County And Vicinity

Wesley Westfall, of Lima, has purchased a farm in Oregon. The Saline youth will recline upon Northville seats in school. Mr. and Mrs. Webb have returned home to Dexter frotn Dakota. Michael Koster, aged 70, died at his home in Sylyau on the llth inst. Frank Onerin tcaches writing school in the Lima Contar schoul liouse. The Dispatcli is urging the farmers in and about Pinckney to form a club. Gilbert & Crowell.s insurance office is now in the McKune block, Chelsea. There is to be a Christmas tree at the Plain's school house, Lodi, Dec. 23d. Buigliirs all nround the county. Keep a shot-gun loaded reac'y for business. R. II. Marsh, of Saline, has shipped over 70,000 lbs. of live poultry tuis season. John R. Clark speaks in the town hall Chelsea, on the 27th, before'the G. A. R. post. The M. E. Church at Moorevllle has its Christmas tree on Saturday evenlng, Dec. 24th. J. N. Underwood and family have returned to Mooreville, from a visit up north. Austin Liesemer, of Saline, if to .peil the station agent at Somersct for three weeks. Chas. R. Pattison and wife of Ypsilanti, hare gone to Florida to spend the winter. The Dexter folks hope to have thelr new school house ready for business, Jan. lst. Rev. Thomas, the ncw pastor of the M. E. Zion church, Saline, is to remove thereto at once. Huil & Co., of Saline, shipped 20,000 lbs. of wool the other day, and have 20,000 Ib3. still left. The yield of clover in tliis county this year is recorded at 1.35 per cent. One good erop, any way. The Webster Farmer's club will hold its annual meeting at the Town Hall, on Saturday, Dec. 24th. The Lima grange is booming once again, very much interest being taken in the meetings of late. The village and city schools throughout the county pretty generally close next Friday for two weeks. The Saline poultry farm puts In its first lot of eggs in the incubator this week to hatch out early spring cbickens. A. II. Green, clothing merchant of Manchester, has faüed- gone the way of the world- or down Take your choioe. Mr. Marshall, of this village, feil from hia wagon Sunday night and broke his collar bone.- Dexter Leader. Whaz-ze matter ? The friends of Harrison Phelps, of Webster, assisted hlra and hia estimable wife, in observing their silver wedding recently. The Baptists of Manchester, will have a Christmas house this year, and old Santa Claus him8elf will deal out the presente to the children. The condltion of live itock in this county in December erop report is : Horses, 97 per cent. ; cattle, 96 ; sheep, 96; and swine, 93. The unttcd age of seven ladies who recently called upon Mrs. Whitinsr, of Pinckney, in observance of her 7."tli birthday, was 513years. In the State erop report whent is quoted in this county at 85 per cent., as compared with avenge yeurs, and 95 per cent. as corapared with last year. Last S:iturday Charles Warner and wife were presented with an elegant upright plano, a birthday gift from Mr. Warner's father.- Dexter Leader. Whlch ? The children of the Congregational Sabbath school or the Webster church, expectold Santa Claus there on the ovening of Dec. 23J, just a trifle anead of time. O. A. Ainsworth & Co., whose store was burglarized and burned at Ypsilantl recently, have commeneed rebuilding, and do not propose to be crushed by mlsfortune. Twelve ont of twenty-six milis and elevatorg in this county report the ' etlng of 38,515 bustiels of wheat last niouth, with a total of 137.37G bushels since August lst. Mrs. Easlick, of Lake Ridge, in her 78th year, has in the past 20 monthg pieced 15 qullti of 30 blocks each, with 72 plece in a block, making a total of 21, C00 picces - Observen Let us have piece. The countenance of Bert Williams, of Dexter, is probably as happy in its expression as a man's can well be. Cause why ? Cause he has been a papa ever since Dec. 9th, and a boy at tliat. Our school teacher, Charlie Raldwin, rides merrily to and trom his home to school dally, on a sulky. He gets six hours teaching and six miles sulky ride every day.- Lim.i Cnr ChaUea lierald. Alfred Bond rode his norse tabarra, Tuesday morning, and then turned tlie animal loóse expecting that it would return home, he proceeding on his way afoot to his school. The horse did not go home, and at last accounts Mr, Bond was hunting for it.- Saline Observer. ïhat horse was bo(u)nd to go some other way. Forty cottage prayer meetings have been held In Chelsea during the past week, led by members of different cliurches, and the rapid growth of the revival, no doubt is explained by this fact. Over twenty persons have been conyerted, and many more redeemad and quickencd in religious life.- Chelsea Herald. How would it do to get the supervisors up in that section of the county interested In these meetings? The followlug is the result of the recent annual election of officers, in H. r Carpenter Post G. A. R., No. 41, Dep't. of Michigan: Commander. E. L. ÏTegus; Senior vice commander, A. Steger: Junior vice commander, A. N. Chapman; Surgeon, W. Canfield; Chaplain, H. Palmer; Quartermaster, G. J. Crowell; Officer of the day, Waltrous; Delégate to state encampment, H. Palmer. Preparations are being made for a splendid public entertainment on the occasion of the installation of officers early in January. - Chelsea Herald. Hon. E. P. Allen, who is noted for a strict adherance to his word wben given, did a deed recently that but few men would do to keep his word good. He had promised it seems some of his constttuents reports of the agricultural department, supposing he would be entitled to a certain number of them. But hc found out that Col. Eldredge had played t on hiin, and had absorbed all of those reports that the district was entitled to. But Capt. Allen was equal to the emergency. He went about the capitol city and purchased $100 worrh of the reporta and sent them to those he liad promised. A man who is as careful of his word as that is deserving of much praise. The incident uarratcd below, is taken from the Ypsilantian, atul did not occur in Ann Arbor: "Some [cowardly thlef followed Miss Gertie Noble, a teacher in the fourth ward school, as she was returning from the west side of the city to her present place of residence on Cross street, Tuesday evening, and justas she was passing through a puit of Cross 3treet shaded from the electric llght, near the depot, snatched her pocket book from her hand, and ran off with it. Miss Noble held as tightly as posaible to her property, and the robber only gecured the pocket book by puiling it from the tiandle, Miss Noble retaining the latter ín her hand. The thief was not recognized and has not siuce been apprehendTlie December erop report tells the story of the wheat erop as related by various correspondente : "Washtenaw :ounty. - Wheat lias not so large a top as ast year, butl think it has more vitality. Wheat has sufiered very much for want of rain. Wheat lias less top thau last year. Wlieat appears to be thin - has not spread as it sliould. Wheat small, and in some places agrub isdoingsome damage. Wlieat was sowed later thau usual on account of the insects. Did not get much ;op, but stands well on the ground. Wheat is going into winter with a very imall top. The cold, dry weather and he fly have kept the wheat backwanl." [n live stock the following is reported : ' The short pastures and light corn erop ïaye had a tendeucy to affect shecp and iwine. Hogs are not as good as in other rears on account of failure of corn orop. Pastures being poor, stock is thin- no disease among our stock.1'