Washtenawisms

Measles have struck Waterloo. Abe Meyers, of Lodi, has built a new bain. The Maccabees wil! build a new hall at Stockbridge. H. Kietbruiller is building a large farm residence in Waterloo. The new State Telephone exohange at Ypsilanti has 117 subscribers. E. N. Ball returns to Hamburg from Ann Arbor in a couple of weeks. The new State Telephone Co. is aDg ling after an ordinance in Plymouth. Mrs. G. R. Johnson, of Ypsilanti vpas prostrated by the heat last week. It oost the village of South Lyon only $13.06 to run its affairs for one montb. It is proposed to form a $6,000 stock ompany to give Dexter electric lights. H. P. Dodge lias received his com mission as postmaster at Whitmore liake. Mei Dunoan, of Salem, lost his grain barn and a large quantity of hay by fire receutly. The Dexter cornet band give an open air concert ia that village tomorrow veiling. Nine probationers have been receivec Snto fnll membership at the Saline M. JE. church. Ida, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Cole, of Saline, died July 7, aged :22 aionths. The Bridgewater cornet band gave a "well attended Fourth of July picnic at Joslyn lake. The Peninsular paper mill in Ypsilanti is building a 55x60 feet addition to their mill. A fire on July 4, destroyed the Paulaber house in Bridgewater, owned by H. Breitenwischer. The Ypsilanti electric Hght towers are all öown thia month. They will be re-erected in August. Omar Moore, of Dexter, was fined $25 and oosts for keeping his saloon pen on Monday, July o. ' E. Jedele, of Dexter, bougbt about 50,000 ponnds of wool this year at from 12 to 15 cents per pound. Seventy-five young turkeys belonging to M. E. Keeler, of Sharon, died recently of some poultiy disease. Mrs. Chris Trinkle, of Sylvan, is nursing a broken arm, resulting from being thrown from a hay rake. The Emery Sunday school held a Fourth of July picnic on Mrs. fienwick's lawn and had a good.time. James Cali is now selling stampa at Belleville having assumed the duties of postmaster and moved the post office.' James VanAtta, Timothy Donovan and Ert Yanson, Northfluld, have been xuaking extensive repairs to their houses. Rev. Wm. Gardam and wife, of Ypsilanti, left Wednesday of last week for Southampton, L. L, to spend eeveral weeks vacatioo. Leon Billmeyer, the little grandson of ex-Sheriff E. W. Wallace, of Saline, died at Chattanooga, Tenn., on Thursday of last week. Mrs. Chris Clurup, of Saline, has received a $000 draft from the Arbeiter Verein, of which order her late husfaand was a member. William Dickinson, the oldest conductor on the M. C. and a former resident of Ypsilanti, died in Detroit Jnly, 6, from a stroke of paralysis. The aldermanic positiöns in Grass Lake cannot be very profitable, as Aid Marquedant has removed to his faim, thus vacating an aldermanship. Cora Tanner, a domestic employed by George Gaudy, of Ypsilanti, was badly burned about tbe face aad bands, last week, while filling a gasolina stove. Charles Carner died in Toledo, July 4, of appendicitis. He was 19 years of age and a gradúate of the Chelsea high school. He was buried in Chelsea Monday. JUrs. Frank Statían, of Chelsea, was injnred last week by being thrown froin a oarciage while returning from Cavanaugh Lake. The carriage strnck a ibad rut. -Ollie Warner, clerk at Fairbank's síQie in Saline, while lifting a barrel of sugar, slipped his knee cap out of .place, July 8. He had been olerking .at Fairbaak's only a few hours. The subject at the uniou services in Saline last Suuday evening was "Something New Uudor the Sud." It would ïe somethiug uew tor the Saline burches to be crowded with attendants iiot Sunday evenings. The Dexter postoffice has been moved into the Beal building. Mrs. M. Heselschwerdt was overeóme by the heat last week. Joseph Walter, a Detroit tailor, wil] open a shop in Manchester. Abont 13 was realized by the recent social at the Francisco ohurch. A quarter acre patuh of strawberries yielded P. Watts, of Lyndon, $40. Archer Crane, of Bridgewater, ent 20 loads of clover from six acres of land. Carl Lehr, of Manchester, stepped on a scythe one day lase week and ent a bad gash in his foot It cost Chelsea $260.35 to light her streets with eiectricity during the two months of May and June. Mrs. Robert Cortis, of Ypsilanti, who had been au invalid for several years, died Thursday of last week. Allen Bartlett, of Bridgewater, raised clover this year, some of the stalks of whicu were over foor feet in length. Mrs Phoebe Walker, of Salem, died Tuesday of last week, aged 77 years, She sarvived her husband just three years. Chas. Brant has been sentenced by Justice TurnBull, of Chelsea, to 60 daya in jail for stealing from D. McLaren, of Lima. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Win. Tirb, of Bridgewater, died July 5 and was buried at Rogers' corners, in Freedom, July 7. Wheat is ripening rapidly and it will be only a few days before the harvest is on us full blast. A large quantity is already cut and harvested. Edgar A. Mitchell, of Ypsilanti town, died of consumption on Thursday night of last week, aged 27 years. The funeral services were held Sunday. Patrick Madigan, of Ypsilanti, and his gang of rneu will be employed until winter paintug all the bridges along the line of the Michigan Central. The Rawsonville dam, which was broken by the floods last spring, has been repaired and the work on the Belleville dam is about completed. D. Woodward, of Bridgewater, bas some swarms of bees from which one day recently he took 40 gallons of honey and 100 pound9 of comb honey. "Aleck, " au ex-slave who was working at the Neat house, Ypsilanti, when Fr. Marquette first carne to Michigan, has returnnd to his old stamping ground. - Times. Charles M. Smart, the Willis man, who was on trial in Justice Joslyn's court, at Ypsilanti, for assaulting and battering his sister-in-law, was found not guilty by the jnry on Thursday of last week. Geo. Williamson, of Toledo, was drowned in Silver Lake, near Hamburg, July 3, being seized with a cramp while batning. No friends or relatives could be iound and he was buried in the potter's field in Hamburg. The Kingsley Milling Co., of Manchester, desires to sell the electric light plant to the village, and offers the plant and first right to the water power, but not the mili, for $10,000 and the lighting of the Kingsley residence free forever. Fourteen naked boys went in swimming in the Hurou river near the Ypsilanti Lumber Co. 's yards, at Ypsilanti, on Thuisday of last week. Marshal Westfall got after them and scooped in 11 of them. In their extreme desire to get away from arrest, three of the boys rabhed tbeir clothes and ran naked broagh the fifth ward. There were five contestants for the jostmastership of Pinckney, and on Satuiday it was deoided by ballot who shonld be the man whom Congressman Sam Smith shall recommend for the josition. The choioe feil on Sheridan W. Swarthout, whe got 137 votes, the other four contestants got 19, 40, 57, and 78 votes respectively. C. S. Pierce, watchman at the Michgan C6ntral's east orossing, in Dexter, says last MoDday he counted 14 teams and 287 people crossing the track, which s abont the average number daily. When wd think that tbis is only one of he several roads leading to town from he country, we can see that there are [uite a number of people coming our way after all. - Dexter Leader. The Grass Lake News says of the reiiring postmaster of Graas Lake : "Grass jake never had a better postmaster. Mr. Cassidy bas associated with nis luties sucb a spirit of accommodation, ucn patience, such an untiriug desire to please, as to win' the bearty good will and praise of all, irrespective of politial predilections. He steps down and out with the respect of the public and s deserving of all the good things that an he said of him. " Karl Edwards, Ruth Edwards and Lulu Allen were driving to Dundee Tnesday afternoon with a load of cream, and wheu just across the Macon bridge the bolt on the right hand side, bolding the toague of the wagon, carne out and the wagon was thna rnn off the embankment ten or twelve feet, everything and everybody turning topsy turvy. The children were all bruised more or less, but not seriously, and the ditoh ran cream. - Milan Leader. Many other towns observed the 4th (Saturday) with a celebration, but the people of Saline put it to a different use and spent the afternoon obasing and trying to kill inad dogs. The excitement for a time was immense and powder and shot flew in all directions. It seems tbat one day abont a week before a strange dog had passed througb Saline and bitten some of the village dogs, and when it became known Saturday to some of the village board they ordered out the militia and declared war. As a result two are dead and another mortally wounded or nearly scared to death as he was shot or shot at seven times and is still almost without a scratch. - Saliue Observer. 1 1 '- The wires of tbe State Telephone Co. I between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti are s nearly all up. The Ypsilanti Ladies' Library was [ asrain broken into last Friday nigbt bot i othing is missing. Tlie verisoope battle between Corbett and Fitzsimrmns was shown at the Ypsilanti opera house last evening. Rev. Lewis Wilcox, the United Brethren minister at Dundee, died there , Tuesday, aged 67. The remains were taken to Ogden for burial. Albert Carmichael, of Whittaker.was handling au unloaded revolver when it went off, the bullet lodging in William Shook'3 shoulder. Both are colored. The Ypsilanti colored people hold a basket meeting next Sunday in the grove near the paper mili under the auspices of the Second Baptist church. Ralph Galloway thought he had his bicycle stolen froni in front of the Ypsilanti post office Friday evening. Later it turned ont that ote of his friends had hid it from him for a joke. Charles McDermott was arrested on Monday afternoon for assault and battery on Archie Neat, of Ypsilanti, Satnrday night, and was fiaed $10 with f4.50 oosts by Justice Childs for the offense. Marshal Westfall and his foroe was calied upon last Saturday night to stop a good sized fight in Adam Shaner's saloon in Ypsilanti and shortly afterwards toquell another disturbance near the depot. Fire destroyed the house on the old Thomas Lazell farra in notthern Bridgewiiter, on Sunday affcernoon, July 4. It was oocupied by Mr. Pfans, who succeeded in ssving all his household goods. The fire was caused by a defective chimney. In a voting contest at Víctor, Coló., established by the Victor Record to determine the most popular lady who should be sent to Salt Lake, Utah, to represent the city at the Ucah semicentennial and pioneer jubilee, a former Ypsilantian was the successful one. Miss Lizzie Walsh, who left Ypsilanti 12 years ago, was the lady, receiving 15,810 out of 31,340 votes, and nearly doubling her nearest competitor.