Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-15

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Timothy Harrington. aged % years, d
Houghton, 4 dead az result Of wound
selfinhicted.f
Fred O'Neill, an Ann Arbor Railroad
switchman at Durand, Is dead as re
suit Of injuries.
At the business mems carnival at Vas
sar Miss Minnie Glenfeld was elected
queen by plurality Of 104.
Rev. Fred George Caldwell OF the FRS
Presbyterian Church at Lansing has &C
cepted call to Frankfort, Ind.
The citizens of Boyne Falls are being
terrorized by gang of highwaymen
Hold-ups are Of frequent occurrence.
The farm residence Of VIM. Squires
located in Seneca township, burned. The
family barely escaped with their lives.
Miss Ella DeLand and j. Lewis Tins,
man were married at Romeo. They will
make their home at Grand Forks, N. d.
Manager Turnbull Of the municipal
lighting plant at Ypsilanti says that the
cost Of lighting that city is only So pei
lamp per year.
Ann Arbor is likely to enter the list
Of first-class postoffices at the end Of the
fiscal year, which will be at the close OF
the present month.
The American Shipbuilding Company is
going to build another vessel at its yards
in West Bay City just as soon as a berth
can be made for it.
Kalamazoo Lodge of Elks, with mem
bership of about 400, will endeavor to
secure the location Of the Elks' National
home at Kalamazoo.
The Ludington novelty works may
move its plant to Kalamazoo. The con-
Germ will be given a bonus Of $1,000 il
ii makes the transfer.
Union City will vote at the spring cleo
ton on the proposition to bond the town
for $4,000 for the purpose Of extending
the electric lighting system.
The Michigan Optical College, organ
lied with $4,000 capital, has filed articles
of Incorporation. 1t will give instruction
in optical science at Lansing.
Parma's new butter factory has begun
operations. The company starts in free
of debt, all of the, $4,000 stock having
been subscribed and paid up.
A petition is now being circulated for
a free delivery east and south of Mason.
The route will reach 40 families and
will be twenty miles in length.
Alpena cannot have the great camp
convention of the Maccabees. The ex-
ecutive coms,ittee has finally decided up
on holding the gathering at Grand Rap
ids.
People and townships are subscribing
literally towards the projected railroad
between Benton Harbor and Toledo, and
it is said the line will surely be built this
year.
Mrs. Celina NJ. Winstet Of SO South
Wabash street, Wheeling, w. Va, is try
ing to find some trace of her sister, Miss
Dugue lie Blanc, who left Alpena about
seven years ago for Detroit.
The first business enterprise started
at Albion was the saw and -four mill of
Jesse Crowell in the thrties. A distil-
lery was started at that place in 1910
and gave employment to eight men.
The Jipson- Carter State Bank of Bliss
field, capitalized at $4,000. has been au-
thorized to do business by Banking Com
missioner Maltz. Russell G. Carter is
president, A. ID. Ellis vicc-president and
w. G. Jipson cashier
Joseph Turner Of Bay City, who is lum-
bering in Canada with headquarters at
Midland, has put in 25,OO0,0O0 feet of
logs this winter and purchased an addi-
tional 100000 feet, which will all be
Sawed into lumber at Midland.
Rev. John Gray, ID. D., for seven years
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church
at Kalamazoo, will next month sever
his connection with it in order to devote
his entire time to the Michigan female
seminary at Kalamazoo, of which he is
president.
The board of control Of the Michigan
College of Mines has voted to establish
twelve scholarships Of the annual value
of $50 each for the benefit of Michigan
students only. The present enrolment
is the largest in the history of the school
and larger than in any other American
mining school.
]. Goetches, residing six miles north of
Romeo, was found in front of his home.
He had spent the day previous with
friends in Amont, returning to his home
at late hour in the evening or early
morning. The cause of death is supposed
to be heart failure. The dead man could
hours previous to being found, as his
body was still warm when discovered
He was about - years old. He had
family and was good farmer.
The Postoffice Department has an
nounced the establishment of the follow
ing new postofiices in the State Of Michi-
gan: Ackerson, Arthur Bay, Blount,
Floyd, Orient, Spoor, Angola, Bayside,
Caffey, Lyman, Navarro. The following
offices have been discontinued: Barron,
mail to be sent to Niles; Cherryhill, mail
to be sent to Ypsilanti: Corinth, mail to
Ross; Deer Park. mail to Newberry;
Erin, mail to Clarview; Fifield, mail to
Bay City; Ryno, mail to Milo; Upton,
mail to Leota; Witbeck, mail to Repub-
lie; Woodlake. mail TO Pierson.
Manager J. w. Wells of the Escanaba
and Lake Superior Railway announces
that the Milwaukee road will commence
the construction of extensive ore docks
at Wells, the lake terminal of the Els
canada road, at once. They are to be
completed by next fall. The Milwaukee
road will use the Escanaba road For the
transportation of ore. 1t has the con-
tract for the construction of eight miles
of road from Ponca to Crystal Ealls,
which will give II entrance to the mines
around that city. 1t is rumored that
the Northwestern Railway contenplates
building a line from Escanaba to Lene-
trate the hardwood and pine belt, as a
rival to the Escanaba and Lake Superior
Railway