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January 1, 1891 In the early days of summer resorting, in what have now become the far-famed regions of Northern Michigan, all of the travel by water was done by a dumpy little propeller called the A. C. Van Raalte. It was named after good old Dominie Van Raalte who founded the Dutch colony at Holland and became widely known over Western Michigan. The Van Raalte was staunch enough but in a very heavy sea the old craft pitched and rolled so vigorously that every resorter that tried to forbear ever trusting his precious body to the Van Raalte's over-zealous services again. Well, this old steamer soon began to deteriorate. As more elegant and more comfortable steamboats were brought in, its services were less and less required, and when the City of Grand Rapids, the T. S. Faxton, the Clara Belle, and Thomas Friant were doing a land office business the Van Raalte contented itself with ignominiously carrying building sand. For the past two or three years the boat has been laboring faithfully in obscurity, and only its finale bring it now into notice. These lines from Manistique Pioneer will tell the story: "The old relic, Van Raalte, which has been so often reported lost, was recently beached in a gale near Kenosha, and the tugs, while working to get her off pulled her stern to pieces and she was abandoned. She was noted for stirring up more sea-sickness to the square rod than any other craft on the lake." ____________________________ January 15, 1891 Friday and Saturday evening next at Lewis Grand Opera House, "Esther, the Beautiful Queen." Elegant solos, superb choruses, and intensely dramatic climaxes. The great event of the winter. The rehearsals are progressing, and the production is approaching a degree of perfection of musical rendering and dramatic action, that promises well for the entertainment. It will certainly be the most elaborate and elegant musical entertainment in the history of Charlevoix. The cast embraces Mr. Ben Davis, of Elk Rapids, as King; Mr. S. F. Lackey, of Elk Rapids, as Haman; Miss Florence Smith, as "Queen Esther;" W. A. Smith as Mordechai; Mrs. G. F. Brown as Mordechai's sister; Miss Alice Kanagy, as Prophetess; Wm. Kanagy, as Hagai; Mrs. F. G. Hines, as Zerish; G. R. Brown, as Harboni, supported by a full chorus. ____________________________ January 29, 1891 Nicholls, Lewis & Bates' teams brought in two elm logs Tuesday which scaled, one 1,027, and the other 972. ____________________________ "Esther, the Beautiful Queen," was a decided success in every particular. It was greeted by good audiences both nights, and the popular verdict is that it was the great musical event in the history of Charlevoix, and that all sang their parts well. Mr. Lackey, as "King," and Mr. Daniels, as "Haman," received much praise. Miss Kirwin of Elk Rapids, received an encore on her solos, and captured the audience both nights. Prof. Nelson deserves much credit for his production of the beautiful oratorio. ____________________________ One of the happiest and jolliest crowds of people that ever crowded themselves into a sleigh box full of robes, crowded themselves through the doors of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Colter, Sr. of Echo, one evening last week. ____________________________ Round Lake is plentifully studded with fish-houses and some very fine herring are being caught. ____________________________ Willard A. Smith, Morris J. Stockman and John M. Ackert left Sunday for Grand Rapids, to attend the Grand Lodge F. & A. M. Mr. Ackert will go on to Florida for the winter. ____________________________ February 6, 1891 C. & W. M. R. R. will enter Charlevoix. William Alden Smith, attorney for the railroad, expressed a desire to confer with the common council. Accordingly a meeting was called at which Mr. Smith was present. That gentleman briefly stated the situation and the intention of his company, and asked for an expression of the sentiment of the council regarding the $25,000 bridge bonds already voted. Thereupon a resolution was unanimously adopted as the sense of the council that said bonds should be issued for the purpose contemplated, as soon as reliable assurances were received that the C. & W. M. Co. would build their line to Charlevoix within a reasonable time. Mr. Smith, acting for said company assured the council that the road would be completed and in operation within eighteen months. ____________________________ The proper pronunciation of it is Day-po. ____________________________ February 19, 1891 Capt. Tim Smith, of the tug J. H. Martin, of Charlevoix, is a unique character in his way, and it is said of him that nothing was ever known to ruffle the serenity of his temper. A number of years ago he was master of the small schooner Sea Gem. One night while making the run from Milwaukee to Charlevoix the schooner was caught in a terrible squall. The mate called to Tim several times to come on deck, but he remained in the cabin patiently sawing away on an old cracked fiddle in the vain attempt to wheeze out a new tune. Finally, the schooner's canvas began to blow away and the mate stuck his head down the Companion-way and shouted; "For God's sake, Captain, come on deck! The schooner is going straight to hell!" "Is she going by the way of Charlevoix?" drawled the Captain. "I s'pose so," and he began sawing away again. A few years ago Capt. Smith bought the schooner J. L. Ketcham as she lay on the beach at Gill's pier. After working two or three years on her she went to pieces before he could get her off. He had been working for three months with his tug and a big gang of men, when he was visited one day by his partner, who inquired if he had pulled on her yet. "Oh yes, we've given her a pull or two," said Tim in his mild deliberate way. "Have you moved her any?" "Yes, we've moved her some." "How much do you suppose you have moved her?" Tim shut one eye, squirted a stream of amber fluid over the rail and said: "I'm not jest sure, but I think about a sixteenth of an inch." ____________________________ March 5, 1891 There were 13, 054 kernels in that pint of wheat at A. Fox's store, and just because Moses Cooper, of Hayes happened to guess within six kernels of that number they up and gave him a fine china dinner set. ____________________________ At the pedro party at the Fountain City House Friday evening, Mrs. Dr. LeFevre and F. G. Hines took the first prizes and Mrs. F. G. Hines and Dr. LeFevre took the booby prizes. That is what we call a "general average." ____________________________ The C. & W. M. railroad is surveying a short line from Traverse City to Charlevoix. ____________________________ April 2, 1891 Bid your last good-bye to Petoskey sleigh-riding trips. ____________________________ Mrs. A. R. Upright and family left for new home in Tacoma, Washington on Monday last. ____________________________ We committed an oversight last week in not mentioning the arrival of a smart young son at the residence of R. A. Emrey. ____________________________ April 2, 1891 At a regular pedro party at Dr. LeFevre's Thursday evening, Amos Fox and Mrs. B. W. Miller took first prize, and W. E. Hampton and Mrs. J. R. Emrey took the booby banner. ____________________________ Traverse City has water works and electric lights, both run as a private enterprise. Harbor Springs has good water works on the same plan. We are glad that Charlevoix Council are in an informal way, discussing this question. Charlevoix is not in a condition to bond for these improvements, but the council, in conjunction with the Improvement Association, can bring it about it they go at it right. Water works and an electric plant would be a safe and paying investment for some person with even a moderate capital. ____________________________ April 9, 1891 THE SAILORS The steamer Lucille was launched Monday and is about ready for business. The steamer, City of Charlevoix, is expected to leave Chicago April 17th, and the Soo City May 1st. The tugs Avery and Higgie will "chum it" again this season, but the Martin will run as a free-lance. Capt. Lorenz, the new master of the schooner, Florence M. Smith, arrived Saturday and is fitting out his vessel. After nearly a month of clear water off this port, a north wind last week drove a field of apparently hard ice down from the straits and the outer bay is full. The Petoskey arrived at Elk Rapids yesterday, and learning the condition of things here, went back to Chicago. The Lawrence, after an ineffectual attempt to reach the river yesterday, headed for Beaver Island. She will probably wait for the ice to get out before again trying to get in. ____________________________ April 23, 1891 J. M. Clark is erecting a residence on the U. and H. Addition. ____________________________ Powell Mudge has been awarded the contract for tending the Charlevoix bridge at 86 cents a day. ____________________________ Mason and Berdan not only have a new and elegant front, but they have new and elegant goods. ____________________________ R. S. Way has the lumber on the ground and will commence work on the Mt. McSauba observatory tomorrow. ____________________________ April 23, 1891 The steamer Friant, improved in passenger facilities and resplendent in new paint, arrived from Petoskey on her first trip of the season. ____________________________ One of Dr. White's docks at Boyne City collapsed Monday, and shunted about 10,000 feet of lumber off into the lake. ____________________________ April 30, 1891 John T. Kirkpatrick of this place, has taken a contract to build a large resort hotel at Bower's Harbor near Traverse city. Saturday he left for the place taking with him the following Charlevoix workmen: S. Alcox, Wm. Garland, Wm. Phelps, Irving Henry, John Tooley, M. J. Bartlett, Ed. Wood, Charles Wheeler, Thos. Shapton, John Zeran, Wm. Wood, Chas. Hull, Frank Wrisley. Anson Brown goes as cook in the boarding house. Mr. Kirkpatrick will employ about forty men on the job. ____________________________ Charlevoix is to be treated to a musical feast. It is announced that the Albion Quartette of Elk Rapids, will give a concert at Lewis Grand Opera House on the evening of May 5th. The quartette is composed of Miss Sarah Daniels, Miss S. B. Kirwin, J. E. Daniels, and S. F. Lackey, with Prof. Nelson, of this place, as accompanist. Most of our readers are already acquainted with a part of the quartette, and that the concert will be a choice musical event goes without saying. ____________________________ May 7, 1891 Last week David C. Nettleton, of this place, purchased the J. Milo Eaton abstracts of title, office furniture, and leased what is known as the Eaton building for one year. On May 1st, Mr. Nettleton established himself in the abstract and general real estate business. David C. Nettleton is one of the pioneers of Charlevoix County, and enjoys the reputation of being a man of the soundest judgment and strictest integrity. Business intrusted to him will be sure of careful attention and quick returns. ____________________________ June 11, 1891 R. N. Faulkner and family, of Chicago, arrived Saturday for the summer, bringing a horse and buggy with them. ____________________________ Postmaster Berdan has recorded the many different ways in which Charlevoix is spelled and hands us the list: Charlyvoix, Charlievox, Charoix, Schrleyvoix, Sharlevux, Charleviox, Charlievioux, Charlervix, Charlevoyx, Chlaevoix, Cherelevoiyx, Charlievoy,Charleevox, Sharlevoye, Cheleorgan, Sharleyweeks, Charlesvov, Charlesavoye, Chrlieux, Charvelisu, Chharslevellx, Charlezoix, Scharleroiex, Charleeraixe, Charllieex, Shellavoy, Sharles Iooc, Chaliboix, Charlotvox, Charlieviouxe, Charlievooix, Charlesoix, Sarvlevooks, Scharleyvoye. ____________________________ June 11, 1891 A Big Deal Las week a deal was consummated here whereby the Dixon farm in this township, passed into the hands of a syndicate composed of certain Grand Rapids gentlemen and Joseph R. Dixon, the party of the first part, who retains a half interest in the corporation. Mr. William Alden Smith made the deal while here last week. The purchase price of the property was $20,000. The property consists of all that portion of the Dixon estate not owned by John S. Dixon or platted into the village addition. The purchase embraces 55 acres, and includes the Dixon residence. The farm is on the line of the railroad, overlooks Pine Lake, and is in close proximity to the depot grounds. Although details cannot at this time be given enough is known to warrant us in stating that the property was bought for hotel purposes and that behind the project stands prominent C. & W. M. officials, who purpose making it the most beautiful resort in Northern Michigan. Large expenditures will be made on the grounds next season. Mr. Dixon will continue in the dairy business. ____________________________ June 18, 1891 FOUR OF 'EM It was a proud event for the Class of 1891 of the Charlevoix High School at Lewis' Grand Opera House last evening, and it was no less so to the school patrons and the school faculty. The house was filled to its utmost capacity. The stage was tastefully arranged and elaborately decorated with plants and flowers, the class motto "More Beyond" forming a portion of the back setting. Misses Carrena Williams, Pearle Dartt, Maggie Green, and Kate Smith, are the young ladies who, after their years of faithful application, have reached the highest standard attainable in their school. They bore their honors, and contributed to their portion of the exercises bravely, modestly and creditably. Miss Kirwin and Misses Winnie Bartholomew, Mamie See, Artie Kanagy, Ethel Newman and Clara Ainslie rendered vocal selections that were equally creditable. The motto of the class of '91-"More Beyond"-is a good one for the school patrons and the school board to adopt in the government of the school. The status of the Charlevoix school, in its administration and educational standards, should be raised. ____________________________ July 31, 1891 Stairs are being built up the north side of Mt. McSauba. ____________________________ A young man at the Fountain City House-not Uncle Richard's, but Henry's. ____________________________ July 31, 1891 Mrs. A. F. Bridge (nee Celia Nicholls) of Whitewater, Wis., is here visiting her parents. ____________________________ Miss Ida Canfield, of Port Huron, is here visiting her uncles and her cousins and her aunts, the Foxes, Millers and Faulkners. ____________________________ The oldest boat sailing on the lakes is the Racine, which was built in 1844. The oldest steamer is the Arexes, which came out in 1836. ____________________________ August 13, 1891 A. D. Cruickshank has rented an office in Lewis Grand Opera House. ____________________________ Monday afternoon E. M. Clark sold his Main Street residence to Harrison Bedford for $2,000. ____________________________ Most of the G. A. R. boys returned home Saturday and report a glorious time in the "City of the Straits." ____________________________ E. D. Hines and wife, of Chillicothe, Ohio, arrived Wednesday to visit their son, F. G. Hines. They will remain about a month. ____________________________ Capt. John Beattie of New Orleans, accompanied by a nephew from Chicago, has been in town the past week. The Captain thinks it quite probable that he will remove to Charlevoix in the near future. ____________________________ David C. Nettleton who returned from the Detroit G. A. R. encampment Saturday, met with two of the comrades of his regiment whom he had not seen in 28 years. Upon parting they engaged to meet in 28 years again, if alive. ____________________________ August 27, 1891 Mrs. Calhoun, sister of the lamented General Custer and Librarian of the State of Michigan, is a guest at the Fountain City House. She is here with W. C. Graves, and Mrs. Eddy. As the sister of two and the widow of another of the heroes of the Little Big Horn battle Mrs. Calhoun is herself a heroine. ____________________________ September 10, 1891 In honor of the visit of their Iowa relative, D. L. Campbell, the "Campbell Clan" are to-day having a picnic at Mount McSauba. The crowd filled three omni-buses. ____________________________ September 17, 1891 Mrs. Capt. O. E. Wilbur of Northport arrived to-day to visit relatives. ____________________________ School opened Monday with an attendance of 280 pupils out of a total of 375 in the district. ____________________________ Rev. Wm. McPherson, the new Congregational pastor, arrived from Lansing to-day. He will reside in the Hurd house on Main street. ____________________________ Mr. George Burns has engaged to make improvements on the Chicago Resort grounds between this and another season, to the extent of about $250. The old channel will be dredged out to connect with the main river, and a revetment constructed from the government revetment around the north side of the island. A dock will be built to connect it with the mainland. Much of the work will be done this fall. ____________________________ A singular phenomenon occurred here today. At about eleven o'clock the river, in which very little current had been noticed, suddenly began running out with remarkable velocity, the water lowering a foot in fifteen minutes. The current ran out for half an hour with a rapidity never before seen, and stopped as suddenly as it began. Can anybody explain it? ____________________________ Thursday night between dark and daylight, fifteen vessels were towed in at this port. ____________________________ September 24, 1891 Capt. Wilbur's family have removed here from Northport. ____________________________ No more long winter jaunts to Petoskey to get a railroad train. ____________________________ Mrs. W. A .Smith and her mother, Mrs. Bagley are spending a week in Banks at Wm. Coulter's. ____________________________ September 24, 1891 The Annual Reunion of the Charlevoix County Soldier's and Sailor's Association The old soldiers took Charlevoix last Friday morning and occupied it without hindrance until Saturday night. There was about 125 of them and many of them were accompanied by their families. A number of W. R. C. ladies and a delegation of Sons of Veterans were also among the invaders. Comrade M. J. Stockman was the officer in command of the forces and acquitted himself like a Major General. The occasion was blessed with charming weather and every feature of the two day's gathering was a grand success. The Emrey store was turned into a mess hall below and barracks above. The mess hall under the magic touch of the W. R. C. was nicely decorated and the rear wareroom was turned into a complete kitchen, with every appurtenance for cooking. All was under the direction of the W. R. C. and well did they perform their duty. At every meal the tables were loaded and all were provided. The days were passed as all reunions of this nature are, in full enjoyment of the occasion. Friday a dress parade was about the only notable occurrence during the day. In the evening Lewis Grand Opera House was full to overflowing to witness an entertainment of the veterans. Prof. Enos welcomed the visitors in a speech full of earnest patriotism, which was fitly responded to by a veteran. Musical and other exercises constituted a portion of the program and the young Ladies Zouave Company under Captain Brink, gave their drill. The roster of the Company was a follows: Misses Ruth Brown, Altie Brink, Maud Scott, Mary Tullock, May Brown, Carrie Brown, Artie Kanagy, Mamie See, Lillie Carpenter, Bertha Pierce, Mattie Brink, Nellie Nettleton, Edith Mason, and Georgie Irwin. Their fine appearance and precision of drill elicited hearty applause and an encore. The young ladies also appeared in line at the dress parade, and were the attraction of the day. Saturday occurred another dress parade and review in which also the Zouaves participated and gave a street drill. But it was not all dress parade and review for the old boys. They came for fun and they had it most royally. A vegetable wagon was raided on Bridge Street, as a part of the program, and the spectacle of an old grey-haired veteran throwing a cabbage at the head of the driver, revived the memories of "Marching Through Georgia." Friday night, along toward morning hours, the editor of this paper heard a commotion in his henhouse, and daylight disclosed the fact that seven chickens had disappeared. Saturday afternoon, Comrade John H. Backentose of Advance, was apprehended as the ringleader of the foragers and duly courtmartialed. D. C. Nettleton, of Baxter Post was also arrested by a corporal's guard on information setting forth that "Between the hours of five and six A. M. he had feloniously and with malice a forethought milked Willard A. Smith's red speckled cow." The court martial convened at two o'clock at the Opera House, with Comrade Duell of Boyne City as President and Wm. Mears, of Boyne Falls as Judge Advocate. The culprits were brought in under guard and plead guilty. After the hearing of evidence, overwhelmingly against them, they were duly convicted and sentenced each to wheel the other the length of Bridge street in a barrow to the music of the "Rogues March." The sentence was carried out to the letter, but the guilty wretches, smarting under their punishment, seized the complaining witness, the editor of this paper, and jointly inflicted the same punishment upon him, with variation that could only have been conceived in a depraved a vicious mind. Thus the two days passed. Everybody enjoyed the pranks of the veterans and everybody freely gave them license to kick just as high and yell just as loud as they wished. The confounded old rapscallions are entitled to all the fun they can get. Their line at the dress parade was not a thing of beauty. It would have made a West Point lieutenant laugh. Their heels were not together and their shoulders were not thrown back. They marched like a Good Templar's Lodge and some of them limped. But these thoughts are dispelled and a thrill touched the heart of the patriot when he remembers that these are the men who scaled the steeps of Lookout Mountain; withstood the onset of Pickett's legions at Gettysburg, faced hell at Chancellorville, Antietam and Mission Ridge; that marched from Atlanta to the sea, and rounded up the Confederate army at Appomatox. These men were a part of the grandest army that ever trod the earth. They can have our chickens and milk our cows. ____________________________ October 1, 1891 IRON SINEWS OF COMMERCE That's what we have in Charlevoix at this present writing. The past week has been an eventful on in the progress of railroad matters here. When we went to press last week the schooner T. Y. Avery was unloading steel rails on the railroad dock. Following her, Friday, came the steamer Westover and barge Bliss, both steel laden, and then the steam barge Dunbar came with the last consignment of the 1,750 tons necessary of the Charlevoix-Petoskey section. One hundred tons of angle-bars came on the Charlevoix Friday night. The crowning event of the week occurred Saturday morning at 8 o'clock, when the tug Jesse Spaulding came in with two monstrous scows, laden with the greater part of the construction outfit. The first scow had twelve flat-cars and the other floated the locomotive and two flats. The entire outfit was taken at once to the railroad dock. As the outfit passed into Round Lake, every mill, steamboat and tug whistle opened up, shotguns were fired, and the "pup cannon" taken to the north side to salute the advent of the steamhorse. In the hurry the powder was forgotten and when it arrived, the bridge was swung, and only when the scows reached Pine Lake did the howitzer add its voice to the general rejoicing. The steam whistles frightened the engine house people into ringing the fire alarm, and firing the Silsby engine steamer, but no harm came of it. All day Saturday preparations for landing the outfit progressed. A trestle-work was extended out into the lake to the scows and Sunday at ten o'clock the first wheel of the rolling stock was on terra firma. During the forenoon of Sunday the first permanent steel was laid on the main line, and down the dock siding. By Monday at two o'clock the flatcars were all ashore and at six o'clock Monday the locomotive steamed off and rested upon the siding. The liveliest activity prevails. Every boarding house is full and more men arriving daily. A full force in engaged in completing the dock and dock railway; the bridge gang are at work preparing the piling for the stone work and approaches, and McCracken & Silsby are pushing matters on the south side with energy. A second scow laden with twelve flatcars is here, making in all 25 for use in construction. The enthusiasm of last Saturday carries us back something more than twenty years to the day when the first vessel entered Round Lake. When the scow Mendota went through the old trap bridge, we were a proud and happy community, and again later, after the government had made it possible, the propeller Fountain City blew her whistle in Round Lake, and the event stirred the hearts of the faithful few who hoped and never croaked. In 1870 at a meeting to devise plans for protecting the mouth of the river, William Laister submitted plans to build cribs five feet wide and float them down to the mouth. In defense of his plan he predicted that more than six feet of water would never be required here. The events of those days and these later days, referred to in this article, cheered the soul, because they marked the beginning of epochs. They will constitute conspicuous pages in the history of Charlevoix county. ____________________________ October 15, 1891 John T. Kirkpatrick is making plans for a house for Wm. Woods; also for R. N. Faulkner's proposed residence on Main Street. ____________________________ At a special school meeting held Friday evening last the proposition to adopt the union graded system was carried by almost an unanimous vote. The following board of trustees was elected as required by law: One year, O. S. Washburn; two years, John Nicholls and H. S. Harsha; three years, H. Lee Iddings and D. C. Nettleton. The new system goes into effect at once. ____________________________ NORWOOD NOTES Potatoes are 15 cents a bushel. Why don't someone start a starch factory? ____________________________ October 29, 1891 P. E. Wood & Company's candy factory is making candy at the rate of 200 pounds a day. ____________________________ Charlevoix Chapter No. 72, O. E. S. goes to Boyne City to-night to institute a chapter there. S. B. Calkins, Worthy Patron does the work. ____________________________ RAILROAD NOTES The Sentinel Scribe occupied the foreman's seat in the cab of "No. 105" Sunday morning in a run up to "the front" by invitation of Major Sullivan. It seemed like a dream to be shooting by objects so familiar-objects by which these many winters we have been dragged through mud and snow drifts. Even fifteen miles an hour beats the "covered stage" and at that speed we passed Co. Booth's "Ka-ge-che-weng" and the Carpenter farm, now and then catching our breath as we passed over a bad spot in the unballasted road. To-night the steel will be laid to within three miles of Petoskey and in sight of its domes and minarets. The steel gang will then be hauled off for the present and sent to the south end. The work of ballasting will then be begun in earnest, seventy Hungarians being expected daily for that work. About a hundred men will be employed in the work. ____________________________ November 13, 1891 Petoskey Democrat-There has been a wonderful sight of pulling and hauling over the half-way station between Petoskey and Charlevoix. It is asserted that Col. Booth used a season's crop of ducks and no end of spring chickens to get the station located at his place, but Uncle Isaac Stauffer's winning smile and guileless manner captured the prize. It is said that, notwithstanding his well known modesty, the embryo city would also have been named for him had it not been for fear that the festive brakeman would call it "Stauffer Station." For weeks the railroad officials have been worried by appeals to name the station this and that, until they decided to give a name of their own as a consequence, when you go out on the new railroad to get lime at Sly's or to buy a lot at Bayside, or to visit the Orphan's Home, or to steal one of Col. Booth's chickens, or to swap yarns with Stauffer, you will get off when the brakeman yells "Algomah." ____________________________ November 19, 1891 The township board have at last done a sensible thing in erecting a building at the cemetery for the use of the Sexton, and others who may be compelled to wait for a funeral in bad weather. It should have been done before. ____________________________ November 26, 1891 The largest lift of fish ever lifted into this port by a fish tug was brought in Friday night by the Clara Belle. Her load being something over six tons. Her nets had been out two days. ____________________________ December 10, 1891 Capt. Wilbur has moved with his family into the Cook house on the north terrace, which he recently purchased and improved. ____________________________ The students of rhetoric in the high school prepared for class use last week a miniature newspaper which contained new, editorial and advertisements, and the reading of which was at once instructive and entertaining. ____________________________ December 17, 1891 The Charlevoix Eastern Star Chapter has purchased an organ of S. M. See and Sons. Next to a goat an organ is the most useful article of furniture in a lodge room. ____________________________ December 17, 1891 Yesterday Capt. Oscar E. Wilbur bought and took possession of the grocery business of Amos Fox, having leased the property, including dock and warehouses for a term of years. Capt. Wilbur is already a resident of Charlevoix and has been practically all summer and he has all along intended to make this his future home. He is proud of Charlevoix and will make a live and progressive citizen. ____________________________ Charlevoix and Petoskey are now connected by rail. The steel was laid into Petoskey Thursday, and the editor of this paper returned from Grand Rapids that day all the way by rail. Ballasting progresses rapidly, and the eighteen miles will in a few weeks be practically done if the weather continues favorable. ____________________________ December 24, 1891 The C. & W. M. R.R. Co., is out with a tasty card which says: "We are now building a new line from our terminus at Traverse City to Petoskey via Charlevoix the Beautiful. Will be running in the spring." ____________________________ There are laid up in Charlevoix harbor for the winter the following Steam crafts-Lou A. Cummings, Crescent, Onekema, Gracie Barker, Clara Belle, Frank P. Geiken, Amspach, Parmalee, Gordon, Babcock, Minnie Warren, Martin Avery, J. L. Higgie, and Wm. Parks. Schooners-Florence Smith, Peoria, Sea Gem, Lottie Mason and Fleetwing. The Booth tugs, Anderson and Maxwell will lay up here next week. ____________________________ At the last meeting of the W. R. C. Auxiliary to Baxter Post No. 119 the following officers were elected: President, Mrs. Sarah Brown; S. V. P., Mrs. Lottie Stockman; J. V. P., Mrs. Ruth Carpenter; Tres., Mrs. Ida Burns; Chaplain, Mrs. Elizabeth Boak; Conductor, Mrs. Jane Scott; Guard, Mrs. Martha Brink; Delegate, Mrs. Delia Porter; Installing Officer, Delia Porter. A public joint installation with the G. A. R. will occur at their next regular meeting. ____________________________ December 31, 1891 Train service on the C. & W. M. railroad was to begin to Elk Rapids Monday. They have three passenger trains, and the town is out of the woods. |