"r Maple Rapids >. ■ n Volume VI. Maple Rapids, Mich., Saturday, May 24, 1884. No. 32 — I mmmmmmmmmm —Call early for your seed IJuok- —Messrs Smith & Wright, couiract- SAD ACCIDENT. The Dispatch. wheat at Reed Bros. omand builders hnye recently pur ­ Railroad News chased a large quantity of hard and Martin L. Sfraoue meets wHh an PUnLISHKD SATIIU’IAT HY —The ))oat ofllco will be closed De­ soft wood lumber and about'a hundred unlimely en^ while on his B. iiosco :e hee .xj , coration Day from 10 a.in. to 5 p.ra. thousand sbinglo and are ready to ENGINEERS LOCATING way lumc. EDITOR AHP VROrrtlBTOR. —The examination of S. 1*. Crensing- build anj ’tbing from a sidewalk fo a TEE LINE FROM ST. TERMS $ 1.50 PER YEAR er will be continued at this place totlay mansion, furnishing all the material, Martin L. Sprague, a former resi­ — Levi Atwell ha* put the street JOHNS TO LAN- Our advurtltfing ratts mad© known at this promptly and in a workmanlike man ­ dent of^this place met with asliocking OfllOA. ,, ^ lamps in nice shape and keeps them ner. If any one has any building to 81 N G . accident Jjut Friday forenoon that re­ Bu.sinnsB notices five cents per lino lor each Insortlou. , so. do during the coming sumuier they sulted In his fletltli Saturday morning Marriage,birth and death nollocs naertort —A new and l.irge assortment of La will do well to consult the above llrm. at about 6 o ’clock. He was on his wa.v THE LINE FROM 8T. JOHNS TO THIS Onttuury coniuienta, ropolvtlons, cards of dies and Gents' fine shoes at Reed —The b.iard of revehv were in ses­ homo to his father-ln-Iaw ’s—Aniasa ♦hanks,tjtc. will bt^ ohargod tor ata reasonable PLACE TO BE LOCATED SOON. Bros. sion 'Tuesday. It is comiiosed of sup- Sessions, wlio lives south-west of Hub- Oorrefciponrtenco containing local nffWSds so- —The nrm of W. 11. Owen & Co. bardston, —from Denver, Col. HeiU'd. * eryl.sor Chick, Bon. R. B. Onrrus and Anouyinoin oomiimnlcfttlone not inserua have dissolved and closed out their John Anderson. 'They made but Il« left Chicago on tlie morning under any cli*cum»*tauces. _ sto'k. Since our last issue we have learned train on the M, C. R. K. On that train very little alteration in the roll. The that Lansing lias raised their amount Detroit, Clrand Havea & Milwa'^ee —Bee thecall for the Democratic con ­ board dechlod to ndse the asses.sments the rear car is the one to he switched H A.'Sr. vention to bo found elsewhere in these wlik'h completes the aid asked be ­ oil at New Buffalo for Cvrund Kapids. of those who justified on liquor bonds tween Lansing and Mt. Plensaut, with TIMFiTAHI.K 1)^eembor 30, 18fS3. columns. that they were worth $3,000 over all 'The train does not stop but only slacks Until furtlicr iiotico trains will tcavo —Last week George Soule sheared the exception of a part of tlie amount up and tlio car Is uncoupled ami exemptions and liabllties on other at the last named place. Fowler as follows his hlooded New York ram. The bonds to the amount they justified to. switched off. Mi- Sprague was not in WKST novND. Ileeco weiglicd twenty-eiglit pounds, The engineers began this week run ­ the rear car but tho one in front of It. ^Xiglit Express.... .............. 3:08 a. m This is a move in the right direction and the earens 133. ning a line from Ijinsing to St. Johns •After the car was detatched the bal ­ Mixed ......................................... '* for under oath they swore to their re- iiliieh tliey will locate at ouee. It is ^ Moriiinf! Express .. , . 11 •'O —Tliere are a good many people out- ance of the train went slowly when lie liability and yet the supervisor cannot uxjiected tliat by the middle of June t l'li rougli Mail............................ * '** ‘ sido who are looking at this place for find the property to iissess. But they went onto the rear platform. The iSteamb'oat Express ......................'> :50 a busiuesss oiiening when the oars get work will have conimouced on tlie train kept going faster and faster un ­ KAST IIOUXP. must have it or tliey would not have here. Let them come. grade between those places and that til it had gone nearly through the vil­ tPetroltExpress ...................... 7 .50 a. m sworn to it. by the middle of September the grade —Those parties I’ho can furnish any lage wtien Mr. S. with his little nine t Til rough Jlail.......................13:10 p • m- will he completed south of St. John*. Mixed ..................................... flowers for Decoration Day are re- Personals. years old girl and valise In Ids arms t liTOuiug Express .....................o •>'0 questixl to send what they can to the —Work on the line of the ne,w R. R. undertook to jump oft. He swung un ­ Might Express daily east and west Post ’s headquarters. Perry’s Hall, Fri­ —S. D. Adams, of Utic.a, was in town between hero and Salt River is being der the wheels mangling his right leg with sleeper atlaclied. All other t rain actively pushed and it is probahlo that day before ten o ’clock . Wednesday. in a shocking manner and receiving daily, SiaidayH exceiiteih __________ the grade will be tlnislied to that point —The committee who handed in the —Charlie Martin Is able to be on the internal Injuries which proved fatal. C«7i’ A T V OKI ITTllf*. within sixty days. Tlte B. R. Co. Tlic child received some scalp wounds program for Decoration Day s.'iy the streets agniu. .Iiulge of I'robate —Jov.i. U. Cbaxsto N Kuiveyors will coinnience operations which left lier in an uueoiiscions con ­ procession will “reform.” Wonderful —Seth and Allie Creusingcr are ex ­ .Shei ifl'—Wii-liam Ooi .liks . admission on tlieir part. Who sup ­ at once between Ijansing and St. dition, but tlio father was conscious pected home to-day . Clerk—Iacob F. iShkakt . posed they needed reforming? Johns. Lansing has pledged the full bur not able to do anything at all. 'The Tie isiirer—Ei’WAKii Huowx. -Brad Hayes, of North Plains was amoinit asked of her and now businesi train, coming from tlie east about a Jl-sitisUir of Deeds—M >asiiAL.r.Hand —Village Assessor Ciiick lias com­ in town NVedinisdiiy. begins In cariie.st.—Alma Record. Probate Jiiilgo. —.lOKL JI. Cuanston . pleted his assessment roll. $2.56,980 half hour afterwards discovereil tho tl'irvevor —Hansom 11. (.oLiira.M. is the assessed valuation of tlie village. —Lawyer Ferris of Hnbbartlstou Uneorntion Uity. * Id wandering on the track uiicon- 1* 108 .'Ally.—John 11. Fkdkwa . was upon the streets Jlonday, msly and wlieii they stopped found Ciroull Court < Oiiaini^siotiers Rememlier these llguros and comiiare Refore another issue Decorali^n —Miss Nancy Ingham returned last hini. 'They were taken to Michigan \V. H. Castki .. them with those of next year. Day for 188-1 will have been oltserved. A. \Vaiiui :x rtcoviLi.K. Saturday exeuiiig from her visit in Ciiy, Ind., where lie lingered in great —There are a number of cases of To the Grand Army of the Ih'publie Colonel ’s—David Hi.a NK, Ohio. agony untii Saturday morning hi a ANoniiw J. WidciNS. diphtheria in tiAvu hut tiiey are all of belongs tlm credit of bringing tliis p.-rfcciiy conscious condition and r i- —M. V. Rrown was in town Thurs ­ a mild cliaraclur. No alarm need be day into the prominence it deserves. tioiiul to tho last. He was in so weak day working u]) a lodge of Chosen had by any one as tlie disease has ex- It is but a few years since the day was n* mnditioii that no effort was mndc. to S'tpnrvisor — John <'hick. Friends, (Mcrk—R. M. Hwitfart.^ hibitivl no alarming symptoms. set apart as a national holiday and to- (i^puttttc liis shattered llnih. Mr. Sta­ Treasurer—H. B. VanSeny. —In these dull times any thing will —3. W. Smith Ins been re-engaged d:iy it is one of tlie best observed Imli- siks was informed by telegrapii and JiiBlicos—Henry F, Auten, ns teacher at Barai/tc with an increase daj’s in this county and It is very ap ­ Will. Heek, create an excitement in town. Tues­ went linmedi.ately to him, hut ,lid not J.T. Daniels. day an old wagon drawn onto the of salary. propriately so ohserved. Ev.try year arrive there until al'ier ids deiitii. His Highway Coni ’r -O. U- Sowie. streets with a spring under the tongue —While Hi. He IS was working on there will be added to tho clustitr of remaius were brought liome and bur- Scliool Inspectors —S. H. W idlings, drew a crowd iiruuiid it very quickly. a staging ono day week it fell hurt- soldiers gravea all through the land d a/f llubbardstuu. 'Tlie child has Frank T. Hranch, new graves for those who have fulle ‘■''".■'Constables —Myron Duniiliig> ^ —TheIhosaloonfl saloons at Portland are all log his nrm oo:.8' cred her mind and is out of dan- . - Vi lA*'I ’ho.TilliAgo board lufused to —Mi^ Klttirt^hffr.mm expects to during the ye.ar, ana as the rank: which leaves that a start for Chicago next Tuesday. She of the Grand-Army Post are thinned Ati Micount of his wife’s deatli was ?l‘'«rt-HrM'‘Bwigar"‘ Lyons wwelcomes those de­ will bo away some time. by the last coulllct which lias to be given in tliese columns only about a met singly and atone, tho survivors Treasurer-R.