VOLUME XXX.-NO. ii. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1891. WHOLE NUMBER, 1551. AMONG THE PINES. hewn out of the woods, wherein was a Having quite thoroughly inspected A DAY DREAM ! huge and handsome farm house sur- this phase of life we returned by our Last week we visited some of the lum- rounded by immense barns. It was a sleighs to Alpena at a lively pace, well Which Includes a Summer Resort Hotel The Ann Ark Courier ber camps of northern Michigan, and an genuine surprise, for one would as soon pleased with the novel scenes we had and all that. account of their life and methods may have expected tofindan iceberg in Flor- witnessed. (Published Every Wednesday. be of interest to our readers who have ida as a complete farm among the waste There are no longer the large profits From time to time, enthusiastic writ- never eaten baked beans at the board of sands in the pineries. in lumber which obtained when the ers have published communications in tables of a lumber camp. land was gotten at $1.25 per acre and the COURIER and various other city paperi Hae ft Large Circulation among Merchants, Here Mr. E. O. Avery has a 1000 acre relative to improvements in and for the Mechanics, Manufacturers, Farmers, Being in Alpena, where the deep the logs were close by the streams. farm run for his army of horses used in city. and Families Generally. snows have given already ten weeks of the camps. Hay is from $12 to $20 a ton Moreover, it takes considerable nerve, One favored a new opera house. sleighing, the most noticeable thing is and oats correspondingly high. More- as well as cash, to put in $30,000 or Another favored a new hotel. to see the long lines of bobs laden with over, they have to be hauled an im- more, through the winter, spring and A Very Desirable Medium for Advertisers A third favored the extension of the birch and poplar wood being drawn to mense distance, still further adding to summer running a thousand chances of street railway to all parts of the city. the sulphite paper mill. They have pur- the cost. So he raises these essentials losses, fires, poor markets, etc. The TTJ2STITJS E. BEAL, chased some 9,000 cords of these soft and summers the horses after they come team expenses alone are immense, when Others favored subsidising factories, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. woods at four dollars a cord from the out of their hard winter's work. Al- you consider that one or two seasons etc. farmers and lumbermen in the vicinity, ready he has spent over $25,000 on this kills the horses by severe toil and ex- All those things are commendable, TERMS: and the distribution of that money has farm, and is now about to build another posures. and if capital would take hold and push $1.00 per Year in Advance. To Subscrib- Hosiery and Socks, made the town lively this winter, to say barn over 200 feet long. All through them to completion there is little doubt ers out of the County, 15 cents extra, nothing of the bonanza it has afforded houses and barns water pipes run and The Junior's Speak. but they would be instrumental ia to pay postage. the farmers thus to realize so hand- no expense is spared for the comfort of building up the city and calling people somely on what had hitherto been a man or beast. Even in the winter a On Thursday evening last at the high here to live who desire to find a quiet, Entered at the Ann Arbor Postofficeae Second MARCH 9 TO 14, '91 worthless article. large reserve of horses is kept here, as school chapel, a large audience assem- pleasant place for a home that possesses Class Mail Matter. bled to listen to the annual junior exhi- all the luxuries of a large city. Good full sizes Some enormous loads are hauled over well as cows, hogs, etc., and on another farm Mr. Avery owns 40 miles away, he bition, given by the students of the While wandering over Cedar Bend, ONLY ALL METAL CUTS INSERTED. the iced roads. For instance we have a high school. photograph of a load which held six has over 40 cows, mostly Jerseys. The ave. a few days ago the thought struck The chapel was handsomely adorned cords of green wood weighing over thir- horses are a cross between the Clydes- us, Why would not this be a delightful with the school colors maze and red, JOB PRINTING- Ladies'Hose teen tons, which was drawn eight miles dale and Percheron, a combination of spot on which to build a fine summer We have the most complete job office in the great festoons hanging from the center hotel? State or in the Northwest, which enables us by one team of 2,900 pounds. To the the two, giving the strength of the lat- to print Books, PainpMcts. zosters, Program- ter without its clumsiness. In the sum- chandeliers to the four corners of the A more sightly location, or a more mes, Bill-Heads, Note-HemU, Cards, Etc.,. in and Gents' farmer used to hauling over our poor superior style, upon the shortest notice. roads one cord at a time this may seem mer time one cannot look anywhere on room. This helped the acoustic proper- beautiful view it is not possible to ficd like a fish story, but we have the photo the farm without seeing a horse. ties of the hall, there is little doubt, for in all Michigan. Everywhere, on all BOOK-BINDING-. Socks to prove it, with the weights marked the echo was not as bad as had hereto- sides, as far as the eye can reach, is a Connected with THE COURIER office is an The ownerof the place received us with fore been noticed. sight that makes even the dullest eyes extensive Book-Bindery, employing competent thereon. This illustrates what can be as warm a welcome as did the immense and experienced hands. All Kinds of Records, done on a road smooth and hard, and is The platform was handsomely decora- dance with delight; hills, valleys, woods, ledgers, Journals, Magazines, Ladies' Books, 4e per pair. log fire within the huge old-fashioned Hnrals and Harper's Weeklies, Ktc, bound on a powerful reminder of how much more ted with plants which all the evening streams, green fields, and city spires, all the shortest notice and in the most substau grate. The supper was as good as could divided with the members of the school before you. It is sufficiently removed tial manner, at reasonable prices. Music es we could accomplish if we had a good be obtained at a first-class hotel, and pecially bound more tastefully than at an system of roads for summer as they have board who formed the background, the from the noise and bustle of the city, in other bindery in Michigan. The bulk of Spring Hosiery offered our sharpened appetites did it justice. is black and the in winter. honors of the stage. The motto of the fact it is like being in the mountains for In the morning Mr. Avery accompan- junior class Mfye;? T6 irav, which is all that matter, and yet you would be in a It is not our purpose to tell of the in- MASONIC DIRECTORY. ied us across the country to three of his Greek to us, hung directly over the cen- city with all the advantages that im- teresting process of making paper out ANN ARBOR COMMANDERY, NO. 13, meets first camps on the river side, where strong ter of the stage, while at the opposite plies — telephone, telegraph, railroads Tuesday of each month, IS. F. Watts, E. C. of that wood, nor of the many saw mills horses were hauling huge loads of logs reachiug all points quickly—(in fact a in Alpena, but of a seventy-five mile end of the hall hung the motto of the John R. Miner, Recorder. to pile up on the banks ready to be float- seniors, " Nil Sine Lahore," which when man could carry on his business from WASHTENAW CHAPTER, NO. 6, R. A. M.—Meets ride back into Montmorency county, ed down in the spring. there if he desired to)—electric lights, first Monday each month. L. C. Goodrich, rendered into English probable means Leads in popularity the world over. where the vast lumbering operations are It is marvelous what loads they draw beautiful and deliciously cool spring H. P.; N. D. Gates, Secretary. Every pair will be sold with the fol- driven along. With a lively team and a that the boys and girls cannot get there over their roads, because they have without "boning." The audience were water issuing forth from the hillside, BUSINESS CARDS. lowing guarantee : Onyx Hosiery is jolly party of four Monday was spent on found the secret of good road beds. A uncontaminuted with anything impure. absolutely stainless, will not fade in the road threading the aisles of the for- ushered to their seats by young gentle- logging road requires considerable skill men in full dress uniforms, and every- Then the rapid motor cars—and cheap washing, nor crack, nor turn green. est of pines through whose boughs the in construction as it never makes a team e H« E. ©HELL, We have full lines of infants', Misses', soughing wind kept a strange accompa- thing passed off in the most approved fare—connecting with Ypsilanti, thus drag a load up a grade.