Washtenawisms

The Salvation Army has stopped its Dexter meetings. The Dexter high school conmience ment is n'xed for June 18. Manchester is planning for a big Fourth of Jnly celebration. C. E. Lewis & Co., of Manchester has set out 120,000 celery plants. Mrs. Kate Deun, a resident of Dexter for 40 years, died May 25 of asthma. A barn beloiiging to J. W. Reeves in Webster was strucb by lightning May 25. J. H. Brutnell, of Mooreville, picked flve bushels of strawberries last Satur day. Arthur E. Howe has started a berry box and crate factory in Milau and is doing a good business. Insects are damaging the wheat some in Sharon and ;i large nnmber of grasa hoppers bave appeared. Mrs. A. K. Clark died in Saline May 25, aged 85 years. She had suf fered f rom puralysis for 19 years. Walter Due, son of Mr. and Mrs David Due, of Ypsilanti, died Saturday last of cousumprion, aged 17 years. John Croarkin has closed out his dry goods business in Dexter and will de vote himself o groceries aud boots anc shoes. The receipts from the sixteenth an nual May festival of the Epworth League of Ypsilanti amounted to near )y $160. E. P. Kellogg, of Dexter, died at the home of his rianghter, Mis. George Sly, May 24, at the advanced age of 80 years. A fine brick hall to cost between 5, 000 and $6,000 is to be built at the Arbeiter grove in Ypsilanti, by the Arbeiter society. A little child of Walter Cannon, of Ypsilanti, climbed on a table Tuesday afternoon and feil to the floor breaking its collar bone. Willïam H. Barr, of Saline, and Miss Mande Congdon, of Chelsea, were married Tuesday night at the home of the bride's parents in Chelsea. The Memorial Day exercises at Ypsilanti, Saturday, were held in the M. E. chnrch on account of the heavy rainstorm. The graves at the cemeteries had been appiopriately decorated duriug the morning. The Milan high school junior class yell is a thiug of noise if not of beaaty. Here it is: Rhe, rbi, rho! Rhe, rhi, rho! '97, who said so? '97, yes, you bet, "We're the bett high school class yet. The following tale of cruelty occuriDg iu boaighted Grasa Lake is from the Grasa Lake News: "It is said that recently a ycmng boy of this village safnrated a mnd tnrtle with ooal oil then set it ou fire and caused it to run into a woodohuok hole for the parpóse of driviug the woodchuck out. Ie was an act of atrocious crulity, and the heartless youngster should be severely pnnished." Thirty-two years ago Tuesday was fought the battle of Bethesda Church, Va. Co. B, an Ypsilanti company, in the 2Oth Infantry, commanded by Col. Cutcheon, was in the fight. In the battle which ensued Wru. Ross, of Ypsilauti, was wonnded and left on the field to die ; Charles Grieb, now living at Webberville, was wonnded iu the head and Harvey Packard, now liviDg in fc'aleru, was shot in the jaw. At the annual meeting of the Woman's Ausiliary of St. Luke's churoh, Ypsilauti, the following officers were elected for the ensuing yenr: President, Mrs. E. Hewitt; vice president, Mrs. A. Oarvis; secretary, Mrs. Wru. Gardam ; treasurer, Mrs. J. Wortley. Mrs. J. W. Babbitt and Miss L. A. Spencer were elected delegates to the meetings of the diocesan branch with Mrs. J arvis and Mrs. Wortley as altérnate, Mrs. Hewitt and Mrs. Gardaru are delegates by virtne of their offices. Soine evil rninded, reveugeful idiot, or idiots, defaced the soldiers' monument at Highlaud cemetery, Ypsilanti, just before Memorial Day, by hackiug off with a chisel the letters of tbe nanies of Mrs. Babbitt, Mrs. Suediicor and Mrs. Sevey, the committee of the VV. R. C. , whioh was instrumental in raising the futid foï the monument. The plaoing of the uames on the monument was subjeoted to sorne bnrsn critioism at the time it was put np and it looks as if somebody who did uot approve of the work had doue tbe rleed. as no othor part cf the monument ;p toucheö. Thero will be horse races at Dnudee tbr, week of Jnly 4. At (he Plymouth Fourth of July celebration, $500 has beeu offered iu cash prizes for bicycle and trotting races. The Peninsular Paper Co., at Ypsilauti, is putting in a new $8,000 boiler and a bont $3,000 worth of other new maehinery. Capt. E. P. Alleu addressed au audieuce of 10,000 people on Memorial Day at Elgin, 111. Tbe rain did not mar the exercises there. William Cobb died at his home on Portage Lake, May 22, aged 65 years. He was bom iu Englaud and carne to Michigan 50 years ago. Heury Ayers, of Detroit, tried to dodge a boy ou a bridge near Dexter, while liding a bicycle. He landed iu the Hurou river, much bruised and nis bicyole a wreek. - Detroit Journal. Mr. J. H. Hopkins, of Alton, 111., and Miss Mame E. Wallace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Wallace, of Ypsilanti, were married at the home of the bride's parents on Tuesday evening. Mathias Rosser, night watcbrnan at the Scharf tapr, label aud box factory, Ypsilanti, feil downstairs Thursday uight of last week aud injured his spine so severely that he will be laid up for some time. Sneak thieves entered Charles Kr2ysske's greenhouse at Ypsilanti, Monday, while he was down town and stole about 4 from the money drawer, $3 of which was in pennies, the proceeds of a Sunday school collection. A bicycle race meet under the direction of Claytou, Lambert & C, will take place on the fair grounds at Ypsilanti, Friday and Saturday of nest week, under the sanctiou of the L. A. W. Prizes aggregating 450 will be offered. Exact returns from the cairier pigeons which were liberated from the Neat house, Ypsilauti, oue day last week shows that one bird tuade the trip to Detroit in 28 minutes, two others iu 36 minntes, while the youugest bird was out 49 hours. The demand for Normal school graduates as teachers in the public schools of Michigan does not seein to diminish. Although alarge per cent of the seniors have already secured positions, numerous calis have been received during the past and present weeks. James Wiles, who lives northeast of Ypsilanti, and is well kuown in that city, was killed by a runaway in Plymouth last week. His horses became frightened and ran away, overturuing the buggy. Mr. Wiles struck so forcibly on his head that concussion of the brain resulted. At the aunnal meeting of tfieChurch Aid Society of the Ypsilanti Presbyteriau church, the following ladies were re-elected for another year : President, Mrs. J. McKinley; Ist vice president, Mrs. H. P. Glover; 2d vice president, Mrs. M. A. Smith ; secretary, Mi-s. F. E. Yost ; treasurer, Mrs. D. C. Batchelder. Rev. Win. Gardam, rector of St. Luke's churoh, Ypsilanti, is so impressed with the progressive movernput of the time with regard to bicycles that he has issued a special invitation to wheelmen and wheehvomen to attend divine worship at his church. His invitation reads: "Wheelmen and wheehvomeu are welcome at all services at St. Luke's church. All wheels will be cared for during divine service in the parish house." DanQuirk, jr., formerlyof Ypsilauti, had quite au experieuce in tho St. Louis, Mo. , cyclone last week, wheu he crossed tbe river from Sc. Louis to East St. Louis to see if aay damage had been doue to the packing house, of which D. Quirk, sr., of Ypsilauti, is at the head. He was in the St. Louis office at the time and as soon as the cyclDne had swept by he went to the biidge which is only three blocks distant from the office to go over on the tast side. The bridge was in such ehape that he was obliged to crawl part of the way over the fallen timbéis. If things keep on it ,will be necessary to put the Grass Lake News undei leavy bonds to keep the peace against Chelsea. Watching the rapid strides of Chelsea in all material prosperity he News cannot refrain from emitting ;he following gurle: "The Aun Aror Argus alludea to Grass Lake as a uburb of an obscnre foui-corners beyond the connty line, ten miles east of us. A. A. has always been jealous of our youug and growing tovn. But the snarlings it emits amid its constant gruutiugs as it tugs a way at the state ndder, do nofc in the least disturb the tranquility of our citizens. A. A. envy is even greener than that of poor little, simple Chelsea, in its piuafore aud always running at the nose. Grass Lake looks grandly down on all towns that lag superfluous iu the highway of progress, aud as naturally defies their unpriucipled and corrupt press. "