Washtenawisms

A Cleveland bicycle was stolen in Ypsilanti Saturday night. Miss Corinne Seeger is teaching in district No. 12, of Lyndon. Miss Agnes Oversmith is teaching school district No. 9, in Sharon. The Saline ooramon council last week allowed bilis amounting to $259. 83. E. S. Wilson, of Ypsilanti town, recently lost a number of sheep from dogs. Henry Haselsohwerdt, of Sharon, ran a rusty nail into his hand last week. George Eberle has returned to Lodi from Porto Rico, where he fought under Gen. Miles. Everett L. Lamed, of Worden, claims to have had a yield of 50 bushels of wheat to the aero from one field. Mrs. J. E. Irwin, of Sharon, has been suffering with a bad felón neo Rssitating the removal of a bone from her band. Miss Olive Mills is teaching the Dillinghani district in Bridgewater and Miss Anna Unterkircher in the Dawey district. W. H. Webster has the contract for building the Presbyteriaa chnroh and will begin work next Monday. The suru of 28,000 has been appropriated to baild the chnrch of whieb the chnrch has 18,000 in cash in the bank. Ont of 164 schuol distircts in the county, 50 have reported to County Commissioner Lister. Every one of these districts has refused to come under the uniform text book law, and cnly one, a district íd Sharon township, bas adopted free text books. The Ypsilanti Chapter of "the Eastern Star Monday evening elected the following officers: Worthy patrón, W. S. Carpenter; associate matron, Mrs. Mary Guerin; conduotor, Mrs. Minnie Monroe ; assistant condnetor, Miss Lou Shipman ; secret ary, Mrs. Emma Fisk; treasuror, Mrs. Sarah Fingerle. Gapt. Silas T. Allen, a brother of Hon. E. P. Allen and Eev. C. T. Allen, of Ypsilanti, died in Kansas City, Mo. , 3ept. 11. He was the soa of Lewis Allen, the first supervisor of Sharon township, and lived in Sharon nntil he reached maahood, when he began the practioe of law in La Porte, Ind., frorn which place he eulisted in the anny being made the captain of a oompny in the 29th Indiana Infantry. He was wounded in the fciinipaign before Nashville and for 80 years did not enjoy an hour free from the pain of the wound. The three brothera all saw army service. The Clinton schools cosfc $2,851.35 last year. Earl Bhodts, of Saline, is teaohing in West Bay City. Miss Bertha Spencer is teaching the Liüia Center school. Hadley Webb, of Pittsfield, is building a fine rísidenee. Sixty-five Manchpster oitizens went to Toledo on Labor Day. It ocst Manchester $286. 38 to beat its school buüdiags last year. Tbere are 422 persons of school age in the Maaohester village district. F. W. Davis, of Clinton, has opened a photograph gallery iu Manohester. Rev. J. I. Niokerson, of Cbelsea, has received a cali from an Alpena ohnrob. Forty-fonr sparrows were killed by the recent tbnuder storm uear Manchester. Peacbes sold in Clinton last week for 25 cents a bnsbel, the lowest price yet reaeited. Miss Erniua Messner and Mr. Fred Wellhoff, of Chelsea, were married last Thursday. Prof. A. S. Hall has left Saline to rpsume his sohool duties at Chestertown, Md. Tbe Manchester schools last year oost 14,230.05 of whioh $3,440 was teaohers' salaries. An ice oream social will be held at the Presbyterian parsonage in Saline this evening. The briok and stone work on tbe new Presbyterian cnnrch at Saline has been completed. The Argus will be sent for the rest of the year for 25 cents. Get your friends to try it. Mrs. L. A. Stephens eonimenoed her third year Monday as teacher in district No. 5, of Lyndon. The Salem Farmers' Clnb has its next meeting at the Baptist parsonage in Salem, Friday, Oct. ?. A burglar stole a pair of trousers ocntaining some money from Louis Burg, of Chelsaa, last week. Miss Lottie PeiTy, daughter of Mrs. A. H. PeiTy, formerly of Sharon, died in Grass Lake Sept. 2, aged 17 years. Bradley Way, of Bridgewater, died Tuesday of last week from injuries caused by being struck by the tongne of his wagon. William Schafer, a brother of John Schafer, of Saline, died Aug. 30, at Missoula, Mont. , of which place he was a pioneer. Ypsilanti has 17T8 children of sohool age of which 155 are colored, a gain of ttaree colored children and 10 white over last year. Miss Genevieve Gunn and Mr. Alexander J. Nulan, of Ypsilanti, were married at St. Jobn's churoh in Ypsilanti Wednesday. Free test books were voted down last wesk in Manchester 4 to 52 and uniform text books were voted down 7 to 42. Nathaniel Schmid was re-elcetad trustee. An ovation was given David Haschle on his return to Manchester on furlough last week. He was one of the Manchester boys who saw fighting on Cubjn soil. It will be sad news to his friends in this county that Rev. Charles O'Reilly, of Adrián, has cataracts growing on his eyes. He will have his eyes operated on this fall, when it is hoped bie eigbt will be fully restored. Mrs. I'. 3. Van Duyn died Sept. 1, at her home in Bridgewater, wbere she had lived since her marrisge 37 years ago. She was manisd iu tbis city, her maiden name being Susan Worthington. She left a hnsband and an only daughter, Mrs. Elmer Logan. John Preston, who was buried at Grass Lake Sept. 5, having reached tbe ripe ge of 80, settled in Waterloo townsbip in the 40'e. He used to teil of the days when a man wonld start from bis home in the wgodR of Waterloo township and with a supply of provisions go on foot to Jacksonburg or to Ann Arbor for a plow point or sonie other article of necessity. The rear end of a sonth bonnd freight, whioh had broken in two on tbe heavy grade, orashed into a north boand freight in the F. & P. M. yard at Plymouth last Thursday night, wrecking several oars. The wreok oaught fire from a lamp in the caboose and eight new Detroit & Mackinaw railway cars were burned. The loss is heavy. Nu one was iujured. Sontb Lyon Exoelsior : A company of Sonth Lyon young people, who, after getting tbe tables nioely spread for a picuio dinner at Wbitmore Lake the other day, decided to have their pictnres "tooken. " Tbe ohanges that flashed over their "phizes" as they left the.smiling scènes of the gallery to gaze on that table only to see a large tom oat with its feet in the pudding lapping the oontents of the milk pitoher, and a, floak of brown leghorns soratching and pioking the pies and oakes, salads and donghnuts as though they were in a garden, was enough to ront the whole Spanish army. The examination of Fred Anderson, charged with the murder of Fred McCordy, carue to an abrupt ending in Ypsilanti last Thursday morning, when Dr. Hnll, one of the experts who performed the postmortem, refused to give an opinión professionally without receiving an expert's fee. He was perfectingly willing to disclose all knowledge of facts and conditions in McCurdy's siokness, having been his physician since the stabbing, bnt furtber he wonld not state. As the oase will hiüge oü the testimouy of the three doctors, not one of wbom would give an opinión without an expert's fee, an adjournment of the examinaton was taken until September 17, when it is hoped that satisfactory arrangements will be made, nnder which the doctors will give evidence. The sohcol censns of Dexter is 252. C. H. Robison is teachiüg the Mooreville suhool. There are 210 volumes in the Dexter sohool library. Miss Libbie ü'Niel is teaching the Honey Creek distriot. The Plyuiouth fair is bfling held this week and proiruses to be a suocessful oae. William Keiler lost four fingers in an aocident at the Ypsilanti rnills last week. Five hnndred new volumes have been purchased for the Ypsilanti Normal library. Emannel Cook, of Pittsfield, has purohased the livery ofAC. L. Clark ia Milan. Uuadilla prefers a hotel to a store and Louis Roepke is remodeliug the Bond store. Rev. J. I. Nickerson preaohed bis farewell seruion iu the Lima ohurph last Sunday. Miss Mattie Camok has been re-engaged to teach the grammar department üf the Milan school. Walter and Howard Warren, of Ypsilanti, were sent to the Industrial school at LansiDg last week. Jerome Parker, of Dexter, raised a musk melon weighing 16}L pounds, whioh was 38 % by 29L inohes in size. Rev. W. J. Thistle bas bid farewell to the ünadilla ohurch and has removed to Berea, Ohio, to attend ooilege. Miss Mayme Payne is teaching in the Dorr district of Manohester and Miss Rose Soully in the Niohols district. William E. Rogers wishes the village of Dexter to pay him $1,000 for injuries received by falliug in a hole in an alley. William Freeman, of Ypsilanti, one of the famous rough riders, has received an honorable discharge froru the service. Two cows belonging to William Henion, four miles west of Manchester were killed by lightuing on Monday of last. week. Rev. M. E. McMahon, of the Azalia M. E. churoh, has just taken 54 new members into his churoh aud there are 27 more to be taken in soon. Charles Adrion has purohased the interest of his partner Jacob Hauser in the Manchester brewery and Mr. Hauser has removed to Ann Arbor. There is some talk of nuiting the churohes in Lima, Sylvau and Francisco in a circuit so that a rniuistercan be employed to fill the threu pulpits. Cbristian Schwab was thrown from a wagon iu Manohester on Monday of last week by his horse beooming frighteneci at a locomotive, and his jaw and rib were broken. The Dexter sohools oost $5,159.10 last year of which f 1,600 was paid on bonds and interest. D. E. Qnish was re-eleoted trustee and $4,000 was voted to be raised by direct tax the same as last year. The mission contributiou at Bethel church in Freedom Sunday before last amounted to 1219.35. At the Sunday afternoon service 253 bnggies were reqnired to bring the people together by actual count. Alfred B. Stonex, son of Rev. Henry Stonex, of Dexter, has freached Dexter on his return from Santiago. The Dexter Leader says: "From a veritable young athlete he is redaoed almost to a skeleton aud was so weak that he was just able to walk from the carriage to the rectory. "' Rev. Gustave Bertram died in Ypsilanti last Saturday after a long illness. He was 75 years of age and was born in Prussia. He was au active M. E. minster for 36 years and for the past nine years, during which he lived in Ypsilanti, had been on the retired list. He leaves a wife and one son. Mrs. J. Evarts Smith died at her home near Ypsilanti Monday. She was born in Vermont and was twice married, the first time to William Brown, of Rutland, Vt, and in 1865 to 31 Evarts Smith with whom she moved to Ypsilanti township in 1866. She leaves a husband and a son and a grandson. Wm. R. Waldron died in Jackson last Saturday aged 84 years. He was the father of Mrs. E. Oranson and Mrs. O. A. Vaugbn, of Webster. He was born in New York and settled in Salam ia 1836. He afterwards removed to Webster where he lived for 30 years. He helped to establish the republioau party under the oaks at Jaokson. Ypsilantian : Lightning has been doing its destruotive work on the barns thronghout the oountry. Almost every paper on our exchange list oontains accounts of barns struok by the lightning bolt, but seldom a dweiling house is touched. Wonder how long it will be before farmers come to understand the reason of the partialty thus showD. It will continue as long as barns are left without the protection of trees. In her search for rare and valuable relies Mrs. J. Willard Babbitt, of Ypsilanti, has found two rare old blue spreads, both of noted ancestry. One has been handed down for three generations in the family of the Hod. Chauncey M. Depew, and the other is a hundred years old, and was once owned and used on the "spare bed" of the grandmotherjof the late ex-President Hayes. Both are beautifully preserved, having always been kept in an old cedar chest. Mrs. Babbitt is making an effort to have these spreads loaned for the "log cabin" exhibit at the Washtenaw county fair, Sept. 27-30. The owner of the spread also has a footstove that was nsed by the Hayes ancestors during the revolutionary war. Mrs. Babbitt is in hopes to eventually secare these rare and valuable relies for the Art Museum of Detorit. St. John's Evangelical church at Rogers' Corners will hold a missiou festival next Sunday. Mr. Perry Dodge and Miss Nora Woodmansee, two well known young people of Milan, were married last Friday. Tax receipts well printed according to the inost apprrved forra at the Argns offioe. Township treasnrers should get tbeni print8d here. Mrs. Elnathan Skidmore, nee Sarah Marcia Hatob, died in Grass Lake, Sept. 4. She was born in New York in 1827. and oame witb her father to this state in 1837, settling in Sylvan iu 1842. In 1847 she was married to Aaron Lawrenoo, of Pittsfleld, who died in 1862. Iu 1865 she moved to Chelsea, where in 1893 she married Mr. Skidmore. She had been a member of the Cbelsea Congregational ohaioh for 31 years.