Whitmore Lake

Whitmore Lake.

Sheriff Gillen has appointed Frank Munger deputy sheriff at this point.

On Monday morning the Toledo Ice Co. resumed the filling of their houses with nine inch ice.

Messrs. Pray & Roper are negotiating for the Spring Lake Ice Co.'s plant and if they get it will repair and fill it with ice.

The happiest man in town is Charles Kolasch who reports the arrival of an eight pound girl at his residence, all doing well.

After an absence of two months, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. B. Rane, have returned from Columbus, Ohio, where they have been visiting their children Mr. and Mr. Harry McCoy.

Chas. Wellman, the elevator manager here, says that the delivery of beans for the past two weeks is very gratifying, exceeding last year's shipments for the same dates by 3,000 bushels. Today they are paying 85 cents for beans and 66 cents for wheat.

In October last Jas. Robins commenced buying and shipping milk to the Howell cheese factory at which time he received 300 pounds of milk daily, and on Jan. 5, it had increased to 3,000 pounds and Mr. Robins says by the 1st of April he will be shipping 5,000 pounds daily.

Geo. Mulbach, foreman for O. D. Moore in the ice houses at Hamburg Junction, and Stephen Earl, foreman on the lake, at the same point, visited our town on Saturday last and reports the ice 10 inches thick and as they are old acquaintances here, took away a boat 30 of our boys to assist them in the ice business.

O. D. Moore, manager for the Toledo Ice Co. at this point in the construction of their large plant, has been transferred to Hamburg Junction as their general superintendent in filling their houses at that place. He has commenced running in ice. They have a plant there of 16,000 tons capacity which will be filled with nine inch ice in 18 days. Mr. Moore says the ice is of excellent quality.

James E. Burke, one of the most genial and every day horny handed sons of Northfield township, having more horses than he could use to advantage decided to raffle a fine little roadster, and James Robins, our genial milk man, won the horse on No. 15. After the horse was won Mr. Burke invited all to a lunch which it is needless to say was accepted unanimously and highly appreciated. After the raffle Mr. Burke offered to take the horse back at $35 which was promptly refused by the winner.

Mrs. Elizabeth Pray has platted 28 lots on the south end of Whitmore Lake known as the Pray addition to the village of Whitmore Lake and as the lots are nearly all absorbed she is expecting in the near future to plat 50 more lots which are selling like hot cakes. This boom is the effects of the generosity shown to those who want homes by the Pray Brothers, builders, who are making it an object to anybody wanting a home to build rather than to pay house rent, which amounts to the same thing.