Washtenaw County

Washtenaw County

Scarlet fever still prevails at Plymouth.

Milan wants 36 firemen and the council are considering the matter.

Peter Stouder, of Augusta, raised 2,725 bushels of corn this year from 24 acres.

Four car loads of telephone poles for the use of the New State Telephone have been received at Dexter.

George Weston, a farmer Dexter boy, has been elected register of deeds of La Moure county, North Dakota.

Barbers are sometimes good hunters. D. J. Anderson, of Milan, has shot 234 quails and 11 partridges this year.

Rev. Carl S. Jones, of Pinckney, will assume the pastorate of the Chelsea Congregational church Jan. 1.

Fred Ellis, of Clinton got his nose too near a steam pipe the other day. He nose mores now, as the nose was badly burned.

The Maccabees in Grass Lake are in a state of great activity. Sixteen new applicants for admission were secured in one day.

Marshall Vinkle, formerly of Dexter, was injured by the explosion of a gas lighting machine at Oaks, North Dakota, and may lose his eyesight.

The building of free horse sheds for the farmers is being agitated at Plymouth, with the idea that it will draw farmers' trade to that village from Ypsilanti, Wayne and Northville.

Mrs. G. L. Wolcott, who died in Howell, Nov. 17, at the age of 61 years, was born in Dexter and moved to Livingston county about 40 years ago. Her maiden name was Phelps.

A new Evangelical church was dedicated at Dexter recently. It cost $900 and only six families are represented in it. Yet they raised the debt of $300 at the dedication and $40 besides.

Christian Fritz, of Scio, brother of Michael Fritz, assistant cashier of the Ann Arbor Savings Bank, was in the city Friday for the first time in six weeks, having been confined to the house with a broken leg.

Dexter Leader: At the animal school meeting of district No. 8, Dexter township, the voters decided to discontinue the use of their house for a town hall. The house has been reseated by the Thomas Kane Co., of Racine, Wis., and now the school house of that district has the finest interior of any in the county.

Messrs. Heliker and Meyers, formerly landlords of the Freeman house, Manchester, have rented the Exchange hotel in Owosso, and are now in possession. They made many friends during their stay in Manchester who wish them much success in their new field. The Exchange is the same hotel formerly run by the late George Fauth, of Ann Arbor.

Grass Lake News: Pinned to a tree which stands just outside the sidewalk in front of a Church st. residence is a placard which reads: "Please keep off this prospective grass." Why "prospective" it is difficulty to see as we counted 18 spires of grass on six square rods of ground, and five of those spires were in one bunch. When it comes to grass some people want the world.

The Willis correspondent of the Ypsilanti Commercial says: Anthony Duggan who lives on Dave Taylor's farm down toward Oakville thought once it was wicked to dehorn cattle but he don't think so since a vicious bull that he owns played him a mean trick. Some days ago Duggan went into his barnyard, when a two year old bull, which was not dehorned, showed fight and in the tussle which followed the bull tossed him in the air, it is said, about 20 feet, when Duggan came down in a pond hole of about four feet of water. The fight continued for about two hours before Duggan could get away or anyone came to his rescue. Duggan was doing well at last accounts.

W. J. Gregg, a wealthy editor of Marshall, has purchased a half interest in the Ypsilanti Commercial and can already be found in the editorial wheelhouse. Let there be no ambiguous interpretation of the word ''wheel-house." The operations of Mr. Gregg's brain are not resolved through the cyclic mechanism of an old brass clock. The subject of this sketch was formerly clerk of Calhoun county and also editor and part owner of the Marshall Statesman, and by these experiences is fitted with an extensive knowledge of the wickedness of this world and an idea of the remedy, which we trust will be exerted upon his colaborer of the Commercial, and the insecure souls that harbor in the Ypsilantian and Sentinel offices.

A Scio couple just married, sought to evade the November shower of rice by driving to Hamburg. Two Ann Arbor girl acquaintances heard of it, and boarding the train as it arrived asked the conductor for a "pointer" and got it. They sailed up from the rear and before the couple knew what was up, they were buried in rice. "It was just too awfully funny for anything," and the Ann Arbor girls tee-heed and ta-hahed till the newly wedded dug themselves out of the grain pit. The laugh ended right there. The bridal pair were total strangers and the maids of Athens made for the car door and took long steps from there to the ground. So it goes! "How often, O, how often," we laugh till we get a stitch in the side and our liver pads crack, when the only things in the play that are really ridiculously funny are ourselves!

Fred Uphaus has removed from Sharon to Jackson.

William Lard has purchased the farm of Burt Young, of Sylvan.

Gregory has defeated Unadilla at football by a score of 5 to 0.

The Milan council have decided against electricity for street lighting.

A baby girl brightens the home of Mr. and Mrs. Byron VanArnum, of Sharon.

Thomas Kelly died in Chelsea, Nov. 25, of neuralgia of the heart aged 70 years.

A tramp was locked up by the Milan village marshal the other day, who was 66 years old.

The Chelsea electric light power house has been equipped with a new 2,200 light dynamo.

Conrad Schmid, of Northfield, has returned from his northern hunting trip, bringing home two deer.

Miss Ettie D. Gorton was married Wednesday, Nov. 30, at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Orville Gorton, of Waterloo, to Fred Bowdish.

The Chelsea Y. P. S. C. E. will hold a fair with a musical and literary program at the Chelsea opera house Friday and Saturday, Dec. 9 and 10.

The Stony Creek Ladies' Aid Society will hold their Christmas fair at the M. E. church, Thursday, Dec. 15. Supper will be served for 10 cents.

The insurance companies allowed Searles Firman, of Milan, $126.25 for his loss by fire on organs recently, also $144.86 on the building and $100 on tools.

Chelsea Standard: Three men applied at the home of Homer Boyd, of Sylvan, one night recently for a night's lodging with the plea that their horses, four in number, were unable to proceed any farther that night. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd at last concluding to do unto others as they would wish to be done by, took them in. Mrs. Boyd has been looking in vain ever since for a pair of $10.50 gold bowed glasses taken from the sitting room table. Jay Woods, of Chelsea, who was employed to look after them wrote to the sheriff at Niles where they claimed to be going, and received a prompt reply that there were no such parties there but that he had received letters of inquiry from several places where they were wanted for similar offenses.