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The building in which the fight occurred was purchased by Mr. Hanebuth and moved to his farm on the SW of 1-106-67.
The stove, around which this battle occurred, was moved to Black Hawk, Iowa, where it is used to warm a hen house.
What became of "Doc," the water spaniel is not known, but he re- covered from his beating and it is thought that Combs took him away.
Combs moved to Iowa, and from there to Arkansas. What became of Harris is not known.
Solomon served his term and then left the state. It is reported that he had many troubles afterward and was finally killed.
Chapter 17.
In the Ist commissioner district the republicans had nominated Mr. O. A. Knudtson of Franklin township, to succeed Mr. Fisher as county commissioner. The democrats had nominated Mr. Richard Dalton, of Blaine township. Mr. Knudtson was elected.
As an auxiliary to the G. A. R. Post at Wessington Springs, a W. R. C. was organized June 20, 1885.
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W. H. L. Wallace G. A. R. Post was organized at Alpena on Feb. 14th, 1885, with the following charter members
Wm. H. Arne, 9th N. Y. H. Artillery.
I. Pearce, 4th Ill. Cavalry.
F. D. Hubbard, IIIth N. Y. Infantry.
R. Davenport, 4th Iowa Cavalry.
C. M. Yakee, Ist Colorado Cavalry.
M. D. Blank, 2nd Iowa Cavalry.
O. W. Richardson, 12th Illinois Cavalry.
B. Gondit, Gunboat service.
E. J. Cole, 21st N. Y. Cavalry.
H. C. Newmeyer, 153rd Penn. Infantry.
J. Hines, 117th Ohio Infantry.
P. Grey, 34th Illinois Infantry.
C. C. Hubbard, IIIth N. Y. Infantry.
F. C. Phillips, Mich. B. L. Artillery.
In after years the following members were added to the post : Lewis Fenstemaker, 34th Illinois Infantry.
Ruben Eastman, 34th Illinois Infantry.
Cyrus E. Tinnery, 124th Illinois Infantry.
Childs P. Canon, 2nd Nebr. Cavalry.
Solon Palmer, Gunboat.
H. M. Arne, 9th N. Y. H. Artillery.
B. F. Remore, 8Ist N. Y. Infantry.
Charles Davis, 50th Wis. Infantry.
John Teasdale, 37th Wis. Infantry.
Win. H. McDowell, 17th Penn. Mounted Infantry.
W. T. Hay, - Wis. Infantry.
R. Butler, 6th Iowa Cavalry. Wm. Orr, 44th Illinois Infantry.
S. C. Weatherwax, 20th Iowa Infantry.
J. Rankin, 84th Illinois Infantry.
M. G. Shull, 16th Wis. Infantry.
Theodore Le Master, 3rd W. Va. Cavalry.
Chas. Fetterly, 4th Mich. Cavalry.
Wm. J. Grace, 38th Wis. Infantry.
May 20th the County Commissioners appointed F. A. Wheelihan Justice of the Peace in place of Wesley L. Davis, resigned.
June 10th, 1885, L. N. Loomis moved his family to Wessington Springs.
In August, 1885, A. Converse purchased a farm in Anina township
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and for many years thereafter was one of the most prominent citizens of the county.
Until the summer of 1885 the only water used on the townsite of Wessington Springs was from the big spring. Then L. H. Tarble had a well bored on the R. M. Magee property (now owned by James Barr). The water from this well was so excellent that other wells were put down.
August 8th, 1885, all the G. A. R. posts of the county observed Grant Memorial Day.
Union Cemetery is on the west side of the south-west quarter of sec- tion 18 in Viola township. It was purchased and platted at the expense of the people of Viola and Anina townships. Several of the residents of these two townships met at the Ford school house in Viola, Feb. 5th, 1885. J. N. Smith was made chairman of the meeting and Jonas A. Tyner, secretary. The purpose was the organization of a cemetery asso- ciation. A board of trustees was elected composed of J. N. Smith and J. A. Tyner of Viola, and S. S. Moore and Asa Hodgson of Anina. The land was obtained and in December of that year they employed T. L. Blank, of Wessington Springs, to survey and plat it. The plat con- sists of four blocks, each of which is divided into thirty-six lots, which are numbered like the sections in congressional townships. At a meeting of the board of trustees in December, 1885, twelve lots were set aside, at the suggestion of Mr. Tyner, for a "potters field." In twenty-four years no one has found a burial place in any of those twelve lots. Articles of incorporation were adopted January 4th, 1886. The first person interred in Union cemetery was Mrs. N. G. Rhodes, a sister of J. A. Ford, of Viola township.
Charity cemetery is located on the NE quarter of section 26, in Viola township. This was platted in 188 -. Mrs. J. G. Kieser was the first person buried in that church yard. The next seven interments were of babies. When twenty-seven graves had been made in this plat only three were adults, and of the children burried here only one was over nine years old, and twenty-three were less than three years.
The school bonds voted in the various townships in 1884-85 were as follows :
Alpena, $4,000 ; Dale, $2,500 ; Logan, $1,500; Anina, $2,000; Viola, $2,500; Franklin, $1,600; Chery, $3,000; Marlar, $1,500; Wessington Springs, $2,000; Harmony, $1,200; Crow, $1,500; and Pleasant, $1,570.
The practice act, or Code of Civil Procedure, of Dakota Territory abolished all "fictions" of the law. Yet the first term of the District Court in Jerauld Co., was by virtue of an order of chief justice Bartlett Tripp, in which he created a fiction and used it. The order was made
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Feb. 19, 1886, calling an "additional" term of the court to convene on the 16th day of March.
This order required the drawing of twenty grand jurors and twenty- four petit jurors, to be drawn by the clerk and sheriff fom a list to be provided by the county commissioners. This term of court was ordered mainly for the purpose of trying B. L. Solomon, then lying in jail on a charge of murder.
The grand jurors drawn were as follows: H. Blowers, J. H. Farn- ham, B. F. Gough, E. C. La Rue, O. Johanson, Jas. J. Grace. Otis Walker, E. T. Harmen, Andrew Jacobsen, J. Zimmerman, A. Bywater, J. W. Wray, W. Steiner, R. Vanterveen, W. A. Rex, Henry Kneiriem, J. B. Jacobs, Calvin Hane, and M. Powell.
The following is a list of the petit jurors: O. E. Williams, W. S. Scofield, R. Hible, Joseph Steichen, Joseph Ponsford, Fred Hagenbrook, T. L. White, Geo. King, H. W. Louder, A. S. Beels, J. Wheeler. Geo. Titus, A. I. Churchill, R. J. Hughes, Frank Augustin, W. J. Houmes, Thomas Henning, J. B. Neal, C. C. Wright, D. M. Black, M. H. Martin, K. S. Starkey, D. Kint, and F. W. Whitney.
Both the grand and petit juries were drawn on the 24th of February.
Of the grand jurors drawn all appeared but J. H. Farnham and J. B. Jacobs. The court granted the request of J. W. Wray to be excused, and the prosecution in the Solomon case challenged H. Blowers. A special venire was then issued and Wm. Hawthorne, H. J. Wallace, J. N. Dynes and A. S. Beals were summoned by the sheriff to fill the grand jury. The defense in the Solomon case then challenged the grand jury panel, because of error in selecting the list of names from which the jury was drawn, by the clerk and sheriff. The challenge was sustained and the grand jury discharged.
The petit jury was retained and then court proceeded with the trial of some civil cases.
Before the trial of cases began Mr. J. F. Ford was admitted to prac- tice as an attorney, on a certificate issued by the district court in Calhoun county, Iowa.
The first alien admitted to citizenship by a court of record was Peter . Nening, in District Court March 17, 1886. His witnesses were Joseph Steichen and W. J. Williams.
The first verdict rendered in district court in Jerauld county was for the defendant in the case of Peter Wieland vs. O. E. Gaffin. Dunham and Drake attorneys for plaintiff, and T. H. Null for defendant. The jury that tried this first case was composed of the following men: A. I. Churchill, W. S. Scofield, C. C. Wright, Jos. Ponsford, Thos. Henning,
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H. W. Louder, M. H. Martin, D. Kint, A. S. Beals, F. W. Whitney, R. Hible and Geo. King.
Another term of court was called for June 29th. On the 2nd day of the term the grand jury returned an indictment against B. L. Solomon to which he pleaded "not guilty" on the Ist of July. The grand jury that returned this indictment, the first in the county, was composed of the following jurymen: Theodore Dean, foreman, Geo. W. Bolton, James H. Waldron, Geo. Knieriem, Wm. Hill, J. W. Shultz, Peter Klink, Louis Jonker, Julius Hart, A. Gilbertson, G. S. Brady, G. S. Eddy, H. C. Stephens, H. B. Faust, J. C. Barr, A. B. Easter, J. R. Eddy and E. J. Mentzer.
The trial of the Solomon case began on the 7th day of July, before a jury which consisted of : Patrick Conlon, J. C. Johnston, S. W. Foster, M. Flint, E. E. Nesmith, J. R. Nelson, W. Murphy, J. H. Daniels, W. L. Holden, Richard Price, J. A. Holcomb and E. A. Heaton.
The jury disagreed on the 10th of July and were discharged. The case was then taken to Sanborn county, where the prisoner was convicted and sent to prison for two years.
Following the example of previous years no detailed statement of county finances, was shown by settlement with the treasurer.
On January 5th, 1886, the following record appears in the minutes of the board. "The balance of the afternoon was spent in settling with the county treasurer."
On January 12th, 1886, Mr. Fisher retired from the board and Mr. Knudtson took his place. The new board organized by electing J. E. Sullivan chairman.
The strife over the position of official county paper was spirited at the meeting of the county commissioners in March, 1886. The following offers from the different publishers tell how anxious they were in those days to get the prestige of official patronage.
"The Jerauld County News will publish the county work at one-half legal rates, should you designate it the official paper of the county.
Very Respectfully, News Publishing Co."
"Communication of Co. clerks of 14th inst. rec'd. I will make formal bid of $26.00 to print Co. Com's proceedings for year 1886.
Yours truly, M. B. McNeil, Waterbury, D. T.
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"Sirs :- I hereby agree to publish the proceedings of your Hon. body free of charge for one year, in consideration of the Wessington Springs Herald being named as the official paper of Jerauld county.
Yours respectfully,
T. L. Blank, Pub. Herald."
"The Jerauld County Journal, of Alpena, will pay the county $2.00 to be furnished with the minutes of the commissioners meetings during the current year, also publish the delinquent tax list at five cents per description, publish all legal notices of the board free of charge and furnish stationary at 20 per cent below regular price.
L. H. McCarger."
"Received of L. H. McCarger two dollars for having the privilege of county board. The above to the credit of county fund.
W. J. Willams, County Treasurer, Jerauld Co., D. T."
On March 5th, 1886, the county board accepted the steel cell which had been placed in the old county building ready for use, allowing $975 therefor. On April 8th they settled for the court house and jail, exclusive of cell at $2,410.91. Making a total with the cell of $3,385.91.
Franklin township filed a petition on July 5th, 1886, asking for civil township organization. The petition was laid over to the next meeting. On Oct. 5th the petition was denied.
July 6th the board passed an order instructing the road overseers on the west side of the county to work the west county line from the north- west corner of section 6-108-67 south 15 miles to the northwest corner of the NW of 19-107-67, Buffalo county having agreed to work the balance south of that point.
In calling the election for 1886 the board renumbered the precincts, putting each township by itself according to its congressional boundaries ; Alpena being No. 1, Franklin No. 6 and Blaine No. II, numbering west across the county.
At the September session, 1886, the board established a road on sec- tions 14 and 23 in Marlar township. At the October session a road was established at the foot of the hills in Media and Chery townships.
The county tax levy in 1886 was the same in amount as the two previous years, but instead of levying 2 mills road tax and 2 mills bridge tax, the board dropped those items and levied a 4 mills tax for a sinking fund.
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Nothing further of special interest occurred in the proceedings of the board of commissioners during the year 1886.
Politics, as usual, was a matter of interest to all. The eighth council and representative district, composed of Beadle, Sanborn and Jerauld counties was entitled to two representatives and one member of the ter- ritorial council. Beadle county being designated by the apportionment act as the senior county, claimed the position of councilman, and nom- inated John Cain as the republican candidate. Sanborn county repub- licans brought forward Wilson Wise as their candidate while in this county D. F. Royer, of Alpena, was the republican nominee. Against these candidates the democrats nominated J. W. Harden, of Jerauld county for the council, and C. C. Frost, of Beadle county, and A. K. Colton of Sanborn county, for representatives.
In county politics the bitterness engendered in 1884 seemed to have intensified with the approach of another election. Three tickets were put in the field for most of the offices. For register of deeds the democrats and independents united and nominated H. C. Stephens, of Wessington Springs, against L. N. Loomis, who was a candidate for re-election.
The various candidates were as follows :
Register of Deeds-Republicans, L. N. Loomis; Dem. and Indepen- dent, H. C. Stephens.
Dist. Attorney-Republican, C. V. Martin ; Democrat, Thomas Drake : and Ind., T. H. Null.
Treasurer-Rep., W. J. Williams, Dem., U. E. Babb; and Ind., C. L. Austin.
Sheriff-J. A. Tyner; Dem., Isaac Pearce ; and Ind., J. M. Spears. Probate Judge-Rep., H. M. Rice ; Dem., John Chapman ; and Ind ..
A. Converse.
Assessor-Rep., J. A. Riegal; Dem., Geo. Deindorfer; and Ind., J. O. Gray.
Coroner-Rep., E. L. Turner ; Ind., M. W. Nesmith.
Surveyor-Rep., H. J. Wallace ; and Dem., B. R. Shimp.
Supt. of Schools-Rep., I. S. Binford; and Dem. J. J. Stiner.
The result at the polls was an indication of what happened two years later. The republican convention was conducted after the manner of politics in those days and a good deal of "trading" and "bartering" was done. Whether justly or not, the work of the convention was charged, to D. F. Royer, candidate for the legislature. No one could say that the ticket nominated was not made up of good men, but the dissatisfied ones worked harder against Royer than against any other man on the ticket with the result that although he was elected in the district he was de- feated in his home county by a vote of 475 for Frost to 377 for Royer.
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The county ticket was somewhat mixed at the election. The following officers were elected:
Register of Deeds-L. N. Loomis.
District Attorney-T. H. Null.
Treasurer-W. J. Williams.
Sheriff-J. M. Spears.
Probate Judge-H. M. Rice.
Assessor-J. O. Gray.
Coroner-E. L. Turner.
Surveyor-H. J. Wallace.
Supt. of Schools-I. S. Binford.
Co. Commissioners-3rd Dist., Jefferson Sickler.
Justices of the Peace-C. E. Hackett, J. R. Francis, J. T. McGlashan and O. O. Lindebak.
Constables-W. W. Huxtable, J. O. Shryock, Robt. Flagg and John Eagan.
Chapter 18.
The first month of the year 1886 was one of intense cold. The aver- age temperature was seven degrees below zero. The first frost of the preceding autumn had come on the morning of the first of September and been followed by cold weather during November, though December had been mild. February, 1886, was also a month of zero weather, but on the Ioth of March it turned warm and spring weather came on rapidly.
Seeding was done early and the rains were frequent and copious. Crop prospects were never better than during the months of May and June. Ducks were nesting in the numerous lakes and ponds scattered over the county.
On the morning of the 4th of July the wind changed to a little west of south and by noon was blowing a gale. Through the afternoon and all night the wind continued, gradually becoming warmer. On the morn- ing of the 5th the air was filled with particles of dust that gave it a brownish appearance, and by noon the wind was coming in gusts of air hot as the blasts from a furnace. People who went out of doors protected their faces from the heat and often turned from the wind to recover their breath. The air was heated to suffocation. Women and children found refuge from the hot air in basements and storm cellars. No one had even experienced anything like it before.
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By the night of the 2nd day of the storm all vegetation had turned yellow and was becoming crisp and brittle as though dried and baked in a hot oven. The storm of hot winds lasted three days. When it was over the crops were dead, and almost white. None would yield enough of grain to pay the cost of harvest. The simoon had been as destructive as the locusts that a few years before had devastated western Iowa and Minnesota and eastern Kansas and Nebraska. The prarie grass had while standing been turned into uncut hay. The water in the lakes and ponds had disappeared leaving the beds dry and dusty.
Those three days of hot winds were a veritable calamity to the set- tlers. The crops upon which they had depended were utterly destroyed. It became necessary to borrow money to tide them over until another harvest. The money could be obtained only at the small private banks. of which there were one or two in every village. When they applied for loans the people were astounded to find that they must give a chattel mortgage upon property many times the value of the loan, and must pay interest at the rate of from three to six per cent a month. In addi- tion to that the money lender had a right to take the property at any time he "deemed himself insecure." From the effects of the storm of hot air the settlers would have recovered could they have borrowed money at a reasonable rate of interest, but from the effect of the loans, at the interest rate they had to pay, recovery was impossible. Some men there were who did a legitimate banking business, but their capital was limited. The unscrupulous men who charged the exorbitant rates of interest did more to impoverish and dishearten the early settlers than all the climatic conditions combined. These were the men who intensified the hard times that for years hung like the black pall of dispair over the prairies of Dakota.
In the summer of 1886 a cemetery association was organized at Alpena and a burial place selected and purchased southeast of the village. This plat is now owned and cared for by the I. O. O. F. of Alpena.
A mail route between Wessington Springs and Alpena was established in the summer of 1886 with W. S. Corothers as carrier.
A change of postmasters occurred in Alpena in 1886, Mr. W. L. Arnold taking the post office in place of D. F. Royer.
Rev. Geo. F. Bilber was appointed by the conference to the Alpena M. E. Church, Oct. 18th, 1886, but failed to fill the appoinment. The church was supplied by Rev. J. G. Campbell until the appointment of W. S. Underwood Oct. 19th the following year, who remained until 1889.
The ministers who have succeeded Mr. Underwood to the present time have been :
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N. P. Steves-Oct. 19, 1887 to Oct. 1I, 1888, (served with Mr. Un- derwood, supplying the country appointments).
Thos. Carson-Oct. 1889 to Oct. 1890.
T. H. Hendricks-Oct. 1890 to Oct. 1893.
J. D. Allison-Oct. 1893 to Oct. 1895.
H. S. Coon-Oct. 14, 1895 to Oct. 1898.
R. H. Stokes-Oct. 15, 1898 to Oct. 1900.
WV. B. Stewart-Oct. 17, 1900 to Oct. 18, 1902.
Jas. T. Gurney-Oct. 5, 1902 to Oct. 18, 1903.
Pierce O. Bunt-Oct. 18, 1903 to Oct. 21, 1907.
John Kaye-Oct. 21, 1907.
Rev. Wm. Paganhart, who had been preaching for the church at Waterbury during the year ending October 23rd, 1886, was transferred by the conference to the church at Wessington Springs for the year ending Oct. 19, 1887. The ministers of the M. E. Church at Wessington Springs since Mr. Paganhart, have been :
Charles Vessey, Oct. 1887 to Oct. 1890; Joseph Elgon Norvell, Oct. 1890 to - -; J. Wesley Stokesbury, Oct. 1895 to April 1896; J. N. Smith, April 1896 to Oct. 1896; James Clullow, Oct. 1896 to Oct. 1897 ; S. H. Chappell, Oct. 1897 to Oct. 1899; G. D. Brown, Oct. 1899 to Oct. . 1904; J. E. Crowther, Oct. 1904 to Oct. 1906; and J. M. Tibbets, Oct. 1906 to present time.
The second pool and billiard hall in Alpena was run by Thos. Bald- win, in a building erected by him in 1886, until the summer of 1887. Mr. Baldwin then went to Minneapolis, where he still lives. In 1890 Geo. H. Arne went into mercantile business in this building and remained here until he moved out in 1894 taking his stock with him. In 1894 J. R. Milliken bought a stock of goods of J. H. Vessey at Wessington Springs and moved it to the room vacated by Arne. About a year later Milliken sold his stock to H. A. Miller, of Chery township, who moved it back to Wessington Springs. The next occupant of this building was C. C. Isenbuth, of Huron, in 1896. He sold to Franzwa in 1902, Franzwa en- larged the store room, raised the roof, making the building a story and a half high, and placed in front of it the first cement walk laid in the town. A year later Franzwa sold his stock to A. N. Louder, who conducted the business until 1905, when he sold to Messrs. Miles & Hunter. Mr. Franzwa repurchased the stock and building in 1906, and built an addi- tion onto the east side of the store room. The building is now occupied by Mr. Schamber, son of a former state treasurer.
On November Ist, 1886, Mrs. Barber and Miss Litchfield sold the hotel in Alpena to Ray Barber, who remained as proprietor until May 29, 1894. Mrs. Barber and Miss Litchfield then took charge of it again
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and retained control until Sept. Ist, ICOI. It was then sold to Chas. Mil- ler, who run it about a year and sold to J. T. Fleming. A year later Mr. Miller again took the hotel, but in March, 1903, sold it to Mrs. A. B. Smith. February Ist, 1905, Mrs. Smith sold the property to W. W. Hillis. In the spring of 1908 Hillis sold it to Mrs. Niested of Huron.
In the spring of 1886, Wm. Voss sold his interest in the lumber yard at Alpena to Chas. R. and D. S. Manwarning. They conducted the bùsi- ness during the next ten years and on Aug. 21st, 1898, sold the property to J. D. Chamberlain. In 1901, F. D. Anderson, the présent owner, pur- chased it from Mr. Chamberlain.
The first bank in Alpena was a private concern managed by D. F. Royer, who did the business at a counter behind the usual screen in the back end of the front room of his drug store. This was in 1886.
In the fall of this year W. L. Arnold gave up mercantile business in Alpena and sold his stock to J. R. Milliken, retaining the position of postmaster. It was at the northwest corner of Main and 2nd Streets. Milliken kept the store until the next year and then sold the stock to Roth Bros., of Wessington Springs. They continued the business until 1888 in that room and then went into the new I. O. O. F. building across the street. The Arnold lot and building was purchased by the Pres- byterian church organization in 1892 and used by them for a meeting house for nine years. In 1904 J. R. Milliken and J. D. Chamberlain kept a general store in this building, but in the spring of 1885 sold a part of their stock of goods to J. H. Creighton of Wessington Springs. and the balance to Mrs. L. W. Castleman, who continues the business at the present time.
The Jerauld County Agricultural Society had a meeting on the 2nd day of January, 1886, at which they reelected Mr. B. G. Cummings, pre- sident, and R. Vandervene, vice-president, H. J. Wallace, secretary, and W. J. Williams, treasurer.
On January 20th a brass band was organized in Wessington Springs. A. E. Turrill, leader. The other members of the band were Al Sturgis. drum major, Jake Rosenthall, Augustin La Point, G. R. Bateman, W. I. Bateman, Ed Campbell, Bert Campbell, Omar Schryock, Chas. Schry- ock, Tommy Schryock, Geo. Wicks, Ed Andrew and Will B. McDonald.
Several changes were made in the management of the newspapers of the county during 1886. D. F. Royer became the owner of the Jerauldi Co. Journal, McDonald and Bateman sold the Wessington Springs Herald to T. L. Blank on the 5th of February.
O. P. Hull became owner of the Waterbury Messenger, successor to the Waterbury News. N. J. Dunham becanie editor of the Jerauld County Journal April Ist.
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Howard Pope.
Mr. and Mrs. Esra Voorhies.
Mrs. Geo. R. Bateman.
Isaac P. Byam.
A. G. Eberhart and G. N. Price.
N. E. Williams.
Rolla Cady.
Alpena Farmer's Elevator 1889.
Chas Gingery.
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B. B. Blosser, who had been a compositor on the Woonsocket Times for several years, bought the True Republican Dec. 10, 1886, and for several years made it the leading paper of the county.
At Waterbury the general store of C. L. Austin closed on Dec. 15, 1886. About the same time T. H. Null moved his law office to Wessing- ton Springs from Waterbury. During the same month Delos Klink and F. G. Vessey bought the implement business from Vessey Bros., Ran- som & Co.
On June 10th, 1886, L. N. Loomis rented to Jake Rosenthal lot 22 in block 4, Alpena, at $5.00 per month for use as a meat market, lease to take effect June 15th. This was the first market of the kind in the town.
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