Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-04-18
The net indebtedness of Kalamazoo is

lSndce IN 10 uuNe u new lTeSDyte-
rian Church edifice.
| Forty-fve new houses will be built in
| Standish this year.
Marshall has a club known as "Sitters
and Stayers." Woe to their friends when
they call. =.
A Kansas man was at st. Ignace a few
days ago looking over the gypsum beds in
that vicinity with view to putting in a
plant
Abner c. Johnson died at his family
residence Mt Flint Tuesday after a long
illness He was about 20 years old, and
had lived in Michigan since 1923.
The defunct business college of Mar
shall will be reopened under the name of
Marshall School of Business" A stock
company of citizens will control the con-
Germ.
A 0-year-old Duck Lake boy put a half
pound of powder in an old coffee pot, drop
ped a live coal on top of it to see if it
would explode. 1t exploded and the boy
is Illuminating in bed.
An excited father at Benton Harbor
called upon the marshal to arrest his
young son before he could commit the
awful sin of matrimony, but Hymen out
ran the majesty of the law, and the young
lady was Mrs. before the marshal found
out where the couple We're.
| Attorney General Maynard caused con-
siderable of sensation by rendering an
opinion to the effect that the law enacted
at the present session for the government
! of all Michigan villages gives the Council
| of such villages power to prohibit the sale
of spirituous and intoxicating liquors
within the limits of the respective vii
lagos, whether located within local option
counties or not. Although the bill was
read in both houses before it was passed
this provision entirely escaped the atten-
ton of the liquor men.
Mr.. ]. Ganzhorn, one of the peach yell
lows and black knot commissioners for
Washtenaw County, has been at work
near Ann Arbor for the past few weeks,
and as a result of his official investiga-
| ton a large number of supposed valuable
trees have necessarily been cut down.
Mr.. Ganzhorn has found the disease in
| 3S1 places. He found about 1000 plum
| trees affected and 296 cherry trees. The
| law requires the commissioners to see
| that these black knots are removed. In
many cases it has been found necessary
| to destroy great many trees.
At the meeting of the Society of Alumni
of the Ann Arbor University it was re-
solved to raise the Williams professorship
fund from $4,000 to $4,000 and with it
| support two fellowships. The co-eds of
| the university are organizing to campaign
the State during vacation to raise the
additional $4,000 necessary for the pro-
posed woman's building, for which Re
gents Barbour and Hebard have given
$50, 900. Committees have been appoint
| ed, headed by Mrs. j. b. Angel and Mr,.
III. s. Carhart. There are $500 alumnae.
The little village of Dodge, near Clare,
is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
1t was founded by the Lansing Lumber
! Co. several years ago, and at one time
had 400 or 500 people. There was an inn
mense hotel and boarding house, COM
| plete system of water works and electric
lights, with a fire department and all the
equipment of city. A year ago the big
mills burned, and only little mill was
erected to take their place. Before July
the branch railroad from Hatton will be
taken up, the mill will be removed, and
there will be nothing left of Dodge but
rotting houses and "Reminiscences of its
| former glory.
| Miss Edna ID. Day, a fair junior lit at
Ann Arbor, has been wearing boomers
| in riding the bicycle. One rainy day she
wore her boomers to school. Mrs. Eames,
who keeps the boarding house, told Miss
| Edna that boomers would not be allow
cd and that she would have to quit either
the boomers or the boarding house. Mrs.
] Games was insistent and the young wom-
an does not wear her boomers except
when she rides. She says, however, that
| she is going to wear them when and
where she pleases. 1t is reported that the
boarding mstresses have combined
| against boomers, but as Miss Day is
4 bright, pretty and popular, and as some
of the professors wives have donned
boomers for bicycle riding, II is thought
that they will yet win. Miss Brown, of
| the medical department, who wears a
short skirt with her boomers, openly de-
| fies the decree. The male students are
unit in favor of boomers. AS both Miss
Day and Mrs. Games are plucky, lively
| time is sure to grow out of the disagree
| ment.
| The State census taken in June, 1894,
shows the number of sheep in Michigan
to be 3,443,9T1, decrease Of 633,954
] since 1884. The wool crop for 1894 was
/ 1896, 322, an average of 6.33 pounds
| per head.
Walter NJ. Wadley, a prominent Fenton
| farmer and drover, has disappeared with
about 5000 which was loaned him by the
bank at Byron. He recently made pro-
|, fitable trip to Buffalo with stock, return
ing with $4,000 in New York drafts. His
family has no knowledge of his where
abouts and his property Is heavily in
numbered.
1t is now rather doubtful whether the
Canadian repatriation project will be car
ried out, as the Canadian missionary, the
Rev. Father Paradis, is dangerously i'll at
Lake Linden. 1t was proposed to return
| several thousand French Canadians TO
their mother country.
Calhoun division, Uniform Rank,
Knights of Pythias, at Battle Greek,
wants to be mustered into the State mill
tia as a military company. 1t has fifty
swords Mt present and proposes to in
crease the number TO 100. AS Battle
Creek Is n railroad center. confronted
with the danger of strikes the members