Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-04-02
Maple Rapids now has brass band
with twelve hornblowers.

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citation.
Fred w. Gott was commissioned post
master at Woods Corners and Charles A.
Olin at Aumsa.
w. @. Garner has been appointed post
master at Hazleton, Shiawassee County,
vice James Fleming, removed.
The erection of new brick school
building to cost not less than $4,000 is
in contemplation at Manistique.
The question of municipal ownership Of
electric lighting system will be voted up
on soon by the citizens of Gladstone.
Marlette's new $4,000 school house
is completed, and the people of the town
are very proud of the handsome struc-
ture.
North Branch has a business mems as
sociation to look out for the interests of
the town, and boom may now be ex-
pected.
The management of the Calhoun Coun-
ty Agricultural Society announce an old
fashioned barbecue as q feature of their
annual fair this season.
The name of the postoffice at Superior,
Chippewa County, has been changed to.
Brimley. Robert III. Brooks has been
commissioned postmaster.
Grand Haven is to have a broom fac
tory, which will begin operations as soon
as the machinery can be installed in the
building leased for the purpose.
The people of Portland will all take to
the woods on June 5-that is, all those
who love peace and quiet. A band tour
nament will be held there that day.
Arrangements are being made at Jack
son for the meeting of the grand council
of the Royal Arcanum of Michigan, to be
held in that city April 20 and 21.
1t is probable that Ironwood will soon
have a first-class opera house, it being
the intention of the owner of the old AL
hambra theater in that city to remodel the
building.
A good indication that times arc improv-
ing at Iron Mountain is the fact that va
cant houses are very scarce, while there
is not business stand in the city which
is not occupied. T
During a drunken row at dance at
Fulton, small mining town in southern
Keweenaw County, Jacob Pollan was
stabbed to death. Several arrests of sus-
pected parties have been made.
There is talk at st. Joseph of emulat-
ing the example of the neighboring city,
Benton Harbor, in reducing the salaries
of all city officials about 20 per cent, in
order to cut down expenses.
Miss Fannie III. Brown, of Fulton, Gra-
tiot County, has obtained a verdict of
$516 against the township of Lebanon
because of injuries sustained by reason
of the failure of the township to properly
maintain a public highway.
The Pontiac, Oxford and Northern Rail-
road depot at Inlay City was broken into
Sunday night by thieves, who effected
an entrance by breaking in the Office win
dow. They secured about SO in money,
two shotguns and the contents of one
trunk.
After allowing residents to wade
through snowdrifts all winter going to
and from their business, the street car
company at Escanaba has started its cars
again, and will run them until the SHOWS
of next winter make walking bad, when
they will take another four months rest.
The military company recently organ
lied at Iron Mountain and mustered into
the State service as Company Il, Fifth
Regiment, has been named the Truedell
Rifles, in honor of the present Mayor of
Iron Mountain, who has contributed to
the success Of the organization in many
ways. The company is now talking of
building an armory.
The Benton Harbor City Council has
found the financial condition of the city's
treasury too much strained, so much so
that the city debt is increasing each year.
The Mayor introduced resolution, which
passed by large majority, to cut the
salaries Of every officer, from Mayor to
extra day hands. The cut averages about
20 per cent and amounts to several hun
dred dollars.
There is what is thought to be a genu-
inc case of hydrophobia at Pierson, Mont
calm County. Last August 13-year-old
son Of ID. J. Anders was bitten by dog,
but felt no inconvenience from the wound
at the time. On the 9th of this month,
however, he was taken with all the symp-
toms of the terrible disease and the ply
sician attending him thinks there is lit
tie hope of his recovery, although he has
been treated by the Pasteur process.
Some time ago a new telephone com
pany was started at Escanaba, and as the
rates were about half those of the Bell
corporation, and the citizens were tired
of the service the latter was giving, ev-
eryone threw out the old phones and sub
scribed to the new company. Now, the
Bell, after several months, is trying to
re-establish an exchange, but the people
are satisfied with their present service,
and it is not probable that many of them
will be allured by the exceedingly low
rates offered by the Bell company.
Rev. j. NJ. Patterson preached in the
Westminster Presbyterian Church at De-
troit on divorces. From 1867 to 1888, he
said, Michigan had granted one divorce to
every twelve marriages, but Wayne Coun-
ty had made a much more remarkable
record. Chicago and San Francisco
weren't In it with Detroit. From Jan.
to March 1S, the Wayne Circuit Court
had granted sixty-seven divorces, and the
county clerk had issued 422 marriage IL
censes. This was an average of one di-
vorce to six marriages. In San Francisco
the average was one to seven, and in
Cook County one to thirteen, one to ,42S
in Norway, and one to 9,932 in Ireland.
Mr.. Patterson found that some of the rea-
sons were prevalence of free love- ideas.
deception before marriage, hasty and
clandestine marriages and the growing
independence of women; but the supreme
reasons, in his estimation, were the ease
witk which divorces could be secured and
the permission to marry after being di-
vorced.
A meeting Of the Van Buren, township