Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-04-12
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS

street railroad.
The freight depot at LAnse was bum
cd recently. Nothing was saved. 1t was
insured.
Nearly every wool buyer in Adrian, IL
IL claimed, lost money on last seasons in
vestments.
The subscription to the stock Of the
jackson Baseball Association now
amounts to sS,e25, representing 145 shares.
IT. s. Sanford, 60 years OF age, and
an old resident of Ann Arbor, was re-
Gently found dead in bed. Cause, heart
disease.
Two boys named Demarra and
Gravier got into q fight while crossing
Lake st. Clair on the ice, and, breaking
through, both were drowned.
Rev. George r. Holt, who for eight
years has been pastor Of the Free-will Bap-
tist Church in Jackson, has dissolved his
connection with that society.
The receipts of the Kalamazoo Post
Office for the fiscal year were 81, 200, an
increase over the previous year Of $4,000
and making it first-class Office.
Adrian, Albion, Hillsdale, and the
Agricultural College have united in organ
izing an inter- collegiate baseball associa-
ton. Each team will play two games with
each Of the other colleges in the associa-
ton.
Spencer Loud, Of Chicago, expects 10
set out twenty-five or thirty acres Of celery
on his farm in Summit, known as the
Buncker farm, this season. Patrick Kai-
ser, of Tecumseh, will have charge Of the
work.
The Hurd House at Jackson has
changed hands, Townsend Brothers retir-
ing. The new landlord is r. G. Phillips,
formerly proprietor of the British Ameri-
can Hotel, Windsor. Ont. The price paid
for the furniture and lease was $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Dickerson, near
Rawsonville, we're recently visited without
notice by about eighty Of their old friends
and neighbors bearing golden gifts in COM
memoration'o of the fact that Mr.. and Mrs.
d. had reached the fftieth year of their
married life.
ALI the lumber camps of the d. M. Co.
on the west branches Of the Ontonagon
River have broken up. The camps on the
east branch and Baltimore are yet to work,
and as the company have bought some ad-
ditional pine tracts. numbering will be car
ried on there until the drive commences.
AT Jay Conderman's shingle mill in
Bay City, a new Perkins machine has been
put in, as well as two new boilers, making
total outlay of about 1,5O0. Besides
| the Perkins there are two Hall machines
in this mill, and it is expected that the ca
pacity the coming summer will be 100000
shingles per day. Last season the average
was about 60, 900 or $4,000.
The veterans of the Soldiers Home
enjoy the pleasant spring weather, and on
fine mornings they sit out on the sunny
side Of the building and take il oil in. AS
soon as the frost is out of the ground work
will be commenced in the garden and on
the grounds. 1t is proposed to make ex-
tensive improvements on the grounds the
coming year in the way of laying out walks,
planting trees, and building terraces.
As soon as the ground thaws suf-
fciently to admit investigations of Brook
lyn's oil well will be made, and it is be-
lieved by men of experience that investi-
| cations will not prove fruiuess. Should
oil be struck, then Brooklyn will boom in
| good earnest. II the we'll should prove a
failure, there will be few "sadder and
wiser" men in the corporation limits of the
village, and Brooklyn will follow the same
old rut it has followed for the past forty
years.
| The maple sugar season is open, and
the saccharine sap drips. drips slowly
from the mangled maple into the sus-
pended sap-bucket. Those who profess
personal experience and knowledge on The
subject claim that health is promoted and
preserved by use Of maple sugar properly
I made. Certain it is that a great deal Of it
is eaten during the season. No one is in
entire harmony with the spring unless he
has eaten his share Of genuine maple
sugar.
WIN. Gilbert, of Springport, the
owner of the Babcock farm, in Lee Town
ship, on which such strong evidences of
the existence Of large vein of coal were
found while drilling we'll last fall, has
declared his intention Of drilling deeper
within few weeks and finding out TO an
absolute certainty whether the coal find is
extensive enough to pay for mining it. If,
after thorough investigation. Mr.. Gilbert
finds that there is either coal or gas, or
both, enough 10 warrant the outlay, he will
form stock company, with q paid-in
capital of $4,000. taking half Of the
stock himself. and proceed to business.
William G. waldby, OF Adrian. has
returned home from Florida to recover
from the effects of trying adventure. Mr..
Waldby went on yachting expedition re-
Gently along the coast of the Gulf Of
Mexico. During the storm the party were
cast on the rocks Of q small, uninhabited
island about two miles from the main land.
Their boat was wrecked, and after three
days they began to give up all hope OF
rescue, no boats passing near the island.
There grew some wild berries on the island
and these served to prevent starvation. Mr..
Waldby had bottle Of quinine, and the
fifth day he decided TO mako try for the
main land by swimming, first taking the
| contents Of the bottle 10 give him strength.