The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-21
LOCAL ITEMS.
Thomas Larkham, OF Skanee, was
in town Tuesday.


in town Tuesday.
]. B. Smith was confined to his
home by sickness part of the week.
Mrs. M. ]. McCabe visited rela-
tives in Hancock Monday and
Tuesday.
J. d. Rowland left for Ishpeming
Monday, where he will remain dur
isg the winter.
Miss Annie Sterk returned from
Marquette Monday, where she had
been visiting friends.
Miss Mary Wallace, of Houghton,
was the guest of the Misses Thomas
the fore part of the week.
T. ]. Carney, representing the
lumber firm of w. ]. Carney & Co.,
of Chicago, was in town this week.
An exchange tells of little fell
low who went to church on recent
Sunday and was greatly interested
in the collection. He watched the
ushers for a time, then whispered to
his father: ''Papa, morn half the
folks has got in freep
Messrs. Gordon, Allen and Ed
ward Johnston have had tomb
stone placed at the graves of their
parents, the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew Johnston. The stone was
placed in position Thursday.
Thomas Chapel was at Bay City
this week in attendance at the an
nual meeting of the grand lodge,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
of Michigan, as representative
from L L'Anse Lodge, No. 445. The
meeting lasted three days-Tues-
day, Wednesday and Thursday.
At a meeting of the Lady Mac
cabees Monday evening banquet
was given in honor of Miss Elsie
McKernan, who recently returned
from years absence in California.
During the evening Miss McKernan
gave an interesting account of her
travels, and the evening was indeed
greatly enjoyed by those present.
The Escanaba Journal states that
"the chief products of Chatham, in
Alger county (the place selected by
the board of agriculture for the
upper peninsula experiment sta
tion), are whiskers, mosquitoes and
sawlogs. -" The board evidently
came to the conclusion that it would
be impossible to please everybody
and the spot selected for the farm
plainly shows that it didn't try.
DR.. w. r. Stringham informs
THE SENTINEL that Mrs. Stringham,
who has been connected in the
drug business with her father in
southern Michigan for the past
year, will remove her stock of
drugs and druggists sundries to
L'Anse and open store November
1st. DR.. Stringham has rented
the corner store in the Wallace
block. and will have his residence
and office in the rooms above.
The thirty-ninth annual conven-
tion of the Michigan State Sunday
School Association will be held in
the Tabernacle, Battle Creek Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday,
November 14th, 18th and 10th.
The indications are, that this con-
vention will be the most largely at
tended meeting OF it's kind in the
state. This convention will bring
together prominent Sunday school
workers from every denomination,
the association being thoroughly in
terdenominational.
The following is from the Mchi.
gan School Moderator, published
Thursday: ''The complete equip
ment of the school of L'Anse in
library and apparatus is very
gratifying. 1t is probably true
that its reference library and its
physical apparatus are better than
those of any school of its size in
Michigan. The town is small one,
the industries that once made it
lively are now removed, so that one
cannot say that the school tax is
not somewhat burdensome; yet
these people keep their schoolhouse
in an excellent state Of repair, they
keep good teachers, and supply
them with every needed appliance.
The people appreciate the worth OF
education to their children. They
appreciate the fact that teachers
who make teaching business and