Washtenawisms

The number enrollad in the Saline high school this term is 56. An efifort is being made to establish a mail route at Pree Churoh. Frank Taylor is teaching the Whitiiiore Lake school this terra. Wm. Jackson, of Yspilanti, has been granted an increase of pension. George S. Bethell, station agentj]at Willis, is baving au addition built to the south side of his house. The Superior Cornet Band is said to be keeping itself in good condition for engagements this suinmer. Olin Strang will run a saw mili near Pebbles' churcb, in Salem, and has moved his engine over there. The Easter collection at St. John's ohurch, Ypsilanti, wbich goes to Fr. Kennedy's personal use, amounted to $111. W. O. King, of Detroit, secured about $800 stock snbscriptions in Whittaker and Willis the week beforo last for a telephone line from Detroit along the line of the Wabash railway. L. D. Miller, who bas been abseut from Wnittaker for abont a year, has concluded there is no plaoe like hotne and is again plying his trade as a shoe cobbler in the old "Beehive" building. Sixteen converts to the colored Bapttist cburch in Ypsilanti were immersed in the Huron liver iiear the waterworks by Rev, Mr. Carrol on Sunday afternoou iu the preseuce oL abont 250 psople. Mrs. Wm. Cole, of Saline, wbo was ruarried April 19, packed up her olothes and rotnrned to Detroit, from whence she caroe, on Monday moruing. Her husbaud was 73 and she was only 23. Her inaiden name was Martha Dzoig. A letter was reoeived Monday morning from Depnty Sheriff P. W. Ross, of ípsilanti, who is in Georgia, stafcing that bis man, Reddin Smith, jr., was released by a habeas corpus and tbe officer wauted iostrnctions on how to furtber prooeed. Ramer Pease was married by Justice Smith, of Dentón, April 10. The bride was a Mrs. Helen Miller, from Canada. The father of the bride hearing of tbe ceremouy, came aoross the water aocompanied by an offloer, who placed Pease in the county jail for bigatny. - Ypsilauti Commercial. Geo. A. Peters, the Scio peach grower, doesn't expect to get rich ofE his pcach orop this year. He says he recently experimeuted on about 100 buds taken from different parts of his orchard and found all dead but two and life in these was very faint. He thinks the buds entirely ruiued. - Dexter Leader. A farmer of Wexford county some years since tried the experiment of raising sugar beets and says that tbe raising of sagar beets in tbat section on a large scale would be a payiug investment. He claims to have raised front one acre of ground sixteen tons of baets. Wonld not this be a good thing for the farmers of Washtenaw connty to investiga te ': President Steinkohl, of Manchester, has experienced considerable trouble in appointing a village marsbal. He appointed in sneeseion Ed. Blytbe, Win. Hanham and J. J. Briegel, but tbe council would have noue of them. He flnally appointed George Wursier as marshal, chief of the fire department and poundmaster. The coancil promptly confirmed the maltifarions appointment. Three tramps assanlted A. B. Clapper, night operator at the Detroit, Lansing & Northern railroad depot, at Plymonth, at an early hour Sunday morning, and inflicted injuries from whioh, it is feared, he will die. On being refused money, they brutally kicked him about the head and body. His condition is oritical. The hoboes did not bave time to ransack the office, as they were frightened away by an approaching freight train. The annual meeting of St. James' Episcopal ohurcb, Dexter, was held Monday, April 19, and the following persons were eleoted as the veetry of the ohnroh : L. H. Jones, S. O. Davis, Alonzo Davis, B. C. Wbittaker, Robt. SLeator, A. S. Yost, Jay Lucas. L. H. Jones was elected senior warden and S. O. Davis, junior wardeu. S. O. Davis was ele.cerl seeietary aud A. S. Yost troasurer. S O. Davis was elected delégate to atret;r) the diocesan convention to hs beid iu Jaokson, June 9. S. O. Davis, Alonzo Dnvis and A. S. Yost were appointcsd a Imilding (■oiumittee. Coufinnation services will be held at the Dexter Lutheran cburcb, Suuday, May 9. The members of tl e Manchester CLapter of Bastern Star will visit the Tecumseh chapter in the near future. Ida, the 10 yeara old daugbter ot Mr. and Mrs. Johu B. Hudson, of Manchester, died April 10 of spinal meningitis. Dr. John Lee has been appointed health officer and James T. Honey village attorney of Dexter for the ensuing year. The Manchester village council has passed an ordinance prohibiting the riding' of bicyclea on the sidevvalks. Good. The graduating class in the Dexter high sohool will this year oonsist of just two persons Miss Pearl DeWitt and Charles Riohardson. Henry Poucher, of Manchester, feil 14 foot from a kitchen which he was building one day last week and injured himself quite severely. Manchester Chapter, O. E. S., has invited the Chelsea Chapter to visit them any evening between May 17 and 22 and oonfer the degree. George Myron Cotton, familiarly known as "Miny" Cotton, of Dentón, was killed Friday afternoon through being struck by lightuiug. Mr. Rever has sold the old Hanke sawmill property in Bridgewater to Charles Dresselhouse, and it will be put in running order again. An exchange says that farmers in the south western part of the state are making arrangements to experiment with Kaffir corn fchis season. A bolt of lightuing struck the eaves of the barn and ran down the door post, nstantly killing Air. Cotton, who was jresumably leaning against it. Mrs. J. Harrison and family who iave resided in Ypsilauti tbe past few years, have moved back on their farm n Ypsilanti town, her brother-in-law laviug rented the old Watling farm in ;hat tpwnsibp. At the residence of the bride's rnother n Manchester on Wednesday of last week Mr. William Kern, of Detroit, was married to Miss Mary Unterkirchr, Rev. Schoettle performing the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Kern will reside n Detroit. George Marx, of M,anohester, had a hen setting on sorne eggs and expected to get therefrom a brood of chickens, hut a oat carne aloug and thought she wanted the nest worse than the biddy did and drove her off. The next morning Mr. Marx found a htter of kittens in the nest. Robert Brown, a soldier of the oivil war iu the 14th and lfHh Michigan Infantry died at his home in Milan, Monday of last week, aged 05 years. I The funeral services were condocted in thö M. E. church the following Weduesday by the Rev. F. O. Jones, nader the auspices of the G. A. R. At a recent meeting of the Oexter school board Prof. A. D. DeWitt, Miss Delaforce, Mis. Croarkin, Miss Doane, Miss Buchanan and Mrs. Litcbfield were employed for next year in the saine positions they now hold. Miss Rieder was not an applicant for re-election. Her place will be taken by Miss Agnes Pratt. D. D. Dixon will be janitor of the bnildin?. At the normal oratorical contest at Normal hall, Wednesday evening of last week, the judges were Prof. E. F. Johnson, of Ann Arbor, Win. M. Osband and Mr. Seyler. The prizes consisted of $30, 20 and 10 in gold. The followiug were the winners: William Videto, Spring Arbor; Dewitt Richard - soo Austerlitz ; and Andrew H. Wood Ann Arbor. The three winuers will meet a like number representing the Albiou College, at Albion, May 38. Two colored porters at one of the Ypsilanti hotels got into a jangle between themselves Wednesday of last week, and it resulted in their being discharged. Later in the day they again met and renewed the quarrel, fiually adjourning to the fair giound to fight it ont. After pounding each other for three-quarters of an honr tbey beoame short of wind and deoided to postpone the finish of the event. The same evening they were restored to their forrner positions upon a piomise not to do so again. Will Trolz and Herman Steinigeweg, of Sharon, sold their erop of beans to two men who were in Norvell buying beans of trusting farmers They failed to get their money, the fellow continually putting them off until they at last got away with a carload of beans without paying a cent for them. Messrs. Trolz and Steinigeweg invoked the assistance of the Jackson oonnty sheriff who looated and arrested tbe crooked dealers and lodged them in jail. That cotinty has taken the matter up and the fellows will doobtless get their deserts. Thos. G. Haight of Hamburg, becarne despondent through continued illhealtb and shot himself Saturday evening, April 17, dying two hours later. He was 62 years of age. Mr. Haight was bom in Stenben county, state of New York, in the year 1835. When bat six montbs oíd he carne to Michigan witn bis parents, and settled in the township of Webster, where he grew up into young nianhood and continued to live until 1873, when he went to Hamburg and porchased a farm adjoiniug the village limits, and has sinue then been numbered as one of its bonored and respected oitizeus. Mr. Haigbt was a man largely known, and had held many important positions of trust dariug his life. He was snpervisor of Webster, in tbis connty, many years prior to his removal to Hamburg, as well as holding otber important official positions whicn he always filled with credit to himself and his constituents. He leaves a widow and three grown up children to mourn the loss of a good, kind and affectiouate husband and parent, and also fonr sisters. I t Osborn Case, of Mooreville, ba , moved to Milan. Measles are prevalent around Water r loo and Francisco. B Wm. Rider, of Saleiu, is building ac additiou to nis house. Victory Sanford, of Ypsilanti, has been granted an original pension. The nest meeting of tbe Detroit Pres] bytery will be held in Ann Arbor. The Chelsea soldiers' monument wil be dedioated on Decoration Day, Ma' 5 31. 3 The annex to the Saline cemetery i to have a number of inaple trees se out in it this spring. Milan Lodge No. 323, F. & A. M. , bas been notifled to attend a school o j instruotion at Adrián, May 4. 1 Geo. F. Boettner has rented part o the Pacey farm in Bridgewater and C I F. Blum bas the balance of it. j The Lake Sbore sfcill continúes to bank [ np with gravel aloug tbe side of Col umbia Lake in Bridgewater township. Parletta, wife of John Worden, o Northfield, died Friday morning. The I funeral services were held Sunday morning. M. A. Patterson, of Plymouth took a dozen eggs to the Mail office in tha town which when put on the scales only weighed flve ounces. The Argus wants a correspondent in eveiy town in Washtenaw county. Who will volunteer? We will fnrnish all stationery, supplies, etc. George Russ, of Whittaker, has a sow four years old that bas had 99 pigs This proliflo animal had 18 pigs three different times and 17 onoe. Ed. C. Howard, railroad and espress agent at Whittaker for the pasi eight years, has been retired and J B. Foster, of Kendallville, Ind., takes his place. John Markham, of Whittaker, while outting a tree sturnp the other day accidentally struck tbe ax into his foot. He has been hobbling around with the aid of a cañe since. Casper Winters, of Chelsea, died Friday, April 16, aged 61 years. The funeral services wera held at St. Paul's church, and were conduoted by the pastor, Rev. Koebling. Dan Early and Amos Hall, of Milan, exchanged property last week. The forrner is now proprietor of a hotel near the depot while Mr. Hall becomes the owner of a 60 acre farm. S. E. Matteson, of Grass Lake, is the pussessor of a deed to a farm not far from Manchester whicb bears the sign manual of President Andrew Jackson, and is written on parchrnent. A Cbelsea young lady who attended churoh Easter Sonday was heard to say that while most of the girls had something uew for Easter, she did not even have so much as a new fellow. - Standard. David Kay, who recently moved to South LyoD from Dexter is now building a large brick oveu at the rear of the Mitchell building, formerly a meat rnarket. The oapacity of the oven will be 160 loaves at a baking. - South Lyon Excelsior. Thnrlow .T., son of Mr. and Mrs. .lames MeMuIlen, of York, died at the family home April 16, aged 14 years.7 months and 16 days. The funeral services were held at the house the following Monday and were conduoted by Rev. C. W. Case. All the old people, rnembers of the Chelsea M. E. church, were enabled through the kindness uf the mercy and help department of the Epworth League to attend the servioes on Easter Sunday morning, carriages being provided for all who could not walk Married, at the home of the bride's parents in Bridgewater, Wednesday evening, April 21, Mr. Fred N. Randall and Miss Florence Every, Rev. A. J. Hutchina offloiatinpr. A company of abont 60 were present at, the ceremony, including relatives and near friends. The ocoasion was also the 25th anniversary of the marriage of the bride's parents. Reports from the Milan Leader, Saline Observer and Dexter Leader state that Monday afternoou of last week considerable excitement was caused in the three villages by a heavy report or explosión which seemed to come from midair aud which jarred several honses. The papers refrain from using the word "airship" in connection with the dark colored object which tbey said was seen moving overhead at a rapid rate against a strong west wind. The Manchestar Satnrday Club held its last meeting of the season last Saturday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Frank Spafard. The following program was rendered : Piano solo, Mrs. A. F. Freeman; roll cali with quotations from Faust; selections from Goethe, Mrs. Frank Spafard; paper, Mythology, Mrs. J. H. Kingsley; pianosolo, Mrs. A. F. Freeman ; seleotion from Goethe, Mrs. J. P. Tracy ; paper,! "Life of Goethe," Miss Marie ! hofer; recitation, "Lova as a landscape painter, " Mrs. 3. W. Amsden; paper on Faust, Mrs J. F. Spafard ; recitation, "L'Envoi," Mrs. Evan Essery; piano solo, Mrs. A. F. Freeman. The Manchester Enterprise says : "It has been the custom of the Manchester authorities to put all tramps applying for ludgiug in the lockup. The building belougs to the village, and in order to divide the expense attending i the care of those nomads the supervisor has allowed a fee of 10 cents per head j to tbe nightwatch fot locking in, taking oare of and letting them out again in the morning. Supervisor Burtlss has refused to allow this to continue and the council has decided that as the county has as much to do with tramps as the village has, hereafter they will uot be locked up but will be allowed to fiud lodging wherever they can, so if you find oue in your barn, shed or spare room, don't be surprised." Mr. Will Murdock, formerly of Ypsilanti and Miss Kose Barley will be ruarried at Northville, May 5. Miss Bessie Harria Parwell, wbo was a resident of Ypsilanti prior to 892, died at Eddy, New Mexico, April i, th3 canse of ner death being paralsis Mrs. Bliza Harrison, widow of the ate Joseph Harrison, of Salem, died ?hursday of last week, uf dropsy. The uneral was held Sunday at Leland's hurch. She had been a resident of Salem Gi years. The Whittaker correspondent of the Hilan Leader says: "Confidence has )een restored and prosperity is surely lere. The bean pickeis at Trina, McGregor & Harper's make frorn 7o to 5c per day. Talk about the sweat shops f New York City!" St. Luke's Parish Aid Sooiety, of Ypsilanti, has attained its majority avingjj been organized 21 years ou April 22. It is one of the two oldest eligious societies that has liad a continous existence in that city, the other :eing the Presbyterian Ladies' Aid ociety. J. S. Gale, of Superior, shot and illed a bald eagle Sunday which measred seven feet from tip to tip of its vings. It was going northward pnrued by half a hundred crows who woried the eagle until it took refuge in he woods. Mr. Gale will have the agle stuffed and mounted. A bald agle in tuis section is au unusual ight to see.