County And Vicinity

Manchester has a new band. Howell has $1,400,000 ol taxablei propevty on the roll. The Odd Fellows of Milau are about ■ to coinmenee work on their new hall. Asel Newcomb's, of Milan, are happy over the arrival of a new gul baby. It's a line one. E. L. Negus, of Chelsea, will build a cottage at Cavanaugh Lake for Iï. PShanks of Grand Rapids, Ind. W. W. Worden, of Ypsilanti is about to buy an 80-acre farm on the Plains, owned at present by Wm. Evens. The Milan Leader says home strawberries are ripe. We would prefer being convineed by a liberal sample. On the 27th uit. a new daughter was bom to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Knaggs, of Milan. She is a valuable Kuagg. Alva Southworth, of Stony Creek, died of erysipelas a week ago Monday, aged 32. The funeral occured on Wednesdaj . Mr. Hal.W. Glover. of Ypsilanti will be united in raarriage to Miss Anna Curry, of Sbicksbiuny, Penn., some time this rnonth. The growth of eyclone and tornado insurance is sliown in the lact that Livingston counly now hass 300 outstanding policies. John C. Jobnston, of Ypsilanti, was married one week ago Suuday to Miss Mary T. Ilaywood at the Baptist parsoüage in Salem. The Saline Observer complains about certain parties in that town who have such fondness for flowers that they do not hesitate to steal them. The elegant parasol offered by Beul, Com stock & Wilcox, of Ypsilanti, for the fine&t bouquet of flowers for Decoration day was won by Mrs. Ilenry Laflin. The roller milis of Manchester have an order for two car loada of ilour to be shipped to Sligo, Ireland, "be gob."' May they receive niauy more such orders. Dr. Heller, of Saline, hassold out bis dental office, and will spend some time in prospecting. He may lócate in the South. May he make a fortune as a tooth architect. Miss Emma Mayes and Miss IIowlett, of Ypsilanti town, went to church one week ago Sunday, and while jn their way home their horse dropped dead in the road. Mrs. James Burns, of Bridgewater, will sell lier household furniture at public auction on June Iti She will rent the house and land and join her husband who is in Idaho. The Germán Evangelical society of Sharon is engaged in the building of eleven horse sheds at their church. Four loads of lumber and shingles were recently takeu there from Grass Lake. On June 8th the Saline farmers' club will hold a meeting at the home of D. A. Townsend. A. A. Wood will read a paper on the subject, "Behind the Times," and Miss May Cody will recite. Frank Keiler, of Ypsilanti. and "Yank'' Kenny, of Detroit, have signed articles for a prize fight near Ypsilanti. The Greek City seems to be makiug the most of her boasted educational facihties. Willis is in the throes of anticipation over a threatened business boom. Just wait until the Commercial's correspondent tackleü that boomlet and their agony will be something awful to witness. - Dexter Leader. The suit for assanlt and battery of the People vs. Martin Ottmar, of Bridgewater, was tried before Justiee Hunt last Tnesday and resulted in a verdict of not guilty. Prosecutor Kearney appeared for the people and A. F. Freeman for Mr. Ottmar. Mrs. Eugene Allen last Saturday gave a birthday party for her little daughter Emma, who had just reached the age of rive. The house and yard were well filled with little folks most of the afternoon and they enjoyed the occasion hugely. - Saline Observer. Johnnie Wanord, of Mooreville, feil off the bridge into the river, recently, and would have been drowned had it not been for some of his playfellows who went bravely to his rescue. He was considerably bruised by striking against the abutments of the bridge. Wm. McKitcheu, Sumner Fisk and Jimmie Cadwell made a raid on Locher lake. northeastof town, last week. They pulled out such a tnass of the tinny tribe that the lake was lowered a foot and a half. - Grass Lake News. Evidently the time is a long way off when that News editor will take his Beat among the angels with a harp in his hand. George Bryant, of Whittaker, according to the Ypsilantian, did not considcr that his wife was as obedient to the wishes of her liege lord as she ought to be. He therefore proceeded to chastise her. Whereupon the said George was pulled up before J ustice Beach and compelled to disgorge flve dollars of his cold cash. There should be a whipping post for wife beaters. Barney Lombert, of Sharon, has a little son who has suffered greatly for two years past with what his parents supposed was catarrh. A week ago last Saturday his mother took him to Manchester to have him examined by Dr. Ohlinger. On examination the doctor found and removed the cause of the trouble, a pebble as large as a hazel nut. The little one was greatly re lieved at once. Fred Haner. of Chelsea, met with quite a serious accident recently. He was leveling up a wheel in the polishing department of the Glazier Stove Works, when the "tarnal" thing "busted" and a piece of it struck him in the chest, knocking the oxygen out of him in a very complete manner. He waspicked up in an unconscious condition and taken home, and is now on the rmd to recovery. The Farmers' Union club. of Tecunpsen, Macon, Ridgeway and liaisin will hold their annual picnic in the grove of George Halloway, of Eaisin. on June 15. The Halloway stringband ■will furnish music. Dinner will be served at 12 o'clock. At 1:30 o'clock the good people will be called to order for the purpose of listening to a literary program. Addresses will be made by "farmers'' S. C. Stacy and H. C. Smith, and there will be remarks, recitations and music by various other persons. The alumni of the Saline bigh schooi wil] hold the animal re un 'on on June 22. Hinkler. of ne;ir Saline, had a valuable horse killed by lighting receutly. The farmers of Monroe county will ho'd an institute at A.alia oa Thursday June 14. Chandler, Mis. Kilby and Miss McKinnan, of Saline, took a fast vide recently behind a runaway horse. They escaped seiïous injury. lieuben, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Gurk, of Saline, has a diseasedceye, and recently he was taken to Ann Arbor for treatment. The K. O. T. M., of Mooreville will hold special services in the Baptist chureh on Sunday. June lOth. Rev. J. Nelsou Lewis, of Ann Arbor, will speak to them. Lucious Hough. an oM soldier, of Tecumsel), passed over to the majority one week aso Sunday. He was (51 years old. Beer's Tost, G. A, B„ attended the funeral. The Clinton Plovv company are only running two days a week now on account of tUe scarcity of ceal. They are nnable to lay in a new supply on account of the coal miner's sirike. M'ss Belle Hogran, of Clinton, recently stepped on a nail which penetra teil her slipper and went nearly through lier foot, so nearly as to show itself on the upper side of the foot. It was removed and she is doing well and no serious results are apprehended. lieuben Ordway, of Franklin, who was convicted in the circuit court of taking indecent liberties with 7-yearold Bêrtha Cherry, has been sentenced to one year and three months at Jackson. - Tecumseh News. The reprobate ought to have received a severer sentence. On Thursday of last week Charles [Hekman, of Fishville, sheared on the McGee farm oue grade lamb, twelve months and ten days old, the fleeee of which weighed IS pounds all nice wool. The work was done in 15 minutes. Who can beat this? - Grass Lake Neus. No one, unless he be a very near relative of Ananias. Shavv & Churchill is the name of the new firm which ovnis the flouring milis at Vernon. Mr. II. Shaw has been in the employ of the Dexter Milling Co. for the last two years and Mr. Fred Churchill has wörked for Allmendinger & Snyder of Ann Arbor. They are both experienced men in the work and will undoubtedly make a success of the new venture. We understand that Conrad Schade has brought suit against Mrs. Ottmar, of Bridgewater, for damming up the water in front of her place, also to recover damages caused by being badly frightenad on account of her firing a revolver at the time of the tight Schade and Ottmai1 had. The suit is to take place before Justice Kelly next Tuesday. - Manchester Enterprise. Last Tuesday nigbt the Huron Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Dexter, had ar: interesting and pleasant party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Kogers in Webster. About 50 persons were present. They imlulged in songs, instrumental music, ice creara, cake. lemonade and an endless amount of chin music. All had a good time and ou departing about midnight voted Mr. and Mrs. Rogéis very entértaining hosts. The Dundee Ledger is authority for the statement that a fee of tifty cents is charged by the M. E. chureh of tnat vülage for opening on a funeral occasion. Well that is cheap enough. Those eontemplating quitting this life and using that gateway to the next ought not to expect to do so on a free trade schedule. Th ere should be sufficient protection to enable the organiation to maintain peace with the janitor and amicable relations with the rest of mankind. Monday night some party, or parties, undertook to enter M. A. Ziminerman's residence, by way of the kitehen door, but at the first stroke of the hammer on the chisel, Mrs. Zimmerman awoke, she being a light sleeper. Had they not left at once they would liave met with a warm reception in the shape of a seven shooter in the liand of Mart himself. - Tecumseh News. There must be many Tecumsehites who are light fingered or else the few who are 2 are exceedingly sprightly. Edgar W. Holden and Will Parker, of Grass Lake, and Albert Lemm, of Sharon, are all at Tómales, Morin co., California. They are working like nailers and piling up heacs of great big round dollars. Al. was sick awhile but has recovered and inereased so enormously in weight that the end of the county he waltzes around in has sunk four feet. They get The News, and so impatient are they to take in its innards that they sit on a ladder, one above another, and holding the paper out in front, all read it at once. We wish the boys vast success. - Grass Lake .News. Nine Manchester youths aftlicted with a large surplus of time which they did not know what todo with, associated thernselves together under the name of "Coxeyites" and issued a challenge to any nine of the clerks in the towin for a game of ball. The clerks were unable to decline such a challenge and accordingly began to pull themselves together for the trial. One week ago Friday afternoon they met the Coxey "Industriáis" and knocked them out as easily as did the Washington pólice the original Coxeyites. At the end of six innings the score stood 23 to 31 against the Coxeyites and they cried enough. Iludson will feel the effects of the coal miners' strike if the mines retnain idle a week longer. President Bean says the pump and plow works will be able to run only a week more with the fuel on hand. He saw danger ahead more than a tnonth ago and ordered all the coal the works could take care of, and an order for two carloads more has been in for several weeks, but the trouble has been of longer duration than he anticipated. The water works have two or three carloads on hand - enough to last till the middle of July or first of August. The electrie light company have fuel enough to runtheir works up to August lst. The Iludson milling company have ten tons on hand. Elliott & Co. are out and are using wood. All have orders in for coal, but not a ton is being shipped. It any left the mines the railroads would gobble it.- Hudson Gazette. Roby McLachlin, of Mooreville, was jammt-d against the side of the stall recenily by a horse he was caring tor, I and had his wrist broken. Mr. J. L. Remington au oíd and spectt-d resident of Macon, Lenawee countj', died one week ago Saturday. He was boru in 1814 and carne to '] igan in 183ö. Cari W. Lowe, of Whittaker, took Uiítu himseli a wife in the person oí Miss Clisla Lawson, of Detroit, oie eek aeo Sunday. The mairiage occurred at the home ot' Mr. and Mrs. C M. Lowe. The Supreme Court calendar íor June has the following cases from Washtenaw county: Louis J. Liesimer vs. John Burg; James C. Deyo vs. Geo. H. Hammond; Mary Hutchinson vs. the City of Ypsilanti. Lyman Loveland, a former resident of Mooreville, died at the home of his son-in-law, George Donaldson, in the townshíp of Saline, one weck ago ■ urdao. lie was burried iu Mooreville ! cemetery the following Monday. The Tecurnseh ''kid ' cadets turned out 011 Decoration Day to the nurnber of 35, dressed in their span new uniforms and jolned the procession. They went through the variöus evoiutions in a way to wake the old vets and company C grosv green with envy. A scheme is on foot at Dexter to furnisli the village with rire piptection. The plans are not quite ripe yet and henee the Leader ref uses to give theni away. Trust they will develop in due seasbn and afford our lively neighbor with all the protection needed. An amateur bicycilist of Milan, by the name of Jackson, undertook to make an old time blind dray mule surrender to him the riglit of way on a Milan boulevard recently. Well, that young 'uu knows more of mule nature than he did, and his machine will not be in condition f or another such encounter f or sorne time. The mule is in fine condition. i Frank J. Hainnioud, of Whittaker, not satistied with running a general store, keepiug the postoffice, serving as town clerk, notary public and a pillar in the church. must needs go and form a partnership with Ed. C. Howard, tor the pupose of sell.ng bicycles. It is too bad that he cannot tind any thing to busy himself about. Last Saturday the Webster Farmers' club met at the residence of Hon. Wm. Ball, of Hamburg. The question under discussion was the income tax. A number of people who are not members of the club were present aud took part in the discussion. We are not informed as to the general drift of the discussion, but suppose it was favorable to the tax, because it hardly seems pessible that the Webster farmers would be opposed to it. Mauy farmers are complaiuing oJ a small dark "measuring" worm wnich is raising havoc with orchard trees. Considerable dainage has been cansed by the pesta on the farms of Will Goodrich and Mrs. Ellen Cross, south of the city, and numeróos other complaints lü'.veconie from Rausom. A farmer j o diseovered some of the worrós on 1: 's trees says he used one of the sprayI ii 4 receipts published in the Gazette ja iew weeks ago and bas not been I boihered since. - Iludsou Gazette. It will be gratifying news to Adrián water consumers to know that the water Works company will soon cease pumping mud and lizzards into the drinking supply. Superintendent Wing has jast returned from Boston, where a contract was closed with the cook Well Supply company of St. Louis, for the sinking of a gang of wells which will furnish at least a million gallons of water each 24 hours. The water from these wells will be pumped out directly iuto the mains and there is an end of the roily water, mud turtle, f rog and suake era, as regards the eulinary supply The old well will be abandoned, but the reservoir will be continued lor üre purposes. An engineer of the company is now here and the sinking of the well will be undertaken at once.- Adrián Press. A burglar called upon George W. Freese at Clinton last Wednesday night and was proceediugto get in his work when, as is always the case with married people, the good wife heard him and punched the said George under the fifth rib and told him to manifest the kind of stuff of which he was composed. Thereupon George reached for a loaded cane which he keeps for the especial benefit of such visitors, but in doing so he struck it against the wall, ïuaking a noise like the click of a revolver, and the light-tingered gentleman hearing it tarriéd not on the manner of his going. George, clothed in his right mind but not niuch besides, gave chase. He stumbled over a chair and the thief slipped through the door and closed it af ter him and was gone. The same night some one tried the door of J. W. Bradner, but as it was bolted it could nof be opened. Mr. Freese's pantaloons werp fouud in front of Mrs. Keis' bain on Washington street, but the cash, amountiug to three dollars, had gone with the burglar. It is supposed that the job was performed by home talent. The Michigan Pioneer and Ilistorical Society will hold a meeting in Lausing on June 6th and 7th. The program will consist of music, president's address, reports of orricers and committees and the following interesting papers: Ex-Gov. Alpheus Felch, Ann Arbor - Cessions of land in Michigan by Indiau Treaties. Ex-Lieut-Gov. Ilenry H. Holt, Muskegon- History of the Portrait of Gen. Lafayette hanging iu the Senate Chatnber of the Capitol. Prof. Andrew Ten Brook, Ann Arbor- The early Germán Settlers in and about Ann Arbor. L. D. Watkins, Manchester - The Indian Trails and Wayside Camps of Southern Michigan, with a short paper from Hon. Peter White, of Marquette, on the Indian Trails of the Upper Península. Hon. Ilenry P. Cherry, J3edi'.rd- Early History of Johnstown, Barry county. Mrs. A. M. Hayes, Hastings -History of Hastings. 8. W. Parker, Addison - Reminisceuces of BrooklynJoseph M. Griswold, Brooklyn - Reminiscenees of Brooklyn. Jndge Melville McGee,. Jackson.' Geo. II. White, Grand Rapiks- Yankee Lewis' f amona Hostelry in the wilderness. Hotels in Lansing offer the following reduced rates: Hotel Downey and Hudson House. $1.50 per day; Chapman House. Commercial House and Kirkwood, $1.00 per day; provided, that if necessary, two will room together. Any further information can be obtained of Geo. H. Greene, Secretary, Lansing.