Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-09-21

agtJated mere auu IL - probable tudu
well will be sunk to prove what lies
beneath us. There are wild rumors
afioat Of new discovery on Loves
place. but nothing definite is known
or decided.
DR.. Woodwork brought In a NAM
moth tomato of which his garden
has an abundant supply. Such fruit
has different flavor from that cart
ed hundreds of miles to the consumer
and there Is no reason why all should
not raise IL here.
Mr.. Yakelle's six-year-old girl was
kicked by a horse Tuesday and her
skull fractured. DR.. Insley, assisted
by DR.. Cornelius, of Roscommon, ire
pinned and removed the fractured
bone, but there is but little hope of
her recovery. They reside at Che
ney.
Burr Silsby and Guy belong, who
have been visiting !. M. Silsby for
the past six weeks, returned to their
homes in Traverse City on their
wheels, making the entire distance
of IS miles in IL hours. Seven miles
of the trip was through the rain.
RIOS. News.
The old veterans. accompanied by
the Roscommon cornet band, left on
the 6, 25 train this morning for West
Branch to attend the reunion OF the
Soldiers and Sailors of Northern
Michigan, which opened yesterday.
A number of our citizens and the
bali club accompanied them.-Ros.
News.
The wheat on the Nicholson farm
at Houghton Lake, yielded 20 BUSH
els to the acre. He had In ninety
acres, and threshed nearly 1000 bush
els. This is an exceedingly large
yield, considering the low average
throughout the state, and shows that
this county is right in the wheat
belt News.
The man Jacobs whom we men
toned last week as having jambo-
rec at the old Youngs place, attempt
ed suicide Thursday morning by stab
bling himself over the heart and at
tempting to sever an artery in his
arm. Luckily for him both cuts
were wrongly directed and only made
bad flesh wounds.
DIED-At her home in this village
Friday, September Is, Ann Bourke,
aged 76 years, and on the 10th she
was followed by her husband, John
BouIke, aged 81 years. They were
buried at Linwood, near Bay City
and it is pleasure to know that the
long years they have been united
here will be continued in the glad
hereafter, without the pang of long
separation. They had been respect
ed residents of Grayling for about
ten years and will be greatly missed
in their church and society, to which
they were devoted members.
Among the veterans who attended
the reunion at West Branch, last
week, we noticed comrades r. p.
p. Forbes, A. G. Wilcox; A.
II. Wisner; ]. F.' Wilcox; j.
M. Francis; w. S. Chalker and Il.
Chittigo with their wives, and S.
Hempsted, d. Smith, A. L. Pond
G. lngerson, John Hanna, Hubbard
Head S. Johnson, j. Burton, James
Carr; G. b. Johnson; d. S. Waldron;
and w. WOODBURY.. There may have
beer others that we missed in the
crowd, but all had an enjoyable
time.
Grayling Lodge I. o. o. +. No.
1877, to the number Of forty, are In
attendance at the Crystal or 18th
anniversary session of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge, at Detroit. They left
here Tuesday in special car, which
was beautifully decorated with ban
ners and flags. Their convention
badge is beauty, and is a Michigan
production being made of native
copper. From wolverine is sus-
pended the badge proper, bearing
the Michigan coat of arms and ap-
propriate inscriptions and emblems.
We anticipate they will have most
enjoyable visit.
Paul LeBrash who is very decent
and respectable man when himself,
was drunk, and imagined that his
child who was injured slightly while
playing on the school grounds, was
hurt by the teachers and he went to
the school house for revenge, making
such disturbance that Nolan was
sent for and run him in. While In
Jail some one passed him bottle of
whisky, the contents Of which made
him more crazy and he chewed up
the neck of the bottle. laceratinQ