County

Five new bridges have been built in York. Dr. Unterkircher, of Saline, will build a new barn. The Catholics cleared $90 at tb ei r picnic at Whittaker. James Gage, of Manchester town, is building a residence. The Saline farmers' club meets at Isaac Shaw's, September 6. William A. Russell's new house in Augusta is about completed. Miss Della Lane died in Clinton, August 25, aged tvventy-two. L. D. Alley is putting a píate glass front in his store in Dextcr. The Wabash has laid new steel rails on its track through this cöunty. Mrs. H. Martin, of Bridgewater, spraincd her knee last week serioiisly. Ypsilanti has a colored Democratie club with thirty-five niembers. E. A. Tabor, of Willis, got twenty-fïve bushels of wheat to the acre. The Manchester Enterprise is preparing an illustrated boom edition. O. D. Lamphear raised a 32x72 foot barn on his farm in Webster last week. A crab apple tree is in blossom in the yard of Mrs. James Kingsley, of Manchester. Shaver runs a barbar shop in Chelsea, Bone runs a meat market at Walled Lake. John Wisner has the contract for building the abutments for the new bridge at Clinton. George Moorman is builditig anbther store building on Huron street in Ypsilanti. The People's party senatorial convention meets at Chelsea, Monday, September 12. The Saline Observer wants the Saline high school so graded that its graduates can enter the university. Vernon Hboper, of Salem, has taken charge of the schools in Mackinaw City at a salary of $60 per month. Another Democrat has been boni to the O'Brien family. J. D. O'Brien, of Augusta, is the happy father. Lew is Camburn and Miss Howell will teach the Mooreville schools the coming year. School opens September 5. Eber Reeves, of Saline, aged twelve, broke an arm by falling off a horse while riding horseback with a neighboring boy. The Saline marshal last week took in charge a horse which had remained standing at a post in the village for ten hours. Charles Cutter, who lived two miles from Willis, is dead. He was sixty-two years of age and leaves a wife and six sons. Bird Hogan, the youngest son of James Hogan, of Bridgewater, died August 22 of enlargement of the heart, aged ten years. Two hundred new books have been added to the library of the Catholic library association of St. Mary's church, Chelsea. Bert Bunton, while threshing wheat in Augusta, was struck by the crank of the straw carrier in the nose so hard that he was unconscious for some time, his nose being badly smashed. , Coralloid, the Milan trotter, reduced his record to 2.15 in a race at Columbus at which he took first money. Budd Doth offered to give the horse a record of 2.12 within sixty days for $1,000. Germán Day at Ypsilanti this year will be held next Thursday. Speeches will be made by P. G. Suekey, Mayor Glover, and Judge Babbitt. J. Terns is marshal and ' . L. Marquardt president of the day. Manchester has been asked to pay Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Welsh, of Bridgewater, $4,000 damages for injuries received by their horse backing off the embankment at the East Manchester bridge. E. B. Morris has been employed by them. A singular accident occurred just north of the "red bridge" Monday morning, which might easily have had a more serious and even fatal termination. Mrs. Andrew Miller, of Webster, accompanied by Samuel Freese, her uncle, was driving home from town. When the open space between the two bridges wasreached, the horse became frightened at a dog which had been swimming in the race and came out shaking himself, and, turning quickly, jumped over the bank into the river just below the waste gate, carrying with it the carriage and its occupants. The distance down is several feet and the bottom is filled with large boulders and it is certainly a miracle that no one was seriously injured. Beyond a few severe bruises and a general shaking up of the rig, no damage was done. - Dexter News. John Reymond, of Willis, while ir.i; a swing receatly bad his nose broken by benig struck in the i face by a sledge haramer. A farüaer on the town line betfften Lodi and Scio is said by the Dexter News to have threshed 89 bushels from 20 acres of wheat. Jacob Slinduyer, of Scio, fell from a barn loft twelve feet, striking on his head. His head was badly cut but he was not permanently injured. Prof. Chisholni, oneof our county board of school exarniners, has gone to Newberry, where he receives a salary of $1,300 as principal of the schools. Charlie, a young son of James Fuller, living three miles northeast of here, was hurt very seriously by the cars very early Friday morning. He was out to the dance held in CQtinection with the Germán picnic at Whittaker, and on his way home must have fallen asleep on the railroad track. He arrived homeabout four o'clock in a very weak condition and with a broken shoulder blade and a bruised and bleeding head. He is unable to teil how he was hurt; has no recollection of lying on the track, of getting struck or of coming home, but by tracking blood marks they find he was carried some distance by the cow catcher, then thrown one side, where he must have lain insensible several hours. He is improving.