Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-11-15

The new works of the Jackson Water
Gas Company afe now in operation, giving
the company capaeity of $50, 900 feet ol
gas per day.
The Bay Port stone quarry has re-
ceived an order for 77O cords OF stone fol
the construction of the Bay City center
bridge.
Mt. Pleasant not only presents {
lively appearance, but is lively. and grow.
ing too.
The residence of Jerry LaHeur, OF
Monitor Township, Bay County, burned
with its contents. The family were alb,
sent at the time. Loss, $1,000; insurance.
$4OO.
Twenty y-eight new buildings are in
process of erection at Marquette.
In 1884 Maxwell NJ. Fisher aged SO, a
millionaire of Detroit, and Frances A. Gar
rison, aged 55, we're married They went
on wedding tour to California. A month
later, while in Santa Barbara, Mr.. Fisher
alleges that his wife yelled at him so long
and SO loud one night that half the people
in the Arlington Hotel awoke and listened.
They Travelled around California for about
two months, and at almost every hotel at
which they stopped Mr.. Fisher alleges that
his wife repeated the disturbance. May
they settled down in Detroit. Mr.. Fisher
charges that his wife circulated scandalous
stories about him and an innocent young
woman living in the household. One
evening in November, 1885, Mr. Fisher
states, his wife began to talk at him" and
continued until o'clock the next morning
without stopping. At that hour Mr..
Fisher timidly yentured to attempt to talk
back, when she sprang fiom bed, he says,
and hit him in the face several times,
knocking him out in the first round. May
29 last he fled bill for divorce. MIS-
Fisher did not file an answer and Judge
Gardner granted the divorce. Mrs.
Fisher is worth $l50,00O in her own right
and both parties in the suit are well known
in Detroit
finest points ON the Toledo, Saginaw and
Mackinac Railroad is the village of Burt,
or Taymouth Station. It has already as
sumed business proportions. The East
Saginaw Hoop Company has located there,
which will give employment to large
number of men. 1t also demands from
the farmers this winter 500, 900 hoops
Hunter & Mathewson have opened fine
store of drugs, groceries and dry goods.
w. Crofoot has also general store Mrs
Hunt has built large store for her stock
of general merchandise of all descriptions.
Sne also has the material to build large
addition to her present store. Tinkham
d Baker have opened their sample rooms.
The NJ. E. Church Society has a fine build
ing under construction for church in
which the Rev. Mr.. Lindsay is to preach.
ID. c. Ashmun, of newspaper fame, has
erected an editorial sanctum in which he
wields "the molder of public opinion,
the printing press, and publishes his racy
sheet known as the Burt Aduocate. Mrs.
Miller has converted her home into hotel
by rebuilding and adding new additions
toit. Ablacksmith and wagon shop is soon
to be constructed, but the crowning part of
all is that the railroad company is build
ing an elegant structure for depot
adorned in all the arts of architectural
skill. Notwithstanding the fact that it is
centered in the midst of a rich agricul-
tural region it is supplied with an abun-
dance of timber of oil descriptions,
thereby opening up one of the finest op-
portunities for oil kinds of timber and
wood manufactures. Mr.. Watson, man
ager of the E. S. Hoop Company, who is
a keen-sighted man, soon took advantage
OF this fact. The village is situated on a
direct line between Birch Run and Chesan-
ing, with no towns of any importance
within radius of eight or ten miles, and
boasts of one advantage over any other
towns on the line, and that is it is mid
way between East Saginaw and Flushing,
thereby being almost free from the COM
petition of these two places, all other
villages being nearer
i. o. Gurley, of Springport, has
made 5000 barrels in the past two months.
He is no boodler, but has plenty of bar
rels.
Mrs. Mary l.. Sammons, aged S5, of
Jackson, has presented patchwork quilt
to the Home Missionary Society of the
M. Z. Church, of that city.
There is mighty mean man at Jack
son. He told Citizen reporter the fol-
lowing story on his wife: An East Side
benedict was relating some Of the expert
ences of his married life with reference
specially that his wife had little knowl.
edge of the culinary art. Said he: I'VE
had been. out to tea one evening and they |
had some currant cake that struck INV
fancy. Going home my wife proposed TO
make somc, but seemed at loss to know
how to get the currants in. why, that's |
simple enough, said l. They get blow
gun, and blow them in If you'll believe
me the next day when / came to dinner
she was out in the kitchen actually blow |
ing the currants in the dough with a blow
pipe"
There were 76O prisoners at Jackson
Nov. !.
-Petoskey young people, notwithstand-
ng their reputation for kindness, talk of
n dramatic club.