Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-12-05


f. s. s. was quite a success. The lit
tie collectors gathered 10 their barrels,
sl1. Go. the evening collection amount
ing to $lc,l3. Total. s2l.79.
Try Claggett & Pringles' Maple Sy-
rup on your pan cakes.
At the business meeting of the
Young Peoples Society of the M. e.
church. they decided to have a fair
during the winter. An executive com
mittee was appointed as follows: Vena
Jones, Bessie Nicholson, Jeunie Pur-
chase, Emma Hanson. Musa Ravens
and Aggie Bates.
''To discontinue an advertisement"
says John Wannamaker, Philadel-
phia's great merchant, is like taking
down your sign. eff you want. to do
business you must let the public know
it. Standing advertisements are cheap.
err than reading notices. They look
more substantial and business like,
and inspire confidence. ! would as
soon think of doing business without
clerks as without advertising"
Now that the people of Otsego
county have defeated the proposition
TO build new courthouse, it is prob
able that the agitation will at least
result in securing vaults for the county
records very soon, and that the dream
of new courthouse may be realized
few years later. II the proposition
had prevailed $50, 600 of the $50, 600
required would have been paid by nom
resident landowners. -Det. Press.
A jury at Mo recently played 100
games of pedro because they couldn't
agree on a verdict in q law suit be-
tween Amos Wilson, of Potts, and
Davidson Bros. The jury surrepti-
tiously sent out for some wine and eat
ables, and deliberately took whole
night of riotous living and cards,
while the Judge and lawyers waited
outside and hungered and thirsted. -
Bay city Times.
MARRIED:-At the parsonage of II.
E. McDuff, in the city of Flint, We'd
nesday, Nov. %, Glare o. Hadley, of
Gray ling, and Miss Maggie Alderman,
OF Flint Glare has given his man y
friends here grand surprise, as but
few, if any, aside from the family sus-
pected that he had any political aspi
rations, and that he was actually run
ming for Alderman, but now that he is
elected, all wish him o most successful
term Of Office.
DR.. L. II. Flynn performed quite a
difficult surgical operation upon Po-
lack woman from Grayling, Sunday
morning. One of her upper teeth had
been drawn, and portion of the root
left in the jaw. liberation followed
and q portion of the jaw bone became
diseased, and had to be removed. The
doctor turned her lip back, and cut
open the flesh and took out the dis
eased bone, so that the wound can
heal. The patient went from here TO
Sterling, where she has a sister living
The doctor could not spell her name,
so we did not undertake it, Vest Br.
Times,
The December Century opens with
series Of unpublished letters written
by the Duke of Wellington, in bis very
last days, to a young married lady of
England. These Letters present the
Iron Duke In a very attractive Light
amiable and unpretending; the care
full guardian of the children of his
friend in their childish illness, The
personal interest" is very strongly
continued in Joseph JefFerson's auto
biography, which this month covers
wide ground and goes into the most
uln usluB UelulS CODCtrLlbS DdE1-
storming in Mississippi" Mr.. Charles
Barnard's illustrated article on 1.-The
New Croton Aqueduct' is the first full
account of that marvellous and unique
engineering work. The two celebrated
French painters, Alfred Stevens and
Cervex, give Pictures of their ''Paris
Panorama of the Nineteenth Century"
and tell how they came to construct
the work, and their method of putting
it on the canvas. In fiction we have
Mrs. Bars new novel Friend Oily
ia" Mr.. Stockton's "The Merry
Chanter," Hopkinson Smiths heroic
story of Captain Joe," founded OH
fact. The chapters of the Lincoln
Life deal with the fall of Richmond
and Lincoln's visit to the abandoned
capital. Mrs. Van Rensselaer, gives
briefly her impressions of the French
Exhibition; and the editorial pages
come to the defense of civil service
reform.