Washtenawisms

Mr. and Mrs. James Tracy enter■tained a nuruber of oíd friends at their lióme in Manchester last week in houor f their mother. There were twelve present over seventy two years of age, 4he oldest being eighty-nine. Manchester Maccabees number 83. Frank English of Manchester town ! lias a lively three legged chicken. Tlie hay erop will be quite shy. Kimble & Schniid, of Manchester, -will rnauufactrure handsleds. It is pretty warm weather to think of handsleds. The Manchester Methodists have ! abandoned the id a of rebuilding their ehuruh. Cement walk building is approaching a craze in Manchester. Thomas La Rue was the first man in Saline to pay his village tax. Mrs. Frank Draper, of Mooreville, lied June 10, of heininorhage. The foneral was held the following i nesday. Royal Lamb, of York, died June 15. A Mooreville correspondent of the Saline Observer says he died of an overdose of laudanum. Grass Lake is uow agitating the subject of waterworks, which it is estimat■ed can be built for $5, 000. If Grass Lake can get a good system of water■works for that money it will be a cheap and good investment for them. The Grass Lake News man has not yet ceased crowing over the Grass Lake 'base ball nine defeating the Chelsea boys at a game of base ball by a score of 41 to 7. Charles CJhl's new house in Bridgewater is being erected. For three nights in succession burglars tried to enter the house of Hiram Mills in Bridgewater. They did not get in. The Manchester Enterprise tells of a colored man who formerly resided there, whose skin is gradnally tnrning pure ■white. He is being exhibited around ihe country in dime museums. The Dexter high school last year increased tweuty five per cent. in atten■dance and the superintendent expressed the hope that next year would showas large an increase. Henry Scadin, formerly of Webster, Ihas rented a photograph gallery at Highluuds, North Carolina, 817 feet above ühe level of the sea. Omar Moore will re-open a saloon in Dexter. Dexter raises $1,000 village tax this year. The Dexter churches will hold union services Sunday evening.s during the stunnier. A project is on foot to form a choral xmion at Dexter. Prol. G-eorge A. Dennison, the newly elected superintendent of the Dundee schools, will be married tomorrow to Miss Nina E. Hack of Milan. O. M. Blackmer, of Milan, has strnck a gusher of a flowing well and now Milan is talking of waterworks. Why not? Milan sticks to the title progressive. The Milan school base ball nine de featöd the Saline school nine last week foy a score of 17 to 3. The Willis creainery now has -i9gpatrons. Chelsea farmers have been harvesting their meager hay erop. It seems probable that hay will be very high next "winter. Dr. Palmer, of Chelsea, has had his lurase ïepamted. James L. Gilbert, of Chelsea, will rexnain deputy oil inspector. He has received his appoiutnient. If any republican is entitled to this office Gilbert is, as he works for his party in season and ■ont and a very foxy worker he is. The Michigan Central has set out flowers on tlieir grounds at Chelsea. Ice is a good thing when applied to the right place, but it does not seem to be a good thing to fall on a man's foot. Ifc is for this reason that George Begole, of Chelsea, goes about with a cañe. Mrs. A. B. Davidson, who removed from Saline to Ypsilanti, died at the latter place last Wednesday, aged 58 years. A project is on foot for a big Macabee picnic at Portage Lake.