Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-02-06


Il Il reported that parties Ia this
county have been violating the game
law by taking advantage Of the crust
on the snow to run down and kill deer.
The board Of Supervisors refused to
pay deputy game warden, so the
county has none to look after viola
tions of the law Cheb. Tribune.
Ye editor located forty acres of
vacant state land, last week, with
over 10. 600 feet of white pine upon it.
II is probably safe to say that there is
not another Indicated forty Ia Presque
Isle county with that amount Of tim
Der on it.-Adpdnce.
A large company Of friends gave
Mr.. and Mrs. Hill very pleasant sur
prise at the M. e. parsonage Tuesday
evening. A vigorous pounding was
submitted to with little resistance on
part of the Victims, the effects of
which will not be overcome for a long
time. The evening was enjoyed by all.
Pearl Wilson, of Bay City, recently
wrote that she was held in den at
Potts, Oscods county, against her will.
Sheriff Dawson, of Oscoda county,
was apprised of the fact and he went
to the place designated. rescued the
girl, and will send her home at once.
The girl notified her parents by let.
ter struggled out of the den.
Mr.. Jacobs while fixing up tele-
phone wire on top of the Opera House
last Saturday stepped on to the sky
light which was covered with snow
and broke in two panes of glass, mar
rowly escaping terrible and perhaps
fatal fall of twenty feet to the hard
wood floor below. He just saved him
self in time. Ogemaeo Co. Herald.
ID. Kallenbcrger received the very
welcome news Monday that his claim
to pension had been allowed. He
receives So per month from Aug. 1866
to Apr. Is 1888. and from that time 81
per month. Although the pension is
small it is none the less welcome to
Dave who can use it to good advant-
age just now. We congratulate Dave
on his well deserved good fortune.
RIOS. NetDS.
Sunday evening train of fifteen
new iron cars passed through here.
loaded at Duluth with flour manufac-
tured at the Imperial Mills of that
city, enroute to Boston. Each car
carried 60, 900 lbs. They were built at
Duluth, and this is their first trip.
Walter Watt has sold out his stock
of merchandise at Otsego Lake to
Sailing, Hanson & Co., and intends to
soon remove with his family to West
Bay City and enter the dry goods and
gents furnishing business Co.
NeIDS.
The new Board of pension Examin-
ers recently appointed by the Commits
sioner of Pensions, consist of Drs.
Woodwork of Grayling. Leighton of
Otsego Lake, and Parmater of Gay
lord Tha Board will hold seIni-
monthly meetings at Gaylord to con-
slider and examine all applicants for
pensions or increase of pay.-Ot. Co.
NetoS.
DIED, Thursday Jan. 80, in this vii
lage the infant son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
David Kneeland, aged ten months.
'Only the germ of life immortal.
Only the bud of an unopened flower,
Transferred by Love to its native cline,
To grow and blossom. in Heavenly bower"
There was brief service at the
house, Friday, conducted by Rev. G.
E. Hill and the body was taken to
Milwaukee for interment, by the be-
reaved parents who have the sympa-
Thy of the entire community.
In conversation with II. Hanson
concerning the stagnation of trade, he
gave the reason as the condition of the
roads in southern Michigan, Ohio, In-
diana and Illinois being such as to
render it utterly impossible for farm
ers TO market their produce, and the
low price of everything they have to
sell. For these reasons they cannot
meet their liabilities, or buy lumber,
and could not draw it anyway, SO that
little or no lumber is being used out
side of the cities. With the return of
good roads he looks for an impetus to
the trade.
They are entirely welcome to their
wild and woolly West but Michigan is
good enough for me hereafter said
Owen Cummerford, of Cheboygan,
last week as he stepped off a Michigan
Central train with his wife, after an
absence of year and n half in the
land of boomers. Like lots of others
who have been dazzled by the splendor
of the West he found Michigan just as
good and better and is glad to return.
The moral of this is, don't leave
good State-for Michigan is a good
State--to go somewhere else until you
know sure you can do better. Every
place has its disadvantages but Michi-