Washtenawisms

Abrancli of the needlework guild of America luis been formed at Ypsilanti. A revival meeting is progressing at Willis with evidences oí substantial íeneñt. Adam Obèrsmith, sent froni Sha ron to the Pontiac asyluui, is reportad to have escaped froni the institución. Ungrateful for ill the hay and oats fed him, a horse of M. Alber, oí ■ Bridgewater, ldid him down and died. last week. The O. T. Q. Club is the name of a high school organization at Ypsilanti. The origin of the name is kept secret. O, 'Tia Queer ! Fred Alber, of Bridgewater, had a finger nipped off by an illnatured machine last week, and justnow is unable to "point with pvide." At a grand rally of dancéis at JJridge■water station, last week, only two ladies rallied; but tliey prevented it from being called a " stag dance." Fred Churchill, of the Normal, was ;i participator in the game at Olivet. He will receive his "' second sight " as soon as the swellings about his eyes are reduced. VVtn. Cornell, employed on the farm of Hon. J S. Lowden, of near Ypsilanti, was found dead in his bed, Tuesday. He had been ill but a short time. Ueath is attributed to heart failure. Nathan Heath, of Ypsilanti, is an nnsafe man. He is charged by Mary Kuder with seduction,and is also under bonds to answer for rape. Nathau has vveaknesses that are very likely to ruin him. The Sentinel calis the election of a chairman of the board of supervisors "an enervating piece of work." Not at all. The muscular labor of casting the ballots gave the board "an appetite Hke a wolf." A lot of blacksmith tools ha ving recently been stolen at Ypsilanti, leads to the reasonable presumption that some person is about to relieve his necessities by cracking a store or private d welling. While Fred Meach, of Whittaker, was worshiping in the Baptist church, of Ypsilanti, a low-down tliief was stealing the robe from his carnage. under the shed. The church shed needs a janitor and cloak room. Fred Woelper and Geo. J. Nissly, of Saline, recently shipped to New York 25,000 pounds of poultry, theprice paid being 6 cents. They had flrst filled their orders when the priee dropped, and feil on the toes ot the other felJows. The Enterprise states that the banks of Manchester have greatly increa3ed their deposits since July. Isn't it ;ibout time for the calamity howler to ijet down off the fence and warui up his pinched carcass, digging potatoes V .Amos A. Gregg, of Columbus, Ohio, was recently severely injured near Chelsea, in a dispute with a railroad train. The cigar-makersof the village UH)k him in kindly charge, and he will live to rnakeciuars again, though for suie tiine h;r future wore a siooky h-Aze. It is a question at Ypsilanti whether ït is proper to take up a collection at a memorial exercise. Why not? A par.son once preached a funeral sermón, and "proposed" to the widowat the grave, and tbus "cut out;' the deacon who waited till she got home. TIntime to hit the irou is when it is malleable. Tbe highwayman who held up Kev. Biilloek, of Saline, and grabbed his wateh, was not thinking of eternity, but of " time." We understand that the watch was a AVaterbury, and the minister snickers as he reflects how mué! valuable time the fellow will lose winding it. Atwelve-year-old Ypsilanti boy stole a watch from the vest of a labórer iu ' the seminary. So young and yet so wicked. Alas ! why is it that under the ; t'uli blaze of the gospel and the beacon of the Normal, " villainy so monstrous should inhabit such tender youth " at Ypsilanti ? It is not so at Ann Arbor. "No persons, except physicians, who have been recently exDOsed to smallpox, shall leave their home or resiflence, or suffer any member of their fatnily to leave said home," etc, "without the special permit of the board of : health," is the rather queer wording of a public notice by the board of health : oï Manchester. Prof. Thomas Moran, of Manchester, is taking a post-graduate course at Johns Hopkins University, at Baltimore. Moran is one of those scholars who nevercease to be students, therein differing from a certain soit who, havïng received the sheepskin of graduation think they stand on the pinnacle of all knowledge, and that there is no fnrtiier "upwards." Let the educated fooi and the illiterate fooi shake hands. They are brothers. Forty-four fearless hunters ranged the woods about Manchester, last week, and killed 10,000 points. Amsden and Rotts were the respective leaders, Amsden's side winning. On account of the scarcity of rhinoceri and hairy elephants, it was necessary to make the scores run high to get a showing that would loom up in the telegraph tispatches. Chipmunks were rated at 5,000 each, and chiekadees at 3,500, or else the report that reaches the Argus is a campaign slander. Otto Schaitile, of Manchester, aged 19, son of Fred Schaible, Monday oí last week, slid down from the haymow and the slivered end of a broken pifcehfork handle entered his body and ylowed around among his internal works. Four inches of the sliver were broken off in his body, and Drs. Kapp and Iddings were compelled to add to the wounds and make a cut to reach and remove it. Notwithstandiug the awful punch and puncture, young Schaible is doing well and will probably recover, but will avoid the haymow toboggan. The burglarly of a dress suit of clothing from Fred George, of Ypsilanti, was the work of Moreland Cook, ■sou f Rev. Wm. Cook, of that place. Yoang Cook was engaged in school 'teaching at Charlotte, but came home on a yacation, was tempted, and his iofcegrity slid out from under him. He has iïeen guilty of small thef ts before. 'Tfee f amily is an eminently respectable one and Moreland's conduct is regarded as that of a kleptomaniac. Ilis snte3Jectual services at Charlotte will bedïspensed with, and the law allowed iohecome his doctor. The mortality ageney at Saline lias b 'en reinforced by the arrival of a liew doctor. The undertaker and the tombstone maker rejoice. A court of the order of Foresters has heen organizad at .Manchester, with Fred . Katz the fterce chiei' Forester. The password is: "Babes-i u-the woods." Isaac Collins, of Chelsea, was reeentI ly stricken with paralysia while walking along the street. He has been removed to the home of his daughtei in Grass Lake. Rev. Thomas Elgar, "the pioneer evangelist," spoke last Sunday even ing al: the Baptist church in Ypsilanti on ' Forgotten Men." It is to be hoped that he reniembered ex President Har rison. Mis. George Mann. of Bridgewatei has had much of life's enjoyment rob bed out of the last tlnee weeks, on ac eount of a kettle of hot water whicl feil, scalding one of her ankle severely. Fred 'ogel, of Chelsea, considere t lie matter, and the more he considerei the more he determined to accept, am has left for Pittsburg to assnnic the management of the Mission Fubllsh ingCotnpany. A chicleen pie social at the Saline Baptist parsonage, last week, netted $10. The managers re f use to disclose the method by which the poultry was procured. and even the eider assumes a lack of knowledge. The Ypsilantian trims up the Courier for referring to M. A. Whitney, oí the Ypsilanti public schools, as "W A. Whitney," and adds: "Fanie has its annoyaiices." Yes, a man may live to see his name spelled wrong on his tombstone. The Whittaker burilara who looted the store of i'. J. Hammond hardly had a fair show. The poor fellows after working hard with a sledge to break open the safe, failed. Ilonest toil seldom receives its fuü measure of reward. It is expected that Sbaron is about tolose one of its most estimable young lailies; but Sharon's loss will be Manchester's gain. - Sbaron Oor. Chelsea Standard. Now, what Mnnchesterian has had the bardibood to pluck the rose of Sb aren y Iloward Bartlett, about to depnrt ai ;i missionary to China, spoke in Saline Sunday evening, last week. He goes in excellent time, to show the jaundice-hued Mongolians that their pot stomached gods are not worth a continental in a war with the Japs. John Braun, of Manchester, has K acres of low land so situated that it can be irrigated from springs, without pumping. This man of luck will grow eelery there next season, and smile on his green erop while the celery of his neighbors is "sizzling" in the sun. An experience social for the benefit of the Presbyterian S. ís. piano fuud will be held in Vpsilanti toraorrow evening. "Fun, poetry and refreshments" lor 10 cents. Souie single experiences will be worth the price of the entertainment, if the truth is told. ï'riends of Horace Parsons, of Salme, made a large cali at his home last week, and left a fine patent rocker, in which he can sit and remember that lie was 72 years qld the day they gave it to iiiiii. If it wás not for such httle enchantments it would hardly be worth while to grow old. S. O. Fisher's old white horse seems to be an important factor in the democrat campaign this year, and vet he's not mentioned in that wonderful campaign book.- "Slantian. Yes, " the pale horse and its rider" confronts the republicans at every turn, and at the sight their knees knoek together. A petition of Ypsilanti town is out, praying for an extensión of Wiard road northto Superior township, on the line between sections 1 and 2. ïlius far no casualties over the proposed opening have occurred, but it is yet pretty early in the season. New roads are seldom opened without a little blood-letting. Mr. and Mrs. John Post, of Milán, recently passed the 40th niile-post on their matrimonial road. Their friends were posted and immedjately postee post-has.te to the Post residence, in the post-meridian of the day, and passed the eveniug withthetn. Postsciïpt - A mimber of fine presents were prese nted to Mr. and Mrs. Post. "What should a wonian know; whai shoula a woman do?" was the title ot a recent lecture at Milan by Miss Mabel Frew. We know not how the lady handled the subject; but if it is a married woman, she should know when her husband's socks need darning and see that they are darned nice. If it were Miss Mabel herself, she might come and browse around our mustache and we would never say her nay. Squire Doyle brought with hiru frotn York State samples of Australian wool, which has kicked up such a rumpus in the United States. It is of a dark color, coarse, and about a foot in length. Jim says all democrats will soon be wearing clothes made out of Australian wool.- Milán Leader. And 80 long as American wool- which was never enough to supply even the home market - keeps aliove the McKinley "protected" price, why shouid Jim care? Eh, Jim. Mondiiy last week, a well founded alarm seized the township of Manchester when it wasfound that George Heimerdinger, three miles Southwest of the village, had small-pox. Two of the Heimerdinger family attended Emanuel's church in the village, on Sunday morning, and in the afternoon a number of persons called at the residence, the family being ignorant of the character oL the disease till the visit of Dr. Kapp. The utmost vigilance is being taken to prevent the spread of the disease. Accounts differ concerning the assault on Rev. C. S. Bullock, of Saline. The first sets forth the robbery of the parson of his watch and some other valuables, and the further incident of the polite pootpad handing him his lantern at the conclusión of the ceremony. A later account, however, is to the effect that the minister was hit on the head with a club, but fought back, singing as he chucked the clips into his antagonist: "O how happy are tliey Wtao their Saviorobey," And did this with such religious enterpriseand spirit that his single assailant fled before his pais could come up. Just what the exact facts are, we have yet to learn. Eider, you will please be sworn. Ilold up your hand- or both hands, if you have any cash.