County

Manchester has electric lights. Clinton is organizing a brass band Burt Rich, of Salem, is building a new house. John Gates, of Lima, is building a new barn. F. Olds, of York, has been building a granary. George Irwin, of Chelsea, will enlarge his house. A new Episcopal chapel is being built in Grass Lake. Saline school graduating exercises occur next Friday. The heavy rains washed out the Paint creek bridges. Chelsea will not celebrate July 4th, but Dexter will. Jacob Heselschwerdt, of Sharon, is erecting a new barn. The town hall of Lima is being used as a school house. Clinton is preparing for a high old time on the fourth. The fourth of July will be a big day in Dexter this year. D. L. Roosa, of Ypsilanti, has opened a livery in Milan. A new iron bridge is to be built across the race at Clinton. Manchester township will purchase four new road machines. Leonard Hermann, of South Manchester, has built a new barn. J. R. Lemin's new barn in Sharon is assuming mammoth jVoportions. The Republicans oí Clinton have already organized a campaign club. Miss Mabel Ross will teach the school at the Free church near Worden. The large sail boat of the Clifton house at Whitmore lake has been refitted. Manchester school commencement and alumni reunion and banquet, June 24. Franz J. Waltz, of Manchester, died of old age June i . He was 84 years old. The Germán Workingmen's society, of Manchester, hold a big picnic July 4. Dogs killed a number of sheep belonging tó John Williams, of Bridgewater. Samuel Holmes, of Manchester, hns his new barn ready for a big erop this year. Bishop Davies confirmed a class of five in the Clinton Episcopal church, Monday. Children's day was observed in a number of churches about the county last Sunday. Thompson, of the Dexter News, claims to have been liquidating mosquito's small bilis. The Plymouth village tax is exactly the same percentage as the Ann Arbor city tax. Ex-Sheriff Wallace, of Saline, has been having a tussle with the canker worms in his orchard. Mrs. Isa C. Judd died in Alameda, California, May 31. She resided in Saline some years ago. William Benz, of Webstei% is one of those looking for big crops. He has just built a new barn. Dorr's district in Manchester will not have a new school house. Five men wanted it and ten didn't. J. A. Alber, of Saline is happier than ever. Another Alber who weighs nine pounds, is the cause. Capt. J. P. Lapham died at his residence in Manchester township, June 6. He was a very estimable man. Conrad Reule & Son had an exciting runaway in Bridgewater last week but were not seriously injured. Two new dental establishments for Grass Lake, and if the dentist can 't make Grass Lake jaws ache, who can? Luther Palmer's basket factory in Dexter has been running full blast. 10,000 baskets were shipped in one day last week. Miss Lizzie Peyton, of Ypsilanti township, left last week for England. She graduated from the Normal school this year. Michael Schanz, Jacob Hilderer, Simón Winslow and Gottlieb Donie are among the builders of new barns in Lima, this year. Prof. Blodgett, for the past year principal of the Manchester school, goes to Wheaton, Illinois, next year at a salary of $ 1,200. Mrs. A. C. Aylesworth, of Manchester, was kicked on the head by a horse last week, but fortunately was not seriously injured. Once in an age we hear of a prosperous editor. Editor Blosser, of Manchester, is making extensive repairs on his residence. Up to the middle of last week the Clinton woolen mills had purchased 75,000 pounds of wool. Just think how much more money would be in the farmers' hands if wool were as high as it was before the McKinley bill was passed. Rev. S. T. Morris, of Dexter, delivers the address at the graduating exercises of the Chelsea schools next Thursday evening. Lightning struck the windmill of Samuel Miller north of Grass Lake last week. Mrs. Miller was insensible for a few minutes. Miss Rachael Sophia Guthrie died at her home in Sylvan, June 2, aged forty-three years. She had been an invalid for over twenty years. Inez Storking, Florence Cole, Guy Lighthall, Nathaniel Laird and Otto Steinbach get diplomas from the Chelsea high school this year. Prof. Evan Essary, of St. Clair, for five years teacher in Luther, is to be principal of the Manchester schools next year at a salary of $900. A banana warfare struck Grass lake and the editor of the Grass Lake News bursted his exchequer buying bananas at lïftecn cents a do.en. Charles Reimenschneider and Miss Tena Kalmbach, of Sylvan, were married June 9. Both are very popular and start life with bright prospects. The latest city air which Chelsea has brought to the front is the laying of curbstones. You can see her editors out admiring these curbstones by the electric light. Mr. H. C. Calhoun, of Bridgewater, celebrated his birthday last weck with a big party, and many acquaintances in all parts of the country join in wishing him many happy returns. Ed. Smith, the hustling Clinton Democrat, who came near beating John Sheehan out of the delegateship to the Chicago convention, is rebuilding the John Smith homestead r.t Clinton. The Farmers' Vigüance Association of Augusta, Ypsilanti, Pittsfield and York have made a standing offer of 500 for the arrest and conviction of any thief who may steal a horse from any member of the Association. Huron Lodge, J. Ö. O. F., of Dexter, have elecred the following officers: N. G., Frank Phelps; V. (I., Orla C. Gregory: R. S., Dr. E. I'". Chase; treas., Chas. H. Van Riper; Rep. to Grand Lodge, W. C. Clark; altérnate, John O. Thomp-i son. The Ypsilantian is getting into training for the fall campaign. It reports that O. E. Thompson while visiting Clinton saw men planting corn with diving bells. This is only a sample of what the Ypsilantian's readers may expect during the campaign. Kditor Smith, of the Milan Leader, has been up on a high place and looked down upon Milan. The discovery he chronicles in his last issue is told in these words: "Milan is really a beautiful town as viewed from the roof of the new Masonic temple." Did you notice that man parading down the streets of Grass Lake, with his thumbs in the armholes of his vest and that wide expansive smile on his beaming countenance? That was Carlton, of the Grass Lake News, and he was telling everyone he saw of the great improvement which had been made in Grass Lake, which tended to throw Jackson in the shade. The Grass Lake bank had put a new piece of linoleum on theiï floor. Win. Dungerow and family, of Detroit, spent last week with C. L. ! )ovner. Frank Bush has a live, healthy, five legged lamb, two hind legs and three front legs. Perry Townsend is having his house painted. He is fixing his place up quite nicely. More potato bugs this summer than ever before. It looks as though we would never get rid of them. The farmers in this vicinity are planting a good many acres of beans. P. E. Galpin has planted about forty acres. Rev. Wm. Galpin and family, oí Ishpeming, U. P., are visiting Mr. Galpin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F.P. Galpin. A few of the farmers in this vicinity are culnvating their corn, while others on heavy ground are not done planting. Children's day, last Sunday at the M. E. church was a success. The church was crowded, there was some good singing and speaicing by the children. The farmers are all busy shearing sheep, but they won't get as much a pound for their wool as was promised them four years ago by McKinley advocates.