Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-12-02
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

Mrs. George Helsel, of Summit City,
has killed four deer recently.
"A saw-mill is being constructed at
Adrian with a capacity of 10000 feet.
One Cheboygan lumber company has
three camps in the woods, employing $50
men.
BY the fall Of a scaffolding in Detroit
one workman was killed and three others
seriously injured.
Mrs. Custer, the widow of Gen. Custer.
is broken in health. and is seeking restora-
ton in Herkimer Coanty, MY.
"A Saginaw hunting party recently re-
turned from Thunder Bay River, near Of
sego Lake, having killed nineteen deer and
wolf.
Grand Travtrss was visited by large
.sl. .;l1> a....i.. ei----l
enough to get good view of the town and
then flew away.
-Coldwater will not get the creamery
which Chicago party proposed to esiab-
lish there, after all, as it is to be located in
some town in the East.
Mrs. Candy, widow of the gallant Gen.
eral of Modoc war fame, and aunt of Miss
Kale Pratt, of Mount Holyoke Seminary,
will pass the winter in Kalamazoo
mGzoO Telegraph.
An item in the Tele0ram- Umpire
and Mrs. Quest will winter in Detroit
leads us to desperation, and we despair
mgly announce that Bookkeeper and
Mrs. Jones will spring in Kalamazoo.
Puck.
"A Lowell eyaporator has closed for the
season, having turned out $4,000 pounds of
evaporated apples and 200 barrels of vine
gar. On an average $50 bushels of apples
per day were used during the drying sea-
John Forquer, of Reading, was shot in
the leg while scouting in Kentucky in 1862.
The bullet was not extracted. A few days
ago he jumped from thrashing machine
to the ground. BY this action the bullet
was forced through the skin TWAS then
readily removed.
Subscribers to the fund for poor Jennie
Farley's funeral at Jackson have received
! checks for the amounts given by them.
| The money is supposed to have come flom
relatives in Detroit. The letters to the
local agent said: Refund to all except
| Judd Crouch"
I'm one house in Allegan lives Mrs.
Harrison Seymour, and with her are her
two daughters, Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Will
lam Packard, they also being widows, and
each of them have auyhter. We doubt
if there is another such family in the State.
Grand Rapids Eagle.
The vast sums of money for which
those Detroit newspapers have sued each
other afford evidence of firm determina-
ton to keep the money in the city that Sem
aior Jones of Florida has put in circulation
there through the medium of the wet
grocery stores. = Chicago Tribune.
DIR. G. M. Putnam, of Flint, sued Ma
than Lampson for Sill, Which he claimed
for professional services. The defense
was that the Doctor and Lampson agreed to
"wrestle it out, the doctor to have doubls
if he won and nothing if he lost He lost
in the wrestling match, but the jury gave
him $50.
$50 Miss Blank is marriedP" he in
quired. "Yes." II heard that her father
give her check for $4,000" "Yes. he
did" "Was it good for anythingP" "Well,
that's the point that puzzles everybody who
was there. They were all erowding around
to see if it was certified, when she held it
aloft and exclaimed: Dear father, but these
diamonds are enoughP She touched it to
the gas, and away it went. I think it's
new kink, and one intended to save the old
man. Detroit Free Press.
Ten years ago Mrs. Ada Martin, of
Bronson, fractured one of her legs, ard
paralysis of the member followed, with loss
of speech. During her affection she de-
voted much Of her time 10 making crazy
quilts, and has received patches from
Presidents Hayes, Garfield, and Arthur.
Friday she received patch with the CON-
pliments Of the present President, and the
pleasure of the event induced her 10 rise.
Her sons revolver lay on stand near by
and joggled off, its falling causing the
weapon 10 be discharged. The ball passed
through the invalid's psralyzed leg. The
shock restored Mrs. Martins speech, and
her limb will be useful after the bullet
wound is healed.
Evening Things Up.