Adrian Press Items

Ballard, the Willis poet, whose verses have f requeutly, if not oftener, appeared in Washtenaw conuty papers, observad his golöeu wedding last week, and a nomber of Ypsilanti guests were present to congratúlate the venerable couple upon the event. It is not often the Lord spares a poet suoh rare bliss and sach long life. The Ann Arbor Organ company offered a prize of $10 forthe best catoh line forin advertising the Cliff ord piano, and paid it for this "The Cliff ord tone is a high toned tone. " With that as the unit of valne, a column of the Press writings would be wortb a millioa, and flve hundred thousanó dollars, and we never got half that sum for it yet. Cotirt Manchester of the Independent Order of Foresters at Manchester, has lately elected oifioers and Mat, Blosser, of the Enterprise, is the ohief ruler of the tribe, entitled to carry the battle ax of the order. He is also the representative chosen to the High Court. In seleoting him they know they had made ohoice of a man of Enterprise. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sooks, of Bridgewater, will appropriately celébrate their silver wedding tornorrow. They have been 25 years married aud are the best pair of sooks in Washtenaw connty. Here's the hearty eongratulations of the Press, with the hope that tweutyfive years inore of married life may be theirs ere they wear those"goldeD slippers. ' ' Two Sharon farmers got fistically en tangled the other day over the threafcened trouble with England. A visitor said to his host that he believed in case of war, that England wonld slip over and "do np" New York, Bostou, Detroit, Buffalo, Chicago and Adrián. The host allowed that in this respect John Buil resembled Cain, he was not Abel. Thereupon the two feil to argning the respeotive points of merit betwapn th two qnestions, the argument led to pote, and the dispute led to blows, and while they veere bifflag away without I rpgard to riag rules, and the defender J of finglish valor wasgetting the eoüceit punched out of him, the wife of eauh j entered the room aud hostilities oeased. The next da? Eugland's champiou carne over and apologized for the oontroveisy, and for getting lioked, and tbis saved the neoossity of calling in John .T. Robison as a committee to arbitrate the questioD. The subject of Rev. Shier's discourse at the MilaD M. E. ohurch last Sanday eeuing was "Other People's fanlts. " We havo no doubt he alluded to politici ians' promises, and "tutohed" Capr. Allen for promising farinei's that wool would be 50 cents a ponnd if Harrison was elected ; that he deuounced lying and roasted those cougressman who have declared in favor of free silver and then votod against its free coinage last week ; that he favored observance of the Sabbath, and rounded up Jim Carr,of the Dandee Reporter, for not attending churoh ; that he deuounced inooDsistenoy, and criticised Uncle Cryus Luce for talking reform, and then voting the republican ticket ;that he opposed selfishness, and soored Jndge Kinne for keeping a big tree in the sidewalk of a public street. He may have found fault with the Monroe Demoorat, because it had too ruuch Sunday School literature, but that would have been as groundless as to charge the board of regents with. good sense in hiring a Scotchman to teach philosophy in the university. In discussing the queston of paying a bonnty on exports, W. D. Smith, a Webster farmer, said : "For the want of a tariff one of our best industries has been roined. No man can run a farm successfulJy in this locality without sheep. ' ' Here's a man wbose "ooooa nut" is dwarfed and filled with wheels instead of brains. He is not anxious to teil the truth - in fact conldn't toll it should he run up against it in broad daylight. Just as soon as Harrison got in, McKinley got his tariff on wool fixed and twelve cents a pound was the rate. The first year after it went iüto effect, wool was three cents a pound cheaper. Ihe next year it went down about four cents more. The law stayed in force, till August 1894, and wool was never so low as in the spring of 1894. In 1895 wool was three tofive cents higher than in 1894. In 3 896 it will be higher still. lust get the daily inarket reports of the price of wool today in Boston. Do not take the statement of any newspaper editorial. Get a daily paper like the New York Tribune, Detroit Free Press or Chicago Herald and read the wool market aDd see that Michigan wool is from IC to 22 cents per pound. But the 12 cent tariff could only make it twelve cents a pound more. The average clip is 600 pounds. This would make $72. Now says Smith, you can't run a farm without 72 more. Smith should apply for the nomination for congress. He hasn't sense enough to farm it. There isn't a farm in Washtenaw county that can pay two percent interest by keeping sheep for wool growing, even at 30 cents a ponnd for washed wool. Mr. Smith should diet on flsh and oatmeal for a ;few months. No farmer can afford to keep wool sheep, on land worth over $20 per aore, if wool is not worth more than 28 oents a pound.