Sleighing Parties Saturday Night

Saturday night was very ínclement. The high wind was drifting the snow and the thermometer was endeavoring to get below the zero point, yet the young people were not to be deterred from taking their sleighride. A party of high school seniors, boys and girls, took a sleighride to the home of M. F. Case in Pittsfield. They had a hard time with the snovvdrifts, being several times obliged to dismount, and in several instances to leave the road, tear d'wn their fences and get their load through the fields. They reached their destination at a late hour. The driver absolutely refused to return that night, and it was eleven Sunday before the party returned home. In the meantime the parents were exceedingly anxious, and there was much worry, tears and lamentations. Two of the boys froze their faces and one froze a foot. Another party of seventeen couples, composed of a college fraternity and their young lady friends, from Detroit, started at four o'clock Saturday afternoon in two conveyances for Whitmore Lake. Each rig tippetl over, the fields were resorted to, to avoid the drifts, and at a late hour the loads arrived at Whitmore Lake. They returned by train, and the rigs did not reach home until Sunday afternoon.