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Day
19
Month
June
Year
1894
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Public Domain
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Dr. l);tis. having jerked Clinton toothless, will move to Oliio. John N. Morgan, near Saline, was killed by suustroke Wednesday of last week. Measles at Manchester have given out nearly as mauy badges as the school teachers. Auderson, Milan's tony tonsor, invites his custorners in, over a new side walk. "Next." Lake Shore service on the Ypsilanti branch will be restored as soon as coal can be procured. - Dexter is not yet outfitted with a baseball club. Such an institution is as necessary as a town clock. Mrs. Briggs, of Dentón, received a sunstroke, Monday of last wet-k. while picking berries. She is gradually reeovering. j. a. iiíivuen, tu Mii.iu, "in iuini-ii $600 wortti of large tile to a Leninvee man. Even tne farmers wear '"tiles" over tliere. Dr. M. T. Wallia has hung up his professional 3hingle and wili hereafter be ideiititied with llie medical moundbuildersof Ypsilanti. iá. C. MeAlpine has been annoiiited to the editorsnip of the JNormal News, and will assuine his duties as soou as bis bullet-proof coat is linished. Immense mud turtles are extractad i from the river at Milán and go further to cloy the stoinach of the resident editor than delinquent subscriptious. Dwight Riggs, whoresided five miles north of Chelsea, was discovered dead in his bed Wednesday morning of last week. A son and two brothers survive him. The 13th anniversary of tlie K. O. T. M. of Michigan was generally observed in the couuty last week. ïhe order bas become as numerous as ants in a silgar bowl. Wolvenne lotlge, I. O. O. F., of Mi lan, renews its offieers as follows: N G.. E. VV. Mead; V. G., W. II. VV haley; secreta i y, J. S. Bray; treasurev, 8. T. Blaekmer. Peaches are falliug from the trees here at au alarmiug rate. Every one picked up has a worm in the centei and the kernel is destroyed.- Ypsilanti Commercial. Johnie Kuight and Bertie Reynolds' tvro Milan youths of great promise, last week slew lifty mice in a barrel of popcorn, thereby considerably reducing the rodent pop-ulation thereabout. The hard times produced by the McKinley so-called protection of infan industries, have begun to bear fruit a Mooreville. A three-pound boy vva recentlv born there to Mr. and Mrs Chas. McMullen. A men's festival wil] be held in Clin ton to morro w. This shows the stat of masculine distrust into wliich th agitatioiU of Women's rights ha Llunged the stag element of Clinton adíes, see what you've done! The recent hot weather proved fata to several cows in the vicinity o saline. Cowsshould be shaded from the sun as weil as shingled from the rain. The laiter is often grievously neglected by milkmen who furnish the cities. It is reported that when young Her bert Gilman, of Mooreville, was born the other day, Giandpa Clark turned a h and-spring and remarked that noth ing else had so much pleased him ftfnee the hanging of the Thayers at Buffalo. Wm. Krunkel, a Michigan Central section hand at Ypsilanti, was struck and killed by a Michigan Central train Thursday of last week. He with others of the section gang, saw the train, but he seemed dazed and remaining on the track met his death. Williatn Bosom, of Milan, while descending a ladder last week, was subjected to the laws of gravitation in such a raanner as to lay him on the ground with his back across a piece of wood. He is badly injured but resting quietly in the bosom of his f amily. The body of a man, badly manRied and with appearances of foul play was found by the railroad track at Milan, Sunday last week. Papers showed his name to be Charles Right; resideDce, Manistique. No tangible theory of the tragedy has been suggested. A new bicycle statute bas become of force in Milan, and Editor Smith, who, a year or so ago was twisted twice around his own neck, unhorsed andjumped upon by his overturned machine, hopes to see the ordinance enforced. "We join with him in a yell of 'amen." Mr. Peters, the Populist and "Iconoclast," are still smashing away at each other through the Pexter Leader, and the blows struck at the nebular hypothesis of political economy cause the Úoud Oompeller to wonder what on earth is the matter down in Washtenaw county. Saline asked for better mail service and got it. It consists of a noon mail every other day from Pittsfield. The Observer observes with a fine touch of irony that "It is a dandy too, as it only mcludes Ann Arbor mail and a few scattering letters. No dailies or ern man at au.' Editor Blosser, of the Manchester ünterpnse, arouses the just envy of the newspaper fraternity by putting down a stone coping on both the street sides of his residence. Such evidences of prosperity cali for a resolution of inquiry and power to send for persons and papers. Laden with the ripe honors and emolumentsof amonthin themarshalship of Ypsilanti, Mr. Allen retires by resignation and Preston W. Ross becomes ehief of the city constabulary Mr. Ross is a democrat'and will allow no guilty man to escape whose coatcollars is of proper firmness. A colored lodge of Knights of Pyth ias is projected at Ypsilanti, and as a starter the financial sinews of the enterprise may be braced with the net receipts of a female minstrel show The plan is under consideration. It is iiot expected that Dr. Ryaii will receive a complimentary ticket. A former Ypsilanti boy, havin for more than thirty years been ia the wild west lassoiug sensations, ia about to Jet loose in the Ypsilantian a chain of startling narratives ranging from the heroism of bear hunting in the Rockies to the iudustry of ñea-fightine on the sandcoast of the Paciüc The United States whipped Canadi at hall Tuesday last week at Milan 3íto 4. The affair is said to have had au accompaniment of profanity plain, ornamental and Gothic. tlia was enougb to curdle boiled rnilk. Soiueone with their name omitte wrote us a scathing lettfr abont wha he calis a "dog rlght." We learn since it is more of a bull-ring fight- Oak land Excelsior. If the fellow "witl their name omitted" were to write us a scathing letter on such a flea-bitten subject, we would assuredly annihilate them. Charles Deale, -a driver for Fair child & Kitster, of Ypsilanti, was atricken with paralysis Thursday of last week. His is held to be a case of nicotine poisonin? attributed to the immoderate use of tobáceo; and there are boys who wil] read tliis item and then go out behind the barn and practice leaniing to aequire nicotine paralysis. One of the most interestinar features of the recent Pioneers meeting was Mrs. J. Williard Babbitt's exhibition of imtique China. Th ere were 160 pieces, no two alike, and the younest was fifty years old. It luis all bren collected by Mrs. Babbitt in Washtenaw county and it is lier intention to dónate it to some Ypsilanti society - Ypsilantian. A Washtenaw county man the other dayremarked that a pound of wool would not buy a decent drink of vvhiskey.- Saline Observer. Some person I of soothing address should be commissioned to break this intelligence to Capt. Allen and other gentlemen of the McKinley constitueucy. It appears to be about four drinks short of their promise. Chilren's day in Ypsilanti town was celebrated with much acclaim, The follawing graphic sketch is from the Commercial; "A climax was reached when the cavalry, after an appeal from their leader bowed their knees, and a very tiny boy ascended the rostrum, - and said to the audience: "Satan tremoles when he sees The weiikest salnt upon his kuees." The church sheds, blown down last summer at Rowe's Corners, in Sharon, , are being rebuilt. The hot weather , and mosquitoes were getting in their ,. perfect work on the systems of tlie ; dudes wlio used to wait under those sheds for their girls to come out ol' . church, Sunday eveuings. The rebuildiug of the sheds will prove a boon '. of great value to them. ; The Ypsilanti Sentinel knows of "a woithy resident of a ueighboring townsuip who died soon after noon receutly, and his monument had been ordered of a dealer 20 miles away by 5 o'clock the same day." Said a parson to the heart broken widow, on returning from the burial of her husband, "Will you be rny fair bride?" Mighty sorry, parson, but the deacon asked me at the grave and I coasented." The Detroit papers are braggin? themselves hoarseover the appearance at tiie metropolis of the divided biesele skirt. Of course, Detroit claims all the glory of this sensible innovation. But let Detroit diminish her swollen head. To Mrs. Densmore, of YpsUanti, belongs the riarht of discovery and introduction. We are willing to concede much to Detroit, but sbe will not be allowed to get away vvith Washtenaw's divided skirt. Bert Servis, of Sharon, a young man oí rather feeble mentality was "bitten by a massassauga, Mouday of last week In return for this compliment Servís slew the serpent and relieved it of its rattles, which he bore hotne as trophies of his valor. The grim humor of the proceeding had a serious offset in the condition of young Servis, following the bite. He was hus;led to Manchester and placed under he care of a physieian and will probbly recover, but will be fneapable of atthng around for a while. ixeorge Allen 13 the legal fixture of Highland cemetery, Ypsilanti. A queerer matter never happenedtohim than that of Tuesday last week. He wasplowing corn with an oíd horse nd humming in a minor key the hytun begiiining "Hark from the Tombs " when a lurid bolt shot through the air and a crash of celestial artillery that sounded like the crack of doom smote hisear. When he "carne to" he was I uncoDscious and lying pinned under the electrocuted eorpse of the old equine. He was resurrected and the horse buried. The annual erop of weeds makes the upper mili pond unsightly. This nuisance catches and holds decaying ref use which gives forth an unpleasaut aud unhealthful odor and makes a dream of the pleasure of boating that might be indulged in but for it. The pond would be a pretty bit of water but for the weeds.- Manchester Enterprise. What has become of the submarine lawn mower, invented two or three years ago, for express purpose of nddiug the ponds of these noisome weeds At the time of its creation it was regarded as the offspring of a stupendous calculation. J. M. Gross, of the Saline Observer is authority for some valuable iuformation concerning the canker worm. He states that the worms came out oí the ground very early in the spring, in the fortu and color of a white miller. The feruales have no wings and are obliged to walk up the trees to deposit tneireggs. Mr. Gross' remedy is to daub their heels with pine tar, placed freely about the roots of the tree in a circular form. This should be done before the frost is out of the ground. The remedy is effective, and so simple that the farmer who neglects it should have canker worms in his hair. Wm. J. White, former keeper of a saloon of rank fame in Ypsilanti, has established an international reputation as a marrying man and a scoundrel. lt appears to be his delight to prey upon the flnancial substance of rich widows and confiding cash-in-bank maidens of uncertain life tenure, make , away with the surplus in the treasury ' and then so demean himself as to ' force the victim to procure a divorce. He is now thought to have "crossed the pond" with a Scotch woman, navngdeserted a lady, whom he married v in Detroit two years ago, and whose $7,000 in cash he secured. Mr. White may yet run against the jagged edges ( pf a female temper that will deal with him according to his deserts- and desertions. Prof. Shartau and the public schools ot JJexter are now two distinct and separate bodies. The professor was opposed to the use of certaiu funds, raised last winter b.y an entertainment giveu by the high school pupils, wbicb it was deeided te employ in aid of the senior class gradiiating expenses, and took occasion in a speech of 70 minutes toexpress the very detestable opinión he held of those whose ideas of school polity were not in "dovetail" witb nis. The school board beard of this and invited the professor to re sign, out be was obdurate and the board then gave bina the '"fire bodily"' and Miss Hall, preceptress, waselected principal tor the remainder of tbe scbool year. Prof. Shartau is a gentleman of education and capability. but very decided in bis notions of ma"tters and things.

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