Washtenawisms

The new Catholic church at Wayne is progressing rapidly. The roof is completed and the lathers are at work. The Grass Lake News man says cvery house in that village is full and more could be rented if they were to be had. The Howell Farmers' club held a very interesting and profitable meeting at the house of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Matteson, February 23. Hudson is to have a "karnaval" next Tbursday and Friday, and more than tifiy firms will be represented by as many of Hudson 's far famed pretty giris. Would Uiat we could be thtire. The Adrián Telegram is the possessor of a new hotne and will soon ocoupy the same. The Argus is pleased to note this evidence of prospeiity. The Telegram deserves its success. In verification of its assertion that times are booming at Tecumseh, the Herald says that A. W. Slayton, of that place, has sold in the past ten days 75,000 feet of lumber, all to be nsed there. Recently there was held a school meeting in the Kniffin district, near Hittons, at which it was unanirnousy voted to build a new school house. Surely the millennium is near at hand. The L. O. T. M.'s of Mooreville held a social last Friday evening at the residence of Sir Knight F. S. ( )lds. A silk quilt was disposed of and a bag full of fun was had with a "grab bag." The Livingston County Pioneer society held a meeting recently with a very meager attendance. According to the Herald but about 60 of the 320 pioneers who formed the society are now alive. The veteran teacher, D. E. Haskins, has been nominated for county commissioner of schools by the democrats of Jackson county. Mr. Haskins has been a teacher all his life and has served several terms as commissioner. He should be elected. Glen Killins, of South Lyons, ventured on the ice in front of the Moody hotel, in that village, recently and went through into the water. In his efforts to save himself he was carricd under the ice, where but for th timely astance of his play teilows he would have been drowned. The various secret societies oi Clinton hold regular meetings this week as follows: Tuesday evening, L. Ü. T. M. and Clinton chapter, R. A, M.; VVednesday evening, Eastern Star chapter; Friday evening, K. O. T. M., and Saturday evening, Clinton lodge, F. & A. M. A pretty f uil week. Senator Kilpatrick has introduced into the legislature a uniform liquor tax bilí. It provides a $600 tax for retailers and an $800 tax for wholesalers, and as a penalty for its violation it provides that the iicense shall be forfeited and the violator forever debarred f rom engaging iti the business again in this state. Frank Simons and Miss Kittie Dennis were united in marriage last evening by Rev. E. W. Ryan before a company of eighty friends and relatives, at the residence of the bride's rnother, on Adams street. Both of the contracting parties are among the most highly esteemed young people of this city, and the Ypsilantian joins their host of friends in congratulations. - Ypsilantian. On Wednesday evening, March 6, will occur the next meeting of the Sappho club, which will again be held with Mrs. L. A. Todd. This will be a Rubenstein evening, a sketch of his life to be given by Mrs. Austin George. Ypsilanti's best musicians will furnish the selections from his compositions, among them Mrs. F. H. Pease, Miss Marie Dickinson, Mr. Gareissen and Mr. John Dodge. All members of the club are earnestly urged to be present and lend their presence to make this an enthusiastic meeting. - Ypsilanti. Last Tuesday evening a meeting was held in Cleary business college, Ypsilanti, for the purpose of considering the question of forming a permanent athletic association. Mayor Seymour presided. A report recommending the renting of grounds on Hamilton street, the property of Chas. Reinhart, was made and adopted. The association will pay a rental of $100 a year and will be given a lease for five yearS with the privilege of five years more. Over a hundred persons have signified their willingness to pay five dollars a year towards the support of the association. The followii g offi ■ cers were elected to collect the due? and solicit new members: E. H. Jlinckley, F. Wise and Milo Gage; to draw up a constitution, F. W. Oreen, Rev. Frank Kennedy and Harlow Wells. President, Wm. B. Seymour; vice-president, F. W. Green; secretary and treasurer, Charles Hemphill. There are no less than six repablican canrtidates or supervisor in Augusta this spring. Mud and marbles have arrived and we are rlaily expecting the spring poet. - Monroe Detnocrat. Chelsea wil! have a new cigar shop.. Godfrey Weik, J. S. Haffler and Chauncey Staffan will run it and they will put up sorne good 'cigars too. A tnissionary froni ÏUarsovan, ïurkey, Miss Mary I'. Wright, will deliver an addressjin Chelsea tomorrow evening. It wil! relatt: tu her work in Turkey. James Hall and James Crossrnan, i of Hamburg, thought to be a little ■ sharp and sell whiskey on a beer license. They feil into the chuches I-of the law, however, and were compelled to pay #50 fine and S5 costs besides $100 license. The little game of sharps did not pay. Alton Perkins, of Fowlerville, had a hand badly crushed in a patent feed grinder recently. He slipped on a block of wood and feil forward thrusting his hand into the rollers. His son stopped the engine but not until the hand was badly ground up. The hand had to be taken off at the wrist. Representative Kempf, of Ann Arbor, has been busy introducing bilis. He has got in on an average about two a day - perhaps more. They have been straggling along ever since the session began. Representative Kempf should have introduced them in a lumpf. - Adrián Press. One week ago Friday was the 3oth anniversary of the liberation of Charles Stickel, of Pinckney, trom a southern prison pen of war times, and accordingly a number of his friends tendered him a party in honor of the event. Several of his comrades of war days were present and enjoyed themselves in relating reminiscences. Robert Simpson, of Stockbridge, is a great egg producer. He has between 75 and 100 hens. During f894, he sold 1200 dozen eggs and from Üec. 25, '94 to Feb. 22, '95 he sold 175 dozen. The highest price received in Jan. '94 was 23 cents and in Jan. '95 16 cents. The Stockbridge Sun vouches for this story and is prepared to "do" any one who questions it in any particular. A swarru of twenty bees (Lady Maccabees) were seen Tuesday afternoon ñitting single file toward the home of Past Coraraander, Nettie M. Vaughn, laden with a fine student lamp and eatables enough for a whole colony. After forcing an entrance, and buzzing a few hours, the shades of night began to fall, and all wended their way homeward, feeling, if not saying, itisgoodto te a bee. - Pinckney Dispatch. P. H. Barnes has received another Jetter from his daughter Lottie, dated Richmond, Va., Feb. 17, and she writes that Messrs Wood and Waterman were going out on their farm at Grantland on the 20th, and we suppose they are hard at work by this time agitating the soil of old Virginia. Just imagine Fred Wood and Ira Waterman with a calicó shirt, a pair of overalls and rubber boots on, tickling the fertile soil of the old dominion with a hoe or spade. Oh