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Additional Washtenawisms

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
November
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Chelsea has also heard that P. J. Lehman is to be deputy county treasurer. Frank Xelson and C. J. Downer, of Chelsea, have emigrated to St. Louis to dress western poultry for the gullets of the effete east. George Connors and Pat McCabe have become "jag" merchants of Dexter, having purchased the saloon business of Peter Guiñan, who has his eyeball on Pinckney. Today, tomorrow and the next day, in Vpsilanti, will be pretty much given up to the fair given by the W. R. C, for the benefit of the soldiers' monument fund. Lyman F. Graves, once of Ypsilanti town, but now a war department clerk, was recently married to Miss Eunice Louise Kellogg, of Batavia, N. V. "Hark! from the Graves, a warning sound." R. J. West, of Sylvan, is represented by the Chelsea Standard correspondent as having "again commenced his trade of slaughteringold horses." The question is, Does Sylvan furnish many "clinics?" Many wrongly marked ballots vere voted in Manchester. Several oles which were evidently intentled ! ;o be cast for Rhefuss, were thrown aut for irregularity. That is too bad - he needed them so awfully! The office at the old Manchester lumber yard having been closed, the brass band of the village now have no place for practice, unless they rent the open air. What is the matter with lending the boys a church? Singular thing has happened. F. S. Shaefer, of Ypsilanti, has becorae the parent of a girl, and "up to date" nobody has spoken of the offspring as "a bouncing baby" or uttered a word about the old man's "broad smile." The Argus acknowledges this little pellet of post election comfort f rom the kind hearted Ypsilantian: "Go take thy pill, go take thy pill, go take thy pilgrim home." Thanks, tor we feel like hel- we feel like hel - ■ we feel like helping pilgrims home. The lesson each member of the grange, in Ypsilanti town, had learned during the past year, furnished amusing entertainment at the last meeting of that body. Bet any member of the grange a government V that he learned some lessons he did not relate. The are light at the corner of Main and Railroad streets, Chelsea, possesses that sort of attraction for the people that it does for the "straddlebug." They will keep on demanding more till the council wili be compelled to grant them or leave town. The hearing in the case of the boys who sent a hailstorm of rocks into a Michigan Central train at Chelsea, has been adjourned to the 28th. The boys still believe they can prove an "lullaby," and that the train passed through a shower of meteors. The Rev. M. M. Goodwin, of Yp silanti, having escapee! from the chaplaincy of the navy, and dodged yellow fever and all sorts of improvidences, arrived safely in Ypsilanti Wednesday, and glad was he to get there. No less joyful were the members of his old ilock, to see them. Sometime, of course, this good clergyman ma y be taken out of his head and again yearn for the job of standing between heavenly justice and the American navy, otherwise he won't. Rev. Frank Blomfield last Sunday concluded his course of sermons on David, with the topic: "David the Sweet Singej. " If the eider handled the subject as did the good colored minister, he told his hearers that close by David's bedroom window, there grew a "pessel tree," and that David, when a youth, was wont to climb out of the window early in the morning, into the pessel tree with his harp and sit on a high limb and sing for half an hour; and he added: "Henee, breddren, cometh dat passage which saith, 'Awake pessel tree and harp!'"

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News