Washtenaw County
Washtenaw County
The Milan bank has $90,641.94 on deposit.
The M. E. church in Milan is to have a new well.
Miss Ida Keusch is teaching the Sylvan Center school.
H. J. Phelps, of Dexter, is building a new barn on his farm.
The Dundee fair took in $1,627.02 this year and made money.
David Craig, of Mooreville, has erected a new corn house.
Quinces this year are reported much better than in average years.
The Saline village council ordered $111.19 of bills paid last week.
Jerry Daley is preparing to build a new house on his farm near Manchester.
During September 857 engines and 10,888 cars passed the Union depot in Plymouth.
Mrs. Andrew Gale, of Dixboro, broke her ankle recently by falling down cellar.
The pension of George R. Williams, of Milan, has been increased from $17 to $21 a month.
The freight train on the Ypsilanti branch of the Lake Shore now runs daily except Sunday.
Jerome Teeter, of Manchester, has a plum tree in full bloom which shed all its leaves in August.
The first cousins of the Lewis family hold a reunion at the home of Peter Gill in Superior, Oct. 27.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mahrle, of Manchester, have been treasuring a little daughter since Sept. 30.
W. R. Rushton, of Manchester township put his fingers in a corn sheller last week and one of them was crushed.
A Manchester farmer raised some rye this year which had two heads on one stalk. It might be named the twin variety.
There is some talk of the Baptist church society in Manchester disbanding, although it is the oldest church society in that village.
A. F. Freeman has been elected vice president of the People's Bank in Manchester, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. J. D. Corey.
Mrs. Diana Bennett, of Clayton, died suddenly on Tuesday of last week at the home of her son O. A. Bennett, of Saline. She was 68 years of age.
The Saline creamery has made 119,516 pounds of butter in the past 11 months and has paid out $20,961.08, having purchased 3,079,719 pounds of milk.
Chelsea had another fire scare last week. The fire was in the polishing room of the Glazier stove works and was extinguished without much damage.
Sergeant Andy Shea, of the 22d U. S. Infantry, and Private M. R. Knickerbocker, of the 31st Michigan, have arrived at their home in Milan. Knickerbocker had been ill in a Detroit hospital for a long time.
Manchester Enterprise: John Noon planted eight or ten acres of land to a southern variety or white dent corn last spring which proved to be rather late for this climate but as no frosts had come the stalks kept green and the corn matured. He expected to get a corn harvester to secure the crop this week which will go about 100 bushels to the acre.
Dundee Reporter: Louis LaLonge, a 12-year old grandson of C. LaLonge, went to the woods Sunday to shoot quail. He came back with his right hand terribly mangled, the gun accidentally discharged, taking effect in his hand. The little finger was shot off, the next finger and palm of hand mutilated. He was taken to Ann Arbor Monday morning, for treatment at the hospital.
The Saline Butter and Cheese Co. has elected J. E. Wood, Geo. Mann, E. A. Hauser, G. J. Feldkamp, G. Hurd, Gottlob Mann, Theo. Feldkamp, J. B. Lashier, J. Stabler directors for the coming year, and from this number J. B. Lashier was re-elected president; G. Hurd, vice president; I. A. Wood, secretary and manager, and E. A. Hauser, treasurer.
Ypsilantian: As John McDougall, of Superior, was passing through Canton township recently, he was accosted in a most friendly manner, and was surprised when the stranger approached with the salutation, "Good day, Mr. Goodell." John accounts for the incident by charging the honorable representative from the third district of Wayne county with trying to improve his chances for election by circulating among his constituents photographs of a better looking man. No denial of the charge has reached this office.
Dexter Leader: Two well known Dexter gentlemen, a clergyman and an editor, took a fishing trip to Base Lake Monday. On their way home in the evening when near Brass Creek they met a heavy double wagon being driven at a rapid rate. The fishermen turned out the wagon did not and as a result they lost a front wheel from their buggy. The reckless driver proceeded rapidly on his way without stopping to see what damage was done leaving the disciples of Zaak Walton to get home as best they could. A kind neighbor loaned them a buggy and they reached home considerably saddened but with a good catch of fish. A few weeks ago the editor had a laugh on the boys. Now they have one on the editor.
A creamery is talked of in Chelsea.
A blacksmith is wanted at Cherry Hill. John Leibeck has leased the Foster farm in Sylvan.
Webster sends a number of students to the Ypsilanti Normal.
A little son arrived at John E. Hall's in Dexter township Oct. 1.
Luther G. Smith is erecting a new house on his farm in York.
Fred Kimmel has completed his large new grain barn at Cherry Hill.
Dan Hitchingham, of Whittaker, is prospecting for timber in Arkansas.
Rev. Paul Irion, of Freedom, dedicated a new church at Albion last Sunday.
The Milan Lady Maccabees give an oyster supper at their hall Saturday evening.
A nine pound daughter arrived at the home of H. L. Gabel, of Whittaker, last week.
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Wiedman, of Whittaker, have a little son to cheer their home.
J. A. Doty, of Whittaker, and two Detroit friends bagged 60 quail and two coons last week.
Henry C. Smith and W. W. Wedemeyer spoke for Smith and Pingree in Chelsea last night.
A new roof has been put on the brick school house at Silver lake, which is 40 years old.
Bring your tax receipts to the Argus-Demoorat office for printing and get the best receipts made.
Gustave Weis, of Freedom, is another one of those who have plum trees in full blossom this fall.
The old log cabin on the Charles Smith place in York has disappeared, having been torn down.
B. W. Huston, of Cherry Hill, took first premium on his big team of draft horses at the state fair.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Service, of Sharon, celebrated the 50th anniversary of their marriage Monday.
The barn of Mr. Quigg, of Webster, was recently struck by lightning and considerable damage done.
Miss Jessie Graham, of Milan, was struck with a loaded truck last week at the Milan depot and badly injured.
Samuel Tucker last week presented the Chelsea Herald with two potatoes that weighed four and five pounds each.
Lester McDiarmid, superintendent of schools in Chelsea two years ago, a member of the 32d Michigan, is at his home in Lowell, very sick with the fever.
Mrs. J. S. Edmonds won the oratorical contest in Chelsea last week over six other W. C. T. U. ladies. The subject of her oration was "The Ballots for Women."
The biggest fish story to date this season is that of Michael Ryan who caught 500 perch, black bass and roach at Half Moon Lake, and the beauty of the story is that it is true.
A little girl in the Chelsea school when asked what the government of the United States was founded upon called out "Pingree. " And she had the same view of it that the governor and some of his followers seem to have.
Lafayette Grange met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. Keyes yesterday. Geo. T. English led the discussion on "What are the three leading elements of fertility in the soil and from what sources are they obtained." Mrs. Frank McMillan led the discussion on "What would be the result if the farmers of the present time spend no more money for books, papers, schooling for the children, carriages and clothing for the family than was used by farmers for these purposes 40 years ago?"
Wednesday, Oct. 19, will be LaFayette Day in all the schools of the United States, on which date contributions of funds will be received from the pupils for the purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of LaFayette in Paris, the same to be unveiled and dedicated on July 4th,1900, which is to be United States Day at the Paris exposition. Funds thus contributed will be forwarded to Robert J. Thompson, secretary of the Commission at Chicago.
Mrs. Helen A. Warner died at the home of her sister in Novi, Sept. 28, aged 77 years and 4 months, from the effects of a fall from a porch. Her father came to Northviile in 1827. In 1864 she was married to William Warner and settled near Four Mile Lake two miles and a half east of Chelsea, where she lived until 1870. Then after six years in Chelsea she removed with her husband to Dexter, where Mr. Warner died in 1891. In the fall of that year she found a home with her eldest daughter, Mrs. Eve Macken, in Osceola, Nebraska.
York township raises $2,391.57 in taxes this year divided among the various funds as follows: Contingent $800, highway $700, poor $400, gravel $300, territorial drain, $191.57. Besides this the road districts raise as follows: No. 7, $25.47; No. 8, $10.44; No. 13, $13.43; No. 17, $8.30; No. 19, $6.49; No. 21, $14.16; No. 26, $13.18; No. 30, $7.69; Nu. 37, $12.12; No. 42, $9.93. While the school districts raise: No. 1, $600; No. 2, $120; No. 4, $165; No. 5, $150; No. 1 Fractional York and Milan, $2,500; No. 1 Fractional York, Milan, Macon and Saline, $100; No. 3 Fractional, $2,300; No. 4 Fractional, $75; No. 5 Fractional $125; No. 8 Fractional, $150; No. 9 Fractional, $191; No. 11 Fractional, $175.
Fred Eckert is building a postoffice at Eckert as an addition to his house.
Edwin S. Butts, of Willis, has been granted a renewal of his $10 a month pension.
Lafayette Bennett, of Hamburg, has had his pension increased from $8 to $12 a month.
The Brighton market fair opened Monday with $750 up for horse racing, a three days' baseball tournament and balloon ascensions.
Robert Martin, of Superior, complained against Maurice Coleman for the malicious destruction of his fence. The case will be tried before Justice Duffy, of Ann Arbor, today.
Judge Powell, who died in Jackson Monday, came to Michigan with his parents in 1835 and settled in Sharon, where he remained until 1848 when he removed to Grass Lake. He was judge of probate of Jackson county for eight years.
Philip Standlick, a Brighton stock buyer, who disappeared three years ago with a large sum of borrowed money, and who was thought to have gone to Australia, has turned up in New York city. He was robbed after leaving home and has met with sickness and misfortunes since.
Alexis P. Renwick died of dropsy on Thursday of last week at the home of his mother, Mrs. John W. Renwick in Salem, aged 45 years. His grandfather settled in Washtenaw county in 1828 and was a member of the territorial legislature for five years and aided in the formation of the state constitution.