Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 2 August 1895 — Page 12

Special Inducements.

We are offering] special inducements in

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Canes, Silverware, Cut Glass, Jewelry

and

Novelties

Of all kinds for Commencement seaeon. Call and let us show you through. See the College Spoon.

We are still headquarters for repairing of all kinds in our line.

Corner of Main and Green Sts.

DoY ou Smoke?

Did you ever step in and buy a cigar in some new cigar store, light it, give it a few puffs, find it most excellent, go on smoking and find it continues most excellent for say ten minutes, and then have it turn out a genuine

'cabbage" at the last half? You didn't rush right back there for another of the same sort, did you?

This is the kind of cigars I DON'T sell.

F.C.Bandel

Palace Cigar Store.

Dr. H. E. Greene,

Praotloe Limited to Diseases of the

Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat.

OFFICE HOURS— 9 to 12 a, m. 2 to 4 p. m.

Joel Block, Crawfordsvtlle, Indiana.

WEEKLY JOURNAL

ESTABLISHED IN 1845.,

FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1895.

WISCONSIN LETTER.

Tlio Principal Industry at Marinette—Trout Fishing on Thunder Lake—Partridge Shooting.

MAKIXKTTE. WIS., July 1895.—The principal industry here is the malting of lumber, lath, shingles and paper. The two towns. Marinette, Wis.,and Menominee, Mich., are across the river from each other and contain about 20 large saw mills. One mill runs night and day and cuts 2,000,000 feet per week. The logs are cut during the late fall and winter months from 100 to 200 miles from here, (300 by the river.) The timber consists of white pine, Norway pine, hemlock and cedar, the latter is used mostly for shingles.

The logs are "scaled and marked in the woods, each log is marked on each end, the number of the camp and year when cut. Thus: 12 means camp 12, 1894.

The logs are also marked on the side with an ax, by cutting the initals of the company to whom they belong.

When possible the logs are hauled onto the ice and when the ice goes out the logs all come down together. (500,000,000 feet are floated down every winter.

The Menominee i'iver is a narrow but rapid stream. There are three dams 12 feet high in as many miles.. Above the first dam the river, half mile wide is covered with logs for 20 miles. The logs are made to pass over the dam in chutes, when they come to the sorting gaps, where the logs of different companies are sent into different "pockets" where they stay until sawed. The sawing is done by circle, band and gang saws. The best logs are cut with the band saw. The circle saw takes off the rough sides of the logs, when they go to the gang, four logs at a time pass through this saw, two wide and two high, sawing through faster than a man can walk. All the engines

Dry Goods, Millinery,

flerchant Tail'g flade Waists,

burn saw dust and are fed automatically, and in the Merryman mill the 000 horse power engine is fired and run by one man. The waste is sent to the burner, a structure 40 feet in diameter and perhaps 200 feet high, built of boiler iron and lined with fire brick. Thousands of cords of wood are consumed every season in this way. The streets are paved with saw dust and bark, except Main street which is cedar block.

We went trout fishing two days last week and brought home 182 brook trout. The trip was a great pleasure to me. I came more nearly in contact with undisturbed nature than ever before in my life. In order that Mr. Carson should not lose too much time we made the trip in the night. We rode to Ellis Junction on the train, 24 miles, where at 9:30 p. m. we took a wagon and started on a twenty-five mile drive through a dense forest. After crossing the I'eshtigo river we struck some level roads but very narrow and crooked. The north star was our guide. We got along without accident. At 2:30 a. in. we reached Thunder Lake, made afire and after eating a lunch laid down in the sand and slept until daylight. A few more miles over sand hills and we reached Thunder river. Here a Frenchman had squatted in a logging camp and was keeping hotel. The inmates were aroused and soon our team was in the stable and the landlord ran down to the river barefooted and caught some fish for breakfast. He soon returned with a string of beauties and as these fish have no scales they were soon ready for the table. Breakfast over we started for the Handsaw, a little stream coming into the Thunder river. This was the worst place I ever got into, bushes as thick as grass in a meadow and mosquitoes and flies ditto The stream is very narrow and overgrown with swamp grass and brush but the water is as cool and clear as the finest spring water. The trout likes this and in fact does not live in warm water. The trout is very sly and gamey. The shaking of the grass, the shadow of yourself on the water makes them run so you must avoid this or -get no fish. The success in catching them consists in the skillful manipulating of the line and physical endurance of hard labor aud mosquitoes. Frequently during the day I would wait in vain for a "bite" to find that my hook had lodged on a leaf or caught on a twig. We succeeded in catching seventy-five the first day. The next day we went up the

south branch. This is more open and we had better-success. This stream sweeps the base of the mountain which the Indians call Wawche-wenche. It is about 400 feet high, a mile long and composed of black granite and sand, covered with heavy pines. On top of the mountain is an Indian burying ground, great trees growing over the graves. They have a tradition that the tribes that inhabiled this region at one time chased the devil into this mountain with the bow and arrow. The granite is of the black, hard variety and no doubt from this region came the many black "hard heads" scattered over the Iudiana fields. There'is but little farming done here.

The soil is mostly white sand raises good hay and potatoes. To the children here a "field" is a curiosity, but a meadow" is very common. Partridges are plentiful and on mv way home I shot a porcupine. They are as thick as ground hogs in Indiana. Deer are plentiful and occasionally a bear is seen. We saw neither butascared up a bear on the Handsaw and heard a deer snorting. The tavern-keeper said he frequently got a deer, and we believe 1 him when we ate some "mutton" and saw a dog lugging the shank bone of a very tall "sheep" around. The shooting season is during November and the laws are very strict about shipping game out of the State at any other time. One would suppose that the taking of a thousand fish out of these streams a week would soon exhaust them, but aside from the natural increase the State puts into the streams from 30 to 50 thousand each year.

Wili. R. HOBNBAKER.

LAPtAND.

Oats look fine. G. W. James and family rides in a new buggy.

Chas. Reed, the blacksmith, moved to Roachdale. Sherred Herr, of Boone county, ited here over Sunday.

Zoa-IMiora—Woman's Friend-

Has a grand record as a remedy for all diseases peculiar to women. Ask your druggist for one of the Zoa-Phora Medical Books foJ women. MoffettA Morgan and Nye «fc Booe.

Is the word expressing the excitement over McClure & Graham's Grand

SEMI-HNNUHL NET COST SHLE

The phenomenal low prices are moving their stock like a Kansas cyclone. We make no reserves.

Skirts,

Underwear, Children's Goods Wraps,

And every article in our Mammoth Store we have placed on sale at positive net first cost. We never advertise cost sales till we have made up our minds to sell at'eost. People know this to be true, hence the wonderful success of our Net First Cost Sale.

50 lb. Sack

25 lb. Sack

has

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Geo. Browning and two sisters tended ths Bainbridge fair. The friends of Wal Hester gave him a surprise last Saturday night.

Cloy Reaves and wife, John Smith, Ijlysis Vancleave, Wm. Davis and wife and Lucy Davis took in the Michigan City excursion last week.

Miss Betsy Carter, living near Parkersburg. visited her brother James Carter near this place. This is her first visit in nineteen years.

The White House Grocery

Full Value Flour

A half patent made of 1-3 Springy 2-3 Winter Wheat and guaranteed to be the best Flour for the money ever sold in this market.

Our Price in Cloth Sacks:

We are also headquarters for Sugars, Coffees, Dried and Caned Fruits of all kinds. Salt, 05c per barrel.

McMULLEN

First door south of First' National Bank.

Carpets,

Wall Paper, Window Shades Linoleums,

85c

45C

& ROBB.