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County And Vicinity

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
June
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
Obituary
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Tranips are numerous about Nora. R. Salsbury, of Nora, is building a barn. Lewis Yager is tiling his farm iu Lima very extensively. There have been 32 births in Sylvan during the past year. The great matinee at the new track ia Saline occurs tomorrow. The president of Dexter is after those fellows who disturb public meetings. The Antcliffe estáte has been amicably settled and the lawyers have lost a fat case. The supervisor of Manchester found 33 births and 35 deaths in the township in 1892. Mrs. Esther McDermont died in Sylvan May z, aged 99 years. She carne to Michigan in 1842. The Methodists of Manchester raised $1,800 last week towards a building fund to erect a new church in Manchester. Mrs. Joseph Collins, of Lyndon, recently had the top of her carriage toVn off by the limb of a tree and her arm broken. The graduates of the Saline high school are admited to the Ypsilanti Normal without examination, and given credit for work done at the high school. Will Gage, who lives about six miles east of Grass Lake, while driving hither on Sunday afternoon, lost control of his horse, which ran away. His skeleton wagon was wrecked, and he was spilled out with his heels and head all mixed up. Will 's horse got frightened by a bicycle. He was forced to walk home. - Grass Lake News. Ira Powell, of Francisco, has a calf eight months old which has begun to give milk, and is milked daily. The mother of this calf, when 13 months old, and 18 months before she "came in," gave milk, yielding after a while nine quarts to a milking. She has ever since been a continuous milker. She is helf Holstein and part Durham, but her calf, first mentioned is half Jersey. - Grass Lake News. One of our Grass Lake delegations to Chicago returned last Tuesday afternoon. lts component parts were glad to once more enter upon the peace and tranquility of their homes, all being fatigued from the continual sight-seeing at the big fair. One of the gentlemen, in answer to a query as to the expense of such a trip, replied that it cost him but $105 for three persons. This included board, car fare, etc. - Grass Lake News. Mat Blosser, of the Manchester Enterprise, is an all-round good man. He loves his country, and would sooner go without his morning meal than omit family worship But he has one weakness. He never likes to be in the rear on a fish story. Here is something he ground out last week: "The latest fish story, but a true one, is that Jake Kensler saw a large pickerel swimming in the pond near Behfuss' ice house, and picking up a stone hit it on the head, stunning it so that it swam around and finally went over the dam, when Fred Werner jumped into the water up to his arm-pits, caught the fish, and brought it to shore." - Grass Lake News. You know Charley Slimmer, don't you - the Centrál's agent at Delhi? Well, he s got a big heart under his wes'coat, but he's slower than molasses in winter. Here carne a congratulatory letter last Saturday on an event that occurred last New Year's evening. He writes: "I enclose you one year's subscription to The News. I told Wm. Mallon to give you my heartiest congratulalations on your marriage at the time you committed the act, and instructed him to collect the usual 25 cent cigar fee and take a smoke. I supposed he did it; but if not, please accept rny best wishes now. May your life be a long and happy one, and may success be yours." Thanks! But this letter should have come before. Will Mallon made no report, and we were terribly cast down at what we thought Slim'sindifference. But now all is lovely, except that the 25c we sa ved for weeks to buy nicotine with which to gladden his heart, we let slide two months ago for salt to put on our potatoes, as butter was out of our reach.