Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-11-08
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

An Interesting Summary of tho Moro Inn
portant DoIngs OF Our Neighbors-Wed-
dings and Deaths = Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
Christopher Jibb, who lives near
North Morenci, lost his barn and its con-
tents by fire. Tramps didit.
Prof. Hennequin, of the State Uni
vers.ty, will lecture in New York this win
ter on dramatic art and French.
-C. w. Wells and f. G. Stone, of the
Wells-Ston Mercantile Company of Sag
inaw, have been associated in business
twenty-one years, and during that entire
period not one irritating word has passed
between them. The entire business COM
munity of the State might be raked with
a fine tooth comb without finding paral-
lel to this.
The owner of one of the plats of
Gladstone puts a clause in his land con-
tracts and deeds providing for forfeit
ure in case the purchaser sells intoxicating
liquors as n beverage on the premises.
The same owner also requests those who
purchase to erect buildings thereon forth
with.
Manchester has thu whoop.ng- cough
and the High School a new microscope.
With good weather the A. w. Wright
Lumber Company will put iato the Sugar
10000, 900 feet by January |, all of their
own logs they expect to bank this winter.
They wi put in about 20, 0OO,O 900 feet on
their logging railroad for other parties.
A Galesburg lady of 80 summers AMI
as many winters was married one day re-
Gently.
The Upper Peninsula snow-shoe clubs
ire getting ly for their winters fun.
The Dundee gas we'll is nearly quar-
ter of mile deep now, but no gas yet
The new depot buildings at East Sag
inaw Of the Toledo, Saginaw and Macki-
nae Railroad are nearly completed.
Austin Ewing, OF Detroit, has been
appointed Examiner of National Banks in
this State, to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the vacancy of Homer w. Nash.
Assistant Postmaster Kelly, of Mon
roe, was arrested by Inspector Dexter, OF
the Chicago division, and taken to De-
troit on charge of secreting mail mater
in connection with the money order serv-
ice. He is said to be insane.
Tha lod;ae oo,,roe',o 1ba uo,vital
AS ociaiion of Saginaw City have hit up
on a novel and what promises to be sue
cessful method of getting money. They
have had printed a large number of neat
cards, in which hole just large enough
to contain a fifty piece is cut, which
Is provided with means of fastening the
piece securely. These cards have been
sent nearly all over the world, Queen Vic
toria. Bismarck, Presidential candidates,
number of authors, and other promi-
nent people having thus bcen honored.
On the card is place for writing the
name and address of the person receiving
the card, and the card is accompanied by
O request that the recipient send fifty
cents and hi, or her add ess to the asso-
citation. At the Entertainment TO he given
by the ladies in December the autographs
so obtained will be sold at auction, and by
this means the cards will be made to do
double service as money-getters. The
ladies have received several generous re-
sponses to their requests.
The Mount Pleasant rifle factory was
not in operation last week. New improve
nents are being made in the gun and ma
chine:y. This institution now employs
fiom ten to fifteen skilled men and has al
ready turned out large number of rifle
and shipped abroad many samples.
The earnings of the State railroads fol
August were Sc, 3O4, 500; for the CORE
spending month in 1887, $1,000, 49j. The
earnings from January to September
wero $40, 9,744, ,2G0; the earnings for the
same period last year, $50, 1881.
Work on the new -four dock at Glad
stone has been commenced. 1t will not
be quite as largo as the one already there,
but will hold so, 600 barrels of -four.
The paving of Delta avenue at Glad
stone is now completed, and although the
city is but eighteen months old it is the
possessor Of one of the finest paved streets
in the State.
The dockmen who struck for fifty cents
per hour for loading -four at Gladstone
have returned to work at the former price
thirty cents per hour.
Tho staid Jackson Patriot gets off the
following fearful joke, but whether inten-
tional or innocently nobody knows. II
says: John ID. Clark, of the Hibbard
House, is harvesting his crop of onions
raised on his farm south of this city, and
is storing them in tiers in his ice house.
"A number of tho Unitarian young peo.
ple of Jackson are alout 10 organize O
dramatic club to be called the jackson
ideals.
Merrill & Ring, of Saginaw, are build.
ing logging railroad TO run from the
Wright Lumber Company Railroad, OF
section Is. town 20, west, south tC
Round Lake, in Lake County. a distance
of about four miles. They have about IL,
900, 900 fees of logs TO get out over the road
and will commence operations this season
Lumber cargoes are getting scarce; IL
fact, says an East Saginaw telegram, there
are practically none on the river for Ohio
ports, and but few for Buffalo and Ton
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