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County And Vicinity

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Day
25
Month
April
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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R. C. Auld roes to Boodand igain thta spring for stock. Ourt opened In the Livingston circuit at Howell Monday. The Saline Presbytenana are improving their church editice. Henry Jewett was eleeted manbal of Saline, bilt declined the ofioe. Rernember the teacher's examination at Chclsea next Friday, the 27th. The egg erop is Improrlog in qoantlty but the quality seems about as (Mtial. South Lyon ha redured the amonnt of her üquor bonds trom s.",000 to $:i,000. Milan win sooii h-ive a permanent dentist n the person of H. C. Eaymi n 1 Tlie S;iline (Í. A. K. Post lias secnred :lev. Mr. Gallup fnr Dtcoriftion Day oritor. The Milan driving p irk assooiation las arraned for Sntorday trotting matueeg. Deputy Warden Rouse, of Saline, is makinic it hot for tisli and game law roakers. The Ypsilanti Catholicsob?erved Arbor Day by setting out trees iu tlieir new cemetery. The Chelsea Ilerald has already commeneed to soliloquizn over the question ol sidewalks. Lutz & Pardon, of Ann Arbor, have tone into the meat market business at South Lyon. The Beaman school hoinein Waterloo, Jackson Co., built over 30 years ago, has )een torn down. Lenawee county capitalista hold over !2, 000.000 wortta of property on other eople's property. Milan will have Wabiishst. graveled hls year or there will be to pay in he cominon council. The York young people's literary ociety is to give a leap year box social at iora Friday evening. The next fair of the Stockbridgel'niun grlcultural Society, will be held on the d, Bd, and 4th of October. The Chelsea base ball club have orranlzed for the season. The Dexter boys hould have an ej-e on this. Ypsilanti still claims the bonor of the hampion roller skatist in the person of ''reeman Ward - not Woodruflf. A man nnmed Hawkins, said to liail rom Ypsilanti, was flini-llanied out of 70 at Bay City last Wednesday. The T. A. A. & N. M. K. R., and the '., A.A. & Cadillac R. R. have been ïarried, Consolidated, made one as it were. The South Lyon Picket wants the deunct business meii's assoclation reorganzed, and a building and loan nssociatimi tarted. The Leader says Dexter has two milis, nd as faod water power as the state afords, but no one with back bone enough o put in rollers. The cold, backward weather is a good lina; to keep fruit buds and vegetation aek so that the May frosts will not.detroy the erop, so they say. Rev. Caldwell and wife of Saline, were iindly remembered on Monday of last veek by their friends, it being the 2()th nniversary of their nurrlage. I.cliinan & Cavanaugh have their law flices in Ann Arbor all furnished umv, nd one of the gentlemen will be there ie entire time. - Ohelsea Herald. A. J. Sawyer, of Ann Arbor, believes n keeplug puace with this progressive ge, and lias boughta flock ot' thoroughred Shropshire sheep of Valentine liros. j - Dexter Leader. According to the Leader, D. W. Hitchook, who has been station agent at that lace f or the T., A. A. & N. M. R. R. since ts ettabllsbment, has turued the oilice ver to Wc8ley Robison. A Jnckson capntalist has bought 300,)00 acres of land in Buchanan county, Mrginia, and proposes to take a colony f Jackson people thereto. Would not nis be emigrauting backward.-; f Nothing: slow about the town of Mitado, in thid state. A ball was jriven lere for the beuelit of defeated caudiates in the recent election and to cheer hem up a bil. - Saline Observer. A new ifraln elevator 24x36 feet, and 2 feet high 3 to be erected at Milan this pring by I). V. Hitohcock. Capacity, 0,000 bushels. A large warchouse is iso to be erected in counectiou therevith. The Haptists and Presbyteiians of [lian, are each having uew carpets, DOW aper and new paint applled to the inerior of their church edilices, wblob will make theni veiy pleasant houses of vor8hip. The Milan base ball association is one f the substantial organlgatlona ofour Ister village to the south. President, J. [enry Ford; Vice-Preaident, S. W. litilioock; .Secretary, John 8. Bary; 'reasurer, Mell Barnes; all of whom are rectors together with Ch.is. Qauntlett, V. H. Whitmarshand Frank Gay. The following is said to be an infallable ïethod of destroying the English Sparow : "Take of (strychnine as much as will lay on a nickle; disolve this ia one half cup of vlnegar. Soak wheat in this, and place where Mr. Sparrow (hutno hen or plgeon) will fiud it. This will miike an end of his depredations at once, and whole Hoeks may beextermlnated by this mean?. The ollice of the Ypsilantian had a narrow escape trom Ure a few days sime ; tlii time the inceiidiary was a disux'd electric light wire, which had been overlooked, which tet Hre to the wood with which it came in contact, and had :i good start, when it was discovered by Mr. Smythe, as he was leaving for the night. A mere chftDoe discovery saved the build'ÍT- It is safo to say that wire has been removed. - Seutinel. He that wlioopeth up hla business ia a newspaper sliall reap abountlfol harvest in the golden sbekele. He tbat readeth tlie advertisements aod proliteth sliull have ao ahundance of tliis world'a goods (or Hule money. He that ctaooseth DOt tO subscribe for bis lióme paper sha] 1 wonder at the intellect of bis neihbor. He who advertisis llberally gtts the cream of the trade. Old folies et skim milk. - Saline Observer. The pnrchase of the jrround by the railroad couipany cast of the depot seems to hang fire. Üur citizens ireatly eare the traufer and it is Dot improbable wou ld contribute something to ed'ect the wished for cotuummatlon. Would it not be well for the villaje council to appoint a oouimittee to confer witb the Central aothoritiei and ascertiin what is requircd and then tuke t-uch action as the

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Ann Arbor Courier
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