Isabella County Enterprise Jan.
6, 1888 Thomas Kirby, a surety on the bonds of an Sahley saloonist has withdrawn his name deeming it too much of a risk. Owosso The Times Jan. 6, 1888
Toledo, Ann Arbor
& North Michigan Railway Company Notice is hereby given, that there will be a special meeting of the Stockholders of the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway Company, at the Company's office in Toledo, Ohio, on Monday, February 27th, A. D., 1888, at 11 o'clock A. M. The object of this meeting is to approve or reject the agreement for consolidation, heretofore made by the Board of Directors of the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan and the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Cadillac Railway Company, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before said meeting.
C. F. Cook,
Secretary Cadillac business men have put up the necessary cash for a bang-up blowout over the completion of the T. A. A. & C. railway to that place. Speech making and lots to eat and drink is the programs. |
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Lyons Weekly Mirror Jan. 7, 1888 |
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Owosso
The Times Jan. 13, 1888 |
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Owosso The
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Corunna Journal February 2, 1888 |
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Isabella County Enterprise Feb, 3, 1888 A shingle shed 20 x 100 feet is being build near the T. & A. siding. |
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Pinckney Dispatch February 9, 1888 |
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Isabella County Enterprise Feb. 10, 1888 |
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Corunna Journal February 16, 1888 (retyped)
The square timber men are improving the fine sleighing i« delivering their timber where it can be., loaded on the cars. It is taken to Toledo by rail, and then. shipped by water to Quebec and then shipped to the Old Country. It is estimated ;that $50,000 will be left with the fanners in this vicinity for oak timbers this present winter. |
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Isabella County Enterprise Feb. 17, 1888 |
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The Ann Arbor Courier Feb, 22,
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Corunna Journal February 23, 1888 Alex. McKercher vs. the T. & A. A. road, trespass, judgment for $377.35, Mr. McKercher was put off a train while holding a ticket, and brought suit through his attorney J. T. McCurdy, and recovered the above amount. Lyon.& Hacklemse for defendant. |
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Isabella County Enterprise Feb 24, 1888 |
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Isabella County Enterprise March 2, 1888
Owosso The Times
March 2, 1888 The T., A. A. & N.M. R'y and the T., A. A. & Cadillac railways have been consolidated under one management. |
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Corunna Journal March 8, 1888 |
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Isabella County Enterprise March 9, 1888 |
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Isabella County Enterprise March 23, 1888 |
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Corunna Journal March 29, 1888 |
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Pinckney Dispatch April 12, 1888 Charles Rose has the job of transferring all T., A. A. & N. M. cars at this station. He gets $1.75 per car.[Hamburg Correspondent] |
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Owosso The Times
April 13, 1888 The work at the car shops is being pushed along rapidly. The large repair shop and foundry is fast nearing completion; the boiler for the engine room is being placed in position and the wood work is being painted. Quite a force of men is employed repairing engines, cars, etc.; another force is laying new tracks, grading and filling in and putting the yard in shape. The repair work on the engines is now directed by Mr. J. Rose, of Norwalk, Ohio, who arrived in Owosso last week. Work has commenced on the car shop which is to be 124x200 feet. |
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Corunna Journal April 26, 1888 The annual meeting of 'the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan road was held in Toledo the other day, when the old board of directors was re-elected. The members are J. M. Ashley, H. W. Ashley, J. M. Ashley Jr. I. Robinson, John Cummings, William Baker, A. W. Wright, of Alma, Mich.; E. A. Todd of Owosso; J. H. Fancher of Mt Pleasant. The officers, Whose names follow, were aiso re-elected: James M. Ashley, president; A. W. Wright, vice-president; H. W. Ashley, second vice,-president and general manager; C. F. Cook, secretary; B. F. Jervis, treasurer. Track-laying has commenced on the Saginaw & Durand road |
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Ann Arbor Argus April 27, 1888 The operating expense of the road during the year was $342,605.87 and the interest paid on the bonded debt amounted to $184,800. A good share of the operating expenses, consisted in improvements made to the road bed. The increase in tonnage during the year was nearly forty per cent over that of 1886. The freight earnings increased nearly fifty per cent and the passenger earnings seventy-seven per cent. President Ashley estimates that the receipts of 1888 will reach $844,000. The Cadillac road was completed during 1888 and completes the main line of the road from Mt. Pleasant to Cadillac a distance of 64miles,making a main line of 234 miles. The estimated increase in earning from the Cadillac extension as not less than half a million dollars. The last rail on the Muskegon road was laid December 25, 1887. This road runs Ashley on the T. A. A., and N. M. railroad to Muskegon, 96 miles and is run in connection with the Toledo road. The Saginaw road from Durand, on the line of the Toledo road to East Saginaw is expected to be completed by next July and to be run in connection with the Toledo road. This road will be extended to the Straits of Mackinaw. A new connecting road is being built Cadillac to Frankfort on Lake Michigan to be operated by the Toledo road. It will be sixty-three miles long. A company has been organized to build a road from Marion on the line of the Toledo company, via. Petosky, Charlevoix, etc., to Mackinaw 140 miles and a good portion of the right of way has been secured. A new road is also projected from Mt. Pleasant west through Big Rapids. All these connecting roads will greatly swell the volume of business on the T. and A. A. Isabella County Enterprise April 27, 1888 Owosso The
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Owosso The Times
May 4, 1888 |
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Isabella County Enterprise May 5, 1888 As the T. & A. Monday morning train was about halfway between Shepherd and Alma, a tree fell across the track in front of the train without warning. As the train was moving at a rapid rate there was no time to stop, and it crashed through breaking the tree in two. No damage was done beyond breaking the car windows, marring the cars and giving the passengers a good jarring. The Toledo & Ann Arbor shops at Owosso are nearly completed. Corunna Journal May 5, 1888 |
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Corunna Journal May 10, 1888 |
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Owosso The
Times May 11, 1888 Chesaning Argus: Charley Quigley has given up his position as baggage-man for T. & A. road at Owosso to accept a similar position and more pay from the Michigan Central at that place. |
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Pinckney Dispatch May 17, 1888 Theo. O. Hebling brings suit against the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan railroad company for $50,000 damages, on account of the death of his son, who was shot in the Chapin right of way war in Osceola county last fall. Corunna Journal May 17, 1888 |
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Owosso The Times
May 18, 1888 |
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Isabella County Enterprise May 25, 1888 |
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Owosso The
Times June 1, 1888 That our citizens, who of their surplus have contributed some $40,000 to this enterprise, and are as we honestly believe in honor bound to contribute $10,000 more, may know something of what this corporation is doing to justify the confidence which has been reposed in them by the people of Owosso, we present herewith a few interesting facts to be found in their last annual report. And premise by saying that few men In the world have shown themselves superior, in executive ability, James M. Ashley, the active and efficient head of this popular enterprise. And this enterprise is yet in its infancy. The Excellency of its management in it financial point of views has placed its bonds on a par in the money centre with those of the beat of great trunk lines. This has enabled President Ashley to push his road northward much faster than was expected and will enable him to reach Frankfort, on Lake Michigan the present summer, almost beyond a doubt. During the past year the earnings of the road have been much larger than was anticipated even by its most sanguine friends and placed the road, today, among time best paying of the new trunk lines. Briefly summarized the receipts and expenses for the year were as follows:
Which Is enough to show the financial condition of the road to he flourishing. There were 539,093 tons of freight carried during 1887, an increase of 140,269 tons over 1886, and the outlook for the present year is even better than the last one. From the annual report of President Ashley to the stockholders of the company we quote the following: "A glance at any recent railroad map of Michigan will show that the road is so located as to secure it large traffic from all which now completed and connecting with It, and from all which may hereafter be built north and northwest of it. This was the original purpose of its projectors, and they have methodically and steadily pushed the extension of their road across the state, north by west, until it has now become, and beyond question will continue to be one of the most important factors in handling the railroad commerce of central and northern Michigan. In short, the Ann Arbor road has developed into a "System" which is destined to reach and control a larger territory than any other road in the lower peninsular. 'PROFIT SHARING AND STOCK ALLOTMENT The plan of 'Profit Sharing and Stock Allotment," adopted by this company at its last annual meeting of Stockholders, has met with so cordial and general a reception by the officials and employees of the company and by many of the foremost thinkers and writers on the labor problem in this country, that the Board of Directors Lake this occasion to reaffirm their faith in Its practicability and to reassure the officers and employees of the company that they do not question Its ultimate success. Letters heartily commending the plan have been received by the President, not only from many laboring men of ability, but from writers on the "true relations of labor and capital," and on economic questions. These voluntary letters of approval are beyond question a reflex of the Individual convictions of many thoughtful men of recognized character and Independent judgment, and represent the hopeful and healthy side of the labor problem. SATISPACTORY RESULTS OF THE YEAR. The steady increase In our traffic has made the year 1887 the most prosperous in our history. During that time no passenger or employee has lost his life, nor has any serious accident occurred. To the officials and employees of the company we are largely indebted for the successful and gratifying result, and It is fitting and proper that the recognition of this Indebtedness should be freely and publicly made by the Bard of Directors." |
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Isabella County Enterprise June 15, 1888
Owosso The Times
June 15, 1888 |
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Isabella County Enterprise June 22, 1888 |
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Pinckney Dispatch June 28, 1888 The shops of the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan railroad at Owosso are so nearly completed that the headquarters off the line have been established there. Over 300 houses will be built in Owosso this season , 200 being already completed. |
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Corunna
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Isabella County Enterprise June 29, 1888 |
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Owosso The Times
July 6, 1888 The name of the station in Venice township on the Toledo and Saginaw railroad has been changed from Lennon to Dickinson, in honor of the postmaster general. |
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Owosso The Times
July 13, 1888 |
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Owosso The Times
July 20, 1888 |
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The Ann Argus July 27, 1888 W. J. Just has started a lumber yard at the T. and A. A. crossing on South Main street. Another change in time went into effect on the Toledo and Ann Arbor road last Sunday, under which the afternoon south bound train now passes through here at 3:07 p. m. About as big a farce of a train as runs on any railroad in these parts is that which runs between Ann Arbor and South Lyon and accommodates no body. It is the yard engine here with our baggage master for conductor and brakeman. It leaves here for South Lyon at 7 a. m., travel the twelve and a half miles in an hour. A Half hour later it leaves South Lyon and gets back here at 9:30 a. m. Any Ann Arborite who has business in South Lyon or South Lyonite who has business in Ann Arbor must stay over night or go by wagon road. |
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Benzie Banner Aug. 2, 1888 |
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Isabella County Enterprise Aug. 3, 1888 Owosso
The
Times August
3, 1888 An Important Acquisition to the Grand Trunk System. The Grand Trunk System has acquired another Michigan road in the Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon railroad. This road runs parallel with, and from five to twenty-five miles north of, the Detroit, GA haven & Milwaukee, in the western part of the state, and its terminus, Muskegon, is about twelve miles north of Grand Haven, on the Lake Michigan shore. The Grand Trunk now has in these two roads a loop line to Muskegon, which is the second largest timber point in the state. The new route commences on the acquired road at Muskegon, then easterly to Ashley, its former terminus. At that point the tracks of the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan road will be used to Owosso, a distance of 21 miles. There it connects with the Detroit Grand Haven & Milwaukee division of the Grand Trunk System. It Is expected the Grand Trunk will start a new line of steamers between Muskegon and Milwaukee. The deal was consummated at the Wayne hotel yesterday by Joseph Hickson, general manager, and E. W. Meddaugh, local attorney, for the Grand Trunk; and for the Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon road by President David Robinson, of Toledo; vice president M. V. Mc Cracken. of Muskegon, and Secretary. S. P. Pennington, of New York.—Detroit Journal. |
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Owosso The Times
August 10, 1888 |
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Owosso
The
Times August
17, 1888 About fifty engineers, brakemen, firemen, and conductors of the T. & A. A. reside in Owosso. The machinery will soon be placed in the car shops of the T. & A. A. when a large force of men will be put at work. |
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Corunna
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Isabella County Enterprise Aug. 31, 1888 |
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Benzie
Banner Sept. 6, 1888 What will you wager, doubters, that Mr. Ashley and his co-workers will ultimately complete the Frankfort & Southern? |
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The Ann
Arbor Argus Sept. 7, 1888 The plans for the depot which the Toledo & Ann Arbor company wish to build here, have arrived. They say the building will cost $3,500. It may be so, but in style and beauty it resembles the buildings often put by some of the railroads at stations, where the trains stop only on signals. Do our citizens want to pay over $2,000 to open up a street to such an inferior depot?
Owosso The Times
September 7, 1888 |
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Corunna
Journal September 9, 1888
Trains going South.
Trains run by Central Standard Time, which is 23 minutes slower than common time. Local Trains are liable to be canceled. See Railway Time Cards and Guides for connect ions.
T. NORTHCUTT.Depot Agent, Corunna. C. H. Corrionnage, one of the civil engineers employed on the survey of the proposed extension of the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan railroad to Frankfort, Mich. A new station on the Saginaw & Durand railroad has been named Burt. |
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Pinckney
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Corunna
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Owosso The Times
September 21, 1888 The junction of the D. G. H. & M., the M. C. and T. & A. A. Railways at Owosso is the place of an immense passenger transfer, and the station house and waiting rooms at that place have become entirely inadequate for the proper accommodations of passengers. The building is old and unsightly and positively out. of keeping with the conditions of the various roads. The warped floor, unsightly smoked wails and old benches are repulsive to the traveling public who are compelled to await the arrival and departure of trains. The importance of Owosso junction and the standing of the various railroads crossing there demands a new commodious building at that point. |
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Benzie Banner Sept. 27, 1888 At the Crossing of the Clam river work upon the bridge commences this morning, the pile-driver having been set up yesterday. On both sides of the river the grading is finished, on this side as far as Haynes street and on the other beyond the last dwelling. The first intimation of a dispute is noticed at this dwelling, whose owner has built fences across the right of way, one of which bears the warning:
Will Davis has taken the contract to grade the worst piece of road between here and the Manistee river – heavy cuts and fills for nearly three miles, commencing near McNitt's – and is now building camps. The work is being pushed, and we are assured that tracking-laying will progress as rapidly as the road be-bed is prepared. |
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Isabella County Enterprise Sept. 28, 1888
Owosso The Times
September 28, 1888 (DURAND) |
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Pinckney Dispatch October 4,
1888 Courunna Journal October 4,
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Benzie Banner Oct. 10,
1888 Sometime since the startling fact was published that the Ann Arbor road had probably decided to go Manistee instead of Frankfort. We now have information which warrants us in asserting that the road will either come to Bear Lake or Manistee without the shadow of a doubt. We cannot disclose full particulars, but it is a fact none the less and the future will show we are correct. As further evidence of this,we will cite the fact that the road as now being graded crosses the Big Rapids and Traverse City state road seven miles south of Sherman. If they follow the survey, they are coming on an air line for Bear Lake, and will cross the Buckley & Douglas road eleven miles southeast of here. Mr. G. W. Hopkins informs us that if they will come to Bear Lake they can have free use of the B. L. & E. road bed. It is rumored that the Ann Arbor will run on the Buckley & Douglas road to Manistee, and also northward to the center of Colfax township, Benzie county, and thence to Frankfort, but we have no information on the subject. [Bear Lake Beacon] One of the most important changes which has ever occurred in Michigan railway circles will unquestionably be brought about by the action of A. W. Wright, in identifying himself with the T., A. A. & N. M. railway,as the backing afforded by his immense wealth will give the road a standing it has never had before. Under his direction the Cadillac branch will be extended to Frankfort, a branch will be constructed from Ann Arbor to Detroit, and the recently acquired line running from Durand to Saginaw will will eventually be extended to the straits, [Michigan Tradesman] And still the question remains for the future to answer, where is the proposed extension to run? The BANNER believes that Benzonia and Frankfort, and not Bear Lake and Manistee, will get the line from Cadillac, notwithstanding the many reports to the contrary. But let that particular branch of the road run where it will, we are to have our railroad, just the same. It is being built at the present time by the Frankfort & South Eastern, and will be completed by them, unless the Toledo & Ann Arbor corporation purchases the line. The fear of losing the long-promised road is not what brothers our people; the question for debate is, who will own the road when completed? And that answer will solve the first question. |
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Owosso The Times
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Ann Arbor
Argus Oct. 19, 1888 page 7
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October 19, 1888 |
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Owosso The Times
November 16, 1888 The pump house and machinery of the T. & A. A. Ry. Is to be removed to Durand. The water for the tank here will be pumped at the car shops. Durand is have a $25,000 union depot to accommodate the railroads centering at that place. |
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Ann Arbor Argus Nov. 23,1888 An inquest was held before Justice Pond, Wednesday, with Moses Seabolt, H. J. Brown, Leonard Gruner, John Finnegan, Charles Spoor and Charles H. Worden as jurors. The evidence show that the train was coming at the rate of thirty miles an hour and was eight minutes late, that it was growing dark, but was not quite dark enough for the headlight to do much good. Engineer Dodge, Fireman Long and Conductor Hatcher, testified to the blowing of the whistle eighty rods before the crossing was reached and the ringing of the bell by the fireman. Mrs. Mary Fox, who was milking a cow near the track, testified to the cow being frightened by the whistling, but two ladies who were near the crossing heard no whistle and Mr. Woodmansee heard the whistle when the train was only about fifteen rods away. Mr. McAllister testified that he was close to the track, when he first saw the train and was afraid to stop for fear he could not control his horses. The jury rendered a verdict that the collision was an accident and that no one was to blame for the same. Isabella County Enterprise Nov. 23, 1888
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November 23, 1888 |
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Isabella County Enterprise Nov. 30, 1888
Owosso The Times
November 30, 1888 |
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Pinckney Dispatch December 6,
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The Ann Arbor Argus Dec. 7,
1888 Isabella County Enterprise Dec. 7, 1888
Owosso The Times
December 7, 1888 The T. S. & M. has changed time again. Train north leaves here at 10:10; from the north arrives at 1:40. |
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Isabella County Enterprise Dec. 14, 1888 |
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The Ann Arbor Courier Dec. 26,
1888 Hon. John T. Rich, state railroad commissioner, was in the city last Friday looking up the T., & A. A. street crossings. Several elegant new $10,000 passenger coaches will be put on the T. & A. A. line between Toledo and East Saginaw. Yesterday morning a stick of timber got out of place on a T. & A. A. freight car,and managed to wiggle itself around in such a manner as to knock the car off the track, about 1 ½ miles east of this city, and scattered thing about promiscuously. It is with pleasure and regret that we have to announce the promotion of A. J. Paisley of this city to be General Passenger and Ticket Agent of the T. & A. A. R. R., relieving W. H. Bennett, who will hereafter performing the duties of General Freight Agent only. It is a pleasure to note the advancement of so deserving a gentleman. We regret it because it will take from us one of the most genital and pleasant agents the T. & A. A. has ever stationed here. Mr. Paisley is one of the hustlers, and the authorities of the road have shown rare good judgment in his promotion. He will assume his new duties Jan. 1st, and his headquarters will be at Toledo. |
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The Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan railroad will make its western terminus at Manistee or Frankfort, according to which offers the greatest inducements. |
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The Ann Arbor Argus Dec, 28,
1888 |