County

A harvest home festival will be held at Saline this evening. The county convention of the W. C. T. U. is closing a two days' session at Manchester today. William Heller, of Saline, died in that village last week, aged 66 years, after a long and severe illness. A new Catholic church was dedicated at Whittaker last Thursday by Bishop Foley, assisted by the pastor, Rev. Fr. DeBever. The population of Ypsilanti is increasing at a rapid rate. Mrs. J. Scott, colored, became the mother of three babies, last Tuesday night - two girls and a boy. - Ypsilantian. One of Wurster Brothers' horses was discovered a few mornings since to have been slashed in the hipwith a knife in the hands of some inhuman wretch. - Manchester Enterprise. Supervisor Burtless has been mourning the loss of hisgold watch. He can't remember when he last saw it and don't know whether it is lost, estrayed or stolen. - Manchester Enterprise. Dr. Kotts, of Manchester, for lack of a better subject has been practicing dissection upon himself. He stuck a knife into the calf of one of his legs the other day, inflicting a painful wound. Will Herald raisedthis year, fortyfive acres of beans. Fifteen acres of these beans are for the Sioux City Nursery, of Sioux City, Iowa. They are of the improved red Valentine variety. - South Lyon Picket. The annual hunt, which isusually participated in by everyperson in the vil lage who knows how to shoot a gun and can get a day off, will take place next Tuesday. There are about 20 persons chosen on each side. - Manchester Enterprise. Some time in August, 1890, Ben Huston, who resides near Cherry Hill, left a traction engine in the road while he went into a house near by. Mrs. George Bryant drove along while the engine was standing there, when her horse, becoming frightened at it, sprang one side, throwing her out. The lady, it is alleged, afterwards died from the effects of the injuries received, and now Bryant has bjought suit in the circuit court against Huston, claimLng $5,000 damages. - Ypsilanti Senüuel. Prof M. E. Cooley, in speaking of the worms that infest the oak trees and are now attacking the maples, said tliat the most effective way of keeping them out of the trees was to tie cotton batting about an inch thick about the trunk of the tree two or three feet from the ground. He says that in other cities where these worms have become very troublesome this has proved the most efïïcacious method of keeping them out of the trees. Tar does not always keep them down, bilt they can't get over the cotton. - Manchester Enterprise. Prof. Bellows vacated his house and shipped his goods to Mt. Pleasant last week, and departed for his new field of labor. It could have been no small trial to surrender the key and turn his back upon a place that has been his home so many years, as Prof. Bellows has done. He planted every shrub and tree, and practically made everything that is there. In wishing that he may find plenty of comfort and happiness in his new home, and plenty of friends and sympathetic neighbors, we but express the thought of 1 all the friends and neighbors he leaves here. - Ypsilantian. A shrewd old farmer living near this city gave an itinerant spectacle man his "come-up-ens" recently. The peddler took up the granger's "specs" and asked him if he could read with "them things." Answered in the negative, the travell'er offered to fit rustie's eyes for $5 sohe could read "as well as anybody." "Do it," said the tiller of the soil, "and [y give you $10." With all the tricks of his profession the optician tried pair after pair until everything in his stock had been tested. As the old farmer laid down the last pair, he mildly remarked: "Pity I never learned to read, isn't it, it's so hard to fit my eyes." The peddler fainted. - Ypsilanti Sentinel. David Due, driver of Wallace & Clarke's delivery wagon, lost a baby last Saturday night, under peculiar and very distressing circumstances. Mr. and Mrs. Due had gone out in the evening, leaving three or four little children in bed, in charge of an older sister ten years old. She was roused by the little ones awaking and calling for water, and she brought the pail to the bed to serve them, then retired and left the pail standing by the bed. After all were asleep again, the baby rolled out of bed and feil head first into the pail of water, and drowned without awaking the others. When the parents returned, they were greeted by the distressing Spectacle of the little ■one standing on its head in the pail, idead. - Ypsilantian. The demand for telephone service has increased greatly in Ypsilanti and ampie arrangements have been made to meet the requirements. The Ypsilaili VVoolen Mills are very prosperous, employing ai average of 250 hands the year round, and find ready ssle for al underwear they manufacture at pro fitable prices. - Dexter Leader. During the shower of last June, when the Baptist church was struck by lightning, an oak tree was struck by a bolt of electricity. The tree subsequently died. A few days since some workmen attempted to saw it down. Their task was well nigh completed when their saw encountered some hard substance which stopped further proceedings. When the tree fell,an axe was found in it which the saw had encountered; when, and by whom placed there, will remain a mystery. There had been a crevice in the tree where the axe was placed, which had grown completely over. The stump is hollow, the edge of the axe extending into the cavity, while some six inches of wood covered the head of the instrument.- Clinton Local. There isn't a young man of any degree of respectability that would be seen walking up and down the streets in company with a drunken girl. You rriight search with a finetooth comb and not find a young man who would lock arms with a young lady and go off promenading, who was puffing away on a'cigar or who was squirting tobáceo juice around on thesidewalk. Girls have no hesitancy in accepting the company of the two latter characters, and too many of them are only too anxious to accept the company or the heart and hand of such young men. Society will become refined when girls will demand of boys who wish to pay them attention the same purity of character that boys today demand from girls. Over the heads of the young ladiesof the land hang the possibilities of the greatest moral reform that ever swept over this