Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1881 — The Michigan Sufferers. [ARTICLE]

The Michigan Sufferers.

The Mayor of Port Huron, Mich., has issued the following: Post Hurnn, Mich., Sept. 27. To the People of the United States: We are glad to announce that we have all the clothing that we need. Bedding, underwear, provisions, grass and clover seed, tinware, tablewear and money are imperatively needed. Our cash receipts up to noon to-day are $121,000. Donations have been generous and timely, but the needs are vast. The generosity of the American people has inspired the sufferers in the burned region with new hope, and, their first needs being supplied, they are industriously engaged in building new homes. To the Mayors of the Cities of the United States: We will have 15,000 people to house and feed during the approaching winter. Grateful for the donations already made, I am compelled to ask you to continue systematically in your several cities in this great work of charity. I can only renew the assurance that contributions received will bo faithfully used, and I am confident that this appeal for aid will not be in vain. C. E. Cableton. Mayor of Port Huron, Mich. Nearly all the ice imported into Great Britain comes from Norway. When the business began it came from Boston, the nearest port to the celebrated lake called Wenham. The purity and solidity of the ice of this lake soon won for it a reputation for all that*could be desired in the article. But it was found that as good a gathering place was situated on the coast of Norway, which was, of course, much nearer England, and to keep up the name one of the lakes there—Lake Oppegaard— Traa 4ubbed Weuham lake.