Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-14


Twenty-one persons were granted third
grade certificates at an examination In
Midland.
The saw and planning mill of Quick s.
Grassman. at Sonoma, near Battle Greek,
burned. Loss. $1,000.
Charles S. Hazeltine, of Grand Rapids,
has resigned his position of United States
consul at Milan, Italy, and will soon re-
turn to America. Business reasons.
Greedy Cheboygan County would de-
tach the western tier of townships from
Presque Isle County and annex them to
herself. A bill will probably be intro
duced to that end.
There is pile of logs along the rail
road track at Dollarville, so high that
many mistake it for low range of hills
as they ride through the town. 1t con.
taina over 100000 feet
Some time ago the T. & A. depot at
Howell Junction was burned, and it
hasn't been rebuilt yet. The company
is using a passenger coach as depot,
and will do so until spring, when they in
tend to straighten their road at that
point. They will wait until after this
change is made before they put up their
new building.
A justice near Belleville has a queer
way of opening court. The other day
when the jurymen filed in, one of them
displayed a pack of cards and proposed
a game. Immediately the justice cleared
the desk of all copies Of Blackstone and
the rules of evidence, md the blind god
dess waited until the game was over.
Then the trial went on as before.
The State and Central Michigan Agri-
cultural Society officers are unable to
make an amicable arrangement whereby
the former can give an exhibition in
Grand Rapids this year without forfeit
ing its deed to the grounds in Lansing.
The State society, nevertheless, has de-
cided to go to Grand Rapids, and will
arrange dates for the week of Sept. o.
George w. King, manager of the Michi-
gan Drug Company, was arrested at Mus
kegon on a warrant sworn out by Mar
thus Jensen, janitor of the building in
which Kings store was located. The
building was partially destroyed by FIRE.
The police claim to have found in the
drug store a bundle of partially burned pa
per which appears to have been saturated
with some inflammable liquid.
VIM. ii. Powers, one of the most prom.
inent and active business men Of Grand
Rapids, died Monday, after long illness.
He was associated with his father, Will
liam T.. Powers, in the great water power
enterprise along the west bank of the
river, the electric light company, Michi-
gan Iron Works, and many manufacture
ing affairs. He was also manager OF
Powers Opera House. He was "a years
of age.
At Battle Greek, the Adventists decided
to establish UNCONVENTIONAL academy in
Guadalajara, Mexico. and Bible schools
in Healdsburg, Cal, Walla Walla, Wash,
South Lancaster, Mass, and several
points in the Southern States Change
of district presidents instead of district
ministers was recommended by the COM
mittce on distribution of labor. They
voted to send missionaries to Zambesi,
Africa; Fiji Islands, New Guinea. South
America and Trinidad. One hundred mis-
sionnries were given credentials and fifty
men licensed TO preach in all parts of the
world.
As a result of the Dunn temperance
meetings at Ann Arbor il Is said 700 sig
natures to the abstinence pledge were
secured, 100 being the names of drinking
men.
Lulu Keller. 10, attends the DufIield
School at Detroit, in class of girls who
are several years younger than herself.
For several weeks past she Is charged
with having caused trouble with her
classmates. 1t has just leaked out that
the other morning half dozen school
girls attacked Lulu in the school base
ment and left her in severely injured
condition.
A three weeks revival service at Ionn
has resulted in the conversion Of 176
persons.
Adrian is in hurry for the LIST of April.
Her new street railway will be in opera.
ton on or about that date, the cars being
already purchased.
A Hatton boy got job of choring In
a lumber camp. He arrived at midnight,
to find only n bench TO sleep on. The
cook, dirty fellow who couldn't cook q
doorknob. made the young fellow work
from early morn to late at night and cuss-
ed him because he wanted to sleep ut all.
After a few days tho Hatton boy was IN
such hurry 10 get home that he walked
twenty miles In snow above his knees.