The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-06-20
LOCAL ITEMS.

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in town Tuesday on business.
Mrs. B. F. Lewis left Tuesday
evening for Algonac. to visit friends
for a few days.
Miss Kate Shea is taking the ex-
animation for teachers certificate
in Houghton county.
Miss Rosabelle Gauther aud Jos.
Gauther, Of Dollar Bay, visited rela-
tives in town this week.
The circus advertising man was
here last week and the old town cer-
tainly looks very gaudy now.
Mrs. John Campbell left Tuesday
evening for Petersburg, Mich, to
visit relatives for q few weeks.
The Misses Horwitz and Neimark,
Of Calumet, returned home Sunday,
after a weeks visit at the home
of Mrs. Samuel Levitt.
Mrs. Dudley and Miss Edridge
Lefebvre, OF Minneapolis, arrived
Monday for couple of months visit
at the home OF their sister, Mrs. O..
Sicotte.
Miss Aurelia Murphy and Miss
Anna Butz were at Baraga Thurs
day and Friday to take the examina-
tion for teachers certificates before
Commissioner NJ. ]. McKanna.
Sunday and Monday were Flag
days, but the only observance OF
the day noticed in L'Anse was the
floating of the stars and strips from
the county building and from the
flag pole in the school yard.
The crowds that walk to the rail-
road depot to watch the incoming
passenger trains on beautiful Sun
day afternoon is a remarkable ex-
ample of the development of the
curiosity bump in some people.
Supt. Geo. A. Davis, OF the town
ship schools, expects to leave about
the middle of next week for Olivet,
Mich, TO visit for short time with
his parents. Mr.. Davis will spend
his vacation travelling through south
ern Wisconsin for the American
Book company.
The "Children S day" exercises at
the NJ. E. church last Sunday were
we'll attended and the program as
published in these columns last Sat-
urday was carried out with credit to
all who took part. 1t consisted Of
recitations, songs, choruses, ETC.,
and the rendition of each number on
the program displayed evidence Of
the training the children had been
undergoing.
Several hundred dollars have been
spent in the past few weeks towards
improving the interior OF the Court
House. The offices OF the clerk,
treasurer and Judge Of probate have
been renovated and the walls kalso-
mined for the first time in twenty
years. The circuit court room on
the second floor has also been alter
ed extensively, new carpets and
mattings placed on the floor, and
other improvements made.
P. F. Tracy, of Covington, and
Miss Mary Doeing, of Calumet, were
united in marriage at Marquette
SATURDAY. last. Mr.. Tracy
is well known in L'Anse
through his representation of
Covington township on the
Baraga county. board. His many
friends in this village wish him and
his bride long life and full measure
OF connubial happiness. They will
make their home at Covilgton.
Dick" Smith was arrested Tues
day charged with having committed
assault and battery upon Rebecca
Marksman, OF the M. K. Mission,
last Saturday night. Smith was
tried in justice court Tuesday after
noon before jury and was found
guilty. He was given sentence of
ninety days in the county
Jail and fine Of $50. The dis
coloration OF the Marksman woman s
optics was q sight to behold when
she appeared in court. According
to the evidence Of three witnesses
Smith sneaked up behind the woman
while she was walking along the
Mission road, grabbed her and
threw her down, striking her In the
face three times. The prisoner has
an unenviable court record in this