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Parsons & Hobart, of Grass Lake, shipped a carload of lambs to Buffalo, N. Y. , last week. In Ann Arbor the butchers think themselves in luck if each of them can procure two three lambs a week, and have to sell them at a figure away beyond the reach of anybody classed below the limit of quartermillionaires. Mrs. Robert Boyd died at her home in Lima on the 28thof January. She was born in Senaca county, N. Y., in 1837, and came to Lima in 1851. She was married to Mr. Boyd in 1854. She was highly esteemed in the community in which she lived, and was a true friend and helper in time of sicknessor trouble among her neighbors. No more cases of small-pox are reported from. Pittsfield, and Saline will get out of it altogether. Mr. Parsons, of Saline, writes us that the girl who came down with the disease in the Germán school, was taken home before her condition could have transmitted it to others. There were about thirty pupils in the Germán school. - Milan Leader. C. W. Sanford has furnished us some figures concerning his last year',s business from which we find there was made at his creamery 116.000 pounds of butter, which was sold to Buffalo parties; 8,252 gallons of buttermilk were sold in Adrián and Jackson. He uses the gathered cream system and is now making 2,000 pounds of butter per week. What cr(eamery can make a better showing for a town of this size? He also bought and sold 25,000 dozen esgs. - Manchester Enterprise. borne scallawag is getting himselt into trouble by meddling with freight trains standing in the Wabash yards. Several times lately, when trains attempted, to pull out, it was fourid that the coupling pins had been removed in two or three places. Only a few days ago a freight received orders to run to Willis ahead of a passenger train, but were so delayed by this nuisance that they had to back up on a side track and let the passenger out ahead, thus losing at least an hour's time. - Milan Leader. Charles Kent is at the Detroit house of correction serving out a ninety days sentence dealt out to him in Justice Chestnut's court, Saturday. .ccording to his own admission, Kent is the thief who has been playing hob with the poultry roosts of this vicinity for sonie time. He sold $47 worth of poultry at Reading a few days ago, including eight turkeys which were identified as the property of Wm. Norris. This led to his arrest and plea of guilty underMr. Norris's complaint. - Hillsdale Democrat. For many years the farmers of Bridgewater have feit the need of a good road running west to this village from the road running past the old VanHorn farm, but have been unable until now to get the right of way through. They were compelled o travel about four miles when if a road was cut through to the Gutn)er farm in Solesville it would be ess than two miles to town. Now he road has been surveyed and will )e opened. - Manchester Enterprise. The Ann Arbor Argus thinks that Manchester would be benefitted by a railroad running half way between his village and Clinton. We can't see it that way. Manchester would be even better off if the Vpsi branch had never been built, but the road was to be built and was to have gone by the way of Clinton. We knew that would kill us sure, so we went to work and got them to build it through here. If another road be built south of the village, a new station will be established which will make a competing market and shipping point, and a percentage of the business of this village will be delivered to it. - Manchester Enterprise. Perhaps some of our Ann Arbor and Detroit exchanges thought tbey were doing our village a kindness last week, in firing into the smallpox scare as they did, but we fail to see it in that way. The disease itself is bad enough without making it any worse than it really is, by exaggerating the matter as did the Evening News and two of our connty brothers, who state emphatically that there were fourteen cases, all very bad, when at that time there were but three and one of those slight, and as for (as is statcd) their being near Saline, we think we are about as far from the death-stricken hovel as is our sister city, which, only last Saturday, permitted one of the fanüly where the disease is raging to go to and around her streets and stores and no one offered any objections. Neither did the now dead girl come down with the disease in our school, as was stated. - Saline Observer. Justice Owen'scourt was engaged last week Tuesday in the trial of a suit between Frank Buck and Adelbert Libby, Milan township parties. The suit was brought to collect pay for work performed upon an uncompleted contract, Buck contracted to erect a barn for Libby for a certain price; when the frame was in readiness for raising, a.hitch between the parties wasencountered, Buck claiming that it was Libby's duty to provide the necessary help to raise the frame, according to usual custom. ön that rock the sarties split and Buck abandoned :he job. On the trial it was shown by several buiklers that the usual custom was that owners and not the contractors provided the necessary help to raise the frame, and the ustice awarded Buck judgmentfor he amount of his claim for porfion of work performed, together with $10 costs. It is said that the case will be appealed to the circuit court. - Dundee Reporter. Hon. Geo. A. Smith, who has been 11 for a long time at his home in Somerset, died Sunday afternoon, ianuary 29. Mr. Smith was born n Danbury, Conn., March 8, 1825. At an early age he removed with his jarents to this county, where he has since lived and where the family are well and favorably known. Deceased was one of the most extensive farmers and stock raisers of this section, owning over 1,000 acres of land, mostly undef cultivation. He operated a grain elevator at Somerset, and bought largely of general produce. He was also interested in a store of general merchandise and a flowering mili at Addison. For twenty years he was postmaster at Somerset. At one time he was president of the county agricultural' society. In he was elected to the Michigan legislature by the republicans of this district, and in later years he served two terms as state senator for .the district comprising Hillsdale and Branch counties. Mr. Smith had twice been rnarried and was .the father of eight children. - Hillsdale Democrat. Many farmers are foohshly cutting iway all the timber on their farms. They justify the act on the ground :hat it is cheaper to burn coal than vood and that a very few acres of voodland when cleared and put into :ultivation will produce crops which will sell for more than enough to supply them with fuel. This may je all very true now but it will hot ilways remain so and besides they ought to take a deeper and broader view of the subject. A farmer needs timber for fencing and for hundreds of different purposes about the place. A good piece of'timber adds greatly to the general attractiveness and value of every farm, and in the course of a few years, farmers who have cut away all their timber will find themselves at the mercy of the trusts, combines,' andgraspingmonopolies of coal mine owners and dealers and wire fence manufacturers they will wish they had kept sorne of their land in timber. The cutting away of all the timber gives the wind a greater sweep and has a great influence on the climate, producing drought and irregular rainfall, and all sorts of sudden and extreme changes in the weather. There is no telling to what extent the evil will be to the people of this state when the timber is all gone.