Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18


Professor Tourney. assistant to Prof.
BeHl ia the department OF Botany. at
the Agricultural College, having accept
ed a position as Botanist OF the Exper-
iment Station in Arazona, creates va
cancy which will be filled by &. II.
Hicks. formerly NJ. G. X. H. agent at
this place. Prof. Hicks, we salute you.
In the matter OF the appointment OF
a County superintendent of Schools,
by the Board of Supervisors, we trust
that the first and only consideration
shall be the fitness aud competency OF
the officer. 1t is a place that Is near
er the people than any other in the
county and should interest ev'ry citizen.
The friends OF Prof. l.. C. Colburn,
who was really the first to bring our
excellent school ia the line of system
attic grades, which has been complet-
ed under the present management,
will be glad to know that he has been
called to the full professorship OF
mechanical engineering, in the Wyom-
ing College, at salary of 81, 10000,
with residence furnished.
The Grand Rapids, Grayling, Lake
City and other points railroad, which
was to have been built between Alpe-
ma and Grand Rapids, is not finished
yet. When the Alpena capitalists
called the projectors for a show down,
they flushed up and passed out. AL
pena men will now take the matter
into their own hands, and will proba-
bly, stop their road this side of Grand
Rapids. Diet Nesos
=. II. g. Co. invite all to go and look
at their future home, which is finely
illustrated in four books at their store,
which will cost you nothing, as they
are giving them away TO all who pur-
chase twenty dollars worth of goods
in the next sixty days. You can have
your choice of the four, books, which
consist of "Dante's Inferno; Dante
Purgatory and Paradise; "Milton's
Paradise Lost" and the "Dare Fam
lily Gallery"
Corn is not very promising in this
efaf., i,,ot ,nAu, anoord;nn 70 can0rts
and in the language of a poet, the
crop might be described rs the fray
ed-out end of an alhiost impossible
,isy-. This 10 particularly true iUthe
northern end of the state. Detroit
Netos.
There is one thing that the cold
weather, drouth and forest fires cannot
kill and that is the weather bureau,
which comes up, smiling as usual,
with the information that the rains
and high temperature of the past
week have been beneficial to crops
all over the state. Nobody but the
bureau men noticed any remarkably
high temperature or vast amount
of rain; per contrary the temperature
has been the lowest and the drouth
the most pronounced of any cores
ponding season for years. This wealth
er bureau Is not unlike Barnum's
woolly horse. -.,--s4
Fish stories are no good. Fire sto-
res told by fishermen take the cake
A party from here went over to the
Saturday and while unload
ng boats etc., saw the fire in the for
lst behind them. The flames rolled
hundreds of feet above the tallest trees
lnd the intense heat Tapped over them
Ind licked upa space of the river, soft
like a second edition of the
parting of the waters of the Red Sea.
Here was their opportunity and they
..--r-I,,o cno oUner side, before the
waters came together. literally cook
ng the fish that were in that part of
he stream.
Sailing Hanson & Co., have started
! camp in 81 N. 2 w. Sec. Is, with
Tohn London as foreman, to put 10 |
heir burned pine. They will bring |
here by rail, extending the Sailing
'ranch. They also have large camp |
IN sec. 16, t. % N. 90, and are build
ng logging road to Twin Lakes in
Q N. II. 10. They have bought ten
niles of iron from the Blodgett and
syrnes road. They estimate over 10.
100000 feet burned. They have
lumber of crews pealing logs.