Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1888-07-25

1t is one of the most complete hotels
=, in all its appointments to be found in
vi the State, and the public is finding 1t
oV' out. Mr.. Churchill's pluck and enter
" prise is good thing for Alpena.-
Detroit Journal.
The invasions made by cattle run
=. ming at large are not calculated to
49, soothe the spirit of wrath in the breast
of the average citizen, and we predict
re- that if the nuisance continues much
longer, there will be music In the air
are 1t is disgrace to any city to allow
its streets to be converted into n pub
wer lie barn-yard.
we'd In addition to the list we published
cen last week of those burned out at the Sd
ward fire, and who had no insurance,
ton we're the families of Capt. III. Hamll-
and ton and j. Patrick. Both were oc-
red cupying rented houses, and lost most
of their household goods. Capt.
Hamilton was absent from the city,
being in command of the schooner
o = Pomeroy, and Mr. Patrick was at the
Georgian Bay fisheries
The energy and thrift exhibited by
''' the people recently burned out in the
Third ward, is something remarkable.
ice Up to last Saturday night twenty-five
''' new houses were already in course of
construction in the burned district, and
III some of them have been moved into,
oi while the lumber is on the ground for
many more, and still more lumber
constantly coming. Truly the people
g of Alpena are husters.
not The Detroit Stove Works, manu-
the facturers of the celebrated Jewel stoves
by and ranges, have shipped to Harshaw
& Kimball, their agents, in Alpena,
one hundred dollars worth of cooking
let stoves, as a donation to the fire suffer
ons ers. This is certainly very liberal on
go. their part, coming as it does unsolic-
for tied. Their line of Jewel stoves de-
" serve liberal patronage from the
citizens of Alpena. Harshaw & Kim
JUS ball keep complete stock constantly
on on hand.
The pavement on Fletcher street is
ysr completed. The contract was for
tie. paving the street from Dock street to
Pine street From Dock to CONNER
CIV cial street the pavement is forty feet
led wide, and twenty-four feet wide the
Mr. balance of the distance paved. The
I'll new pavement laid on Fletcher street
this year, contains 5,270 square yards,
and cost S3,293.75. The price paid
'"' per yard was 624cents. Folkerts d
Luther are the contractors.
is One day last week, on the Pulford
farm, at Nine Mile Point, only short
r distance from the shore, there was
found the skull of some person suppos-
e, ed to have been drowned. 1t is sup
- posed that the skull had been washed
H up on the beach, and had been drag
gcd away from the water by some
ltes animal. Indications are that the
i'"' person must have been from Is to %
years of age. The skull was left al
our this office, where it can be seen and
- examined.
.,od An attempt was being made to
lac, turn the steam dredge tug round in
oon the river, Monday. The engineer
,oo was at the wheel and the fireman al
the engine. The tug got the start OF
them and made break for the wharf
: 10 The yacht Kinda happened to be al
&c" that place and the dredge tug ran in
mas to her so heavily as to cut deep
"e' cash in the yachts side. Several OF
the Hinda's frames were bent. and
lur- her deck at one place sprung up
the She will have to he drydocked, and
= . the dredge men will have to foot the
bill.
her ,,,
on We regret to state to their many
!, Il friends in Alpena, that Mr.. and Mrs
,Lo Geo II. Adams, Of Boston, will be
inc obliged to postpone their intended
visit to Alpena, on account of the Ill
ness of Mr.. Adams, who was over
the come by the heat while visiting al
ncy Richmond, Va, and was compelled
yest % vo,rrr homa ser;ors onrreben.
Vi sions were at first feared but he is
10 now convalescent. Mrs. Adams will
be remembered by her many friends
to in Alpena, as Miss Florence A. Fowle,
all (nece of Mrs. j. w, Gibson, the tai.
o1 ented young elocutionist who gave
"' several readings here some few years
yer ago.
In regard to the recent ire in Third
90 ward, a Buffalo paper, in dispatch
-. regarding it, dated July 18th, has the
following remarkable incident. which
is not true and is no doubt the mis-
take of the Buffalo paper editor, in
arranging the Geographic message.
eek 1t is as follows: "Gilchrist's lumber
RIB barge with 100000 feet of sawed
ers' lumber OH it was soon in flames, and
list the scene as the big logs fell into the
the bay, drifted outward to the lake, all
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