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City And County

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
June
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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The board of review begins its . sions, to-dayi.1, j Cut worms are after the tomatoes ju Sharon this year. Dr. J. A. Palmer has been elected chief of the Chelsea fire department. The Eureka baliery in Ypsllanti was robbed of about $70, Sunday uight. 'i ' The delegates for the state convention of the Arbeiter Verein are arriving jn the city. The Germán Workingniens' Society of Saline will hold a picnic on their grounds, July 4. A bee was held on the fair grounds Saturday and yesterday to grade the race track. The marshal has been serving notices for two or three miles of new side■walks, this week. A "tooth professor" is the latest name by which the Adrián Press designates a dentist. Rev. W. O. Waters preached Sunday in St. Andrew's church, Detroit, nis future charge. An unsuccessful attempt was made, Sunday night, to break in Speller's store, on State streetf. The U. of M. ball team defeated the D'. !A. C. on the fair grounds, Saturday, by a score of 13 to 10. M. Grossman has been elected commander of the Goethe Commandery No. 28, U. F. of M. A new mili, a new church and a new block of stores is what makes South Lyon smile. Fred J. Schleede is building a new resklence on his recently purdhased property on Jefferson street. There is not a colored resident in Chelsea village. There are very few villages that can say this. Bre'r Steers is a pretty'good judge for he is a good writer and gets up a very neat paper himself. Town-clerk W. F. Hall, of Sharon, clipped 31 pounds of wool from1 one little merino sheep, this year. The Aun Arbor Argus has arrired at our table, it is well edited and neatly printed - Plymouth Mail. Justice Bogardus sent two tramps to jail for fifteen days, yesterday, to put in their time breaking stone. Courity Treasurer Brehni is quite a cliraber. He put up the streamers from th.e weather vanes of the court TiOTise Bev, M. J. Fleming, recently ofGayetowu, has succeeded Rev. Fr. Kelly as pastor of St. Joseph's chureh, in Dexter. r Stevens, of Whitmore lake, has added five new canvass lined row boats to his fleet, to be roady for the summer hoarder. The U. of M. Daily ceased publication Frklay, until next fall. The Daily lias been the equal of any college daily publislied. Miss Caroline Koeppler,of Bethlehem, Pa., died at the residence of Mrs. Garwood, on Monroe street, last Friday, aged forty-six years. Ernest Conrad, son of B. J. Conrad, Will be married to Miss Anna Spooner, of Detroit, next month. Mr. Conrad is located in New York city. The Webster and Jelfersonian law societies hold a joint debate, Friday evening, as to whether the amount of property to be inherited by ' quest should be restricted. i All of the present corps of teachers ' ol the Dexter school, exeepting ' sibly the preeeptress, who has not i yet expressed a desire to remain, wil! undouiiti'dly bo retained next year. Charles Ij. Blodgett, formerly ' cipal of the Saline schools, now a sen ' ior in the University, has been chosen as superintendent of the Manchester ' schools and will make a good one. Alfred Mitchell, a student at the Ypsüanti Normal, was arrest cd liy Deputy-Sheriff Buck. i;i Marine City, last -week, on the charge of larceny from the Sanders rlotliini; store in Ypsilanti. A burglar broke iinto Stimson's store on State street, Saturday evening, and secured about $16. He was stopped ty a couple of men on the sidewalk "neld for a few moments but lie played off drunk and escap m1)i A comroittee on investigation has recommended the farmers and business men of Ypsilanti to build a creamery wíth a capacity of 20,000 pounds of milk per day, which would produce about 900 pounds of butter daily. Two men were brought befóte Justice Butts, yesterday. One was a tramp and was discharged. The other who had been working in Northfield, was found very drunk. He paid the costs, $5.20, and was also discharged. Last Saturday morning a daughter of Herbert Hunt, who resides south of the village, found a dynamite cap and was playing with it when it exploded, carryiug away the end of the first finger and a portion of the thumb of her left hand.- Manchester Enterprise. The little daughter of John Wisner, of Manchester, feil from a lumber pile last. week and broke her arm. The next day a six year old boy of Carmi Middlebrook, also feil out of a window and broke his arm. Accidents of the same nature rarely come singly in a community. TVilliam MeManus, an 18-year old son of James McMamis, near Mooreville, was cut and stabbed five times by Pat Kehoe, last Sunday, simply because Wm. said to Pat that he knew of some eme who owned a horse that could out-trot one that he, Pat, drove. -Saline Observer. Mrs. H. C. Gregory has given to St. James' society a permanent endowment of $500, to be used toward the support of a clergy man. She has also presented the church with a beautiful carved wood recepticle for the communion services, as a memorial to her deceased husband.- Dexter Leader. William H. Hibbard died in Northfield, last Saturday. He was seventyfour years of age and was born in Connecticut, and had resided in Northfield since 1867. His wife and one son survive him. The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon and the remains were taken to Attiea, N. Y., for interment. The Arbeiter Verien, of Saline, have elected the following officers: President, J. George Ehnis; vice-president, John Frank; Secretary, Otto Jarrandt; treasurer, G. A. Lindenschmidt; Med. Ex.,C. F. ünderkircher: flag carrier, Geo. Haar; trustees, E. Helber, M. Seeger, Sam Josenhans, E. A. Hauser, j. F. Weesinger. ■ Au interesting game of base-ball was played on the ball grounds, last Saturday afternoon, between a club of youngsters from Ann Arbor and a nine of Dexter youths. The visitors were a crack little team ' and their playi-ng called forth . much praise. They were pitted against larger boys, but made a gamey fight though they were beaten 11 to 9.- Dexter Leader. Deputy-Sheriff Peterson went to Ypsilanti, yesterday afternoon, where he arrested three tnmates of a house of shady repute in Ann Arbor town, on the Whltmore lake road, and brought them to the jail. The officers had gone to the house, yesterday morning and found that someone had given the inniates warning and the birds had flown. They will be brought up in justice court, to-day. Mrs. Talcott, mother of W. H. Talcott, feil down stairs head íoremost at the residence of lier son in South Lyon, on Saturday morning. last, receiving some bruises and a scaljj wound. In view of her age, 83 past, her escape from more serious injury seemed almost miraculous. She is a woman of uncommon nerve and refused to delay her return to Ypsilanti that day.- South Lyon Picket. Editli: "You can"t imagine how Mr. Bulfineh complimented your singing." Ethel: "Did he though?" Edith: "Yes he said 't was simply heavenly." Edith: "Keally?" Edith: "Well, Juet the 'same thing; he eaid 'twas simply un'earthly.'' Town Topics of New York City, in . .ij p! at liisïh noon last Thursday, of Miss .Tosephine idams Perry and Mr. Junius Spencer Morgan, followed by a wedding breakfast, at St. Mare hotel, gives the name of Rathbone, of Michigan, as one of the six bridesmaida. Miss Perry is a daughter of General Perry of the United States Ariny. A. special meeting o! the raembers of tho Aun Arbor Business Men's Association hos been called by the president, Thomas J. Keech, for Friday evening, June 12, at 7:30 o'clock sharp in the council chamber, for the purpose of electing officers and considering other matters of importance. All members should be present. EüGENE K. FREÜAUFF, Cor. Sec. Friday night, sorae men, whether for their own good or for spite, opened au oíd ditch gome five feet wide and two feet deep, thereby lowering Cavanaugh lake about six inches when üíkcovered Satuvday. Several men went froin here to the seene and filled in the ditch, and now a sign on a tree near by says that it will not be healthy for any one to dig in that ditch. If the parties wish to draln the lakc, which is now stocked with fish, let them go at it in a legal mannor. - Chelaea Standard. William S. Carr, a pioneer of this county, died in East Riverside, California, Sunday, Mny 31, of la grlppe, aged eighty-three years. He came to This county froin Nev? York in 1833, with a brother and took up a farm from the government in Manchester township. He built several Uouses and the first brick store in Manchester village. He was a member of the legislature in 1840, and supervisor in 1843 and 1855. He held various other offices and was greatly respected. He removed to California about three years ago. The Monroe Democrat of last week says. We notice by the papers that Kev. E. D. Kelly, formerly of St. Francis Seminary and St. John's elvureh of this ciiy, and more recently of Dexter, has boen transferred to a more extended Held of labor and takes charge of St. Thomas church, Ann Arbor. Father Kelly is an educated gentleman whO made a host of warm Eriends among Catholics and Protestants whilc in this city. is easy to approacb, generous wurm heai-ted and thovojgb American. We know him weli and beltee Pather Kelly wili m;ik many warm friends at lus new home in the Athens of the west. r Do sneep swim? WeE, we never heard of amy doiug so to any extent, until this week. About two weeks ago, Burt Young, who lives west of here, drove hls flock of forty-seven to the pen at Cedar lake; but they didn't stop in the pen but struck right out. When they got to the middle of the lake they sèemed confused, and for nearly an hour they swam in a circle the same as a flock of geese, their hoads only being visible. Mr. Young finally made his way to the other sidc of the lake and called them ashore, not however until one had drowned, and the others were nearly exhausted.-