At Whitmore Lake

AT WHITMORE LAKE

Ann Arbor's Happy Summer Resort.

THE HOTELS ARE FULL,

And Merriment Rules the Day.

A Big Grist of Correspondence from the Lake Containing Much News of the Resorters--Some Big Fish Caught.

Bert York and wife have gone to Fowlerville to visit friends for a few days.

The Uncle Nelson Stevens cottage is about completed and is one of the finest at the lake.

Mr. Wheeler's electric launch made her first trip of the season Sunday which was a great success.

From the talk of resorters there will surely be several new cottages built here before another season.

Miss Lucilla Isabella, of Jackson, has been visiting her aunt Mrs. Rauschenberger for the past month and returns home Wednesday.

Mrs. Chas. Wellman and daughter, of Howell, and Theo. M. Tethers, of Chicago, are the guests of Mrs. Barker, ostensibly visiting Chas. Wellman.

The first telephone message oer the New State Telephone line was received last night by George Rauschenberger who has the office in his residence and in a few days a big blow out will be arranged and a big time anticipated.

Last night as Capt. Manly sat on his dock fishing for bullheads and dreaming, J. R. Bach quietly exploded a huge fireworks cannon which aroused the captain long enough to say it never touched me and he went on fishing.

The very latest reports have it that Sid Millard's balloon ascension was not altogether for the entertainment of the Lake house guests but was quietly loaded with his choicest emmisaries looking for favorable delegates for the fall election of 1900 when we will elect a clerk for Washtenaw county.

Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Hillman and little girl took their carriage and went after their laundry, and while all were out of the carriage the horse took fright at something and ran away, coming pell mell down Main St, and was captured by a student of the U. of M., who made a daring jump for the horse's head and grabbed the lines, stopping him without any damage, although the horse ran half a mile.

Last night the irrepressible Sid Millard gave the Lake house guests a treat to a fine display of fireworks, red light was used in great profusion and sky rockets were hurled sky high and the climax was reached by the ascension of a lighted balloon which reached an altitude so high that it looked like a twinkling star and then disappeared. This was witnessed by 80 of the Lake house guests and throngs of our citizens who sent forth a tremendous three cheers for Sid Millard for his appreciated entertainment. This was the occasion of starting the inimitable Jim Bach who hustled around and found some fire works and he set them off with a whoop at the Clifton house amidst the wildest cheering. The Clifton house guests then adjourned to the ball room and indulged in the merry waltz and cakewalk. This awoke the alert Hangsterfer on the east shore who replied by sending up sky rockets and blue lights.

Whitmore Lake, July 23--(Special to Daily Argus)--P. McDonald who has been finance keeper for the Maccabee lodge here for the past six years, reports this lodge in a very flourishing condition and says a great many members have gone from here to Port Huron on the Maccabee picnic and to see the great temple being erected there. He says Jackson sold 500 tickets on an excursion Thursday for Port Huron.

E.E. Gregory, of Howell, the manager of the condensed milk factory of Howell, was the guest of J.A. Robison today looking over the new cheese factory which he pronounces perfect.

Fred Brown, of Ann Arbor, Chris Stein, of Scio, and George Rauschenberger, of Whitmore Lake, caught on Thursday 30 black bass in four hours, some of the bass weighing 4 1/4 pounds, and it was the finest string of bass taken from Whitmore Lake this season.

Jas. A Robbins & Son, who own the cheese factory, are the busiest men in town from 5 o'clock in the morning until 10 p.m. dealing out ice cream and creamery butter both of which commodities are of excellent quality so the consumers say. Since the starting up of this factory every farmer within a radius of seven miles have stopped making butter and bring their whole milk product to this factory and he pays the farmers always 10 cents per hundred more than they pay any where else.