The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-12-10
LOCAL ITEMS.

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this year.
Charles Conley, of Covington, was
in town Tuesday.
Joseph Countin went to the cop
per country Tuesday.
The new addition to the county
Jail is nearly completed.
Henry Shellafoe, who resides near
Pequaming, is seriously i'll.
There will be a meeting of the
board Of supervisors December 29th.
Attorney P. r. McKernan made q
business trip to the copper country
Monday.
Capt. w. Been, of Skanee, return
ed Tuesday evening from business
trip to Marquette.
A regular meeting OF Meadow
Brook Hive, No. 554, l.. o. T. M,
will be held next Monday evening,
Dec. 18th.
M. ]. McCabe has started cedar
camp o short distance south west
OF the D., S. S. Il A.. depot, on Sec
tion nine. -
Edward Melin, who has been
working in the lumber camps at
Huron Bay, is laid up with very
sore hand.
A total eclipse of the moon will
occur December 28th. The eclipse
will begin at 5:57 and end at 7:26
o'clock in the morning.
The county treasurer's report of
the liquor dealers of the county who
have paid their license is published
in other columns of Tx SENTINEL
today.
H. T. Ingersoll, who sold his
grocery business in Houghton last
week, has secured position as
bookkeeper with Hodgson Bros. &
Hoar, OF that city,
The date for the annual party OF
Meadow Brook Hive, l.. o. Il. NJ,
which was set for Monday evening,
January I'd, has been changed to
Friday evening, December 3Oth.
Charles Smith, who recently sold
his blacksmithing business to
Octave Sicotte, removed to Hough-
ton Saturday last, where he in
tends to open another shop.
1t is estimated that not more
than 1000 deer were killed in the
upper peninsula during the open
season. The slaughter was about
1000 less than last year.
President McKinley's annual mes
sage to congress will be found on
other pages of The SENTINEL today.
The message consumes twelve
columns and will be found very in
teresting.
A social will be given in the Town
Hall Friday evening of next week,
December 10Th, by the members of
the Christian Endeavor society.
The admission will be only 10 cents,
and an excellent entertainment is
promised. Each person is request
ed to bring clothes-pin.
Lake Superior is in danger of los
ing it's distinction of being the
largest body of fresh water on the
globe. African explorers begin to
think that Lake Victoria Nyanza is
larger. Superior covers 81 900
square miles, and Nyanza has been
credited with 80, 900; but recent ex-
plorations have discovered hither-
to unknown bay on its southern side,
which so increased it's known area
as to make it q question whether 1t
is not larger than Superior. Fuller
explorations and more careful sur
veyS must be MADE, however, oeiore
q decision can be reached.
This year the corn husks are un-
commonly thick, the fur on the
muskrat is long and heavy, and the
goose bone has more spots on it
than leopard. All OF these are
signs. The winter is going to be
extraordinary cold or long, or it is
going to be mild and open or hot,
or perhaps it is to be neither. These
signs can never be read Alright until
the winter is about over. Then
they come out with startling plain
ness, and everyone can see just
what they mean. In this respect
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