Barely Escaped Being Drowned

Miss Jessie Merrill, book-keeper for Wm. Goodyear, had a narrow escape from drowning Friday. She, in company with three friends, spent the day at Wolf lake, near Jackson. During the afternoon they went sailing, and as the wind suddenly changed the boat was overturned and the occupants were thrown into the water.

The young ladies were unable to swim and had it not been for the prompt assistance which a man standing on the dock gave them they would undoubtedly have been drowned.