The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-01-23
Modest Ben Davis. the .poet pilgrim.

Progress, Gays in the last issue Of his
paper: ELK Rapids has the finest school
building, the handsomest and best teach-
ers, furnace that makes the most iron,
the largest chemical works, the most and
best churches. the finest fishing, the most
well-bred girls. the most charming
widows, the largest machine shop, the
saw mill, the handsomest town hall, the
cosiest Peoples Opera House, the finest
livery stable, the best kept hotel, the most
entertaining and polite people, the best
poet, pilgrim and publisher and paper of
any town of its size in the United States. :"
The prospects of the town of Clarks-
Vile are growing brighter. Rev. l.. N. A.
Eastman proposes to build a seminary in
the spring, and the townsmen have do
mated grounds for site and subscribed
81, 900 in cash. The building is to be brick,
40x6O feet, and three stories high, and to
cost $4,000. 1t will be called the Eastman
Seminary.
The village of Ironwood will make
application for incorporation as a city,
claims a population of between 5000 and
5000, has four banks, the biggest mine
on the range, and it wants room to swell.
The News says that st. Ignace is to
have an electric railway, and is to be
lighted by electricity.
Cotton & Smith, of Evart, have taken
a contract of A. F. Waite, of the same
place, TO cut the timber on 5000 acres of
land near Campbell City, Osceoa County.
Cotton & Smith propose to erect q mill
on the tract and convert the logs into lum-
Der. The tract contains pine, hemlock,
maple, and ash and it is proposed to cut
it clean.
The question of fair grounds for the
Bay County Agricultural Society has been
settled, the place selected being what is
known as the Donnelly property on Center
avenue, Bay City.
During the month of December Ill
cars of refined copper were shipped from
Houghton to various places in the East by
the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company.
OF these cars thirty eight contained each
about $4,000 pounds, and seventy-three
contained each about 26, 900 pounds. The
other companies shipped only about
twenty cars in December, most of which
carried the smaller load of 10000 pounds.
The first shipments by rail were made on
Dec. 5.
Fred Miller, of Bay City, will put in q
NV mill on the Hauptman branch soon.
Among the features of Adrian College
which are not set forth in the annual
catalogue is best girl trust" The
young men are sworn to secrecy and to
abide by the rules of the trust, the object
being the monopoly of the best girls in the
college. The organization began by Sc
lecting as many girls rs there were mem
bers Of the trust, who were divided by lot,
the provision being that each man should
entirely monopolize the lady assigned to
him for one month, and to allow no other
man to escort her a foot on pain of
heavy fine and Imprisonment in a coal
shed until released by the faculty. At the
end of the month each member must trade
girls with some other member, if called
upon to do So The trust has been in
operation for some time, and is said to be
hourishing.
&C. II. Bradley, heavy dea Ter, and
one of the best posted lumbermen in the
Saginaw Valley, says: I'VE now have on
the docks about 35O, geo, 900 feet of lum-
Der, against 302 900, 900 last winter. The
increase is due chiefly to the fact that the
boats stopped running earlier and the
mills were all operated later than in the
fall of 1887, owing TO the more favorable
weather. Prices are shade higher than
at the close of navigation, and some hold
ers decline to give figures at all, because
they want to first ascertain probabilities
as to the output of logs. Nearly every
winter there is this same cry that the log
crop will be a short one, and every spring
the supply is always equal to if not in ex-
cess of the demand. There has been a
great deal of cutting done in the woods,
and an immense supply is on the skids
ready to be sleddea out and banked.
There's no danger but that the crop will
be big one, and enough to keep the mills
running all next season."
The town of Newberry, Luce County,
claims to have the finest school building,
the best school, the finest churches, the
best pastors, the finest hotels, the best
landlords, the finest village hall, the best
fire company, the finest streets, the best
sidewalks, the finest musical instruments,
the best musical talent, the finest resi-
deuces, and the best class of inhabitants
of any town of its size inthe State.
"A most distressing and fatal accident
occurred near Wacousta Clinton County.
Mrs VIM. Benton was riding along the
highway in a road cart without any back
support, driving restless and spirited
horse. As they approached the railway
track a passing train frightened the ami
NAL and he started off on a run at break
neck speed. As they neared the residence
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