North Lake

This has been a favorable winter for bees. E. J3. Whalain chives a fine pair of iron-gray colts. R. S. Whalain is running the butpher business a little now. Bunker, the ment peddler, bas gone home to Munith for a visit. C. W. Watts wants to buy a young horse. weight about 1,200 pounds. .Mis. Fred Glenn caught some nice perch in the lake here, Saturday last. A large riock of wild geese flevv over here, Saturday, looking for open water to soak their f eet in. The roads are about as bad as they have been this winter. In some places the frost is out of the ground. Little Blanche M. Glenn, now visitiüg at her grandrnother's, has pieced a eradle quilt of nine blocks. She is a little less than seven years old. Your scribe had the misfortune to break another toe, this making the second toe on the same foot. as it is only about a year ago that he broke his great big toe. Quite a numbei' of the farmers about here have hired men for the sumnier at a little reduction from last summer's high prices. Now is the time to rinse out the pig troughs and place them under the maple trees, preparatory to sap gathering and sngar niaking. Thursday of this week John Palmer, E. S. Armstrong, and S. Guering and brolher fished here, catching a large number of perch and about a dozen fine pickerel. C. W. Watts is moving his effects to his nevv farm. near Dansville, Ingham county. He has a íine sugar busli on the farm, and will try his skill at sugar making this spring. Geo. Cook arrived in Chelsea, Saturday evening, from Detroit, where he had spent a few weeks with nephews and nieces MeCormick. Mr. MeCormick is manager of the McAlpine shoe factory at Highland Park. Mrs. Smith, living here, will be 88 years old next week. She is a sister of George Cook, the only ones Jeft of a large family. Mrs. S. has lived with your scribe's family nearly two years, and in this time has pieced several tidies and three or tour silk quilts of beautiful and difflcult patterns and designs, besides keeping her own and her brother's wardrobe in order, besides almost innumerable other pieees. of . needlework. In all the time she has never missed a meal, and with one or two exceptions taking them at the table with the family. She seems to enjoy life as well as the average young person; walks as spry as a miss of twenty; is now engaged on quilts and tidies for the fall fairs, at which she took first premiums last season. She does not go about worrying herself and others about dying, but rather is interesting herself in right living, think ing that as good a preparation for death as any she can make. She is about to join the M. E. church here, as it is too far to any of the churches of the denomination of which she has been a lif e-long member, the Presbyterian. She loves to teil of things away back in the past that sounds like ancient history to the young of today.