Washtenawisms

Frank Leaoh, of Chelsea, has ereoted a new barn. Villiam Geddes, of Pittsfleld, has 30 swarms of bees. Charles Qale is now station agen t at Pittsfield Jnnotion. The new Dexter creamery is to be oompleted by Angnst 1. A stockyard is being oonstruoted by the Wabash at Whittaker. The Salem nnion Sonday school pionic was held in the Bennett woods last Satnrday. Children's day will be observed at the Presbyterian church in Stony Creek next Snnday. Mrs. Torn Johnson, of Stony Creek, reoeutly dislocated a knee by faUing f rom a ladder. Milan celebrates this year but the Milan band bas been engaged for a celebration at Saline. Wm. Beckwith's honse in Yp9ilanti was totalJy destroyed by flre Monday morning, before the fire department conld render any assistance. The Garis Lake, Western Washtenaw and Lima Farmers' Clnbs have under oonsideration a nnion picnio at Cavanangh Lake in Angnst. Prof. Howard M. Rayrnond, son of M. L. Raymond, of Sharon, was ruarried in Chicago on Tuesday to Miss Carrie Smith of that city. Dspnty Sheriff Staffan, of Chelsea, last week captnred a negro on the railroad track between Cbelsea and Dexter who was wanted for stealing razors from a Jackson barber shop. A man giving his name as L. M. Lohmao. of Nsw Jersay, and eJaiming to be a stockbnyer, sacceeded in borrowing f40 from Frank Jndson, of Chelsea, with wbich he disappeared leaving a board bil]. It is estimated by tbat trnthful editor Carlton of the Grass Lake News, a man who was never known to teil a lie, that from 1,500 to 2,000 ponnds of flsh bave been taken from Grass lake this year. Thi6 does Dot take into acoount the little three inch fish ordinarily caaght. Charles Hale has a record for sheep sbearing that will rank with the best anywhere. He commenced in March, and oompleted the season's shearing ast Saturday, putting in abont 60 days at it. He sheared 1,293 sheep in that time; the fleeces are estimated to weigh 8 ponnds each, tbn3 aggregating 190,344 pounde, and the price will average 17 cents, rcaking the valne of this seaBosn clip 1,?58.48. - Milán Leader. Miiau is still sidewalk building. William Raiser, of Biigewater, is bmloicg u new bouse. Emauuel Gauss, of Iron Creek, has paiuted his new baru. Fred Breiteuwisober, of jFreedoiu, has repainted his house. Tbe Milao connoil room will be j lighted by eleetric ligbts. Tbe Stookbridge sohoals graduated foor pupils on Wednesday. Geo. P. Glazier, of Cbelsea, has four aores of celery uuder cultivation. Mrs. JMary Oakes Grimes died in Ypsilauti June 13, aged 65 years. Prof. Fred H. Ingrahatn will deliver the Fonrtb of July oratiou at Milau. K. Otto Steiubacb bas buen made ohief raugsr of Chelsea Lodge I. O. F. A. E. Howe, the berry box maker of Milan, made 30,000 berry boxea for this saason. Two flags were stolen iu Ypsilanti lase week and tbere are uo Spaniards there either. A. G. Burton, for 30 years a blacksmith at ClintOD, died Friday night aged 73 yeais. R. L. Traoy and family of ïpsilanti, are spending tbe summer on their Centerville farm Mr. Fred C. Mahrle aud Caroline Stollsteirner, of Bridgewater, were married Jnne 15. D. C. VanBuren, au Idaho teaoher, is speuding tbe summer vaoatiou at bis home iu Ypsilanti. Hail stones at Stookbridge a week ago Friday are said to have been nearly as large as walnnts. Laidlaw's masterpiece at the Ypsilanti depot grounds this year will be a large floral battleship. The depot on the Ann Arbor road at Whitmore Lake has been moved abont 80 rods nortb of its old looation. A new organ will be placed in the Presbyterian chucrh of Ypsilanti next Deoember whioh will oost $3,500. A windmill on the farm of O. A. Vanghan, of Dexter township. was blown down in the recent windstorm. The Holzhauer Cornet band of Dexter gives an ice oream social and band ooncert in the Dexter park tomorrow, Satnrday, evening. The little son of Fred Spafard, of Manchester, while investigating the new barn on his father's premisas, feil and dislooated his arm. Supervisor William Baitless and wife, of Manohester, visited their son in the 31st Miohigan Vol., at Chickamaoga Park last week. Miss Berde Moore olosed school in District No. 8, Webster by giving ber pnpils a picnic at Portage Lake. She takea a position in tbe sobools at Ithaca next year. New sidetracks wil] be laid at the Manchester station this summer and an engine will pump water and elévate grain, the old water tank and grain bridge being removed. John Croarkin, who for the past 42 year bas been in aotive business in üexter, bas retired, selling bis grocery and general stoie to P. Sloan & Co. He bas well earned a rest. Hezekiah Norris, one of the delégales to the last republican county oonvention was fined f5 and costs in Justice Childs' court at Ypsilanti for running a gambling place, which Norria olaimed he did not ma. On Monday noon, one Joseph Cokallard broke into tbe blacksmith shop of Sohumacher & Sou, of Chelsea, and stole one hammer and a pair of nippere. Deputy Sheriff Staffan was soon notifled of the theft and it was but a short time aftewards that he found the oulprit and reoovered the tools. The tbief was at once taken before Justice TnrnBuIl who immediately sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of $15 or 15 days in the connty jail. The fine not being paid he was taken to the county jail to serve his timp. - Cbelsea Standard. Last September Byron Lafler, of Milaa townsibp, Monroe county, went to Peteisburg to have some grist ground. Wbile in the village he visited some saloons and became intoxicated. On returning home he did not watch his team when theyreacbed tbe LakeShore orossing. The team went down the track and upset a load cf grist on Lafler. He was found buried under the grist next morning dead. His wife sued the saloonkeepeis for damages and a jury after visiting the scène and hearing hot argumenta for tbree days returned a verdict of $5,000 damages against Edward L. Fisher, a saloonkeeper, andbis bondsmen. Wbatoame near being a fatal drowning accident ocourred at tbeawimminghole near the Huron river dam in Dexter last Friday afternoon. Tbe victim was Homer Benton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Benton, and a member of the gradnating class of the high school. He was in company with several other boys who were teaching him to swim. In trying to oross the deep hole he beoame exhausted and sank. Howard Congdon who was a short distance away swam to him and attempted to get him to shore but Homer frantioally olntched his resnuer. He called to the otber boys on the shore for assistanoe but they, thinking it waa only a joke, did uot respond. By this time Homer had sunk to the bottoni and floated down into about six feet of water. Louis Snay who came to tbe rescoe dove down and olutching him by the bair brought bim to tbe surface and witb the assistance of Howard broogbt bim to tbe sbore. His body was rigid aud apparently life was extinct. The boys at onoe commenoed to work over 'himandaoon two phyaioians reached the scène. The prompt measures taken resusoitated him and he was then nble to be taken home. Itwas perhaps as close a oall as one ever bad to deatb nd escaped. - Dexter Leader. Wm. McAllister, of York, had new potatoes June 10. Thirty-five youug rnen of Manchester are ready to enlist. The Seline Arbeitei Sooiety oelebrates the fourth this year. Miss Myra Spafard bas retnrn6d to Manchester from New York. Fred Feldkamp, of Saline, is making exteusive repairs on his barn. Edway C. Yonng, of Bridgewater, is building an additiou to his barn. Fisbermen are said to be having good luok in Ploasant Lake A new abutruent to the long bridge west of Saline village will be built soon. Chas. D. Roller died in Freedom, June 11, of epilepsy. He was 19 years of age. G. J. Haeussler, of Manchester, is rebuilding bis barn whioh was burned last fall. Ransom Ross, son of Rev. Charles Ross, of Freedom, feil and broke his arrn reoently. Miss Clara Mande Clark died in Saline Jone 10, aged 17 jears, leaving maDy friends. Miss Eva Mains, of the Oakdale, Neb., schools, is in Dexter for the snmmer vaoation. Frank Sloat, of Clinton, while visiting in Manchester last week, feil and fracturad an arm. M. P. Alber, of Freedom, uow has a bandsome new residence, one of the fineest in Freedom. Prof. and Mts. Thos. F. Moran, of La Fayette, Ind., are pending the snmmer in Manohester. Mrs. Fred Strehle died at her home in. Delhi, Jane 9, leaving a husband and fonr little ohildren. Theodore Stanton has purchased two bouses opposite the Dexter Catholio chnrob of the D. L. Saokett estáte. Th village of Milan is in the market for a 15 foot flag and the counoil has ordered tbe village flag pole splioed to aooorumodate it. Cone Schatter, of Saline, has struck a streak of hard luck. One of his best cowb just died and three days later one of his best horses. Mrs. Henry Townsend, of Manchester, broke her right hand by falling from a conch on which she was standing wbile stndying a map. The olass exercises of the graduating olass of the Dexter high school were held yesterday in tbe Dexter opera house and proved very interesting. Tbe barn of Henry Panl, in Bridgewater, occupied by George Paul, was struck by lightning June 10, and burned. It was insured for $300 in the Germán Washtenaw Mutual, but this will uot cover the loss. The Northwestern Washtenaw Mutual Fire Iusurance oompany starts out with 100 charter members and $300,000 oapital stook. It is intended to oover the townsips of Sylvan, Lima, Dexter, Lyndon, Webster and Scio. A new creamery stock company will be organized in Dexter tomorrow afternoon. Forty stockholders have pledged $100 each. A. Olsaver, Dan E. Hoeyand John Roberts are the building committee seleoted at a meeting held last week of whicb Geo. Merrill was president and Alfred Davis secietary. Miss Graoe E. Van Atta, of Northfield, was married at tbe home of her parents June 15 to Willard D. Stark, of Green Oak, in the presence of about 80 friends. Mr. Stark is an experienced teaoher and will teaoh in Novi next year. Mrs. Stark is a gradúate of the South Lyon school and has also taught school in tbis county. Postmaster and Mrs. Richard N. Hobson, of Stony Creek, celebrated the 50th anniversary of tbeir marriage a week ago last Saturday. Mr. Hobson is now 78 and his wife 71. They have seven ohildren, seventeen grandchildren and two great grandchildren, all of whom were present tossist in oelebrating the happy event. Tbe alumni of tbe Ypsilanti high school held a banquet last Friday evening with 100 present and M. T. Woodruff acting as toastmaster. Next year will be the oOth anniversary of the first graduating class of the Ypsilanti high school and arrangements will be made to get all the graduates possible to turn out. The following officers have been elected : President, Charles King, '69; vioe president, John MoCann, '96; seoretary, Ella Spencer, '91; executive committee. Roy Hoover, W. N. Lister and Mrs. George Alban. A mysterious find of human bones. Last Friday afternoon, Fred. Van Pelt, while plowing some new land upon the old homestead farm, two miles west of Dnndee, nnearthed some human bones. He reported the find in the village tbat evening, and next morning Dr. Haynes and others went thereto and dng about the bones and took them from tbe earth. There were four ekulls two of whioh were taken out wbold and the others were broken, besides the other bones of the body. They appeared to have been buried in a hole about 3x2 feet in size and about 2 feet in depth, and the bodies when buried were doubled together and put therein. Doctors wbo have examined the boues pronounoe them belonging to white people, from appearance of the skulls, they are of two men and two women, and from the mannerof burial it is thougbt that the bones belong to victims of some fnnl murder. They had been bnried for a long term of years, notbing of any sort remaining but the bare bones. The farm bas belonged to the Van Pfllt family for the past 60 years or more, and during that time no such burials had been known or traces thereof seen. The place until Iately had been in the woods, and nearly half a mile back from the road. - Dundee Reporter. The Rowe's Corners ohuroh society made 22 at tbeir last soaial. Bert Teeter, of Manchester, was badly poisoned by poisou ivy last week. The Manchester uuiversalist church celebrated childreu's day last Sunday. A ohimney flre at the rasidenoe of Mrs. Boydeu oalled out the Ypsilanti fire departruent last Thnrsday. L. Lovewell, the well known stookbnyer of South Lyon, bongbt a yoke of oxfcn last week weighing 3,500 poands. The Dexter Epworth League holds an ioe oream suoial at the residenoe of E. H. Carpenter toiuorrow eveniug. Miss Ñau Towner, who has been teaching in Rosoommou, is spending her vaoation at her home in Ypsilanti. Tbe Milán M. E. church will, during the surnnier, hold their Sunday evening servioes on the lawn in front of the ohureh at 6 :45 p. m. The commenoement exercises of the Chelsea sohools were held on Tueaday evening of this week. The graduates were : Edith M. Boyd. Mary E. Broesamie, William H. Burkhart, N. Ethel Uole, Erl L. Foster, R. Helen Hepfer, Myrta E. Irwin, Lena M. Miller, Helen L. Steinbaoh, Orlando G. Wood. The addross was delivered by Rev. Washington Gardner. Mrs. Harry I. Phelps died in Dexter, June 9, aged 79 years. Her inaiden name was Cynthia C. Kellogg and she was born in New York, settling in Dexter township with her parents in 1837. She was married to Mr. Phelps in September 1844. She had flve children tbree of wbom are still living, Mrs. Clara Cairns, of Williamston, Mrs. Frano Doty, of Green Oak, and Miss Marian, who is living at home. Last Monday eveniag at tbe olass day exeroises ol the Cbelsea graduating olass Edith M. Boyd deJivered the salutatory and Helen L. Steinbach the valedictory, while Mary E. Broesamie read the class history, Orlando G. Wood the class propheoy and Myrta E. Irwin delivered. the oration. Erl L. Foster read an essay on "Every Man bas bis Day," Lena M. Miller an essay on "School Life" and N. Ethel Cole, an essay on "Ambition." The Ypsilant high sohool graduated 23 pupils last Friday night. Supt. George in presenting tbe diplomas made some eloquent remarks. Tbe graduates were: Cari Jeffries Barlow of Rawsonville, Roy Jasper Buell of Union City, Hurbert Sterling Frazier of Otsego, Royal Henry Hoover of Whittaker, Francés Valnette Nichols of Pittsfield, Francés Mina Woodard of Milo, Morris Bennett Chapín, Leona Gay Cook, Nura Felicia Drake, Ralph Diokinson Goodrioh, Gertie S. Guild, Bessie Emnia Hall, Edith Mabel Harper, Alioe Mae Hixson, Edmund Peaslee Kinne, Ralph Emerson Lewis, Lena May Moore, Ada Margaiet Paine, Edward Henry Parmalee, Leuna Mae Schaffer, Caribel Strang, Carrie May Strang, Myrtle Pansy Warren, all of Ypsilauti.