Washtenawisms

Fred Haley is building a barn in Milan. Saline still haa hopes of an aleotrio road. Thomas Birkett has put a new water wheel into the Dexter mill. Horace Gage, iomerly of Sylvan, died in Carson City, last week. Miss Beatrion Bacon opened the sohool in distiiot No. 11, Sylvan, Monday. The Saline Farmers' Club meets at the home f Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Cobu today. George Jacobs, of York, camí Dear losing nis ltttle finger while cleaning a bicycle. Archie V. Wilkinson has bought the brown stone front ou Main st., Chelsea, from Milo Updike. Miss Nellis Dalay and Mr. Peter Madden were married in St. Mary's chnroh, Oüelsea, Sept. 27. The big smoke stack at the Chelsea tjleotric light works feil down the other day. No one was injured. There are 261 ohildren in the Normal training school thia year. This is an increatie of 32 orer last year's enrollment. Grant Fellows, of Hudaon, and O. E. Butterfield, of Ann Arbor, addressed a republican meeting at Oüelseu last Frittay evening. Frank Joslyn, of Ypislanti, slipped up to Jackson last week and obtained a franchise to build an electric line from that city to Clark's Lake. James Gregory, of Dexter, was caught in a falling stone wall at Hudson and badly bruised. It reqaired six stitches to close one of the cats in nis head. John Dolan died in Dexter Sept. 22 leaving a widow, four sons and one daughter, Mrs. D. E. Quish, of Dexter, at whose home he died. He was in business in Dexter for 20 years, removing to Grand Rapids in 1887. After a severe rainstorm at Plymoath Friday afternoon water carne pouring down the flats, flooding all the lowlands west of the village. It is reported that a cloudburst ooonrred. Potatoes were rnined and cellars flooded. In the school eshibit at the 'Washtenaw Fair the Saline village school took nearly all the first and some second pieminms in the city and village school división. The prizes will aggregate $40. Saline school had no oompetition in raany exhibits. The rural schools generally bad a fine exhibit of map drawing. Dester residencies have been reuumbered. Mrs, Garreghty, a Webster pioneer, died Sept. 25, aged 87 years. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Collins, of Dexter, Sept. 21. The two banks of Manchester have ou d?posit iu their care f273,563.02. William Dewey, of Bridgewater, boaght 'S50 sheep in Cbi2ago last'week. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Braun, of Manchester, Sept. 23. A little son came to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Blythe, of Manchester, Sept. 27. Bachman's apple evaporator, of Chelsea, is nsing 15 barrels of apples a day. Webster Logan, of Manchester township, is building a new house on nis farru. A OliutOQ wornarj tried to heal a hole in the window soreeu witn stickiug salve. Hiram Lighthall has sold nis house on Orchard st. , Cbeleea, to Mrs. Al. Foster. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Shanahan, of Lyndon, were made happy Sept. 22, by the birth of a daughter. A cow belonging to William Taylor, of Sylvan, was recently bitten on the tongue by a rattlesnake. Mrs. Frances Rcto, of Clinton, lost a norse a week ago Saturday by its being struck by lightning. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Smythe, of Sharon, bava been enreitaining a little daugher since Sept. 21. Tommy McNamara, of Chelsea, sold a team of horses in Detroit, Thnrsday of last week, for $3,000. Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Nigeley, of Mooreville, have had a little girl at their house since Sept. 23. Chas. Watson, of Saline, is home from Knoxville having secured bis discharge from the 31st Michigan. Prof. Ben D'Ooge, of tbe Ypsilanti Normal, has been hauled np before a justioa court for riding a bicycle on tbe sidewalk. Mr. and Mrs. Jason Hudson, of Webbter, have spent (51 years of their married life in Webster township. Mr. HudsDH is 86 years of age. Corp. Fred D. Weloh, of Co. C, 31st Michigan, and Miss Bernice Shugars, of Clinton, were married at Knoxville by Cuaplain White, Sept. 19. Candidata Smith and W. W. Wedemeyer addresed republican meetings in Freedom last Monday afternoon and in Manchester Monday eveniog. A homing pigeon belonging to W. S. Carpenter flew from Bowling Green, Ohio, to Ypsilanti, a distance of 75 miles, in 77 minutes last Snnday. This beats the North Shore liruited. Franklin Collins, of Ypsilanti, when returning from the fair at Ann Arbor last week Tbursday. juniped from a rapidly moving freight train and was seriously cut about the face and head. Dan Q, tue little wonder, formerly owned atthe Simmocolon farm in Ypsilanti, mad'e a world's record on the half mile track at 'tbe Malone, N. Y., fair pacing three heats iu 2 ÏO1-, 2:08%, 2 :08. Olive Chapter, No. 108, O. E. S., of Chelsea, bas elected the following offioers: Worthy Matron, Mrs. J. Waltrons; worthy patrón, Geo. Ward : assooiate matron, Mrs. L. Winans ; seoretary, Mrs. R. S. Armstrong; treasurer, Mrs. W. K. Guerin; condaotress, Mrs. R. Waltrons; assistant conduotress, Mrs. J. S. Cnrnmings. The following have been elected officers of tbe Lima Epwortb League : President, A. J. Easton ; lst vice president, Miss Bfrtha Spencer; 2d vice president, Mrs. Jay Easton; 3d vioe president, Mrs. Fannie Ward; 4th vice president, Mrs. Jay Wood; secretary, R. T. Wheelock; treasurer; J. J. Wood ; organist, Miss Verna Hawley. John Smye, a well known young man of Plymouth, died Tuesday of typhoid fever. He caught the disease from bis brother, Richard, while helping to nurse him. Richard is a member of Co. D, 33d Miohigan Volunteers, and caught the disease at Santiago, Cuba. The soldier is not expected to live. Titus Smye another brother is also ill with the same disease. Richard is home on a siok furlough. Manchester Enterprise: Ben Matteson bas been experimenting to prevent snint in wheat. The first field of seven acres be eowed to Red Clawson wheat which he treated with bine vitriol and lime; tbe second, of 12 acres he treated a part the same as above and the balance with lime only ; the tbird field, of 11 acres he treated a part with blue vitriol only and the balance with lime only. The results of these experiinents will be given next season. The girl who expresses so much sympathy for the poor farmer because of his oold job harvesting his winter wheat is equal in agricultural knowledge to tbe one who expressed a desire to see a field of tobacco when it is just plugging out. But the damsel who asked which cow gave the buttermilk is entitled to tbe whole bakery. And a girl on her return froru a visit to the country was asked if she ever saw anyone milk a oow replied "Oh, yes, indeed I have, it tickles me to death to see uncle jerk two of the cow's faucets at tbe same time." - Farmers' Voice. Manchester Chapter, O. E. S. , has elected the following officers: W. M., Mrs. Fannie Root; "W. P., C. W. Case; A. M., Mrs. Abbie Lowery; seoretary, Mrs. Ethel Hall; treasurer, Mrs. Maybelle Amspoker; conductress Mrs. Clara Freeman ; associate condnctress, Mrs. Sarah Hendershott; Adah, Miss Elizabeth Farrdell ; Ruth, Miss Margaret Blosser; Esther, Miss Cora Bailey; Martha, Miss Belle Gordanier; Electa, Mrs. Franoes Rundell; warder, Mrs. Lulu Weaver; chaplain, Mrs. Nellie Calhoun; organist, Mrs. Eva Spafard; marshal, Mrs. Frederioa Briegel; sentinel, S. Hammon. Charles Hyzer, of Co. G, Ypsilanti, b'as been proinoted to be a corporal. The Dexter sohoola have the largest enrollment of pupila in their history. Thirty-five of the 73 pupils of ttíe Milán high school ara non-residents. John Martin and Noah Zimmerman, of Iron Creek, are building new barns. Fred Wessel and Miss Freda Barnhart, of Worden, were married Sept. 25. There are 329 pnpils enrolled in the Manchester schools, of whom 28 are noD-resideuts. Saven srirl students in the Ypsilanti Normal have organizad a sorority of the Phi Kappa Sigma. Frank Hewett, of Whitmora Lake, is buildiuf.' a bain and it is stated will erect a honse shoitly. Manchester claims to have hotel acoommodations surpassing any village iu southern Michigan. The three year old Wilkie Knox, of YpsiJanti, trotted a mile in 2:26 at the Hillsdale fair Thursday. Charles Koering and Mias Grace Johnson, of Bridgewater, were married in Clinton last week. There is considerable danger of Ypsilanti losing the street car barn, the ooinpaiiy threatening to take it to Daarborn. P. W. Ross, of ïpsilanti, while bottling mineral water, Friday, was severely ent aboot the hand by the breaking of a bottle. About 90 friends of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Redner, of Stony Creek, surprised them last Friday evening, the occasion being the 40th anniversary of their marriage. A number of Ypsilanti nimrods went hunting Saturday. Will Feil, Harry Densmore and Walter Pack aeoured 24 birds, while Eugene Dodge and Henry Platt bagged 33 quail, 2 partridges and 4 fox squirrels. Anybody who will drop a oat iu fiout of a house or by the wayside is a low down vag. The Leslie Local condemns the practice in the following terms: "One of the most cruel habits practiced and it is, we are sorry to say, very common, is the one of dropping a bag of little kittens along the road or at some residence. It looks like a little matter but the practice is a mighty ungentlemanly one and cruel iu the extreme. As a general thing if a person wants a feline he gets and cares for it. If he doesn't want one it ia an imposition to thruat a half-starved, howling cat upon him. If yon have more oats than yoa can feed, be man enough to get them out of the way. That's better than making a nuisance of yontself. " Times: Marshal Hixon, of Ypsilanti, bad an exoiting experience Saturday eveaing. While leading home a young , man whom he had found intoxicated upon the street and whom he wiehed to spare arrest bewas attaoked by John Grant, of Augusta, a friend of bis , charge. Hixon attempted resístanos ' bnt was knocked flat upon the ground by Grant, who is a very large, powerful fellow. Gaining bis feet as quickly as possible Hixon startad in ntsuit of bia assailant, who had promptly'left. An unobeyed command of halt drew a pistol sbot frora the marshal and the the chase began. Finally the man was cornered in the swamp land baok of the Episcopal church by Hixon and a friend who bad come to bis aseistance and was without further difficulty captured. Tuesday motning he was brought np in the justice oourt and fined $10 and costa. Marahal Hixon is nursing several severe bruisea and the conviction thfit the thief taking business has its ups and downs as well aa other trades.