Thomas Miller can stand on the road in front of his residence and see Sugar Island whenever it is not cloudy, and if the timber was cut down to the north of him, he could see Alpena some 27 or 30 miles distant.
The frogs were tuning their pipes on Sunday evening last and the butterfly made its appearance on Sunday and the first bear of the season came out on the road below the cemetery hill on Monday. There is one that has his trail across the road and has been seen for several years past. I and several others had the honor of seeing his bearship one summer while doing stalwart labor on the cemetery hill.