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Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Ludington Record Thursday, April 2, 1896 Volume XXIX The TENA AND LAURA was the first schooner to arrive at this port this season, and the tug IDA M. STEVENS made the first tow in bringing her in yesterday morning. The tug IDA M. STEVENS, Capt. Jno. G. Crawford, started work for the season on Tuesday. Her chief business so far has been breaking ice in the out of the way corners of the little lake. Mitchell Bros. & Co.'s new tug will be launched to-morrow. The life savers at this station, Point Sauble and Pentwater com- menced work for the season at noon yesterday. Mitchell Bros. & Co.'s dredges will commence work on deepening the channel between the piers on Monday morning next. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Thursday, April 9, 1896 Volume XXIX A Well Earned Preferment. Peter Young, Jr., who has been mate of the schooner MARS so long has been asked to take command of the LUCIA A. SIMPSON, a fine schooner owned by Mr. E. G. Filer of Manistee. Capt. Young, for he has fairly won that title, has gone to Milwaukee to take command of the SIMPSON. May success attend him. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Thursday, April 16, 1896 Volume XXIX The F. & P. M. boats are now running on schedule time and navi- gation is open everywhere, except through the "Soo." The Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company's steamers are now running daily (except Sunday) between Detroit and Cleveland. When traveling East or West, North or South, try to take advantage of these luxurious steamers between Michigan and Ohio. If you are contemplat- ing a summer outing, write A. A. Shantz, G. P. A., Detroit, Mich., for illustrated pamphlet, which gives full information of a trip, to Mackinac via the Coast Line. The barge Soper was loaded at the North mill yesterday. The Mitchell and Olney dredge is scraping for deep water along the foot of Lavina street, for the Cartier Lumber company. The tugs MERRICK and THOMPSON kept here all winter for the purpose of keeping the channel clear of ice if necessary, left port last night for Sault Ste. Marie. They will be stationed there all summer. The new schooner NIELSON launched a few days ago from the back dock west of the bayon bridge, has received her lower masts and will soon be complete and ready for work. Mr. William Rath is in some way in- terested with Capt. Nielson and furnishes the "sinews". The schooner will be engaged in taking tan bark, cedar posts, ties, etc., to market. In view of the fact that the F. & P. M. car ferry boat will be in commission in a few months, the No. 1 has been sold and will ply be- tween Chicago and Milwaukee. No. 1 has always been ably commanded, and been remarkably free from accidents. No doubt others of the pre- sent fleet will be sold when an adventageous offer is made as was the case with No. 1. Immense car ferry boats are to replace the present fleet in due time. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Thursday, April 23, 1896 Volume XXIX Capt. Keiser built a fine sea-going boat last fall and has placed it behind the woodshed on blocks, keep upwards, to season. Some slight defects in the frame will be remedied before he puts to sea. The steamer LORA will run daily except Sunday between Manistee and MENOMINEE. On Sunday the LORA will make Gladstone and Escanaba. People from Ludington for Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota may find this the shortest and cheapest way to that region. The small schooner ELLA STEVENSON left this port with a cargo of salt last week bound for Grand Haven and Holland. When off Whitelake she sprung a leak and signaled for help. For some reason not yet determined the life saving lookout failed to see the signal. The water gained on them and the cargo of 382 barrels was completely ruined. Capt. DeYoung rowed ashore after coming to anchor and walked along the beach five miles to notify the life saving crew. They re- sponded by visiting the vessel and aiding at the pumps. They returned and sent out the tug CAYUGA. The owners of the little craft will pre- fer charges against the life saving crew for failing to see the sig- nal. It is probably not generally known but lying in the waters of Spring Lake near Ferrysburg, is the lower portion of the hull of the sloop PORCUPINE, one of the nine vessels that Commodore Perry command- ed in the memorable battle on Lake Erie in 1812, when the British were vanquished. The PORCUPINE was taken to Detroit in 1830 and name changed to the CAROLINE. In 1855, after long years of service, she was allowed to sink off Johnston's boiler works. - Grand Haven Courier-Journal. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ludington Record Thursday, April 30, 1896 Volume XXIX The ferry boat HELEN TAYLOR is laid up for repairs to her wheel. The steamer PETOSKEY will leave Chicago Saturday, May 2d, on her first trip north this season. She will arrive here sometime Sunday. The CARTER loaded 2-inch and select inch lumber at Danaher's Mill last Monday for Chicago. Mitchell & Olney are dredging out a fine channel along the Cartier lumber company's docks. There was a queer occurrence at Alpena the other day. The water in Thunder Bay suddenly lowered about twenty inches, and in the course of half an hour rose again to its normal height. Wreckage from the CHICORA continues to wash ashore in the neighbor- hood of St. Joseph. The schooner MARS makes her first trip this week. The schooner CALEDONIA took a load of fine hardwood lumber from Danaher's mill this week. The schooner TENNIE AND LAURA takes a cargo of lumber from the Cartier docks to St. Joe this week. ===========================================================================