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Day
23
Month
February
Year
1883
Copyright
Public Domain
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Seventy-three dollars was raised last Sunday evening, in the Methodist church, to pay incidental expenses. Most of the business houses and several saloons closed a number of eveningg during tire past week, to give the employees a chance to attend the protracted meetings - a connnendable act! The pastor of the M. E. cliurch, we learn, received both a basket of applesand a basket of Florida oranges, kst week, trom two different parties. Thunks due and given for such remembrances. DBXTKK. Krom the Leader. This week Harry Phelps sold for Albert Phelps a fine caniage liorse, to a gentle man in Coldwater, for $300. It is becoming fashionable for young ladies of the Dexter High School tosmoke cigars. So we are informed. Whatncxt? The enow and ernst on the roof of W. W. Tozer'8 red barn, erushed it In. Fortunately there was nothing but hay in the barn. MANCHESTER. From Uw Enterprue. Millers complain of a scarcity of water in the river and have to grind when they get enough. Win. Dieterle bas been buyin? corn husks to be used in making husk mattresses. He sold them to the Keek furnitnre company of Anti Arbor. It is said that it is the opinión of many sportsmen that the ice crust will be the means of exterminatinr much small game that cannot dig throngh to get food. SALINE. From the Obterver. The examinatlon of Ashley Wood on the charge of forgery was held at Justice Webb's office on Monday, and such prepondering evidence was found arainsthim tbat he was bound over to'the March term of the circuit court, with bonds fixed at $300, which were secured by Dr. Hall and the youth's father. John Melich, who hai been lying in jail at Ann Arbor for some three m'onths past, waiting for trial during the last circuit for tapping the till of one of our meat markets, was found notto be under the jurMiction of that court, and was accordingly brought back here Monday, released, taken on a new charge and sentenced to the connty jail for five days. The error in binding him over to the circuit court was no fault or mistake of Justice Webb's. TPSILANTI. From the Commercial. Mr. Geo. Moorman has purchased the Follett House at the remarkably low figures of $3,500. Mr. Moorman informs us that he has not decided what he will do with it. He bought it as a speculation and it is for sale. We were in hopes that it would be headquarters for the valuble mineral well. Two of the societie8 will expend thelr time and talent discussing very weighty matters at this week's lyceum. The Atheneum, That the present system of seating is injurious to the student, and the Adelphic, That the senior boys lacked sand in allowing the senior glrls to go to Ann Arbor unattended. From the Ypiilantlan. F. 8. Finley has purchased the residence of Cornelius Cornwell on Huron street, and will occupy it immediately. Al. Stuek has gecured the contract for building Mrs. Col. Lee's new residence tO be erected at the corner of Pearl and Adam streets. The house is to be an elegant one, and will cost about $3,300. We congratúlate Stuck and Mra. Lee, the one lor securing the work and the otlier for her good fortune in bcing able to eutrust it to such a conipent mechanic.