The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-10-22
MADE A FORTUNE.
HOW TWO SCHOOL TEACHERS
DID 1T.
Two Hundred Dollars GROWS to Twelve
thousand Within = Year.

There are two sisters teaching In tho
Marion public schools who have reason
to thank the rapid developments Of ono
of Chicago's manufacturing suburbs
for small fortune which has grown
from very tiny seed planted less than
year ago. To representative of the
Chronicle these young ladies told tho
story of their remarkable Investment
as follows:
cat the close of our school work
year ago, we found that we had saved
about 800 each for which we had no
immediate use. We were spending our
vacation in Chicago and stepped into
the Chamber of Commerce building to
see Jay M. Dwiggins & Co. whom we
had long known. They were just then
founding the new town of Griffith
whose fuel-oil-pipe-lines and four
great railroads including complete
belt line encircling Chicago gave
great promise of making this q factory
center"
We were inclined to make nm in
vestment in the new town and con-
sented to join them in the purchase of
five acre block which they wished to
subdivide with some other tracts and
put Immediately on the market. Our
$500 sufficed to make their cash pay
ment for one-third interest in this five
acres and we expected to meet the de-
ferred payments from our wages the
following year"
"After making this investment we
went further on our vacation trip and
what was our surprise few weeks
later to receive word that the five acres
had been bought, subdivided and COM
pletely sold out. Three parties had
taken the entire block at profit Of
almost $4,000, one-third Of which we
learned was at our disposal"
$50 far we had not even seen Griffith
but this remarkably quick turn OF at
fairs gave us a great interest in the
new town and we went Immediately
to look il over. We found nine miles
southeast of Chicago limits a remark
able railroad junction and but little
more than that. There were perhaps
n dozen houses scattered about in the
oak groves and occupied by railroad
employees. There were no stores, no
streets, no sidewalks, no nothing-ex-
cept n bright future. The surveyors
were just putting down the lot stakes.
We found our block in the very center
of the town plat with frontage "a
what promised to be the best business
street. The lots had been sold out at
the ridiculously low average Of $3.50
each"
I've remarked that we would rather
buy than sell at these figures. This
given us the capital with which to buy.
We Immediate selected block IL In
the original town of Griffith and
bought it with the profits we had just
made. We left Griffith saying, "Well,
we shall see what year will bring
forth in this promising place."
''We have just now returned from
Griffith after years absence, we
found four factories completed and
many more negotiating to come.
Houses are going up on every hand and
streets which had not been cut out
when we were there year ago, are
now lined with prosperous stores. Our
block IL sold at present prices would
realize about s1o, 200, but we would not
take s25, 900 for it. II it were similarly
located in Marion, it would bring
$4,000
"We have seen Marion grow up from
country town into a flourishing young
city by the location of factories and
l.. 1,,,t I, do a,,l hos
not the great city of Chicago to tie to-"
eve confidently expect within the
next five years to see Griffith a great
fiourishing city and that will be time
enough to realize on our beautiful
block of lots. Since we bought our
relatives have made further purchases
and have made money too We GER
tainly believe that Griffith lots bought
at present prices and on the very easy
terms at which they can be had will
prove quickly paying Investment
Marion Qnd.) Daily Chronicle.
Items OF Interest.
Expedition island, forty miles from
the northwest coast of Australia, has
sunk out of sight, forty-eight feet be-
low the surface of the sea. II was
thirteen miles long and one mile in
width.
Boston has 6-year-old colorcd boy
who is wonder. His name Is Oscar
Moore, and one reading of poem to
him of seventy lines, or less, is suffi-
cient to engrave it upon his memory.
A young lady in Reading, Pa. who
had nursed her father during long
illness, amazed the executor of the
estate, when the old gentleman died,
by sending in bill for her services
during his illness.
A distinct race of Hebrews, called
the "White jews" dwell in Cochin,
Southwest India. They comprise about
900 persons. They have dwelt there
fer hundreds of years, and have fair
skins and light hair.
Mrs. Hanna Harmon Of Brockton,
Mass, was an infant when Gen. WASH
ington retired from public Office. She
has therefore existed under the admin-