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Whitmore Lake

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
June
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Forty-four tourists took supper at the Lake house Sunday evening.

 

Thirty-seven guests sat down at the Clitton honse for dinner on Sunday and their boats were in good demand as the fishing is becoming excellent.

 

Station Agent F. C. Perry will move into the new depot next week and he says it will be a very agreeable change from a box car to a nice commodious depot.

 

Miss Lettie Carrol, teacher in the Moe district, will have her school exhibition at the Clifton house hall on June 17, instead of May 17, as previously stated.

 

As the price of wheat goes down flour goes up. In this neck of the woods it has risen 40 cents per barrel since Friday and the consumers are inquiring for the cause.

 

Pray Bros. are building the largest barn in the county for Wm. Latson, of Webster, it being 40x106 feet with 24 feet posts, hip roof and will be 75 feet from the ground to peak of the roof.

 

Last Monday, May 29, Capt. Manly packed his satchel and hied himself away off to Jackson to make a complete set of abstract books for Jackson county, the contract was awarded to him as per his notice frorn the board of supervisors committee. Mr. Manly will be gone a few days to get the work under way and then return to Whitmore Lake to look after his guests.

 

The University of Michigan Toastmasters' Club held its second semester banquet at the Clifton house, Whitmore Lake, on Saturday, May 27, and it was the most enjoyable entertainment ever given in this place. At its conclusion a vote of thanks was extended to Landlord Manly for the many courtesies and the capable manner in which they were entertained and in response Capt. Manly said he was delighted to remark that out of the 80 assembled, there were 80 ladies and gentlemen in the full sense of the word and a club whom he felt honored to have the privilege of entertaining.