Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-09-14

The Charlotte Chair Co. has not yet
gone into the chair trust, according to ,
stakeholder.
Calhoun County Lumber Dealers As
sociation has raised the price Of lumber
- per 1000 feet.
Track laying on the Copper Range Rail
road has been begun. The road will be
IN operation by Dec. i.
Park Griswold and Bert. Skinner OF
Kalamazoo, who were supposed to have
persisted In the Klondike, are NIL right
Col: David Henry McComns, Lansing,
a military man and politician, died sud-
denly Of heart disease, aged "a years.
John Fairfield, once one OF the best
known criminal lawyers ut Grand Rap
ids, has been admitted to the county poor
house'g .sanYln gssss Efud al
A firebug tried to burn the Fourth
Street Holland Church at Muskegon. The
fire was discovered before IT had done
much damage.
Miss Charity Mosher, aged 90 years,
who lives at Mosherville, fell down stairs
while walking in her sleep and received
serious injuries.
now obliged to go to st. Clair river for
their water supply because Of wells and
streams drying up. -'tth 3
Five miles of grading on the Marshall.
Columbus and Northeastern Railroad.
which is to run between Marshall and
Bay City, have been completed.
Mrs. J.. s. Colp Of jackson has sailed
for Costa Rica to join her husband, who
Is superintendent of gold mine in that
country. She is making the trip alone.
Judge Maxwell Of Bay City is disgust
ed with the police force Of that city and
has directed Sheriff Gunterman to see to
it that the laws of Michigan are enforced
in Bay City.
The State Board Of Education will en-
courage the organization of school off,
GERS associations in counties, patterned
after the one recently organized in Wash
tenaw County.
A. j. Wildonger, a well-known dentist
and U. of NJ. frat. man, was badly in
jured at Flint by being thrown from his
bicycle. The forksA broke while he was
going down a hill. \ Ell
Officers, who take patients to asylums
where they are refused admission must
| take the patients back to the counties
from which they come, according to At
torney General Maynard.
Michael Donovan and Frank Reed, two
Of the tramps who assaulted and held up
four Grand Rapids boys on D., II. G.
| & w. freight train near McCord's, were
sentenced to three years each at Ionia.
Louis Petee, who lives at Blinfield, is
almost old enough to celebrate his one
hundred and eighth birthday, and yet he
is as-well and strong, both in body and
in mind, as many men fifty years his
junior.
| The store Of Rutgers & Tien of GRAF
schap was entered by burglars. lien,
who lives near by, heard the explosion
which wrecked the safe, and ran to the
| store with revolver in hand, butthe burg
lars had escaped. They secured but So
| in change.
The dates for Kalamazoo's street fair
have been changed to Oct. II, IS, 10, 20.
| The presence of President Mckinley dur
| ing that week is almost assured. He has
made a conditional promise to Senator
| Burrows to come.
Hold-ups are becoming frequent at Ann
Arbor and in the immediate vicinity. Ed
| ward Smith of Mordens and c. A.
Rhodes of Saline are the latest victims.
Both escaped, however, without losing
any OF their valuables.
Thomas Good, the Detroit crook who
| was arrested ut Lansing Aug. o for al
legged robbery and afterward escaped
| from the Mason Jail, was bound over to
the Ingham Circuit Court for trial. Good
was captured in Detroit after his escape
| from Jail.
OF the 10T applicants for teachers GER
| tificates at the recent county examina-
ton at Ann Arbor only GO succeeded In
passing. The applicants are loud in their
denunciation Of the questions which were
sent out from Lansing, especially in the
arithmetic examination.
III. B. Gillette Of Benton Harbor has
patented roller bearing for use on vehi-
cles Of all kinds. These bearings are now
being used on 100 trucks in the Peters
lumber yard and do the work Of four
men. He thinks the invention will revo-
lutionize vehicle building.
| The Board Of Supervisors of Mecosta
County will rebuild the county house at
Stanwood which burned recently. The
new building is to be Of brick and so con-
structed that it may be added to at some
future time, should it become necessary.
The expense Of the portion to he built
now is not to exceed $4,000.
| Twenty years ago John Thompson de-
serted his wife in Berrien County. Not
having heard from her husband, Mrs.
Thompson concluded he was dead, and
last spring married Edward McGarvey.
A few days ago Thompson reappeared.
Mrs. Thompson will apply for divorce
and she and McGarvey will be remar-
| ried.
| Thompsoaville had a narrow escape
from being destroyed by fire. The city
had just purchased new pump for the
water works and a gang of men was at
work getting 1t in place. While they
were at work fire started in the station
and that building and Levant's eating
room adjoining were destroyed. The
pump was useless, but a lack Of wind
saved the town. er-i CO ~ 7s
Rev. Il. w. MacLean. rector OF Trim
ity Church, Bay City, has accepted a
call to st. Marks Church ut Minneapo-
lis, MINI. He is a prominent minister.
| Grand Rapids Board OF Health will
enforce the State law relative to con-
sumption and to compel physicians to
report all cases Of 1t, the same as other
contagious diseases. Physicians will
make fight on II.
Miss Mabel L. Taylor Of Michigan has