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School opens one week from nex Monday. I). B. Taylor is building an ad dition to his house. H. Gregory, of Gregory village was here last Monday. There is to be a farmers' picnic a Cavanaugh lake, Sept. ist. D. II. Fuller is puiling his onions They are smaller than usual. John Wisner, of Manchester, was here on business last Monday. The fourth Demorest medal contest at the town hall, Friday night. Rush Green, the village marshal, is now collecting the village taxes. A brisk shower on Wednesday was thankfully received at this place. Merritt Conkright, of Detroit, was among relatives here the first of this week. E. G. Hoag, wife, mother, and sister, spent last Sunday in Stockbridge. Thomas Jensen has moved to Grass lake to opérate his feather renovator. The general health of the people about here is unusually good for this season. The Company has built a new platform around the passenger depot at this place. Fourth quarterly meeting of the year at the M. E. church, Sunday night, Sept. 4th. The Labadie-Rowell Company will play Don Cassar at the town hall next Monday night. John Allyn, who is a conductor on a railroad in York state, is visiting relatives here this week. Dr. Nancrede and family, who are camping at North lake, were in town several times the past week. Jas. L. Gilbert returned from his western trip in the interest of the Globe tobáceo works on Monday. Beans have been cut short by dry weather and suddenly ripened up and are being pulled in many places. Large quantities of coal are being laid in here now for winter use. It costs 36.25 per ton against #5.50 one year ago. One hundred and seventy-five loads of wheat have been taken in at the Company's elevator since the balance shipments in July. Apples in this vicinity are not onethird of a erop, and what there are are wormy and small. The dry weather has been one chief cause of the failure. Miss Dora Harrington will leave the last of this week for St. Louis, where she will spend next Sunday among friends, and go on the first of next week to attend the -Grand Lodge, I. O. G. T., at Mt. Pleasant. The market has been dull with light receipts the past week. Wheat now brings 72 ets., for red or white; rye, 60 ets.; oats, 33 ets.; barley, nominal, at Í1.15; beans. $1.25; clover seed, $5; potatoes, 50 ets.; onions, $1 per bushei; pears, 50 to 90 ets.; apples, 40 to 70 ets.; butter, 16 ets.; eggs, 15 ets.; huckleberries, 8 ets.; cabbage, 4 ets. per head.