Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-07

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| account OF high water. ~
"A RArrLINc good bicycle club has
been organi; cd at Mt. Clemens.
A MORENCI man, on wager, etc
twenty-seven oranges inside OF thirty
minutes.
w. III. TINsMAN's fine barn near
Romeo, containing 200 bushels. OF
wheat, was destroyed By lightning.
THEPE isn't saloon in AIeer Coun-
ty, SO they say, and 1t isn't local OPP
ton county, either. Just superlatively
good.
REV. f. M. DUFF, of Ann Arbor,
preached In EN- 'nuel Church, De.
troit, Sunday. He rode all the way on
his bicycle.
A TECUMsEH crowd gave minstrel
| show In Morenci The audiencewere
not pleased and rudely left beforelthe
show was out. ,o.e, J
The Chaplin mine,. which recently
started up again at Iron Mountain, re-
lieving many starving workingmen,
now employs 4S0 persons
YPsILANTI Ia les h ave already raised
ST 600 for soldiers monument. Mrs.
Mary A. Starkweather will give 81, 900
| II $1,000 more can be raised, the idea
being to spend $4,000.
GEORGE GIBBS, OF Eckford Town ship,
Calhoun County, is the latest youngest
soldier" Q enl sted in 1851, when he
was only H. He was q drummer boy,
but carried q musket.
ARMADA has made up her mind to
celebrate the coming Fourth in the
good old-fashioned manner. and will
| frxr nd hat ftoxy
can be heard in the next county.
WHILE Charles Carpenter was shear
ing sheep near Otter Lake one OF the
animals kicked. driving one point OF
the shear into his neck ard the other
Carpenter will probably die.
THE last convict to attempt escape
from Ionia was Michael O'Neil, OF De-
troit. He was caught removing bricks
from the wall and had plenty OF appa-
ratus for rendering any guard insens-
ible who might try to stop him.
A GANG of ten toughs lay in wait for
Evangelist r. III. Burke ut Sault Ste.
J Marie. Mr.. Burke thinks he saved
his life by going up different street
from the one they expected. The
trouble sprang from religious Difficult
ties.
THE female school teacher who gets
job at Ingalls,, Menom inee County,
must q a cora err. The advertisements
says she must be "passably cookbook
ing, hold q second-grade certificate,
have plenty of muscle. and wear No.
3 shCA
! A CENTRAL LAKE hotel, says a
| truthful man in rival town, was sup
1
The landlord went for the mysterious
noises. AMI prying off a few boards.
found hundreds of bats. Three hun
dred were killed.
A MINISTER from some other town
went into q Belding barber shop to get
shaved. He wanted entirely new linen
ard promised to pay literally for every
| thing. only he wanted the best shave
| going He gave the barber ii cents,
one cent being for the extra pains.
FRANK TURN, one of the victims of
the Fattie Creek railroad horror, who
has been in the hospital for seven
months has just left for his home in
Stroudsburg, Pa He was the most
badly injured of all the survivors. The
Presbyterian church of his town has
| just sent thirty Bibles for use in the
hospital.
In many of the exchanges received
by the Free Press complaint is made
that in a number of orchards the small
black worm which was so prevalent
last year Is already at work. some trees
being stripped of their foliage. Spray
| ing with paris green or london purple
is said to be effective in destroying the
pests.
| BAD AXE people have struck upon a
new scheme for socials. 1t is known
as tn, "extortion social" The way it
WORKS is this: a committee of six is
appointed to assess fines, and none but
they are informed of the rules until
some infrac ion has cost him or her
cents. There are fines for coming late,
awkwardness at the table, for married
men talking to other mems wives, and
in fact, for nearly everything. If a
person thinks fine unjust he appeals
to a Jury, but the jurymen cost2 cents
each. auo1g
THE jury at Hastings trying Asa
Tefft for the murder Of his uncle, Le-
roy Rogers, returned verdict of muir
der in the second degree. Rogers lived
alone on a farm, and Tefft was his
guest in the early part OF last January.
The day before the murder Tefft made
a pref snse of going home, returning
prI badly in the early evening. Tefft
then shot the old man and mutilated
him with an ak. 1t is not believed
there was any quarre'. Rogers was
supposed to have money, and the MUIR
der was undoubtedly for the purpose
of robbery.
Mr.. FROST, of Berville, has COW,
and that cow created quite sensation
the other day. 1t was tied to a long
rope, so that it could Craze in the viii
lage streets. The line was so long that
it crossed the sidewalk. While the
milk-prOducer was chewing her cud
along came young lady. and noticing
the rope, attempted to step over it. 1t
was a fruitless attempt, for Just then
the COW sprang to one side, the rope
Strengthened up, and the Young lady
went up. When she came down the
people thought there had been minia-
ture earthquake. -
MARSHAL ED O'DONNELL, who ar
rested the alleged moonshiners in Lake
County. says he drank some OF the
product of the stills. 1T is about the
vilest stuff ever manufactured. Its
principal ingredients are raw alcohol
and very coarse kind of chewing
tobacco. ne of my WITNESSES took a
drink and was sick three days after
wards The mOonshiners did not ped