Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-09-13

VASSAR gets a canning factory en-
ploying thirty hands.
TIE first stone sidewalk In Mar cite
is now being constructed.
THOMAS Nc CAUSLAND. aged s, was
killed by the cars at Alabaster.
SARANAC has 90-year-old drummer,
who plays on the streets every night.
THEY are again talking of building
big hotel at Lindsay Park, near
Charlevoix.
THE four Ionia county boys who
hanged ID. III. Cole "just for fun were
roundly fined.
The woman candidate, Anna w.
Basset, was defeated at Ypsilanti's
school election.
THE Smead system OF dry closets has
been thrown out of the Farragut
school at Bay City.
PINCONNING and Kawkawlin have
just sent tive We Indian students to the
school at c. riisle, Pa.
LESLIE SMELL, OF Ionia. aged 1e,
was fatally injured by falling tree,
both legs being broken.
THE lawyers of Ann Arbor will hold
reception Sept. %, in honor of ex-
pON. rciCu JItn DlFIUudv.
THREE Muskegon children ate weed
resembling milkweed, and were with
difficulty saved from death.
MILAN'S schoolhouse was badly
scorched on Wedne day night. 1t will
take about $500 to fix it up.
5. PETERS. Of Tomkins. let water
out of his mill-race, and found kit OF
burglar tools at the bottom.
FARMERS near Trout Creek built a
big wall of dirt three miles from their
homes to keep the fires away.
CHEBoYGAN COUNTY farmers say
that the potato crop is good one and
are anticipating good prices.
AN Otisville girl quarreled with a
nelghbor. went home, and took poison.
A stomach pump saved her life.
TIE Shiawassee County rally parade
at Owosso was two miles long, and by
actual count contained 4, 400 people.
A LAINGSBURG widow took drive
around that little village the other
day for the first time in sixteen years.
TRENToN's Common Council has re-
considered the resolution passed at the
last session to aise $l7 900 for q waite :
works.
A PoSToFFICE has been established
at Hiawatha. Schoolcraft county, and
John ID. Keller commissioned post
master.
ACCORDING to the present school
census Marshall has 1,Z32 Chi dren OF
school age, a gain OF twenty-five over
last year.
A PIECE of lath struck William
VJ saly h. r.l. III k,&
it hung down upon his face and had 10
be cut out.
BRAKEMAN BARNEY HEBNER, of Au
Sable, fell under the wheels at McKin-
ley, and both legs were cut Off. He
cannot recover.
The ladies won at Jack on, Mrs. G.
c. Bloomfield and Mrs. Laura H. Ford
being reelected school trustees by
good majorities.
PORT AUSTIN is teeming with vege-
tables this year, all growing on san ~
land that the wiseacres said WASH t
COOL for anything.
The timely rainfall in the upper
peninsula has done much to prevent
any more damage to life and property
from the great forest fires.
Two CLERKS of the Pontiac post
Office are shaking hands with them-
selves over the act that their salaries
have been raised 800 each.
WILLIAM ANDERSON, laborer of
Scott Lake, died on the operating ia BILE
just after an obstructing growth had
been removed frt m his throat
FOREST fires near Elkton have driv-
en- bears nearer town. The other day
ftxyn he. nd
tured in steel traps and taken to town.
p. ID. CHRISTIAN, whose disappear
a2ce from the 500 caused much local
nervousne s. has settled with his cred
itors and been exonrased fro m all evil
intent
IN Homer good deal of petty thiev-
ing is going on, much to the annoyance
of the merchants. Some people Ct as
sured respectability are implicated in
the business.
THE township boards of Arcadia and
Newark have appropriated 800 each
for the Improvement of the roa1
across the big swamp in Gratiot
County.
SAULT STE. MARIE citi ems who are
given to walking think that it is about
time an ordinance be passed prohibit
ing bicycle riders from using the side
walks
FIFTY descendants of Charles An
drews helped celebrate his 10th ami
versary near New Haven. When he
was 50 Mr.. Andrews cleared II a four
acre field with his own hands.
REV. REUBEN S. GOODMAN, rs wears
old, chaplain of tho Soldiers Home at
Grand rapids, died Thursday. He
was graduate of Princeton College,
and had ben a minister for fifty
years.
BAY COUNTY is suing Huron County.
After Bay had sent Rachel Kibble TO
the Pontiac asylum and paid her ex-
enses for u year the officers learned
she belonged to Huron. Huron re-
fused to whack up, hence the suit.
GEORGE w. KNIGHT, Cleveland
printer, stay d two months at Mrs.
~ endalI's boarding house in Mt. Glenn
ems Now warrant is out for his ar
rest, charging him with stealing 8 y00
worth of Mrs. Kendall's diamonds.
A SMOOTH chap, claiming to repre-.
sent st. Paul wholesale firm, offered
most astoni ,hingly low figures on gro.
ceries to o numbsr of 500 firms, but
said they would have to advance
freight charges. The chap disap-
peared with this money, and OF course.
the groceries never came.
G. oNGRESSMAN Linton won't get
many votes In Owosso, and there arc
burned few he wont get in Corunna.
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