Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-09-20
Record OF the Week.


PORT HURON stre cts are to be paved
with brick.
SMALLPOX is now reported at only
one place in Michigan.
THE school census OF West Bay City
shows falling off of 33'.
j. Fl. WHITAKER. Pewamo's only
grain man and wool buyer, Is dead.
| AN Oceana County fruit man has 1903
varieties of plums and prunes in his
| orchard.
SEvENTY-FIvE Ionia pioneers had a
good time and elected John B. WEIGH
president.
A CHUNK OF copper ore weighing St
pounds was picked up on iarm near
Vermontville.
A HOOP and stave factory, with a ca
! pacity of $4,000 slaves Gay, is being
erected at Bellaire.
j. S. CRoSBYs large barns. sheep
sheds and farm produce, near Green
vile. burned; loss $1,000.
JOHN LAKTo, a woodsman working
at Trout Creek, was recently fatally
injured by tree blown over by the
wind.
! JOHN VAN KLEEK, once wealthy, is
dead at Kalamazoo. Reverses kept
him in the county house till he got a
! pension.
| EvART'S now houri ~ mill, for which
she aid bonus of 5000, is in running
order and buying wheat at 81 cents a
bushel.
A ST. LOUIS paper bought saloon
account against an alderman and adj
4 nrfi coln Nhn al az. no
now brought suit.
Two HUNDRED farmers held a picnic
in the grove at Ionia prison, and all
went through the institution in the
afternoon. The convicts haven't
Gained down yet.
A GARFIELD lady put her ha-ds In
her pocket for a quar- ter and pulled
out beer check. Then the business
like woman went homo and cuffed her
husbands ears.
The supply we'll at the Tecumseh
water works is showing a remarkable
capacity. A record kept recently for
a week showed that 5000 barrels day
was being pumped from the well.
The sale of the plans of the Muske-
gon Iron and Steel Company; which
has been closed for the past year, gives
rise to the hope among the citizens of
Muskegon that the works will be
opened up again.
THE State Board OF Health has been
notified of fourteen cases OF typhoid
fever at Kenton, Houghton County.
Iuasmuch as in 1893 the total popula-
tion OF Kentoniwas but seventy-five,
the proportion Of cases is most re-
markab.e.y sAi -
JAMES HEAL, a Dawson farmer. lost
a clover hullor by fire. Some miscreant
set it on fire In field on his sons
farm, where he had left it for the
night.
DR.. HIGGINSoN, of Jackson, has dis
covered what he believes to be a case
of CHAMBERS in horse belonging to
the American Express Company. The
animal has been quarantined.
A PUSSY old gentleman got the en-
the theft Of $40. and he accused nearly
everybody he met OF being the thief.
The money was found in his pocket
CHARLES V. CHAUvIN, aged &c, q
wealthy resident of Crosse Point, was
murdered by unknown persons.
AS A Fay City electric car was
crossing bridge, a. lad er fell down
and caught in the car in such a way
that 1t ripped out one entire side. The
passengers were on the other ride and
thus escaped injury.
A CORUNNA woman asked FOR di
vorce, but the courts were too slow, &C
she ran away with handsome youth
Hubby, mad as hornet, at orce filed
cross bill, and the matrimonial kno'
was united. Without waiting mo
ment, he rushed over to the clerk'I
ONCE for license, and 10 now the hus
hand Of . t~and-new wife.