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Jerusalem liad fireworks, Monday. Burt Rich is building a new house in Salem. The business places of Dexter are painting up. An addition will be built to the Jerusalem mili. The Dexter marshal will shoot all dogs notmuzzled. The new culvert to be built at Saline will cost $680. The assessment of Dexter village this year is $222,620. One Dexter firra sold twenty hay tedders week before last. Sneak thieves broke into Green Johnson's cellar in Dexter. The Chelsea Congregational church is being repainted. The Zeebe mili property at Hamburg will be started up again. Mrs. John Dell, of Saline, feil last week, breaking her left limb. John Tate, of Saline, got 2414 lbs. of wool from a yearling this year. James Blackwood, of South Lyon, raised 4,063 pounds of wool this year. Prof. A. D. Chisholm is teaching a summer school for teachers at Salem. The Baptist society of Salem netted $20 at their recent strawberry festival. Clara, daughter of Jacob Mitter, of Manchester, died June 28, aged nine years. Two-thirds of Manchester's fortyfour business places are lighted with electricity. Fred Litchfield, of Dexter, raised a strawberry five and seven-eighth inches in circumference. The Clinton woolen mili bought 122,000 pounds of wool week before last at from 18 to 23 cents. Lovewell & Son, of South Lyon, up to last Friday had purchased 85,000 pounds of wool this season. Grass Lake is organizing a brass band. A good deal of brass is laying loose around Grass Lake, anyway. The Stockbridge Sun estimates the wool brought to Stockbridge on three Saturdays this year at 120,000 pounds. Will Glover, of Saline, had his arm broken by machinery in motion catching him. He narrowly escaped with his life. This is the season for broken armsforsmallboys. HopeFrederick, of Salem, feil off a fence and fractured his arm. The ten graduates of the Saline high school this year averaged 17 years, 9 months in age and 136 pounds in weight. In all eighty-fourpupils have been graduated from the Saline school since the first graduating class in 1872, of whom seventy-eight are living. Gilmer C. Townsend and Miss M. Lillian Russel, of Saline, were married, June 28, at the residence of the bride's father, Russel Mills, by Rev. T. G. Potter. The Democrats of Clinton put up a hickory pole with a Cleveland streamer on it on the morning of Cleveland's nomination. They are hustlers out at Clinton. Dexter claims to have increased her purchase of wool this year. The farmers have given up waiting for the fifty cents a pound ex-Congressman Allen promised them. A cow belonging to David Schneider, of Jerusalem, bied to death last week. It was suddenly attacked with bleeding at the nose and no cause for it was discovered. Joseph Lowry's team ran away in Manchester last Thursday and for a time it looked as if they were bent on wrecking all the rigs in town. Not much damage was done. Mrs. S. W. Dexter has submitted a proposition to the village council whereby it is made possible for the village to secure what many of our citizens have at different times advocated and a thing that all would doubtless appreciate and many times find very convenient - viz., a village clock. Mrs. Dexter proposes to present to the village a clock worth $1,000 providing the village will furnish a suitable tower for its mounting. - Dexter News. A burglar visited E. Jedele's residence, last Saturday night, and by prying up a window with a pocket knife, gained entrance to Mr. Jedele 's bedroom. The noise awoke Mrs. Jedele who aroused her husband just in time to see the thief escape through the window, carrying Mr. Jedele's trousers and his watch. The trousers contained only about $1.50 in money,but the watch, a fine silver one given Mr. Jedele by his father twenty-two years ago, was the most serious loss. No clue has been found to the thief but he left behind his pocket knife which he can have by calling for it and proving property. - Dexter News. I S. O. Hadley and wife, of Lyndon, are visitíng their daughter, Mrs. Thomas Blakely, of Bunkerhill; and last Friday Mr. Hadley and James Blakely were driving to Masón with Mr. Hadley's team. Just behind them in a wagon with his wool was Thomas Blakely, while just behind him in another buggy were Mrs. Hadley and Mrs. Thomas Blakely. When about a mile west of the Etchell school house, the wool team became frightened and unmanageable and started to run. Blakeley tried to stop them, but one was a colt, and they gave him hard work. He shouted to Mr. Hadley to get out of the way, and he turned out, but on the wrong side. Mr. Blakely's team jumped into their buggy, demolishing it. Hadley's team ran away,throwing himself and James Blakely out and injuring both men quite severely. Mr. Hadley was taken back to his son-in-law's and a physician summoned. No bones were broken and we presume he is recovering. The team ran over a mile. The buggy was a total wreek. -