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Death has deprived Flat Rock of its undertaker. The college base ball team will be out for blood next season. "Bud" Fowler will commence coaching the team in the gymnasium the first of the year. - Clinton News. The state board of agriculture will make a departure. Instead of having a succession of "gimcrack" institutes, they will make them fewer, but they will be "gallbusters." Delinquent subscribers to the Britton Reforraed church building fund, are notified that they must pay either the whole or part pretty soon, or forfeit their fire insurance in the future world. Rev. L. N. Moon recently preached a vitriolic sermón at South Lyon against gossipers, showing the manifold evils that leap from an unbridled tongue. VVho has been telling stories on Eider Moon ? During an inquest that was being held over an old revolver, in the hands of E. B. Kingsbury, of Pittsfield, last week, the bullet struck the neck of Kingsbury's cousin Cook, rnaking a slight wound. J. G. Lockwood, living near Morrice, formerly a Handy farmer, is hav-ing more than his share of bad luck. About two inonths ago his barns were destroyed by fire. together with all his season's crops. On Monday of last week his house was also burned and nothing was saved except a few articles of household furniture. - Fowlerville Observer. Through a complaint of the W. C. T. U. ladies, President Killins ordered che soap off the windows of the billiard hall so that the patrons of that institute could be seen by their wives and mothers without going in af ter them. The result is magical, - not a soul cares to be seen about the place and the doors have closed. - South Lyon Excelsior. The person who took an ivory foot rule, by mistake, from this office, will make no mistake in returning it. - Fenton Independent. The person who has our pearl-handle, diamond-tipped gold pen: our silver lead pencil with rubby settings, and our ebony-handled seal skin paste brush, will also make no mistake in returning them. - Northville Record. This reminds us that some larcenous son of Belial has "swiped" the spittoon which we made from the skull of one of the office bores whom we found hanging around here when we came to Ann Arbor. It seems as though the outside world looks upon an editor as frce pillage at all times.
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Ann Arbor Argus
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