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County And Vicinity

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
April
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Yisilaiiti's cricket club hal leorgniiized for the slimmer. Dr. Shèldun hap removed froni Mancheítcrtn Iliilxl,.!.'. Alex M. Streetor. of Chelsea, died April 10, aged 62 years. Dexter 9 reported to liave u button factory on a sinull Male. Dexter folks are preserving splinters of the olil school house ns relies. B. West and Miss Mattie M. Selléis, ol'Lyndon, married April 6tli. Chas. Throop and Miss Mary Duboi?, Imtli of Milan, niarriert April lÖtb. Q. D. Kies of Bridgewater, thinks of ereeting a fruit evaporator on lils farm. The prospect for au averaze emp of apples iu this county Is placed at 90 per cent. Witli two railroads Whitmore Lake expects to botini as a suminer resort. Hope it will. Herbert Südgwick of Lima, ar.d Mi-s Minnle Brown, of Rome, N Y., weie marneil recently. O. A. Vaughnn, of Webster, and Miss Mattie WaWlron, of Jackson, were married April 6th. Joseph Dennison is the new landlord of Babcock's lintel. Milán, II. M. Dexter retiling therefroni. Win. Curlett, one of Dexter's business men, was married April lStb to Miss Lzzie Dirrow, of Flint. Several pilotos of the old school building at Dexter were taken during the process of tcaring down. Editor Allison of the Chelsea Echo, and his wife recently celebra teil the IStb ai.niversnry of their marriage. Mis. J. P. Wood and sou Frank, of Chelsea, have gone to Kansas, and the west, on a pleasure and health trip. The annual meeting of the Jackson Congregational conference is being held with the Chelsea chuich, commencing 3-esterday. ltev. H rum Elmer, pastor of the Oheliea Congregatlonal church from 1852 to 1859, uiedat VVinona, Minn., March .'Oth, last. Mrs. Henry Stebbins has bonght the Stebbins house, at Dexter, and Mr. Benuett has purchased the Western hotel of the same place. The woodman's ax hasdowned anothor old land mark - the old apple tree beslde the grade on River streef, between the bridge and hill. - Mllan Leader. Piety hlll bas been the center of attraction during the past week, and nnny are the sight-seers vvho gazed at the place vvhere the old school house once - üexter Leader. From the appearnnce of things in general and sonie branches of business in particular we are led to predict a building boom iu this vicinity this coming suinnier. - Dexter Leader. The man who fails to subscribe for hll home paper is neglecting au Inttltutlon which is doing more than any other toadvanee his interests and build up his property.- Dexter Leader. Milan Gild Fellows have accepted an invitation to celébrate the 08th anniversary of the order in the United States at Toledo, where a new üdd Fellows' temple will also be dedicated. - Leader. A handsome little steamer will ply on the waters of Wolf and adjacont lakes the coming summer, osvned by Hillsdnle paities. lts dimensión are 48x12. lts doek will be Akin's landing. - Chelsea Hervid. Wliat han April fooi? An April fooi isa man wlio takes off his winter j olothing In April, andar Uta Inapresilon that that golden scason is about to burst on us, becaiifc we have had two or three warm days. - Chelsea Echo. Hon. E. D. Kinney seemsto be the coming jurist of this judicial circuit. He is said to have made the best " run " ever made in the state. - Chelsea Herald. Very trne as to the run, hut if Bro. Holmes does not leave off the "y" on Mr. Kime'8 name, he will be brought before the uew judge forcuntempt. Sidney T. Holmes, formeilv of Ann Arbor bas invented and patented an apparatus by which the exuausl steam of a ' steam englnecan be perfectly purified and j condeilíed into pure water, suitable for drinking or any othcr use. Thli will be of gieat utility on ocean Iteámert, supplying an abundaiice of liesli, pure water. - Chelsea Herald. Vaten tl ne Bros., of Webster, are the owners of three ShropslilN lambs that, on April lst, weighed as follows : One, a single lainb, weighed 3")3 pounds at 4 dayHokl; the other two, a pair of twins lrom a registeml ewe, weigbed 30 pounds each when 21 days old. They have otuers that are equally as good for thelr age. - Dexter Leader. A correspondent of the state department does up the wheat erop for this county as followi, in the April erop report: "Wheat and dover have sutl'ered very inuch during February and March, by freezing mul thawing. Thegrouml Uu been bare most of the time during March, still there is a larga amount of wheat alive. Caiiuot report on apples and peaches. Wheat and dover are budly heaved. Warm min will restore them greatly. The dry weither killed all clover sewled last year. The clover seeding of 1880 was almoat a total fiilure on account of the summer droulh. Hus not thuwed enougli to teil yet how badly wheat is killeil. Wheat uceds rain in my section of the town. If we have warm rain next raonth will have fair wheat erop. All wheat that had a good top last fall looks well. Do not think any wheat will be plowed up. Smne pleces are dunagad by insects."