Washtenawisms

The Chelsea saloon bonds are fised at $4,000. Dexter expects to enjoy soinething of a building boom. Hiram Pierce has purchased the Seney farm in Lima. Henry Kirby expects to be deputy game warden at Dexter. FonrLyndon boys have been arrested for violating the flshing laws. Gus Smith, of Pinokney, shot a wild goose near his home last week. Whitmore Lake is having a goodly nuinber of visitors tbis season. Frank Greening has purchased the James Hogan property in Chelsea. Twenty-four applicants from Chelsea passed the recent teachers' examination. Two horses belouging to Ed. May, of Unadilla were killed b(y lightniDg week bef ore last. 1 Arthur Van Sickllj of Salem, recently cuthis foot biöly while handling an axe. George Stevens, of amburg, cut his foot instead of recently, severing an artery. The stave Jmill of Montagne Bros. at üak Grove, was struck by lightn ing and burned down. Telephone conneotion with Pinckney was cut off by the eleotric storm of Thursday night of last week. Tom McNamara, of Chelsea, has built a new baru to accomodate hiB horses. Many a liarse will flnd its feed in that barn if Torn keeps up his trading reputation. The ChelEea council is making an effort to get water works if the rate of insurance san be decreased. They are endeavoring to rnake terms with the insurauce oompaities. Carpenter Post, No. 3 80, G. A. R. of Ypsilanti, has accepted an invita tion to attend divine services at the M E. chnrch in that city on the Sunday preceding Memorial Day. Three large sticks of dynamite have been unearthed in the cellar of the house recently occupied by the Webster boys, who were sent to prison last fall for blowing up the esidence of G. W, Huil, of Hamburg. The tenement house of William Fletcher, of Sylvan, was destroyed by fire a week ago Sunday. It had been occupied just a day by the tenant, his wife and four small children, the youngest of which was but two weeks old. Ypsilanti Chapter, No. 119, O. E. S., celebrated its second birthday last evening witb a i'eception and banquet in the JVIasonic hall, Ypsilanti, which was largely attended. Supper was served from 5 :30 to 8 :30, after which a fine musical and literary program was presen ted. The Excelsior bas been informed o: a movement lately set on foot by repre sentative farmers of this vicinity to the effect that unless the merchants of thi village did something to encourage the starting of our flour mili and indueing someone to take hold of it, they wonlc withdraw iheir ti'ade from South Lyon - Oakland Excelsior The class confirmed at St. John' Catholic church, Ypsilanti, Wednesday afternoon of last week, numbered 82 The class included eight adults, fou men and four women ; also a coloree lad named Willie Morton, who diec of quick consumption the night afte he was confirmed. Bishop Foley, o Detroit, who ennducted the ceremony gave an eloquent sermón. Charles Stebbins, of Dexter, adm,in istrator of the G-eorge J. Hiller estáte faas commenced suit against the John S. Newberry eecate of Detroit for th sum of 5,000, olaiming that Enginee Thompson was negligent and his negli gence resnlted in the Detroit Journa building explosión. George J. Hille was once a resident of Ypsilanti anc was well known in tbat city. A man by the name of Frank Bailey 50 years old, who lives near Gregory has been suffering from a cáncer on hi face for several years, and as he ha been growing gradually weaker, con ceived the idea of being bnried in casket of his own design. The caske is made out of two inch solid oa planks and is bound by seven bauds o iron made from wagon tires. The cove is hung on hinges and lecks by stou springs inside. He had a tiotion tha he was going to die sooa and fixed th date as last Fridav, but failed to con neet and stil; live. He is a fíirme and his mind isprobablynnl alanced. - Chelsea Standard. Adam Gehriuger is building a resience in Freedoin. A King's Danghters society is being rganized in Saline. James Gallagber will build a sutnner cottage at Base Lake. The Dexter high school graduates an ven dozen pupils this year. One Maurhfsler store took in over ,200 dozen eggs last week. John Lutz died recently at bis home n tb e town line betvreeir Fieedom and Lodi. Mrs. Haunah Briggs, of Ypsilanti, ïas been grauted an original widow's ension. George Scbmidt, of Bridgewater, sed forfcy bushels of onions for seed ast week. A new stone abutment will be built at the east end of tne Congress st. ridge iu Ypsilanti. Ira Grover died in Manchester, April 0, of oonsumption, aged 31 yeai-s. He arried $4,000 life insurance. The ssven years old daughter of Mr. ud Mrs. George Lockwood,of Ypsilan1, died Tuesday of qnick consumption. Jobn Lepper and Edward VVilcox, of Detroit, have leased the Hawkins ouse, at Ypsilanti, of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Nowlin. John M. Heimendinger died April 9, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. i. Tepee, west of Saline, aged 73 years. He leaves five daugbters and one on. Mrs. Mahala Jackson died at her lome in Superior on Friday last, aged 89 years. Her remains were interred in ïighland cemetery, Ypsilanti, ontMonlay afternoon. August Butler and J. N. Vanderverter were flned $2 and easts by Justioe Marble, of Milan, f or getting a load of coal from a Wabash car at Milan without permission. Wm. Ambrose, of Ypsilanti, died Monday morning of paralysis. He was siezed with the stroke that killed him, on Tuesday of last week, the day on which all the fatalities ocCurred. Six tramps broke into a box car near Dandee on Friday and stole a barrel of whiskey. Eailroad authorities arrested them. One of thern has since died from the effects of the debauch. The Washtenaw Baptist assooiation meets in Milan, May 7. An address will be delivered by President A. Gaylord Slocuru, of Kalamazoo College. There are fifteen churehes in the assooiation. The new pump for the water works at Ypsilanti, has at length been ordered of Laidlaw, Dunn & Gordon, of Cincinnati. It willoost $4,500, which with the cost of the foundations and setting it np will make a total of $5,500. The "Willis coi respondent of the Ypsilanti papers eame out in the role of a poet (?) last weok and thus discoursed : '"We have a pet kitten, When he sees a rat he is wonderfully sinitten, and he has itching ears, until without tears, he cruaches its bones, and the rat disappears. " Johnson Bros., of Ypsilanti, last week shipped to Boston 18,000 dozen eggs which were gathered in the vicinity of that city by their teams. Nearly a quarter of a tnillion eggs handled in one week means the product of over 30,000 hens for one week, each laying an egg every day. Garry Densmore and Dr. Owen, of Ypsilanti, bought a horse called "Nathan Mills, " at the "Doc"Bennett auction sale recently for $21, which Bennett once offered $4,500 for. Dr. Owen subsequently sold his half interest to Mr. Densmore for $15. On Monday Mr. Densmore sold the horse to Joseph Schoonover, of Belleville, for $100. "Nathan Mills" stook is evidently on the rise. Mrs. W. F. Stevens and her mother were ridng on River street Thursday morning, when they were met by Jimraie Brown, who was driving a onehorse wagon rig on the race bridge. One of the wagon whee.'s caught into the carriage wheel aud overturned it, frightening the hors6 which ran several rods dragging the ladies nnder the carriage. Neither of the ladies were seriously hurt, although somewhat bruised and badly frighteiied. The carriage ■was damaged somewhat, and Stevens' horse qnite badly ent about the hind legs. - Milan Leader. At the meeting of the new village efundí of Pinckney, held Monday uight, the room was packed with citizens anxious to see what the cotmeï would do with the liquor bonds laid on the table at the last meeting. The druggist bond of JFrank Singler was approved, but the liquor bonds of John Tnorney and Albert Reason were both rejected and the town will be dry. The vote on each bond was a tie, and Presi dent Grimes voted in favor of no saloons The president appointed Philander Monroe marshal, Dr. Hollis Sigler health officer, Warren Carr attorney Samuel Grimes street cornmissioner John Ambrose had the misfortune to lose a fine buil pup last Saturday. One of the boys had been playing with him and, after a while he quit and went to the woodpile to get a stick. He had au axe raised to cut the wood, when the pup came running up just as he brought the axe down, which struok him, cutting the poor dog from the top of his neck right through to the bot torn, killing him instantly. - Whittaker Corespondence, Ypsilanti Coinmercia - The more one studies this item the more puzzld he is. Who was one of the boys playing with, John Ambrose or the buil pup? Who quit, and got a stick, the boy, John Ambrose or the buil pup? Who had the axe raised, the boy or John Ambrose or the buil pup Who was struck with the axe, the boy John Ambrose or the pup? The item is respectfully referred to our young grammarians for eluoidation and ex planation. Au interesting case regarding the title to a horse was tried in Justice Child's conrt, at Ypsilanti, Monday. The plaintifï, a colored man naroed Schermerborn, had worked on the old "Doe:" Benuett farm for a nnmber of years and aíter Mollie Bennett died he set up a claim of title in a span of horses, whioh were eveutualy sold at adininistrator's sale to George DeMosfa and Mrs. Sauders. An action in trover was brotigbt to test the title and the plaitnift' proved by 13 witnesses that Mollie Bennett had spoken of the horses as beiug "Jeronie's." The defease attempted to prove that she olairned the title, but this latter testimony was excluded on a point of laF which argües that auy admission made agaiust a party's own interest is admissible for the reasou that no person would make it unless it was the truth ; and on the other hand any statements made in the party's own interest is not admissible uniess the other party in controversy was present to deuy it. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, but the case will be appealed to the circuit court by the defendant, Geo. B. DeMosh.