Whitmore Lake

Wm. Winans is confined to the house by a severe sickness.

Tbp, Misses Kearney, of Ann Arbor, are the guests of Miss Mae Dunlop.

Two hundred couples attended the Clifton house dance on thu night of July 4.

Mrs. John Hess and daughter, of Shepherd, will spend a week visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Todd.

Mrs. Dodge, of Langsburg, and Mrs. Glover, of Kentucky, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Dodge.

We are pleased to note a marked improvement in Prof. Lumbard whose life was dispaired of last week.

Wm. Stevens, of Ann Arbor, has his cottage at the lake nearly completed and will occupy it next week. It is a beauty.

During Prof. Lumbard's illness Jay Pray was chosen by the male quartet to fill his place and it has proved a wise selection.

Chas. A. Pray and John Wesinger went fishing on Whitmore Lake Friday morning and in just three hours caught 27 large black bass.

The Pray Bros., builders, keep 20 carpenters and four masons busy every day in the week in order to complete this seasons contracts.

Mrs. Annie Vankirk, (nee Smith) of St. Paul, Mr. and Mrs. Skeells, of Cleveland, O., and Miss Allys Smith, of Jackson, are guests of Mrs. Maria Stevens.

The New State Telephone Co. have their poles set to Whitmore Lake and in a few days you will be able to hear the "Hello, is that you Ann Arbor, please give me the Argus office."

Last week while working on the Latson barn, Ed. Beckwith fell from one of the girts, cutting a gash in his face and spraining his wrist which laid him up for a week but is out again.

Mrs. D. A. Fray, of Livingston, Mich,, en route to join her husband in California, stopped off at Whitmore Lake for a week to visit Mr. Pray's relatives. Mr. Pray is a graduate of the U. of M. and went to California on account of poor health which we are advised is improving in the balmy California climate.

Last week while the carpenters were cutting the brackets off the roof of Wm. Latson's barn, one of the brackets, an oak timber 24 inches and 16 feet long fell from the roof and struck Mr. Latson on the head, knocking him down but fortunately the force of the falling timber was broken by its striking a race and Mr. Latson got off with a severe scalp wound.

An interview with the farmers in Northfield elicited the following: Chas. Kapp says wheat is about one-fourth of a crop. Gottlieb Smith says hay is of excellent quality, and a fair crop. Fred Zeeb says the prospects are good for an extra yield of beans. E. E. Leland says the corn crop does not look very flattering and they all agree that the prospects for cider is excellent as there will be a good crop of apples.

Wm. Latson, of Webster, accidentally struck Jay G. Pray on the head with an axe while working on the formers new barn, cutting a gash six inches long. Dr. Lemon put six stitches in it and Jay says he is as good as new. This was a very narrow escape for Mr. Pray as Latson was on the outside of the barn and Pray on the inside. When they were cutting an opening for a door Pray stooped down and Latson thought he had gone away and just as he struck, Pray raised up and caught the blow square on the head and the reason that his head was not split open was that Latson was in a cramped place and could only get a short swing with the axe.