The Detroit Journal Target.

WITH the idea of testing the abilities of Michigan marksmen and stimu lating an interest in rifle-shooting, THE DETROIT JOURNAL in August, 1888,

Joseph Dunphy, of Manistee, Mich., made 34.

IV.

Charles E. Cooper, of Manton, Michigan, made 31.

THE DETROIT JOURNAL has the written agreement of Messrs. Joslin and Damon to a shooting contest, to be arranged by THE DETROIT JOURNAL, at Detroit in May, 1889,

*Ten shots were fired with a rifle "off-hand" at a distance of 50 yards.

GOODS REPAIRED, STORED AND INSURED IN SPRING AND SUMMER.

Questions to Be Answered.

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IN October THE DETROIT JOUR-
NAL began the publication of a

series of questions to be answered
through the paper.
Prizes of $15,

$10, and $5 were offered for the
most complete set of answers, and
an additional prize of $5 was
offered to the person who should
send his or her answers in the best
form for publication.

The questions have dealt largely with the topics of Michigan history, and the result has been to stimulate the interest in reading along this line. The other questions have had to do with general literary and historical subjects; and many of the answers have shown an amount of research that must have been interesting to the persons who have undertaken to answer them, while, at the same time, the readers of THE JOURNAL have enjoyed the fruits of such research, as the answers have been published from week to week.

To know to whom we are indebted for wise or witty sayings, and to keep in mind who were the men to found the institutions we now enjoy, is to incite us to imitate and to perpetuate what has been done, and to feel grateful to those who have helped to push the car of progress.

The questions end with the last Saturday in December, and the prizes will be awarded in January.

R

F. W. HAYES,
JAMES D. STANDISH,
PRESTON Chicago.

H. S. PINGREE,
W. R. BURT. East Saginaw.

A. E. F. WHITE.

JOHN CANFIELD, Manistee,

The Yellow Fever Plague.

WHEN, in the month of September, the yellow fever broke out in Jacksonville, Florida, and the people were forced by the pestilence to leave their homes and their business; when destitution and starvation stared the whites and the negroes in the face; when the call went up from the South for bread, for medicines and for nurses, THE DETROIT JOURNAL was prompt to announce to the JACKSONVILLE people of Michigan that it was ready to be their agent in col lecting and forwarding money for the suffering. The Mayor of Detroit and Jacksonville gave their official sanction to THE JOURNAL'S efforts. The response was prompt. Individ uals, churches, Sabbath schools social and political clubs, and hundreds of school children se at work to raise a fund that the Southern people the sym of the Peninsular State. The about 3,000 separate tions, representing thousands of people uted, each according to her ability, aggregating

should express to pathy and charity

result was that

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addition to this, THE JOURNAL, at its own sent Wm. Murray, nurse, to Jacksonville was able to be of great ance to the fever

stricken people at Camp Perry. This prompt action on the part of THE JOURNAL called out many hearty expressions of thankful ness from the Florida officials.