The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1889-07-04
Ouch.
Firs-crackers.
Burned fingers.
Scorched eyebrows.

layed OF for the 4th.
Arthur Burnam is working with the
c. & w. III. surveyors.
Henry Cutler, of Luther, spent
Tuesday night In Baldwin.
Geo. N. West was selling garden
vegetables in town this week.
A heavy shower of rain fell Tuesday
night aud Wednesday morning.
Cherries were selling ut eight cents u
quart, mt the market, this week.
Archie Carr returned home Saturday
evening, from a trip to Mackinaw.
Nathan Holford, supervisor Of Web
Der township, was In town Saturday.
Mrs. Vredenburg, of Shepard, Isa-
bella, county, was in Baldwin Saturday.
Menry Rowe WAS soIling lettuce on
the streets, Tuesday; product Of his
farm.
The e. Il w. n. surveyors were
camping at Nathan Holford's place
this week.
Dr. L. Brewster, from Muir, has To-
Gated in Baldwin. Office at Baldwin
Exchange.
A numler of our citizens attended
the reunion at Reed City, the fore part
Of this week.
We will take anything in tho line of
vegetables, (exccpt "injun " turnip)
on subscription. ---.
Riel Armstrong, of Cedar Springs,
will spend the summer with his son
James, at Crooked Lake.
AL. Go, lrend didn't shoot the cam
non, this celebration. Got his eye
winkers scorclied last year.
Lemonade, ice-creanl, bananas, or
anges, candy, cake, peanuts, milk
shake, cholera morbus, call the DR..
A sl,iagle mill is being built two
miles west of Deer Lake, and will Le
in running order by the first of August.
A part of the crew of &. & w. M.
surveyors went to Traverse City, last
week, to join the crew working this
way.
John w. Nicholson and Prosecuting
Attorney Campbell, went up to Can
fields Rollway Monday, OIL legal bust.
ness.
"Jos" Matthews has moved his boot
aud shoe establishment into the Ed
Irwin building; having purchased the
same.
A. g. Moses, of Cadillac, has con-
tract for large amount Of building in
that place. He is doing more business
this summer that ever before.
II. L. Russell, Of Luther, was in
Baldwin, Tuesday, and called at the
Star office and helped US swell our
posketbook. The STAR will visit his
home.
The skeleton found buried I'm the
sand near Ludington, supposed to be
that Of murdered man, Is said to bs
one of tho crew Of the schooner Asa
Wilcox wrecked In tho fall of'6s.
Mike O'Brien, an umbrella mender,
was run over by train Oh the I. 4 A.
A. II. r., last Friday. The ribs were
torn from his body and head badly
bruised. Died the following morning.
Whiskey.
Newton r. Kirk, U. 3. Pension
agent, will be ut the county clerks Of
fee, Monday and Tuesday, July 18th
and 10th, for the transaction of ofpension
business. All who are interested arc
invitsd to meet him there.
We hear Of . DR.. In the lower end
Of Michigan, whs started for Baldwin
with the intention of locating, and got
a. far ~ Buy City, whore he hang up
in Jail, pawnsd his tools to pay the
fins, and went back home.
The Baldwin school closed last FRI
day. A. l.. Marvin, principal, and
Miss Edith Hall, tsachsr In the pri-
mary department, have given universal
satisfaction. We undsrstand Mr..
Marvin will manage the school an
other year.
Capt. Townsend oame down town
with hIs pony, to catch the morning
train, Tuesday. Arriving ut the depot,
he trrnsd t1,e MN - ro,,,,d aud told him
to 80 home, and Capt. proceeded on
his journey. That's the kind Of horss-
flesh to deal In.
The green midget reported - doing
considerable damage to crops in the
south part Of the state, II also InfsstIng
Lake county. The rye fields are liter
ally alive with the little pests. Taking
the cut worms, wet weather and these
things altogether, It looks rather
dIseeuraging to farmers.