Adrian Press Washtenawisms

What is virtually the "curfew" ordi nance inay be passed at Ann Arbor. An ordinanoe is ofïered, to restrain boy? under 16 f rom running about the streets after eight o'clock standard time. Hap py would it be if the "curfew" ordinance onuld be slapped to some of those boys' dads! ' ' Where is the money of the country?' ' screams a flnaucial exchange. Biest if we know, but to clear us of suspiciou, we will state that a Webster man with 21 children has beencaught saying that he was goiug to take the "huil fam'ly and his grandmother to the Washternaw fair." A Stockbridge merchant kindly publishes a notice to the boys not to sit in front of his store windows any more. Snch oourtesy is refreshing. - Dexter Leader. ïes; the same polite gentleman who begs his own pardon whenever he falls down. H. W. Newkirk displays a relie 150 years old in the Savings bank window. He will give a three months' subscription to the Leader to the person guessing what tne relie is. - Dexter Leader. O, he has secured - is it possible ! - that early bustle of Susau B. Anthony. Send on yonr Leader. The editor of the Chelsea Herald after being a helpless spectator of the avidity with which people of the town were hooked in the other day, by a street fakir, has exohanged his skepticisnTfor a two-handed clinch on the rule that "that there is a sucker bom every day. ' ' Yea, and sometimes twins. Washteuáw county fair opens September 24. The preparations being made for it are on a very grand scale, and are attraoting mach attention. It appears to be the ambition of the management to rival or eclipse the celebratcd Hillsdale and Lenawee fairs. To that end a series of attractions, varied and oxpensive, are boo'-ed for the various days. The peopk uf the county are also getting a great number of exlibits reudy and talk of coming to the 'air as though it were a world'sexposition. Won't somebody please build drinking fountain for the Ad- Arbor Democrat's "Man About Towi " She s awfully thirsty. t The Washtenaw Times meutiorj the r JSonflower club." How thick the fadsconie! Why not have a "Nettle" .club. "Buil Thistle" club, "Beggar . i Needie" club, '-Tumble Weed" club, or s"Prickly Lettuce" club? Yes, let us. l The Argus says in its report of the [ Whituiore lako picnic, ' ' when Mr. Peters ■ stopped.ou motiou of Mr. Waldron, Wm. Ball was elecred president for the [ ingyear." And did the silont man stop on niotion of Mr. Waldon? J. C. Wilson, of the "sixt" ward of Aun Arbor, is reported to have a sweefi pea vine so tall that it takes two men to see the top. It has been discovered at the j sity that the longitudial measurement of a diphtheria bacillus is one 25lOOOth of au inch long. Wooh ! what a i cirtter to meet in the night! Crime is beginniug to be punished as it ought to be. In Brauch county a man was fhied 813 for misusing a dog, and au Anu Arbor man had to pay for whipping his wfie. Sunday bathiughasreceived a set back at Whitmore lake. The Ann Arbor Courier says: "George H. Winslow's Í six year old boy cut his foot very bady Sunday while wading in the water. An artery was cut and the little fellow neary bied to dëatli." A black cloud in a whirl, carrying witb it dust and we have no doubt fisii and crauberries, according to the custom this year, frighteued Chelsea people into repenting of their sins last j week. ÏSTo dfiniüïfi hn,rmpnprï ïinTt-oxiir and all feil from grace in less than half au hour. At the Whitinore lake farmers' picnic Hon. G-eo. A. Peters said, "We work too ruuch, raise too much, and do no talkenough." "Talk!" Aye- there' the rub. Mr. Peters everybody know to be a blushing, bashful bi-rnetalistfo silver only whose great grief is his lac of oral communicaiton. Yet if Secret ary Mills of the Washtenaw fair asso ciation believes that man cannot talk blister on a prize bull's forehead clea across the fair ground let him hang up a $50 purse and see how quiek Peters will win it. P. S. - Haug up eilver - he won 't talk for gold. Referring to the story now going the rounds to the effect that an Adrián preacher, a newspaper man and a bar tender are frequently mistaken one for another the Ann Arbor JRegsiter remarks: "And it is also said that Bro. Smith of the Adrián Press was asked to preach a funeral sermón the same day that papers were served upon him by a constable for keeping the side door of his bar-room open on Sunday. " Papers served on whom - the preacher, bartender or Smith? Soinething here needs an explauation. Pete Carpenter always had friends here, and after ho moved to Ypsilanti he lost none of his faculties for making friends. He's now the popuiar postmaster there, but nodemocrat. Not any free trade for him. He's a holdover, under civil service, and Frank Bogardas may learn the business of him yet. Thomas M. Cooley, who was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Adrian for some time, is a resdient of Ann Arbor, honored the world over as a sound writer on constituitonal law, and as one of the foremost lawyers of the age.