Whitmore Lake

    Sixty-two couples attended the Woodman hop at the Clifton house on Friday night.

     One-half of the population are suffering with the grip and the other half don't feel well themselves.

    Twenty-three attended the Ladies Aid at Mrs. Holmes' on Wednesday afternoon and had a good time.

    Wednesday of last week all the ice companies stopped business until the weather got colder as it was up hill work handling the ice in its soft condition.

    Geo. Rauschenberger has decided to make not only nice improvements but substantial ones also. He will put steel sides and ceiling and a new maple floor. These ceilings of steel will be as white as snow and everlasting.

    O. D. Moore has taken a contract to load 3,500 cars of ice at this place for the Toledo Ice Co. Mr. Moore has brought his Hamburg Junction crew here and is loading 60 cars per day at present and as the weather hardens up will plan to transit 100 cars daily. He is a hustler from way back.

    Superintendent O. D. Moore has filled the Toledo plant at Hamburg Junction, putting in 18,000 tons of ice and a reception was tendered him by the employees. These houses were filled on Saturday night and on Tuesday evening every man got his pay and there was not one complaint made and 117 men were paid off.

    One hundred of Toledo's representative men were invited to Whitmore Lake by the Toledo Ice Co. to look over their plant at Whitmore Lake. A special train under the supervision of Mr. J. J. Kirby was placed at their disposal and a jollier lot of men were never assembled.. They took our town by storm and it taxed the ingenuity of Landlord Stevens, of the Lake house, to appease their ravenous appetites. After which the party was called to order in the Lake house parlors when J. J. Kirby, acting as toastmaster, jollied the boys all up by showing there were underground passages between Whitmore Lake, Silver Lake and Zukey Lake, and he said in order to so demonstrate that this was so that three years ago while fishing in Zukey Lake he caught a 2-pound bass, punched a hole in its tail and wired in a small tin tag, and last summer while angling in Whitmore Lake he got a tremendous bite which propelled his boat half way across the lake and finally he landed a 6-pound bass with this identical tag in his tail. This he said demonstrated beyond a peradventure that the underground passages exist.