All the indications point to the Masonic picnic to be held on the Islands Juty 30th being largely attended and a grand success. A leading feature will be the Knight Templar drill, in which commanderies from Lansing, St. Johns, Ionia and Charlotte are expected to participate. Complete program will be given next week.
The Grand Ledge Independent was founded in 1871 and published through 2018. After more than a century of serving the community, the newspaper's closure marked the end of an era for local news coverage in Grand Ledge, Michigan.
That venerable and respected pioneer of Grand Ledge-Francis M. Kent, is no more. He had a second stroke of paralysis last Monday p. m., and about seven o’clock the following morning his soul passed over the river to the unfathonsble beyond. Paralysis of one side has made him almost an invalid for some years past,…
PETER VANDERVOLGAN was born in Pittsford. Mich., Aug. 29th, 1842, and died at Lansing, Mich., Jan. 27. 1895. For upwards of eighteen months he had been a great sufferer, yet throughout his long and lingering illness he manifested the greatest of patience. never murmuring nor complaining. The earlier part of his life was spent in…
Hugh Rossman Was One of Grand Ledge’s Earliest Merchants Hugh Rossman was born in Madison, Lake County, Ohio, February 2, 1839, and passed away at his home in this city June 15, 1911. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in the 14th Independent Light Artillery. About 1867 he came to grand ledge and learned the…
Died, at his residence in this village, on Saturday last, November 17th, 1877, at 1:00 PM, of cancer of the stomach, James W. McMillan, aged 57 years. Thus briefly we have stated the facts that caused a cloud of sadness and sorrow to invade this whole community last Saturday afternoon, as one person after another…
A woman disguised herself as a man and clerked in a store for a year and then applied for membership in the Knights of Pythias and was initiated. During the work of the third rank her sex was discovered. It seems that in the third rank they have an india-rubber rat and celluloid snake, which…
Verdict of the Circuit Court Jury Today.THE WHEATFIELD FRATRICIDEWill Probably Be Sent to the Asylum for Dangerous Insane—The McKenzie Case. MASON, January 15. — The jury in the case of Simeon Kent, the Wheatfield farmer who fired a double charge of bird shot into his brother, Seth Kent, last fall, were out all night. Upon coming…
