Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-01-06

Comments on the food were general on
the streets yesterday.
Bayne viii give ms regular weekly hop in
Lnce's hall tonight.
The Jury IN the Superior Court has been
excused until the lzth inst.
Nearly all Of the Protestant churches are
deyotIng this week tO prayer.
IL you want To Do a notary public file your
application with clerk Goodwin.
Officer Wiley arrested Frank Martin on
Canal street last evening for being drunk.
small blaze ia Mr.. T. Stewart Whites
residence, Sunday evening, did about 500
worth of damage.
City Marshal Green was busy yesterday
making out rolls for the sale OF property ON
special improvement rolls.
The kindergarten school on Summit
street resumed operations yesterday morn
Ing with Nv entY lone pupils.
Officer Quigg found the front door OF Nor
gan & Avery's Carpet Store open last night,
and notified the proprietors.
The deed of assignment of Chas. A.
Stevenson, of the village Of Rockford, 10 Vim.
H. Prescott, was filed yesterday.
Mr.. Don j. Leathers mas sold his PAGER
Billy G.. 10 Mr.. A. X. Hutton, of Detroit.
The price paid Is said TO be 500.
Attorney General Taggart goes 20 Lansing
this morning 10 put on his official harness
and attend 10 business already accumulated.
Company +, Sixth Michigan Volunteer
Cavalry, will hold It's fifth reunion at Colby's
Hall, IN Rockford, on Wednesday evening,
Jan. 1.
The January meeting of Grand River Val
Icy horticultural Society will be held at the
farmers's Club room this afternoon at 1:30
o'clock.
Steketee's sales on his family medicines
aggregated some 3,4I3 dozen bottles, an in
crease OF nearly 100 per cent over the pre-
vious year.
The report of the Board of Health yester-
day: 4. NandenhOnt Myrtle street, and
Alice Roskosky, No. $50 Gunnison street,
diphtheria.
That lecture of Mrs Livermore next
Thursday on wendell Phillips and
His Times" will be interesting and merits a
full house.
Mr.. VIM. A. Gavett, of the Chicago & West
Michigan Railroad. returned from Detroit
yesterday and reports that Governor Alger is
SO far recovered as to be able to- be out upon
the streets.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Geo. Thomp-
son will take place this morning at $50 from
ST. Andrews Church, corner of Sheldon and
Oakes street. Friends of the family are in
vited 10 attend.
Judge. A. V. McAlvay, of Manistee, was
IN the city yesterday attending to profess
sional business at the United States Court
To-day he leaves for Lansing to attend the
session of the Supreme Court.
Isaac Il. Messmore began suit in the Cir
cult Court yesterday, against the Travellers
Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn, to
recover 500 insurance due him, on account
OF injuries recently received in a railroad ac-
cident.
If..sk ~ - n
Denney to the Detroit House of Correction
to-day to serve out a sentence of six months
for rifiing registered letters while acting as
assistant postmaster at Remus, Macosta
county.
Mrs L. B. Montgomery, of Kansas City,
Mo-, daughter of VIM. Green of this city,
died on Sunday last. Her remains will arrive
here for burial to-day. Notice of funeral
services will be given hereafter.
The conductors on the O.. X. IL I. X. r. re-
port that the Muskegon river is on a ramp
age at Paris and Big Rapids. Ice has clogged
the water and 10 Is backing up and spreading
over a large territory. several hundred acres
being covered to the depth of two feet.
The W. G. L. T., of this city, will observe
to-day a a day of prayer. A meeting will
be held at the Y. Nj. g. A. rooms at 2 p. IN.
After the prayer meeting a business meeting
will be held at which it is desired that
each union be represented. Business of i'm
portapce will be transacted. Every member
IL urged to attend both meetings.
This Is the way the Free Press does up the
high water IN this city in its headlines.
'Grand Rapids Inundated A Great Ice
Gorge which Momentarily Grows Worse
The Electric Light Plant Submerged and
the City IN Total Darkness.-Families Nov
ing from Home and the Streets Filled with
GOods.-Crowds of Crooks Flock TO the
Scene and Enhance the Danger of the Situa-
ton"