Crawford avalanche., 1888-03-29

Ine entertainment to-uiBub VIII Dc
well worth attending. as IL Just as rep
utable as any concert. tkf
The ladies of Grayling will be pleas
ed to hear that ]. M. Finn has added
to his stock of goods the celebrated
Robinson and Burtenshaw shoe.
Every pair warranted.
DIR. Revell, of South Branch, ad-
dressed the citizens of Roscommon,
last week on "Coal." Have they
struck coal as well as oil in South
Branch.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Pres
byterian church, will give Maple
Sugar Social at the Opera House, Fri
day evening, April 9Th. All are invit-
ed to attend.
The land Office at Reed City will be
closed March 81. Grayling will then
have the only land Office and the only
state experimental pine barren farm In
Michigan.-Det1'oSt Netos.
Rev. J. w. Taylor, of Grayling, is
holding revival meetings with good
success. We learn there has been
about 40 conversions. Presiding Ell
der Caster assisted him part of last
week. -Otsego Co. Nesos
A trip through Southern Michigan
shows absolute financial distress
among the farmers. from loss of last
years crops. and the weather for three
weeks past has been most disastrous
on clover and wheat.
French Bros. have sold and shipped
seven carloads of their bailed hay. 1t
was sold to Doyle & Comstock and
goes to Grayling, Vanderbilt and Ros
common. They get $12, and had 200
tons to sell. -Ogema,o Co. Herald.
A village newspaper is photograph
of the town where it is printed, and is
the only evidence its foreign readers
have of the towns prosperity. Every
firm should be represented by stand.
ing advertisement, be it large or small,
that strangers may get good impress
sion of the place. -ChaTleooic Journal
The State authorities have selected
land near Grayling upon which to ex.
pend the sum of 81, 600 experimenting
on sand plains. 1t will be in order
now for Grayling to commence pro-
ceedings against the State for libel in
publishing to the world the doubts
about its land being productive, or be
ing made capable of sustaining life
KalkGskain.
The entertainment given under the
auspices of the Grayling Chautauqua
Circle, last Thursday evening, was a
very pleasant affair. 1t was the first
appearance here of Miss Ella Snyder,
as an elocutionisC, and her rendering OF
a number of selections was such that
her audience was we'll pleased and
would give her hearty reception il
she would come again.
The Otsego Co. Herald says: '"The
fiery little Roscommon News gave the
Grayling Avalanche g. black eye last
week, pugilisticaly speaking, over ex-
perimental farm matters" Did iti
No one else has perceived it. It must
have been from gun borrowed from
your ''poop-deck" battery, as the artil-
lery of the News office is charged with
Dutch courage" instead of wind.
Department Commander Gardner,
q. A. R., of Michigan, has made the
following appointments: Inspector
general, A. j. Shakespeare, Kalamazoo;
chief mastering officer, Edwin Hoyt,
Jr., Grand Rapids; chief aid, ID. f..
Haskins, Concord; committee on trans
portation, George Hopkins of retroit,
Gen. s. b. Daboll of st. Johns, and
Roscoe ID. Dix of Berrien Springs.
Rev. J. III. Phelps will preach at the
Opera House next Sabbath, April 1st.,
both morning and evening. Easter
services in the morning. There will
be a meeting at 10 o'clock, standard
time. for the purpose of organizing a
Sabbath School. All interested in a
Sabbath School, both parents and
children, are invited to attend.
The republicans in every township
in Crawford county should be on their
guard next Monday. The opposition
will try very hard to make gains which
they cannot do If the republicans will
do their duty. The moral effect of a
vote that shows gain to either party
will have much to do with the elec-
ton next Fall.
The Lansing Republican, Tim. Tars-
ney, Roscommon Ne,os and the Chief
Engineer of the f. Il A. railroad might
as well "come off" as the Land Office
is coming to Grayling to stay. 1t
must be very hulniliating to all these
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