Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-20
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

An Interesting Summary OF the Moro I'm
portant Doings of Our Neighbors-Wed-
dings and Deaths Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
The Agricultural College has issued
bulletin No. 3s, containing descriptions of
this years experiments with wheat and
the use of plaster, ashes and salt as a top
dressing.
Fremont merchants have sold thirty
five self-binders the past season.
An elevator has been built at Glad
stone which will have a capacity of ESQ.,
600 bushels.
The Saginaw Turner'S will dedicate
their new hall Oct. /.
Special service has been discontinued
between Selkirk and West Branch, Oge-
NAV County.
Sam Lee, of Kalamazoo, says that
-celly" celery grows very abundantly in
Chino, but is much smaller and not SO
sweet as that grown in this country.
Peaches and pears are larger in the land
of the Celestials, but apples cannot be
grown. Sam says he took some apple
seeds home with him n few years ago and
planted them, but couldn't make it work.
The cont nued drought is likely to
stimulate the cheese market. The Frank
enmuth Cheese Company, at Saginaw, have
advanced the price to 8 cents, and arc re-
ceiving orders daily from outside dealers,
which they are unable to fill, as dealers in
Saginaw take the entire product of the
factory
-Menominee has organized street car
company with capital of $50,000.
The Peninsular Straw Goods Factory,
in Adrian, has been closed on an attach
ment for 81, ia in favor of Stodecker q
Emsheim, of New York. The embaTass-
ment is said to be only temporary and
owing to the state of trade.
-Folr bears were recently seen near the
farm of Henry Cutler, about two miles
north of Luther. Two boys by the name
of Minhinnick and Morton got after them
and succeeded in killing the old one and
wouuding one of the cubs. Bears are quite
plentiful there this fall, several having
been seen by berry pickers. A lady who
was picking berries not more than half a
mile from Luther ran across one that was
he'll ing himself to the blackberries.
-Addison's early potato crop is good
one, but those planted later are failure.
The "Soos" electric railway is now in
-operUtioI.
LAUNDERING operations will be con-
Quoted on a much more extensive scale in
Mackinac County the coming winter than
last.
A Protestant church is to be built at
Naubinway.
Recently Mr.. Kritzer, of Newaygo,
lost an elevator; twice within the past two
weeks his barn has been fred but ex-
tinguished, and the other night his ice
house was burned. A supposed incendiary
was seen running away from the fire.
An army of men and teams, says the
500 Ners, are making things hum and
dirt fly on the water-power canal. The
excavations have assumed extensive pro-
poit.ons and the embankmentJ present
formidable appearance. No unusual OBJ
struction has been encountered as yet.
The scene of the work is visited daily by
large numbers of strangers, who sur
prised and deeply impressed with the nc
tivity displayed. The contractors will be
able to carry the work far into the winter
befo,o cold weather puts check to oper-
ations. AS rapid progress, if not more so,
rs was anticipated is being made. A prom
inent manufacturer who visited the work
remarked: "If Sault Ste. Marie has not
been endowed by nature with all of the
attributes of location, POWER and resources
necessary to become great manufacturing
city, then no other city in the land has.
Just you watch the career of the 500 and
be surprised.
There is trouble at Detroit, says a spe-
cial telegram, among the stockholders of
the Hammond Meat Company. The capi-
tai stock is $2, l00, 900, majority of which
is held by the Hammond estate of Detroit.
The late George II. Hammond started the
business in a small way in 1871. Several
years later slaughter and packing houses
were started in Chicago and n company
formed. When Mr.. Hammond died few
months ago his son, George H. Jr., took
the management. The other stockholders
we're not satisfied with his work. At a
recent meeting Of stockholders a dividend
of 80 per cent. was declare lis per cent.
payable Immediately and 25 per cent, in
thirty days. This was objected TO by Ham
mond who thought dividend of per
cent. would amply cover the net profits Of
the year, although the books showed an
earning of 80 per cent. Mr.. Hammond
argued that the wear and tear of machinery,
buildings, ETC., and other expenses would
consume the 25 per cent. Another reason
for his objection was that there is only
$3.50, 900 cash on hand, and it is necessary,
he asserted, to have at least $3.50, 900 on
hand to carry on the business. Checks for
the 5 per cent. dividend were to have been
drawn, but Mr.. Hammond, for his fathers
estate, obtained an injunction fromthe Cir
cult Court preventing il.
-The.Adrian Packing Company packed
$4,000 and Baker & Shattuck 5000 cans of
tomatoes one day. Mr.. Ayars, represent
inc Maurice b. Avars of Salem. N i is