County And Vicinity

Gregüiy wants a hardware store. The Saline streets have been scraped. The winter term oi' school in Saline is over. Have you cut out your coupons in the Argus? The Argus three months, 'M papers, 25 cents. Stockbridge contaius, alf told, just 139 votes. The Adventists of Willis are exceedingly active. Fishing in the Saline river amuses the small boy. Saline township democratie caucus next Saturday. Levi Freeman is back on his farm in Ypsilanti town. The Grass Lake cieamery supports a new steel roof. W. H. Sweet has removed f rom Saline to Clinton. Eli Ward, of Chelsea, lias moved on a farm in Sharon. The miimps has the Matichesteriles in lts clutclies yet. Gottlob lienz, ot Webster, has built a large sheep bain. Mumps causes swollen neeks in the Sylvan Center school. Rev. and Mis. C. Haag, of Chelsea, bave a little daughter. James Gibney, of Unadilla, is settiDg out a new orchard. lían Ilitchingham has fiuished lumbar sawing in Bridgewater, William Burtless is shipping sheep from Manchester to Buffalo. Salem people will change residences to a large excent this spring. Two wild geese were shot by Frank Phelps, of Dexter, last week. Sixteen were conürmed at St. Paui's cfeurch in (Jhelsea last Sunday. ïhe AVebster republicans nomínate tlieir town ticket on Thursday. Walter Lanouse has moved on the George A. Shaw farm in Saline. The Lima band has been astonishing the natives with open air concerts. Orman Clark, of Lyndon, recent! y celebrated his eighty.hfth birthday. A class of 24 were conh'rmed at the Lutheran chureh m Saline, Sunday. Charles Kilmer, of Francisco, will remove to the State ot Washington. A. L. Newton, of Ypsilanti, luis moved his lumber camp to Dearborn. The republicana of Pittsiield Jiold their town caueus Thursday alternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Josh Harker will remove from WoLir.h Lyon to Aun Arbor. The I. O. (Er. T.'s give an experience social at Wlunore Kake,J?iïday evening. Twent.y new members joined the M P. chureh in Gregory, Sunday bef ore last. A class of twenty-two was contirmed in Bethel chureh, Freedom, last Sunday. There are 310 pupils in the. Chelsea schools including 35 non-resident pupils. V. O. Warner, of Ann Aibor is now mein liost of the Warner House ia Saline. M. Shaible, of Francisco, removes to his recently purchased farm near Manchester. Thomas Egan, of Dexter township, has purchased the Brown farm in East Putnam. Tvventy-eight pair of bullf rogs were capture by an Ypsitanti Sportsman last week. A large addition has been made to the chureh sheds of Bethel chureh, in Freedom. Alexander W. Morey, a pioneer of Waterloo of forty years' standing, died last week. v Mrs. Henry Trolz died last Tuesday at her home in Sharon, aged twentyfour years. A donation will be given the pastor of the M. E. chureh in Saline tomorrow evening. The Webster Farmers' club unanimously condemns the county system of caring for roads. Rev. O. C. Bailey orated at a Union teniperance meeting in Chelsea last Sunday evening. A thousand people petitioned the Howell council for a rigid enforcement Of the liquor laws. George J. Nissly. of Saline, has gotten out an elegant poultry and supply catalogue for 1894. Rev F. V. Hawley, of Brooklyn, preached in the Saline Presbyterian chureh last Sunday. Seventeen boys and girls were confirmed in the Lutheran chureh in Manchester last Sunday. Rev. Dr. Reilly lectures this evening in the Chelsea opera house on ' The Last Days of Christ. The hotels at Whitmore Lake have l)een rebuilding their docks and repainting tbeir boats. John Mast, of Webster, and Miss Mary Bauer, of Sylvan, joined hands and hearts, March 7. Tracy L. Towner, of Ypsilanti, can smoke his öwn pipe now. He wou it at a raffle Friday evening. The majority of the coramon council of Manchester consist of men whose tirst names are William. Ring out the old and in the new. Saline's old council met for the last time Thursday evening. The K. O. T. M.'s of Mooreville celebrated their twelfth annivêrsary at A. G. Mclntyre's last week. Yovtcheff, the Bulgarian, lectured in Chelsea Saturday evening. Can you pronounce the name? F. Whiting, of York, lost his house a week ago Saturday, the fire being caused by a defective flue. William Ahmes, of Sharon, cut a big gash in his foot last week while telling a tree in his woods. Rev. T. M. White, of Dexter, and Rev. Mr. Hudson, of Grass Lake, exchanged pulpits last Suuday. Howard the little son of Thomas Ready, of Watorloo, died on Tuesday of last week, of brain fever. Under the election laws, caucuses cannot be held except upon notices printed or posted and the caucuses must be held more th'an live days before election. Mrs. M. Bond died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. W. II. Guerin. in Ypsüanti, last Saturday. The nine-month-old daughter of George Romehart, of Sharon, died Tuesday of whooping cougli. The Manchester and Adrián Eastern Star Cliapters visited the Tecumseti O. h. 8. on Thursday evening last. The Society of Willing Workers in Dexter meet at the residence of Mrs. A. R. Beal toinorrow for dinner. George Runciman, of Lyndon, had nis hand badly lacerated while sawing downa tree in his woods last week. A five-pound flsh pulled Louis Reopcke liirough the ice at Joslyn lake recently, and made away with two bobs. The new Odd Fellows' lodge of Hamburg give a social hop at the Clilton House, at Whitmore Lake, April (5. The ladies of the Manchester M. E. church serve supper in the church parlors forthree hours tomorrow evening. The Chelsea Standard has just begun its sixth year. It is a lively, prattling infant. Hoover along. She'll do. Adam Riedel, of Bridgewater, died very suddenly recently, aged seventyfive years. He was a very large land owner. Daniel Foishee, wholived four miles south-west or riymouth, died last Wednesday'after an illness of four nionths. The Ladies Society of the Manchester Baptist church meet with Mrs. George Dickinson, next Thursday afternoon. Hon. E. T. Allen and Dr. Boone addressed a temperance inass meeting in Ypsüanti, which was attended by 1,500 people. , Miss May Miles, of Gvass Lake, became Mrs. S. B. Paine, of Chelsea, last week. 8. B. went ten Miles to get another Faine. Frank W. Shaler is president of Grass Lake and George II. McDole clerk. Oscar F. A. Spinney is street commissioner. The Irish drama, Lanty Lannagan, vvill be put on the boards in Arbeiter hall, Manchester, by the St. Dominie dramatic club. The River Raisin grist mili hasgone where the woodbine twineth. lts muchinery has been removed and the mili is dismantled. Tbe Sharon and Manchester auxiliaries of the W. F. M. S. hold their animal thank offering at Mrs. R. W. (omstock's next Saturday. Clinton Eider, of Ypsüanti, will be the leading tenor in jthe production of Gilbert and Sullivan's new opera Utopia in this country. L. D. Watkins expects to fence his 35 acres in Freedom on what is knovvn as the liig marsh in one large field, and put it out to pasturage. Correspondents wanted at Whitmore Lake, Salem, Feebles Corners, Sylvan Center, Willis and Stony Creek. Write the Argus for particulars. Calkins & Adams, large general merchants at South Lyoii's and Peeble's Corners have failed. They had over $7,000 out on accounts. Clinton polled 263 votes last week, the largest vote in its history. W. S. Kimbaü was elected president. Twenty-two tickets could not be counted. Stanley F. Blomlield, sou of Rev, Mr. Blomfield, of the Dexter Congregational church, has been ordained as a minister and islocated in Morenci. Township boards should have their tickets printed at the Ann Arbor Argus office, where they have every facility for doing the work right and also very quickly. Mrs. Katharine Ryan died suddenly in Waterloo last Wednesday. She was an estimable woman and was the mother of Mrs. Ilugh McLaughlin, of Lyndon. George Schwickerath, formerly of Chelsea, while out playiug with boy companions in Columbus.Ohio, reeently feil and so hurt himself internally that h e soon died. l-; George Cook7of"""North Lake, is smoking Florida cigars out of a box 4x12x14 inches in size, presented by his nephew in Florida. Cook's is a good place to cali these days. King Corn will be coronated by the ladies of the Chelsea Baptist church next Wednesday, in the Chelsea tovvn hall. A big bill of fare has been arranged, but there is no "corn juice" in it. A fine entertainment will be given by St. Joseph's parisli, Dexter, next Tuesday evening in the opera house, consisting of songs, declamations, solos, instrumental niusic and refreshments. Landlord Teufel, of the Lake House at Grass Lake, has been thoroughly renovating and repairing his liouse. What the d , (beg pardon,) what in the world is the matter with himV He's all right. i i -MffMB ,c= James Ij. Gilbert, of Syivan, in old Washtenaw, ís hustling around and shaking hands with everybody, and last week kissed every baby in the township. 'Smatter of him? He's a candidate for county clerk on the republican ticket. - Grass Lake News ""The Argus for three months. 2f papers. The Detroit Twice a Week Free Press for three months, 2(i papers and Mis. John A. Logan's Ladies Home Maga.ineifor one year all f r 50 cents. The best offer ever made newspaper readers. This offer will not be open long. Snake stories are around again. Read this one from the Grass Lake News: Last Saturday George Askew andDix Cooper killed 78 suakes alniost in a bundie which they found in Arthur Clark's woods. In the collection were two massasaugas and one blue racer five feet long. .Mrs. Hanuah Loveland died in Saline township March 9, after an illness of ten years. She was born in Livingston couuty, Vermont, in 1815 and settled with lier parents in the town of York in 1887, soon after which time she united with the Mooreville M. E. ehurch. Two children survive her. During the past year Jim mie Cadwell, township clerk, has managed the town hall so well as to inake it yield about $125. It is hinted that Jimmie will be a candidate for re-election and already envy has begun to shoot off its mouth. Some base scoundrel is spreading the report that he contemplates matrimony, but Jimmie says a more j villainous slandér was never concoct' ed.- Grass Lake News. Tecumseh has really heard that the Lake Shore rond will build a new depot there. She is now thinking of the motto, "All things come to him wlio waits." South Lyon cast 1S3 votes at her ] lage election, the largest in her history and awoke to find out that she had failed to have any legal tickets before her voters. Mis. John A. Logan 's Ladies' Home Magazine is an elegant ladies' magazine. It will be furnished one year, the twice a week Frea Press and the Argus will be sent three inonths. All for fifty cents. The populists liave a meeting in Dexter next Saturday afternoon to be addressed by Edward S. Grece, of Detroit, and at the conclusión of his speech a town ticket will be nominated. The cali sounds as if it had been written by George A. Peters, whose name is one of those attached to it. The following are the newly elected village officials of Manchester: Presi dent, John H. Kingsley. trustees, William F. Rehfuss, William F. Kern anl William J. Holmes: clerk. Bert W. Amsden; treasurer, Adam J. Wurster; assessor, James I). Field; street commssioner, Frank M. Sherwood; constable, Jacob J. Briegel. Three carloads of fine fatsheepwere shipped from here to Buflalo Saturday. Aniong thern a flock of lambs owned by O. A. Vaughan averagedHS pounds; llosier Bros., 108 pounds; ('has. Van Riper, 109 pounds; John Stanton, 114 pounds; J. T. Warren, 98 pounds; Ray Buckelew, 109 lambs averaging 105 pounds.- Dexter News. At the Saline election last week, there was very little excitement. John McKinnon was elected president; C.N. Howe, clerk; Will F. Ehms, treasurer; A. C. Clarke, assessor; M. D. Wallace, street eommissioner; F. Jeiry, constable; all without opposition. J.Sturm was elected trustee without opposition, while W. J. Jackson and M. Schittenhelm were eleeted trustees by 24 majority. About seven hundred guests were present at the St. Fatrick's day banquet in Ypsilanti, and it took two hours to feed them. Edward McCarthy was toastmaster. Bright speeches were made by John J. Enright and W. J. Dawson, of Detroit, John P. Kirk and II. M. Rose. Good songs were renderod, among them one by Rev. Fr. Goldrick, vvhich was most hetirtily encored . The Fallowell-Loucks case which was tried ín the circuit court at Ann Arbor last Friday, was one of unusnal interest to farmers and othera owning stock and accustomed to driving on the highway. It seemsthat ourtewnsnian, John "Loucks, who was the defendant in the case, had turned about 14 li e ad of cattie and liorses into the highway for the purpose of taking them home at night. The stock were running and racing down the highwaj as cattle and horses are apt to do, while John remained at the gate talking witli a neighbor. About 40 rods from where he turned them out, they encountered the hbrse of the plaintitr, John Fallowell, wlio was driving aiong. His horse took fright, became unman ageable, wheelcd about and after running a few rods overturned the carriage and the occupauts, Fallowell and sister were thrown down a steep embankment. The carriage and harneas were wrecked and the people were injured. Suit was brought and stubbornly fonght. A. J. Waters and E. B. Norris were uttorneys for the plaintift' and A. F. Freeman for the defendant. Judge Kinne instructed the jury that if they found that the defendant had turned his cattle into the highway for the purpose of taking them home to water, etc, and was exercising düe care as a careful and prudent man should in so doing, then the plaintiff could not recover. The jury rendered a verdict lor the plaintiff for $1(m and costs. - J