The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1917-03-03
I'd. Scott. postmaster OF Iron River
and leading democrat OF the west
side. was In the city last Monday.

side, was In the city last Monday.
FOR SALE--40 acres OF timber land
in Bates Township. Inquire OF Mrs.
Adolph Gustafson. back of court
house. 3-3-3w
Richard Eddy arrived here satur-
day from Crystal Falls to pay visit
TO relatives and friends. -Negaunee
Herald
Sam Jacobs OF Jacobs Bros. was on
the belated train from Charming last
Friday night. Sam stayed in Crystal
Falls Saturday.
John Bertling came down from Ish-
peming last Friday and spent the
week end in Crystal Falls. John was
married recently TO an Ishpeming girl
and was receiving the congratulations
from his many friends in the city.
Mrs. DR.. Nordstrom. who has been
sufferer from rheumatism for sever
al months. is slowly recovering. She
is much better than she was when
she returned from Waukesha and has
hopes OF being fully cured ere long
John Stolberg has secured a new
dry cleaner for his tailoring establish
ment. His name is Matsen and he
comes from Iron Mountain where he
had an excellent reputation as a work
man.
August Lawart will leave soon for
his new home in Missouri. He will
take 2S OF his "a head OF cattle with
him. Mr.. Lawart says that he had
done very well in Iron county but he
has two brothers in Missouri and he
wants to be with them.
Mrs. VIM. Holmes came up from
Menominee for few days stay at
home. Mr. Holmes stayed in Menomi-
nee to attend his mother whose condi-
ton Is reported 10 be somewhat better
this week. Misses Bessie and Muriel
Holmes are at Menominee also.
Captain John Martin, who has been
in charge Of the work at the Monon-
gahela since last summer, resigned
his position and left last Monday for
Iron Mountain where he has been APP
pointed to the superintendency of the
West Chaplin a mining property that
is TO be opened up there this season.
Postmaster Kelly returned from his
trip to southern Michigan last Satur-
day. He was delegate TO the demo
crat state convention and on his way
back stopped over at a Chicago hos
pital for a few days and then joined
Mrs. Kelly at Menominee Mrs, Kelly
returned TO Crystal Falls with him.
Representative O'Brien Of this dis
trict has introduced bill making IL
mandatory on township boards in
counties under the county road sys-
TEN to employ the services of the
county road engineer in laying out and
building all township roads. In coun-
ties not having the county road sys-
TEN IL is mandatory in the township
TO employ a competent road engineer
For failure TO obey The law there Is
a penalty attached.
Captain William Morrison reports
a near fire at his house. The affair
occurred last Sunday when he noticed
a lot OF smoke about the range in the
kitchen but no fire could be discovered
anywhere. After a time he decided to
take all OF the fire out OF the range.
still the smoke kept up. He got to
feeling about the stove and noticed
that the floor near the base was quite
hot He went down cellar and found
that. the floor was burned through so
that fire was dropping down and in
a few moments the stove would have
dropped through had the fire not been
George Voose is looking for the man
that replaced his Stars and Stripes
with a German flag last Thursday
night Seriously. we'd advise the fell
low that did it.not to let George end
Il out for il is no joke with him. Mr..
Voose had an American flag on a
telegraph pole I'm front of the ware
house During the night someone for
a joke, Of course climbed the pole
and put German flag in its place.
When George got to work yesterday
the first thing that met his
eye was that flag and his eyes GER
tainly flashed FIRE SEEKING an axe he
the pole down and announced
that If he found out who did the trick
he would lick him II the said person F.,
was as big as the warehouse. And,