Washtenawisms

A, A. Belcher, of Milan, has bonght a house and lot in Ypsilanti, Joseph Green and family have moved from Mooreville to Milán to live. Geo. Nelson and family, of Salem have gone to South Lyon to reside. W. B. Rane is repairing the house o bis farra east of Whitmore Lake. Ja Pary has the job. Mrs. J. A. Swenk and children, o Whittaker, are away on a five weeks visit with friends in Ohio. Monday last was the first pay day a the Saline creamery and it will ooou the 15th of each month hereafter. The Orientáis of Aome Lodge, K. O T. 14,, Saline, will confer that degree on a class of candidates in the nea future. Geo. Lutz, of Saline, is the book keeper for the Butter and Cheese Co. besides being chief clerk for Lister & Sheeders. Horace Gray, an old pioneer of York townsbip, died at the home of his son Nov. 3 and his remains were buried in the Mooreville cemetery Nov. 5. Willard Ronse, of Saline, not yet seven years , old, one day recently pulled down the shoks and husked 20 bushels of corn in one day. Pretty good for a little fellow. J. H. Millar, of Ypsilanti, had a pet rnonkey. The ruonkey died the other riay and the njonrning clerks in his store got np a mook funeral and boried the animal with tonohing ceremonies. Mr. Victor H. Sturm and Miss Melintha E. Fosdick, were married Wednesday of last week at the home nf the bride's motber Mrs. S. Fosdick in Saline, by Rev. D. Q. Barry. Thoy ■will reside in northern Michigan, where Mr. Stnrru is engaged in the lnmber business. The Salem tent JK. O. T. M. went to Sonth Lyon Weduesday night of last ■week and its degree team did the initiation work on fonr candidatos for the Sonth Lyon tent, according to the new ritnal. Several Maooabees from New Hndsun were also present. The affair wound np with a midnight supper. A Lenawee coucty farmer was driving a load of hay to market and did not notioe a bnrning sturop by the roadside so passed close to it. In a few seconds be íouud his load was on flre, and so rapidly did the flames spread that he lost his whiskers before he oould descend to the gronnd. The hay met the same fate as the whiskers, but the wagon was saved. Thö Manchester Enterpirse is evidently in high featber over the new postoffice in that vilage. After deseribing the handsome new fittiugs it says: "We were alviayR prond of our old office because it was so much nicer than any of onr sister vilages bad, bot my, the new one is 'ont of sigbt. ' We cannot teil how nioe it looks, yon will have to make a speedy visit and see for yonrself. " The north Sbaron Epworth Leagut will give a Tfcanksgiving social. Richard Webb died at bis home it North Laks Wednesday of last week. Charles Waruer, of Webster, recentlj sold niue heifers and tvvo steers foi f415. Suhool district No. 3, Freedom, has decided to improve the looks of the suhool yard. Miss Etrnna Kiedel, danghter oí Adam Riedel, of Bridgewater, is dangerously ill. O. C. Burkbart, of Svlvan. sold A. A. Wood, of Saline, 200 Shropshire sheep last week. Louis Breitnwischer ia teaching the winter term of school at Rowe's corners Sharon township. C. S. Johnsou, of Scio, has removed to Aun Arbor, where he has a job of teatning for the uuivarsity. Dennis A. Spaulding, of Sylvan, has pnrohased 40 acres of land adjoiniug liis farm from David Rockwell. A oharaeter social is to be giveii at Èhe Lima town hall nexfc Friday evening for the beuefit of the church. JKirkwotfd & Son, of Sharon, find it neoessary to run their mili evenings to supply the demand for their flonr. The Milan ladies of the Eastern Star lad a social masqnerade Wednesday eveniug. It was not a dance, however. A small biaza was oansed in the Chelsea Mfg. Go.'s plant the other evening by sparks froin a forge. Damage slight. Work has beeu eoramenoed oa the new Episcopal reotory at Dexter and ít ia expected the house will be completed early in 1893. The oíd E. P. Kellogg blacksmith and machine shop oa C st., Dextei-, has been torn down and taken away. It was an old landmark. Henry Smith, of Grand Bend, Kas., wbo bas been away from Whittaker for 15 years, has been visiting old friends in that neighborhood. The qnarterly meeting of the Hillsdale Free Baptists will be held with the Manchester church at Iron Creek today, tomorrow and Snnday. In common with other towns along the line of the Miohigan Central, Dexter is suffering from a freight car famiue. One day reccently 17 cars were needed to carry away the freight that awaited shipment. Mrs. L. Goldsmitb, of York, died at her home MondAV of last week, agec 55 years. The funeral was held at the house the fallowing Wednesday, condnoted by Rev. Mr. Gibson, of Stony Creek. Burial at Mooreville. Mr. and Mrs. T. Y. Phelps, of Dexter, gave a reoeption Tuesday eveuiDg of last week tu Rev. Fred White aud lis bride. About 50 members of tbe Baptist congregation were present. Mr. White was formerly pastor of the Baptist church in Dexter, bat will now ;ake charge of the church in Amberst, la aas. ja. u. jsewes, oí önaron is enjoying ripe tomatoes and red-oored water melons right along, tbe same as in September. Sbaroo is the last locality nortb of tbe tropics that strikes its colors to winter. It has the finest vegetables and prettiest girls of any other township in Washtenaw connty. - Grass Lake News. Memorial services in honor of the late Mra. Mary A. Starkweatber were held at the Normal school, Ypsilanti, Tbnrsday mornius of last week. Addresses were made by Dr. Boone, Messrs. Jacksou and Gordon of the facalty, Misses Gillespie, Jenks and Berry, Messrs. Merrill and Schvvartz of the S. C. A. The choir saug "Michigan, my Michigan" and Prof. Pease's latest beaotiful ccmposion, "1'in a Pilgrim," with orchestral aocompaniment. An Ingbam connty farmer says: "I am past middle age and have farmed it for mote thati a qnarter of a centnry, bnt tbis is the most remarkable fall I ever saw. The day after Labor I)ay I sowed my wbeat. It has now reached a height of eigbt or nine inches and is growing every day. My ducks, geese and turkeys bave all commenced to mate. I never knew tbafc thing to occur before in the fall, and I regard it a sure sign that we are to have an open winter. ' ' The following Washtenaw conuty young men and woinen received diplomas at tbe Cleary Basiness College on commencement day, Wednesday of last week: Shorthand Course - Carrie M. Alber, Ann Arbor; Francés M. Cushing, Dexter; Anna F.Martin, Víctor K, Norbet, Helen E. Oberst, Loretta M. Power, Ypsilanti; Jobn S. Wheeler, Lodi. Business Conrse - Wm. Gass, Roy G. Hoyt, Robert N. TrebiJcox, Ypsilanti ; Elihu B. Gooding, Willis; Roy D. Richards, Saline. Much surprise and wonder flashed through onr village Sunday and Mouday of last weet wheu the report carne out tbat William Klein, who less tban two years ago was married to Miss Jennie Lindsley, had very soddenly and nnexpectedly packed his trnnk and departed for other lands. As near as can be learned of the faots, Mr. K. in the morning took his wife to the home of tfrs. Taylor to spend the day, saying he would oall for her later in the day, vhioh he did at nine o'clock in the vening, and going to the door in'ormed his wife that the horse and cariage fitood in front of the house and ïat Ju had been home, taken his lothing and was goiug to leave her ever to return, for her to take tbe rig nd go home whenever she was ready, nd with no further ceremony departed u tbe darkness. Tbe words to Mis. i. came like a shook. She had to Irs. Taylor daring tbe day several imes spoken of her home and husbaad u the most pleasant and affeütionate ïanner and the cause for such an ontreak remains a mystery. - Saline Obtiver. i The three years old daughter of Mr. aud Mrs. Will Howlett. of Ypsilanti, i 'died Tnesday morning of typhoid fever. Audrew T. Hnghes, ex-register of . deeds, has moved froia Ann Arbor back . to the old horuestead near Scio village. Gordon Powell, of Whittaker, paid i $6.93 in Justioe Childs' court in Ypsi, lauti, Monday, for cuffing George Bryaut. City Clerk P. W. Carpenter, of Ypsilanti, has resignad his positipn and I asks the conncil to elect a new olerk at once. Rev. J. A. Brown has accepted the pastorate of tbs Ypsilanti Baptist cburch and will assume the pastorate Dec. 1. A Baptist missionary conventiou and workers' conference was held at the Baptist church in Salem, Monday and Tuesday. The Washtenaw Times says it has it on good authority that the qaestion of rebuilding the Congregatioaal churob, Ypsilaoti, is soou to be agitated. Frank Galpiu, a Superior township farmer's son drives 18 miles a day, to and from the Ann Arbor high school, to acquire the edncatiou he so earnestly desires. ISparks from the buffing wheels in A. f?. Weioh's factory, at Chelsea, set fire to the building the other day. The flre was estinguished before any damage was done. Ypsilanti Presbyterians bavereceived two sets of plans for the alterations to their church, and a third set is being prepared From these tbree it is expeoted a selection will be made. Mr. A. Beyer, who porchased a good share of the oonnty east of Ypsilanti, recognizing many business favors shown him by E. W. Hemphill, has piesented the latter with a $300 "Patten, Phillipe & Co." watoh whioh is said to be the finest time piece made. - Times. Wallace Stetson, of Ypsianti, is having lots of hard Inck. Soma time ago he was injnred in the nortbern woods of Michigan by a tree falling upon him. A bone afc the elbow point had to be taken out and a hand ampntated. It has now been determined that a bone of the leg is decaying and the doctors think that an ampatation of the Hrnb will be necemary. - Times. Tbe Dover dam aoross the Huron river, near Birkett's, which in its day was one of the best on the stream, is now a thing of the past. Since the bnrnÏDg of the floaring mili the dam has not been nsed and was allowed to go to min, and its final demolishment has dow been effected by the takiag ont of its timbera by the Birkett Mfg. Co. to be nsed for other purposes. Tbe action of the cnrrent will in time leve] the pmbankment. The mit of H. P Glover, cf Ypsilanti, vs. George W. Radford et al. in the Wayne cirouit court has been adjonrned for 30 days. The case is exactly similar to the one in which Dr. L D. Coombs recovered a jndgment o $2,000 and interest abont a year ago and this present one will be followed by others of the same nature. The plaintift's allege false representations in being induced to subscribe stock to the Keeley Institute in Ypsilanti - Times. At the first converition of the organized Snnday schools of Augusta township held at the Evangelical chnroh, Whittaker, Wednesday of last week, John K. Campbell presided. The attendance was fair and good interest was manifested. The singing was fnrnished by the local choir. Rev. Mr. Cleaver, of the Friends' chnroh read the scripture lesson and offered prayer, and the president gave a short cpening address. The program oousisted of papers and disonssions on the following topics: "Relation of Home to Sabbath Sohool," "The True Aim of theSunday School," "How to Make Review Interssting, " "How to Get the Scholars to Stndy the Lessons. " At the evening session a qnestion box was opened and E. E. Calkius, of Aon Arbor, seoretary of th county Snnday School association, gave a talk. Mrs. Ada E Crombie was elected delégate to the state convention at Port Haron. The annual roll cali of the First Baptist chnrcb, Chelsea, was held Wednesday of last week. A family dinner was servad at noon and the diuoer was not over until three fconrs later. The pastor acted as chairman and the following program was oarried out: Scripture reading, prayer, recitation by Miss Zoe BeGole, history of the chnrch by Miss Olive Conklin, remarksbyC. T. Tryon, and 10II cali by the olerk. The program was interspersed with music. In her paper Miss Conklin reviewed the history of the church whioh was organized in July, 1833, in the southeast part of Lima, in a log school honse, in what is dow known as Jerusalem, removing to Pieraeville in 1845, from there to Slyvau Center iu 1851, thence to Chelsea in 1868. She also spoke of those who were among the first members of the church, of those who had died, or moved away, of those who were afflicted and asked that the members visit them occasionally. It was a fine meeting and one long to be remembered.