Washtenawisms

Mánones!; r sbips 10,000 bushels of peaohes this year. Athünsand Ypsilantians visited their Bew engine house Snnday. Milan is to be connected with the New State Telephone exobange. Frank Roper, of Whitmore Lake, is tbe prond papa of a young masón. The Lavenders, of Whitmore Lake, have 4,500 bnsbels of onions this year. John Sbankland, of Superior, will hunt deer in the north woods in November. Henry Osborn, of Chioago, and Miss Alioe Ball, of Hamburg, were inarried Sept. 14. Es-Supervisor M. t. Alber, of Freedoro, has oornpleted his bandsome new resideno. The expenses of the Plyrnouth fair were lese this year than last and the receipts were more. Manchester has decided to buy a smaller hose cart io addition to the one they already have. The Congregational Sunday school pionio, of Ypsilanti, will be held at Dentons tomurrow. O. F. Westfall has opened a restaurant in Ypsilanti on the corner of Washington and Pearl sts. J. W. Rauschen berger, of Manchester, is walking with a cañe, the resnlt of injuries received while building a new barn. Artbur Wbeeler, of Salem, rejoices over the birth of a sod, but ie WB9 bardly in Time to make another vote for the legislature thie fall. Fred J. Sober and Mies Mamie Bussey, formerly teacher of the Worden school, were married Sept. 17, and will ïeside in Detroit. The Ypsilanti Sanitarium Co., of Ypsilanti, has flled articles of assooiation with the secretary of state. Capital stock $20,000. Mre. C. W. Case and Mis. C. E. .Lewis, with two shovels, killed a blue jacer snake five feet long wbich had -ventared in the sacred precinots of Manchester. A footpad attacked a young man named Babcock in the eastern part of Ypsilanti late Friday night but met -with sach a vigorons reception that he took to his heels. At the meeting of the Michigan Supreme Commandery of the Independent Order of the Red Cross held in Detoit, Tuesday, W. J. Conoh and Charles Seeger, both of Ypsilanti, were respectively elected to the offices of snpreme trustee and supreme guard. Dexter has a uew hose cart. The Chelsea post office has been repaiuted. Tbere are 547 children of school age in Augusta. The poles for the electrio lights in Dexter are up. L. L. James has opeued a clothiug store iu Dexter. G-aorge Irwin is building an addition to bis house in Chelsea. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gainou, of Dexter, are a boy abead sinoe Sept. 1 4. Tbere are 14 meuabers of tbe senior class in tbe Chelsea bigb school. John Whaley, of Milán, has a second orop of red raspberries tbis year. Ex-Postrnaster Laird, of Cbelsea, has purohased the central city bakery. Cbristian Fritz has built a new barn at bis borne iu tbe village of Dexter. The Stockbridge fair has been running oppositiou to the Washtenaw fair this week. The Chelsea M. E. oburoh netted $100 by a chiokea pie sooial fit the opera house. The Chelsea Maccabees have rented the second story of the uew Staffan blook iu Chelsea. A oow belonging to Will S. Bishop was killed the otber day on the Wabash track near Whittaker. In the orchards of G-eorge A Iban, of Ypsilanti town, ripe fruit and blossoms may be found on the same tree. Mr. and Mrs. Cortell have had a girl baby at their home in Webster for tbe past two weeks. It's their own. Jaccb Walz, of Bridgewater, will bnild a $1,000 barn, 36x60 feet iu size, in place of tbe one recently burned. Christian Sohwab died in Manohester Sept. 20, froru injuries received from being thrown from a wagon, aged 78 years. John Terns, of Ypsilanti, bas become the owner of a large oil painting 8x11 feet iu size, the subject being Niágara Falls. S. E. Barcón, of near Pinckuey, shot a grayeagle on his farm reoently v? hioh measored 7 feet -Í inches from tip to tip of its wiugs. Chelsea gave op holding a day of sports last Saturday and it was lucky that she did so, considering the heavy rain on that day. Mrs. O. A. Ainswortb, of Ypsilanti, is a descendant of John Alden, tbe farnous puritau who came to this country on the Mayflower. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Daniels, of North Lake, had an addition to their family Sept. 16, iu the forrn of a bright little daughter. The New State Telephoue Company will pnt in a aew switoh board to aucorumodate 400 phones iu Ypsilanti aud will put iu new wirss. John Larmie of the 22d D. S. Regulars is spending his farlough at his home in Dexter, telling admiring friends tbe details of the campaign in Cuba. The homing pigeons of Wru.. Carpenter and Wm. Meanwell flew from Wal bridge to Ypsilanti a distance of 50 miles Monday in 2 hoors and 15 minutes. Warren Lewis, of Ypsilanti dog keunel fame, has made $18,000 from his kennels in tbe past two years. He received 108 letters last week relating to his cocker spaniels. Miss Anna M. Cutoheon will give an illustrated talk tbis eveuing at tbe home of Mrs. Rexford, 111 N. Huron st., Ypsilanti, for the benefit of the Presbyterian organ fund. The Milan leoture course this year inclDdes Hoyt L. Conary, Hon. C. H. Fraser, of Wisconsin, Rev. Harvey Smith Gowau and Hod. G. A. Gearhait. Two young Ypsilanti oouples driving out in the country left their team while gathering fruit about four miles from Ypsilanti Friday nigbt. The team ran away, wrecking the wagon and the yonng couples had to walk home. Sohuler P. Foster and Miss Ella May Craig, of Sylvan, were married by Rev. Thomas Holmes, on Sept. 15, at the residenoe of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus A. Updike, in the presence of a large nurnber of relativos and friends. The Manchester Enterprise got tangeled up on the weather Jast week, its first four items reading: "It is rain - iug today. " "This is delightful weather." "Is this the eqninootial storm?" "A good hard rain would be aoceptable. " Edvsard Soiner, a G. A, R. man from Ypsilanti, died at the soldiers' home iu Grand Rapids, Snnday, from tbe effeots of an operatioD for the removal of a tumor. Tbe funeral was held in Ypsilanti Tuesday under tbe anspices of Carpenter Post, G. A. R. Lightning played pranks about Grass Lake Saturday. The house of Russell Armstrong was damaged by it. A large barn together wifcb 500 bnshels of rye and 20 tons of hay on the Lucy Smith farm south of Grass Lake, was destroyed by flre caused by lightning. Two residents of Wbittaker named Smith and Newton, stole a ride from Jaokson to Ypsilanti on a freigbt train Friday night. At Ypsilanti they jumped fcom the train while it was making 80 miles an honr and were seriouely injured. Smith was cut on the lip and badly bruised, while Newton received a deep and daugerous out on the head. Four young Ypsilanti gentlemen were tbe viotims of a practioal joke the other eveDing. Eacb reoeived a feminine note puiporting to come from a Toledo girl visiting in the oity who wii-bed to make their acquaintance asking them to meet her at the corner of Cross and Washington sta,, and wandered around tbe corner for an honr or so without finding tbe girl. í Thiry-one from Whittaker attended the Adrián fair. The Mooreville sohool haa au enrolment of 65 pnpils. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Coe, of Saline, are iejoioing over the ooming of a little sou. Jaoob Payne, of Oakville. canght an eight pound piokerel in Stony Creek last week. Mouroe Oooper, of Grass Lake, bas entered the medical department at the university. Alfred Lenn, wbo has been for the past six years in California, was baok in Sharon last week. O. M. Kelsey, of Saline, has oorn so high thïit some of the ears oaunot be reaohed fiotn the gronnd. The Saline schools cost $3, 429.91 dnrins! the past year of which $2,610 was paid for teaohers' wages. Fred L. Rossell and Miss Flora D. Luoe were ïnarried at the Baptist parsonage in Saline Sept. 21, by Rev. Barry. Frank DaveDpcrt lost his honse by flre at Lake Ridge i-eoently, the flre beiDg caused by the explosión of a gasoline stove. Edward Upbonse, of Sharon, a membei of the 31st Michigan, is at hume on sick furlongh. He is reoavering from typhoid fever. Fonrteen new books have been added to the sohool lïbrary of district No. 12 in Lyndon, with the piooeeds of a school entertainment. Mrs. Jane DeOonrsey, of Detroit, who was visiitng in Pittsfield, died very snddenly Thursday morning, aged 54 years. She leaves a husband and fonr children. James Bacon, who for several years lived in Chelsea, died at San Antonio, Tex.,Sept. 10, from the effects of a fall from a vehiole in whioh he reoeived severe spinal injuries. Hod. W, E. Depew, of Alpena, whose death was mentioned in last week's Argtis, was buried in Ohelspa. where he was born. He leaves a wife. He carried $14,00o life insoranoe. The work our pioneers did may be imagined from the report G-en. Meigs made to the gove-rnrnent at Washington in 1825 that "iu Michigan, not one acre in a hundred, donbtfnl if one in a thonsand, was possible of cnltivation." Jacob Nelson Fowler, who died at Fowlers' Corners, Sept. 15, was a pioneer who had lived 71 years in tbis county, coming here at the age of six years. He left a wife, one son, two daughters, 13 grandcbildreu and one great grandchild. The Grass Lake News is 20 years old, half of which time it has been in possession of its present owner, one of tbe best ooantry editors in Michigan. It has a circnlation of 600 but deserves 1,500, as it is full of news written in a sparkling manner. Tüe 18 rnonths old baby of .1. J. Raftrey, of Chelsea, was fonnd the other day in a dangerons position, being head first in a pail of water, and physicians bad to be oalled to resnsoitate him. He had fallen in in attempting to get a plaything, which he had dropped in the pail. Tbe barn of Fred Helzerman iu the sontheastern part of Augusta, was strnok by lightning Sept. 15, and bnrned to the gronnd togetber with the oontents. The honse was saved with difficnlty. The loss was $1,200, insured for $700 in the Germán Farmers' Mutual.