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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
February
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Amos Hall, of Mooreville, has moved to Milán. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Turner, on the R. W. Mills farro, near Saline, have a new daughter. It carne one week ago today. Saline village election three weeks from yesterday. Three weeks from yesterday the Milanese will hold their charter election. Milán lovers of the light fantastic will hold a masquerade at the opera house on the natal day of the father of his country. Ed. Stitt, of Augusta, has been appointed deputy sheriff for that township. John Tedder has sold his half in terest in 45 acres' of land one mile south of Whittaker to his brother Arthur. Mr. and 'Mrs. Ed. Clark, of Mooreville, were made happy on the i2th inst, by the arrival of a girl baby consigned to their care. The Bachelors' club of Wayne is making preparations for a dance on the evening of the 22nd. Wonder if it will be a stag dance. Work on the new creamery at Willis is suspended on account of the cold weather. Mrs. Drayton, of Sumpter, has taken up her residence with her daughter, Mrs. Martin Breining, óf Augusta. Mrs. Drayton is very old. Mrs. Bethel, of Willis, who was recently called to Ohio by the death of her father, has returned. Fred Bunten, son of John Bunten, of Willis, has moved from Ypsilanti on his father's farm. He will work the same the coming season. Mrs. Morton Case and daughter, Lydia, of Pittsfield, are sojourning in New York state for a week. James Graves, of Pittsfield, will occupy the farm of Mr. Canfield. J. A. Geraghty, of Ypsilanti, has lost seventv-six swine from a ease which resembles hog cholera. A new boy has come to enliven the home of Mr. snd Mrs. Ed. Voung, of South Ypsilanti town. It is alleged that a Normar student, studying science in the laboratory, on leaving the room blew out the gas. This illustrates the truth of the old saying, "a little knowledge is dangerous." the band boys of Brighton will blow for the entertainment of good people of that village on the evening of the 22nd. They should be patronized. The school board of South Lyon propose to see to it that the law rèíating to sale of cigarettes to boys is enforced. It is a move in the right direction. Wayne is becoming stuck up over the possession of a citizen who is a great grand nephew of the 'revolutionary patriot, Thomas Payne. Don't require much to make some persons and places proud. The professor of physical culture in the Normal school has a new subject to put through the drill. It was presented to him on the 8th inst. by his wife. In time he may have sufficient muscle to give the professor points. Last Tuesday evening P. R Wilson, of Wayne, discovered a man helping himself to some clothes from the line of said Wilson. When Wilson demanded "what came you here to do?" the man dropped his burdenof stiff clothes and proceeded to put remoteness between himself and Wilson. The thief was the better sprinter and made his escape. The Ypsilanti whist players having with the aid of the Ypsi. mineral water done up the Ann Arbor club, allowed their haads to swell. Finally they sallied forth to try their science on the whist lovers of Ingham's capital city, Mason. But like Samson, whose strength lay in his locks, the Ypsilanti-ites found their science lay in the powerful odor of the mineral water and when they were deprived of its support they flunked and Mason carried off the honors. A Harrisville man had a cow which for some time seemed to be a little under the weather, so he had the animal killed, and in her stomach was found a ten-penny nail, ahorseshoe nail, twenty-four one-inch pieces of hay wire, some nail rivets and other bric-a-brac, which is properly supposed to form the diet of the festive goat instead of the meek and lowly bovine. - South Lyon Excelsior. Will Wood and wife, of Clinton, had been marned ten years last Tuesday and as everything had gone as merry as a wedding bell their friends decided to surprise them. The husband and wife were accordingly enticed away from home while a large number of their friends took possession of their domicile and stacked up the table with tin horns, rattles, horses, whistles and other useful family tin ware. Will and wife were then sent for. The rest can be imagined. Today and tomorrow occurs the farmers' institute at Howell. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Millcr, of Urania, have taken a young Miller to raise. The Tecurnseh Eastern Stars give an entertainment this evening in honor of their neighbors of Clinton and Manchester. The bilí has passed thesenate and house providing for the return of their battle flags to the Seventeenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth regiments of Michigan infantry. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Murphv, of Chelsea, had their worldly possessions increased last Tuesday by the advent of a new son worth at least a thousand dollars. I A Lady Washington tea party will be served by the ladies of the Columbian Hive, No. 284, L. O. T. M., of Chelsea, on the 22nd. Fif teen cents pays the bill. Toniorrow evening will occur the niarriage of E. C. Bréese and Louise Platt, of Clinton. C. H. Fabique and Nellie Embler, of Clinton, will commit matrimony the same evening. 1 According to the Manchester Enlerprise the beginning of the twentieth century raay see a new passenger house in that village. "So mote it be." The Monroe Democrat says the prospects for work among the mechanics and laborers of that city for ihe coming season are very bright. There is to be not only a large ámount of private building, but government work as well at the lake front and in the canal. Also a new hotel at the piers. The Washtenaw County Snnday School association will hold its annual convention in the congregational church of Chelsea, Monday evenrtig, March 11. Two delegates should be sent from each school. There will be a fine program presented. James Wylie, of Pinckney, was seriously hurt recently. He and Jas. Hearse were felling a tree when it suddenly bounded from the stump and struck Wylie before he could get out of the way, cutting a deep gash in his forehead and also injuring him internally. Last Friday the Milan Leader becamea fonrteen-year-old. The grayheaded Argus has always been an interested spectator of the development of the youngster and is pleased to note its advance into the realm Of bright, active, hustling youth. Under the law of the survival of the fitest it has demonstrated its right to live. Here's wishing it continued prosperity. According to the Milan Leader a fellöw by the name of Jack Frost, with malice aforethought, did break and destroy the usefulness of a lárge píate glass in the store of Studie & Son, of that place, one cold night not long since. The crime was discovered in time to prevent any other loss than the breaking of the glass A new glass, 50 x 115 inches, has bsen set in the place of the old one. Last Monday deputy United States marshal A. W. Large levied upon the real estáte of Henry C. Spaulding, of Dundee, to satisfy a iudgment of #i,oo in favor of roy M. Avery, and costs amounting to $126.98 - a total of $1,636.98. This is the result of the "watch story" which took place during "the war," and with which our readers are very familiar. We understand a stay of proceedings will proba'bly be entered and the case carried to a higher court. The fun that the gentlemen are having reviewing their war time experiences and adventures may seem somewhat expensive but comrads are sometimes reminiscent. - Monroe Democrat. George Spathelf, the North Side bútcher, bought a hog of a farmer, Friday. The tail of the porker was frozen. so hard that in bringing it into the store from the sleigh it was broken off. The thrifty farmer thereupon procured a needie and thread and sewed the tail on again in order that the pig should weigh heavier. Mr. Spathelf will preserve the tail with the stitches in it as a memento of the most gigantic case of economy on record. - Evening Times. The above may be remarkable in Ann Arbor but not so here. In this city are several men who make it their business to re-tail pork. - Ypsilanti Commercial. February 22 a chicken pie and oyster dinner will be served at the Voung Women's Christian association rooms, 23 Washington street. [f the young ladies will give us a ticket for publishing this notice we will attend. - Ypsi. Commercial. Did you ever ! If those young women are wise they will pay cash for the above notice. That editor is hollow clear to his toes and he has been without food for some time and it would no doubt require three or four dollars worth of chicken pie and blue points to fill him up. If they accept his offer the notice will be the most expensive one they ever had printed, Save yourselves before it is too late. S. T. Fairbanks, of Saline, placed jan oil stove in his store during the I extreme cold weather, to keep out the frost. The stove, after it had been on duty for several consecutive days, got tired of its job and "busted," setting fire to its surroundings. The fire was extinguished before much damage was done. Harry Lee, of Tecumseh, who has been spendinj; some time in Virginia, shipped a fine horse along with a gentleman of color from the sunny south land. Whensaid Harry arrived home he found no equine or African. He started the lightening on a hunt for the missing horse. It was found at Toledo together with the darkey's clothes but the darkey had vanished from the sight and knowledge of all. Harry brought the horse home himself. About 7 o'clock Monday morning the young man who takes care of St. Mary's church at this place, on opening the vestry was surprised to find the room filled with smoke. Help was summoned and the fire was soon extinguished. The fire had probably smouldered all night, and within a short time would undoubtedly have passed beyond control. The vestments of the pastor and a number of other articles were destroyed, but the loss was fully

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News