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Day
23
Month
November
Year
1887
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Public Domain
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Manclie6tcr is to have a Sons of Vetcran camp. The Dextcr schools have 18 non-resident popili. They will skate on rollers at Saline tomorrovv night. Prof. Horner is the new teacher at Whitmore Lake. The Arbelter Verein, of Ypsilanti, will ilance tomorrow night. Will Wacker will remove froiu Freeiliuu to Oregon next spring. l nioii Thanksgivlng eervicos at the Presbyterian church, Milan. The South Lyon gas wcll his any quantity of trouble, but no gas as vet. They will trip the llgbt fantastic toe at Milan opera house to morrow night. Chas. Fellows, of Sharon, fed hig tnrkeys up so they averaged 20 lbs. each. The Union Spy will beleagure the Manchester people the rest of the week. Millard Fletcher and Miss Minnie Palmer, of Ypsilanti were married Thursilay. Win. Rane purchased the Close propcity :it Whitmore Lake, at auction, for $740. A. Stnger of Chelsca, is now shipping about 5,000 pounds of dressed poultry daily. üne Manchester chimncy vielded four bushels of suot, whicli sooted thechiuinty sweep. A. C. Reynoldi has lold out hij jioods at Azalia and will go to a smaller town- Chicago. Mrs. Synthia Perry, for CO years a resident uf Ypsilauti, died last week Tuesday. I). C. Walter, of Bridgewater, has added a pure bred Poland-China registered boar to his herd. Tlie yield of corn In this county this year is estimated by the state department at 34 bushels per acre. A Tlmnksgiving entertainment at the Union church, Milán, to-morrow evenlng, proceeds for organ fund. Eliza J. Warner, of York, died Nov. 10, aged 44. Services from the Moore ville M. E. church o:i the lïüi. There is Is some talk of running G. R. Williams, of Milan, for president on the greenback-labor-union-etc. ticket. The per cent. of acreajre of clover aeed harvested this year was 68, and the yield 100, Iu Ibis county, a good showing. Quite a Dumber of the farmers of this county attended the meetings of the National Grange at Lansing last week. The aercage of potatoes this year in Waslitenaw county was 09, while the yield was 30 per cent., almost a failure. Ilon. S. }. Ivcsof Chelsen, bas exrhaiigrd his brick block at Corunna for a tine residence at Owosso. - Chelsea Herald. The animal meeting of the Washtenaw Couuty Bible Society occurred at the M. E. church, Ypsilanti, last Sunday evenlng. It was Mrs. Frank Shefiold who died on the 14th inst. at Dexter, instead of Mr. Shellold, as stated in last week's issue. Mr. and Mis. Milton Peppcr, of Milan, were surprised last week by their friends and reminded of their lOth inarriagc anniversary. Twenty or more Manchester masons went to Adrián last week and metsoine 80 brothers from Clinton, Tecumseh and otl r points. We are glnd Cbnt wc live in a state where a sheriff and hls deputles cannot take l;!1 minutes to butcher a criminal. - Stockbridgc Sun. The warm fall has beca a great help to farmers who were short on lodder, and nearly all were. Live stock have lived out iloors unusually Inte this year. George W. liurnhain, formerly of thia place, is to be manager of the Worcester base ball team next season. - Milan Leader. Burnham Is a great rorcester. The Dexter Leader forcé will celébrate to-morrow and eat turkey by the ton. No items received for publication on thatduy, unless they are served on a platter and stuffed. The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Hall, Ypsilanti, carne In and helped them celébrate the 4."th anniversary of their marriage, leaviiijc a handsoine silver fruit dlsh as a souvenir. The Ypsilanti Llght Guard is to lose its most excellent captain, Wm. Hyzer, be having tendered bis resignation. It Is thought that Lieutenant Meanwell will be promoted to the captalncy. The next meeting of the Southern Washtenaw Farmers' Club will be held at the resldencft of B. G. English, just west of the vlllage, on Tuesday, December 2d, at 10 o'clock a. m. - Enterprise. Lima usually raises about all It needs to eat, but is short on potatoes this year. some are seuding to PMladelphia for sweet potatoes, and others to Ionla for the common Irlsh potatoe. - Chelsea Herald. Four membera of tlic Tecimseh gas company, also some Finlay gentlemen, claiming to have some knowiedge of the gas business, visited the gas well on Raw8on's farm last Sunday.- Manchester Enterprise. And still the Snuth Lyon people - some of them, not all by any means- are mourning over good money put into sllver mines. The Oro Fino was the glittering bauble that they gratped for, and got h-li . The new Toledo & Aun Arbor nnd Detroit, Lansing & Northern crossing, some distance west of the old one, Is nearly completcd. Wc hear it rumored that a station house will be built there.- Howell Rppublican. The boiled egg racket on the Bobeinian oat plan Is coming. People buy these boiled eggs at $2 50 per dozen, and are to recelve trom the agents f 5 cach for all the chicks hatched from them. Here's a snap for you. - Milan Leader. People visiting Manchester for the flrst time in Iwo years, remark on the manv MlbttkntlBl improvements made In Ihe village within that time.- Enterprise. Uut one wouldn't think it by looking over (be equkllsed valuatlon, would they? Hon. C. M. Wood, of Pinckney, deuies tbat all the feathers tlew away with the goose he Ured at, (In the item quoted last week) but states over hls own signature that he "koockcd out feathers enough to nll a iiillow." [Si.e of pillow not meutioned.] The postofllco is to bo moved Into the rear half of the Smith store, and John Costello, whose business bas outgrown the room he now occupies, will occupy the front half of the store. Au arch door cut (through the wall will connect the two stores. - Dexter Leader. Tiíist week we mentioned tliatsome one threw a chunk of mortar through John ECntght't window. A stone was reccntly hurled through one of E. S. Clark's In a similar manner. Suplcion is centered on one person forbotti offences. - Stockbridge Sun. The "gilded youths'1 are still t it, eh? The Nov. erop report gives the weight per bushei this year at 9-t per cent. for tiiis county. The nutuber ot aeres sowed comparecí with last year is 87 per cent., thus denoting soine falling off, as there U8ually is when poor prices prevail. The condition of wheat now on the ground is given at 02 per cent. The young people of town line and vicinity have organized themselves into a "Young People'i League," with Miss Alida Dunsmore, president; Miss Vina Townsend, secretary ; Miss Neva Smith, treasurer. Meetings are to be held at private houses and to consist of music, recitations, etc. - Milan Leader. Mrs. Judge Dexter, aged about 81 years, is supple as a maid of 20 and knows a good cow when she sees it. Last week she carne to John W. Harria' stock farm and after holding a close Inspection of one of his yearllng Jersey heifers paid lilin $76 to deliver the same at her farm i ii Dexter. - Pinckney Dispatch. This is what'g the matter with our tbumb. It came in contact with the razor edged knife on our paper cutter Monday and took the top part of the end off quicker than greased lightning. It didn't h uit the paper cutter. - So. Lyon Picket. It was the quickest game of "thumb's up1' you ever played, was it not? The McCullough Bros. have their loundry and machine shop at Gladstone, Mich., in active operation, and have siarted on wliat promises to be a successful business career in their new location. As a sample of their producís of the country surrounding Gladstone, they sent their mothcr a fine young deer.- Ypsilantion. Work on the gas well of Mr. Rawson, at Bridgewater, has been stopped, we are informed, and the workmen discharged. Having struck salt water which rises to within a few feet of the surface, Mr. Kawson concludes tlmt there is i;o hope of getting a supply of freih water. Except an occasional siminerlng noisc there is no sign of gas. The condition of llvestock in this county accordlng to the Nov. report is: Horses 98 per cent., cattle 06, sheep 98, and swine 94. The hog cholera bas not twen reported from this county, but Calhnuu, Branch, Berrien, Ingham and St. Joseph report cases, so it would be well for farmers and other swineowners to keep on their guard. The South Lyon Excelsior office was burned out last week. Aslies taken out and lett in a basket did the deed, it is illeged. When the writer was running a country paper It used to bother hlm to procure enough wood to inake any ashes with; and tlien again, the olllce boy never took up the nshea, anyway. Our So. Lyon brother must have been fortunate to have misfortune come from such causea. It ia dillicult to believe the story. The children of St. Mary's Sunday Scliool have glvcn to the church a beautlful statue of St. Joseph and the Infant Jesus In commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Pope Leo XIII, which wlll be celebrated all over tbc Catholic world with imposing solemnities next montli. The statue came from Paris, and, as a work of irt, is very beautiful. St. Mary's church is now ndorned with stntues as beautiful as any in the diocese.- Chelsea Herald. Bert English says that their corn erop will average nearly 100 bushels to the acre this year, which we contider a good yic.-ld. But speaklng of corn irniind-. us of a story wbich Jake Myers tells, that when he worked for Mr. Bradner, in Bridgewater, years ago, they raised corn which grew so tall that Jake had to cllmb the stalks two feet to reach the ears and the stnlks would not bend with hira elther. They grew largercorn then thau now weVeckon. - Enterprise. At the meeting of the poultry bree.lcrs of VHBhtenaw Co. at the office of the Buy City luinber yard in tliU city last öaturday evening, a permanent organization was effected, ander the name of theEastern Michigan Poultry Breeder's Assoclation, iind the following offleers elected : Geo. W. Nisslcy, president; Samuel Post, Jr., secretary; D. C. Batchelder, treasurer; and V. D. Elli?, superintendent. It is proposed to hold a poultry ehow, in Light Guard Hall some time in January, contiuuiiig for a week. If the success of the exhibition may be judjred from the present indicatlons, the people of Ypsilanti will sec a fine display. A meeting will be held at the same place

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