Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-11-01

river from that place, for 5000 consider
u..on ana are 10 hive fnli posseEsion when /,
the new Baptist edifice is completed.
1t is probably. not generally known 1
throughout the State that the northern
portion produces not OILY. tn. finest and
most health-giving summer resorts, but
also the best and largest potatoes in the
void. Lately 10000 bushels of the fin
est varieties OF potatoes have been
shipped from Northport, Leelanaw
Comfy, to the Chicago markets. The
two chief varieties were Burbank and
white elephants. 1t is TO bc wondered at
that the farmers can Afford to plant, cnlti-
vatc, and market them at the price per
bushel-twenty cents-theynre receiving;
but when the nnmber, of bushels raisedon.
au-ncre, from 200 to 800, is taken into con-
sideratioh, !, il will. readily beseen that they
realize handsome lpoat. tlisestimated
that in Leelanaw Township alone the po
tato crop this year. will exceed. $4,000
| bushels.
The Manchester High School has
il
scholars in that school to be feet ii,
boy and girl each being that high The
twenty -three boys aggregate l27 feet lO3
inches in height, and 2,909 pounds in
weight, while the twenty girls ag-
gregate l43 feet inches in height, and
weigh 3, l42 pounds. The average age of
the scholars is l6 years and months.
! The, Prohibitionists have four boys and
| four girls, the Republicans nine boys and
seven girls, and the Democrats ten boys
and fifteen girls.
The Smead system of ventilation will
be put into the Clinton school house at a
cost of 500.
Friend Van Every, p. j. Norris, and
d. B. Mckenzie were nearly asphyxiated
at Jackson, in Farmers restaurant, by es-
Gaping water gas used in cooking. When
discovered they were nearly dead, but will
recover.
| "A Medina girl can beat all the boys
climbing hickory trees and gathering nuts.
She recently made an ascension of fifty
feet in tree'and gathered five bushels of
hickorynuts. This agile aud plucky young
lady deserves to get up in the world, and
she undoubtedly will. 80 - y = -
Over 200, 900 bushels of onions have
been raised in the Pittsfield onion beds
this year. The market was was.overstocked.s 80
Several of the leading doctors of
Alpena have organized a hospital, known
as the Red Cross Hospital and Medical
and Surgical Institute.
The East Saginaw Board of Educa-
tion has S39, 2ll.5j laid up for a rainy
day. g~ .. -.
4MitcheII& Mcclure, or East saginaw,
have not a foot of unsold lumber on their
dock. They will put in a full stock Of
logs for next season, including aquantity
of logs they will carry over. ~ .,tt
Price $2O," was the legend that q
Mt Clemens lady wore on her cloak as she
went through town tho eother day.
4 j. NJ Davis, Of Harbor Springs, has
. pulled tomato OF his vines, This in it,
r self is nothing unusual but said tomato
a weighed 2l pounds. ~
Mrs. Eliza j, Bloodgood, widow OF
I the late Rev, A. L. Bloodgood, of Monroe,
:. and for thirty years prominent in Monroe
= social circles, died after a long illness.
I In the spring of 1885, Dan Sheehan,
then member of the police force Of
y Saginaw. was shot at while on duty in the
y night tine. Three shots were fired at him
One sleeve of his overeoat was torn with
the balls, and his undercoat was also terr
. somewhat, hut. Sheehan was uninjured
!, A search eAfor the person who fired
q the shots was unavailiug. Sometime
y afterward Sheehan left the force, leaving
s. his overeoat,, which was aner,rly anew gar
;; ment, with the Marshal to be disposed of
5; 1t became the property of "Zeke" Bas
4, kins, who has worn Il ever since overcoati
l. became fashionable this fall. Baskin
discovered something peculiar about tn
g sleeve of his coat, and after an investiga
4, ton found 22-calibers bullet which ha'
n been fred at Sheehan and had remaine'
er in the coat over two years. The ball wa
'f fattened somewhat at the point, cause'
by the cloth.
ID "a Menominee lumberman says: rW
Of started our mill at Menominee the first 9
in the season, by running night and day, bu
al it has really been difficult matter I
keep going the whole season on acceun
.a Of the difficulty experienced in -gettin
:, hold Of logs. 1t is estimated that 200
10 O0O, 900 feet of logs are high and dry Q
!, the banks of the Menominee River. Owe
70 100 men and teams haye been busy fc
! some time hauling to the river. We eN
- pect to cut 4O,OOO,OOo during the entil
season Of which ls,OOO 900 has alread
A been sold to go East, at 80, SIS, and $3s
ba AEscanaba's new opera house, th
- Opera Grand, will be opened Nov. p
~ Lew A. Gates will be The manager. " is
ed Arthur Daily and Thomas Tierne.
r. two Mason burglars, will spend the ne1
as three years at Jackson.
St. 1t il estimated that 200, 900, 900 fe
Is, of logs are hung up on the Menomin'
nd River.
ct. ID. Cameron will get out 10000, ,0I
in feet of logs ON the ontonagon for Thomi
Of Nester, portion to go to the Baraga mi
ill and the remainder to run down the riv
aud towed by lake 10 Saginaw.