Milan

.Mr. G. E. Minto was home in Milán over Sunday. Mr. J. Spraguewent toAnn Arboi on business, Monday. Mr. A. C. Arner has returned te his home in Ridgeway. H. J. Zimrnerman has returned from liis Hudson visit. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Humphrey are at home to their friends. C. H. Wilson's mili yard is ful] to overílowing with logs and timber. Mrs. W'm. Needham, who has been very ill, is now convalescent. Mr. Hathaway, of Detroit, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. f. Burnap. Mr. Ross and Mr. Case are boarding on County Street, at Mrs. Woolcott's. Miss Lina Blinn is the guest of Mrs. C. M. Fuller for a few days this week. The meteor escapade of Tuesday evening is much talked of by people in this vicinity. Mrs. E. O. Leonard is entertaining her mother, Mrs. Potter, of New ,York, for a few weeks. There will be a series of club dances here. The dancing lessons have been abandoned. .Mr. Inp and faraily have moved into Alex. Smith's house, corner of Church and First street. ( More snow. The weatheris quite : moderate and the sleighs are out in large numbers with pleasure seekers. Mrs. Stimpson and Mrs. Hinkley took a fifteen mile sleighride, Tuesday, visiting Mrs. Stimpson's parents. Mr. L. G. Eddy, who has been clerk for W. H. Whitmarsh for the last seven years, is employed at J. L. Marble's as clerk. Rev. J. O. Heek wiil lead the young people's meeting at the Baptist church, Sunday evening, zejth, subject, "Bible Reading." Married, January 18, Mr. C. A. Taylor and Miss Bell Chase, both of Milan, at theresidence of the bride's mother, by Rev. G. E. Sloan. Mr. Harling Guy is running the tonsorial parlors alone, his brother Fred having left the business and moved onto the farm with his father, Oscar Guy. The I. O. O. F. and Daughters of Rebekah will have a public installation in the near future, and after the work of installing the officers is done, all will indulge in a fine supper. The doctors in this vicinity are weariig rather sickly smiles, it is so very healthy here, too healthy, and of course that means lean pocket books; but their harvest will come with green fruit. Saturday Mr. and Mrs. F. Alien, Misses Alice Bnd Ida Alle.n, Editor ■ Smith and wife, and Dr. Chapín and wife drove to Ypsilanti and spent a jolly evening with Prof. Stanley and wife. The house of Mrs. Harmon (whose husband was killed last summer on the Street sprinkler) caught fire and was nearly consumed by the flames. The engineer and firemen went to the rescue and saved some things, and the house wasnot totally destroyed. The fire started from a burning chimney. Mr. Chas. Paterson, who lias been employed at the Wabash depot for a few years, is out of work, also his brother Frank. They were asked to sign a contract agreeing not to strike for higher wages. All along the line where the operators refused their signatures to such an agreement, they have been deprived of their positions.