Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-10-04

take work at the U. OF M. this year.
QUITE heavy frost occurred In the
vicinity OF Marshall Monday night.
SCARLET fever is SO prevalent in
Penn that the public school Rave been
closed.
WILLIAM VANDoREN, a farmer liv-
ing near Adrian, was killed by rail-
road train.
MRS. C. w. Cor, an aged and re-
spected resident of Fenton, DIED Tues
day morning.
CITIZENS OF Mic are talking of hav-
ing their village Incorporated when
the Legislature meets.
The Fay Manufacturing Co., of De-
troit, will remove to Milford, the VII
lage having voted bonus Of $4,000.
r. j. CLARK, Port Huron hard
ware merchant, has given q $lU,OOO
chattel mortgage to secure his cred
itors.
MARLETTE shipped $1,000 pounds Of
bee product to New York lat weck,
and the dealers whistle Sweet Mar
lette.
THE Baptist Boys Brigade at jack
son have reOrganlzed and elected OFF,
Guards.
"PUP" HARVEY, of Battle Creek,
charged with attempting to rob and
kill Jacob Johnson, has been located In
Missouri
REV. WILLIAM G. CLARKE, a young
Chicago divine who is trying to rival
Dr.. Parkhurst in reforming towns, is
native of Adrian.
ONTONAGON has proved that she is
water dry for ESQ feet, SO now will take
to the peach bough and drive well sys-
tenn and get water or bust.
RATS got so numerous and voracious
in Bay City that the citizens imported
profess ional rat-catcher from Phila-
delphia to clean them out.
CoRUNNA people are developing a
literary taste This year they will
have q lecture course and have already
secured several lecturers of national
reputation.
HENRY MORGAN, of Saginaw Coun-
ty, went to West Bay City and fell in
with two strangers, who told him what
q fine fellow he was, and then picked
his pocket Of IS.
AMOS GARDNER, the man who was
shot at Linwood, l ay County, Ia
threatened with blood poisoning. The
attending physician has little hore
for his recovery.
OTTO PRoUL, OF Port Huron, will
never chase rat again. The animal
ran up his trousers leg, and it tcok
twenty men to kill the rodent and calm
the excited man.
The Union Township Fair, which
has cen held at Mason Park, Chesan.
ing, has closed after successful eXhi.
bition. There were over ], 300 entriel
in the various de rartment
Mrs. ORANGE WILLIAMS, of New
Haven Township, Shiawassee County,
cropped dead as she stood in her door
way. Heart disease was the cause.
She leaves husband and one child.
CHE6oyGAN ladies advertised an en-.
tertainment on the street cars, "for
ladies only" A farmer thought this
referred to riding on the cars, and
walked two miles rather than seem in.
trusive.
The hand of Bert Cooper, of Maple
Grove. was blown off by bursting gun
at q charivari Cooper stood in the
midst of a crowd, but no one else was
in ,ured, although twelve feet of sid.
| ing was torn off the house.
A BEAR LAKE cow got lost and was
gone thirteen days and nights. When
found she was fast in the top of fallen
tree, where she could get nothing to
eat or drink, but she was still alive.
How she got into the tree Is mystery.
S. j. ROUSE, an Owosso delivery
man, almost fsrgot he owned lot OF
land in Kentucky. Anyhow, he re.
| gardea it as almost worthless. The
| tax collector now writes him that he
owns 80, 600 acres, valued at 81 an acre,
but the land is likely to be worth Sl00
an acre before long, as it isneavily
| timbered.
ABOUT month ago saw wa, missed
| from the machine shop at Ionia prison.
| Wolf an inmate, was suspected and
| last week the saw was found with him
and pal named Elatten. They have
been plotting to gain liberty long
time, but are now in solitary on bread
and water. The saw will cut a steel
| bar off like as much lead.
JESSIE GORDON. of the 500. had the
| prettiest and costliest opal she ever
| saw, but she hadn worn the stone
| two days before bad luck overlook her.
| Her pet poodle's tail was chewed oil
| by big rat, she lost her black cat,
and old friends became enemies. Then,
| for the first time, Jessie heard OF the
opal superstition. She closed her right
eye, approached the river cautiously,
| and threw the gem over her left shoul.
der into the water. The very next day
she drew $50 in cash as prize offered
by a ieweler.
"PINGREE's potato patch" was the
object of much oerision at Detroit
when the mayor of that city first
| preached his plan Of plan ing the
vacant lots to potatoes, for the benefit
| of the poor. but 1t turns out to have
been an almi shty good thing. Over
| $1,000 bushels have been raised worth
| s 1000, and the cost was about $500
| Indeed, so successful has been the
plan that there is now serious talk Of
making it ornament and putting the
work in charge of a regular city de-
partment to be created especially for
that purpose. 1t is proposed that the
city purchase about 1000 acres of good
| land in the suburbs aud keep it for t. g
express purpose of dividing it by
allotment arong the poor every
spring. Then, instead Of paying out
to each pauper family 81 a month, as
the poor depat tment is now doing, the
city would start the family with q
capital of 50 worth OF seed potato O.
and induce them to raise their OWE
supply for the winter.
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