County

Clinton is discussing electric lighting. Dexter Good Templars are in a prosperous condition. Ypsilanti is talking of two new bridges over the Hurón. Joseph Seckinger, of Manchester, was kicked, by a horse last week. Chelsea claims to be increasing in population; Manchester, ditto. The Chelsea village marshal is expected to lasso stray or untagged dogs. Everybody in Chelsea who keeps a dog must take out a license for him. The Halladay sisters have had their residence in Bridgewater repainted. Fifty ' bushels of huckleberries per day have been the shipments from Chelsea. William Fletcher, of Sharon, had his fingers badly hurt in his reaper the other day. Mrs. E. A. Butler was thrown out of her buggy in Dexter last week by a frisky horse. . George McDougall, of Superior, while haiyng, got badly tangled up with a pitch fork. Ypsilanti has a Woman's Suffrage Association which is holding meetings every two weeks. Peter Gorman, of Lyndon, is having his house reattired in a bright new dress of paint. The Baptist church in Ypsilanti is being repainted and repaired and a new organ has been ordered. The Chelséa Maccabees are buying Maccabee caps. There are seventy-two members in Sylvan. The Manchester Enterprise and the Chelsea Herald unite in advising the girls not to wear bright red dresses. The Ypsilanti city debt is not yet large enough. They are talking of spending 5io,ooo there for building and repairing bridges. The colt of L. Rorabacher ran away at WhitmoreLake, last Friday, running through two fences but damaging itself very slightly. John Gillen, of Saline, is working all the more cheerily for the sheriffship since a little girl came to his home about ten days ago. There were a good many babies bom in Washtenaw county last week. Among the heaviest of them was a twelve pound son of Dr. D. P. McLachlan, of Mooreville. W. W. Demuth, one of the oldest residents of Clinton, died July 27, aged seventy years. He came to Michigan in 1836 and was long engaged in the grocery business. Herman, a fifteen year oíd son of John Stowell, of Lodi, while helping to mow away grain on the scaffold in his father's barn last Friday, slipped and feil to the floor, a distance of some twenty feet, striking on a hay tedder and infücting several severe bruises besides an ugly cut about four inches in length. - Saline Observer. Very innocent items are making the rounds of the county press.such as A. T. Hughes of Scio was in town yesterday, M. C. Peterson of Ann Arbor visited this place the first of the week on business, Alfred Davenport greeted old friends here the other day, Dr. McLaughlin of Mooreville was in town Saturday, John Gillen of Saline was on our streets the first of the week, etc. As the weeks roll on such items will become more frequent. Will some good politician teil us what it all means? Cavanaugh lake seems to be a resort for many of the high-toned people of Ann Arbor. The sesthetic professor, skilled doctors, noted lawyers, and lovable clergymen who frequent its shores can't be webfooted, for if they were they would more fully enjoy the broad expanse of the waters of the Portage and surrounding lakes, compared with which Cavanaugh is but a duck pond. These people have so little regard for the chrystal elementas to "hang their clothes on a hickory limb and not go near the water." - Dexter Leader. It is in order for Cavanaugh lake to reply to this base libel. The friends of Cari Roberts and family were shocked to learn of the terrible death of his daughter Anna, aged 17, which occurred last week at the home of her aunt in the state of New York. She had been throwing down hay in the barn for the horse. Coming down stairs with the fork in her hand tines up, when next to the bottom step, she feil forward on the fork, the handle of which being short struck the floor at the right angle to have one tine penétrate the throat, one a little lower and the other the heart; death followed instantly. Her body was brought to Tecumseh, Monday, where it was laid by the side of her mother, who met her death several years ago in a runaway accident. Mrs. Roberts, who formerly was Julia Miller, had two brothers whose , deaths were tragic. - Clinton Local. A very little thing in a dry time gives a reporter an itera, as witness this from the Cavanaugh lake correspondent of the Chelsea Herald: "A very romantic scène caught the eye of the reporter as he passed one of the cottages on the west end of the grounds, Sunday. It was the fair faces of a young lady and gentleman silting in the kitchen window eating ice cream. As they partook of the cool draught, smile after smile rippled o'er their faces. "