Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-23


Juvenile Club for truancy. The thousand
people present walked home in an unen-
viable frame of mind.
Alexander French was run over by
train and terribly mangled, at Bay City.
There we're eight contestants in the
oratorical contest at the State Normal
School, in Ypsilanti, namely: Miss Lucy
Norton, subject, Educational Dwarfs;"
Miss Frances b. Pearson, The Study of
Human Nature;" Miss Mary Camp, "The
Dignity of Labor; Miss Ida Robins, The
Lutheran Reformation Inevitable;" II.
p. Blodgett, "Our National Issues" S.
j. Gier, Yesterday and To- day" I. r.
Trowbridgo, Sabbath Dissertations" w.
N. Lister. "The Nations Needs. There
were two sets of prizes-one to ladies
and one to gentlemen each consisting
of $50 gold piece and gold medal.
The ladies' prize fell to Miss Mary Camp
and the fortunate young man was w. n.
Lister. The gold medals are very neat
works of art. They are each the size of
q silver dollar, the outside bordered by a
nodded wreath of laurel, crossing at the
bottom, running up and around and
meeting at the top of the medal; inside
this is circular band with the words,
Michigan State Normal School," inside
this band is a central field, showing-on
the lady's medal-an engraving of the
main Normal building; on the gentle
mans medal, an orator in the act of
speaking. The back of the medal con-
tains the inscription of presentation.
Each medal is hung from bar pin In
scribed, Normal News Oratorical Prize,
1882"
Last weeks shipments of iron ore
from the ports of Marquette, Escanaba,
st. Ignace and Ashland foot ur 2lO,s
gross tons, this being up to the average
of shipments at the busiest portion of
the season in preceding years. The
shipments to date aggregate 465, 1874 tons.
At the corresponding date last season
there had only been 80, ,9l2 tons sent for
ward by water.
Astoria (Baraga County, dispatch:
Reliable advices from the South Shore
Railroad extension in the homestead dis
trict are to the effect that fully $250,000
worth of damage was done by the recent
forest fires. number of houses be-
longing to homesteaders we're burned, but
the loss was principally on standing
pine"
"A dispatch to the Free Press from
Ishpeming says that "a find of gold of
great value was made last week only
few miles from the city, but several
miles from where gold has been discov-
cred before. Ono small specimen of
quartz, weighing only six ounces, con-
tanned thnty small nuggets of gold,
weighing nearly an ounce avoirdupois.
The exact location of the find is being
kept secret until the discoverers can Sc
cure the land, but when the news be-
comes public it will create great excite
ment."
The last Michigan monthly crop bull
letin is based on the reports of 800 cor
respondents, and shows the amount of
wheat winter killed to be insignificant.
The condition is placed at 80 per cent. in
Southern, 81 in Central and 100 in North
ern Michigan. One year ago it was 65,
67 and 80 per cent, respectively. In
April ,517 bushels of wheat were re-
ported marketed, and from August to
4 hng nn1n e.
seed and home consumption, there is yet
in farmers hands 1850, 757 bushels of the
sS crop. Glover meadows and pastures
have improved for the last month. The
prospects for full average fruit crop are
ex cellent.
Monroe Democrat: Some boys dis
Domling, in Raisinyille. They got a
shotgun and went for 1t, and got it the
first shot. A dead hawk Doesn't generally
bring much in the poultry market, not
withstanding the fact that they usually
cost considerable when shot in a barn.
This one WAS no exception to the rule,
and after Mr.. Domling figures up the cost
of the barn, granary, pig pen and fences
burned upon the occasion, it will be
found to aggregate $3.50, the amount of
the insurance held by the farmers of
Monroe and Wayne County.
Thomas Med Donagh, a Saginaw County
farmer, was killed by a falling tree.
= Arrangements ore being made
throughout the State for the observ-
ance of Decoration Day.
The four breweries of A. Goebel &
Co., A. Michenfelder & w. p. Ratigan,
Charles Endriss and Jacob Man, have
been sold to the English Syndicate for
$475,O 200.
Last springJ. I. Hurst, of Wyandotte,
bought of Whitney & Stinchfeld, Of De-
troit, $50, 900, 900 feet of pine timber on
the Tobacco River, the consideration being
reported as $500, 900. Mr.. Hurst grouped
the timber and has sold $500, 900 worth Of
Il, or less than one third of the tract.
The Saginaw Lumber and Salt Company
bought one lot at $3.50, 900; Gebhart q
Estabrook and other parties taking lots
aggregating $l5O,0OO more.
Albert Charboneau, reputable citi-
zen, was arrested at Bay City on the
complaint of State Insurance Commits
sioner Raymond. II was charged that
Charboneau solicited insurance for n