Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-09-26

r Monday afternoon. Three hundred
feet of docks and tramways and 1000.
900 feet of lumber were burned. The
loss Is estimated at ei25. 900. fully In
sured.
After the ground Is cleared for the
camp for our next reunion, the Wo.
mans Relief Corps will give supper
at ak o'clock to which all are invited,
After supper campfire will be held al
Grand Army hall. and speeches, music
and Rotations will be the order of the
evening.
Prof. Kedzie, the chemist of the agri-
cultural college. comes down on the
western Reserve Fertilizer" with the
statement that it is powdered furnace
cinders mixed with a little common
salt, and, as a fertilizer, worth about
Is cents ton.
In analyzihg congregational generos-
ity II ia found that among the Baptists
thirty-six cents Is the annual contribu-
ton per head; the Methodists. seventy
four cents; Episcopal. 81 81; Presby-
terians, $3.17, and the Dutch, $5.21.
A light frost visited this section Sun
day night, and cut some of the corn
and potatoes and other growing crops.
The damage done is not extensive. and
good crops will be realized in this coun-
ty. as most of them are about matured
and ready for the harvest. -Otsego Co.
HerId.
Northern Michigan will take its
boom now. The West has had its
time at 1t. We have the grandest
country under the sun, and its right
up here where for the next twenty-five
years you will see the most prosperous
portion of Michigan. Rapids
Progress.
During the coming volume The Cen
fury is to have an illustrated series Of
articles on the French Salons of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
rucruuiuR pen PorUr~us on rnuuy or me
leaders and a detailed account of the
organization and composition of sew
eral historical salons. A great number
of interesting portraits will be given
with the series.
THE Law About Hired Girls" is ex-
pounded in a comprehensive and in
structive article in the American Agri-
culturist for October. There is host
of useful information in IL, both for
the hired girl herself and the mistress
Of hired help.
Hoist up the banner of the free,
Above the school house door,
Where every child its stars can see,
And learn to love them more,
Then tell them all the story,
Its teachings can't be lost,
or TIE nHgs unuyIng glory
And what its folds have cost.
An original illustrated story in the
Boys and Girls Department of the
American AgricuIturist for October,
entitled "a Day of Freedom" should
be read by every boy in the country.
1t is an apple of gold set in picture
of silver, and should be hung in the
mental chamber of every lad Cor in
slant reference when provocation
occurs.
Mrs. H. Z. Allen owns a Plymouth
rock hen two years old that lays over
anything we ever heard of in the feath-
cred tribe. For the past two weeks
she has laid double yolked egg and
single yolked egg alternately each day.
and one day actually layed two single
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cqualed by any hen in creation; From
last Sunday until Wednesday, four
days she virtually layed seven eggs; n
double on Sunday, two single eggs Oh
Monday, one on Tuesday and another
double OH Wednes lay. This makes
twice she has accomplished the feat OF
laying two single eggs in one day
Ogemao 20. Herald.
The NJ. E. Church Society have Sc
cured novel entertainment for the
evening of Oct. 10. A Chinese family
of several persons will give an exhib-
iti"h at the M. L. Church and the
ladies of the church will serve supper
in connection. Chinese articles will he
exhibited and their use explained by
the company. The Chinese family
will make and serve ten brought from
China In connection with the supper.
1t will be brewed In Chinese style, and
will be the genuine Chinese article as
they use it, Supper will be served
from 6 TO Is after which program
will be given consisting of Chinese
songs, and lecture by one of the
members of the family. The entertain
ment will be something new in Gray
ling. and will be sure to draw.
Rev. E. Z. Caster In his report of the
work in his district. Gays: "Ths north
ern and middle portions of the Bay
City district are as really missionary
grounds as are Africa, China and
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