Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-01-12
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

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Chelsea has barber named Shaver.
"A new Masonic hall is being erected at
Estrella.
The new liquor law is strictly enforced
ut Menominee.
Antrim County has teachers associa-
ton of twenty members.
"A State Farmers Institute will be held
at Ithaca, Feb. 2 and 3.
The Menominee M. E. Church has
membership of fifty eight.
The capacity of the East Saginaw water
works is to he increased next spring.
The Thompson Handle Company, of
Kalkaska, will put electric lights in their
factory.
The jackson Purifier Works have had
over 100 offers to locate their works at diff
ferent cities.
Miss Della Rogers, one of the found
ers of the once noted Michigan Female
College at Lansing, died recently at Chi
cago.
The Governor has appointed Geo. G.
Higbee official stenographer for the Twen-
ty-fifth judicial Circuit, vice Goodale, left
the State.
Nelson Lemon, aged thirty five, section
boss on the Chicago and Grand Trunk
Railroad, was killed lately by freight train
near Vicksburg.
The Edward Pomeroy Post, &. A. R.,
at Jackson, has adopted q resolution in
dorsing for Postmaster Thomas j. Conley.
He is an old soldier.
The home of Sanford Keller will be
the first in East Saginaw TO be lighted with
electricity. Wires have been placed in po-
sition for that purpose.
Work on the oil developments at Kill
The company will reorganize on stronger
basis. Gas still spouts.
"A Jackson man has been arrested for
licking his father-in-law. The records do
not show what his mother in law was about
while the licking was being administered.
Ralph Jones, years old, son of John
Jones, of Jackson, had his scalp nearly
taken off and left leg broken by running
into street-car while coasting. The in
juries are thought fatal.
Maj. w. w. Van Antwerp, postmaster
at Jackson, commander of Edward POM
eroy Post, G.. A. r., Knight Templar,
and associate editor of the Jackson Patriot,
died recently of cancer of the liver.
Two men employed in the Jackson
mine, at Negaunee, were torn to pieces by
the explosion of an old and forgotten
encountered in drilling for a fresh blast.
"A village ordinance in Brooklyn for
bids any person but the Marshal to ring
the fire bell. When a fire breaks out all
the inhabitants rush toward the woods,
where tho Marshal is supposed to be chop
ping, and when the procession returns the
fire is out
A G.. A. r. hall is to be erected in
Ithaca as soon as the weather will permit.
1t will have frontage of twenty-four feet
and depth of seventy FIVE feet. 1t will
consist of two halls, one for the G.. A. r.
anu Ont IOT tue w ". VI AO WhOACWbu
is being raised by voluntary subscription
and is nearly obtained.
The residue of the estate Of John A.
Hamilton, deceased, late of East Saganaw,
amounted to SIC, ,951.01 cash, and the
homestead on Genesee avenue, valued at
| $4,000, has been assigned by the Probate
Court to the widow and children of the
deceased. The estate was in process of
settlement one year and one day.
The Grand Haven Lumber Company
has not entirely closed operations at Grand
| Haven. Some time last summer it secured
by purchase $4,000, 600 feet more of stump
age, which will be logged this winter.
| The saws at Grand Haven will hum again
next season, and likely the Boyden &
Akely shingIe- mill will continue to make
faces at Muskegon as of yore.
The Ladies Library Association of
| Jonesaille, at their annual meeting, Just
held, reported total of 1888 volumes in
the library of the society, and $l25 in the
treasury. The association has been in ex-
istepce for over thirteen years, and pros
perity has crowned its efforts to place
good reading matter before the people of
| Jonesville.
The State Swamp Land Board appro-
| priated fifteen hundred acres recently to
aid in the improvement of Grand River,
from the Jackson city limits to the juno
ton of Portage River, about four miles
distant. II also approved the final accept
ance of the Alpena county State ditch, and
the survey and profile of the Swan Greek
State improvement.
| Tho Executive Committee of the
Grand Army Association of Southeastern
Michigan met at Adrian recently. Twen-
| ty-six posts we're represented. A resolu-
ton pledgng 200 veterans to attend the
National Encampment at Columbus next
year was introduced by Col. Smith of
Coldwater, and the command vested in
Gen. r. A. Alger. The location, time,
| and place of the next annual encampment
were left in the hands Of the officers of the
association. A resolution was passed in
dorsing the pension legislation now before
| Congress-, especially the act allowing an
| annuity of $3.65 per month for each year