Washtenawisms

There was but one ticket in the field at the Grass Lake village election. Sixteen votes were polled. This is theway the Chelsea Standard givesitaway: "It is reported that a new house will soon be erected on the Standard Oil Co. 's land. The girl who gets to be mistress of it will be a Sharp woman. A Chelsea giri quotes Tennyson these days, "Awake and cali me early, cali me early, mother dear, tomorrow ia to be the gladest, merriest day in all the glad New Year, for I'm to be Qneen Esther in the opera house, my dear, and I'm really feeling nervous and my feetj wou 't track, I fear. " "Will Derindenger. of Dundee, was 43 years old the other day. The neighbors all dropped in and broughc a norse whip with them. They brandished the whip and made the victim of the surprise party dance to the tune of 43 lashes. Derindiuger said he hadn't danced so much since he caught his fiugers in the stove door. Bat there was oae diSerence. He Jidn't swear. The ladies furnished supper for the surprise and William said grace with suoh good grace that the neighbors are teinpted to try it again sometime. Conductor Frank S.Bray signaled for down brakes at Milan the other night. Tired of taking tickets longer on tk train of Single Blessedness, he gave the signal to Rev. J. Ward Stone, who was engineering the ceremony, an4 he eoon coupled his fortunes with those of Mary Belle Farrington, a worthy young lady of that village. A bont tnirty relatives and friends were at the Matrimonial Station when th trip of Married Life was begun. Bray and his bride went to Niágara Falla on their wedding trip and it will be two weeks before the conductor gets back to his "regular run." The Ann Arbor Argus last week bewails the "dirth" of marriage licenses. This is probably a typographioal error.and had a surplus "h. " Otherwise the writer must have been Buffering one of the bad spells that effect people sornetimes. when they behoid a lack of en terprise. - Adrián Press. Wo will respectfolly ask why "girth" i not "geurtb " if ' ' deaith' ' is nut' 'dirth. " Once at Winona (Minn. ) an editor, afterwards a "tute" in the uuiversity, reoeired an ad. from a railroad company ín %vhioh it desired patrous to seonre berths early. The printer came the "dirth" metho'i of spelling, nu-üto the editot's coustsruation aud disinay. The eompauy ïefnsed paymeut but the newspaper m;ui prevaüfd npon thetn wifch the snggesticn that the misspelling did tbem more aflvertisiug tnan they had had for years. He got the money. Chelsea's P.ngree olnb has made a start. Saline drovers shipped eleven loads of livestook last week. Frenoli Landing is a new postoffloe. It is looated uear Belleville. Dexter feels the need of a Pingree olnb. There is nothing like a spring fcinio. Chas. Baldwin died last Tuesday at Chelsea, aged 29 yeais. He leaves a widow. The Salvation Army has obtained a foochold at Dexter and converts are nuineroDS. Tho Prohibitionists of Ypsilanti, paradoxical as it may seein, wiü nomínate a full ticket this spring. "The Flowing Bowl" cheered a large audience at Chelsea, St. Patrick's night aud the proceeds of the play were $150. A pauper bas strook Dundee. It is "Louva, the Pauper," which will be produced at the village opera house tonight. H. C. Spauldng has purohased the Dnndee canning faotory at ten cents on the dollar and the plaat will endeavor to grow. Ypsilanti is agitating a project for a new armory. Scndeuts from Aun Arbor find no diffinnlty in finding plaoes to pat their arms in Ypsi. Mrs. Nettie Skinner Davis, of Chelsea, bas had a design accepted for a new baptismal font to be erected in a Detroit Episcopal church. Chris. Bagge left Chelsea sixteen years ago to go west. The other day he wandered back again and foand the oldest inhabitant still telling that this spring beat anything he ever saw. The Monroe Dernocrat bas had a serieus thought between siniles, and as a resnlc offers $100 reward for the apprehension of the murderer of Mrs. Gierman, of Exeter township, two years ago. Ohas. Gilmore lives at Blissfield. If he didn't live at Blissfield he would be in a garden of bliss now anyway. He is 82 years old and Mrs. Jalia Zerland, of Adrián, aged 50, was nis blushing bride the other day. Azalia can orow in the fact that Fred L. Ingraham, the winner of the college debate last Friday nighfc, is a resident of that place. Mr. Ingraham is also president of the senior law class and a nighty good feil )W all roond. The Grass Lake News wants a sidewaïk built to the village cemetery. It is now a oase where the followiug Willis bard poem applies : Hustle nis boneses (Those of Joneses, ) Over the stoneses. Pinokney is said to be "easy meat" for tramp8. The village marshal locks Üiem up at the hotel instead of the locknp, and the village foots the bill. But then the hotel may be as bad as the locknp and the poor tramps made to suffer as mach by their foroed regisfcration tbere as they wonld in a comInioa jail. A. former Manchester boy is publishing a paper at St. Louis, Mo., which he designates as "The Dirt Mover." This is probably the first time a soap company ever went into the newspaper business. That's what yon probably think. Bat that isn't right. The paper is to exploit the good qualities of s wheel soraper. Dexter people did a very kind act last week when a ootnmittee was appointed and proper resolutions were engrossed and presentad to Miss Myrta Bostwick and Jay Payne, the youug people who rescued little Pearl Walker from drowning. On Friday evening Miss Bostwick and Mr. Page were invitted to the home of Mrs. C. C. Page and while there the fonner was presented with $20 in gold and the latter with a handsorne watch chain and charra. The Ypsilanti Sentinel has the following concerning the cook-fight occurring near there one night last week : A cock-fight was pulled off in Wayne eounty Monday evening. between birds from Ann Arbor and this city. A large orowd was present from Detroit and neighboring cities, and succeeded in j winning a large amouut of money from Ypsi "sports. " During the night a horse and oarriage were stolen from a aear barn, the property belonging to a young man from this city. The rig vas reoovered next morning, having evidently been driven to this city by some of the Detroiters. It is nnderstood that Alderman John Terns, of this oity, has a desire for the demooratic nomination for oounty treasnrer this fall. He has earned recgnition by a lifetime of unswerving fidelity to and support of hia party. AUded to this a deserved repntation for honesty and ability make of him more than nsnally good timber f or the coucty ticket. "The best aldermen the city bas had for years, " is the prond title aocoided him by men of all parties, and if he desires the keys to the oounty gtrong-box, The Sentinel will be glad to do what it can to put him in posseseiion. - Ypsilanti Sentinel. The most perfeot, and one may say, almost the only specimen of an old Colonial house in this vicinity is the old Redner homestead at Stony Creek. It was built about 1830 after the plan of the old time Colonial houses of New England. There is the great "square room," ampie flre-place, many-paned Windows, and chimney cupboards for the old china, and the silver teapot. Mr. Redner, who bas been living in fown for saveral years, is about to retnrn to the old homestead and its artistio and venerable advintages will be revived. The large "cast ohamber," with its fire-place, ingleneuk, and many Windows, makes an ideal bondoir, which one sighs for in vain, unless possessed of an old time mansion. It is jnst the place for an old minuet dance by short waisted dames iü powder and patches. - Ypsilantian. Here is a copy of an advertisment in this week's Manchester Euterprise: "Valentines! The most. lovely valen - tiues in this vicinity to be found at 's. The iargest display everbrouglit to Manchester. Don't forget yonr sweetest loveliest and best girl or fellow and always be happy." In anothor place in the Enterprise is the following local: "Many of our inerchants are changing their advertisments often now, so careful purchasers will do well to keep a close watoh."