Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-02-17

liz tAie flAlcf-
1hs Ice IN Ausksgon Lake l. sixteen IN
ches thick ~ places
The Rev T.. ~. Mock, Of Adrian, has ae-
cepted esll 70 I0nIa.
Lakeside, MuskegOu county, Is calling for
an expeFeneed physician.
The people Of Harris Greek are petitloning
for pszt0fiice At that place.
Thsfe were 10000 acres Of land taken up
by settlers Ia Michigan last year.
The revival meetings at Jackson are go
cIosded overflow meetings are held.
Carroll Moore, a druggist OF Jackson, has
bought out a drug store Ia Muskegon-
Three hundred and thirty conyicts will be
ay yfheir liberty AT IOnla during March
1t II estimated that q, 600, 10000 feet OF
pE-e are still standing on the Ontonagon.
IL il said that firm at Manton offers
<f.O0 a day 10 teamsters 10 haul pine logs.
The Free Methodlsts OF Hanover, jackson
county, have Just dedicated new church.
A. j. Shakespeare will be postmaster al.
Kalamazoo under the Cleveland administra-
tion.
Capt. Lindscott will contins to hold tenn
perance meetings at Muskegon through this
week.
A great many ioys are being taken TO Mus
%@~~O
Lake.
Grave fears are entertained for the safety
Of the Michigan, A she has not been heard
from Yet.
An eleven year old boy at Muskegon broke
his leg at a skatIng-rink IN that city last
Saturday.
A number Of the Indiana lumbermen saw
a snow-plOw for the first time last Friday at
Muskegon.
The smith IRE extinguisher was tested al
Kalamazoo last Saturday and was voted an
entire success.
The water supply at Cadillac failed to
connect" few days last week on account OF
the cold weather.
There was a large attendance at the Jack
son County MOOl-Growers Association at
jackson on Saturday.
l.ne thousand barrels of Michigan -four is
bd&ag furnished to 90 10 Scotland by III. W.
Sweet OF South Haven.
Three young men from Missouri have ap-
piled for admission TO Parsons Business
College - Kalamazoo.
over seventy persons, mostly teachers, at
nded the Bay County Teachers Association
at West Bay City last week.
The Grand Lodge of |. o. q. L. will convene
ut Kalamazoo to-day. lt Is expected that a
two days session Will be held.
The adjourned annual meeting of the Cen
tral Michigan Agricultural Society directors
will be held IN Lansing, March lO.
The Geo. A. Thomas Post of Benton Har-
Dor will give a calico party next Monday
evening for the benefit of the poor.
Mr.. Norman Castle, of Benton Harbor,
died at that place very suddenly on Monday
of last week, aged seventy three years.
= The Martel Furniture Company, of st. Ig-
f.I in faH nf
two hundred wood choppers wanted at once.
The surveyor. we're at work last week on
the line of the Cadillac, Manistee Valley *
Lake Michigan X. r., from Sherman toward
Cadillac.
st. johns claims 10 have furnished more
cSand officers for secret societies during
We past ton years than any other town IN
Michigan.
Isaac NrOOman, for many years United
States Marshal ut Hastings, has been APP
pointed to a responsible position ia the State
Prison at Jackson
Il is said the Port Huron and Sarnia fer
ries are not likely to begin running again
until the latter part of March, unless the ice
moves down the river.
The Board of Supervisors of Wexford
county allow only $1,000 to build poor
house. It Is to be hoped that none of them
will have to live in It.
Mrs. Cyrus RittenhOuse, of Benton Har-
Dor, died very suddenly last Wednesday.
She left a husband. a child two years old, and
= babe four months old.
There are now sixty councils OF the Royal
Arcanum in the State, with membership Of
about 500. The grand COUNSEL will meet IN
Jackson early IN March.
The church at IOnia received thirteen
members at its last communion. Ii is pros
pering under the energetic administration of
the Rev. Mr.. Potter. It's pastor.
The Saginaw River Boom Company last
Friday filed articles of association IN the
county clerks office. The capital stock Is
$1,000. divided into 100 shares of 500 each.
Two young men at Grand Haven recently
spent night in confinement for not obeyln :
the order of Marshal hammond TO lend a
help ~ hand 20 those who were working the
brakes Of the fire engine
The Indiana Lumber Dealers Association
drew 40 a set OF resolutions while at Mus
kego0 expressing their appreciation OF the
efforts made by the L. y. A. ~ g. and the 4.
<W NJ Ry. companies for their great
1orts % make their excursion successful
and pleasant.
The Muskegon County Horticultural So
ciafv which met at Muskegou recently dis
cslased among other things the afvisabillty
Of starting cooperative fruit canuery N
that county. Inc oNtnloo Wa neiu tf'tt II
would be very profitable and could be estao-
lished with ~4.tUO or S5,0o0.
A Barry county man recently filled himse i
with whisky aud then started home. tie lay
down In the bottom of the sleigh and left the
horses to their own destruction. but it came
near being his destruction. "a the horses
tspoed him out into a snow-dr1ft where be
would have remained If a neighbor bad not
found him there sleeping peacefully.
Reports to the Michigan Board Of Health
show that neuralgia. bronchitis, rheumatism
and influenza were Che Diseases IN The 0rdel
named causing the most sickness IN Micft
Qsn during the week ending February q
Diphthcria was reported at eighteen places
scarlet fever In eighteen. measles af two and
small poS at South Bosrdman.
The Kalamazuo Telegraph is the happiest
most hopeful paper under the sun. Al
through the cold winter = has seen robins
green grass and snakes. and nov, with ths
!. therncnieter way below zero, e triumphant
Iv announces that Spring = nigh. Caaas