Ice Houses Were Burned

With A Loss of $15,000 at Hamburg.

A BIG CROP OF PEACHES

Is the Good Fortune of a Farmer Near Whitmore Lake.

Whitmore Lake, Aug. 17. - (Special to Daily Argus). - Stephen Douglass, of Green Oak, was in town today and says his peach crop of 40 acres is excellent this year and the buyers are numerous around his place. Eight years ago Mr. Douglass set out 1,500 peach trees, 80,000 black and red raspberries, 600 plum trees and 300 pear trees. This year his pears are a total failure but he is very much elated with his peach crop.

S. Avis went ont fishing and fell on the edge of the boat and broke two of his libs.

Miss Lomse Allmendinger, of Ann Arbor, left yesterday for her home at Ann Arbor after having a delightful time.

Miss Julia Mayer, stenographer for Freeman, Delamater & Co. of Detroit, is spending two weeks at Whitmore Lake and she says this is the jolliest place she ever visited.

Miss Dora M. Brown, of Detroit, stenographer for F. B. Stevens, is spending her two weeks vacation at Saratoga No. 2, and says she wishes she could remain a month.

The L J. Seek Ice Co. are shipping their ice to Toledo as rapidly as possible and Wm. Roper the manager says the houses will be emptied by Sept. 20.

Miss Rosa Wuerthner, of Manchester, Mich., after a week's frolick here, left last evening for her home looking blue at not being able to lengthen her vacation. She spent one week in Detroit before coming here with her cousin, Miss Mayer, and says she wishes she had come direct to Whitmore Lake.

The residence and summer resort of H. G. Beach, at Silver Lake, about 2 1/2 miles north of here, caught fire about 10 o'clock yesterday forenoon and was entirely consumed. In about an hour after the dwelling house was burned his large ice houses filled with 30,000 tons of ice also took fire and burned to the ground together with eight cars on the side crack of the Ann Arbor railroad. Particulars tomorrow. The loss is estimated at $15,000.

New guests at both hotels are arriving daily and the old inhabitants feel as though they were strangers in a strange land.