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Chelsea is extreinely henlthy. Dexter school commences Sept. 7th. Counjy fair at Ann Arbor Sent. 20 to Oct. 2d. At Chelsea white wheat brings 77 and red 80 cents per bushul. Tlie Ypsilantl fair has its dates announced as from Sept. 20 to 25. The Sabbath sclionls of Dexter picnlc-ed at Noith Lake Wednesday last. The Chelsea creainery sliipped 4,700 Uwi of butler to New York laat week. The corn erop ig trying to dodge tlio frosts- so to rtlfeld its ears, so to speak. Trof. Waller and bride arri veil home at Dexter, recently, and are liviug iu the Kearns house. The school at Delhi Mills wil] be tausrht by Misa Euiily Palmer vice Miss Dora Alley, resigned. Word Bros. of Chelsea, have gold 10() bushels and sliipped 300 bushels of whortleberrles this year. Mr. Frank McNamaraJwas saved from robbery by the violent fluttering of hls parrot, recently, at Chelsea. Burglars didn't get into John VanLett's house, in Chelsea, recently, bt-cause they were scared away, says the Echo. Chas. Warner, of Dexter, is building a hamlsome (1 welling house on Main st., west of the rnilroad, to cost about $3,000 Orrin Thatcher started last Wednesday on a trip to California and otlier pointsin hopes to recruit his health.- Chelsea Echo. Oi. tlic hm .f _.. A.. DuiHt-lctf, Jollll Tuffs threshed from four acres 219 bnshels of barley, lacking only a fraction of 63 bushels per acre.- Dexter Leader. John R, Claik, the temperance evangelist, has bought a lot at Cavanaugh Lake, and will builil a cottage thereon for his smnmrr vaeations. Cavanaugh is gettlng to be one of llie famous resorts. "Eligible bachelors," don't marry the girls they wait for souie distance from lióme, for a rille, or walk, and then drop, r k-ave tliem some distanc: from the house wben they return. Uiils-, don'tyou forget that.- Ypsi. Seutinel. Iu the trove of R. C. (Jilcnn, North Lake, there was a dove picnic this week. consistinjtof youngladipsfroin Dexter. Asyoung ladles are apt to have joyful times when in each others society, we can imagine how quickly the time passed.- Echo Corresioudence. The Salvation army is consideiinjr the question of making an attiick on tlie sinners of Saline and the Observer man thinks they wlll strike tbc hardest lot of sinners in Michigan. " If they can make a success in Manchester and Saline, they would gain an easy vlctory in Chelsea." - Chelsea Echo. The following named teachers will attend to the educational interests in the Dexter public schools for the school year of 1885-6 : O. L. Waller, principal; Loule ToMr, preceptress ; Jennie Gordon.Anna Williams, grammar; Josie M. Costello, Mertie Baiid, primary; Ella Presley, wan! school.- Dexter Leader. The schools at Chelsea comruence Sept. 7th. For the accommodatiou of those desiring to teach there will be orgunized a Teacher's Class, to continue eight weeks, and if the attendanca will warrant it, a Teachers' Association.will be organized, liaviug for its pnrpose mutual improvemeut in all that pertains to school teaching. In au article upon Improreraents the Dexter Leader remarka : " Wo beliuv that insideofone year a manufactory will he in operation in our mldstthat will give employment to a large number of persons; and if so, does it not look reasonable that the Toledo & Ann Arbor road will sooner or later see it to be fpr their interest to build a braiich road from Howell, vla Piuckney, Dover, Birkett's, Dexter, and go on to Ann Arbor ? Let at all work for it by all means, and hope for the prosperity to attend our efforts. There is one thina sure, if we don't make a start we hall not do anythinjf for our conimunity." THE NORMAL TRINClrAL. The State Board of Education have not yet decided upon a successor to Mr. Willits as Principal of the Normal. The f rienda of that institution, however will be pleased to learn that Prof. Daniel Putnam has been engaed as acting principal until such time as a permanent appointment may be made. No better ïecommendaüim of Prof. Putnam to this Important position coukl possibly be glven thau is coutained in the following parapraph, taken from the report of the State Board of Education for the year 1888 : "The duties of the chief executive of a large school underordinarycircumstances are, from the nature of the case, onerous aml perplexing, but when they are assumed temporarily and the work done must have refcrence to a miccessor, their responsibility and delieacy are correspomlii'gly increased. No far reaching poliey can be inaugurated, fidelity to the general interests manlfested In attcntlon to details, is all that eau bc wisely aimeil at. It is scant justice to Prof. Putuain to UJ ttiat the work entiusted to him was )erformed most efflciently and to the entire .atlsfactlou of the State Board of Education, the Normal faculty aud the students. Onder hll adminlstration the work of the school becanie more and more systematic, the interest of the students steadily increased, and the attendance was over twenty per cent. larcer tlian that of the prevhnis year." The Normal was under chante ot Prof. Putnam from August 1!), 1SS2, to June 30, 1883, and the. above paragraph from the report of the state board refers to his service during that time. - Ypilantian. It is scientitiCiUly cstimntod that if all the "Champion " roller skaters In America 8honld stand up in a row there would not be neonle enouch left to count tliem.