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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
March
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
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Milan

Mrs. Parmeter is seriously ill.

Mrs. J.C. Rouse is quite ill with grp.

Mr. and Mrs. Barker are entertaining guests from Plymouth.

Claude Moffit, of Adrian, is the guest of his parents on County st.

Prof. C.H. Carrick and F. Wilson have returned from Monroe.

Geo. Minto entertained his brother from Fowlerville over Sunday.

Born, a daughter, Feb. 27, to Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Smith, of Hurd st.

Born, a daughter, Feb. 25, to Mr. and Mrs. Alva Dexter, of Dexter st.

Mrs. Rena Harris, of Adrian, is visiting her father Lyman Burnham on First st.

Five conversions were the fruits of the week's revival work at the Presbyterian church.

Mrs. W.H. Whitmarsh, of Detroit, is still with her brother Fuller Dexter, who is quite ill.

There are about 60 grip victims this week in Milan. No rest for the medical profession.

Editor W.h. Houseman and family are entertaining Mrs. C.A. King, of Detroit, this week.

Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Halstead, of County st., entertained guests Tuesday afternoon at tea.

Miss Julia King and Harold Rouse, of Saline, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Rouse over Sunday.

Mr. Gearhart is billed for the Milan opera house March 18. It is the last number on the M.H.S.L.C. He is a fine speaker.

Mrs. Joseph Gauntlett, who was thought to be have been dying Friday night, is some better but still dangerously ill. 

C.M. Blackmer, who left for California Wednesday for a health tour, arrived there Monday and stood the journey quite well.

Two feet of water in the basement of the school house Monday prevented school work, but Tuesday school opened with a full attendance. 

Mr. and Mrs. Gale and family, of Superior, and Prof. Floyd Robinson and Miss Estella Ward, of the Agricultural college, were the guests of Wm. Ward and family over Sunday.

Mrs. Heath and daughter, Florence, the evangelists from Albion, Pa., who have been holding revival meetings at the Presbyterian church for a week, received a telegram calling them home to attend the funeral of Mrs. Heath's father. They left for home early Monday morning. On account of the La grippe the meetings will be discontinued for the present. 

Rawsonville

Mrs. C. Eaton is with her sick aunt in Tecumseh.

Mrs. Chas Crittenden spent last week in Milan.

Mrs. Geo. Moore, who has been quite sick for a month is better.

The Eaton Bros. have sold 85 acres of the old Hyatt farm to Walter Walters.

Dan Hitchingham is moving his portable saw mill from this vicinity to Monroe county.

Mansfield Davenport, of Mooreville, is moving to Ann Arbor, also Will Rowe, of Ypsilanti.

Mrs. Cross had a surgical operation performed by Dr. Martin Hueston at Ypsilanti hospital last week Monday.

There was quite a little sensation in Mooreville last Friday when it became known their popular principal C.H. Robinson had tendered his resignation having received his commission from Washington, D.C., to accompany Prof. C.C. Georgson, assistant secretary of agriculture, to Sitka, to assist in the Alaska investigation. The two gentlemen are graduates of the M.A.C., the former in '95, the latter in '78. Prof Georgson who is in Washington, D.C. and C.H. Robison, of Milan, accompanied by their families will start soon after the first of March. They will stop in Seattle for a while and purchase an outfit.

Chelsea

George T. English is on business in Coldwater this week.

Stetsons Uncle Tom's Cabin show Monday night, had a crowded house.

L.D. Lawranson, of Lansing has moved here and works for C. Stenbach.

R.A. Snyder has loaded and shipped 30 car loads of onions and has 14 more yet to ship.

Several from this vicinity have been attending the round up State Farmers Institute at Pontiac this week.

The Methodist ladies are practicing and will have the "Temple of Fame" before the people by the middle of March.

C. Spirnagle has bought Fred Kantlehner's store building on S. Main st., and will add to it and move his business there.

The Aeolian Jubilee Singers had a good house at the town hall last Friday night but did not quite measure up to the expectations of those who got them here.

Business is starting up early here and we are sure of a good spring trade in every line of business. Everybody is more hopeful than they have been for many years.

The work of tearing down the old Methodist church progresses slowly. They will be fortunate if they get as good work and as good architecture in the new church as were in the old one.

Wheat is killed in the low spots and the high spots but if the balance comes out alive and well in April the crop damage will not be serious enough to effect prices much on the balance of wheat on hand. 

The charter election is close at hand and very little has been said or done about it yet. It must be that there are not as many axes to be ground this spring as usual. Well, enough have been ground in recent years at the expense of the dear people to give them a rest for a while.

The market is firm and tending upward. Wheat brings 70 cents; rye, 58 cents; oats, 30 cents, beans, $1; clover seed, $3, dressed hogs, $5; chicket, 6 cents; eggs, 18 cents; butter, 13 cents; potatoes 30 cents; onions, 40 cents. Receipts of produce are now liberal and likely to be free all the month of March.

John Corey was killed by getting run over by a freight train in the west part of this village about 3 o'clock last Monday morning. He was stealing a ride from Jackson to this place on a car loaded with lumber and is supposed to have accidentally fallen between the cars when getting off. He was 21 years old and a hard working boy who by keeping bad company had contracted the bad habit which led to his death. It ought to be a warning to many other young men in this village who are traveling the same dangerous road.