Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-03-01

-ogemaw is having quite a boom.

jackson atter Lent.
There are fourteen prisoners in the
Saginaw County Jail.
-Muskegon is the softest town in Michi-
gan for street fakirs."
There are over one hundred cases of
measles at Pinconning. Bay County.
"A. L. Freeman & Co., of Evart, man-
ufactured 17,463,O 900 shingles in 1887.
The Lansing wheelbarrow works has
orders for eighty carloads Of barrows.
1t is reported that the erection Of
$4,000 hotel has been cnmne~---a - MAJ
rion.
During the month Of January il took
23,000,0O0 gallons Of water to supply the
Capital City.
Bay City capitalists are trying to raise
100000 TO establish an Edison electric light
and power company.
Work on the new $4,000 Catholic
Church at Mt. Pleasant will commence as
soon as the weather permits.
Reed City wood dealers claim to have
shipped 1900 cords of wood to Grand
Rapids since Thanksgiving.
Daniel McRae, of Bellaire, has fallen
heir to several thousand dollars by the
death Of an uncle in Scotland.
The dam at Liberty Mills, fourteen
miles south of Jackson, gave way recently,
doing 81 900 worth of damage.
The Jackson water-works uses two
and three-fourths tons of coal daily in
pumping 100000 gallons of water.
-J. o. Brown, at his logging camps in
Presque Isle County, is banking 1850
feet of logs every twenty-four hours.
-Walla Lee. Monroes celestial washee-
washee, came forward and voluntarily SUBJ
scribed $50 towards the new gas we'll.
-Bellaire has Historical and Literary
Society which meets every week for the
study of history, both ancient and modern.
Thirteen East Saginaw young men
have L~d tLeis .vVPoot:-e .--~.-t~-L-- --.-
off. The young men comprise the "Thir-
teen Club"
There are enough potatoes in Huron
County to supply the local demand, it is
claimed, but owners are holding them foi
higher prices.
The Central Michigan Agricultural So
ciety has fixed the dates for holding its
annual fall exhibition, beginning Sept. "a,
five days.
The classes and fraternities of the
University and the business men of Ann
Arbor have subscribed 81, 200 toward the
university gymnasium.
The coal fever has reached Franken-
muth, and company is being organized
here to test its presence in that vicinity.
Prospects are said to be favorable.
The Montague Board of Trade is agi-
ating the subject of building an opera
house at that place. They ask for bonus
If lot and $4,000 in cash as starter.
-Twenty-four miles Of the Toledo,
Saginaw and Mackinac road-bed have
'een graded and culverts are being built.
{ is expected work will be completed by
une.
Il. d. Irish, of Mason, has since Oc- .
ober 26, 1887, sawed and piled over 1OO,-
OO pork barrel staves; also quantity of
lalf barrels, which he expects to market
he coming season.
The Jackson Citizen man must hayo
een there, for he says collector with n
a bill, past due, can run a man all over
own who would stand unfinchingly at q
annon's mouth or walk to the gallows
'ithout tremor.
The mills on the Mackinac division of
be Michigan Central manufactured 123,-
92,261 feet of lumber and 63,5O0, 900
hingles in 1887. At the close they had
n hand S9,542,911 feet of lumber and
90, 600 shingles.
Surveyors have mapped railway line
'om Minocqua to Wakefield. II is said
lat the road will be extended to Union
Iarbor, Lake Superior. BY spring the site
Minocqua will be SO cleared OF its stand
lg pine that lots will be sold
The tardiness Of the Jackson Electric
light Company in getting the electric
ghts in operation is causing much dis
in outlying communities, the
rs and naphtha street lights having been
scontinued Feb, /, leaving the suburbs
/ total darkness.
"A girl, who is but 10 years old, has
Zen noticed praoticing the arts of the
ghwayman upon the streets of Monroe
tely. The child confines her attention to
lildren, of course, and lays particularly
II little ones who have been sent on err
nds, often robbing them Of considerable
ms in cash or quite valuable bundles OF
,ods.
When the Natursl Gas Company, of
onroe, drilled their well last summer they
pped the fountain head OF Monroe's
Zee artesian wells and they have not
wed sinced. The Council will now ask
Q company to shut of the flow of water
their well IN the hope that the city wells,
ION which Monroe depends to eousid-
able degree for its supply Of water for
purposes, may be rendered useful
ain.
&C. @. Commers, son Of j. Commers.
esident OF the Toledo. Ann Arbor and
Idillao Road, and q popular and widely
own young man, met his death In q
ocking manner at Kalamazoo. lie was
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