County And Vicinity

Scio raises $400 for its poor fund this year. A Methodist church will be built at Deer Creek. The Dexter marshal is busy repairing sidewalks. The Follett house in Ypsilanti is to be sold at auction. D. F. Reeves, of Saline is building an addition to his house. The Follett House in Ypsilanti will be sold at auction today. The Saline school piano has been treated to a new dress of wires. H. P. Glover, of Ypsilanti, will build a new store building in that city. M. T. Woodruff is chairman of the Ypsilanti democratie city cornmittee. A lodge of Elks is to be started at raembers. George Huss and Miss Mary Visel, of Saline, were married last Thursday. Arthur Lyons, on the Ann Arbor and Dexter road, has just built a very large barn. Large flocks of wild geese have been flying over the county. The sportsmen missed them. Mrs. Charles Hewett, of Dexter, was found dead in her bed last week, after a long illness. Charles E. Coy, of Dexter, has removed to Jackson and gone into the grocery business there. Percival Murphy, one of the oldest colored residents of Ypsilanti, died last Thursday evening. Charles Gooding and Miss Flora Suddaby were .married March 30 and have gone to housekeeping in York. John Sloan, a respected resident of Dexter, was found dead in his bed on Thursday morning of last week. He had gone to bed in apparently his usual health. While fixing a gas pipe in the Occidental hotel, Ypsilanti, Philip Duffy, an employee, struck a match and was thrown some distance by the explosión which followed. Miss Anna M. Klein and Fred G. Woelper were married in Saline, Wednesday of last week in the presence of numerous friends. They left on a trip to Pennsylvania and X:'w Jersey. John Twamley, died at North Lake, April 2, aged eightv-four years. He purchased the land on which he died from the government. Two children survive him, Henry Twamley, of Xorth Lake, and Mrs. Charles Parshall, of Ann Arbor town. The town officers elected in Saline last week are: Supervisor, Edward DePuy; clerk, D. Sears; treasurer, G. J. Nissly; justices, M. Webb and Fred Koebbe, highway commissioner, John Lutz; school inspector, D. A. Townsend; board of review, A. J. Warren. James McMullen's son Thurlow met with a serious accident last Friday while at school. He ánd Edgar Forsythe were wrestling, when Thurlow caught his leg in such a way that the other boy feil on it, breaking the bone above the ankle and dislocating the ankle joint. Dr. McLachlan was called in and reduced the fracture and set the dislocation, and he is now doing well.