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C. E. Letts, of Detroit, was bere Tuesday. The pay car left its favors here on Monday. H. L. Wood spent last Sunday vith bis family here. Frank Broderick, of Jackson, is among relatives here this week. There will be no school here beween Christmas and New Year's. Christmas festivities are being prepared by all the churches for the children. Dave Williams playecl Kelley's Expectations at Town Hall Tuesday night to a slim axidience. They will have a literary program and a Christmas tree at the M. E. church, Christmas eve. A unión meeting will bc held next Sunday night at the town hall to be addrcssed by Dr. Holmes. J.'D. Schnaitman will be assistant superintendent of the Ann Arboi organ works after January ïst. Now is the time to pay your taxef. They are very high here this year because of the new school house and free text books. The Oil Stove company has thcir engine house enclosed and the poles up for the electric lights. They ' peet to have the electric lights going by January ïst. Rev. E. W. Ryan, presiding eldei of the Adrián district, held his first quarterJy meeting at the M. E. church last Sunday. The impression he left was that he was an earnest and excellent preacher and jast the man for the place he holds. The Ladies' Relief Corps served refreshments and gave some literary exercises at the town hall several nights last week. They are raising money to erect a monument to the memory of departed comrades who are buried in Oak Grove cemetery. The markets have been dull the past week and arrivals small. Red wheat 89c, white 88c, rye 85c, barley $1.00 to $1.10, beans $1.20, clover seed, $4.75, dressed pork $4 per hundred, chickens 6c per lb., turkeys 9c, eggs 20c, and butter 20c. Olive Lodge No. 156, F. & A. M., elected officers last Tuesday night as follows: W. M., H.'M. Woods; S. W., R. S. Amstrong; J. W., Geo. Blaich; Sec.,T. E. Vood; Treasurer, H. S. Holmes; S. D., J. Geo. Webster; J. D. , J. A. Bachman; T,, D. W. Maroney; Stewards, T. A. Palmer and C. T. Conklin Adam Kalmbach was coming to town on Tuesday with his runaway team, and he put up his umbrella in the west part of town, from which they took fright and ran away. They ran against a tree and stopped, throwing Mr. Kalmbach out and injuring him quite seriously. ' The team has run away several times before and ought to be separated. A large audience assembled at the Congregational church last Sunday afternoon to pay their last tribute of respect to the memory of Horace A. Smith, who died on the loth instant, aged 77 years. He had lived in this vicinity about 50 years and was'universally respected as a strictly honest man and a good consistent 1 Christian. He leaves a wife and five children. The remains were laid to rest in the Vermont cemetery.