Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-16
Record of the Week.

Two Muskegon men caught "a '0O-pound
muscallonge.
All hanging signs at Muskegon must
come down
Horatio y. Peck. of Grand Rapids, aged
72, hanged himself. He was well off, but
in poor health
Owosso ladies who ride wheels have
organized a wheel club, burt have declared
against the wearing of bloomers.
Mayor Fitzpatrick. of Adrian, lays down
the law that all restaurants connected
with saloons must close at no o'clock.
Amazah Turner, an Adrian farmer,
caught a mud turtle IA inches long. on
whose back was carved the date '1S14."
Owosso women have taken up with the
very latest reform. They propose to
have tobacco smoking on the streets pro-
hibited.
A new school house, to cost $4,000. is to
be built at Napoleon. 1t viii be of brick,
one story high, with three large class
rooms.
A man by the name of Spookenheymer
mp in Muskegon County, wandered into a
barber shop the other day and indulged
in hair cut and shave In his whiskers
was found last years birds nest, con-
tanning three unmatched eggs.
Caseville and Pigeon, two villages in
Huron County, are only nine miles apart.
on the same line of railroad. but the mail
facilities are such that ii takes four days
to write letter from one place to the
other and receive an answer.
farmer living between Ypslanti and
Saline recently alarmed both towns and
his neighbors by burning off sixteen acres
of meadow. He plowed a few burrows
round it to prevent the fire from spread
ing, then set the fire at night He had the
satisfaction of keeping everybody guess
ing where the dense smoke came from.
The capabilities of Northern Michigan
as q fruit growing region become more
apparent as the country develops. Apples,
plums and pears are very profitable crops,
and many farmers in Kalkaska County
are setting out more or less extensive or
chards, particularly apples, this spring.
while those who had the foresight to do
so years ago are now realizing handsome
Iy from the orchards that are old enough
TO bear
A young man about to start i'm business
chant how he succeeded so well in n
small town. "Tll give you a pointer"
said the merchant. ''but don't give me
away. Rainy days, when business was
DUH, I used to sit by front window
and charge up an article to every third
person that walked by. 1t counted up
fast, and all / was out for stock was my
ink and time. Some cautious, careful fel-
4.
in. bnt most of them cashed up without a
murmur. That's the secret of my sue
cess"
A deputy sheriff was called in to settle
family Jar at Hastings the other day.
Husband drunk and abusive wife: so
angry she vowed she'd not liz. fSith him
another day. etc. Wife got the ficer. as
protector while she claimed \ her
child, and her belongings. When the
husband learned her purpose he said: "Shc
can take anything she wants and well
come" As soon as the wife found he
was perfectly willing she should take her
property and leave, she took off her wraps
and began getting supper. That's "just
like woman" and, no doubt, this hus-
band knew it.
Mrs. John Hooker, of Lester, Branch
County, shot herself but a physician saw
cd her life. Ten days ago she is said to
have taken croton oil. Her husband died
recently and she was in destitute crcum-
stances.
A man in Portland township, Ionia
County. was arrested on charge of sell
ing cider without license, and on his
examination one witness swore that his
cider was so old "that il walked with a
cane" The accused, however, proved to
the satisfaction of the court that the
beverage in question "still wore long
clothes" and was discharged