County And Vicinity

('lwlsea villrtgi' election one week from Monday. The Plcket wants the band reorganized at that place. W. J. Knapp paid $1,500 for a lot on Main at , Chelsea, a few days since. The Chelsea village board of registration meet next Saturday, from 8 a. in. to 4 p. in. Rev. D. R. Shire's donallou, at Sliaron Center aiuounted to $125 all tolil. Pretty lood. John K. Gates and iamily of Chelsea, have returned from their vislt to N'ew Jersey. Mrs. Geo. Cook has returued to her Kmisas hoint', after an extended vislt amoiig Sharon relatives. Jacob Kummel, lor 20 years in the M nii'lir-tiM' milis, has rented the flouring milis at Waterloo and opened up business. Milo Baldwin ha? u Shropshlre Down ewe, that has brought liim live linnbs within the last ton and a half months. - Chelsea Herald. Lorenzo Sawyer has returned to his old home and farm, havingemployed his nephew, Andrew Siiwyer and wlle to work the farm and keep the house. - Chelsea Her ald. Mrs. F. Everett and daughter returned home from Toledo, lat Friday. They left Mrs. E. 's brother, Stephen Fairchild, feeling much better. - Sharon cor. Chelsea Herald. It is expected that Col. Chas. D. Long, the soldiers' candidate for Judge of the Supreme Conrt, wlll be present and address the boys at the camp lire to-day. - So. Lyon Picket. The Ypsilantian claims that J. Willard Babbitt has a majority of the judicial delejrates from tliis county. Aecording to claims already registered there must be a good many majorities in that delegation. We know of three others who have a majority in that coDvention. The Stockbridge Sun, a red hot prohibition paper, has the following in reference to the amendment campaign : "A nersonal canvass of every township of Michigan will be made before the next fifteen days pass, and eve ry voter's position upon the question of the amendment ascertained." Mrs. Joseph Iloward, of tliis villnge says 8he has baked since Jan 1, 188(5, to Jan. 1, 18N7, for an average family of six the following: Cookles 761 ; pies 1005; cakes 76; doagbnuU 1.ÏG8; bread 346 loaves; biscuits 1422; pancackes 2324. She says she has mixed dough until she can taste it. - Manchester Enterprise. The editor of the Stockbridge Sun gives himself away when he calis the Rev. E. B. Suttou eloquent. Rev. Mr Sutton is a hustler, however, and one of the most persistent workcrs in Michigan. But he doesn't work for love. He draws his salary regularly, and prohibition agitation with hiin is bread and butter. He ought to be eloquent, hadn't lie ? The masonic grand lecturer visitor of Michigan will hold a school of instruction at Tecumseh, on Saturday, Maroh 12th, to which the offlcers of Manchester Lodge have been notified to be in attendance and itls likely that a goodly number of masons will go down, especlally in the cvening as there is to be work in the 3rd dezree and the Tecumseh boys send word that thelr latch-string hangs out. - Manchester Enterprise. A rumor, which has been quite generally circulated, to the effect that Chicago partios were negotiating for the purchase of the Hawkins House, the Opera House, and the livtry stable property, on the corner of Congress and Adamsstreets and would conrert these propertles into a large sanitariutn, has evidently no foundation in fact, as the present ownerg of the buildings indlcated have no knowledge of of such negotiations. - Ypsilantian. The council of the Bay State Beneficiary Association organized at Chelsea last Monday night, consisted of 18 charter members, and was worked up by Ambrose Kearncy and Noah G. Butts, of Ann Arbor. lts offlcers are: President- B. Parker. Vlce President- John C. Taylor. I,ocal Secretary- Thos. McKone. Eira. Physlclans - Drs. Shaw and Palmer. Trustees- Geo W. TurnBull, Tlmothy McKone, Alfred Lacey. E. A. Mordmau, (Juarles Kaercher. A GRAND ORANOB MEETIKO. The Lima Grange had a pleasant and profitable meeting last Friday at the M. E. parsonage; long before noon It was evident that the invitation of the Rev. H. Palmer, who, by the way is a llvely grauger, was appreciated, for the house was lilled to overöowing, until as jolly a com panv as one otten sees. After u social visit all hands repaired to dinner - a dinner that would make almost one hanker to be a granger - and tlien after dispatching some business, procecded in open order fonn, to discuss she womau's right questiou. It was a lively discussion labting most of the aftcrnoon. It was ably opened by Mrs. W. Dancor and participated in by Mrs. Bowen, I. Baldwin, Ed. Nordman, 11. Palmer, N. Dancor, 11. Buchanan, most of whom made several speeches. The question, of course, was not settled, nor the merits of the debate passed on. It was hard to teil which was ahead in discusi.ion, but we are sure o( one thing, and that is, no dullncss existe in our grange. Next Friday night the Grange leau ofl" in a public discussion of the ainemlmcnt qur-tion at the town hall in which all whatever may be their views are invlted to particípate. A lively time i expected. Kcmeinber the date March 11.