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Masón will gradúate 11 students this year and Leslie will send out seven. A law and order league has been organized at Hillsdale to enforce the local option law. Edson Sheehan of Capnc, formerly a clerk at the Junction House, Lapeer, died on Friday. A Dryden roan has quit the use of tobacco, alter having used the weed for nearly 50 years. The annual Masonic picnic of the counties of Ingham and Jackson will be held ai. Pleasant lake Thursday, Jone 21. Masón city fathers say that all business places must be closed on Sunday, and instruct the city marshal to see that their mandates are observed. Receiver Waters of the Owosso and Corunna streefc railway in his last report says bhere is a lien upon the property amounting to over Í57,ÓOO. Work is being rushed on the new Catholic church at. Imlay City. ïhe slate roof is aow being put on. The church will be quite au ornament to the town. The 22d annual meeting of the Ingham County Pioneer association will be held at Masón June 5. John N. Bush and 1). L. Case will give the addresses. A basket picnic will be indulged in. Christian Marth, aged 73, while observaq the anniversary of his wife's death by R-atering the flowers on her last resting place in the Royal Oak cemetery, dropped ïead wlthin a few feet of the gravo.