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Roundabouts

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
November
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mis. Maria Haynes, of Pinckney, celebrated her cjoth birthday, last week. Fellow up at Lapeer is named Cornfoot. The person who steps on that foot - ! John Kuss, a tramp, is in the Adrián bastile. The impecunious Kuss will have a trial today. The Morning Press, a daily, has struck Lansing to fill a long-feit want. Independent. C. A. White, editor. Marshall Bennett, of Sturgis, on the morning after Hallowe'en, found an old horse in the lockup. The "pelter" was released on "hay bale." Stockbridge has a butcher shop of her own, and outside butchers who have been blowing horns on her streets and selling four year old spring lamb, have quit. J. R. Dunning, of Pinckney, is suffering from the effects of a toboggan slide down his barn stairs. A large bundie of cornstalks bore him company downward. A dirty tramp being refused a meal in Stockbridge the other day, retaliated by cutting a slat and wire fence in pieces with a pair of nippers which he had probably stolen. V. Dëlucca, Italian fruit dealer, of Adrián, is under $1,000 bonds, charged with contracting a fraudulent debt of S600. He si not "de lucky" man his name indicates. "Crack-the-whip" was played by school children of Hudson, one day last week, 'till the lad who acted as the cracker, flew off, and striking a woodpile his skull was neariy cracked. Burglars broke into a Hudson harness shop last week, and with "unbridled rein," "tugged" off three sets of harness. No "trace" of the thieves. A "check" should be put on this business. John Bayan, of Inkster, "wined, dined, and tobaccoed" his friend Broek, with so much liberality that Broek thought Jack wouldn't mind the loss of a suit of clothes; but he did and Broek was broken-hearted over his arrest. A Fairfield farmer asked to be trusted b) an Adrián hardware merchant, on the ground that he was a Haptíst deacon in good standing at home, but the castiron heart of the k aler compelled "spot cash." Is baptism a fa il ure ? These are the days when the old rheumatic, of Pinckney, crawls from his coop beside the coal stove to the sunny side of the Street, and wants to bet half a dollar that he "kin beat anv man in the crowd üitchin' quaits." The venerable mother of the late T. S. Applegate, of the Adrián Times, was found on the floor of her bedroom dead, Monday moming. Death is supposed to have been caused by heart disease. She was 80 years oíd and a native of England. Mary E. Parker has found the Baptist plan of salvation so unsafe that she has sued the church of VVil'.iamston for #10,000 damages. Trusting that the gospel highway to the church was secure, she thrust a leg through a hole where there should have been a plank and received the injuries for which she asks recompense. A young man was standing in front of Boyd's market the other day, smoking a cigarette, and was accosted by an old lady, who asked him if he understood arithmetic. The young man said he did, and the old lady asked him to figure out how long it would take to smoke up a farm. The cigarette man smiled and passed on. - Adrián Telegram. Soon after the furnace in the new house of VVm. Warner, at Milan, was fïred up, the other day, it was thought best to send out and have the fire department cali around. It was uot needed, however. The appearance of (langer was only the smoke which, coming into the rooms through unplugged stovepipe holes, was looking for chances to get out. The prisoners in Coldwater jail had a very fair little Hallowe'en toot. They shoved their table against the door and piled their furniture on it. The sheriff was compelled to smash the table legs to open the door. Then he locked the men in their cells and was going to give their stomachs a chance to re cover from the rich jail feed by giving them no breakfast; but the sheriff's wife, more cruel, gave the men their morning meal. Hallowe'eners at Adrián fairly upset the town. Their pranks caused several accidents. Among others whose dignity was unhorsed by horse blocks and other obstructions on the sidewalk, was Squire Vandegrift. His gravity was upset while on his way home in the evening, and justice and judgment received severe bruises. If auy of the law-breaking rascáis come before him, they will find the heart of the court as cold as the dead legs of Falstaff.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News