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Washtenawisms

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
October
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
Obituary
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■ Eden Ruokman, of Saline, recently sold seven tons of hay for $7.50 per ton. A ladies' McKinley and Hobart club was organizad in Saline Tuesday evening of last week. Miss Lottie Gentner, of Sylvan, who is very seriously ill, has been bronght to Ann Arbor for treatment. Willie Norris, of Lima, recently found an insane man lying iu a fence corner with his throat ent. George Walter, of Bridgewater, has built a new house for his son just across the road from his residence. S. M. Bixby & Son, of Saline, are improving their flonring mili by putting in some new improved machinery. A farmer took a load of apples into Saline, Thursday of last week, and received just enough for it to buy a pair of shoes. Cornelias C. Post, who died at Belleville, Oct. 9, aged 88 years, had lived in Michigan since the days when it was a ttirritory. One day last week John Klump husked 118 bushels of corn and bound the stalks in 1 1 hours, on the farm of A. Hitchcock, in Sharon. It cost J. Hutohinson, of Ypsilanti, $9.50 to settle with the electric company for the pole he sawed in two when it was placed in front of his driveway. Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Berger, of Manchc-ier, celebraterl the 20tb anniversary of their wedding, üct. 17, among a number of their friends and neighbors. Mrs. Mary Duncan, of Whitmore Leak, dïed Satorday, aged 74 years. She was a well well known and very estimable lady. The funeral held at the Northfteld churoh.Tuesday.was largely attended. Mrs. Wm. Talford, formerly of Jackson, died at her home south of Rawsonville, Monday morning, aged 70 years. The funeral was held Wednesday morning at St. John's churoh, Ypsilanti, and the remains were taken to Jackson for burial. George P. Smith, a shoemaker, of Ypsilanti, dropped dead of heart disease in his barn on Grove st. , while building a bin, on Monday afternoon. He was 61 years of age and had never known a sick day in his lifetime. He leaves a wife and fouc sons. William Boldnian, of Cantón townsbip, has gone clear daft on the question of politics. He issued a challenge to Bryan to meet him in joint debate, and then fled to Ypsilanti under the impression that the free silver mon were going to kill him. He left ypsilanti for Jackson Sunday morniog. His friends reported the matter to the pólice. An excbange"ü6scribes as follows the difference between an agrionlturaïist and a farmer: "A farmer gets up a the crack of day, feeds his stock anr eats his breakfast at sun up. After hi frugal meal be hitches bis team to the plow and taking the hard handles in hi horny hands he calis "gee haw" to his team and plows tbe long and weary day. The agrioulturalist gets up a 8 o'olock in tbe morning, after an easy breakfast he picks his teeth, pulls ou his gloves, orders his horse and buggy and drives to town." Johu Riley Stafford, a colored man criminally assaulted a daughter o Peter Saeks, of Saline, one day las week. Deputy sheriff Allen Dilling ham went to Bridgewater and arrestet the fellow. He asked the deputy if h oould go home and change his clothes Permission was sranted him to do so and he then gave the ofïicer the slip by going out the back door and getting out of sight as soon as possible. Stafford eluded the oflficers fur several days but was arrested in Toledo Friday night and brought to Arm Arbor and lodged in jail, Saturday. The Ia9t legisl ature appropriated $5,000 for the expense of conducting a series of farmers' institutes for the year ending June 30, 1896. Kenyon L. Butterfield, superintendent of these institutes, makes the following repoit of the distribution of this fund : Salary of superintendent, $050; traveling expenses of the superintendent in arrauing for the institutos, $339.59; salary of olerk, $246.60; per diem of instituto leoturers, $1,044.95; traveliua expenses of lecturers, $2,133.40; printiug, $50.46; statiouery, $60. 70; offico pontage, $140.13; mailing institnte bulletin, $79; office apparutus, includiug typewriter, $114.30; appnratus for leotnrers, $23.30; farm home reading oircJe, $102.30; sundry, $19.27; total, f5,000. I Tbe new addition to the Milan schools is under roof and ihe floors have been laid. George Lsbman, of Mand Lake, receutly lost a valuable horse thtough its getting mired in a swamp. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Yonng, of Bridewater, died Oct. 18, of cholera infuntuin, aged 4 months aud 11 days. Michael Trainor, of Whitmore Lake, will build a barn on the site wbere his ilacksmith shop was burued. He has he stone on the ground for the basenieut. Married, at tbe Methodist parsonage t Stouy Cieek, Sunday morning, Oct. 8, by Rev. B. Gibson, David J. Hanur, of London, and Miss Grace Jacobs, f York. Ransom Townsend, an old resident of Dixboro, was thrown out of his wagon recently and received serious injures about the head. Soarcely any hope f his reoovery is entertaiued. The Chelsea Standard says that one f the prominent young gentlemen atending the high school beoame so inatuated with a certain fair maiden, hat he "popped the question" dnring chool hours. The Milan Leader says: "Chicken hieves wearing poiuted tip shoes are workiug in this vicinity. Bird shot lastily excluded from the barrel of a hut gun is a pretty effective cure for uch kleptomaniac tendencies. " The following are the offioers of the Dexter Y. P. S. C. E. for the ensung year : President, Ray Olsaver ; vice president, Miss Marian Phelps; ecretary, Miss Elsie Francisco ; treasnier, Howard Stannard ; organist, Miss Ella Day. The Manchester Euterprise says: 'Bert Rose offered Warren Kimble all ;he apples in his orchard, and there are ots of thein, for $10 and agreed to joard the man while pickiug tbem and also to draw the apples to Manohester. Kimble refused." The viilage treasurer of Manchester ïas had trouble in collecting the poll ;ax. The viilage council has passed a resolution empoweriug him to briug suit against those wbo had refused to pay their tax, the object being to test ihe law regardiig the collection of poll ;ax. flenry T. Mattoson, of Milan township, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. T. Hafford, which has been his home for nearly 30 years, on Oct. 15, aged 64 years and 6 days. When 24 years of age he suffered an injury to his back, which partially crippled him for the balance of his life. Ad exchange gives the following reoipe: " Apples may be kept two years by wrappiug them m newspapers so as to exclude the air. The newRpapers must, however, be those on which the subsriptious have been paid in full, or the dampness resultiug from the due ou them will cause the fruit to spoil." The Milau public schools have been presen ted witn three duplícate copies of the original Declaration of Independ encfi and its signers by the W. R. C of that viilage. The documenta wil be framed and in the near future can be found ocuupying conspicuous places in the high school, grammar aud inter mediate rooms.