Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-10-04


and would tell any man for 100 cents how
TO make an artist of his equine. BY re-
turn mail the Roscommon sucker received
a neatly printed card advising him to give
his Bucephalus drawing lessons.
Kalamazoo has over forty passenger
trains over its valious railroads daily.
"A Maple Rapids man has fruit tree
which bears a peculiar fruit. They are
sort of cross between q pear and an
apple.
The Bay City Arbeitor Society has
celebrated the twenty y-third anniversary
of its organization. 1t has $50 members
on its rolls, and owns property valued at
10000.
The Agricultural College has received
an order all the way from Tennessee for
thirty bushels of pure seed wheat, ac-
companied by check for the seed at the
rate of &l.50 per bnshel. Unfortanatsly
all the seed of the kind desired that can
be spared was sold the day before the
order was received
The accident by which Nels Anderson
was killed in lumber camp near Flood
wood, in the Upper Peninsula, was sim
gular in some respects. Being deaf, he
did not hear the warning TO get out Of tho
way as his comrades were telling a tree,
but glancing up he saw the tree coming
and started to run. Instead of getting
ont of the way he ran directly under the
tree, limb of which struck the ax upon
his shoulder in such way that it nearly
severed his head from his body.
r. b. Shank & Co., of Lansing,
have one OF those unique machines on the
drop nickel in the slot and test your
weight plan, only when nickel is dropped
in its former owner receives tempting
cake of sweet chocolate in return. Some
wicked boys discovered that small piece
of lead would bring fo:th tho chocolate
harvest as readily as n nickel, and when
the machine was opened the other day by
the firm enough of the metal was found
for a medium-sized cannol ball.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office has called upon the Flint and
Pere Marquette Railroad Company to
show cause why proceedings should not be
taken under the act of March 8, 1887, to
vacate the certi6cation to the company of
q 76l acres of land in Isabella County,
which the Commissioner held was errone-
ously certified to the company, because Nt
the date of definite location of its road the
lands we;e embraced within o reservation
for Indian purposes.
I'll eodore II. Eaton. for many years
Wholesale dealer in drugs and dye stuffs
in Detroit. died on July 3lst lst, leaving
n will which has been fled for proba.e.
The estate of deceased, which was large
one, was very simply disposed of. the
most noticeable revision of the will being
q $50, 900 bequost to st. Luke's Hospital
and Church Home, of Detroit. Attached
to the will was receipt in full from this
charitable in 't.tution of the payment of
the legacy, and receipts were also attached
from the following benehcilrieS under the
will Mrs. Eliza M. Odenheimer, of
Camden, N. j., $1,000; Miss Philodea E.
Casey, of Augusta, Georgia, $4,000;
Lieut. Thomas W. Lord, Twentieth
Regiment, United Sta'es army, $1,000;
Mary b. Inman, daughter of Commo-
dore William Inman, late of the
United States navy, $4,000; Maria and
Louise, daughters of Mrs. Eliza M. Oden-
heimcr, $4,000 each; John w. Oden-
heimer, 81 900; b. f. Geiger stated in the
will to have been for many years faith
full clerk of deceased, $1,000. The total
amount receipted for was $50, 900 on dates
between Aug. 6 and Sept. Is, st. Luke's
Hospital having receipted for the $50, 900
bequest very recently. 1t was provision
by the testator that the above bequests
should be conditioned upon the fact that
the PARTIES should be alive at the time Of
his death. This provision operated ad-
versely only in the case of Mrs. Marie
l.. Welles, who died prior to the
ing the sum of $4,000. The residue of
the estate after the payment of these be.
quests, is devised entirely to Theodore II.
Eaton, Jr., the only child and heir at law
of deceased The will co1ld have been en-
tirely included on one-half q sheet of
foolscap paper and was dated on May "a,
1887. Together with the will of Mr.. Eaton
was the will of his deceased wife, who died
| IN Novauhar 1870 which voa also 6lad for
probate. The will of the latter, Anne
Eliza Eaton, was drawn in March, 1849.
BY the provisions Of this instrument the
testatrix bequeathed piece of property,
known as the Mansion House, on the south
side Of jefferson avenue, in which she was
living at the time Of drawing the will, Of
well as Franklin street property, to hel
husband. Theodore II Eaton, the son OF
the above testator, asked the Probate
Court to admit both instruments and tC
appoint him executor OF each.
The State weather-service crop bul.
letin says that the temperature for las
week was 2-l0 below; sunshine slightly
below; and rainfall 72-lO0 inches above
the normal The effect upon the crops
has been favorable. The rainfall has beer
we'll distributed and fall seeding is vel
under way. Corn harvesting and potato
} digging are well under way, and pastures
are much improved.
Thomas Foster, of Lansing, fount
one of his COWS dead in the pasture will