Dixboro

it has left for parta unknown. Freddie Galpin is raising a largo flock of Pekiu duck.s. James Bush is building a buggy house tor Frank Galpin. The potatoe bugs are thicker this spring than ever before. Most of the farmers are through shearing sheep in this vicinity. R. Townsend is building a granary Ed Norton is doing the stone work. Mrs. J. A. Campbell and daughter will visit frlenda In Jackson this week. Guinset Cook and daughter of Meadville, Pa., are visiting at Alfred Cook's. M. F. Galpin recently sold 18 siiring lambs to Mr. Vogle of Ann Arbor, for $3.50 apiece. F. A. and E. Shuart are building Frank Bush's barn. It will be done in time for hay. Miss Mattie Galpin delights in breaking young colts to ride. She is quite an expert at the business. The cut worms are doing a great deal of damage to the corn. A good inany acres have been planted over. Wheat in this vicinity will be a good erop, but hay and oats will be a light one. AH the crops need rain. Volney Wiuney is making a good many improvements on the Sanford farm one-half mile south of here. He has rented the farm of Jules Sanford off Ann Arbor, the genial clerk at the American express office. Talk about big snakes, Albert Mayer saw one the other night that frightened him a good deal. He made the dust fly for a moment up Mili street. He says it was as large around as lus arm and almost as lnog as a rail. Search was made for the snake but