Washtenawisms

Celery was not mueh cut by the ïecent trosts about Manchester. The manchester fruit evaporator vaps 130 bushels of npples tlaily. The Milan school opened with 221scholar power, mi a complement, of good looking lady teachers. Whittaker Maccabees have moved their hive over to Abuott's hall. Noliody vvhs stung and no tansy uaed. The Manchester Catholic church is being pushed rapidly toward completion. It will be a structure to be proud of. A Manchester pupil says that volcanoes are " extinct and instinct.' There's a, fellow who's mountain high in geological lore. Buhl Hawker is the name of a Willis meat inarketinan. .sometimes one thinks there ia nothing in a luiíiie. nul then agiiiu he does. Will Kishler, of Ypsilanti, claims to own i ten pound boy of recent arrival. Mrs. Kishler also pretenda to have sume interest in the -kid." Eev. Joseph Svvindt, of Milan, haa sufflciently recovered trom hi3 illnoss to again take his place as sharp-shooter Kt the sins of man, trom the walls of Zion. Miss Al ice Bethel and George Campbell, of Willis, were mariied on the 20th. The song of "The Campbells Are Coming" is old, but it won't do to consider it obsolete, as vet. Merithew & Lenus, of Manchester, Monday night of last week kept a lorce of men sprinkling their celery, to prevent it from freezing, thus cunningly beating Jack Frost's dearest hopes. On her return from Pittsburg. Mrs. Florence S. Babbitt, of the W. R. C. of Ypsilanti, one of the National Conductors. was given a grand reception. Htwhicli ab-nt 100 were present. She is a lady of talent and appreciated at lier home. As Mcsdames Geo. and Ed. Haiglit, of Milán, were íetitrning trom xpsbhtnti, last week, their tooi horse became scared at nothing and sprang into tbe ditcli. The ladies were thrown out and considerauly injured. Mra. Cookenback, of Chicago, latelv addressed the ladies of Hilan, selecting for her subject: Her General Needs." Mis. Cookenback's lect ute beingto the ladies, Mr, Cookingliome, who resides off in that vicinity, was, of course, excluded. John W. Watts, of Jackson, liaving received the republican senatorial nomination for this district, it is ir) order for friend Osband, if he has sonríe tears to slied for Ypsilanti, to spill them now. Mr. Clark received 11 votes. What: republicans sit down oti Ypsi! The Baptist ladies of Milan will hold their annnal harvest fair and festival Oct. 5th, afternoon and evening. A lot of good stuff to eat has been provided, but there will be no slinging Hip s'ipper in the waltzy dance. pin glinging or glove contests. ïhe churc i is ".'gin it." There are 61fi school children in Au asta - a gain oí 7 over last yrar. Not withstanding hard times, cliilciren are showing up with even t)etter than the usuril production. Now let souae tariff campaigner over in Augusta get up ;ind bawl "the Wilson bilí has bralued the infant industries." One week from today,in Manchester township, there will be a general hunt, Dr. Kotts and B. W. Amsden being the respective leaders. Forty men will fall upon the fnrious red sqirrel and blood-thirsty chipmunkin mortal combat, and nó one can prophecy how jnany brave boys must fall. ""he business of the Whittaker post■offlt-e has so iiicreased that the P, M. is building aw addition to it. He asked for and secnred a " public building appropriation." asfessingtheamount upon liis own revenues, tlius verifying an old maxim : " If you expect Rnything done, do it yourself." The L. O. T.M.,of Milan, Thursday iind Fridav evenings of this week. will try to raise "The Dead Witness" by local dramatic talent. Dollars to ■ douglinuts thatif "The Dead Witness" is locked into one of those self-fastener askets, local talent can't fetch him. It will require a grave-robbing medical student to get him out. H M. "Rose, formerly manager of the Keeley Instituto in this city. was in town last week, and it is said liis object was the pushing of Congressman Burrows' senatorial boom. No use, TIenry, our representatives will vote for Úhl and Strong.- Ypsilanti Sentinel. Mr. "Rose had better take a course at some Keeley cure. A iipw 15-foot fltg on the school building causes the patriotism of the Milan small boy to look up. The so.hool ihiB as an educator in the love of country may be a barren ideal i ty, buk the Argus thinks difEerently, and believes that nothing in the early training of the American youths, will bpget moro of "native land " than the sight of the stars and stripeg above a school building. The Alpha Sigma of Manchester bas purchased au international dictionary for the high school. It is interestrtng to study the same sentiment in different languages. For instance, take the word "theory" and we flnd the international reñderings, "git," "scoot," "skedaddle," "pike," "taddle," and "git a move on ye." Edgecation vvasn't nothin once to what she is now. A comick entertainment was given at Willis, last week, by the Rawsonville and Willis literary society. It is said that Mr. Ballard's rendition of "The Gentleman from Boston, or The Poet's Battle with the Bovine" brought down the house. It was an epic narrativo, from which it appears that when the advantage seemed all on the side of the other man, the poet composed and recited a verse of angel poetry and immediately the buil was "cowed." A dispute aróse in Ypsilanti the other day between Mrs. Rachel Bogardus, oí the first part, and John Cornell, of the second part,overadebt, Cornell insisting that Mrs. Bogardus ís bound unto him as a debtor. A warrant for assault and battery was issued for Cornell. One story is to the effect that the lady sailed in on Cornell, but feil in a faint and was not struck. In the ring the contestants drop to avoid punishment, but it is not likely that Mrs. B understands sucli tactics. The cornice of the now Odd Fellows' building at Milan attraets attention. L'he sp;irrows have sized it. up ana next year will rent it for an incubator. Clarence, oneyear oíd son of George ■Pickerson, of Manchester, last week hit a railroad torpedo with a rock, to try wlïat effect it Would have. and was surprised. The rock was torn to pitees and the hand that held the rock wa severely lacerated. It was a one-act "tragedy," and little Clarence will not , appear again in a similar role till his hand gets well. Children [ove to pound away at the mysteries of science as well as people who have stopped growing. E. B. Ford bought two fresh flsh. of two well known fish peddlers, the other duv, and in each one of tlip fish fomid h 7-onnce load sinker. - Milan LeHilar. : The Argus will not state wliat it thinks ' of tliis story, but will mpntion t!e incident of a member of the lesjis'aiifo wlio pxc.laimed: "Mr. Spe iker. I vill not rharacterize the gmilemMii Uo' preceded me as a scoundrel and i liar, j f( r thut wonld not be parliacnetitary; ! bnt. Mr. Speaker, I shall always ttiink 80."