Dexter

A. D. Crane ís quite ill at tms writing. Lew Guest is spending a few days in Jackson. Mr. andMrs. Wheeler, of Putnum, spent Sunday here. Mrs. S. T. Morris is visiting her mother at Reading. Mrs. S. A. Cuningham, of Vicksburg, is visiting here. D. Lavey and cousin visited in Pinckney on Sunday. B. Hopkins entertained his brothers over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. A. Collins are at Concord for a few days. Mrs. Simpson visited her daughter in Jackson last week. Mrs. E. Howard is entertaining her brothers from Detroit. Mrs. George Hollis, of Jackson, is the guest of her parents. Miss Clara Haab is spending a few days at the White City. Tip Henry made a business trip to Pinckney on Wednesday. The Misses Ferris entertained friends the first of the week. A. B. Sears now has charge of the Dexter Undertaking Co. Mr. Schermerhorn, of Pinckney, Sundayed with friends here. Miss Kate McCabe entertained her friend two days last week. The Schiefersteins are having quite a tussle with the measles. A company of young men, from Ohio, are camping at the Portage. Miss Myrtie Reason and sister, of Pinckney, visited here on Monday. A. Taylor and W. Clay attended the races in Detroit on Wednesday. Miss Mate Cobb, of Putnam, visited friends here last Wednesday. Miss Clara Dolan entertained her friend several days .the past week. Mr. and Mrs. G. Wiltse are entertaining friends from Ann Arbor. Mr. McNeil and family entertamed friends from abroad on Sunday. Miss Martha French entertained a number of her friends on Sunday. Miss Maggie Armstrong, of Webster, spent Saturday with her aunt. Charles Crane and family, of Toledo, Ohio, are the guests of his father. Mrs. John Tuffs is enjoying a visit from her sister in Livingston County. Frank Sharpey, jr., has returned home after several months' stay at Otter Lake. Mr. and Mrs. F. Smith, of Pinckney, made us a pleasant cali last Wednesday. Miss Nellie Goodwin, of Ann Arbor, visited friends here the first of the week. John Costello, our new postmaster, took charge of his new work last Monday. Dr. Chase and wife are spending a few weeks viewing the sights at the World's Fair. Miss Josephine Costello and Miss Jo. Higgins are spending a few weeks in Chicago. Miss Hattie Keith has returned home after several days' stay in Mt. Clemens and Detroit. Mr. T. Sheehan and sister, Miss Etta, of Hamburg, visited their grandmother on Sunday. Miss Clara Arms, of Fayettaville, New York, has been spending a few days with relatives here. Miss Edith Waite, of Grand Rapids, is spending a few days with her many friends in this place. Mr. and Mrs. Schoen and children, of Detroit, are spending a few weeks with her brother here. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ayers, of Walkerville, Ont., were the guests of friends one day last week. Mrs. N. Hooker and daughter, of Pettysville, were guests of the Carpenters several days the past week. Miss Anna Gallagher and Miss Dora Wall started on Monday for Chicago, to visit the World's Fair. Fred Andrews, of Ann Arbor, accompanied by a number of his gentlemen friends, were at the lakes on Sunday, on their wheels. John Murdock was killed last Saturday afternoon while moving the safe from the postoffice to the Beal building. The door had been reached when the sidewalk gave away, letting Mr. Murdock through, and the safe feil on him, killing him almost instantly. He leaves an aged mother, two brothers and three sisters. The funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon.