The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-21
Lively Campaign In Sight

Lively Campaign In Sight
The contest TOR mayor next spring
at the Republican primaries promises
to be the most warmly fought OF any
municipal political battle at the 500
in recent years. The latest aspirant
for mayoralty honors to announce his
candidacy is Alfred A. Richards, a
well-known ice dealer.
A Deal in Timber Lands
one of the largest real estate tran
fers in Delta county is now being ar
ranged. 1t has been under considera-
ton for a year or so-the sale OF the
Jerry Madden Single company's tim
Der lands To the Escanaba Lumber
company About seventy-five hundred
acres are involved for which abstracts
are being made. The sale does not
include, as originally planned, the
Rapid River mill. which Madden &
Schaible will continue TO run on their
Trout Lake timber.
Raises Cabbages by the Ton
c. W. Meek. of Manistique town
ship, is one of the best market garden
ers in Schoolcraft county. Aside from
raising large quantities of about ev-
erythng in the vegetable and fruit
line, he reports that he has harvested
a ten-ton crop of firstclass cabbage.
Much of this has been shipped to 9TH
er points but he has stored four tons
i'm a root cellar and will dispose of 1t
later i'm the season. He has many
oabbages weighing i'm the neighbor-
hood of fifteen pounds
Will Cut Railroad Ties
Drummond Island, in Chippewa
county, will be more lively this win
ter than for some time past. 1t is un-
derstood that Indian capitalists have
secured title to $4,000 acres of tim
bered lands on which they will oper-
ate. Several portable mills will be
operated and a large number of men
will be given employment. The men
who have purchased the Drummond |
lands have been engaged i'm the bust |
ness for a number of years, operating |
in hardwood tracts in lower Michigan |
and Indiana.
Logging in Baraga County
Joseph Eberhardt Of Baraga has be- /
gun cutting four hundred thousand
feet of timber for Charles Hebard &
Sons, of Pequaming. The logs VIII be
gotten out a mile south of L'Anse and
banked on the lake shore. Dan De-
nomme has been appointed to the fore
manship of n camp of the j. S. Nor
rison estate OF Calumet. and has com
menced operations two miles west of
keweenaw Bay. He will put in all
kinds of timber and will have a crew
OF sixty men.
Killed While Hunting Deer
Dickinson county advces report that
Lawrence w. Williams, aged nineteen
, ears. the son Of farmer living about
five miles from Faithorn Junction. at
Kremlin was instantly killed while
hunting deer. According TO informa-
ton received from Faithorn Junction {
the youth had the barrel of his rifle
under his chin while he was hammer J
Ings at the trigger of the weapon, I
which apparently was not working
rightly. The cartridge was discharged
md the bullet entered the head pierre {
ng the brain.
Agricultural School for Chippewa 4
The fun returns now at hand show 4
hat the recent vote on the proposition
o bond Chippewa county in the sum ,
# $4,000 for a school of agriculture
md domestic economy was carried by h
he handsome majority Of 9O2 out OF C
he total vote of 2.92s cast. Rudyard. "
'aber and Picidord each recorded a v
majority against the school much to S