Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-11-01
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

pOrtant Dolngs of Our Neighbors-Wed-
dings and Deaths = Crirness Casualties,
and General News Notes. t.
The jackson Courier knows of a
laundry in that city where every person,
from the proprietor down, cheys gum.
The experiment of giving the scholars,
of the Congregational Sunday School at
Clinton five cents to spend as they
pleased, or that value in seeds, resultedI
in their gathering in harvest that amount
ed TO over 500. The money will be de-
voted to missionary purposes.
In the Circuit Court at Adrian Judge
Lane senten ced Minnie Conkling to three
years and eight months, and Mary Pan
yard TO eight months, in the Detroit
House of Correction. The girls were
the last of the six industrial school incen-'
diaries.
"A woman named Mrs. Burr, who lives
in Copley, two miles from Luther, while
assisting in preparing the body OF child,
that had died of typhoid fever, for burial,
contracted blood poisoning through a
she was working Her arm and body
swelled to large size, and it was with
difficulty that her life was saved.
The logging engine on the Wilson,
Luther and Wilson Road, at Luther, ran
off the track and became complete wreck.
A brakeman named ohm Ripley was seri-
ously injured.
Miss Rose Rice, of Morenci, pared q
bushel of apples in two minutes and
eighteen seconds. tt II tN
The convicts at the prison certainly
have no reason to complain of the fare
provided by the State, which, the Jackson
Patriot says, has been gradually brought
up to a condition much better than many
poor families of Jackson are enabled to
sustain. Steward f. + Willets gave a
Patriot reporter the bill of fare for each
day, together with an idea as to how much
is required per month, which is pub
| lished Sunday-Breakfast, raised bis
cult and butter, rice, coffee and sugar; din
ner, roast beef, potatoes, two kinds of
vegetables, and gravy; supper, breld and
milk and tea. Monday-Breakfast, NUT
ton stew, potatoes and onions, bread and
coffee; dinner, corned beef, two kinds of
vegetables and gravy; supper, bread and
coffee, and occasionally onions or apples.
Tuesday Breakfast, bread, butter and
coffee; dinner, pork and beans. Wednes-
day-Breakfast, the same as Monday; din
ner, fresh beef and bean soup. Thursday
Breakfast, corned beef, oat meal and
syrup; dinner, the same as on Tuesday.
Friday-Breakfast hash; dinner. the same
as Monday. Saturday-Bleakfast, dried
beef stewed in milk and potato oes; dinner,
same as Wednesday. Supper is the same
each day except Sunday Each convict is
required to cat mush and milk twice Q
week, at which times they ars not giver
meat, but get bread and vegetables. On
q Thursday the men who take mush are
given corn bread and bread pudding o.
apple Jelly. The cost per diem per mnI
during the month of September was 81
cents, a total cost during the month o
|
During the month of September the 10
quirements of the culinary department o
the prison were as follows: Flour, 27,43
pounds; meal l,40O pounds; milk, 1929
pounds; coffee, 924 pounds; sugar, l,2O
pounds; beef, 1910 pounds; pork, 80
pounds; pepper, SO pounds; oatmeal, 40
pounds; tea, 40 pounds; butter, 60
pounds; saloratus, 20 pounds; mustard
40 pounds; muttonS 2,362 pounds; drie
beef, Gil pounds; currants, 20 poundi
potatoes, 2O9 bushels; beans, 81 bushels
tomatoes, s3 bushels; beets, 10 bushels
syrup, l4l gallons; vinegar, GA GALLON
salt, 6 barrels; squash, $50; green corr
1882 dozen ears; rice, 100 pounds; hon
! my, 800 pounds; yeast, 80 pounds.
: Mrs. Samantha Streeter, of Sprin
Arbor, who was robbed Of $l,l50 in gol'
has offered a reward of $3.50 for the retur
of the money, and Police Detective Snyd'
offers $50 for the capture and retention {
J the thief.
John N. Baily, editor of the Midlan
9 Sun, is about to engage in q series
I joint debates on the tariff question
Midland County with his newspaper riy
in Midland.
Chief Engineer Geo. Cox will NAL
new survey for the 500 and st. Igna'
! Railway as soon as the snow is on I'll
ground, says the 500 Neps, making
! This time q direct line between the tv
: places. The construction of the road d.
: pends largely upon the attitude Of Il
people along the line. Mr.. Cox has BEE
!, promised much of the right of way, inclu
ing an entrance into the Soo Unless &
same liberality is shown by others who a
to be benefited, IL is not likely that 4
work will be pushed ahead. 1t is expect
na that st. lIgnace will exhibit more gene
d; Gus spirit now than when the project W
agitated last winter. A direct line TO
Ignace will materially benefit both towI
and it will give the Michigan Central a
Grand Rapids and Indiana an outl
There are enough capitalists interested
tho project TO make il go, but the right
way must be secured. A new charter "
ID be taken out if the direct route is chosen
One week Alpena shipped by wa
IL, ,775, 900 feet of lumber, $50, 600 shingl
- lOO, 900 lath, 5000 cedar railway ties, a
forty cords Of cedar. Eight cargoes We