Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01

douu AeuueOy. WAS accidentally onOc
at Port Huron while fooling with an old
gun.
They are turning out eighteen bicycles
per day At the factory in the State prison
at Jackson.
Wing dams are being built In the St.
Joseph River to deepen the channel for
river steamers.
Samuel Anderson, of Liberty. Jackson
County, has tree on which pears and
apples grow simultaneously.
The Bethel Baptist Church at Kalama-
zoo will have it's house of worship i'm
proved to the extent of $1,000 worth.
The Thompson Lumber Co.'S dry kiln in
Benzie County, operated by Charles Fox,
of Grand Rapids, burned with 10000 feet
of hardwood lumber.
After six years II has just became
known at Maple Rapids that Frank Full
Ter and Ella jarrett, of that place, were
married in Windsor in 1880.
II. p. Cherry, of Johnstown, who died
on Wednesday, was one of the Oldest resi-
dents and in his prime quite prominent
man of affairs. He was ~ years old.
U. G. Camp, who died Of consumption
ut Marshall on Thursday, is the fourth
member of his family to die with that dis
ease, and his wife is dangerously i'll with
it also.
John Coohn, of Fitchburg, found the
skeleton of an elk in q good state of pres
ervation about two feet underground the
other day. He was digging well when
he came across the find.
While Charles johnson and wife, of
Dagget, were absent from home in the
field near their house their 5-year-old girl
attempted to build fire in the stove. Her
clothes caught fire and she was burned to
death.
There is a young man In Bunkerville
who il the happy possessOr of a pet skunk.
The latter Is raising a family of eight
children. The farmer is burglar-proof ut
present. He is thinking some Of starting
a skunk farm.
The Chaplin Mining Company at Iron
Mountain has advanced the wages of its
300 employees 10 per cent. The other min
ing companies in the district will probably
announce like increase and thus remove
all danger of a strike in this region.
Fred Morley, of Burlington, set some
brush on fire near his home and it took
about eighty of his neighbors to keep
the fire from destroying everything in the
vicinity. The fire burned over 200 acres,
destroying crops, timber and fences.
AT Muskegon a new company was or
ganized which proposes TO dredge the
Muskegon River. The new company Is
the Muskegon River Navigation Improve
ment Company, composed of substantially
the same stockholders aSthe Log Owners
Booming Company, which has been fight
ing the Muskegon andSMuskegon River
Boom Company.
In four days eleven st. Joseph houses
were broken into and robbed. Watches,
money, and clothes have been the princi-
pal articles taken. Extra police have
been put on and are stationed in the resi-
dence portion, but the burglars have not
been caught Thieves have also been do
ing good business in stealing wheels.
Several valuable wheels have been taken.
Mrs. Elwood Brown, Jackson visitor,
lost her wheel. Rewards have been Of
fered by the sheriff.
A cigar stub or a match carelessly
thrown in the hay in ]. p. Utter's large
barn nearly wiped off the map Holton,
small village of $50 population, situated
i'm the northeast portion of Muskegon
County. The buildings destroyed are j.
p. Utter's barn, ID. p. James barn, hotel
barn, and hotel; Kingsteads saloon,
Thompson's blacksmith shop and house;
DR.. Blocks office and L. p. Murphy's
store. The only business buildings left
are the grist mill, G. A. II. hall, Hender
sons store, two drug stores and meat
market.
&C l.
there lives a family of the name of Hewes.
The great grandfather, aged S5 years,
and the great grandmother, SO, are menu
bers of the family. They have been mar
ried sixty-four years and have resided on
the same farm fifty years. Their son,
aged SO years, and his wife are also men,
bers of the family, and their son, 20 years,
and wife and little son, 16 months also
dwell under the same roof. They eat on
one table, use one pocketbook, and as far
as known there has never been any trou-
BILE or unpleasantness in the family. The
farm consists of about 300 acres.
A Wichita, Kan, dispatch says: Mr..
and Mrs. George w. Bowser left here
Wednesday for visit to their old home in
Michigan. Mr.. Bowser has lived here
for ten years, being driven into exile, as
it were, by m. Quad" they being the
subjects of his humorous sketches on Mr..
and Mrs. Bowser. They were at a sum-
mer resort in Michigan, and stopped at
the same hotel with IN. Quad" when he
conceived the Bowser stories. The no
toriety given them drove them to Kansas,
as Mr.. Bowser could not stand the jokes
of his friend. For years Wichita did not
recognize them as the originals of IN.
Quads" stories, but a reporter discovered
it accidentally last year, and ever since
Mr.. Bowser has had similar experience
to what he had in Michigan.
The State Board Of Health has for
number of years been carrying on a cam
paign of education by means of pamphlets,
leaflets, ETC., on the best methods for the
restriction and prevention of dangerous
diseases, and also by means of their sani-
tary institutes held in different parts,
cities and villages in the State. But a
new departure provided for by law is an
important one, and will enable the State
Board to reach nearly the whole State.
There are 10000 teachers in the State,
who will be required to spread sanitary
information to their pupils. If the facts
supplied by the board are taught as the
law requires, and it is believed that they
will be, it will not be long before many
lives will be saved in every year. From a
better and more general knowledge of
diphtheria alone it is hoped that there
will be a saving of life and money values
equal to an amount much greater than the
State now expends for the maintenance
of the State Board of Health.
DIR. Fenstermacher, practicing at Jones,
when called up to make night trips wears