The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-07-30


taken the cashiership oi the Huron Iron
company mt the Columbia mine. MIR.
Nelson was formerly employed in the
office of the Cleveland-Cliffs company.
resignng his position there TO come to
Crystal Falls. He comes highly recon-
mended and we extend to him the right
hand oi Crystal Falls fellowship.
Last Saturday evening the electric
light converter ON the oper house burned
out For time it, lnoked as though
the opera house would catch fire and
the fire company was called out. Their
assistance was not needed in quenching
the flames but the boys made quick
work Of turning out.
Hans Johnson, section boss for the C.
x NV railroad company, has another
job Of track laying ON his hands. This
time il IL q spur tn the new shalt at the
Columbia. Mr.. Johnson il one Of the
best hands at track laying in the employ
OF the company, ms his work about here
will testify To.
One of the hardest transforms that we
have experienced this year-and we have
seen some tough ones-was the shower
last Saturday afternoon. The wind
blew Mt a forty knot gait and the
Tightening and thunder was terrible. A
holt Of tightening struck the house OF
Fred Semka.
Deputy Revenue Collector Sundstrom
says that all checks drawn by officers Of
states. counties and municipalities for
the discharge az state, county and
municipal obligations are exempt from
the stamp act, az per section IL OF the
internal revenue laws.
There were four additions TO the
number OF teachers in attendance at the
institute last Monday The new mem
bers are May Despens, Marinette, Wis. I;
George Hamilton and Alma FRANKIE.
Stambnugh and Mary Rayome, Iron
Mountains.
Last Tuesday was payday at the
Columbia IL WAS expected that the
men would be pail Saturday but the
checks did not arrive until Monday
when they were paid out Immediately.
Mira H. G. Buenger and son Clarence
arrived from Marinette last Saturday.
They intend To make this their future
home. They visited friends ia southern
Wisconsin before coming To the Falls.
Cashier Nelson, OF the Columbia.
visited the Marquette range last Monday
for the purpose OF getting miners. He
succeeded in getting fifteen men from
that range To work at the Columbia.
VIII Jobe, of Amasa, stopped over on
his way TO Watosmeet last Saturday.
We learn that there il n prospect Of the
firms of w. III. lobe & Co. and w. j.
Horder being consolidated.
Seventy-fve dozen OF the very latest
styles and patterns in gentlemen's neck
ties just bpened up ut the Fair. Get
your pick soon. No finer lot ever seen
in the city. A. Lustfed.
NJ. s. Sanders, secretary Of the Huron
and DrSoto Iron companies, came up
from Chicago last Monday and spent
several days looking over the companies
mines In this vicinity.
Through an unfortunate error in the
report of the Fourth ofJuly finances last
week we made the amount paid for FIRE
works read $53.0o instead oi S23 90 as
itLhould have been.
]. N Berg, who has been at Champion
organizing lodges oi the Mystic Workers,
returned home last Tue-day Mr.. Berg
reports meeting with good success on the
Marquette range.
The latest craze-hdcs' beauty pins
with and without setting at 8 cents and
o cents-just received at the Fair, A.
Justified.
Chas. +. Lawrence, superintendent OF
the Hemlock mine, came down from
Amasa last Tuesday on business. TBE
DIAMOND DmI.L acknowledges - pleasant
call,
| tunts lhbtlltH nuLNO, the 0lueHt
mining captain in the Superior district
hns been appointed consulting captain
ut the Clctcland.Cliffs company.
Wm. Morrison, who has been attend
ing the session of the United States
circuit cInt at Marquette as a Juror.
returned llst Saturday.
Proi. WD. Hill and vile. al Ionesviile,
Mich. arrived ia the city this morning.
, They viii lpcupy the residence recently
vacated " L. Il. Cutler.
Mrs. JOIN Erikson aud children re.
} turned Sunday from M extended visit
: with fricns and relatives in soutbern
T Wisconsin,
Matt lifja left yesterday for Negau,
nee to atind the meeting Of the temper.
nnce Finnwbich Us being held at that
? place,
otto ufriere is delegate from the