Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1886-07-21

Some of our citizens were surprised
in trying to get water for breakfast
as it had been shut off during the
night for running hose after hours
The regulations say hose can run
from 5 TO 8 o'clock A. NJ, and from )
to 8 o'clock P. NJ, giving six hours
This rule will be strictly enforced
DIR. Gallagher wishes to announce
that he is again prepared to make
artificial teeth.
Camilla Urso will appear in the
grand concert at the Opera House.
next Wednesday evening, July %.
Curtain rises at s o'clock sharp. No
waiting, 50 be in time to hear the en-
tire program. Reserved seat plan at
Wittelshofer's, Friday at9A.M. Sea-
son ticket holders should secure their
seats.
The 81. L." cigar is the best cigar
made. No wonder it is favorite.
Try the brand.
A. Damn, formerly of the Fletcher
House, and well known to many of
our citizens, is the patentee of first
class, practical and easily handled
crapet stretcher-one which we ven
ture to say, is the best article in the
line of carpet stretchers ever made.
Very few housekeepers will be with
out this labor saving invention, after
once seeing how it does the business.
Go to Bostwick's drug store for
homeopathic medicines, as he has
full assortment.
Prof. j. III. Simonds has accepted
the position of Instructor in Music at
the Michigan Military Academy at
Orchard Lake, and organist of the M.
Z. church of Pontiac, and will re-
move with his family to the latter
place about Sept. LIST. We regret to
lose the Professor from Alpena, and
his many friends here will join with
us in wishing him every success in his
new home.
Have you seen the superb assort-
ment of sporting goods constantly on
hand at ID. ID. Hanover's.
There is a change in the name of
the firm of Bewick, Comstock & Co.,
but what the name of the new firm
will be is yet undecided. Chas. Be-
wick has retired from the firm, having
sold his entire interest in the bank,
the numbering business here, as we'll
as the pine lands in Canada and Mis-
sissippi, to A. w., w. B. and j. B.
who will hereafter carry
on the business.
Go and see the beautiful display of
silver ware in the jewelry store of G.
III. Reynolds, Second street.
James Hamilton, who has been a
resident of Alpena for nearly score
of years, has sold his residence on
Washington avenue, to Jos. Reed, and
will soon remove to Marinette, Wis,
where he will, in connection with his
brother Johnston, engage in the tim
smith business, and also follow lumber
ing, which has been his principal bust
ness here. Alpena will lose good |
citizen, which will be Marinette's
gain.
Bostwick's drug store is headquar-
ters for Humphreys and Boesick d
Tapel's homeopathic medicines.
The Gladwin county Record adj
vocates the name of Hon. w. III. Pot
ter, of this city, as candidate on the
ticket for Congress, from
the 10th district. Mr.. Potter is on
the opposite side of the house from
the ARGUS, politically, but at the
same time we cannot fail to recognize
the fact that if he were as well known
throughout the district as he is in
this county, he would make strong
Pure drugs and medicines, and all
the best and leading patent medicines
now manufactured, always on hand
at Bostwick's, sign of the red mortar.
The peculiar appearance of the
sky last Wednesday afternoon, which
was drought by some to be caused by
an eclipse, was the result of fire in
The woods on North Point, with the
wind in a westernly direction. Then
The wind suddenly changed to the
east, and driving a dense volume of
smoke, with considerable flying ashes,
10 the westward, and over the city,
which obscured the sun for some
time. In some localities the ground
was rendered nearly white with cedar