Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-05-21
John Mclaughlin is chief engineer Of
the tug Duncan City this season.

ties.
A. P. Newton's has made shipments of
several barrels of hemlosk extract since
the opening of navigation.
Fishermen are not having very
heavy catch of fish this spring and are
not aecumulating wealth very fast.
The rain on Monday served three good
purposes, laid the dust, quenehed the
forest fires and gave vegetation boom.
Street Commissioner Erratt is entitled
to the thanks of pedestrians for his ef
forts to keep the crosswalks cleaned of
mud and slush.
d. ID. Mcdonald has shipped in thirty
one car loads of timber over the Michi-
gan Central railroad and has twenty five
ear loads more vet to come.
Jack Frost captured many of the lead
pipes from the water mains during the
past winter and wOrkmsn were still en-
gagged the frst of the week In repairing
damages.
Miss Beatrice Farqaharsen, who had
been spending a year with her Aunt Mrs
Robert Patterson, left on the City of
Mackinac Monday for her homo in Whit
by. Ontario.
Cheboygan county is now the smallest
county in the State but nevertheless it
is one of the best, contains lots of geOd
farming lands and has advantages that
are not eXcelled
Messrs Bellant, Gallagher & 20, re-
eeived new safe last week from the
Detroit Safe Company to take the place
of the one crsmated at the time their
grocery burned.
A captain of one of the vessels loading
at Duncan this week said he thought
they could make better time loading if
they used pitch forks. His vessel was
being loaded with strips.
The amusement leving public are
greatly indebted to Marshal Bentley for
the steps he has taken to suppress the
hoodlums at the Opera Hoass when en-
tertainmeRts are being given.
Captain Thorpe, of the. Lawrence,
which arrived Monday, says the boat sn-
cOuntered more ice in Little Traverse
Bay Monday than on the first trip. 1t
took them several hours to make Harbor
Springs.
We understand the graduating class
Of the graded school will give public
commencement exercises at the close Of
the present term, in June. Should they
do so, the exercises will probably be held
in the Opera House.
For some Sundays lot of boys and
young men have bsen playing base ball
on a pasture lot ]. M. French, Of the
Grand Central hotel, had rented Of the
M. w. Horne estate. Last Sunday he
had them dispersed by the Village Mar
shall.
W. & A. Macarthur have sold their two
large lighters, brought from Chicago a
few years since. one to Mr.. Wyman, Of
Sault Ste Marie, and the other to parties
at Lime island, st. Mary's river. The
tug r. c. Wilson will tow Mr.. Wymsn's
| lighter to Sault Ste Marie as soon az ii
is repaired.
The ladies Of the Methodist church
haye in preparation an entertainmen nj
to be given at the Opera House Wednes-
day evening, June 3D.. The entertain
ment is to be for the benefit of the church
and will consist of old familiar songs of
war times and tableaux. Further par.
ticulars will be given next week.
1t is to be hoped that the village couh.
Gil will take steps to extend the pipes
from the water works TO the east side OF
the river. That portion of our village
while paying takes to support the water
works, has so far been deprived Of any
benefit from them. This is unjust t.
the tax payers on that side of the ,rivsl
and should be rsmedisd with as little
delay as possible.
A great many Of the property owner!
Of property on Main street are anxious
that that street should be paved. The,
say the village has already expended OF
the street, in the way Of gravel and re
pairs, enough money to have paid TO
paving it twice within the corporat
limits, and the expenditure has been o
little permanent benefit. In rain
weather, the street is as bad az ever. !
is the main thoroughfare Of our villag
and the greater portion of the trafie O