
peep into several trains as they landed
at the Union Depot yesterday did not reveal
the coaches To be ia crowded condition.
Travel Is light on all the roads.
OF the twelve gambltr RS lately landed in
the County Jan, Out one, John Johnson re-
mains. The other eleven managed TO whack
up their 1885, and were released
A gentleman whose opinion on such mat
ters - entitled to much consideration and
respect. says that the total damage done IN
the recent Hood viii not exceed $4,000.
The fireman OF engine-house No. 3 will
have grand benefit bah IN Metropolitan
Hall on February IL. The proceeds will be
used IN furnishing their rooms at the engine
house.
II. w Miller. of Benton Harbor. was in
the city yesterday. He Will move his family
TO this city m about two weeks. at which
time the new excelsior factory Oh Grandvile
avenue will begin operations under his man
agsment.
Tue Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
Of the Second street NJ. +. Church will hold
their regular monthly meeting at the resi-
deuce of Mrs. r. W. Miller. q Turner street,
at o clock this afternoon.
There viii be turkey race at Geo. Leon-
ards Division Street Roller Ring tomorrow
night. II Will be miraculous If George
doesn't figure To catch the bird himself.
though the other contestants would be justi-
fed in claiming foul.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union met at ths Y. NJ. G. A. rooms yester-
day afternoon. They opened their proceed
ing with special prayer framed with refer
ence 90 work. after which followed the usual
talk ON prohibition, and the methods of Sc
curing It.
The patrol wagon responded TO a telephone
call from 259 Wealthy avenue, where they
found lost child named Jennie Peacock.
aged two aud one-half years. She was
brought ~ headquarters, where she was cali
al for in about an hour and taken TO her
home. 3T3 South I0nia street.
II pa-tment keeps a record of the location of
ali ,0e houses of ill-fame. the propfietogs
the inmates and the people ID whom they
pay rent II the names Of the latter were
made public the pillars Of some Of the
churches would quake and tremble.
4 lumber wagon ran over a small boy Al
the corner Of Ottawa and Monroe streets
yesterday, stunning him quite badly. though
no bones were broken. ft ~ a notorious
Al.
careless in driving over the crossings. rener-
ally ignoring the presence of pedestrians
entirely.
The West Side rolles SSnk IS not large
enough 10 hold the people who want 20 skate
Yesterday afternoon It Sas Internationally
crowded and there was no especial attraction
on hand either The North Division street
rinS presented like spectacle. This prob
ably accounts IN some degree for the poor
business done at the theatres.
IErRoRAM reporter spent \ few minutes
watch -t,s~.,ra -, fha Weet <a Yesterday