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Coal is LifiuLí rëéeived here i'ornext wiiiter's use. E. Ci. Floag and wife, "f Detroit, were unong frienils here last week. The basement walls of the new Congregatinnal clnircli are now being laid. The fruit prospect of ainiost every kind is better than for many years in this yicinity. Mrs. W. E. Depew, of Alpena, is vislting her father and niother, Mr. and Mis. Gates. Wbeat, barley and oats never looked better here at this season and we shall have an early harvest. Hayingwill begin here next week and the erop is lighter than last year because ot the lack of rain Hope Walhice of Ann Arbor arrived here Wednesday night to attend the High school commencement. The Alba Ileywood combination gave au entertainment at the town hall, Tuesday night, to a fair house. The ground is benig graded for the erection of C. J. Chandler's chicken slaughteT house west of bis warehouse. We had a little rain here the flrsi of this week, but noc near wliat we neetled and again everything suffers for want of it. Probably twice as many acres of beeans have been planted wïthin a radios of twenty miles of this place as in any previous year. Between the ravages of carpet bugs, bed bugs, potato bugs, and humbugs, some of the people of this village are having a serious time. Prof. M. L. O'Ooge, of the University. preached two excellent sermons at the town hall last Sunday for the Congregational people. The windows broken in the M. E. church by the hail storm have beem repaired and the outside of the church treated to a new coat of paint. J. C. Pulver and Frank Mapes, or Owosso, were here on Monday on theif way home from Detroit, on their bicycles. Tliey travel taster than a norse would go. George S. Laird has been appointed and conürmed postmaster at this place, to succeed Wiiliam Judson, removed. Mr. Laird will take charge as soon as bis commission arrivés. Several new cottages have recen ti y been built at Cavanaugh Lake, and preparations are being made for an unusually interesting time at the resort, which will open now very soon. School closes this week with commencement exercises at Lhe town hall, Thursday night. There are eight graduates. It is the largest class for mauy years. Our school has been improved and is getting to be among the best in the country. Leyi Whippledied at nis residence in Lima on Monday, at the age of about 80 years, of starvation, having been unable to take food for some time. He was one of the early settlers in Lima, and leaves a iarge circle of fiicirds to mourn his loss. He was a gnod neighhor iind citizen. and mnch thought of by all who knew him. Wbeat now brings 53 cents for red and ö4 for white: oats, 40 cents ; potatoes, 75 cents; butter, 12 cents; eggs, 9 cents. Wool comes in more freely now and brings 10 to 15 cents for waslied and 8 to 10 for unwashed. The farmers are letting it go more freely than was expected at these prices: They seem to have got tired of holding produce on a declining market.