County And Vicinity
Milán is threatened with a coal famine. i There are several cases of diphtheria in öakville. A hive of Ladies of the Maccabees is being organized in Chelsea. Hugh McKenzie, a Monroe county pioneer, aged 97 years, died last week. Mrs. Jerry Harrington, of Whittaker, has been allowed a widow's pension. Two Francisco hunters reeently killed 148 rabbits and sold them at 18c a pair. F. P. Elliott, manager of the Ypsilanti Paper Company's business in Chicago, is dead. Wood is selling at Dexter, this winter, nearly one dollar higher per cord than ever before. The two Ypsilanti masonic lodges have under consideration the advisability of consolidating. An orchestra containing the best musicians in the town, will soon be organized in Tecumseh. The Glazier Oil Stove Company, of Chelsea, are having a drive well put down at their factory. Sidney Lambkin, of Öakville, is suffering from a wound received from the horn of a catfish. Adrián is almost swamped by traraps, who seem to been route béxween Toledo and Chicago. Rev. S. T. Morris, of Dexter, has declined a flattering cali to the pastorate of a church in Toledo. James Richards, of Francisco, reoently sold a two-year-old colt to Whitmore Lake parties for #175. The Chelsea Congregationalists have actually increased the salary of their pastor one hundred dollars. William Bertke, of Sharon, has sold 121 acres of land six miles south of Milwaukee for $125 per acre. The I. O. G. T., of Dexter, are raising raoney to defray the expenses of a candidate for the Keeley cure. Whole trains passed through Grass Lake nearly every day last week, loaded with ice from Ann Arbor. The scarlet fever epidemie at Tecumseh has died out, says the News, and the schools were reopened on Monday. The young ladies of the Catholic church, Ypsilanti, are raising money to furnish Fr. Kennedy's rooms in the manse. The wells seem to have become dry at Maybee, as from sixty to ninety kegs of beer are now sold there every week. A St. Bernard dog delonging to L. Tichenor, of Chelsea, took first prize in his class at the bench show in Detroit last week. St. John's congregation, of Ypsilanti, have presented their pastor, Rev. Fr. Kennedy, with a horse, carriage and harness. Ice fourteen inches thick was cut in Dexter last week. On account of the extreme cold cutting had to be suspended for a few days. The North Sharon society have a new minister who isa great favorite, a new carpet for the rostrum, and a new chair for the organist. The Adrián Press states that a blacksmith shop has been opened in the Milan rink,and that skates will be repaired between performances. Mark S. Crane, of Chicago, was in Ypsilanti last week, superintending the erection of a monument oveg the grave of the late Thomas Ninde. There were eighteen interments in the Saline cemetery in the past year, which was exactly the same number that were buried there in 1891. The Adrián Press says the epidemie of marriages in Milan indicates that the ravages of love in that community have outdone even hog cholera. The residence of Mrs. Fannie Watkins, near Grass Lake, was destroyed by fire last week. It was valued at $4,500, and was insured for $300. J. E. Eagen, who for the past two years has acceptably filled the position of preceptor in the Dexter high school, has resigned, and gone into the retail boot and shoe business in Grand Rapids. Dexter is sorry to lose him. Rev. Fr. Fleming, of St. Joseph' church, Dexter, assisted in the ob servance of forty hours' devotion which began in St. Mary's church Chelsea, last Sunday. Petersbugh persiátently prays fo a pickle factory and present pros pects point to one probably being put in position there. That sou opinión, anyway. - Adrián Press. That the business men of Man chester do not think advertising in business directories pays was showi recently by their refusal to contrac for any advertising space in Polk' state gazetteer. The architect who conceived the idea of using shelves instead o: hooks for wraps in the Chelsea schools ought to become a member of some asylum for the weak-minded says the Standard. Mrs. Judah Fisk, living near Unadilla, recently attempted suicide by taking paris green, but prompt medical attention saved her life. She has been mentally deranged, at times, for some years. Sixty barrels ofciderwere shipped into Chelsea last week and distributed among the farmers. W.hat's the matter with the poor fellows - winter too cold, blood want tonic, or is it for vinegar? - Saline Observer. Miss Eugenie Sharpe, who has for several years served Ypsilanti people at the telephone, has given up he position and returned to her home in Ann Arbor. Ben. Gardiner, late of Manchester, takes her place. - Sentinel. The cold snap seems to have paralyzed the hands of the correspondence of the Chelsea Standard, last week, as nothing has been heard from them. The correspondents of the Argus, on the contrary, are frost proof. At the last meeting of the Farmer's social club, of Tecumseh, I. E. Schroder read a paper on "partnership between husband and wife. " So far as we have observed the husband is usually the silent partner. - Adrián Press. Munith, a hamlet containing fifty houses, is reported to have seventeen candidates for the office of postmaster. Fine chance to make a jood selection. There will be just about sixteen disappointed, as near as we can figure it. There seems of late to be quite a cali for y?ung Jersey stock. No matter how young, if only a few days they are ia demand, yet the price offered does not get them. Jerseys you know cannot be bought for a song, even tbough they are but infants. - Saline Observer. Last week Wednesday being the 74th birthday of Mrs. Claudius Mansfield, living in the south part of the township of Bridgewater, some 12 or 15 neighbors came in with teams and axes, drew up and split enough wood to last her the rest of the winter. - Manchester Enterprise. Ann Arbor consumed 319,325,595 gallons of water last year. It was not all used for drinking purposes, however. In fact because of vegetable and animal lifesaid to be in it, many have resorted to beer. But Ann Arbor's growth is also attested in the necessary doubling of its brewing capacity, now being made. - Ypsilanti Sentinel. A short time ago, Miss Jane Harrington, of Whittaker, married a man in London, but immediately found that she did not like him, and is now at home again with her mother. As it is not stated what became of the man, we presume he took the matter philosophically and continúes doing business at the old stand as though nothing unusual had happened. The Marsh family, of Saline, seem to be faring pretty well at the hands of the public these days. Mrs. Marsh is postmistress at Saline, Mr. Marsh is holding down a position in the auditor general's office at Lansing, and the only child of the family isa messenger in the senate. It is lucky for the rest of the office-seeking fraternity that this family is no larger than it is. - Chelsea Standard. One of Chelsea's young men, who tías been going to see the girls long enough to know that when he hears the old gentleman up-stairs drop first one boot on the floor and then the other, it is time to go home, made a cali last week at a new place for'the second time, and finding it pleasant stayed pretty late. About 11 o'clock he heard a suspicious movement on the floor above and became intent. "It's only papa," said the girl. He had never met her papa, and her statement conveyed to him only a vague information. Just then he heard three familiar thumps on the floor and he jumped up suddenly. "Great Scott!" he exclaimed in surprise, "is your father a three legged man?" and before she could reply intelligently he was gone and had taken the old gent's hat in his haste. Future developments are anxiously waited for by those of his friends who are "on."- Chelsea Standard. Darwin D. Cook, one of the oldest settlers in Salem, died on the 5H1 of January. He was born in New York state, March 12, 1823, and was therefore in the 7oth year of his age. He settled in Salem in 1835. I l852 he married Eliza Murray,. who survives him. They had five children, four of whorn are living, and were present when he died. Mr. Cook was a soldier in the Mexican war. He was a good citizen, respected by all who knew him, and was for five years a deacon of the Congregational church. Rev. Gulick, of Macon, lately read a paper before one of the literary clubs, on the subject of alcohol. Some temperance Republican had tried to justify his vote by arguing with the eider that the human system needed alcohol. Mr. Gulick undertook to say that alcohol meant death,not life. That it was the product of rot and fermentation, and that it did not existin a single living thing. Perhaps he is right, but when it is properly compounded, we notice that it exists in considerable quantities in some living "things." In fact, we have seen so much of it aboard of some persons, that they fairly staggered under it, yet they
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Ann Arbor Argus
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