Washtenawisms

The Manchester frog pond has been valued by the assessor at $50. Alfred Phelps has been appointed street commissioner of Dexter. John Lawson has repainted the interior of his store in Whittaker. A Sunday school was organized at the Bridgewater town hall last Sunday. The Mooreville L. O. T. M. has purchased an Ann Arbor organ for its hall. John Shettler has purchased the Richard property in Dover of Mrs. Vernon. The Manchester schools begnn the spring term with an attendance of 348 pupils. Miss Mary Dieterle died in Bridgewater, April 11, of consumption, aged 33 years. Mumps have made their appearanoe in Salem and there is also a case of pink eye. The Ann Arbur railroad will pnt its new bridge in position at Milan next Sunday. Miss Agnes O. Pratt is teaching the spring terra of school in the Johnson district, of Dexter township. The Milan high school lecture course closed the year with a profit of $59.24 after'giving five first class entertainments. The Dexter school has been having its spring vacation this week. Next week an eight weeks' term of school coinrnences. Bridgewater township was named after Bridgewater, Oneida county, N. Y., and the name was chosen by George Howe, the first supervisor of the town. The village attorney of Dexter gets the magnificient salary of $25 a year. Some years he earns it ten times over and some years he has hard scrabbling to earn it. Mat Blosser, of the Manchester Enterprise, is very prond of an old apple tree in his yard, the trnnk of which measures 10 f eet 2 inches in circumference. A Milan school child defined the word "heroine" as a kind of fisb. That child has an original way of putting things which shows that he is reading the cnrrent novéis with advantage. John O. Howe, of Beatrice, Neb., son of the first supervisor of Bridgewater township, tells of seeing a camp of Pottawatamies in section five in Bridgewater township over sixty years ago. Leomon O. Thompson died in Dexter, April 10, aged nearly 65 years. He was born in New York and had resided in Dexter sjnoe 1867. He was a prominent G. A. R. man and had been a valiant soldier. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Beal removed from Dexter to Detroit last -week. Mr. Beal was for many years bookkeeper in the Courier office in this city, during all of which time he retained his residence in Dexter. The following are the Milan appointive officers for the ensuing year : Health officer, Wesley Robinson; marsbal, Archie Gauntlett; village attorney, Frank Trussell ; street commissioner, P. M. Edwards; chief of fire department, E. C. Hinckley ; fire warden, P. M. Edwards; special assessors, J. W. Blakesley, J. L. Marble and J. M. Putnam. The following teachers have 'been employed for the Dexter schools next year : Miss Mytra Bostwick to succeed Miss Fitchell; Miss JessieDoane to succeed Mrs. Belle Croarkin; Miss Maude Buchanan to succeed herself; Mrs. Meivin Litohfield to succeed Miss Bostwick; Miss Minnie Rieder will succeed Miss Doane. The board has not yet decided on an assistant superintendent. The following are the Manohester appointive officers for the ensuing year: Marshal, Geo. Nisle ; president pro tem, Ed. E. Root ; night watchman, Marshal Fisk; health officer, Dr. C. F. Kapp; cbief fire department, Geo. Nisle ; fire wardens, Fred Hashley, Harmon Clark ; poundmaster, Christian Schwab; board of review, T. J. Farrell, O. JL. Torrey ; Rpecial assessors, M. D. Case, N. Schmid, N. VanDerwerken. The following are the Saline appointive village officers : Cemetery trustee, G. C. Townsend; special assessors, A. J. Warren, E. VV. Wallace, D. Nissly; mirshal, Fred Jerry; street commissioner, M. D. Wallace; village attorney, F. E. Jones ; special pólice, H. A. Jewett; health oñicer, Dr. S. W. Chandler ; board uf review, W. J. Jackson, G. E. Sohairer; president pro tem, J. MoKinuon ; chief of fiie department, O. M. Kelsey.g 'V! Saline pays $1.25 a day to street laborers. Bob Ingersoll is working in a hardware store in Milan. Dr. Otis Walker, of Salern, has gone to Bakerville, Cal., to reside. Otis Walker, of Salem, has gone to California and Arizoua in search of health. Three oandidates were admitted into the Milan Eastern Star lodge Tuesday evening. Dr. Niohols, of Saline, has gone to Unionville to ernbark in the banking business. The Saline marshal earns $00 a year, while the village attorney is an Ann Arhor lawyer and gets $25. Bert Rich, of Salem township, has removed to Detroit and Amos Worden occupies the farm he vacated. Byron McCauley is marshal of Dexter this year and he will get $15 a month for keeping order in an orderly village. Charles Sootney, a prominent farmer of Superior, and Miss Hattie Beaoh, of Ypsilanti, were rnarried Wednesday of last week. Dexter is still discussing eleotric lights and a committee will report on the subject at the next meeting of the Dexter counoil. Seventy-six wheels were in line at; a bicyole parade iu Ypsilanti lasfc Friday night. Most of the wheels were pedaled by ladies. The ladiea of the Salem W. C. T. U. gave a "photograph" sooial at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dwelle Smith, of that place, last evening. P. W. Shute, of Ypsilanti, haserected a Pingree pole and flung a Pingree banner to the breeze, on which is a likeness of Detroit's great mayor. It has been made a misdemeanor to leave a mulé standing in the streets of Chelsea without tying. It is aleo an offense to beat an ox in Chelsea. Frank Ingraham, of Chelsea, lost three of the fingers of his right hand one day last week by getting tbem in too close connection with a saw in Lighthall's mili. The Whipple hotel at South Lyon, considered by traveling men the best house between Detroit and Lansing,has been destroyed by fire. Loss between $5,000 and f6,000. Mrs. Millie D. Robinson, a resident of Ypsilanti for three years past, died at her home in that city, Saturday, aged 62 years. Her remains were taken to her old home at Battle Creek for interment. The Dester Leader demands an ordinance flning a man $10 who wil! take up the whole sidewalk airing his political knowledge. It would be a good joke if the Dexter editor wete the flrst man caught. A Woman's Missionary Society of the Dexter Congregational church.has been organized with Mrs. Frank Bloomfield, president; Mrs. Williams, vice president; Mrs. D. E. Waite, treasnrer and MÍS3 Dollie Francisco, secretary. David Wallers, living near Cherry Hill, assaulted Martin Roach on Saturday without any just cause or provooation and by sentence of Justice Beach, of Ypsilanti, he now languishes in jail in Ann Arbor for 30 days for so doing. A banquet will be given at the Cleary Business College, Ypsilanti, May 13, at which Mr. Cleary hopes to have present Pingree, Bliss and O'Donnell, trepides two or three other shining lights of Michigan's political firmament. The Epworth League of Grass Lake is arranging for a "Group Meeting," to be held on the afternoon and evening of May 22. The Leagues of Munith, Stockbridge, North Francisco, Chelsea, Napoleon, Manchester, Sharon Center and North Sharon are to be invited, also sorne of the state officers. The office of C. H. Wilson, lumber dealer, of Milan, was broken into Sunday night and the safe blown open with blasting powder. The charge was a heavy one as the safe and much of its contents weie ruined. There was nothing but books and papers in the safe so the marauders got nothing for their trouble and were out the powder and labor. It took a sentence of 60 days in Capt. Joe Nicholson's boarding house at Detroit, to unlock the tongue of a tramp in Ypsilanti one day last week. He had broken the seal on a Michigan Central freight car at Geddes and was arrested and taken before Justice Beach, of Ypsilanti. He professed almost entire ignorance of the English language until tfce justice passed sentence on him as stated above and then he found his vocabulary of English and it was well stocked with expletives and abuse. A class of 54 boys and girls received their first communion in St. Mary's Catholic ctrarch, Chelsea, on Sunday morning. Hign mass was celebrated at 8 o'clock by Rev. Fr. Wm. P. Considine, pastor of the church, he also preached on the "Blessed Eucharist. " On Tuesday the same class received the sacrament of corifirmation at the hands of Rt. Rev. John S. Foley, bishop of Detroit, who also preached the sermón. Several priests assisted the bishop in the ceremony. He was aocompanied by his secretary, Rev. F. J. Baumgartner. Fire nearly destroyed the barn of the Ypsilanti Lumber Co., at Ypsilanti, Thursday night of last week. The blaze started in the hay loft, but the horses, wagons and harnesses were all saved. While three of the firemen were working on the second floor it gave way, dropping theru down to the first floor. Fireman Kent was buried underueath five or six f eet of hay and there was a great , hustle to libérate him. DeMar was nearly suffocated and had to be carried out of the building. There were two carloads of baled hay in the barn at the time of the fire. Frank Murdock died of consumption in Dexter last Thtirsday morning. Abotit 400 will be received from non-resideut pupils at the Ypsilanti public schools this year for tuition fees. Freeman Tucker was driving a team of horses which he had newly purchased, ou the streets of Chelsea, Mouday, when they ran away throwiug Mr. Tucker out of the vehiole and breaking his leg. Miss Effie K. Price, of Chicago, addressed a large audienoe at the Presbyterian church, Ypsilanti, Sunday eveniug, it being the anniversary of the establishment of the Young Women's Christian Assooiation in that city. H. D. Martin, an oíd aud respecte d citizen of Ypsilauti, died at his home in that city Thursday, of last week, after a long and painful illness with tuberculosis of the throat. The funeral services were held Saturday and were latgely attended. The funeral of Mrs. George Amrhein, of Plyniouth, was held at St. John's church, Ypsilanti, last Saturday. It was attended by a large number of the Arbeiter Verein, of which order her husband is a member. Mrs. Amrhein's death was caused by blood poisoning.