County

The Chelsea band have got new uniforms. M. Osborn, of Augusta, is building a new house. The Chelsea fair will be held October ii, 12, and 13. Walter Ballard, of Willis, has built a new horse barn. The Wabash has put in a long side track at Whittaker. A. C. Clark, of Saline, has repainted his furniture store. A new iron bridge has been built between Salem and Lapham's Corners. There are 413 children of school age in the Manchester village district. Ed. Kief captured a four-foot eel in the river at Manchester, last week. The corner stone of the Lutheran church in Ohelsea will be laid next Sunday. Dogs raided the flock of sheep of James L. Graves, of Ypsilanti town, last week. E. H. Gilbert, of Manchester, had 232 bushels of wheat from eight and a half acres. Joseph Hyzer, of Ypsilanti, lost two fingers in a moulding machine in Ypsilanti last week. The Manchester lads gathered a harvest of grasshoppers which visited that town in force. It is said that the Sylvan delegation to the Democratie county convention were instructed to vote as a unit. John Hutzel, the Bridgewater farmer whose residence was burned recently, has leased the Guthard farm . The house of James Kimes, of Augusta, was burned on Tuesdaybf last week, including most of his furniture. The Bridgewater farmers' picnic this year was a success. Speeches were made by Ex-Gov. Luce and Flavius Knight. Otto Jarrandt, of Saline, has purchased the hotel property in Belle - ville and will take possession in about three weeks. John Miller, óf Bridgewater, while acting as peacemaker between two enraged dogs the other day, was bitten on the arm. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Acton, of Saline, went to New Richmond, Indiana, last week to visit a little grandchild, who had just arrived. The Saline Observer has a new word for personal writing. It calis the act of writing the fact that John Smith was in town to "personate" him. The Baptist Sunday schools of Saline, York and Mooreville held a unión picnic with over two hundrec present at Mooreville on Wednesday of last week. The teachers in the Ypsilanti schools are paid $10,700 a year. This is less than one-third the amount paid in this city. No schools in the country are better than those of Ann Arbor. A Sharon farmer put a basket of eggs in his wagon and drove to Manchester. When he got there he found that one of his old hens had been a passenger and was snugly ensconced over the eggs. Warren Kimble has invented an attachment to his stoneboat with which two men can cut a number of acres of corn a day. The boat is drawn by one horse and passing betwecn two rows of corn knives on each side cut the stalks and when enough for a shock on either side is cut the horse stops while the men bind the stalks, and as the horse starts again the shock slides off the table and stands upright on the ground. Kimble & Schmid have applied for a patent and there' is reasonable hope of their getting one. - Manchester Enterprise. While camping at Base lake last week, Mrs. E. H. Andrews heard a baby voice say "Pooty worm," and immediately stepped out to seewhat was going on. To her horror two beautiful bare-footed little children of Mrs. Swift's, of Ann Arbor, were amusing theraselves looking at a large rattlesnake coiled up on the sand wi,thin a few inches of their feet. The older of the . little ones was trying to prevent the other from picking up the "pooty worm." Charfey Andrews soon dispatched his snakeship and found nine rattles. Children were for a day or two denied rhe luxury of goin? footed around the camp.