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Day
11
Month
January
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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]). W. Barry, drain commissioner, has made his final order establishing the proposed drain north of this village and named it "Mili Lake Drain." He was here Monday and Tuesday preparing the assessment district. Miss Cora Taylor returned to her studies at Cleary college on Monday. The new Congregational church will be dedicated week after next. The ice erop is ripe and is now being harvested. It is about 8 inches thick. School oponed again Monday with about the usual attendance. W. W. AVhitcomb has resigned his pastorate of the Baptist church of this place, to take efffet in the spring. The week of prayer is being observed this week at the M. E. church. Fred Emerson Brooks, of California, is booked for an entertainment at the town hall, next Saturday night. This sharp, freezing weather without snow on the ground is not good for wheat on the ground. The markets are dull and arrivals moderate. Wheat 50c, rye 47c, oats 30c, barley 95c, beans $1.25) dressed hogs $5, dover seed $5, eggs 18c, buiter 17, turkeys 6c and chickens 5c. The taxes for Clark's lake drain fund in Lyndon are nearly all paid in. The taxes come in slowly and nearly half the taxes of Sylvan were not paid in by the loth of January; after which the 4 per cent. may bé added. The glass has been put in the front of Steinbach's block and the inside work goes on. M. J. Lehman, of Ann Arbor, was here Wednesday on professional business. Colds and lung troubles are very prevalent now. The doctors have all they can do. It is many years since we got this far into the winter without having so much as a little run of poor sleighing. Cutters andsldghs have had no sale here yet this.season.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News