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

5ured the sugar beet crop In bay County.
More than $4,000 was paid In one day
by Duluth buyers for Benzie County APP
pies.
]. Michaels Of Detroit Is talking CT
starting a stave and hoop mill at Port
Huron.
Plainwell boasts that she Is known
throughout the State as the town Of
pretty girls" -t
Surveying on the line OF the proposed
electric line between Jackson and Battle
Creek has begun.
The gate receipts of Washtenaw Coun-
ty fair this year were $2,345.5O, or $23
less than last year.
The college Of mines ut Houghton open
ed with an enrolment of fifty old and
thirty new students.
Muskegon milk dealers are forming a
combine for the purpose Of raising the
price of their wares.
A horse owned by Fred Spaulding, an
near Berrien Springs.
The Athelstan Club Of Battle Greek, a
business mems organization, will erect a
$4,000 club house.
For the nine months ending Oct. the
Genesee County treasurer paid out ST.
1926 in sparrow bounty.
The coming winter Is going to be one Of
the busiest in numbering in Presque Isle
County for many years.
The Federal Steel Co. is negotiating for
the purchase of the Baraga iron mine on
the East Negaunee range.
Squire & Sterling are erecting a mill
ON the east branch OF the Rife river, near
Standish, to cut hardwood.
Ypsilanti Common Council will pay the
premiums on insurance on the State Nor
NAL buildings located IN that city.
Fred G. Davis has been appointed post
master at Washington, Macomb County,
vice Mandene III. Edgett, resigned.
Miss Lottie Greeman tainted while rid
ing on merry-go-round at the Washte-
nav fair and died soon afterwards.
Only fifty-six prisoners were held in
Monroe jail during the past six months,
the smallest number in fifteen years.
Mrs. Emma Smock, who lives 61a miles
north of Clare, had the thumb Of her
right hand bitten off by vicious horse.
DIR. r. G. Kedzie Of the Agricultural
College says that Michigan grapes are in
rare condition this season to make good
wine.
Thirty thousand ties and posts belong
ing to Riebenack & Sanborn of Alpena
burned at Osineke. Loss $4,000, insur-
ance $4,000.
Five hundred chickens, belonging to
different Calumet people, have been killed
within the past two weeks by some un-
known animal.
Mrs. Irwin w. Conkey, wife of ex-
Mayor Conkey of Benton Harbor, COM
mitted suicide by hanging herself from a
rafter in the barn.
Ralph NJ. Matthews, member of a
well-known Berrien Springs family, was
instantly killed ut Pinole, CAL, in a pow
der mill explosion.
The State Board of Agriculture has
awarded the contract for building new
dormitory for women at the Michigan
Agricultural College.
Joseph Frazer Of Algonac claims to be
the oldest resident in st. Clair County.
and will pass his one hundredth birthday
on March Is, 1900.
The residence of George Werner, Mt
52S Packard street, Ann Arbor, was dam
aged $500 by fire. He says it was set on
fire by a colored man.
Mrs. Margaret Yates, aged 20 years, Of
Battle Creek, was passenger on board
the Inflated steamer Scotsman. She
nearly died of exposure.
Schoolcraft is to have a piano factory,
which will occupy the old casket factory
building. In addition large new build
ing will also be erected.
Chicago capitalists are talking Of es'
tablishing one of the largest canning fac
tories in the State at Berrien SPRING.
The village will donate site.
The State Board Of Agriculture has
awarded the contract to build the new
dormitory for women to A. w. Mohnke
of Grand Rapids for $4,000.
\ squirrel with four distinct tails, each
growing directly from the body, was shot
by A. Priskey of Detroit on the Sturgeon
river, twelve miles from Houghton.
At the annual meeting Of the State As
ISOLATION of Farmers Clubs to be held
at Lansing in December, trusts and the
new State tax commission will be dis
cussed.
John Walker of Goodland township
Sanilac County, has held the Office OF
school assessor in his school district for
thirty-six consecutive years, and thinks
it Is the record.
An infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Stanley, who live two miles north
OF Upton, fell into a cistern. Mrs. STAN
ley jumped in to rescue the child and
both were drowned.
Marcellus has a good roads organiza-
ton, composed of the local business men,
who will spend several hundred dollars
improving the highways over which trade
comes into the village.
Thieves are working at Inlay City.
Mrs. Rowan Hallock lost $50 in cash,
$15 worth Of jewelry and some valuable
coins, and a horse and buggy belonging
to Frank Smith were also stolen
The wife of julius Rathmann Of Grand
Rapids committed suicide by attaching
rubber tube to the gas pipe and putting
the other end in her mouth and inhaling
the fumes. She was dead when found.
Charles Avanall, a farm hand working
for Edward HARDWOOD in Orange town
ship, was found in an oat field on Har-
woods farm. He had q bullet hole in
his forehead and his own revolver lay by
his side. He was a German and could
not read or write. He was Fl years old.