Washtenawisms

Salem's cheese factory is runnin again. Hudson's cheese factory is again working. Brighton wants her high schoo iíirls to gradúate in calicó dresses Sensible idea. The Milán high school will turn out two boy and nine sweet girl gra duates in June. Tecumseh is figuring on a bicycle factory. The Tiffany iron works will be utilized. Geo. Heath, a U. of M. pharmacy student, has purchased the drug store of Dr. Harper at Milan. Florence Bidele, of Saline, became Mrs. Henry Cornish, of the sanie place, last Sunday afternoon. Miss McNaughton, of Ann Arbor, is teaching the spring term of school ia the Walker district, Salem. Howell's condensed milk factory paid out $16,000 for milk and help during the month of February. John B. Hartbeck, of Sharon, is dead. He was a pioneer, over 90 years old and highly respected. Capt. E. P. Allen will deliver the address at the unveiling of the soldiers' monument at Ypsilanti, Mav 3Now that the new village board of Dexter has qualified the Leader wants to know what it is going to do? Stock bridge high school students gave an entertainment last week, which netted the school liabrary S53.60.. The scholars of district number 8, l.odi, give an entertainment, at the home of Jas. Gregory, next Friday eight. The junior class of the Saline High school gave an entertainment last week which put #15 in the class treasury. Mrs. S. T. Vaii; of Ypsilanti, has raised a calla lily whose stalk measr.res 35 )A inches and flower seven inches span. J. F. Avery, of Saline, who prides himself upon his fine jersey stock, has been having some of his choice specimens photographed. The chicken fad has struck the western part of the county and the fair society dames are cultivating the egg erop for pin money. fleorge Crippen, of Ypsilanti, has invented a beau pieker and cleaner which handles 50 bushels an hour as well as it can be done by hand. Glenn Slocum, of Sharon, was recently married to Miss Sallie lady is a niece of Mr. R. W. Corastock. Earl, the little son of Willard Holstead, of Milan, had the fingers and thumb of his left hand clipped in a feed cutter, Wednesday afternoon. Norman G. Nicholson, who has been in poor health for some years, died at his home in Saline, Sunday, March 24th. He lived in Saline 26 years. H. V. Hentley, jr., Alice Muilen, Maud Flagler and Maggie Miller are Chelsea people who obtained teachers' certificates at the last teachers' examination. Al. Stacy, of Newburgh, went to Buffalo Saturday with a fine lot of ambs fed by himself; he shipped them from Britton via the Wabash. - -Tecumseh Herald. Elmer Mugg, secretary of the Dundee fair association, has resigned, because he is to remove from the burg. The stockholders part with him regretfully, but must elect a successor. Their Mugg was the most useful dish in the society set. - Adrián Press. In the course of a campain speech at Vpsilanti the other day the genial Capt. E. P. Allen referred to Mayor Seymour's administration as the best the city had had in 15 years and now some heartless wretch has discovered that that period covers one term under Allen. Anotherman has added something to his stock of practical knowledge. Orrin Lindsey rubbed a buzz saw against the grain over in London the other day, and will hereafter only have to glance at the place where his forefinger used to be to remember the occurrence. Miss Flora Press is a lady from the state of Washington, who is visiting at present in Dundee. The Press extends congratulations. The lady must necessarily be all right, and some young fellow there shall yet learn the power of the Press. Miss Flora, Press this way, please. - Adrián Press. At the funeral of Mrs. Clarissa Hall, of Tecumseh, Saturday last, the five children of the deceased were all present, being the first time they had all met together in 42 years. They had been visiting and met each other frequently, but never had all been togetber at one time. A singular coincidence is the fact that Mrs. Hall leaves 19 grand children and 19 great grand children. The State Normal school cclebrated its 46 anniversary last Thursday. Someone in need of cash went through the Michigan Central telegraph office at Dexter. Miss Saraii Poster, daughter of Robert Koster, of Chelsea, was married to Charles 1?. Hoover, of Maple Rapids. Henry Gilbert, of Chelsea, forgot a!l about the clothes line when he went out to split wood the other day. A long gash in the forehead was the result. George C. Smithe, editor of the Ypsilanti Commercial, has returned frora Colorado. He left Mrs. Smithe there, and not much improved in health. Chas. Lemmon writes the Dexter Leader that twenty years ago next April the ground in Lima was found to be frozen to a depth of five feet. That's going back a good ways but ït beats the record. Apropos of the discussion of the capture of Jeff. Davis, now going the rounds of the press, Ypsilanti claims recognition in the person of Capt. H. S. Boutell, who took part n tbat affair and was wounded at the time. At a meeting of the Saline ers ciuD, to De held at the residence of Gilbert Hurd, the second Friday ia April, C. M. Fellows will read a paper on "The Effect of the Rernonetization of Silver on the Price of our Farms and Products." Mr. and Mrs. John Miller, an aged couple who have lived together for sixty years, died last week, the death of one following the other in a few hours. They were buried in one grave at a cemetery in Chesterfield, just south of Morenci, Monay. They left no children. Geo. Dow started to drive to prayer meeting at Grass Lake, but George's horse was not possessed of the docility requisite in a good prayer meeting horse, and he was dumped by the roadside, with the skin on his brow torn the wrong way of the cloth. At D. Dowie's tabernacle for faith cure, in Chicago, there seenis to be a large attendance, and last week a Mrs. Van Wormer, of Milan, who was there, arose and testified to having been healed froni a bad case of inflammatoiy rheumatism. A Miss Shipman, of Ypsilanti, is there to be cured of some ailment. The Chelsea Standard is responsible for the following: "A few of our young ladies when cornered up on the question, ' Do you go to cburch to hear the sermón or the music?' made the following reply: ' We go for the hims One of them was asked which hymns she liked best, and the reply was, 'The come an' meet 'er hims.' "