The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-22
LOCAL ITEMS.

| Miss Catherine Thomas is quite Ill
at her home.
D. Lcvitan was at Dollar Bay aud
Hancock Thursday.
| M. Wallace, the Houghton livery
man, spent Sunday and Monday in
| L'Anse.
! The sidewalks in several portions
OF the village are in frightful state
OF dilapidation.
There will be a meeting OF the
school board OF L'Anse township
next Monday.
| Tomorrow will be Palm Sunday.
The custom OF blessing and dis
tributing palms will be observed in
Sacred Heart church.
! During the month OF February,
according to the returns forwarded
to the secretary of state, there were
only three deaths in Baraga county.
Miss Adeline Beehler, of Lansing,
spent Tuesday and Wednesday with
her mother on her return from Du-
luth, where she had been visiting
friends for week.
The chess club was entertained by
DR.. and Miss Zellen at the home of
Rev. and Mrs. Shank Tuesday eve-
ming. A pleasant social time was
spent after which dainty refresh
ments were served.
/ County School Commissioner Nc
Kama will hold a regular examina.
tion for teachers eighth grade GER
tificates at the court house next
Thursday and Friday mornings, be-
ginning at 8 o'clock each morning.
| Andrew Wahl, Sr., will return to
Shelldrake, Chippewa county, next
week, after visit at his home here
for few days. Mr.. Wahl is super
intendent of numbering operations
for the Calumet & Hecla Mining Co.
at that point. The product is min
ing timber.
| From summary of the divorce
business in Michigan as returned by
the county clerks to the department
of state for the year 1901, it is
learned that there was but one sep
aration granted in Baraga county
during the year. The total number
of cases for the year was four, of
which three are still pending.
| Application has been made by
residents of the village for guam
tity OF the brook trout fry to be
planted in the streams Of the state
by the Michigan fish commission
next month. A petition was cir
culated this week among those who
may be interested, and was quite
numerously signed. When the dis
tribution is made, therefore, several
cans of the fish will be dropped off
at l. 'Anse for planting in the near
by streams.
There is an apparent inconsistency
| in the new Inheritance tax law.
1t appears that the law provides
that county treasurers shall have l
per cent of all amounts collected
hereunder as collection fee, but
at the same time the law provides
that all moneys collected from inher-
itance taxes shall be paid into the
primary school fund Of the state.
The Marquette land Office has been
advised that the commissioners OF the
| general land office have sustained the
action of the Marquette authorities
in several homestead contests.
Among the contests was
that OF John r. Thomas, of
this village, VS.. the heirs
of George Oakley, involving 160
acres in Houghton county. The case
was decided in favor OF Mr.. Thomas.
This week the Marquette Office has
taken action on a case involving 100
4 acres in Baraga county. The tract
was entered by Hcdedge Pichette
and contested by Frederick Lund-
berg, OF Skanee. The decision was
in favor OF the latter.
! Superintendent of Public Iustruc-
tion Fall has learned that agents are
going over the state selling language
charts to district school boards at
$40, and claiming that the public r-
struction department had sent them
out. Supt. Fall says that the de-
partment did no such thing andcalls
attention to the fact that district
: school boards cannot purchase the
charts at that price without first
getting the vote the district. Supt.
Fall will write each county school