Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-28
Record of the Week.

Benton Harbor business men are plan
ming to organize local board of trade.
About twenty log trains per day are
now running between Grayling and Bay
City, hauling about thirty cars each.
Berrien County farmers will ask the
Legislature to make an appropriation for
the maintenance of farmers institutes.
A Sullivan, Muskegon County timber
case has just been settled in the State
Supreme Court that originally involved
just $3.50.
William Smelling, janitor of the NJ. e..
Church at Inlay City, fell off a step lad
der while lighting lamps and broke two
of his ribs.
Another citizen of Marion, Osceola
County, has fallen heir to fortune. Sta
ton Agent Rausberger will get $4,000
by the death of an uncle.
Some unknown person at Ironwood,
who must have been very much in need
of food. the other night entered barn
there, took a Jersey COW outside and
butchered her. They took away the edible
portions of the carcass and left the rest
for the owner.
The peach growers in the lake shore
fruit belt nearly all agree that tempera-
ture of % degrees below zero is required
to seriously affect the fruit buds at this
season of the year. After the first warm
weather of spring expands the buds a
much higher temperature will often do
great injury.
James Gordon, of Glenwood met with
oil ular oh IL q
tended with fatal results. While doing
chores he opened the door to a large bar
rack, where twenty-three young cattle
stampeded, the first one knocking him
down and the rest trampling over him as
he lay in the narrow doorway. He was
picked up apparently lifeless, but escaped
with no bones broken.
An Ypsilanti institution which did not
wish to have its safe ruined by burglars,
has for q long time left the door unlocked
at night, and hung in plain sight a card an
nouncing that fact. The other night some
burglars broke into the Office, saw the
card hanging there, and thought they had
an easy thing. They opened the door.
but when they tried the strong box found
that that was locked. Their efforts to
break it open were Intellectual, and they
left without securing anything.
If Birmingham does not soon become n
model town it will be indeed strange Re-
vivals i'm all the churches, and for the past
three nights a travelling company in the
interest of temperance has held forth
there.
The Jail at Gaylord is right on the street
across from the post Office, where it would
be supposed some one would be passing
most of the time, but that didn't prevent
Jacob Maslowski, prisoner in the Jail
on a charge of criminal assault, from pry-
ing away the bricks over the window and
climbing out of the hole thus made, and
escaping.
Charles NJ. King, the most popular
sheriff Montcalm ever had, and who is
now serving his second term in that Office,
was presented by his deputies in that
county with an elegant solid gold jeweled
Odd Fellow watch charm. Frank A..
Miller. an attorney Of Stanton, made the
presentation speech.
The pupils in the public school at Cros-
well are behaving themselves just at pres
ent. The cause lies in the fact that a
large supply of wood for fuel has just
been put into the cellar of the building,
and the announcement made that those
who transgressed would be allowed to
pile n certain portion of it for punish
uent.