The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-07-20
LOCAL ITEMS.

week in town.
F. G. Bennett, of Ishpeming, was
L'Anse visitor Tuesday.
Earl Edgerton was down from
Jacobsville Saturday last.
George w. Botsford, of Hancock,
visited L'Anse friends Saturday.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. X. O..
Ruthstrom, Wednesday, daugh-
ter.
Richard Dillon, of Helena, Mont.
is visiting with his aunt, Mrs. John
O'Connor.
Miss Rose O'Connor left Monday
for Menominee to spend a few
weeks with her sister, Miss Molly.
N. J. Malott, OF the Hathaway
Graphite Manufacturing company,
returned from Chicago Saturday
last.
Miss Jean Van Orden returned to
her home at lHoughton Wednesday
evening, after spending number
of days with L'Anse friends.
Mrs. HI. G. Guck and daughter,
guests at the Beehler residence for
several days, returned to their
home at Calumet Tuesday after
noon.
Will Smith and party of copper
country friends spent Friday and
Saturday of last week fishing in one
OF the nearby streams. They re-
turned home Sunday.
A. social dance was held in the
Town Hall Monday evening. The
affair was gotten up by number
of yeung people and all present had
an enjoyable time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Fink and
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Krenz, who
have been guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
c. p. Blankenhorn for several days,
returned to their home in Milwau-
kee Monday.
The schooner. Oak Leaf, from
Chicago, took on u cargo of about
10000 cedar ties here this week.
The ties are owned by Pascal
Perron, and were cut during the
past winter. They are bound for
Chicago.
A party in town AYERS that
a mattress was stolen from their
yard one evening last week. 1t
is hard to believe that L'Anse
harbors any person who could be
guilty of such a contemplate
trick.
Samuel Levitt, of Houghton,
Miss Rebecca Horwich, of Calumet,
and Louis Simon, of Goshen, Ind,
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. d.
Levitan last week. The parties re-
turned to their respective homes
Sunday.
r. r. Roberts, of Russell, Mimi,
is spending number of days in
this village visiting with his-old
friends, J. r. Thomas, r. R.
Williams and J. d. Rowlands. Mr.
Roberts was foreman of the slate
quarry at Arvon, in this county,
twenty-four years ago, when the
auarries were worked under lthe
superintendency of r. r. Williams.
He now owns az large farm at
Russell, Mimi.
George Degagne, who has operat-
ed numbering camps in the vicinity
of L 'Anse for number OF years,
for w. S. Prickett, of Sidnaw, will
leave shortly for Idaho, to take
: up o timber claim. Mr.. Degagne
went to Green Bay Thursday on a
business trip, but will return to
L'Anse for day or SO, before his
final departure for the west.
An insurance statistician furnishes
the following figures on amounts OF
old line insurance claims paid in the
upper peninsula last year: Baraga,
SO, 800; Calumet, sl5,O76; Escanaba,
s1S,977; Hancock, 81 1892; Iron Noun.
tain, 81 800; Ishpeming, 81 600; Iron
wood, s4, 900; Lake Linden, 5000
Marquette, 1860; Newberry, 49,
$50; Sault Ste. Marie, 81, 800; st. Ig
mace, $4,000 During the year
claims aggregating 81 1850, ,424 were
paid in Detroit. The largest deatf
claim paid in the upper peninsula
was that of S. Kaufman, OF Mar
quette. 1t was 23,04l. Some bis
life insurance policies are held il
Menominee. S. M. Stephenson
carries over 100000 and William
Holmes 100000.