Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1900 — A Town Built on Ice. [ARTICLE]

A Town Built on Ice.

Kish CMty, Mich., is tlie oddest town In the country, having no existence except In xv in ter. It Is situated on Saginaw Bay—not ou the shore* but literally on the bay-and is a collection of board aboutles built upon tbe lee. season It contained one thousand houses. They are the huts of the men who do the winter fishing for pike, pickerel, lake trout nnd white fish, and ns soon as the Ice forms on flic bay their construction is begun. The fishermen live in their huts from the time they are built until the breaking up of the lee in flic spring forces them to come n shore. There 1s a door Ln each hut, and In the floor n trap-do** some twenty Inches square. When tills Is raised a hole the same size through the Ice la discovered. At the side of this the fisherman sits all day nnd a great part of the night, watching for his game, which he captures by a dextrous use of the s|tear. From two to two nnd a half million flsli are caught from the bay each winter. J *,< The women believe a man should face every misfortune with cheerfulness, except the death of Ids wife. You can look at some men a mile away, and tell they are no account