Washtenawisms

Mrs. Eliza Crittenden, a forrner resident rrSaline, died recently in Washington, where she and her husband ■went frve years ago to secure a home Btead. Sbejwas a bont to return to Michigan at the time of her death. "fcLast Saturday was bicycle day in Clinton. The streets were cleared of vehicles and the riders cut loose. There were twelve races and the day 's events closed with a jrrand dance and a pyroteohnic display. Livingston couuty is figuring on local option and petitious are being circulated by those in favai of the change. However, the editor ot the Livingston Herald says nay, and ta!i s three columns of bis valuable space to iell why. He has it flgured out that under local option Eaton oounty has calmly lost the snm of 81,-950.76. Capt. E. P. Allen, of Ypsilanti, is down for a speech at Cadillac today. The demand for Washtenaw eloquence is caused by a county Sunday school rally. The Manchester Enterprise bas just celebrated its twenty-ninth birthday and still keeps up an unabated hustle for news the same as it did when the editor tried to make the first issue so good that all the people conldn't get along without it. The ladies of Ypsilanti's literary club have fiuished an exciting election campaigD and the the winners are : President, Mrs. J. A. Watliug; vicepresident, Mrs. Sherzor; secretary, Mrs. Hemphill ; treasnrer, Mrs. Gareissen. O. A. Ainsworth, of Ypsilanti, has imported a car load of Jersey cattle from Rhode Island to assist in his dairy business. There were twenty-four head of thero, and Mr. Ainsworth 's herd now nnmbers sixty. The poet of the Grand Rapids Press was voted a barbarian at the last meeting of the Ypsilanti bloomer club. He recently perpetrated the following : There was a young girl in Ypsilanti, Whose bloomers were awf ully eoanty ; She actual ly swore When a lióte four by four Was snagg-ed in the seat of her panty. Joshua Leiand, son of Supervisor Emory Leiand, of Northfleld, a gradúate of the Normal, has accepted a positon as a teacher of sciences at the Kirkwood military academy, Mo. About 850 students have tlms far registered at the state Normal school, and the record, keeps ahead of last year. Ypsilanti kicks on tramps and thunder stovms and declares that both must get a license before entering the city. The last thunder storm that passed her way left a good many tracks. Ypsilanti's ladies' libraryhas secured a book through the intercession of Rev. H. M. Morey with a Jersey City'gentleman that tells all about the famous Greek who took hie name from our ter city. Bishop Foley has assigned Rev. Fr. John Wall, who was ordained two weeks ago at Dester, to Paw Paw mission. The Good Templara of Whitmore Lake are billed to have a good time on Saturday evening, Oct. 5. Miss Mildred Fisher, a gifted reader, of New Haven, wil! help to make the evening a pleasant one Cuyler Barton has been held for trial in the Livingston county circuit court on the charge of attempting to burn the May residence in Unadilla. His bail was flxed at $4,000. Judge Montagne ordered the amonnt reducid to $2,000, but' at last accounts Cuyler had foand no friend willing to risk the $2,000. The offending small boy stands no show whatever this fall. Every school board has appointed a truant oflScer, and together with the new arrangement orthe late legislature, that official is driving the truant into his hole. Milan's new school officers stand as follows: R. C. Allen, director; W. H. Hack, assessor; Dr. S. Chapin, moderator; M. C. Edwards, truant officer. Manchester is struggling with the problem of over crowded schools. Manchester people are having hard times these dark nights falling off the sidewalks, skinning their shins, tearing their trousers and then saying cuss words that they wish afterwards they had never said. The trouble seems to be not so much that there are no Street lamps as that the lamp janitor has been shirking his duty. Chas, and Frank Miller, of Chelsea, have bought a stock of groceries in Ithaca, and Chelsea thereby loses two of hor enterprising young men. "The Lake Shore has decided not to run a special train to the Wasbtenaw county f 'ir this year. " So remarks the Manchester Enterprise. Suoh sarcasm deserves rebuke, but as the fair has been so sucijessful and is now so nearly over, we have decided to treat the matter with the contenipt it deserves and allow Editor Blosser to settle the matter with his conscience. The baby of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Blaisdell, of Sharon, was badly soalded with hot tja a few days ago. It was presiding ac the table during the ternporary absence of Mrs. Blaisdell and in attempting a general mix up of knives, forks and eatables got caught in the shuffle and the tea pot emptied its contents all over the child. Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Heatley, of Lyndon, are entertaiuing a young gentleman guest at their home and his last name is Heatley. His first name has not yet been annonnced. Young Mr. Heatley would better keep his eye open for bad luck, for he is the thirteenth child of Mr. and Mrs. Heatley. He may give due thanks that he was born on Monday, not Frid?y. Otto Durlach and Mrs. Julia Pergan, both of Lyndon, have joined hands for better or for worse. Th ey we re married by Rev. W. P. Considine at St. Mary's rectory, Chelsea, on Tuesday, Sept. 17. Says the Dexter Leader: "St. Joseph's church was crowded Snnday mornyig by people anxious to hear Rev. John Wall say his first mass. The other priests who took part in the celebration were Rev. L. P. Goldrick, deacon, Rev. F. Waters, of Detroit, sub-deacon, and Rev. M. J. Fleming, master of ceremonies. The sermón was preached by Rev. E. D. Kelly. St. Thomas' church cboir of Ann Arbor sang Giorza's mass,which was highly appreciated by the congregation. Other clergymen present were Fr. Lee, of Detroit, Fr. Considine, of Chelsea, and Fr. Dwyer, of Minneapolis. ' ' W. C. Clark, E. F. Chase and S. L. Jenny have been re-elected trustees of ;he Congregational church of Dexter and Clarence B. Alley is the new and old treasnrer. The closing day of the Chelsea fair was marred by a fatal accident. Willie Eawley, a youug lad, was leading a horse to a watering tank and while there another horse became frightened and kicked young Hawley in the stomach. - Although attended at once by a physician, there was no help for the boy and he died in a few hours. He was about eleven years old. A Sunday school institute is being held in Dexter today under the auspices of the Jackson association. It couvenes in the Congregational church. Chelsea will entertain the veterans of the Twentieth Michigan Infantry on Weduesday, Oct. 9. Capt. C. T. Allen will deliver an address. Ypsilanti's bucket of trouble is full to the brim. The Dexter Leader has taken to spelling hei name with a small "y." The two mile bicycle race of Friday, the closing day of the Chelsea fair, was won by Chas. Schultz, of Dexter, Guy Liighthall, of Chelsea, taking second place. Time, six minutes. The ball jame of,the same day, between Chelsea and Manchester, was won by Chelesa, 15 to 2. Then Chelsea took hold of the Milan team and shook them up to the score of 13 to 5. Milan's public schools start out with a big attendance. There are twentythree foreign students enrolled. Milan Leader: Dr. Chapin's peach trees are in the lists for first premiums at the next world's fair. He plucked over two bushels of peaches that woald average eight inches in circumference - not the bnshels, but the individual peaches - which he deposes and says is the tyuth. "You take that horse and you will ;nrn you fingers, ' ' said a lady to J. L. Marble Weduesday, when he levied upon that animal on a judgment, and he did jet his fingers burned before he got lome. He was leading the horse by a rope behind the carriage in which he and Deputy Sheriff Archy Ganutlett were riding when suddenly they met Alva Dexter on a bicycle and the horse Mr. Marble was leading became very much frightened - and we don't blame the norse a bit, and Mr. Marble don't, either, now that he knows who it was on the bicycle - and began a circus performance, and the rope was drawn ;hrough his tightened grip so that his aands were badly bumed. He downed ;he horse, however, and Alva wasn't ïurt a little. - Mlan Leader. Captain Manly, of Ann Arbor, was spooking around in his corn field last friday night when he caught a bushei sasketful of his corn sneaking out on the shoulder of Wm.' Hurst, a gentleman of color. He (the captain) is ceeping his chicken coop locked up now. He don't thiink he's missed any thing during the big Methodist conference. - Milan Leader. Ypsilanti has received from County j Treasurer Rehfuss $3,528.34 as her sharo of the liqnor tax for 1895. Ypsilanti is getting into big company. Tonight her whist club will play with eight members of the Masonic whist club of Cleveland, Ohio. Not long ago Ypsilanti's club went to Cleveland and came baok wearing the meek mantle nf defeat. She hopes to shake t off tonight. ï Superintendent Whitney, of Ypsianti, is not addicted to the use of cigarettes and he doesn't like to háve the other boys smoke them. This is he way he put it to them at the openng of school: "I am sorry to have a !ew boys in the high school who still nsist in smoking cigarettes. Those attendiug regnlarly will find out what I ;hiuk of cigarette smoking before the year is over. Those who were here last year know now, I think. I shall speak 'rom time to time in chapel on the ovils of this pernicious and stroying habit. There is a story told of a young mau wbo went to a physician and asked it' cigarette smoking iujured the brain. 'Oh, no, ' said the doctor; 'no one who has any brains will smoke cigarottes. ' Now this is one of my stories, but I sirnply teil it as au illnsI tration. I havenever known a boy ad dioted to thejhabit of smoking cigiirettes that does good work. In three grades lase year thëre were eighc or nine that did uot pass, aud when I inquired the reasou I found in nearly every case that it was on account of cigarette smoking." The Saline Observer gets qnite excited because someone circulated a rumor to the effect that the good Baptist people of the place had hired a woman pastor at a salary of $300. The Observer hastens with alacrity to say that neither part of the statement is trae, and its liaste and evident relish seems to indicate that the editor has not yet becorne irretrievably addicted to the new woman idea. Saline Observer: The town bas since Tuesday morning been wild with rumor concerning the wedding of Myra E. Forbes and Howard M. Rouse which was to have occurred last evening, bïit which failed on account of the leaving of the groom the previous night. Much has been said of the matter on both sides which is without foundation and which has done more or less damage to the interested parties. The nineteenth annual Stockbridge fair, which opens Tuesday, Oct. 1, and continúes three days, promises to be the most popular in the history of the society. Entries are very numerous and indicatious are that the exhibits will be excellent. The speed program is a good one, and there will be a large number of entries for all the races, which are 3 :00 trot, 2 :30 pace, 2 :35 trot, free-for-all trot and pace, and one half mile running race. During the last two days of the fair there will be also very exciting ball games audmen's and women's bicycle races for good purses. Several bicyclists have already entered.