Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-10-08

jeweler, has hled mortgages 10 secure
several creditors, to the amount of $500.
Fine apples are being peddled at Battle
Greek at from 10 to Is cents bushel,
and are hard to dispose of even at that
price.
Laingsburg has voted 1880 TO build
Anew bridge and $2,065 to pay Mrs. Mil
Ter, whose husband was killed on the old
bridge.
At Battle Greek Harry Noble, aged 30,
was found dead In the attic of his broth
er's tin shop. 1t Is supposed he took
yoison.
One farmer at Dawson has had about
ten tons of millet ruined by the frequent
rains this month, and many others small
er amounts.
BY not having to pay certain premiums,
the Mecosta County Agricultural Society
will come out only 500 short on the re-
cent fair.
Muskegon farmers who were frozen ont
of the county fair society, held a show
of their own In the court house, with
very large exhibit.
A Leelanaw County man has received
a check for $86.4O from the Government
disabled in the civil war.
A Schoolcraft man has commenced suit
against the village to recover 30 cents
which be claims as balance due him for
| services as gatekeeper at the spring cleo
| ton. l,,.
Crops in Berrien County have been oil
secured without having been damaged by
the frost. Barns and cellars are too small
| to contain the abundance the season has
produced.
Mrs. Lucinda Evans, one of the oldest
| settlers of Walled Lake, died Sunday
night aged SO years. She lived with her
daughter, the only remaining member Of
| her family.
The chances are that South Haven
will soon have an additional industry in
the shape of n nail factory, which will
move to the village from its present loca-
ton in Illinois.
| The present outlook is that only about
one-third the usual number of men will be
| given employment in the Upper Peninsula
lumber woods this year, consequently
wages will be lower.
| In many parts of Southwestern Michi-
| gan thousands of bushels of grapes have
been left on the vines, the low prices re-
ceived in the city markets making it un-
! profitable to ship them.
The residence of Mrs. Gilbert at Port
Huron was struck by lightning and total
| ly destroyed with it's contents. One of
the inmates was partially paralyzed by
the shock, but recovered.
Seven Dimondale farmers each drew
fifty bushels Of choice apples to Lansing
| few days ago, but could not get enough
for them to pay for the cost of hauling,
so took them back home again to spoil.
Andrew e. Jackson, of Kalamazoo,
could not understand whence came the
large number of carpet bugs that invaded
his house. He recently cut down an old
pine tree. 1t was literally full of the
| insects.
The 500 Light Guards, of Sault Ste.
Marie which have been accepted for the
State service, will be inspected and mus
tered in by Inspector General Walsh sobn.
The new company will be q, of the Fifth
Regiment.
A valuable horse of ID. ID. Mclean,
frightened by Saginaw street car, jump
ed upon hitching post, which penetrated
its abdomen almost to the backbone, SO
the entrails protruded. A pistol shot end
ed its misery.
The stormy weather has hindered Oak
land County farmers considerably in Sc
curing their buckwheat crop. The buck
wheat Is filled quite heavily this year
and the quality will be good If the crop
can be secured in good time.
George Schmidt, of Delhi, Ontario, pro
/ 20 NJ cip fa m
Ste. Marie. He says the duty is too high
to make expectations profitable, and he
thinks he can manufacture more cheaply
in this country than in Canada.
The e. II. Stafford Co. has just shipped
from Muskegon a large consignment OF
cabinet letter files, typewriter cabinets
and office desks to Constantinople. Some
of the articles are to be used in the Otto
man bank, recently attacked by Arme
mans.
The State Y. w. G.. A. will meet al
Lansing Oct. 1918 Among the notables
expected are Miss Effie X. Price, of Chi
cago, international general secretary
Miss Nellie Allen, New York, student
volunteer secretary, and Mrs. Harold
Sayles, Oak Park, Ill.
Fred S. Davis. one of Ypsilanti's lead
ing druggists, died Friday, after three
weeks illness, caused by malarial fever
Deceased was about 80 years of age ant
was son of Parmeno Davis, enc of thu
city's early settlers and former Mayor. a
widow and one son survive.
Bert Peck was found dead in the laun
dry of the Stowell House Mt Jackson
On his person was partly filled bottle o.
laudanum, showing the cause of death
Peck was about rs years of age, unmar
ried, and had served as porter at thu
Stowell House. His former home was il
Henderson.
| Fred Sands, young man who has beer
married but few weeks and lives tw'
. miles west of Milford, had both hand
blown off and abdomen lacerated by TIL
inadvertent firing of shotgun in his owl
hands. In this condition he walked three
, quarters of a mile to his home. His re
covery is doubtful.
At Kalamazoo the coroner's jury whicl
, investigated the death of Mrs. William
: Thatcher, who was treated by Mrs. Agne
r Chester, Christian scientist, gave its yer
dict to the effect that she died from
| oedema of the lungs resulting from Al
: abnormal tumor and unduly aggravate
by the neglect of proper medical treat
| ment
Q A 3-year-old boy pceped in at the kitch
! en- door of Mrs. Blake, on the Chittende
a farm. near Lansing, and when offered
q | cookie seized it and ran away. TIL
youngster was caught and turned over I
. / the county agent. The boy is wild an