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Potntoes only 30 cents per bushei at Milan. Saline's two brass bands have consoi:daled. Milán high school graduatlng exercises .liini' llith. The billiard room over Durand's store, in Cliclrea, la non est Walter H. T) mcer's now house In Lima is bfing r.ipidly encloged. The Manchester tcaclicrg have all been rctained for the next year. C. H Ki-nipf, of' Clielsea, is taking a biiMneus tour turoujih Texas. Th old Reywalt house at the M.JC. depot, Dexte.r, is tu be re-opened wmn, Perry Palmer and Mixs Anna E. Steven, ot' Lima, were m irried recently. Fourth of July celebratlons are already being talked Ui i_v ueiguuoriux lowns. John Davls of Saline, died recently, Hjjed 62, and was btirled in Lodi cemetery. Au open oiftern carne nenr liein.r the grave of Henry Luick's little child of Lima. Sinniii Winglow of Lima, and Miss Olive Tallman, ol Pitutield, rnamed on the I3th iu bt. Tlie farm houw of Jacob 8lreeter, of Lima, was burned receutly, but how the i.re originated waa a myetery. A meeting of Di-xier people was held Tmsday evi'iiing, and .macnalltl made to properly ob.-ei ve Decoralion Day. The xoldiers' graves n the Dexter cem etery will be decorated by (Jiirpenler post O. A. R., Clielsea, n Decoration l)ay. And now, notwithatanding the Japanie protest the Baptist pe pie f Dexler r. [... I.. ffi : u IU) u.„ uim1.1k w. ,lohn Fohey, of Northfield, lias provij ed fir a mHiiiinolh potato hug receptiiwi Uiis year by planting 12 acres of the tube ra. And now it Is nM Ihat the nose of Fiank Jone of Saline is out of joint, an'l ihat John (tillen tobe the new postín. mier. The Whitmore Lake base ball club is inikinjc great preparations to knock the Mills off of the Duck Legs. - Suuth Lyou Exceliior. Koe, Coon & Co., now eniploy eight liamls, hihJ are eUUllig bolts at the mie ot' l'rcim filtren to echteen curds per day. - Miihii Leader. Cnelea is a frreat place. Last Saturday they hada "ham" race al tbeir link. Cooked or rw! - Dexter Leader. Yes. Wliite or black f Manchester has the material forasmashii. ) line bise liall club, but hasn't the round on which to prictice. Hire a lar in, Uro. Blosser, hire a farm. Rev. P. Whitmore, of Mt. Ignace, has heen vMtlltk liis old parishioueri1 in Saline, in belialf of his new ctaQTch society, which hag nut yet got upou a lirni financia 1 tiasiH. Deputv Sheriff Stebbins and L. C. Rndinaii took H. 11 Newell to the PontiaC ÍUsane a-yluui on Monday, Judjre Hariiuian li.-iviiir. alter an examiiiaiiin, adjuded Mr. Newell to be int-aue. - Dexter Leader. Mr. E. A. Helber returned last Saturday, trom Illinois, where he has been for several week, arranging his large stoi-k f.rm Mr. Helberundoubtedly haa bonanza in liis landed pu reliase in the Prairie State. - Saline Observer. It is es! i mnteil that the tax on dogs wit hin the corporale limita of Milán villaje would niake a stack of gilver dollars that would rival the heihth of our tul lest -temple - and tliia isn't much of a place for doj;s eltber. - Milan Leader. Michigan can't be beat. There is a vil lnn Hot a hundred miles from here, cre'ited with25 wlilowa.13 wid'iwers, 13 ;:ra.- widowa and 7 yriss widowers. Fatal im itrlinnny - cxpecially on tho men' iide - Dexler Leader. Wüo'd a' thoughl itof Uexter? We learn that there are about 60 goldiers in thirt vicinily and it is linjtular that thev do not orjfanize a post of the G. A. R. liere. All tlie neighboring towns liave po.-tn, and Manchester should not be eounted backward in the matter - Manchester Kntei pri.-e. Dr. Henry A Reynolds, the renowned temperanceleitiner, isexpecled to aililress ihe people of Saline and icinily, at Union Hall, In this villaje, on Friday, Salunlny ind Sunday, 29, 30, and 31st inst. ThlV will be an opporlunity not often enjoyed iiy our people and il is lo b lioped that they will heartily embrace it. - Haliue Ob.-ei ver. David Rose, of Sharon, brought a twoheaded lamb to town a few daya ago for Ed. Klef, the taxiilrrmiat, to mounl. He tound the lamb deal in the field. It was about one day old. Viewed from one side the singular freak of nature xeeined a perfect himb, but from a front view the second heiid which was nearly perfect, appeared,