Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-10-26

~ Newaygo has added lath mill to the
list 81 her industries.
There Is talk OF establishing beet SUI
gar factory Mt Dundee. M
Two highWaymen held up and robbed
Carl Brockei near Lapeer.
Seven weddings occurred at Albion
during three days recently.
Altoona County farms report only half
a crop Of potatoes this year.
y The Calhoun County Fair Association
cleared nearly $1,000 ON this years fair.
At least S,OO0,O00 dozens Of celery win
be marketed at Kalamazoo this season,
the value Of which is estimated at fully
$1,000 900. At least 100000 dozens will
be shipped to outside consumers.
Mrs. Lucinda Walker Of Blissfeld
township has just married her sixth hus-
band. tlf st
Bruce Lewis, aged D years, was acct
dentally shot and killed BY a playmate at
Berville. W
Charles Farr, the Jackson prison trus-
,ty, who escaped Sept. %, has been re-
captured.
s A farmer near Galien has harves ted
$4,000 bushels Of onions from forty-five
acres of land.
Il. Bement Sons of Lansing will build
a 65x1O0 feet addition TO their present
mammoth plant. W
Dr. Wakeman, a former resident Of
Standish, Is erecting new roller process
-four mill at Whittemore.
Samuel Richardson OF Rock Falls
threshed $40 bushels Of oats in four
hours and ten minutes
The 14-year old son Of Angelo Angeloni
was struck by an ore train at Iron Noun
tain and very badly cut about the head.
The total amount expended for the
poor of Jackson County for the year
ending Sept. 30, 1899, was ST., 1860.
, George Monroe, a wandering barber,
who stole razors from a shop in Port
Ionia.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hayden Of Char
lotte have just celebrated their golden
wedding. Mr.. Hayden is 80 years old
and his wife &C. I'LL
A story comes from Kalamazoo to the
effect that Mrs. Alfred Fisher of that
city coughed up snake two feet long,
The story is vouched for. Il,
Paul Davis, convicted last week Of
been sentenced by Judge Beach to, ten
years at Jackson State prison.
The saw and shingle mill at Utica,
owned by Hon. George b. Davis, and
which had been idle for some time,
burned down. Loss $4,000, no insurance.
Mrs. Joseph Boucher of Muskegon
made an unsuccessful attempt to COM
nit suicide by taking a dose of ammonia.
She was Respondent over the death Of
her baby.
The Macomb County Sunday School
Association has elected Rev. Mr.. Win
ton, Romeo, president, and Mrs. u. p.
May, New Baltimore, secretary and
treasurer.
For twenty years Mrs. Elizabeth Gro
mie of Owosso never heard from her hus-
band after he went out west, but the 9TH
er day he telegraphed her that he was
coming home.
The largest saw and planning mill in the
thumb, owned by VIM. Clothington and
AOCdttu ntaI iIdol Lay lOiy JULIEN. 4otdi
loss estimated at $4,000. Incendiarism
was the cause. ~ 81
Rev. Il. e. Wright Of Stockbridge has
received and accepted call to the pull
pit of the Baptist Church at st. Johns
to succeed Rev. w. f. Allen, who goes to
st. Louis, Mo.
James Wood, alias Carson, one OF the
three men who robbed Calumet postoffce
some time ago, is serving a term in the
as his term expires.
Many wealthy members of Muskegon
churches own stock in the opera house
in that city and the~pastors who have
been attacking Sunday entertainments
will probably give up the fight. ~
Dmondale is stirred up over the mar
riage of Mrs. Emma Flagler to Martin
Weldon, her hired man. 1t was Mrs.
Flagler's daughter, Noble, who was muir
dered last summer by James H. Brumm.
Notwithstanding the reports to the
contrary which have appeared in some of
the State papers. the officials Of the new
ly Incorporated village of Benzonia have
qualified ard are holding meetings every
week. 4 .a,.
The hastings iron and engine works at
Hastings has purchased additional prop
erty end will branch out In the manufnc-
ture OF hot air registers, sink basins, etc.,
putting in extensive japanning works and
foundry. tCgtAE iE Gl }F
There were 2,733 deaths reported to
the Secretary of State for September.
This number is twelve less than the
number reported for the preceding month
and 115 more than the number reported
for September, 1898. ~ Fl
The presence of mind of a 6-year-old
daughter, of j. s. Palmer saved the life
Of her 2-year-old baby sister at Sebe-
waing. The baby twas playing in the
yard and accidentally fell into a tub OF
water. Her elder sister held her head
above the water until help reached her.
The remains Of Paul Barhyte, the
young man who committed suicide, in
Jackson by shooting, were takeI 70 Char
lotte for burial. Barhyte was a boy Of
splendid habits, and a graduate of the
commercial department of the Charlotte
high school. He was married. in Febru-
airy to Miss Florence CASHIER. both being
under 20 years old. Fac the. past few
months he has been Studying for a mail
clerk position, but fail.d in the ,examina-
ton. He has a brother who,fs a mail
clerk on the Grand Trunk, Railroad. His
failure to pass the test and being out of
work made him Respondent, and causAd
him to commit the act
Farmers in the vicinity az y Duropd