Milan

Mrs. Mesie is quite ill. The wbooping cough is quite prevalent in Milan. The proceeds of the Baptist ladies' fair was $38.05. Miss Ida Allen bas returned trom liis Ypsilanti visit. Amos Taylor is building a line resiflence on Wabaah st. Mrs. Jessie Bowland left for Frankfort the last oí the week. Miss Edna Zimmermau is visiting Detroit friends this week. Rev. M. H. McMahon visited Milan friends Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Bernap is having her house on County st. painted and papered. Chas. Davis will build a riñe house on Wabash st. this fall and winter. Befresbing sbowers feil Monday laying the dust in Milan and vicinity. Mrs. E. Ford and Mrs. C. Clark, of Mooreville, were Milan visitors Tuesday. Miss Nettie Palmer entertained guests from Kalkaska the last of the week. Mesdames Byron Hobbs and Miller Hobbs, of Kalkaska, are visiting Milan friends for a few days. Mrs. Nina Dennison, of Dundee, spent Tuesday with her parents Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Hack. C. Teal's house and contents burned to the ground Saturday evening. He hves near Milan. Mesdames Kelly and Zimmerman attendej the Grand chapter meeting, O. E. 8., at Detroit Weduesday. The young people of the Presbyterian society had a successful tea social at Mrs. Easterley's Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. H. C. Markham, of Ann Arbor, was the gnest of her sister Mrs. G. B. Williams from Saturdáy until Monday. Robert Ingersol left Monday morning for Durand, where he has engaged to work for a hardware lirm this winter. Rev. F. L. Baker, the Free Methodist minister, started a series of revival meetings in his gospel tent on Hurd st. last Wednesday afternoon, to continue indefinitely. Bev. and Mrs. J. P. Hutchinson, of Ann Arbor, spent Sunday with Dr. and Mrs. Mesic. Mr. "Hutchinson preached at the Presbyterian church Sunday morning and evening. Editor Smith has in the window of his bookstore a few potatoes of a variety which takes just 60 potatoes to round up a bushei basket. One potato would last the editor a week for regular diet.