Sharon

Christian Oberschmid has sold his farm to H. H. Oberschmid, and will move to Manchester village, The neighbors of widow Schmitt made her heart glad, last week, by the donation of a bounteous wood pile. Alfred C. Smyth and Francis W. Smith have filled their ice houses with frozen cubes of the river Raisin. A daughter of Caspar AVinter has been sick for some months. Dr. Schmidt, of Chelsea attends her. She is recovering. Mrs. George Smyth and her child are still at the hospital in Ann Arbor. They are expected home this week. It is hoped .the surgical operation on the child will prove uccessful. Samuel H. Smith has a novel wind machine at his residence. It is made of galvanized steel, derrick and all. No wood about it except the platform. Nate Schmid says it can be used as a lightning rod during thunder-storms. Rumored that John C. Schmid, of Ann Arbor, who owns the Paint Brook farm, will re-open the paint mines on the place early in the spring. The ochres (red and yellow) are abundant. An amusing incident is re-oalled in connection with the discovery of the paint. Some thirty-five or forty years ago. Uncle John Townsend (he was uncle to everybody) while hunting for more paint, uncovered a fine bed of marl. He started on a run for his ouse, shouting for his oldest son t the top of his voice, "George! ïeorge! By ■ I have found a ed of white lead ready ground in il."