County And Vicinity

Pat McMahon, of Manchester, faas traded farms witli William Henzie. A Young People'sChristian Alliarce was organized at Whittaker one weeü ugo Sunday. John Pusly, of Dentón, is just able to be around, being very weak froni bleeding at the luugs. Revival services are in progress at the Salem Uongregational church and much interest is being awakened. ïhe merchants of Manchester cleaued the gutters in front of their stores last Monday i'or the ürst time this season. St. Dommic's dramatic club will present the drama, "Lanty Lannigan," at Arbeiter hall, on Thursday, April 5th. It is a fu.nny play. Young Gregory, who robbed the Dexter bank without auy apparent motive, is said to be entirely demeuted, uud the probabilities are agaiust lü recovery. Twenty-five Baptists of South Lyoi have organized a society and invitec Kev. D. H. Leonard of Salem to preacl to thern. Services will be held on Sun day aftemoons. l)r. P. D. McLachlin, of Mooreville ïast week shipped a coop of his higl bred chickens to Hot Springs, South Dakota. ïhe Doctor is uo chicken ia the chicken business. 11. M. Rose, who has liad charge o: the Jag Cure at Ypsilanti, has tenderec his resignation, the same to take effect May 1. He will go to Grand Kapids to Mrs. Eliza Doyle, wife of James Doyle, of Milan, died last Wednesday rf lung trouble, aged 68 years. The funeral was held at 11 o'clock Saturday. She was born in Monroe county New York and has lived iu Michigan since 1846. The Lady Maccabees, of Milan, wili giye a neektie and box social next Wednesday evening at Maccabee hall. The lunch boxes, which will also coatain mates to ties worn by the ladies, will be sold at auction. A good time is anticipated. Mr. Nissly, the Saline poultry man lias just gotten out a fine 62 page illustrated pamphlet containing much infortriation abouC his high bred poultry and his modern poultry supplies. It was printed at the Ypsilanti Commercial office and is a fine job. The April meeting of the S. W. Farmers' club will be held at the residence of B. G. English on Friday, April 6th, at 10 a. m. ProgranmieSelection, Mrs. H. C. Calhoun; essay, Mrs. Laphatn. Subject for djscussioa, "Uur Public Schools.'' Paper by G. S. iiawson. - Manchester Enterprise. Mis. Bond, widow of John E. Bond, of Ypsilanti, died at the home of her son-in-law, W. II. Guerin, 214 Oak street, March 17. She was 70 years of ;ige and was highly respected. She lived in Toledo tor a number of years, but since the death of her husbar d, lias resided with her daughter in Ypr mi. The ïpsilani: Grange together witfa visitors ii'om other granges held leetiug one week ago Saturday and ttiscussed the question of feeding cows lor dairy purposes. At the next meeting of the grange Saturday afternoon, April 7. The subject for discus ion will be "The spraytng c.L fruit trees and bushes.'' The YOnng Woman's Cbiistian Association of Yysilanti will hold a Gosraorama of Art and Fun at Cleary's hall this evening. One hundred young peopie will take part. The program wil! include music, tableau, fan drill, laateru drill, living pictures and club swinging. Special costumes will be worn by the young ladies. At the recent G. A. R. encampment, at Ovvosso, Louis Kanitz, of Muskegon, was elected departnient commander; Willard Stearns, of Adrián, N. G. Oooper, of Sturgis, R. A. Parker, of Detroit, J. Q. A. Sessions, of Ana xVrbor on the council of Administration, and E, P. Allen, of Yptilanti. first national delégate. The next meeting will be held in Mt. Clemens. The St. Patrick's Eve. banquet of the ladies of St. John 's church was an overwhelming success. They tliought they might need 300 plates and set that number. They had 700 guests, and had to reset some of the tables twice. The exercises throughout, musical, literary and gastrononiic, were quite up to concert pitch, and everybody connected with the aö'air is happy. - Ypsilanti Commercial. Mis. Janet Miiler, wife of Benj. Miller, of Pittsfield, died on the 16th inst, aged 69 years. lier maiden name was Wallace and she spent her early life near Dearborn, and has a brother, Mathew Wallace, living at Wayne. She was married in 1848 to Benj. MilIer and took up her residenge in Ypsilanti; where she resided for sixteen years. The funeral occurred from her late residence on Monday the 19tn. The Gardner telephone is weaving its web of wires in all directions about town, and uow a line is being put up to Mooreville with cut ins at W. E. Allen's and S. V. Hitchkock's. Those now having the Gardner phone and connected with the central oflice are: Whitmarsh & Co., J. Li. Marble. C. H. Wilson (oQ5ce and resideuce), W. II. Stevens, Dr. Mesic, H. L. Van Wormer. Ered Wilson, J. S. Bray.- Milan Leader. Mrs. Lotia Stevens, an old and respected resident of Ypsilanti, died one week ago Monday, in the 91st year f her age. The funeral was held from the home of her son, Willard C. Stevens. VVednesday afternoon. She was of Purjfcan stock, and removed with her family to Eairport, New York, in childhood, and was married there in 3822 to Andrew L. Stevens. Mr. Ste vens died in 1859, and she has since lived with her son. Jonathan Wardle, of Milan, had a . little taste recently of what sinners raay expect in the world to come. He undertook to warm some medicine, a compound of turpentine and other inilamable substances when the stuff went off setting him on fire. 11e was in a combustable condition, and with the aid of the turpentine burned well. The fire removed his trousers quicker than be himself could do it and began i his cuticle, besides consuming the cnedicine and a table cloth.. Then Jonatlian began to Wardle nd to daace the Highland fling. The fire was finally sabdued and so was vvardle. Hi8 house saved with difflculty. The Milán creamery is now j about 25,000 or 30.000 pouuds of tuiti ! per week, and they expect soon to liandle that amount daily. The ladies of St. Jobn's church, ' silanti, fed the liungry on the occasion ! of the 8t. Patrick's day banquet, and netted over $200 in cöld cash. That was a hungry crowd. Harry Minard, of Rawsonville, is about to try hatchingturkeys bysteam. I We thinkjie will meet with bettersuccess by this method than "he" would with the turkey method. J. II. Kingsley, of Manchester, intends to put in a larger water wheel to ruu the eleotric lights. A number of tlie citizens expect to put electricity in their residences this spring. A sad accident occurred at Milan yesterday. Miss Grace Briggs who was ïidiug on a table on a load of household goods was thrown off by the joltiug of the wagon and feil Tinder the! feet of the horses and was trampled upon and run over by the wagon and instantly killed. Miss Jennie i)ean, who spent 25 vears as a missionary in Fersia, related, at a recent meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian church, Ypsilañti, the fcest imposed upon a married Persian woman if she would be considered "a very modest woman." The test is nothing less than that she shall not speak above a wbisper in the presence of her husband's tather and mother for a period of twelve years. This would be a mighty hard test for an American married woman.