The Big Bridge At Dexter

THE BIG BRIDGE AT DEXTER

Dexter, Sept. 9.- The public schools open Monday. All the teachers will be the same as last year excepting Miss Genevieve Cross.

The Webster Farmers club meets at E. N. Ball's in Hamburg, next Saturday.

The new iron bridge over the Huron at this point has a 159 foot span and cost $5,500.

The Dexter cemetery will be enlarged by the addition of two acres to be purchased of E. Jedele.

Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Dram are spending a month in New York and Philadelphia.

Miss Mary Haab goes to Chelsea, where she has leased a store and is pitting in a stock of millinery.

The Dexter cider mill has been opened by John Wagner.

Adam Bohnet has commenced the erection of the town hall in Dexter township.

The Baptist ladies' aid society meets at Mrs. Thomas Quay's next Wednesday. Supper from 5 to 7.

Emanuel Staebler fractured his ribs a few days ago by falling from a hay loft and striking a corn sheller.

The Dexter Leader says: "Another bit of interesting history is told concerning the old barn that is being torn down on Zera Burr's farm, mention of which was made last week. It was there that the first election in this township was held. It was also used at various times for church purposes. Seats were brought in on the ground floor for the elders, while the youngsters listened to the sermon from elevated perches in the loft, or on the beams of braces."