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County And Vicinity

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Day
18
Month
April
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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Measles at Mooreville. Saline bas eleven bicyclere. Spring nlowing is under way. Plant that tree next Friday please. Ypsilanti is to have a new directory. Oreat camp lire at South Lyon today. Chelsea's new marshal is naraed Jay Wood. Three new boats on Pleasant Lake this summer. A "hard time" social at Pinckney made lots of money. Tbe Ypsilanti Commercial lias bought a new engine. Work bas commenced on the Pittslield onlon marshes. Clinton has started a readlng unión wlth 50 members. Tbe farmers of Webster have had to Import western corn this spring. D. Wllsey at Pittsfleld, bought a $236 gelding at 8outh Lyon last week. Saline I becomlng a great Sunday resort for Ann Arbor bon tons. - Observer. Chelsea's new board of aldermen propose to have the walks of that place improved. Nets must not be used by fishermen in the inland waters of this state. Look out, boys. Muny pear trees In and about Saline have been ruined by rabbits gnawing the the bark off. J. H. Bortle, of Saline, pUnted 25,000 brook trout in the treams about that place lase week. The Southern Wash'enaw Farmer's Club is to meet at S. M. Merrithew's on Friday, May 4th. StockbrlUge 18 wide awakc on the new roller process mili and has upwards of $1,200 already pledged. Farm wages about the country ranges f rom $15 to $20 per montli Mild senson, according to the fellow. Dwight Riggs, of Chelsea, was badly kicked on the head and chest by horses he was leadlng recently. Up at Chelsea tuey sell potatoes warranted to cook dry and mealy. Pretty big contract that this season. Everybody in and about Stockbridge has commenced to stir their slumps, whlch makes a lively spring. Qospel meetings are being beid in the i. K. cburch of Chelsea, Miss Lindy 3oomer, of Ontario leading them. Rev. H. Palmer gave a talk Friday night at North Lake on the ''army mule." iave not heard any kicking about it yet. The annual shearing of the Chelsea Jnion Sheep Breeders' Association was not very well atteneded last week. Too early, perbaps. St. John'e, Catholic, parish of Ypsilani, has secured 14 acres for a new cemetery, at a cost of $1,200. It is on River t. on the nortbern limit of Highland Jemetery. The Ann Arbor Choral Union and the fpsilanti Normal School Chorus will give a grand concert at Ypsilanti April 27th, and at Ann Arbor on the evening of April 28th. The Ypsilantian figures out that the electric ligbt costa that city just about one-half what gas or naptha would cost, and there ia no comparison betwecn the wo lighu for street purposes, a fact everybody admita. The Board of Supervisors is strongly lemocratic, and was last year, but we don't see any advantage In that. No county printing, uot a cent's worth of it, carne this way, and the great bulk of it, f not all, went to the republicans in Ann Arbor. - YpsiUnü. Sentinel. At the Sheep Shearing festival held in Saline last week 31 sheep belonsring to 3 breeders were sheared, the hea viest leece being 34 lbs. 15 ozs., from a 4-year ram; the secnnd 31 lbs. 15 ozs. The leaviest ewe fleece 29lbs. 15 ozs. ; the leaviest yearling ram tleece 18 lbs. 14 ozs. The uionth of February was in one respect the most remarkable in tbe world'g history. It had no full raoon. 'aiiuary had two full moons and so did tfarch, but February had none. Do you reallze what a rare thing in nature that vas? It has not occurred since the time of WashingtoD, nor the beginninr of the christlan era, nor the creation of the world; and it will not occur again, according to the computatlon of astronomen!, for 2,400,000 years.- Exchange. It occurs to us that Washtenaw county muit have known something about there elnfr no ful! tnoon In February, at least he county went very wet. It is claimcd hat the moon has quite an eifect on idea, and the tidal wave that swept over he state wet Washtenaw awfully. Periapa It will not occur again in centuries.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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