The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-06-06


serving ten-yesr sentence for robbery.
delivered the Grafton, one Of the most in
teresting and scholarly addresses ever
heard in the prison chapel, and Eugene
Converse, the Battle Greek ex-lawyer do
ing fifteen years for forgery, spoke on the
theme of Our National Day" A literary
and musical programme was rendered, and
over two hundred G.. A. r. men attended.
The chapel decorations were the finest
pieces of draping and trimming ever seen
in that city, and were done by Francis
Herbert, who is serving life term.
Walter Wright. aged 10, was shot in
the left groin at jackson by another boy,
assisted by Flobert rife. The boy with
the rifle was trying to kill sparrows.
Hereafter graduates of the Grass Lake
High School will be received at Albion
College as freshmen without undergoing
the usual preliminary examination.
Charles Spriel, who had both legs
broken above the ankles by being thrown
from hand-car near Grayling has been
taken to the Flint hospital for treatment.
John Quartet, of Canton, is putting
up twenty horse power peppermint still,
and the farmers of that vicinity are pre-
pairing to embark extensively in the rails
ing Of mint
| "A Lake Linden man mailed letter
addressed to person at Salt Sent Mree,
Mis- Reagan" and it reached the right
man 1t Sault Ste. Marie. Who says that
city isn't we'll known?
The fourteenth annual convention of
the Hillsdale County Sunday School As
ISOLATION will be held at Waldron on the
10Th, 9th and 2Sth of this month. A fine
programme of exercises has been arranged
for the interesting occasion.
james B. Lindsay, of Litchfeld, died
of pneumonia. Mr.. Lindsay was GA years
old, and was one of Litchfeld's oldest
settlers. He came to the State in 1886,
and to Litchfeld in ls49, when there was
only one log house where the town now is,
and has since resided in that vicinity.
The III. Witbeck Company has sold
$1,000, 900 feet of Menominee lumber to
Buffalo parties at SO, $ls, and 1924 o
thousand. Lots of shop common and
better have this year been sold at that
point at $3.50, and parties in Chicago are
holding the same class of stock for $27.
The Menominee River log jam was es-
timated on late date to contain from
800, 900, 900 to 400, 600, 900 feet, and it will
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will be sufficiently low TO admit of break
ing the jam and sluicing the logs. 1t
is one of the largest jams ever known,
thoroughly eclipsing the Menominee jam
of 1876 which contained about 20, 000, 900
feet, with the water nine inches lower than
now. The piles are now from twenty-five
to thirty feet above the river.
DIR. S. Z. Baker, the Menominee dent
list, is the possessor of handsome fur
coat made of Esquimaux dog skins and
which formerly belonged to survivor of
the Greedy North Pole expedition. DR..
Baker secured the coat on his recent trip
to Manistique. The original owner of the
coat had relatives living at Thompson,
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from that Inflated search for the North
Pole he spent some time visiting his rela-
tives at Thompson, and while there disposed
of one of his arctic coats, the same that is
now in Doc. Bakers possession.
The salary of the Bad Axe Marshal
has been raised from $25 to 800.
A woodenware factory will probably
soon be added to Lansing's industries.
West Branch improvements this year
will foot up 100000.
A. r. Richardson, prominent farmer
living near Aipena, was killed by being run
over by heavy land roller.
Fire at Saginaw City destroyed l.. C.
Newell & Co.'s planning mill and curtain
roller factory, George Moore's ice-houses,
and several cars of freight. Newell & Co.'S
loss is $40, 900; insurance, 81 600. Moore's
} loss is $4,000; covered by insurance.
A large bear was trapped three miles
north of Bad Axe by NJ. Holland and F.
Stenton. In trying to get away he broke
an ordinary logging chain. He measured
seven and a half feet in length.
The farmers of Cheboygan County are
wearing long faces. Winter fingered so
long in the lap of spring and then was fol-
lowed by the wet weather, so that they
were delayed in doing their spring blowing
and seeding, and they are wondering whore
their profits for the season are coming
from.
"A robin building a nest in the court
yard at Mt. Pleasant few into tree with
thread in its mouth. The thread became
tangled in the branches and at the same
} time became fastened to the robins tongue.
The bird in its efforts to free itself kept
flying backward until il pulled its tongue
out by the roots.
, Hall & Buell., at Manistique, have COM
menced saving, having carried over SUI
fcient amount Of logs to keep the mill
running till the new logs are down. They
bava built duriuo the vipter N railroa n In