Dexter Heifer Adopts Pigs

DEXTER HEIFER ADOPTS PIGS

Indignation Felt Over an Unfounded Report.

ARE LIVING IN HOPES

Electric Line Between Dexter, Ann Arbor and Jackson Will Be Built

Dexter, Aug. 11.- "The Lansing electric line,'' said Thos. Birkett, "may not be dead, but it is certainly sleeping pretty soundly," and greatly to the regret of the Dexter people, excepting possibly the liveries who are doing a good business transporting passengers to Portage and Bass Lakes. Dexter has some very pretty lakes which would have been opened up to the general public had the Lansing line gone through. The people of Dexter, however, are very anxiously watching the news of the proposed line between Jackson and Ann Arbor, which would open cheap communication with the outer world. While little is known here about the proposed line, the people are living in hopes that it will shortly be built.

Mrs. W. J. Keal is visiting in Hartford, Mich.

H. M. Calking, lately of the Leader staff, intends to start a laundry here.

Alonzo Olsaver and family went to Base Lake yesterday for a two weeks' outing.

Rev. J. J. Staley has resinged and accepted a call from the Congregational church, of Belding, Mich.

Gus Peters, of Scio, has raised and repaired his residence, building an addition to it. He has been working at it nearly all the summer.

Dexter is ready for a boom. Two or three new industries are about ready to start up and if the electric line is built, lively times in Dexter may be looked for.

There is not an empty house in the village, several new ones are being erected and these are already rented. Real estate has risen at least 25 per cent in the past year.

Charles Warner, of this village has an 18 month old heifer, which has adopted three pigs and evinces a motherly interest in them. The pigs deserted their own mother and draw all their nourishment from the udder of the heifer. If the heifer is on one side of a stream of water and the pigs on the other and the pigs begin to squeal, the heifer will rush across the stream to the pigs and appease their hunger. It is an odd adoption and is something that no other village of the county can boast of.