County And Vicinity

s The Saline Driving Club has , ganized. t The supervisors have generally s finished their assessments. 1 Aunt Polly Brewster, of Willis, is : in her ninety-seventh year. Frank Munger, of VVhitmore Lake, ' ran a rusty nail into his foot. The liquor bonds at South Lyon this year were placed at $6,000. The Congregational church of Ypsilanti will build a $3,000 house. ( The Manchester Catholics have just cleared $120 by an entertainment. Supervisor William D. Osborn, of Sharon, has just sold 311 sheep for $1,900. Henry Leeson has built a good ; sized barn on his farm near , chester. As 'yet no lodge of the Sons of ■ Veterans has been organized at Manchester. Eugene Galligan, of Emory, had , his leg crushed between two logs, ' recently. Grass Lake has her street lamps lighted and the "glim doused" for , $90 a year. Levi Rathbun died in Salem April , 27, leaving a wife, one son and three daughters. Dr. McLachlan, of Mooreviile, lost a fine three-year-old colt last ' week. It cast itself in its stall. Saline will spend $800 on its streets this year, but this will require only $300 village tax. Saline village has refused to pay Mary D. Baty $70 for injuries received on a defective sidewalk. John Grossman sr. died in Manchester, April 29, of oíd age, having reached the age of eighty-one years. Manchester has been in darkness for a few nights, owing to the breaking of a wheel at their electric light works. Herman Marsh, of Waterloo township, has just been divorced from his sixth wife. He is seventy-nine years old. Plymouth is having a $10,000 house and a $3,000 barn built, to repair part of the damages of the recent fire. The appointive officers in Saline are asfollows: F. E. Jones, attorney; Dr. Chandler, health officer; F. Jerry, marshal. There was no application for relief at the meeting of the county soldiers' relief commision in Manchester, last week. Mrs. William White, of Ypsilanti, was severly burned last week, while cleaning paint from her husband's overalls, with gasoline. The Ypsilanti school board has re elected Mr. Whitney superintenden and the fight will be carried into the next school election. William Deubel and Philo Ferrier of Ypsilanti, were at Orr's lake fish ing, Monday, with all the porapher nalia of modern sportsmen. N. Schmid, Fred KKurfess Tanc N. Senger represent Manchester a the meeting of the Workingmen' society in Jackson, June!r4. 1 Grass Lake has organized a fire company. The items in the New are so lurid that it was deemed pru dent to be prepared for emergencies Clarence Green, a rnember of the Normal school ball team, was struck on the cheek by a baseball, Saturday, and was unconscious for an hour. Mrs. Guerdon Sines, who was so terribly burned by a gasoline explosión in Ypsilanti, the afternoon of the cyclone, is beyond hope of recovery. Toseph Base is now keeping the hotel at Whittaker. No base puns must be made on his name by the Adrián Press punster or something will drop. Ypsilanti has a cooking club of eight years standing. Possibly that accounts for the number of young men who make frequent pilgrimages to Ypsilanti. The dispenser of justice at Plymouth had his sign painted "Justice of the Piece." He objected to this limiting of his jurisdiction and remarked that he was the justice of the whole of Plymouth. AVork beginsin the Clinton woolen mili at 6:15 a. m. and closes at 6:15 p. m. with an hour for nooning. In this way eleven hours work a day is secured. On Saturdays they work seven and a half hours. A lodge known as Manchester chapter order of Eastern Star has been organized in Manchester, officered as follovs: W. M., Mrs. Fred Spafard; W. P., Mr. Frank Spafard; A. M., Mrs. F. E. Orttenburger; conductor, Miss Julia Conklin; ass't conductor, Mrs. E. M. Conklin; sec, Mrs. J. F. Spafard; treas..Mrs. C. J. Robison; chap., Mrs. Frank Spafard; org., Mrs. A. F. Freeman; Ada, Mrs. T. L. Iddings; Ruth, Mrs. T. J. Farrell; Esther, Mrs. E. E. Root; Martha, Mrs. M. D. Blosser; Electa, Mrs. E. S. Janes; Warder, Mrs. T. D. Barley. The Saline Observer man is in reat luck. Hear him: "Large eggs ! seem to predomínate this spring and we now have on our desk, handed us as follows: Mrs. W. H. Sweet, size 64 x 84 inches; C. M. Fellows, 6x8; Miss Nellie Isbell, 64 x iy2; Henry Boettger, 6x734. '__ Owing.to the fact that thecouncil was a tie, the Ypsilanti city appointments were evenly divided: J. P. Kirk is city attorney; Zina Buck, marshal; H. Batchelder, street commissioner; R. W. Hemphill, treasurer; Dr. Pattison, health officer; John Terns, president of the council. The following are the teachers in Bridgewater township: No. 3, Clara Bush, of Clinton; No. 5, Florence Merriman; No. 6, Emma Koffberger; No. 7, Otilia Becker of Bridgewater; No. 8, Ida Pilbeam, of Tecumseh; No. 9, Kitty VanTuyle; No. 2, fract., Jennie Beckwith, of Clinton; No. 4, fract.; Nettie Rowe, of Sharon. The Herald says the Baptist society of Chelsea have bought a sewing machine and shipped it to Constantinople, Turkey, where the missionaries will use it to repair the duds of the benighted Turks. It is singular how benevolence lóoks abroad for fields inwhich to expend its energies to the neglect of the needy at home. Just look at this Chelsea move. The Turks must be cared for, when it is notorious that three-quarters of the unmentionbles on duty in our sister town are o badly worn out at the elbow that rom them wave white flags of disress. - Grass Lake News. Two of our jolly old farmers of he vicinity of York, one living near Jrania, the other further east, a hort time since took it into their ïeads to take a pleasure and prosecting trip kito the southern part of our Union, Delhi, Louisiana, jeing the main object of their eager eyes. The trip was planned very j nicely, and we believe much enoyed, though somewhat expensive at times, yet we are often told that joughten experience is good if not jought too dear. As they were nearing the extreme of their journey and approaching a certain city, they supposed it would be necessary fo change roads, and as soon as the train stopped they applied to a hackman to transfer them to the depot where they could take the train and continue their journey. The honest hackman at once took in the situation (knovving them to be strangers andunacquainted with the place) and told them he would carry them, they stepped into the carriage and weresoon rolling away. The boys took a good long ride through some of the principal streets of the town and so on to the station. The driver, who is one of those generous, open hearted kind, informed them that his charge was only $$ each, which they thought a little high, yet considering the long distance, paid it, thinking possibly it might not be not much out of the way. After settling with the driver they were taken completely off their footing when they found themselves landed at the same depot they had gonefrom but a half hour preVious. On their return we doubt their