Village Happenings - Whitmore Lake

Whitmore Lake

Highway Commissioner Zeeb was in town today laying out a new street.

Parties from Fenton were looking over the Clifton house property today with a view of buying.

Frank Spiegleburg's house is in course of construction and will be completed for him to occupy by Christmas.

Evangelists Coffin and Emmerick are holding revival meetings at the M. E. church this week and so far have 6 or 7 converts.

The new ice company have just completed a side track around the lake shore where they will load ice direct on the cars from the lake.

Married, by Father Goldrick, on Wednesday, at St. Patrick's parsonage Walter Spiegelberg and Miss Minnie McHugh, all of Northfield.

The Woodmen dance on Thanksgiving night at the Clifton house was a hummer, there being 87 couples on the floor. Financially the lodge is $25 better off.

Frank Lemon met with a very painful accident on Sunday evening. He fell from a straw stack about five feet from the ground and lit on a cobble stone which was covered with straw, dislocating his ankle. Dr. Lemon, his brother, reduced the fracture.

Mrs. Ida R. Holmes and Pray Bros. have given deeds to the township for land for a highway from the Whitmore Lake and Ann Arbor road, 26 rods east to the cheese factory plant. All the preliminaries having been arranged, Mr. Robins will now push the factory to completion.

James Nesbit returned from his hunting trip up north Saturday, and has three fine deer to show, one of which weighs over 200 pounds. James is as modest as a school girl over it. Most hunters would burst the whole vocabulary of English adjectives blowing about it if they had only shot one deer.