The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-06-07
LOCAL ITEMS.

L. Amesse was over from Baraga
on business Monday.
A meeting OF the village council
was held Thursday evening.
A party Of eight or ten school
girls enjoyed themselves picnicing
at the falls Friday last.
Mr.. and Mrs. Owen Thomas and
children, OF Arcadian mine,
visited relatives in town for few
days this week.
Knut Ruthstrom went to Han
cock Wednesday, where he has
taken o position in his brothers
jewelry store.
Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Brennan
returned Saturday evening last
from their honeymoon trip OF Ten
days duration. They will begin
housekeeping in the Turner resi-
dence.
Rev. J. M. Shank returned from
Marquette Friday morning, where
he had been in attendance at the
annual meeting Of the Lake Superior
Methodist preachers, held in that
city this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Crane have
removed to L'Anse from Sagola,
Mich. They arrived Tuesday and
are making their residence tenn
porarily at the home of Mrs. Cranes
mother, Mrs. Miller.
Supervisors August Gilman. of
Arvon; Peter Girard, Of Baraga;
John Lyons, of Covington, and
Joseph Thoney, of Spur, were in
town Wednesday in attendance at q
meeting Of the county board.
George Mum and ."Jack" Trevil-
lian, of the Arcadian, were guests
at the Menard residence Sunday and
Monday. They returned home
Tuesday morning with twenty
pounds of fine brook trout.
Captain Mckenzie, of the tug
Hebard, was in Houghton Wednes-
day evening. Captain Mckenzie is
one of the oldest and best known
tug captains on the lakes. He has
sailed for thirty years .or more
Gazette.
At recent wedding in a nearby
town the groom was very nervous,
and just before entering the church,
asked: "Is it the right or left hand
the ring goes on? And say" he
suffered, ''is it Missionary to cuss
the bride?"
A meeting OF the county road
commissioners was held at the
Court House Tuesday afternoon.
All the members of the board,
James McKercher, of Spur, Simon
Denomie, of Assinins, and Daniel
Mcmillan, Of Baraga, were present
at the meeting.
Fred Guck, VIM. Johnson and M.
Martini, of Calumet, were guests
of Geo. 0. Beehler Sunday
and Monday. The gentlemen
were sent home happy in the
thought that they were the posses
sors of q combined catch Of twenty
FIVE pounds of Baraga county brook
trout.
Mrs. N. ]. Dough erty, while
driving along the road between
L'Anse and Skanee Wednesday,
was considerably frightened upon
seeing large black bear emerge
from the underbrush at one side of
the road. The animal kept on the
road for short distance, and then
disappeared.
And now, it is said, the new dog
law is up to the sheriff, who can
easily see the incongruities of its
provisions. The law says he shall
kill every dog whose tax is not paid,
or be subject to the penalty. The
same law says the township treas
urer shall collect the same as any
other tax, or be subject to the
penalty. Suppose the dog owner
shows that the tax has never been
called for by the treasurer, and the
sheriff kills the dog. What then?
Not long ago two enthusiastic
anglers, whose names we'll not
make public, arranged a fishing
match to decide the respective
merits OF the worm and the minnow
as bait. For hours they sat patiently
on bank without getting as much
as nibble. At last the proprietor
OF the worm suddenly said that he
had got bite, and, jerking his line