5 March 1885 GT and Area County General News

Grand Traverse Herald Newspaper

5 Mar 1885

5 March 1885 - Local News - Grand Traverse Herald, Traverse City, Michigan

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY and AREA COUNTY NEWS

SUMMIT CITY
Herald Correspondence
    Business is quite brisk.
    The mills are doing excellent work.
    Wm. Bowers has bought J. B. Shively's large horse team.
    The citizens of Summit are hoping to organize and I. O. G. T. Lodge.
    G. W. Dalton's boiler has returned and his mill will soon be running again.
    J. B. Shively, Noah Shively and A. Bealer are getting ready to go south.
    So much lumber, timber, poles, etc., are being brought and piled here for shipment that it is difficult to get room to load a car.
    A. Pollock, the proprietor of the Park Hotel, met with quite and accident the other day, but he is able to get around and attend to the comfort of his guests.

YUBA
Herald Correspondence
    W. H. Fife's young folks have gone to Lansing to spend a few weeks visiting relatives. They intend stopping a few days at Detroit before returning home.
   The temperance lecture of Elder Day of Traverse City was excellent. He knows how to talk on those subjects that are to become leading issues of our country in the near future.
   The superintendent of the Sabbath school got up a load of seventeen of his pupils and went to Acme -- the highest point -- on a sleighing excursion; enjoyed a nice party at H. Langworthy's.
   The pleasant weather of the past few days is making some persons a little anxious for fear the snow will leave before they are ready to do without it while others would like it to get out of the way of sugar making.

WILLIAMSBURG
    Fine winter weather the past week. The beautiful snow will soon be gone and who will mourn. The first crow was heard to caw in the swamp north of this place today.
   Elder Dodds of Grand Rapids has bought the Scofield & Son mill property at this place and also Judge C. T. Scofield's farm. We understand that the elder has sold a half interest in the mill property to a gentleman from the same place. The mills are to be repaired and an elevator attached and a market made for all kinds of grain at this place. We hope to see the matter pushed to its fullest extent. Now, why can't we have a railroad? We can see no reason why a road can not be built, starting from the main line at Fife Lake or South Boardman by the way of Williamsburg to Elk Rapids. Such a road could not help by pay and we hope that those interested will not give in but hold on and push the matter to a final completion.
   Below will be found a weather record for the month of February. Note: This is a long list of the temp's for the morning, noon and evening times for the 1st through the 28th. If for some reason someone wishes these please write to me at the address at the end of this page.
   Mrs. L. H. Strickland, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. F. H. Potter for the past seven months, has returned to the south part of this state with the expectation of soon visiting a son in Tennessee and from there to her home in California. She is a lady 63 years old and this will be five times she has taken that trip.
   Judging from the crowd, lately at Vinton & Son's, business is booming.
   Rev. Mr. McClintoc will give us another of those soul searching sermons next Saturday evening.
   R. Morgan offered a span of horses for sale, here, yesterday over which he held a chattel mortgage.
   Rev. L. Dodds of Grand Rapids, formerly of this place, preached to a large and attentive audience Sunday evening.
   Wanted, delinquents to call on the treasurer, and leave the tax that is due. Your days of grave have nearly expired.
    Probate Orders:
    Estate of Morgan Bates, late of the village of Traverse City...
    Estate of Elisha Franklin, late of the township of Peninsula. Mrs. Lucy Franklin widow...
    Estate of William Riley Stewart, late of Granby in Oswego county, state of New York. Said heir, Arthur W. Hill...
LEELANAU COUNTY
PECKS HILL, KASSON
    There has been quite an interest in the R. R. business in town this winter. Keep it moving.
    There is another company in town that has done an extensive business lumbering this winter and there has been employment for a good many men.
    The timber business has been carried on quite extensively here this winter and J. F. Weller has paid out a large sum of money to carry on the business. There are two farmers in town to whom he has paid nearly two thousand dollars; so the business goes on and, it is expected, will be continued next winter. Mr. Weller is an honest lumberman and all who deal with him will be paid promptly.
SOLON
    W. F. Hannaford is slashing.
    John Iles, Jr., has returned from Tennessee.
    Hay is quite active and many are looking for it.
    S. B. Cate has taken two loads of hay to town this week.
    Weston brothers have been sawing a lot of wood for N. W. Harrington.
    Roads bad, and "Occasionally" people from Miller's Hill tip into the snow.
    School is closed at the Umlor school house on Wednesday, the 25th and a Clear Brook the 27th. Good schools are reported.
    Quite a number of people went from this place on Friday to attend a meeting of the Leelanaw county agricultural society at Maple City.
    Frank Ferris of Clear Brook school received a gold pen and case for making the most improvement in writing during the term just closed; H. Terry and Mrs. O. Singrey being the judges.

SUTTONS BAY
    The square timber boom has struck this place also and quite a large amount will be bank before spring.
    Greilick's dock is now being extended to the channel bank and when completed will furnish a harbor for the largest vessels on the lakes.
    The amount of lumber and steamboat wood being piled at this place, for shipment, will by the time navigation opens, prove that Suttons Bay capitalists are taking a lively interest in that line of business.
    The prospect of a good deal of building after a little are brightening every day, and a good many changes and improvements will undoubtedly be made in the next twelve months. Of these we shall take occasion to speak more fully hereafter, and in conclusion we will say, that while other towns in the county are astonishing their neighbors by the progressive spirit which they are manifesting, Suttons Bay is saving her wind until we have a thaw, when we expect to cut loose and come down the home stretch at a good round pace and endeavor to be first under the wire.

ANTRIM COUNTY
Kewadin
   Mr. Angers' barn broke down; pressure of snow on the roof explains it.
   Is there not danger attending the driving of teams on the lake when there is such a tremendous weight as sixteen or eighteen inches of snow on the ice must make?
   We are informed that the socials at the church was one of those pleasant occasions where every one took delight in contributing their best efforts towards making it enjoyable to all present. A short and interesting address by Rev. J. Golden, a few appropriate pieces on the organ by Mrs. Frink, Miss Goodman, and Mrs. William Cameron, of Torch Lake, accompanied by singing; a very tasty lap supper all tended to make it a success financially and otherwise.

SOUTH ARM
   Stove wood has been in great demand here this winter.
   E. A. H. Cole drives a covered stage containing a stove between here and Charlevoix.
   The thermometers have been fooling around from 10 to 40 degrees all winter, but the weather is very moderate now, for which we are truly thankful.
    The Masonic fraternity dedicated their new hall in Cole's building on Saturday evening, Feb. 21st. Several members of the order from Petoskey, Charlevoix and other places were present. A banquet was served and it proved to be an enjoyable occasion.
   H. B. Severance of Plymouth, Mich., well known here, has completed arrangements for building a stave and heading mill on a site procured of S. G. Isaman. Horace is a young man of ability and integrity, and his success is hoped for by his many friends.
GENERAL ITEMS
   Dexter & Noble will continue buying wood for cash during the coming spring and summer.
   The Progress says Elk Rapids wants water works, more manufacturing establishments and a brass band that won't bust.
   The Mancelona iron works is out of blast. A new hearth will be put in and work will be resumed about the middle of April.
   Rev. J. R. Rutter, formerly of Mancelona, who recently removed to Rockford, died Feb. 24, after a brief illness from congestion of the lungs.

BENZIE COUNTY - General Items
   Some Frankfort people are opposed to incorporation.
   Wm. Higgins of Frankfort has a $50 fiddle of his own manufacture.
   May's hall at Frankfort is being fitted up in handsome style for a Masonic hall.
   We have twelve teams hauling now and do not expect to remain here many weeks if the weather is fair.
   The house of Lucius Kibby, of South Frankfort, was destroyed by fire Feb. 26. Nothing was saved. Loss $1,000; no insurance.
   C. C. Miller, of Frankfort went down to the exposition and likes it so well that he will buy a plantation 20 miles from New Orleans and remain south.
   R. G. Perry has sold the farm known as the Albright farm, to O. Jaqueth, of St. Lawrence county, N. Y., who is to take possession in 30 days.
   A new bridge was built across the Betsie river in Grace township, but broke down the other day, before the job had been accepted, injuring Mr. S. Lewis, who drove over it.
   Wm. Pendleton of Frankfort found a bull-head frozen stiff in the middle of a cake of ice taken from the lake. No fish but a bull head would ever get into such a fix as that.
   The Turtle Lake camp correspondent of the Express writes that paper: "We have light teams on a two-trip haul, but have put in 1,086 logs, scaling 186,752 feet, into the Betsie river in one week.
   The Aral correspondent of the Frankfort Times says: "A Wright & Co., have steamed up their new mill and are now busy sawing logs to complete the building. They will soon have the mill ready to commence saving to ship. They have a very good stock of logs on hand now, and have several teams hauling yet.
WEXFORD COUNTY - General Items
   Haskin's veneer mill at Cadillac will cut 20,000 a day.
   The county superintendents of the poor have adopted plans for a dwelling and boarding house at the county poor farm.
   The Cadillac veneering mill is filling a large order for Studebaker Bros., manufacturing company, of South Bend, Ind.
   The cold weather farther south seriously interferes with the ice harvest at Cadillac. No need to come so far north for ice this year.
   A Cadillac dispatch says of the young Chippewa chief, Petoskey : "Northern Michigan presents a roller rink prodigy that eclipses and hitherto produced. He is a 12-year-old grandson of the old Chippewa chief, Petoskey, and is pronounced the youngest expert in the world. His appearance at the new rink clothed in full Indian costume and war paint created a great sensation. Young Petoskey performs all the evolutions common among fancy skaters besides several movements peculiarly his own.

KALKASKA COUNTY - General Items
   The free Methodists at Lodi will build a church edifice.
   South Boardman shipped 90,000 feet of organ lumber the past week.
   The Methodists will build a church on Mr. Dick's farm, two miles west of Lodi.
   Mr. Campbell at Westwood, has 20 teams hauling logs, and will soon start his own mill.
   C. E. Hogan of South Boardman is pumping strong salt brine from an ordinary drive well, 22 feet deep.
   Hiatt & Lannin are building a new saw mill in Rapid River. Mr. Hiatt has bought a farm and will settle in the township.
   It is claimed the nicest country school building in Kalkaska county will be that in District No. 3, Rapid River, to be completed next summer.
   A dispatch from South Boardman dated February 27th, says: "The smallpox at South Boardman has subsided. Now new cases in over three weeks, and the authorities are in hopes that they have it under control. There were nine cases in all and two deaths. Most of the others had very light attacks. Bills amount of nearly $1,000 were brought before the board of supervisors, being expenses incurred by reason of the scourge, but the most of them were rejected, and the town will have to pay its own expenses.

CHARLEVOIX COUNTY -General Items
   Wesley J. Austin will remove from Boyne Falls to Sherman.
   Wm. Mears to put 22,000 brook trout into Boyne river last year.
   Fred A. Smith, lately book-keeper in the Charlevoix savings bank, is now cashier of that institution.
   Boyne City deals have about 6,000 cords of four foot shipping wood, in readiness for shipment.
   Boyne City operators have orders from Chicago and Detroit parties for 3,500,000 feet of maple lumber.
   A. J. Beardsley of Boyne City, will soon open business in a fine brick building. Dry goods, boots and shoes.
   H. B. Chapman, of the Bay Springs hotel, the new and fashionable summer resort, is improving rapidly in health.
   Charlevoix uses the telephone in its fire department with night service, and by this means at least one bad fire was given in time to put a stop to it.
   Miss Ida Ressler of Charlevoix was recently called to Ypsilanti to attend a sick sister and is now herself very low from the effects of a paralytic stroke.
   Mrs. Eliza Cunningham, who was injured by a fall a few weeks ago, as was related in the HERALD at the time, died last week, over 80 years old. She leaves 43 descendents, counting up to great grandchildren.

EMMET COUNTY - General Items
   Snow is so deep in the road between Charlevoix and Petoskey that a track has been made on the ice.
   Harbor Springs had a wedding the other ay on a ten days' acquaintance. The minister had the first fee; the lawyers will probably have the second.
   A little son of John McNeil attempted to jump on a bob sled loaded with wood, at the Petoskey camp grounds, and fell, the sleigh passing over his leg and he being maimed for lift.
   The stockholders in the new Petoskey Lime Co., of Harbor Springs are Rev. W. S. Sly, formerly of Petoskey, his brother Eugene R. Sly, Michael J. Enright and Sarah L. Bussey. The Independent of Harbor Spring says "the articles of incorporation set forth that the business office shall be at Harbor Springs. We learn that the company have purchased the land on the bay shore about half way between Petoskey and Charlevoix, whereon is located an immense deposit of limestone of superior quality. We understand that they intend erecting kilns here, and will use a small tug and scows built for the purpose of transporting the limestone from the quarry to our harbor. They think this would be cheaper than to erect an expensive dock on that unprotected shore, and calculate that the increasing rail and water facilities will more than offset any extra expense such an arrangement would necessitate. There is also a fine sandstone deposit, which they will quarry for building purposes
Cute items.
A boy in a rural spelling school sat down on a word on one syllable. It was probably patch.
When clothes-pins are only a cent a dozen there is no excuse for snoring in church.

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