County Items

Milán folks expect to be rollinjr roum the rink by Dec. lst. Tlie hiah school has i fine reet orgaii, saj-s the Leider. Dec. 5th there is to be a grand mago oer ade hop at the rink. Mis Gilbert Alien, of Saline, is visiting her sou Lewla, at South Lyon. Union thanksgiving services in Chelsea tomorrow, at the Baptist ekurch. Dr. Hoag, of Chelsea, has removed to I inckney, to practtoe his profession. 6eo. Mirshall and Miss Hattie Whitakcr, of Lyndon. married Nov. 18th. Thanksgiving services are to be held in the il iptist cliurch, Dexter, to-morrow. I. M. Whitaker, of Lima, is erecting a new barn acioas the road trom hishou.se. Patrick Cowan, of Superior, died on the 19th inst.. olblood poisoning, aged 76 years. In 1872 Sylvan and vicinity had a flnnrisliing Farmers' Club, according to the Herald. Frank Judson, of Chelsea, shipped a (louble-deek car load of sheep and swine last week. The Enjrlish literature class of tlie hi-li school are making a special study ot Shakespeare. Anumberof frlcnds made the 75thbirtli (lay ot Mrs. A Phillips, ol Milán, a happy one tor her. During October Washtenaw county farmers marketed 53.02Ü bushels of wheat. JNot a very big record. The winter term in school district, No. 4. liaron, eommenced Nov. 17th, with Miss Cora Falkner, teacher. Wm. Emmert, of the Chelsea Herald, and J. A. Palmer, have been appointed appraisers in the estáte of Jonas Freer. Louis A. Saunders. of Ypsilanti, tand Miss Sar.:h Bul!, tlanghter of Hop. Wm. Ball of Hamburg, were married receutly. Mr. Allen, the young Dexter gentleman who accldentiilly shot hiin-clf sonic time ago, hile dock liuuting, has nearly rei coveret'. The wooden wedding of Mr. and Mrs J. K. Divine, of Web-ter, was celebrated ni a very enjoyable way on Tuesday ot last week. It takes 300 loaves of bread, and 3,3.")0 pieces of variotis otlier kind of baker's product to ruu Milan one week. Wha't awful eaters ! The North Lake lyceum is ofticered as fUn,.o . p. ..juii, n. o. ïriM , .:... pres., H. Hadley; sec'y, Mrs. P.W. Watts; treasurer, V. H. Glenn. An Edison incandcsccnt light plant is heing put in by Duebcl Bros. at Ypsilai'ti. vvho besides lighting their owu mili will supply seyeral business houses. Miss Mabel Beal, of Dexter village, gradúate of the Ann Arbor schools, commenced teaching in the select schoot at North Lake, Monday of last week. Rice, Coon & Co. are putting into Whaley's mili machinery for manufacturing broom hand les. Tlie lirst load of bolts was deli veredón Monday. - Milau Leader. Frederick Brackbill, of Chelsea, died very suddenly Monday, Nov. 17thof neuralgia of the beart, while attendiug to business. He was 78 j'ears old and greatly respected. The wife of Benj. Covert, a farmer living near Ypsilanti, committed suieide Satlirday last, by taking a dose of " Rough on Rats." She was subject to insanity, and had been at Pontiac once. Miss Sarah Arnold, sister of the late Joseph Arnold, of Dexter, died at her home near that place recenlly, iged 92 years. Miss Arnold was one of the oldest residents, and greatly respected. The condition of live stock in this county Nov. lst, as compared with Nov. lst, '83, in horses is 101 per cent., cuttle 101 per cent., sheep 100 per cent., and swine 101 per cent. Political mules - all kicked out. "Do you see that big gobbler cutting across tlie tields for the woodsj? " " Yes; wheie is lie going?" "That's just where he's going, to the woods: and he won't be back until after Thanksgiving, either." - Milan Leader. E. W. Wallace lias determined to huild a brick blook on the vacant foundation on theeast side of south Ann Arbor street. He will proliably put in four store rooms, and will erect the building early in the spring. - Saliue Observer. A larf-e 50-inch doublé cone reflector, containiiig 14 lamps, arrived yesterday trom New York for t e new Biptisl eliurch, the eost of which is $R5. It wks purchiised by the Young Peoples' society of that church. - Milan Leader. Probablv the largestyieldof oloverseed to be found in tlus county is on the farm of E. A. Nordnian. From twelve acres lie threshecl sixty bushels.and in all hethreshid 100 bushels. Burnett Steinbach did the threshing. - Chelsea Herald. As a rule Thanksgiving sermona are nnmeicifully long This tact has keptagreal many people away from church A j'ear's thouglits and ideas are piled into one ef tffort. Boil down, ent off the pretaces and expletives and lung drawu conelusions Give the solid maat. - Ypsilanti Commercial. The machinery and tixtures of the old Worden whipsocket factory at Ypsilanti, as taken to Detroit, Saturday, by U. S Marshal Mattiiews. This was done on an necutioD trom the U. S. court in favorof Anson Seai les of Nev Jersey, on a patent riglit intringemet. The Chelsea Herald says the marshal of that Ioh'h made twelve complaints, last week of persons who were drunk and disorderly. This prohablj' cmnes of having so many prohibitionists in that comnninity, thêre having been (iO votes polled Now we have only 19 in this vicinity, and have not seen a drunken man since elee tion, nor heard of a coinplaint being made. Chelsea is a bad town anyway. - Dexter Leader. Mrs. Dr. F. K. O ren of this city, who while a resident at the Rose Bud Aiency, Dakota, beeame acquainted with the tvroDga of Uie Indiana, is an intiuential leader iu endeavoring to secure a reformation. Nov. líth she addressed a large meeting at Pittsburg, a branch of the Xatinnal Indian Association.givingadditional history of the society, and its endeavors during the last five years -Ypsilanti Commercial. Water is musical, we presume, when