Washtenawisms

Horseback riding is popular at Chelsea. A new dentist with his instruments of torture has arrived at saline. Mrs. Aimie Kiee, of Saline, aged 68 years, died Sunday, of last week. The new Manchester savings bank stock, $30,000, was quickly subscnbed. George Ilarmnond, of ïpsilanti, lias shipped some of lus trotters to Detroit to be trained. Frank Shaver is a Chelsea barber, yet there are those who contend that tíiere is nothing in a name. The old unión hall building at Manchester is likely to perish and be succeeded by a new brick structure. Albert Ai chenbron.of Waterloo, last week mtiasured the velocity of a hores's foot, and is spending the hot weather indoora with a fan nnd a broken leg. A lalling shaft in a Windsor planing mili took with n A. J. Litchfield and sent Inui t lii.s parents in Dexter with Injuries that proeured for him i vacation. There is trouble abead tor the ,i,mster who is shooting woodcoek around Manchester. Ile is likely to have a L'bead" drawn on him by the game warden. While Uexier is preparing for the loudest sort of a Fouitli of July, Chelsea's bird of liberty sits humped up with deapondency and in evident need of bird powder. 13y the runaway of his norse last week, Mr. Uensmore, of Ypsilanti, ex: ecuted a number of artistic revolutions and alighted iu a bruised heau, but with whole skeleton. Chelsea is in the throes of a croquet revival and some of the old "crack shots" now lame with rheumatisin and gout, hobble forth and lie away their salvation recounting their early skill. The Ypsilanti Commercial gloats over the clieniical discovery of away to produce artificial milk. The discovery is not so modern as the Commercial appears to believe. Milkmen were "onto it ' long ago. Jake MouUon. of Milan, went ovc;r to Toledo the other day, and peered around till dark when he was batted over theleft eye by a footpad, knocked down and discharged trom the furtber care of sundry articles of value. The Ypsilanti üommerciaps "Commencement" page, last week. was a commendable spurt of journalism, especially when it is considered that each of it.s editors is dragging around a silent "e"' at the end of bis name. As evidence that the civil service theory of "once in office, always in office," is incorrect and that a change is fruitful of good results, it may be reuiarked tliat the new postniasters of Willis and WhiUaker have eacb the blessing o! a new bom son. The Dexter Leader objects to the chestnut "quietly wedded," and wants to know wlien a couple was ever wedin any other way and adds tliat "the tendency of the occasion is all toward the subdued: ' The important question is, which is the subdued? Answering the Argus' inquiry as to what has become of Manchester's pond-lily mower, the Enterprise explains that 'it is in the dry doek and the propnetors are waiting for an appropriation from the committee of the comruon oouncil on rivers and harbors, for sanitar.v improvements." "The farmers complain that they cannot get farm hands this season," remarks the Dexter Leader. And yet there are at this moment men in Dexter, who have worked so hard trying to solve the labor problem that their pantaloons are full of nail snags from the boxes of careless drygoods men. The Saline Observer notes that persons without reserved seat tickets boldly pass the ushers and occupy seats in the reserved circle, at the opera house. This can be prevented by the application of a stuffed club. Hit the offender twice The hittee will know, the lirst crack, what he was hit for; but give him the second '-clip" as ia the nature of recovery of "exemplary damages." The Chelsea fair will be held Oct. 9, 10 and 11. At a recent meeting of the society the following officers were chosen: President, Mark Lowry; vicepresident, Wm. Glenn; secretary, S. L. Gage; treasuier, W. p. Schenk. The following gentlemen compose the Board of Directors: S. L. Gage, John Buss, M. Lowry, Thos. Fletcher, Wm. Glenn, H. Sherry, C. Dorr, Martin Howe, Geo. Goodwin. The team of Charles Bullard, of Sharon, ran away Tuesday, of last week and headed for the river. The wagon contained Mr. Bullard's little son and the young daughter of Ed. Wheeler. The little girl jumped out but young Bullard was game, and stuck to the wagon till it struck a tree and was wrecked, when the little "kid" brushed off the dust and remarked with üne humor, "I guess I'll go home now." The female minstrels from Brooklyn failed to put in an appearance lastFriday night. It was reported that three of the performers were sick. - Manchester Enterprise. It is really too bad, the way things turned out. It is learned that one of the end women swallowed a "gag" she was practicing on; another cracked her diaphragm on a new version of "Sweet Violets" and the third feil sick gratuitously, just tobe in the fashion. The Freedom correspondent of the Manchester Enterprise placards a fraud who has secured much money for medicines sold on the statement that he had been sent out by Congressman Gorman in the interest of public health. In the interest of his own health he will hereafter avoid the board bill creditors he left in his make. He is suspected to have been some pestilent cuss, sent out by the republicans to ruin Mr. Gorman's chance of re-election. The great double-deck prize fight that was to have taken place between Kellar and Kenny will not occur. A great deal of wind and some blasphemy has attended the proceedings, which are now at an end. Each party has drawn his forfeit. Burns wanted more, as he had been at much expense to groom and jack-plane his man down to the fighting notch. It is all over, however. Theffair tlatted out like a blow snake. Trunian Baldwin, of Chelst-a, has Bcop'ri h vacation and hroken arm by Iteiu ihrowii fiiiiii li sciiiniiiie. Th Yp.-uianti Machine Wnrks seCtlie.i liir cn'iir.iei l" f'uniisli uew iiiiiclniii'i v kij the i.ew (frist uiiü at Belleville. Oberlin College bas conférxed on Ht-v. Jospph Estabrook the dïgree t i D. I. Dr. Estabrook lias tiie congrat ulatioiis of the Argus. Tlie wile of Dr. O. S. Bonsteél, of Ypsilanti died Thuisday laat week, having been for eirflite-eti years a helploss vietiuj of rheiimatism. liev. M. M Goodwin is off again to rejoin his sliip, Coluuibia, the better of his raaisaia and refreshed for again having looked iipon Ypsilanti. i'. W. shute, of Y'psilitnti, eagrtged in the real estatfc bUhiness and shot off a bai sai n for a lady an.l has juist ivcovered hts eomoiission bèfore Justice Bogardus. The walks around Ue leader oflice Hre iniw repairèd.- Milán Leader The Necessity is understood to have ui frotn the editor's thrashing tke ■■!'jwalkwitlvtliefelloww.hu "anted to see the iiwui wlio write tiiat piece a bout hi;n." Fort Wayue garrioon have accepteil the Mouroe instead of the Ypsilanti ranee for regular anuy rille practice,. Well, let theni go. l'iiey're nol verv good marksuien anyvvay, and as likely as not to miss the target and kill au Ypsilantiau. Rev. E. Ji. Seyerance, who preached at Saline last winter, has it seems been exposed to the matrimonial ever and is coming down wlth it. lie will be married tomorrow, " no preventing providenpe." to a Miss Pattori, and settle at Dansville, Mich. Mr. Stumpmtre, of Ypsilanti tovvn, In reclaiming his marsb trom its wildness is opposed by suakes on every band. He bas slain spotted adders by the dozen, and of blue racers enough to construct a hose pipe for a cliemical engine. The eross-eye neck-shot of Ypsilanti brew bas nothing to do vvitli it. Dexter people are scheming for an ordinance to prevent children frotn running at large, but are uncertain as to what provisiona should be incorporated in it. The Argüs would suggest the leatber collar and poll tax; all untaxed children running at large after e i u h t o'clock in the evetiing, to be shot. One of the most iuterestinsj features of the recent Pioneer meeting was Mrs. J. Willard Babbitt's esbibition of antique china. There vrere 160 pieces, no tvvo alike, and the youngest was 50 years old. It has all been collected by Mrs. Babbilt in Wasbtenaw eounty, and it is her intention to dónate it to some Ypsilanti society.- Dexter Leader. It seenied that the night before his case was discovered ELarris, the small pox patiënt, occupied the same room in the McAndrew building with a wotnan. a giil and two small children. These were taken last right down on the '-Hog Back'" in order to assure that should they have cuiitracted the disease they will uot spread it in the heart of the city.- Evening Times. The Iconoclastie incog. of the Dexter Leader is uumasked. After combing the snarls out of his name he ap]ears as plain Fred G. Dodshon, of Scio. Now that he has shown himself in his true colors, if Mr. George A. i'eters fails to "rip him up the back" and down the front, we shall know that his tongue lias forgotten its cunning and his right hand to cleave to anything. lf the person who carried away from ,he fairgrounds the table belonging to ,he Gun Club will return the same, no questions will be asked, otherwise as ie is known, steps will be taken towards ils recovery.- Cheisea Standard. Setter jerk him at once, as he sits in lis concealnient, snickering, because as he reads the Gun Olub notices he sees that it is making a blind shot and don't know who he is at all. The Hon. Azariah Partride, of Flushiug, sometimes a prohibitionist, sometimes a patrón of industry and always a republican.has become a benedict and taking things altogether, bas as much business oti hand as a bee in a tar-bucket. The bride was Mrs Mary A. Rogers, of Ypsilanti. The wedding took place at the M. E. parsonage, Sunday last week, Rev E. W. Ryan officiating. Mr. Partridge made the run for Governor on the prohibition ticket in 1890, and led Farmer Winans a hot chase, coming within 167,000 votes of an election. It has leaked out that a young gentleman fiom Ypsilanti will deliver the Fourth of July oration at Belleville on the subject. "From the landing of the Pilgrims to the Battle of Buil Run. Thetíelleville Enterprise- so says the Ypsilantian - notes the fact but suppresses the orator's name. Emanating as he does from the shadow of the Normal, the address will undoubtedly be scholarly; yet it strikes us that for one who at the time oí the Buil Run battle was"mewling and puking in his nurse's arms," our incog Ypsilanti friend lias grappled with a gigantic subject. The Ypsilantian has discovered an 'entomological Coxey" in the shape of i rare bug, whose stomach successf ully resists the effects of Paris green, London purple, helebore and all other scientific schemes of tragedy. Viewed under the microscope, after his meal of Paris green, he looks as gay and natty as a Saratoga sport. A1Í things thus far work to the good of his stomach and the destruction of the rose. The pest will be turned over to the Agricultural College just as soon as the faculty concludes its present experiments to determine whether the fish worm is a mammalian or an oviparoua animal. At Willis, on Children's Day, while the exercises were at the summit of their interest an unchristianized colt, owned by Mr. Day and hitched near the church began cutting np shines and flnally threw himself. Some men rushed hastily out and this precipitated a panic. It was supposed that another tramp cycloae was approaching. Children yelled, ladies fainted and the June bugs looked out of the cracks to see what was the matter. When all were out and the proceedings for the afternoon broken up for good the colt got up, whisked his tail, whinnied and very clearly testified his satisfaction that the show waa over and everybody ready to go home. I Chas. AJban, of Dentón, a prosperoiis and respeeted farmer, is very low frum i siroke of paralysis. The ( herry iiee is again in league il h thé surgeons. The eight year old son if James MeGregor, of Ypsilanti, has juyt iiiokej) his right arm in two places The following graduated frotn St. Jühn's Catholie schooi, Ypsilanti; last Thursday eveuing: Genevieve Gunn, Nellie Burke, Dolly Geoghan an' Genevieve Cross. The diplomas and a book to eaeh gradúate were presented ly Fr. Kennedy. Fr. Kennedy, of the Atlantis base ball club, during the practico, at Ypsilanti, before the mortal encounter witli the Evening News Club, last Fridny, chased a "tty," (no tlies oti Fr. Kennedy), and tumbled into a hole with such forcé and effect as to score un elbou dislocation and was removed to a surgeon's oflice fot repairs. The at-cideiit was much regretted by all and tbere were man y expressions of syinpatby. Capt. Allen was to have delivered the commencement ddress at Wyandotte, but as tbe small-pox is at present playiDgan erjgageruent in Ypsilanti llie captain decided uqt to alarm llie Wyaiiúotteians with bis presenee. lie hopes, however, to be out oí' "quarantine" before the next republican congressiona) eonvention, though several statesmen who are now all broken out with congressional eczema hope to keep liimcornered till after thatevent. Itissaidthat the ranch talked oí inter-urban service between Ypsilanti. Aun Arbor and Teeumseh wil] shortly become a reality. - Dexter Leader. II'ui!- well. jes, we should ratlier think so Tbere is in Adrián a gentleman of the name of Nesuiitb, who. as uiten as once a montli has bougüt the Adrián Street railway with uuerring promptitude and with the asauranee that it is a part of the "intra-mercurial" railroad that will soon coanect the points above named, and whose people still sit froui montli t) month on the shores of time scanning the horizon of eternity and listening tor the snort of the inter-urban railroad engine. On the Fourth of July. Dexter will be clacl in the stars and stripes. She wül tie the eagle to the l'asr-staff and rush him up and down the streets and huirah for the proud buzzard of freedom. Hon. James McNamara, a former Dexterite. will tread the rostrum and squirt heavy tragedy over the multitude. The Chelsea band will be there; likewise the sheared hog. Coxey army, tireworks. fire water and other blessings of American freedom. Entlnisiasin will run high and some of the cotuiiiittee will go to bed so full that their back teeth will be afloat. Well, Dexter really has no American eagle. We sitriply borrowed one for her, for this paragraph. The passion of tlit; theme demanded it.