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Village taxes are being paid in Chelsea. The Dexter Baptist Sunday school picnic at Portage lake today. Foxes have been making raids on chicken roosts near Grass Lake. G. C. McGee, of near Grass Lake has purchased 800 head of sheep. C. C. Dow, of Sharon, has ship ped 380 fine wool sheep to Texas About $250 was realized at th Catholic picnic at Pinckney, las week. „ The employés of Pingree & Smith, of Detroit, have been camping at Portage lake. Chas. Miíler, the Dexter carriage maker, is -making a reputation tor his work in Colorado. The house of Orsin Beeman in Waterloo was struck by lightning last week but no one was injured. A rattle snake bit a horse of William Denman, of near Chelsea, some ten days ago and the horse died. Charlie Pratt, of Manchester, had a battle with rattle snakes not so many days ago. When the roll of the rattle snakes was called fifteen were reported dead. A couple of Hamburg officers ar rested four tramps, handcuffing them together. When the officers backs were turned the tramps made off, taking the handcuffs with them Rev. Bastían Sonits, of Constantine, Mich. , has been called to the Congregational church in Ypsilanti to fill the vacancy in the pulpil caused by the resignation of Rev.H. A. Putnam, who goes to Sault Ste Marie. The South Lyon marshal's house "was burglarized of $30 dollars last week. The marshal is just now col lecting taxes and the burglar expected a much larger haul. It is rarely that tax collectors keep as much as $30 in their houses. ROAD FACILITIES OF DEXTER. In conversation recently concern ing the proximity of a large number of farmers to our village the location of our roads was alluded to. Pains have been taken to draw a circle o a two miles radius with the center a the park. We find that the circum ference intersects land owned anc occupied by the following persons Beginning on the town line between Scio and Lima, and going east the line passes through the lands o John L. Smith, A. E. Phelps, Ed ward Pacey estáte, M. Wooster, F Dunlavy, Phelps & Waite, Mrs Wilcox, B. W. Waite, S. W. Holmes estáte, G. W. Snyder, Henry Warren estáte, Isaac Terry, John Vaughn W. E. Johnson, R. O. Buckelew Merritt Ward, T. R. Stanton, Wm Benz, Geo. L. Boyden, L. R. Lee L. H. Jones, H. B. Neeb, P. Flem ing, T. Dolan, Wm. H. Arnold, John E. Hall, Geo. Benton, M. S. Cook, Morris Thompson, Alonzo Davis, James Dancer, Alex. Dancer, Jacob Haas, O. McClain, Gottlieb Zahn, and Thos. Coy. These form a list of thirty-five real estáte owners through whose land the above described circle runs. Their respective residences are some of them quite a distance outside the circle, and many of them within some considerable distance. The line crosses four roads in this township, including the two town line roads. In Webster it crosses four roads. In Dexter it crosses three roads, and in Lima four. Thus we find it intersects 15 roads. Each one of the dweiling houses on these 35 farms are on, or very nearly on, direct roads to our village, making them vary but a little distance from the two mile radius. Inside the circle of these farms we find quite a number of small land owners, many of whom value each acre so much that an unusually high state of cnltivation has beenattained. Sixty farms are located between Dexter and those already named, which, added to the 35 makes 95 farms, all touching a radius of 2 miles from the center of our village. Twenty-eight of these are in Scio, 16 in Webster, 8 in Dexter and 8 in Lima. Seven roads enter our town in as many directions. These are fed from four other roads within about a mile of our village, each entering at an angle of about 45 degrees; thus making access to our town by an unusually direct route.