County And Vicinity

COUNTY AND VICINITY.

Clinton's electric plant will soon be in operation.

The snow is about a foot and a half deep at South Lyon.

Saline apprehends an exodus of old residents next spring.

The United States army has a recruiting station at Adrian.

Chelsea's Congregationalists talk of building a new church.

St. Mary's church, Chelsea, will soon put in a new pipe organ.

Howell's meat markets will close at eight o'clock, evenings, until April.

The ladies' band of South Lyon give a concert in that place this evening.

A new church will be built in Britton, when they raise money enough.

Brighton had two cases of diphtheria last week, and the grip is also getting in its work.

The York singing school gives a musical entertainment at the York church this evening.

The city of Adrian is liable to be sued for cutting down trees in front of a suburban residence.

The teachers' associations of Lenawee and Hillsdale will meet in Hudson on the 11th inst.

The cutting of ice on Whitmore Lake will soon be finished, the ice houses being nearly all filled.

William Smith, of Saline, has sold his farm, and will soon remove with his family to Los Angeles, Cal.

The Pinckney masonic lodge has awakened from its lethargic sleep, proposes to make things jingle.

The proprietor of the Blissfield hotel is an ultra moral man, and not permit dancing in his hostelry.

There is considerable excitement around Saline, about the small-pox, and vaccine points are in great demand.

The people at Brighton are too healthy to suit Dr. Osman, a homeopathic physician, and he has moved to Pontiac.

Mrs. David Van Horn, of Pettysville, over 80 years of age, is seriously ill, and fears for her recovery are entertained.

Howell's condensed milk factory had a "pay day" January 14th and handed out $1,500 to the farmers of Livingston county.

Mrs. Wayne Sangree, of Moorville, who has been ill from typhoid fever, died last week from hemorrhage of the bowels.

"Romeo" and "Juliet" are the Shakespearean names by which Tecumseh's new water-works pumps have been christened.

The grocery firm of O. C. Werner, of Dundee, has failed. Their doors were closed on Saturday morning by a Detroit firm.

The Baptists of Dexter had a pleasant social last Friday evening, at the residence of George Peatt, in Webster, going out in sleighs.

A social dance will be given this evening in the Dexter opera house, for which elaborate preparations have been making for some time.

A recent bill introduced in the legislature is intended to prohibit balloon ascensions with a parachute attachment. It should become law. 

A discriminating Hillsdale chicken thief, in one of his recent raids, left a whole snag of roosters, helping himself only to the choicest pullets.

The county drain commissioners of the state will meet in Lansing next Tuesday, and it is expected that they will draft a new drain law.

The estate of Wm. Tubbs was sold at public auction, the sale taking place on the premises, one-fourth of a mile north of Delhi Mills, on Tuesday.

C. H. Wilson, of Milan, has purchased the planing mill and machinery appertaining thereto, of Andrus & Son, and will move the plant to his own grounds.

The Livingston county Farmers' club has arranged for one of the most successful institutes yet held in the county. It is to take place the latter part of February. Topics will be discussed by persons prepared to do them justice, and will be of interest to everyone in attendance.

The Mooreville school is making an effort, by giving entertainments, to raise money for the purchase of an organ. Here's wishing them abundant success,

John Gorman was released from the prison at Ionia a short time ago. Last Saturday night he broke into a Manchester saloon and is again in the clutches of the law.

The Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor of the Webster Congregational church gave an oyster supper at the home of Wooster Blodgett last Friday evening.

A representative of the Brundy gold cure went to Coldwater, the other day, to reclaim drunkards. Having a tidal wave of local option there, they had no use for him.

A farmer's wife in an adjoining county has so far this winter threshed out 75 bushels of oats with a flail, besides attending to her household duties. She is seventy-five years old.

Mary White, Stockbridge's sleeping girl, continues to slumber. She las not awakened of herself since June 16, 1891. When awakened, however, her mind is perfectly clear and bright.

The fine residence of John Huss, in Pittsfield, had a narrow escape from destruction by fire, Monday night. It was considerably damaged. The fire caught from a defective chimney.

Last year the Hudson cheese factory, from March 14th to December 1st, received 1,920,188 pounds of milk, manufactured 187,023 pounds of cheese, and the gross sales amounted to $17,139.02.

D. F. Smith, proprietor of the Clifton House at Whitmore Lake, will give a social party at the hotel, on the evening of the 10th inst. Music will be furnished by the Whitmore Lake orchestra.