County And Vicinity

Milán has "struck" as. Fall plowing has commenccd. BurgUra have been at work In Chelsea. Ii niins continue to fall pastursge will be excellent. Dr. Brucker has removed froui South Lyon to Lansing. Wm. G. Gardner, of Ypsi. has been granted a pension. The Methodlsts of Suline ice-creamed $11 worth last week. The old Hogland uilll near North Lake was burned recently. Dr. Iitlainl of Ann Arbor has hung out bil shingle at Ida. Burglars make the average householder at Dexter sleep with one eye open. C. E. Bassett. of Saline, Is to keep books for a Detroit Ilrm heareafter. There are many people who will miss the late Norman A. Phelps of Dexter. A Bay State Beneflciary Aísociation council Is being organized at Manchester. The South Lyon Mineral and Natural Gas Co. liave organized and elected office re. The Manchester cornet band are takiug up a subscription to puy for new uniforms. Qeo. P. Glazier, of Chelsea, has nrrived home f rom an extended trip throughout tlie west. Mrs. Julia Neat of Ypsilanti, aged C2 years, died last Wednesday of rancer of the stornach. Erle V. Colby of Ypsi., and Miss Allie M. Burrell, of Dentons, were BMrrtoü Aug. 17, 1887. L. A. Barnes of Ypsilanti, left between $30,000 and $40,000 llfe Ininr&noe In different companies. The North Lake churcli lias had a $25 present. Would that it had more such elieek-ered friends. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Wilüams of Dexter, are in Alpena, where tlicy will st.iy several weeks. The farmers will bc late in getting their winter wheat sowed. Never mina, it will be a late fall. Miss Kate Surridge who went to Unho from Milan, on a vislt, has ciptured 1G0 acres of land out there. Frank, the son of James P. Wood, of Chelsea, (lied of consumptlon, aged 18 years, on Tuesday, Aug. löth. The North Lnke farmers report wheat averaging live bushels to the acre, accordlug to the Dexter Leader. Carrie Estella the 12 years old daughter of Geo. and Haltie Irwin, of Chelsea died Aug. lOth of typhoid fever. Chelsea's District Fair occurs on the 27th, 28th, 3öth and 30th ol September, aml they prpose tonvike ie a good one. The Saline Baptists had a watermelon social liist nignt. Quite appropriate. The number of meions nimersed was surprising. "Angels anü ministers of graee defend us!" Au Uncle Toin's Cablu Troupe Is dm the roNMl but a short distanoe north of here. - Pinckney Dispatch. Unloose the bloodhounds. The young people of Milan have organizt'd a Young I'eople's Clirlstian Aid So ciety. Meetings at Baptist church every Suiiilay evening. The buckwheat erop is eail to !ook very fair In portions of the county. That's good. We are jtist itchlng for pancakes once more. Dclos A. Townsend, of Snllne, Is highly recommended by his neighbors for the secretaryshlp of the county board of school examinéis. The Bridgewater farmers' picnic Is to take place at Pa line i's grove, next Saturday, and Chas. H. Kichinoud, of Chis city, will deliver the address. The Ypsilanli Light Guard enjoyed a pleasant reception upon renching its 15th oiithday, on the 12th inst. Just walt until sweet sixteen rolla around. It Is said that one of Whltmore Lake's prominent young ladles Is gettlng her volee so under control that she can charin the birds of the air. More natural gas. Attorney Frank Jones, of Saline, is one of the happiest members of the bar in Washtenaw county. 'Cause why? 'Cause 'tis a boy. Aud the tirst born too. Darwin A. Palmer, who died at Mt. Pleasant July 30th, aged 66, carne to Scio townshlp In 1836, where he lived a dozen years or so and removed to Livingston county, üur vlllage marshal has done well durthe dog days. He has enforced the ordinance by shooting a good many dons, and caused every dog owner to miizzte his dog. - Chelsea Herald. Gas was struck at Milan, Saturday, while boring a well on Editor Smith's lot. The gas was lighted and flamed np over four feet. - Saline Obaerver. VVhat are you givin' us? G.is? Prof. Thompson, formerly a teacher In the Dexter schools, and who married Miss lluttie Mnrdock, of that pluce, will be the principal of the EastSuginaw schooU at $1,800 per aiinum the coming year. Crimes and burglariesseem to be growing more common and desperate in city, vifiage and neighborhood. The way to overeóme this U to keep loaded well with legal restrictions, powder and bulldog. John McCuen and F. Walters, of this place, were called over to Ann Arbor Monday to assist contractor Bigga in the corapletlon of eeveral buildings the Arborites are auxious about. - South Lyong Excelsior. Over 1,000 Ibs. of butler bought near Saline for the Detroit market last week. Saline better butter up her neighbors a little. It costs 25 ets. to get a pound of lacteal oleouiargurine in this town - uot overly good at that. The minister preached such a lontr sermon at the church which Wm. Kouae attends in Saline lasi, Bunday night, that his horse got tired of waiting, and when the"thirdly" was reached he ftarted otl' home and let Wm. to "hoof It." Mr. T. Everett Smith, of Ypsilanti, and Wm. Gad, of Bridjjewater, have been stopping with E. I. Arms the past few days buying up fine wool ranis for S;ilt Lake City, Utah. They went from here to Highland. - So. Lyon Picket. V. C. Ayres bas sold his hotel property here to Mr. Nelsou Klce, aud Mr. Hice has sold liis farm to Mr. Ayrea. The exchange will be complete next Monday when each will take possession of his newly ac(uired property. - Milan Leader. We land out subscription bilis this week which, we have good reason to be lieve, will recelve the prompt attention of all in arrears. - South Lyon Excelsior. W'ill the Excelsior please glve the reasons on wliich it founds its belief? Experience? Wm. Turner, living in Dexter township, is 89 years oíd. His wife, who lias shaied lifu's sunshine and ihadowi wkli him für 67 yenrs, is 87 years old. They linve spent the greater part of tlieir m trried lite on thelr farm near Four Milj Lake. - Leader. A great many nre complaining of the high prlce of beef at the butcher shops. Now don't expect a man to keep a c w "J" or 30 years and then sell the beef at the same priee they would that of a spring -: 1 f. The feed is scarce, jou know. - Manchester Enterprise. Ann Arbor papers can't resist the temptation to slap Ypsilanti in the face when they get chance. - Milán Leader. Noustand up and teil the trnth. Do yon renlly think the Ann Arbor papers any more tlian keep even with YpsilaBtl papers n the " slnpping" business. The young idea will be tinglit to shoot in ttie Saline schools this year by the following instructors: Prlnclpal-C. (.. Klodi;ett. Preceptress - Miss Mlunle K. LlePuy, of Jackson. Second Grammar- Miss Ida Webb. First Grammar- Miss Ida Kurrouglis. Seoond Prlmary- Miss Mattie McKlunou. First Prlmary- Mrs. A. U. Lawreuce. At Stockbridge last Sunday evening Chas. White was suddenly taken with a mental aberration that led him out into the night and down to the creek, where he was fouiid after an excited search standing by several citizens with lunterns. - Pinckney Dispatch. What had those. citizens with lanterns done, that he had to stand by them? One victim of the terrible railroad accident near Chatsworth, 111., last week was Frederick D. Weinett, fonnerly a a resident of this village, where he was brought up. His funeral was held Sunday at 4 p. in. He was 50 years old and leaves a wife and four children. A daughter was with Mrs. Weinett in the xmashiip, and although seriously injured, will recover. - Saline Observer. A well authenticated case of the ofllcacy of prayer as a curative of the ills incident to humanity exists in the person of our fellow-townsman, Mr. Warren Reynolds, who suddenly recelved hls hearing while praying at camp-nieeting one Uay last week. For a nuniber of years he lias been quite deaf, and his many friends rejoice with him in the restoration of this faculty which, like all good, we reeognize as coming "from above." - Milan Leader. Oscar Stimpson, a well-to-do farmer of the south part of the township, has a colt that is peculiarly affected. The colt was injured on the head by a poke while out pasturing early in the spring, in such a manner as to bring on paralysis of the Ups, causing them to drop down, and it has been unablc to eat grass or hay since, until recently he got a halter coatrivance that held up the lips. Il is a valuable colt, hut there seems to be no reniedy for the disease. - Saline Observer. Jones, the barber, has a curiosity in the shape of a three-legged, four-footed chlcken. It is six months old aud looks like an ordinary chick with the exception that where the til ought to grow a third leg sprouts out and from this grows a pair of fully developed feet. The bird is apparently healthy and grows rapidly. As a dime museum freak she may prove quite an attraction, but as a flyer she is n. g.,as hersteeringapparatus isdecidedly off its whack.- Sj. Lyon Picket. There are four weather signáis which are dlsplayed on the Michigan Central railroad trains : Fair weather, a white tlag; rain, a blue flag; temperatura, a black swallow-tail flag; cold wave, a white flag with black center. A white, a blue and a black flag indicates fair weather, followed by raiu and cold weather. A white, a black and a biue flag tneans fair weather, rain followed by warmer weather. If no temperature is displayed the mercury is supposed to be sleeping. The indications are furnithed by the state weather service. Mr. Samuel M. Clarke, of New York city, has been spending some days here, revisiting the scènes of his childhood. His grandfather, Agur Clarke, who will be remembered by our older citizens, was one of the original settlers here. He lived on a farm at the south side of the city, and "Clarkeville," in the first ward takes its name from him. His son, Mon8on Clarke, removed to New York city thlrty-six years ago, where he dled after thlrty-one years continuous service as superintendent of the New York postofflee. His son, Samuel M. Clarke, now revisita Ypsilantl for the first time. Francis N. Clarke, another son of Agur Clarke the pioneer, died some years ago in Washington, where he had been in the public service. - Ypsilantian. Two beautiful statues, one of St. Patriek, apostle of Ireland, the other of St. Bonifacc, apostle of Germany, were recelved here last Monday, and placed in the niches intended for them in the high altar of St. Mary'schurch. The altar is now linished aud Is one of the linestin the diocese. The statues were itnported from Paris, and come (rom the celebrated factory of Froc Kobert of that city. It would certainly repay any of our readers to inspeel thrse bi'uutil'ul works of art. St. Mary'schurch underthe wise adininistration of its present rector, is rapidly becoming a beautiful house of God and home of religión. Au extensión of the organ gal'ery is also contemplated by the pastor. We felicítate the people of St. Mary's on the co-operation and appreciation they are showing in the work of theirparish.- Chelsea Herald. It Is now over four months since the work of razing the old school building was commouced, and the walls of the new building are not yet up. The contract calla for the school house to be ready for occupaucy Oetober firat, but it is doubtfnl, at the present rate of projrre?s, whether it will be finished before the lst of December. The contractors seem to be making no efiort whatever to have their work done at the time ppecified. The old building was vacated February Mth, and its destruction was to liave bcgun the following week, but for some reason it was delayed until about April lst, and sincework on tlie new building was commenced delays have occnrred frequently on account of the non-arriv il of material and various causes. The building committee should do their utmost to have the work pushed ahead. When completed, Dexter will have one of the fiuesl school houscs ia the state. -