Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-08-20
CRAWLING, MICHIGAN,
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

AT Hancock 1O-year-old boy named
zimmerman killed a playmate with a base
ball bat.
There are over 100 visitors at tho
springs at St Louis that register from
Cincinnati.
Sparta has two baseball clubs named
"The Paralyzing Jim Dandies" and "The
Get There Ellis"
This season has been the most favor
able for harvesting that Shiawassee County
has known for years.
Mrs. Ignace Navarro. of Frenchtown,
Monroe County, dropped dead while on
her way to call on a neighbor
The price of salt was advanced by the
manufacturers at Bay City TO so cents a
barrel, owing to the recent strike.
site ap Detrutr- etVerS ,.4vesy y4be.s>aatasiaA-
cap, and contains the record of 140 instru-
ments.
will am Elsenman, Hillsdale College
graduate of 1882, has been made Superin-
tendent of the Denver (Colo.) public
'S-eS,', ~Ssarly s~s1s..A of standard book.
will be added TO the Ludington Public
School Isfary before school begins i9S
sspymber.
%eZion Store, Salt Lake City, is the
largest general store in the world, 9xad that
of Hannah, Lay g. Co., Traverse City, the
next in size.
-Contracts aggregating $2.375 have
been let for the new st. James Catholic
school at Grand Rapids. 1t viii cost $500
when completed.
"A reward of $1CO has been offered for
the body of Horatio J.. Ide, missing from
Ransom. He is believed to have been
foully dealt with.
-Owosso's Union School has furnished
five officers for the order of Good Tenn
plars from its recent graduates, who were
duly installed last week.
L. Woller's S-months- old twin boys
both died near Adrian last week. Both
children were taken sick at the same time.
and died about the same hour.
Tho ninth annual exhibit of the Colon
Floral Horticultural, and Art Association
will be held Sept. 8, Q, 10, and IL. The
management is under the supervision of
amateur lady florists principally.
The committee in charge has decided
to abandon the State Encampment of
Knights Templars at Grand Rapids this
year, the sentiment of Knights throughout
the State being against the encampment.
The firm of Cossett & Home, of
Owosso. have, inai 6tied rI' shsis- -~sstsn-ivsa
shops with new machinery. A little while
ago the largest iron wheel ever manufact-
ured in Shiawassee County was produced
by this firm.
"A tract of land was bought by the city
of Ishpeming, recently, for cemetery pur-
poses The old cemetery was so full that
not foot of available space was left and
graves had been made in the roadway.
Burials have been made at Negauuee the
past several months.
j. d. Hodgkins is the owner of
tenement in Neglunee which has
been refuge for beggars and squalid pow
erty. He has been notified by the City
Recorder to clean and repair the place at
once. 1t is known as Castle Garden"
and has long been disgrace to the city.
A little boy fell off the dock at Hough-
ton recently. His mother saw the fall,
and, rushing TO the spot, she stripped of
her skirt and held it over the sinking boy,
who clasped it and was saved. Her joy al
the rescue did not prevent her from en-
forcing the lesson witha good sound spank
ing, publicly admin stored.
The salt inspection in the State during
during the month of July was as follows
Barrels.
Saginaw County. 1l4,21a
Paw County. ................,,....... 73,7Se
Huron County. .......................... 43,9l6
1Csco County. . ........................3 1864
Midland County ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5,7ge
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