Washtenawisms

Senator McMillan has contrib uted $25 to the soldiers' monumeni at Ypsilanti. Jacob Hummel, of Chelsea, recently stepped on a rusty nail and as a result has a very sore foot. Some time Chelsea is to have twr condemned cannon for a soldiers' monument. Congress passed the bill last VVednesday. Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Glazier, oi Chelsea, are the joint proprietors ol a new girl which arrived at theii home on the i3th inst. for him and from long acquaintance with Mr. DaniePs work as a teach i the writer of this can say that he deserves the credit accorded him. Willis VanRiper, ol Chelbea, dicu at his home in that place last Tuesday. He was an exemplary young man and his triends were legión. Principal Daniels, of the Clinton public schools, has resigned his position owing to failing health. The Clinton Local speakes good words Prof. F. E. Wilcox, of Addison, has been engaged to rïll the vacancy in the Clinton schools caused by the resignation of Principa! Daniels. A farmers' institute under the auspices of the Lenawee County Agricultural society will be held in Adrián, the 23rd, 24th and 25th ot this month. The Ypsilanti Commercial perpetrates the following:' Fred Rankin and Miss Ruth Clute, through a hole in the ice cjid shoot, Dundee is their home, and no more did tliey roam until each had donned a dry suit. Ypsilanti has a saloon that is named "The Midway." It is at the midway and both ends of the daily journeyings of some chaps. At a lire there last week it suffered damage to the extent of 1,200. - Adrian Press. Miss Ada Prudden, one of Chelsea's school mams, has resigned her position for the purpose of accepting a similar position at St. Joseph. Her place at Chelsea has been sup plied by the election of Miss Florence Carpenter, of Kalamazoo. Ypsilanti high school students will r nder the operetta, Phyllis, in the near future. Much time is being spent in practice and the various parts are being thoroughty mastered. It promises to be a fine amateur pcrforinance. Tickets will cost fifteen cents. A mathematical society is alleged to exist among the Normal school students, which meets every Sunday evening at various private resi: dences. The problem now under consideration is how to reduce the time consumed in moving from the tete-a-tete to the lights and back again to the minimum. So it seems that Scove Stacy has added lecturing to his already long list of accomplishments. He is booked for a snap-shot story of the World's Columbian exposition, 25 cents for a single shot or 50 cents for three, at the Saline opera house, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of this week. The new officers of the L. O. T. M., of Ypsilanti, banquetted the members of the order last VVednesday evening. There were about fïfty people in attendance and the occasion was greatly enjoyed by all present. Mis. C. A. Nims, an esteemed officer of the order, was made the recipiënt of a handsome silver set of four pieces. A Georgia editor turned poet and this iswhat he ground out: "The wind bloweth, the water floweth, the subscriber oweth and the Lord knoweth we are in need of our dues. So come a-runnin' this thing of dunnin' gives us the blues." There must be genius in that editor-poet, for so many others have had similar touches of inspiration. There will be a big rally of old soldiers at Lansing some time during the month of March. On this occasion the colors lost during the war by the seventeenth, nineteenth and twentieth regiments of Michigan infantry will be returned. The flags were obtained through the efforts of Senator Patton and will be placed in the capitol museum at Lansing, for preservation. The death of Charles Alban occurred at his home two and a half miles east of Ypsilanti, Friday evenïng. The deceased has been a suff'erer from paralysis for some time past and it was this that was the direct cause of his demise. He was 72 years of age and had been a resident of this vicinity since 1850, having come here at that time with a large colony of Englishmen who settled near Dentón. He wis always an industrious farmer and by his sturdy carefulness accumulated a considerable competency. He was highly respected by everybody who knew him and the community loses a model citizen. He leaves a widow and one son, Go. Alban, of this city. The funeral will take place Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. - Times. Representative Kcmpf, of Ann Arbor, has introduced a bilí in the legislaturc to have railroad corapanies keep a bulletin board at the stations on which shall be indicated whether trains run on time, or if they are late. The roads have adopted this plan for two years, and the Washtenaw VanVVinkle should now introduce a measure providing for sunrise in the rnorning. - Adrián Press. Milan, according to the Leader, is to have satisfied a long feit want. A laundry is soon to be established there, and accordingly eveTybody is hustling - Editor Smith in the lead - to provide a change of raitnent so that the laundry may have some patronage. 'J'he Milan people have j been wearing the kind oí clothing that becomes stronger witli wear, but there will now be a renovation. The officers of the Chelsea VV. R. C. for the ensuing year are: President, Mrs. Mary Martyn; senior, vice-president, Mrs. Addie Green; junior vice-president, Mrs. Arminta Chapman; chaplain, Mrs. Julia Fuller; secretary, Mrs. R. M. Wilkinson; treasurer, Mrs. Cassie Palmer; conductor, Mrs. Joe Cushman; guard, Mrs. Victoria Conk; assistant conductor, Mrs. Lillie Wood; assistant guard, Mrs. Belina Negus. An editor is a man who lives on what other people owe him till he starves to death. A subscriber is one who takes the paper and says he is well pleased. and he tells everybody élse "you ought to subscribe." Af ter he has subscribed two years and a half, the editor writes to hira to let him have $2.50, and the subscriber writes back to the editor and tells him not to send his old paper any more for there is nothing in it, and then the poor editor goes and starves some more. - Northville Nrews. The sons of veterans of Grass Lake held a public installation of officers in G. A. R. hall, Monday evening, the i4th inst., when the following officers were inducted into office: Captain, Joseph Wolfïnger; ist Heutenant, Louis Frear; 2d lieutenant, Chas. Moshier; ist sergeant, Isaac Frear; 2d M. S., W. B. Ames; S. G., Chas. Frear; Col. G., Kymball Smith; P. M., Monroe Cooper; Cor. G., Henry Kilmer; C. G., Fred Jarsdorfer; P. G., Louis Kilmer. A bountiful oyster supper was served afterward by the ladies. Sam Weiennett asks the question, that if, in the enlightened country where everything is supposed to be free and under protection, a person or his family cannot leave home for a short time without finding on his return, the place wholly in the possession of a dozen or more who seem bent on making free theentire houseliold. This was the state of affairs ast Monday night when about two dozen from town drove down to give Saín and his wife a good old surprise which was most successful. An oyster supper followed and the small ïours of Tuesday had appeared