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Two new cases of diphtheria are reported at Bridgewater. I). A. Bennett is now comrnander of Saline tent, K. O. T. M. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kern, of Manchester, a sou, Dec. 28th. Mr. and Mrs. William Ludlow, Chelsea, a dauglitcr, Dec. 28th. The Ypsilanti Y. M. C. A. gave a reception to friends New Year's jas. S. Speer lias been elected commander of the Chelsea K. O. T. M, T. J. Entwisle, of Dundee, has a ïieiv, daughter who weighs just ten pounds. The M. E. Sunday-school at South Lyon has re elected the same old officers for 1892. George Digby, of South Lyon, was married at Lansing, Dec. 23d, to Miss Anna Salaska. Wm. V.hiie, formcrly of Pinckney, and Míhs Maggie Love, of Marión, were married Dec. 24th. The Michigan Pump Manufacturing Company will commence business at Ypsilanti, Feb. ist. John T. Kunciman, of Lyndon, and Miss Agnes Collins, of Waterloo, were married Dec. 23d. Stockbridge is in hopes to get a furniture factory in the near future. All that is needed is a financial backing. SWteen members of the Chelsea Lutheran Sunday school were not absent during 1891 and each received a present. Another assistant miller at ihe Vork mili. He arrived Dec. igtli . and his parents are Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cooper. Nelson Hogan, of Augusta, and Miss .Mary I'.. Moore, of Lodi, were married at the Baptist parsonagc in Saline, Dec. 23a. The building comniittee of the Ypsilanti M. E. chureh lias let the contract for furnishing the glass for the new church. A lied ofiron ore has been discovered on the farm of William Stephens, near Stockbridge, and Lansing capitalists are talking about working it. Henry 1). Platt is smiling. He is a grandpa, a daughter having been born to his daughter, Mrs. Nellie Platt ('ook, of Minneapolis, Minn. The Chelsea cornet band are góing into thö drama business and will produce "Placer Gold" at the tqwn hall Tuesday evening, Jan. 12. Win. Secor, of North Lake, failed to' get out of the way when a sapJgjXjïhich he was cutting scalp wound. W. J. Goodspeed, who bas been foreman of the Oakland Excelsior office, goes to Lansing as foreman of the composing room of the State Republican. Some hungry thief entered the house of the Germán minister at üundee, a few nights ago, and ate up all the goodies that the good wife had cooked up. The Masonic fraternity of Manchester has presented Postmaster Nestell with a handsome past master's jewel in recognition of his services as Worshipful Master for several years. The twentieth anniversary of their wedding was celebrated by Mr. and Mrs. Abijah Burch, living six miles east of Grass Lake, Dec. zyth, a number of friends assisting them in remembering the event. The Ypsilantian gave the Dames of about forty grip sufferers last week. If the Argus should try to give the names of those in this city who have it. there would be room for nothing else in the paper. The Lapham Sunday-school at Salem lias elected the following officers: Superintendent, Wilber arvis; secretary, Mertie Bussey; organist, Edith Cole; chorister, Adelbert Colé; librarían, Lillian Bailey. The following officers of Huron Lodge, No. 30, I. O. O. F., of Dexter, have been elected: C. H. Stannard; N. G.; Frank Phelps, V. G.: O. C. Grcgory, recording secretary; R. O. Buckelew, permanent secretary; C. H. Van Riper, treasurer. Miss Cora Haak, of Bellville, captured the watch which E. H. Bar n urn, the Ypsilanti jeweler, offered to the one guessing the nearcst to the time it would run without re-winding. She came within five seconds of the time. Mr. Clark Cornwell returned Tuesday evening from a protracted stay in old Mexico. líe bringsback, so report says, a large and extended stock of stories, hut there is no evidence that he had any part in Garza's late raid on the border. - ! Ypsilantian. j At the meeting of the Southern Washtenaw Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Dec. 26th, Amariah Hitchcock was elected president and Geo. Walters director in place of IL C. Calhoun. D. G. Rose was re-elected and H. R. Palmer appointed secretary. Ypsilanti is liaving a liard time : with tbc grip and niany of the cases : prove fatal, lt is said that there i vsrere twenty deaths there last week. : Mrs. Ella E. Marsh, of Saline, has been elected one of the delegates of fourth-class postulasteis to Ittend the national convention of ! these officers to be held in Washington, Jan. J4Ü1. Dr. Smith, of Whitmore Lake, was thrown out of li is cart I'riday night, by a couple ol drunken men trying to drive over instead of I around hún. They were coming: from Brighton. The night was dark and he vas unable to teil who they were, as they whipped up their horse and drove on leaving the doctor in the ditch. - Oakland Excelsior. At E. M. Lewis' stock farm near Raisinville station, Satnrday, the six year oíd son of'Dyke Cook, a workrnau at the farm, went into the lot with the tlock of sheep. A ram began hostilities apon the boy by butting him, and before the boy COuld be rescued he had his leg broken near the thigh, and otherwise severely injured. Dr. Unger is treating the boy 's injuries. - Dundee Reporter. The closing days of 1891 were good ones for weddings for Milan residents. December 23a, Alfred F. Miller and Miss Alice Waite were united in marriage. Dec. 3oth, VVilliam D. Woolcott, of Milan, was married at Maple Grove, Saginaw county, to Miss Eva Smith. Dec. 3ist., W. I. Butterfield, of Jackson, and Miss Cora Swindt, of Milan, were married :!t the Presbyterian parsonage. A week ago Kuntlay. at about six o'clock, four iir five rigs yvere "held up" on the Clinton road, about a mué north of Tecumseh, by threc men, who were armed with shot gnus and were under the influence of liquor. Nd one was hanned or robbed, however, and the parties with the guns evidently had no intention of robbing or harming anybody, but being pretty well loaded with iiquid ammunition were bent on playing highwaymen. Officer Stevens, who was coming home from Clinton, happened along just behind the party who was held up and he served papers on the men, whom he recognized. The men paid their fines, one for the qareless use of fire arms, and the other two for being druak. - Tecumseh News. A quiet wedding took place in tliis village, on Christmas day, at the iv-idence o(' .Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Schredcr, at which time their daughter Ida was united in marriage to Mr. W. I. Webster, of Saline, by the was :i;ta', oaly near relatives of the contracting parties being present. The bride is well known h'ere as a genial ahd accomplished yonng lady, being a gradúate of our High School and having passed a good portion of her life here. Thegroom s a highly respected citizen of the community in which he resides, lieing the owner of a fine farm they will make farming their occupation. They leave for their future home in a few days, accompanied by the best wishes of their many friends, for their future prosperity. - Tecumseh Herald. At the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Sanford, in York township, on Christmas, was celebrated the 2c',h anniversary of their married lite. Among those )resent were Airs. A. A. Tuttle, Sr., mother of Mrs. Sanford, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Tuttle and sons Orra and Levant, and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Demott, of Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Tuttle, fr., Egbert G. Tuttle and Miss Bianche Hanchott, of Jackson; Mrs. Edgar D.Culver and daughtet, Hillsdale; Miss Etta J. Tuttle, of Mason, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Russell.Kverett Russell and Lena Sanford, of Saline; (eorge Sanford and daughter, and Willis Sanford and wife and Mrs. Emerson Craig, of York. The presents were many and valuable. If ever there was a merry Christmas day spent in Washtenaw county it was at Aaron Sanford's on December 25U1, 18.91. - Milan Leader. On Friday last the surviving brothers and sisters of the Jackson family met with their sister, Mrs. Oscar Stimpson, to celébrate not oaly a merry Christmas but a family reunión. The day was stormy and the roads in a fearful conditiou, yet notwithstanding all, the circle was complete, rrom the original family oí twelve children, eight are living and vvere all present. The oldest and also the youngest of the family are among the surviving ones, W. J. Jackson, of this place, heading the list, while Mrs. James McMullen, of York, claims the honors that fall to the youngest. Among those present were W. J. Jackson and wife, of Saline; R. Oauntlett and wife, of Detroit; ]. A. Jackson and wife, of Moorevillc; A. 1). Jackson and wife of Milan; 9. Rogers and wife, of Pittsfield; C. M. Jackson, of Grayling; Oscar Stimpson and wife, "f Saline township, and Jas. McMullen and wife, of Vork, also several of the children of the different families. - Saline Obscrver. The Clinton Woolen M 11 Con ;p ny gave a supper to its employés at the town hall New Vear's i!a . The South Lyon mili people secm to be in trouble. It seems that the help engaged, and farmers who had Bold wheat there had not reccived their pay, and consequently they have drawed the wheat away from the mili and yet all cannot get their pay. It is expected that the matter