County And Vicinity

Manchester has two ice cream parlors. Scarlet fever has appeared in Bunker Hill. The Manchester bank has $72,050.89 deposits. Stockbridge will hold its fair in October this year, as usual. A steel roof will be put upon the Manchester school building. John Tracy, of Manchester, lost four sheep, last week, by dogs O. C. Gregory will build a handsome residence in Dexter village. Clinton citizens are having electric lights put in their residences. Peter Knight, of Bridgewater, is building a three story carriage house. Joy, of Stockbridge, has purchased 104,000 pounds of wool this year. Henry Linde died in Sharon, July 25, of consumption, aged 25 years. Volney Davenport, of York, harvested 135 bushels of wheat f rom four acres. Joseph Linden's new barn in Bridgewater is finished in time for the big crops. A Germán school has been started by Rev. C. Haag in Chelsea, meeting two days a week. Milton Davenport, the new postmaster of York, has put in a new outfit of boxes, etc.' Andrew Shaler, says the Milan Leader, raised 165 bushels of wheat off three acres of ground. John H. Hoffman, who died in Waterloo, July 21, aged ninety-one years, left 77 descendants. A son of Rudolph Krause, of Sylvan, dislocated an elbow last week by falling from a horse. Runaways are not confined to townswith street railways. Chelsea had three in one day recently. Miss Ella Yackley, of Ypsilanti, had her hands badly burned recently by the explosión of a gasoline stove. H. S. Holmes is moderator of the Chelsea schools and J. Bacon director. Fred Vogel has just been appointed trustee. The Germán Lutheran Sunday schools of Chelsea and Francisco held a jolly picnic at Cavanaugh Lake, Wednesday. Mrs. Jacob Luckhardt, of Bridgewater, found a cellar door open the other day and the contents of a barrel of pork missing. The thief had considerately left the barrel and the brine. John Greening, of Chelsea, is minus a good watch. It is somewhere out in the huckleberry marsh waiting for John's hand to wind it again The Woman's Political Club in Ypsilanti is officered as follows President, Mrs. L. L. Bogue; secretary, Mrs. C. L. Stevens; treasurer, Mrs. E. Samson. The Maccabees of Chelsea, Manchester, Dexter, Grass Lake, Stockbridge, Gregory, Munith and Pinckney hold a unión üicnic at Cavanaugh Lake next Wednesday. The ladies of Chelsea were addressed on Municipal Suffrage by Mrs. A. W. Bassett, yesterday. It is rather early for stump speeches, but the ladies haven't had the ballot long. Justice J. V. N. Gregory, of Dexter, had Lewis Preston appear before him to answer to the charge of being drunk, an offense against the dignity of the people of the state ol Michigan. He collected a fine 01 $5 and costs from Preston. Two Japanese girls and two boys of the same nationality spoke at Randolph Cook's grove, Sharon, last Sunday. A large crowd was present, and a collection of $19.11 was taken up for the orientáis. The money will be used in defraying their expenses at school in Ann Arbor. - Grass Lake News. W. H. Rogers has a knife in his boot, so to speak, for the rascal who entered his house by unlocking the kitchen door, about one o'clock las Saturday morning, and sneaked about ten dollars out of his trousers pocket. He took the garment from Mr. Rogers' bedroom into the kit chen, where he rifled it and made off with the contents before the fam ily was thoroughly aroused and real ized that someone was in the house The thief left no clew, but Mr. R thinks his money went in the same direction as Stannard's stolen shoes - Dexter News. A girl over at Brighton tried to ride a bicycle the other day. After she got out in the country a couple of miles her dress caught in the gearing of the frisky machine. The girl couldn't do a thing. It took all her strength to manage to get off the machine. After a while a young man came along. . He couldn't free the girl without tearing the dress into shreeds, and this she didn't want. The young man picked up wheel, girl and all; and carried them'to the side of the road, and sent to town for a wrench. When it arrived the machine was taken apart, and she went home. - Chelsea Herald. Committees of St. Mary's parish are very busily engaged in making arrangements for their first annual picnic at North Lake, on Tuesday, August 15, 1893. Mr. Louis Burg, of Liverpool, Ohio, the famous comic singer, who is so well known to Chelsea people as a fine artist, has promised to come. Negotiations are now pending for some good speakers, and there is a good probability that Col. John Atkinson, Rev. Dr. Reilly, of Detroit), Hon. T. E. Barkworth, of Jackson, and Hon. C. R. Whitman, of Ann Arbor, will be present and address the crowd. Singing will be an important feature of the picnic. - Chelsea Herald. Our beloved contemporary, the Argus stated in its last week's issue that Dexter is so proud of its new clerk that the Dexter Leader takes a column to talk about it. It's true that our people are proud of Mr. Barley, but this is the first space occupied by the Leader in talking about it. There's nothing new about Barley either, for he's an old timer, a good democrat, a lover of good literature, henee a devoted reader of the Argus. All this is, of course, to his credit; and this, too, is a kind of an "Old Uncle Josh" mode of advertising him in less space than a column. He is a true, honored member of the grand old democratie party. - Dexter Leader. John Croarkin, Alfred Lavey and John Costello feil into a reminiscent mood last Monday morning ás they met at the postoffice, and recited scènes of over forty years ago, when in each other's company they sailed for California. A fue on shipboard in mid-ocean was vividly recalled, and Alfred Lavey's attempt to cut a chain with his jackknife on which buckets were strung. When on their way from Sacramento into the mountains, with a limited supply of provisions, John Costello let the bag containing the eatables fall into a stream which they were crossing, causing almost as much fright as the fire in mid-ocean. It takes Reuben Queal, though, to teil some of the funny scènes of California life in the early 5o's, especially the hotel scène with lohn Croarkin anc Phil