Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15
A Cadillac farmer harvested seventy,
five bushels Of rye to the acre.

Ihieves appropriate queer things at
Flint. A young eagle owned by Mrs. Nj.
w. Stevens has been stolen.
w. L. Rossman has been appointed
State chemist and analyst of Michigan to
assist in enforcing the pure food laws.
The prisoners in Cheboygan's Jail have
to eat with their fingers now. They used
their knives and forks to saw the cell bars.
ID. +. Fox, of Grand Prairie, undertook
to burn off his oat stubble. His neigh
bors will ask him to pay for their burned
fences.
One hundred and twenty young farmers
from towns along the Detroit, Grand
Haven and Milwaukee left Grand Haven
for the harvest in Dakota.
Oscar Westlund, Swede, was instant
ly killed at Felch Junction, while attempt
ing to board an ore train that was run
ming twenty miles an hour
Truthful people at Sherman, Wexford
County, aver that when il rained the 9TH
er day, the little children were frightened
to death, having seen nothing of the kind
before.
Bert jenkins, living with his widowed
mother on II farm near Corunna, loaded
up 80 bushels of new oats, sold them for
$34, and forgot to go home. He is IS
years old.
A yearling colt, owned by George Vail
and valued at $500 was badly hurt by a
barbed wire fence in the field where he
was at pasture near Ypsilanti. He may
have to be shot.
George Merrill, of Croswell, Sanilac
County, own 10000 acres of land near
Hubbard Lake. In addition he has just
bought five farms, aggregating 1000
acres, near Harrisville.
The Swedish Baptist Society, of Manis
tique, organized ten years ago with TWEEN
ty-two members, now has 151, only nine
of whom were among the first. The So
ciety has received $14,046, and owns
church property valued at $4,000.
At Central Lakes big fire Jim Fisk
started to carry an arm full of dynamite
where it would do no harm. Jim thought
of heaven, home and mother, and said,
"Good-by, boys" but the pesky stuff did
not go off. and Jim is still on earth.
Redman, six miles west of Port Hope,
has one of the prettiest and neatest coun-
try churches in 1.-The Thumb" 1t cost
81, 800 and is nearly paid for; and the
work has all been done and the money
raised within the past twelve months.
The home supply of apples in northern
Van Buren County is so small this year
that fruit from Southern Illinois is find
ing market there. Twenty years ago that
region was famed for its apples; now
many of the orchards have been cut down.
The University of Michigan loses An
derson II. Hopkins, assistant librarian,
who goes to the new John Crerar scientific
library in Chicago at n salary of $1,000.
He is one of the best officials the univer-
sity ever had. He was in charge of the
catalogue work. Mr.. Hopkins has wide
acquaintance.
Twelve years ago d. L. c. Eaton in
vested in cheap lands in Wheeler Town.
ship, Gratiot County, and has since added
to his possessions till now he owns 1900
acres in that township and in Jonesfield,
Saginaw County. OF this tract nearly
loo acres have been redeemed and are
under cultivation. From 80 to 200 tons
of hay are cut every year. The great
business of the farm is the feeding of
steers for beef, of which he turns off hun
dreds annually. Mr.. Eaton has also one
of the largest herds of swine in the State.
The latest machinery is employed and the
proprietor of the farm says his men can
wear kid gloves and do their work easily
and we'll This was land from which the
timber had been cut and the soil regarded
as valueless for agricultural purposes.
The State Prison Boards, in annual
joint session at Mackinaw, adopted rules
for the application of the parole system
for convicts. The rules prescribe that the
Governor may parole prisoners on the
of the prison board, who
shall be guided by the information given
by the wardens. Upon receiving parole
the convict shall go at once to his place
of employment, which must be provided
for in advance, shall not leave that place
without permission, and shall not leave
the State. He must report monthly as to
where Ire is and what he is doing, and
shall always be subject to return to prison
for conduct unbecoming a good citizen.
Under parole he shall save or lose his
good time the same as though still in
prison. The joint board will consider the
convict labor question. and will probable
readopt the contract and State account
SYSTEMS now III vogue.
The Marquette memorial celebration
at St. Ignace was a grand success from
every point of view. The weather, which
had been lowering and threatening during
the early part of the morning, cleared
up warm and bright The excursions
brought about $1,000 people to the city.
The line of march was adorned with nu-
merous arches and stores and dwelling
houses were decorated The parade start
ed at about = o'clock. In the speakers
carriage were Gov. j. r. Rich, Congress-
man Weadock. the Hon. j. q. Adams,
Judge William Springer and others. Five
bands furnished music. Indians in cos
tune were a feature of the procession.
Weadock was sincerely in
love with his subject. Marquette, the
and treated the audience to
eloquent speech He gave
credit for erecting the first
building on the present site of Chicago.
Father Keul demonstrated that the final
resting place of Marquette is in ST. Ig-
mace. He urged the audience to promote
the undertaking of the association to
raise fund wherewith to build the mon
ument by taking stock In the association.
Judge Springer delivered n carefully-pre-
pared and thorough speech. Other speech
es were made by Gov. Rich. Judge e. II,
Brown and others. The celebration was
also designed to be the initiatory move
ment for raising money for suitable
monument to be erected over Father Mar
quette's grave
Tim, Pete and J. w. Birney, of Jack
son. were brought before Commissioner
Dodge, at Lansing. charged with using the
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