Saline

Saline.

Eugene Helber was here on Saturday.

H. T. Morton, of Ann Arbor, passed through here Saturday morning on his way from Adrian.

Under Sheriff M. Gillen, of Adrian passed through town on Sunday.

Miss Colby, of the high school staff is visiting friends in Utica.

Miss Powers, of G. C. Townsend Millinery department, left for Port Huron on Monday.

John Barnard, lately employed at the L. S. depot, has been appointed conductor on the Ypsilanti & Saline branch of the D., Y. & A. A. Ry.

D. A. Bennett, who has been sick with neuralgia of the stomach, is able to be out again.

John Mitchell, now of Chicago, is spending a few days with relatives and friends here.

H. Humphrey, of Detroit, spent the Fourth with Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Townsend.

Miss May Davis, of Reading, is visiting friends in the village.

Miss Hattie Porter has returned to Detroit after a short visit with her uncle.

Sometime during the night of the Fourth Clinton Clark's residence caught fire and was burned to the ground. It is supposed the fire was caused by firecrackers. The loss is complete. The house was insured for $1,200; contents, $500, of which two thirds will be paid by the Mutual Co.

Miss Daisy Humphrey, of Detroit, is spending a week with her mother.

On Monday last S. H. Maher sold out and gave possession of his hardware store to John McKinnon and Ex-Marshal Jerry. Mr. Maher who has been in failing health will rest up for a time. It is safe to say the new firm will get their share of the trade.

George Lindsley, mayor of Clinton, was in town on business Wednesday.

Th e most brilliant pyrotechnical display in the history of the village was enjoyed by the citizens on Monday night. A crowd of men and boys armed with Roman candles lined up on each side of Main st. and a pitched battle followed. To an outsider the spectacle was most dazzling, and worth going miles to see in addition to a liberal postal fee. That the sport was also dangerous, "Bill" Winslow, of Ann Arbor bears witness, having caught one of the embryonic meteors full in the optic. That his eye was not knocked out is miraculous. Most of the local dealers in these lines have no stock to carry over.

Stela Fitzgerald has purchased the street sprinkling outfit form Fred Binder and will hereafter dispense the aquerous on our streets.

There were not people enough left in Saline on the Fourth to ring the fire bell. The doctors in Ypsilanti did a land office business.

Mrs. Michael Zahn was buried on Monday. The maiden name of deceased was Doelker and she was a native of Germany. She retired apparently in good health and was found dead in bed.

The demise of Edwin W. Ford occurred Sunday, July 2. He was born at Riga, Monroe county, N. Y., in 1828. When six years of age his father and the rest of the family removed to Michigan and settled in York township four miles southeast of Saline. He shared with the rest of the family the toil and privations of pioneer life. Of a family of 11 but four survive, Mrs. Sylva Hobbs, of Kalamazoo; Mrs. Mranda Munson, of Ludington; Mrs. Alvira Davis, of Lansing, and J. Henry Ford, of Milan. Mr. Ford was first married to Ellen P. Fuller of which union Flaviers D., is the only survivor. Mrs. Harriet Bassett, of Detroit, is the daughter of the second marriage. Deceased in his life time was a carpenter and worked at the trade until recent years. He built the Moorevile M. E. church in 1856, the Saline M. E. church in 1857, and the Dixboro M. E. church in 1857. He was buried by the F. & A. M., No. 133, of which lodge he had been a member for over 30 years. Mr Ford was an honest and conscientious man and leaves his family a good name.