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The enrollruent uf the MancheBter schools is 340. Fted Sohaible, of Manchester, will lócate iu Ann Arbor. Town politics furnish the chief topio of discnssion tbis week. Livingston county C. E. conventiou will be held at Piockney, April 14. F. E. Ortten burger, formerly of Manohester, is now located in Chicago. A class of 19 will be confirnied in Bethel obnrch, Freedorn, Palm Sunday. It is said that two of Manchester's ealoonkeepers intend going out of business. Wm. Nissle will retnrn to Manouester frcm Tecumseh and start a paint sbop. Nelsou Davenport and family, of YpsilaiiH, have moved onto a farm near Saline. The F. F. F. Club will give a grand ball at the Dester opera house, Friday eveniug, Apiil 23. Miss Jessie Ryder, of Salem, will teaob the Sntton district school in Northfleld tbis spring. J. H. Murray, of Salem, realized a good price for a fine berd of 14 oattle which he sold recently. Charles Brown, aged 16, colored, died of typhoid fever in Ypsilaoti, Wednesday of last week. George Sanderson, of Ypsilanti towD, died of pnenmouja Tuesday of last week aged 46 years. Queeu City Hive, L. O. T. M., of Ypsilanti, will hold its sixth annual banquet next Thursday evening. Alln Dillingham, of Bridgewater, has the contract to furnish 60 poles for the Clinton-Franklin telephone line. Arthur and Ray Mitohell are olearing off twenty aores of timber, purchased from E. O. Allen in Bridgewater. A nunaber of Manchester Royal Arcb Masons attended the school of inetruotion at Tecumseh Monday of last week. Tbe scholars of the Salem sohool gave an exhibition last Saturday evening at Stanbro's hall which drew out a larga crowd. E. W. Rogers, of Grass Lake, will ■deed an acre of ground to anyone wbo ■will start a beet sugar factory in that village. The Lake Shore paymaster went through Manchester last week, makiag the families of the railroad men happy for a few days. D. S. Hall, of Hamburg, wbo haa been helpless from rbeumatism for the past two years, was taken to Mt. Cíemeos for treatment Mouday. Mrs. O. Streeter, of Lodi, died Tnesday of last week after a brief illness. Her remains were interred in Lodi cemetery the following Thursday. Babies are arriving in Sharon. On March 19, a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Bowers, and on the following day a son to Mr. and Mrs. John Sobaible. The southeast corner of the foundation wall of the Manchester roller mil! has fallen into the raoe and it is found tbat there is quicksand nnder that portion of the foundation. The business men of Ypsilanti wiL raise $2,000 to place ttfè Cleary Busitiess College on a good financial footing. At a recent meeting of the gentlemen it was decided that the city could noi afford to lose the college. Th Saline Farmers Club is meeting -with Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Platt in Pitts field, today. C. R. Cobb futnishes a papel for discussion and Miss F. Josen hxas reads an essay. The discussion of the association nuestion for April is also being taken up. Fred Kimmel, of Superior, bas pur chased the sugar buBD uf Ohu Stiaug consisting of ibonf 1,100 ttees beside baving about 300 on bis owo farm, anc there are enonali HiFm to keep hiin bnsy so that he dies uot get iuto any njischief these days. Several resideuts of Lima are down with the grip. f Charles Sanderson, of Willis, died Maroh 23, after a long illuess. Tho Milan school children and 1 ' 3rs have been eujoying a vaoation this week. Tbe Natioualists have a full ] ihip ticket in the field iu Augusta tewnship this year. Tbe Oddfellows have a maple sngar ' Janoing party at Gay 's opera bouse, ' Milau this evening. Wm. Wood, of North Lake, reoently found a hen's nest on his windmill, in ' whioh were flve eggs. The Sylvan school will open for tha ! 3pring term on Monday with Miss Edith Foster as teacher. Henry S. Stimpeon, being about to . move away from Whittaker, has ; ed his offioe as jnstice of the peace. ; Fred Richards, who reuently ohased the Thomas residence in Cbel sea, is having it remodeled and repairad. The S. C. B. dramatio club of Salem will put ou the play, "After Ten Years, or a Mauiao's Wife," in the near future. A small blaze in Charles Dickerson's store at Willis Wednesday of last week, was extiuguisbed before doing much öamage. The Milau Woman's Relief Corps held a box social and eutertainmeut ac the G. A. R. hall iu that village last evening. F. W. Monroe, of Ypsilanti, ruptured the ligauieuts of his ankle by falling on an ïcy sidewalk Wednesday of last week. C. J. Chandler bas purohased the Steinbaoh property on Middle st., Chelsea, and will have it remodeled before ocoupyiug it. Jas. Watkins, of Hamburg, will remove the elevator fro'ru where it stands now to a spot sonth of the Ann Arbor railroad depot. The ladies of the Chelsea W. R. C. entertaiued their G. A. R. friends ou Tuesday evening with a supper and pleasant social time. Mrs. James Gauntlett, of Milan, one day last week received by mail a horned toad, alive and well, from her daughter iu Bolton, Tex. Dan Hurley, of Whittaker, while taking a stroll in the woods Sunday week, killed 75 snakes that had crawled out to sun themselves. James Hagan, of Chelsea, oan now put M. D. after his name. He graduated from the Detroit College of Medioine Wednesday of last week. Mr. Hard, of Metamore, Lapeer county, bas been buying hay in Superior township, for the eastern rnarket and bas paid good prices for it. C. J. Chandler, of Chelsea, is now president of the Tri-State Bntter, Egg and Poultry Association, having been eleoted to the office at tbe recent annual meeting. Tbe remains oí T. ÍS. lMarkhaia, a 'orinar resident of Ypsilanti, wbo died o Washington, D. O., were interred n Higbland oemetery, Ypsilanti, Wednesday of laat week. The republican norninees tor office in Superior township are : Supervisor, Win. Crippen ; clerk, Edward Shuart; reasuror, Frank Crippen. Only eight voters were at the oaocus. Mrs. M. Wackenhut and daughter, of Sylvan, while driving to Chelsea ;be other day were dumped into a ditob ontaiuing two feet of water, by reason of tbeir borse beooming unmanageable. John Van Alleu, aged 74 years, ied at the home of J. Staffan, in Ohelsea, Monday of last week. The 'uneraljseivices were held the followng Thnrsday and the reinaius taken to Wayne for interment. Abont ü.üOO pounds of milk is the laily average received in Milan now. At Eastear's milk depot the average is ,000 pounds, and at Curtis' orearnery ,500 pounds. The enterprises put many hundreds of dollars into circula;ion every mouth. While Rev. SicDevitt was offering special prayer for two young oonverts at tbe Pree Methodist chnrcb in Willis, Sunday week night, he feil prostrated on tbe floor apparently dead, but in a short time regained oonsciousness. Boart failure was the cause. The friends of William Brighton, of Manchester, are pleased with the decisión of the Supreme court affirming the judginent of $4,791 he obtained against the Lake Shore road in the cirouit court at Anu Arbor. This was the seoond time the case had been before the saprerue oourt. A lady in a neighboriug townsbip reports the following pastry cooking fur a faraily of two duriog the year 1896: 256 loaves of bread, 60 tins of bisouit, 10 johuny-cakes, 123 pies, 18 baked puddings, 13 short-oakes, 1 pan of veal pie, 107 cakes, 130 cookies, and 2 pans of fried cakes. Daniel Webb, an aged resident of Pinokney, was found dead Thursday moruiug of last week. He had been a hard drinker and although worth considerable property, he was a wreek, and for weeks had lived almost entirely upon alcohol, takiug as high as a pint per day of the pure liquor. A uanskrat supper is the last fad and it struck Manchester Tuesday evening, when Wm. Kirohgessner, our village baker, set op a lunch for his customers and friends that they might know what a rare dish the Frenchmen of Monroe whet their appetites for. A goodly nnmber had the curiosity to try sonie. A few said that they liked it, some thought that it would be all right if they didn't know what it was. But eatinpr muskrat is a good deal like it was witb the trapper, who after eating sonae snake was asked how he liked it, said, " I like snaik but don't hanker arter it. " - Manchester Enterprise. The farmers in Superior township are iowing their clover and kicking ou tho price of it - f!5 a bushel. St. John 's churcb, Ypsilauti, elearrt $220 by the prodnction of "Colleen Bawn' St. Patriok'a day night. Mr. John Nortou, of Ypsilanti, was narried Wednesday of last week, in Windsor, Ont, to Miss Laura Nichols. Mrs. Benjamin Phelps, of Dexter, iied Friday of Jast week. The funeral servioes were held in that village on Monday. Marión Lyons was found not guiJty Df the oharge of laroeny preferred jgainst bim. The trial caine off in Justioe Child's court at Ypsilanti on Friday. Dr. King got drnnk in Ypsilauti Satarday night and abused the Ostrauder family. He was airested and put in jai 1, and on Tnesday morning Justioe Dhilds senteoced him to pay a fine of f 10. 20 or to go to jail for 30 days. He went to jail. The last ;neighborhood" party of tbe season jaet at tbe home of Ben Kelly, in Ypsilanti towu, Priday uight. Tbere were nearly 70 present. Several recitations were given and songs gung. Fred Green, of Ypsilanti, made the speech of the eveniug. G. H. Scharf has sold out his interest in the Soharf Tag, Box and Label Co., of ïpsilanti, to H. P. Glover, and the latter now has seven-eightha of the capital stock of the concern D. P. Sullivan will be temporarily placed iu management of the factory. The officers of the Cbelsea W. C. T. U. are: President, Mrs. J. S. Edmunds; lst vice president, Mrs. F. E. Wines; 2d vioe president, Mrs. G. P. Glazier ; 3d vioe president, Mrs. J. R. Gates; recording and correspouding secretary, Mrs. E. S. Prudden ; treasurer, Mrs. Geo. Blaich. At the annual meeting of the stooklolders of the Willis Butter Faotory ;he following directors were elected for the ensning year : Elijah A. Darling, Frank ,1. Fletoher, Richard J. M. King, Joseph Breining, and Mrs. Chas. H. Greenman. The factory did a very properous business last year. The two sous and daughters of Milton H. Begole, of Pittsfield, were driving iu Ypsilanti, Sunday, when oce of the horses stumbled and turned a complete somersault. The other horse dragged the carriage along over the 'allen animal and it was tipped over. Luckily the passengers all alighted on their feet and were thus uninjured. One of tbe horses was badly hurt.