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The South Lyon mili is now grinding. The Ypsilanti motor line carried ' 1148 passengers, July 4. Germán day will be celebrated in Ypsilanti, September 8. The Episcopalians have organized a Sunday school in Hamburg. Henry Lindenschmidt, of Saline, lost a finger last week in a binder. E. Jedele, of Dexter, purchased 110,000 pounds of wool this season. Mrs. John Ancliff, of Manchester, (lied July 7, aged seventy-one years. Kerosene got down as low as seven cents a gallon in Manchester last week. Three Manchester saloon keepers have been fined for keeping open on July 4A tug of war in Dexter for a purse of $10 will furnish some fun tomorrow. The cars killed a horse belonging to John Gable, of Augusta, the other day. The Augusta bridges, which were swept away by the spring freshets, have been replaced. Rufus Phelps and Valentine Boos, of Webster, have gone into the Jersey cattle business. Rev. D. H. Conrad preaches his farewell sermón in the Chelsea Baptist church, next Sunday. The Chelsea council has ordered 1,099 feet of new sidewalk laid and fifty-nine sidewalks repaired. J.R.Brown,of Superior, marketed 1,400 pounds of unwashed wool in South Lyon this year, the produce of 100 sheep. Rev. H. A. Putnum, of the Ypsilanti Congregational church, has accepted a cali to the Sault Ste Marie church. Samuel Lee, a little Augusta boy, while playing in the grass got in the way of a mowing machine, and had his foot nearly cut off. Chelsea's school tax this year will be $6,500. The cost of teachers will be $359 and f free text books $150. Free text books last year COSt 4Í7.7O. The Dexter News is busily booming George A. Peters. Probably the News desires to stand in with Peters, who would probably be chief pap dispenser in this county stiould Weaver be elected. A stalk of dent corn, planted May 2Oth, on the farm of Mrs. S. W. Dexter, was handed us by D. D. Dixon, Monday. It showedastrong, vigorous growth and measured six feet in height. D. says this is not a sample of one stalk but of the whole field. - Dexter News. Grass Lake is organizing a brass band. A good deal of brass is lying loose around Grass Lake anyway. - Ann Arbor Argus. This deadly insult will excite the most profound indignation on the part of our citizens, but we hope they will keep their Adam's apple down and leave revenge to us. We have ordered a Winchester and shall leave for Ann Arbor promptly on its arrival. - Grass Lake News. We will give you a warm reception, as no Pinkerton will be tolerated in this section. Frank Lemmon has on exhibition in Costello's store a potato that is very much of a curiosity in its way. It is of the white star variety and npon being put under the paring knife by Mrs. Lemmon, Tuesday, disclosed within its center, entirely secluded from the air, a nicely growing potato about half as large as the old one. There were no sprouts upon it and so far as the eye can discover the growing bulb had no connection whatever with the parent root. Can you explain the "whyness?" - Dexter News. Mrs. S. W. Dexter offers to present the village of Dexter with a town clock worth #1,000 provided a suitable tower is provided for it. As the chumps of the town are paying . no attention to the offer we dropped Mrs. D. a postal card last night telling her Grass Lake would accept her clock on those terms. When the clock comes we think it had better be placed in the belfry of either the Baptist or Methodist church, although a 50-foot tower built at the front entrance of the town hall would not be a bad place tor it.