Washtenawisms

Mrs. Aaron Dean died at her home in Salem, July 17, after a long illness. Charles Starks and Miss Grace Van Etta have been re-engaged for the Salem school next year. D. A. Bennett is one of the few men possessing a big heart full of sympathy for the brute kingdom. Tuesday he discovered among the circus horses the old brown hoi se which he owned several years ago. The animal was poor and feeble, to say nothing of its old age. Dwight saw the poor thing, went to the proprietors and asked them to name a price for it, they did so and Mr. Bennett handed them the cash. He then took a gun, killed it and gave it a decent burial. He is certainly deserving of much praise for so displaying the manly act. - Saline Ooserver. The Dexter Savings bank has $123,252. 10 on deposit. Henry Sinmis and George W. Phelps, of lukster, have erected a new windmilis. Dexter streets have been regraded. M. J. Fanning and W. M. Skinner will assail the rum power in Ypsilanti in tent meetings for ten days, beginning August 10. The colored Odd Fellows celébrate in Ypsilanti next Tuesday and Wednesday. While working at a new well in Ypsilanti last week, Anthony Ryan was struck on the head by a timber which feil from a derrick and seriously injured. Arcñibald Mclntyre of York, had 480 bushels of wheat on 16 acres, an average yield of 30 bushels. Mrs. Woodniansee was tnrown froin her buggy Sunday before last while driving to the Mooreville church. Her shoulder was dislocated. The Saline Observer reports plums as promising a fair erop. There are ten young ladies in Saline who ride bicycles. One of the horses of ex-Supervisor Edward DePuy, of Saline, was terribly cut by a barbed wire fenoe last week. Of course it had to be one of his best horses. A number of wells in Saline were dry just before the recent rains for the first time in their history. Bertie Best, of Saline, ran threequarters of an inch of glass into his foot last week. Dogs recently killed a number of sheep belonging to Fred Marshall, of Unadilla. John Hoover and B. Hawley are building new houses in Chelsea. Claude Flagler lost the end of a finger ty having it clipped off in one of the presses at the Chelsea stove works. Over f700 has been subscribed for rebuilding the United Brethern church near Waterloo. According to the Chelsea papers, the Chelsea justices. were kept busy last week tending to drunks. It must have been an off week for the people. A system of water supply has been put in the St. Mary's rectory in Chelsoa. Rev. W. H. Walker has been unanimonsly requested by the Chelsea Congregationalists to reinain another year. Jacob Reichert, of Manchester, is bnilding a hotel. A week ago Sunday Guy Lighthall, of Chelsea, while riding his bicycle had an encounter with a 300 pound hog. The hog took a notion to dart across the road in front of the bicycle. The bicycle wonld not yield the right of way. As a conseqnence Lighthall has a black eye and a bruised body, while there was a sore porker near Chelsea that night. County Treasurer Rehf uss has bought abont 20,000 pounds of wool this year. A cow beloging to A. K. Gage, of Manchester, attempted to gore him to death. All that saved him was the f act that the cow 's norn was broken. The Enterprise contains a list of 39 bicyole riders in Manchester. Manohester was the first postoffice in this county to receive the new style of money orders. Ann Arbor won't get them for several monhs yet. The school house in the Short disrict of Bridgewater has been reshingled. The ten yeür oid son of Conrad Haselschwerdt, of Sharon, feil off a fence last week and broke his arm. Mrs. Jacob Faber died in Manchester July 23, of heart trouble. The Manchester bank on July 1 1 had $142,022.20 on deposit, of this amount the Peoples bank had $98,757.03 and the Union Savings Bank $43,265.17. The Chelsea Savings bank, on July 1 1 had $169,874.87 of deposits. J. T. Hafford, of Milán, reports a yield of 32 bushels of wheat to the acre and T. B. Fulcher reports 32L bushels. I Caleb J. Barlow, for many years a resident of Rawsonville, died last Sunday night, aged seventy-three years. It was a dry looking crowd and a sober looking one that conld be seen about Ypsilanti last Sunday. The fall races of the Ypsilanti Driving club will be held September 24, 25 and 2(3. Mrs. Lizzie Payton Smith, of Ypsilanti, a gradúate of the Normal, was sent to the insane asylum last week. She thought some one was trying to kill her. She had been absent froru Ypsilanti for some years before her return a short time ago. A $500 colt belonging to George Vail, of Detroit, was badly cut by a barbed wire fence while pasturing near Ypsilanti last week, and crippled for life. The Milanites are paying village taxes. A sou of Henry Doty, of Milan, who jnst before the war when last seen by the father, was an infant in the eradle turned up in MiHn last week. Needless to say the father failed at flrst to recoguize him. A valuable cow belonging to Myron Wilson had a narrow escape froin a horrible death a few days ago A youug nimrod of this village - a popular clerk in one of our largest stores - was fishing for minnows in the mili race, and had pulled off his shoes and socks, leaving thein on the bank while he waded m to a place more propitious for his vocation. Mr. Wilson 's aforesaid cow, happening that way in search for succulent food espied the young man's f ootwear, and mistakingthe socks for a dainty inorsel of more than usual delicacy bolted them at a mouthful. It's a wonder that the cow didn't die on the spot, but she still lives, though, 'tis said, Wilson's folks have been unable to use the rriilk since the accident. -