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C IESANING TOWNSHIP.

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CHESANING VILLAGE SCHOOLS.
The village is supplied with two school buildings; one is a brick,
which was erected at a cost, including furniture, of $14,000. In
this building is kept a graded school, and three teachers are eriployed. The other is a frame building and is used for a primary
school. The seating capacity of the two buildings is 280. N umnber of pupils in attendance for the school year of 1880 was 231.
One male teacher was employed at a salary of $700. Three female
teachers received salaries which amounted to $840. School year
is 10 months. School library contains 64 volumes.
MERCANTILE, MANUFACTURING AND MILLING INTERESTS.
There are within the village limits the following stores and places
of business: Four general stores, five groceries, three hardware stores,
two furniture stores, two boot and shoe stores, two millinery stores,
two drug stores, two restaurants, two hotels, two wagon shops, two
harness shops, two meat markets, five blacksmith shops, one foundry, one planing-mill, one stave and heading factory, one merchant
and custom flouring mrill, one printing office, which issues the
Weekly Argus, and salt works not yet in operation. Six physicians reside in Chesaning.
Among the firms that may be especially mentioned as among the
most enterprising business men of the place are Chapman Bros.,
H. J. Bently and Thos. L. Green, who each carry a large stock
and full line of goods usually found in first-class general stores; A.
S. Bearer, A. C. Christian and Lyman O. Ford, wlio supply the
residents with groceries; J. B. Griswold, who keeps a hardware
store; L. L. Homer, proprietor of a meat market; Eldred & Co.
and Wm. H1. Niver, representing the drug trade; Wln. HI. Walker,
owner of a furniture store; C. Moessner, boot and shoe retailer;
Garrett Post, proprietor of the Waverly House; and Geo. W.
Williams, who operates an extensive foundry established in 1877.
A planing-mill, managed by A. A. Belden & Co.; mill was built
in 1868 on the site of one that was burned; has a 15-horse-power
engine, New York make. Employs on an average 15 men. Capacity in planing is 1,000 feet per hour; and in matching, 500 feet
per hour.
The stave factory carried on by J. J. Campbell is one of the
most important industries of the village. In this establishment
are employed 42 men and boys. The motive power is a 35-horsepower engine; the factory has a capacity for making 3,000,000
staves and 10,000 barrel headings per annum.
The merchant and custom flouring mill, owned and operated by
R. A. Wilson, occupies the site of the pioneer "corn cracker." It
is a three-story-and-a-half frame building, 40x50 feet on the ground;
is fitted with four run of stone and improved machinery, and cost
its present owner $15,000. Its grinding capacity is 60,000 bushels