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


company owns 200 acres near Ishpeming
and will at once commence to put down o
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The Prohibition Stale Central Com
mittee has decided that all the old alli-
ance notes on hand shall be returned to
the County Chairman, and he shall sort
out those given by real simon pure Pro-
hibitionists and collect on them. Those
given by Democrats and Republicans
shall be returned to them. The money
collected on the notes from the s. p. Pro-
hibitionists is to be devoted to county
temperance work.
1t is alleged that a prominent Bay
City lumber firm recently got into trouble
with the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion by loading fine holdings by rail,
covering them with coarse lumber, and
billing the freight as coarse and common
lumber The railways we're hoodwinked,
but the matter was finally settled by the
payment to the railroad of the full rates
90 s-.:1LL -i---a-l g. suO vIaes "nIon Gno
lumber firm was shipping. Then the
commission let up on the shippers.
-olivet College has greater enroll
ment of students this term than ever
before
John Mullane, aged 27, shot himself
at Bay City. He left note saying he
was tired of life.
-Ontonagon hopes to have railway
communication with the rest of the
United States before snow flies. The
/ line from Ontonagon TO Hill Creek, the
junction place with tie Duluth, South
Shore and Atlantic, is about fifty miles
long, and Ontonagon has waited for il
about thirty years.
The twenty new stamps in the Ropes
stamp mill near Ishpeming are now IL
operation.
The Michigan Furniture Company g
! ., -.,,.5~I uIP rvL-IUs1IL wUrR III lts
new shops soon, with greatly increased
facilities.
At an Oscoda mans funeral the 9th
or day the part of chief mourner wa
held by his wife, who had married an
other without getting divorce from tn
gentleman in the hearso. Her new hus
band went along 10 soothe and comfoT
her.
They have a Lime Kiln baseball
club at Negaunee.
1t costs the Michigan Central Rail
way Company k77S cents to carry pas
senger a mile, and 81. OF 10 haul freigf
train mile.
The net receipts at the State Fa
reached $l9, goo. State Fair figures al
always in round numbers. Includir
complimentary tickets, lO-cent scho'
children admissions and all, 10000 PEI
pie passed the gates.
The Manistique Railway Company
TO extend its road about eight miles sout
of Seney. Shingles, lumber, ETC., wi
be the principal freight hauled, al
. Manistique hopes yet to see the road @
) tended to that place.
The Secretary OF the Treasury n
appointed James d. Armstrong keeper
the lighthouse at Point Peninsula, al
J. G. Gallagher first assistant keeper
South Manitou.
Detroit Journal: Prof. Gibbes, of t
IS University, is going up to Les Chenea
i. Islands a-fshing with Prof. Caro-
They will hunt for protoplasms. microb'
cockeyes, squints, etc., and If Carr'
sees a cataract he will operate on it.
Samuel Seney, of Lima, Washten
County, the old farmer who stabbed
son Harvey during quarrel about pit
of farm machinery, has been discharg
Harvey was not very anxious to send
pa to prison, and thanked the Justice
: liberating the old man.
A letter from Bay City says {
"west Bay City capitalists have p
chased 800 acres of land with three-qu
ters of mile frontage on Saginaw B
0 and will convert it into the finest sum-
" resort ON Lake Huron. Improveme
will be commenced at once and eve
thing will be in readiness for the open
A next season"
- The second trial of DR.. f. @. Be-
les of oscoda, charged with having conn
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