The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-09-23
LOCAL ITEMS.


]. B. Smith was at Marquette
Monday and Tuesday.
S. H. McGregor, of Covington,
was in town Tuesday.
Gus Londberg, of Skanee, spent a
few hours in town Monday.
Maj. w. X. Haviland was down
5 from Pequaming Monday.
Workmen are engaged in putting
the steam heating apparatus in the
Court House and Jail.
Supervisor p. F. Tracy, of Gov
ington township, was in town the
fore part OF the week.
Thomas Long, travelling agent for
the Upper Peninsula Brewing com
pany, was in town Tuesday.
John Lyons, formerly of Coving-
ton, now in business at Houghton,
was in town Wednesday.
The new Northern Normal college
at Marquette starts in with an en-
rollment of tifty-five pupils.
Five children of Franklin Wilde
left for Mount Pleasant Monday
evening, where they will attend
school.
Mrs Alice Flynn, Of Calumet,
called on friends in town few
hours Wednesday, She left for
Chicago on the afternoon train.
Thomas Chapel has rented
Franklin Wilde's farm, about one
mile northeast of this village, and
with his mother and sister will re-
move there in a few days.
The annual report of the board of
education of the township of L'Anse
for the year ending September 4th,
1899, will be found on page eight of
this issue of The SENTINEL.
At the annual meeting of the
school board Monday morning, Miss
Cora Reynolds was engaged as
teacher of the VI. +. Mission school,
to succeed Miss Libbie Columbus,
resigned.
We are indebted to Hon. Chase
S. Osborn, state commissioner Of
railroads, for one Of the large, new
official railroad maps of the state,
issued September lst. The maps
are the finest ever issued.
Alex. G.. Shields has been granted
a patent for q bicycle rest. The
device is an excellent one, and also
an ornament to a wheel, and will
undoubtedly prove money maker
for the inventor. Mr. Shields is
indeed to be congratulated.
The weekly crop bulletin of the
Michigan weather bureau says that
killing frosts played havoc with
late potatoes. Corn cutting is near
ly completed all over the state, Sc
this crop suffered little. The apple
yield is light and of poor quality.
Rt. Rev. Bishop G. Mott Williams,
of Marquette, preached a very in
teresting sermon at Pequamin9
Sunday morning last, and at the
M. f. church in this village Sunday
evening. The bishop left for the
copper country Monday on briel
visit. ~
Powell & Mitchell, government
contractors, having the work at
Portage Entry and on the Marquette
breakwater, are building the cribs
at Houghton and towing them to
Marquette. The distance is eighty
miles. The cribs are 100 feet long
and three have been safely landed in
place at Marquette. 1t is believed
that this will cause government con-
tractors to build their crib work ia
q place where it can be done to the
best advantage and tow them when
completed to place.
Under the new law relating to
distribution of estates, widow is
given all the household goods. I'm
der the old law the widow was given
only household goods to the value OF
$3.50. The new law provides that
where there are no children, when
the estate is settled and ready to be
distributed, the widow is allowed
$4,000 before the remainder of the
estate is divided between her and
the relatives OF the husband. Under
the old law she was only given
$1,000. This means that il the
estate is worth 5000, or less, after
it is settled the widow is entitled to
all of it, and the relatives get moth.
ing at all.