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Washtenawisms

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
March
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Ypsilanti Maccabees will give a calicó hall, April 16. Residents of Ypsilanti are novv re.galed by the sweet strainsof the new Normal band. Jas. Burnett, of Whitmore Lake, a student at the university, is home on the sick list. Treasurer Holmes, of Bridgewater township, returned only $22.34 of delinquent taxes. Mrs. Hirarn Thompson died at her home near Milan last week. Deceased was 52 years old. A phonograph concert and dance were given at Haai burg last evening nnder the auspices of the E. O. O. K. Chas. Moss and Harry Tobin, of, Whitmore Lake, were the héroes of ;i runaway last week. Cars scared the animal. Win. Gadd, of Bridgewater, whc has been confined to his house with rheumatism since Jan. ist, is able to be out again. Mr. and Mrs. John McDougal, of Superior township, celebrated the _'5th anniversary of their wedding day last Saturday. Meivin Worth, of London township, Monroe county, who has been slightly deraented for some months, committed suicide by shooting himself. Livingston has settled with the state treasurer. Livingston county's share in state burdens was $23,787.67, only $129.30 of which was delinquent. Over in Lenawee county they are giving poverty socials where nothing nicer tlian calicó dresses and Kentucicy jeans trousers are allowed to circuíate without penalty. The Saline Observer remarks that cverything is quiet in the local market, except sheep. Remarkable how lively those sheep are that were killed by the Wilson bill. A tailor, named Wm. Webster, (lied at Tecumseh last week from exposure. He was found lying in an unconscious condition by the side of the rail road track. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Hinkley, of Müan, went to bed without closing the top of their coal stove. Mrs. Hinkley awoke to prevent more serious damage than severe headaches. John Moran, of Manchester, is a r-iT"ilar man. He spent the winter cuiting wood near that town, and last Monday 13 farmers took their teams and hauled it into town for him. Jonathan Wardle, of Augusta, increased the strength and vigor of the Wardle family tree last Monday by a Twigg of Ypsilanti stock. May the plant flourish like a green bay in summer. Thereare some pretty slick thieves cioing business in this vicinity. On Tuesday night L36 worth of clover seed was stolen f rom Horace Allen, and Í24 worth frorn Henry Hack. - Milan Leader. The remains of Wm. H. Bailey, who died of pneumonía at Minneapolis, Minn., last Sunday, arrived here yesterday noon and were placed in the vault at oak grove cemetery. He was 35 years old and the brother of T. B. Bailey, of this village. - Manchester Enterprise. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Austin, a worthy couple of Salem, celebrated their respective birthdays on Monday, March i8th. They are 54 and 53 years old respectively. It is seldom that the birthday of husband and wife occur on the same day. A score or more of Hudson girls are going to give a minstrel enterment. If they had to work as harc to wash dishes or handkerclriefs as they will to wash the burnt cork irom tlieir faces, they would be clamoring for legislative relief from the great hardship. - Adrián Press. Bob Hastings, republican supervisor of Palmyra, has hired a man to hoe potatoes and harvest buttermilk on his farm on the following conditions: He is to receive #200 per year with house rent, a pint ot milk, and free use of the highway thrown in, so long as he does not neighbor with Mr. Schneider. This is drawing social lines with a vengeance. A Colon man, when he was married agreed to build the fires every morning for 18 years, providing his wife would do it after his time was up for an equal time. She agreed and he has lived faithfully up to his contract ever since. Now his time has expired and he lies in bed these cold mornings for an extra half hour while his wife hustles around to get things warmed up. Here's a bit of athletics worth bragging about. It discounts a ten hour walk, or a three mile bicycle race, or a ten round glove contest for points and gate receipts. Willis Hall and Charles Smith, two Deerfield youths, sawed, split and piled 14 cords of rock elm wood in 15 hours and 15 minutes, and lost neither appetite nor sleep. VVhen any one breaks the record, the boys will tackle more