Saline Secrets

New hyinn books are being placed in ;he Methodist church. Mrs. Eugene Yager of Xapoleon, was visiting in town last Friday. A large quantity of live poultry was shipped to Ypsilanti Monday. E. W. Wallace received $250 insurance for the damages from the recent fire. Rev. D. EL Yokom of Manchester, f ormerly of Saline, was in town Saturday. Rev. T. B. Leith occupied the Presbyterian pulpit at Northville last Sunday. W. E. Eddy of Ypsilanti, spent several days of last week visitmg relatives in town. Lister and Sheeder are showing some fine window displays of Christmas goods. Alexander Baker of Ypsilanti, placed several stones in the Saline cemetery last week. Mrs. M. L. Forbes is visiting in Mt. Pleasant, and expects to spend the winter there. The place and household goods of Mrs. Geo. Spathely, near Bridgewater, were sold at public auction Tuesday. Miss Xettie Moore and Miss Gertrude Miller.whohave been keptwithindoors for a week by sickness, are again able to be out. Mrs. Myra Lawrence sprained her ankle last Thursday, and this together with rheumatism that set in kept her in doors until Tuesday. .Mrs. L. U. Mead of San Francisco, is visiting at Will Mead's, but will leave Saturday for California, making, however, several visits on the way. Arthur Wood and II. D. Platt attended the State farmers" institute at Lansing this week, in the capacity of delegates from the local organization. Clifton Bassett and wife of Detroit, spentSunday with the former's parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Ilarrison Bassett. Clif is postal clerk on the Michigan Central, and his run is between Detroit and Chiago. C. H. Mooney of Ann Arbor, was in town last Saturday soliciting for a plan of advertising whieh is claimed to be a mutual benetit to farmers and merchante alike. He contracted with fred Humphrey, A. L. Clark and S. II. Maher. The regular monthly meeting of' the Saline farmers' club was held last Fri-# day at the home of L. Josenhans. As usual a program was givea. Some very practical topics were discussed including plans wherebv the farmer shall se cure more reoognition in the eyes of the legislature. Evangelist Ilerberner delivered a lecture-sermon to men in the opera house last Sunday al'ternoon. The hall was nearly f uil. The discourse consisted of short h,ut forcible discussions of the subjects, sabbath breaking, abuse of the church, drinking, swearing, lying, and adultery. An electric belt troop f rom Detroit,, are occupying the opera house for a week. They are giving the people f ree ent.ertaininents each night and incidentally endeavonng to show them what wonders electricity can do for the human frame They say they wish people to understand that they are selling patent medicines. The entertainment given at the pera Monday night by Major R. II. lendershot, the drummer boy of the iappahannock, assisted by local talent, was a great success. The remarkable nanner in which he made the drum alk was the central attraction, but a ery popular feature of the program vas bis local jokes of which he had a great number. These were great hits. The Mozart male quartet gave musical assistance, and Mrs. E. Hill rendered a very pretty vocal solo in an artistic marnier, which, however, was not properly appreciated by the audience. Maor Ilendershot lived in Saline from 1855 to 1858, then a small village, and consequentlyhas a number of acquaintances in town. The affair was given under the auspices of the Baptist society and it netted them $25. Again last Friday night were the people of Saline unceremoniously aroused by the dreaded fire alarm. This time the fire was in the small house of Mrs. M. L. Forbes, occupied by Mrs. M. E. GUL The bell continued to ring long after the fire was out and as usual nearly the whole town was on the spot. The fire department got the lióse íaui trom the mam street cistern, a distance of 500 feet, iu short order, and were soon filling the rooms full of water, bef ore which, however, all furniture had been removed. ïhe flames which broke out about the chimney were soon quenched, in short too soon to give the department much practice. ïhe chief of the fire department could be seen up in the attic searching for the fire with a lantern. The building would soon have been destroyed had it not been for the timely discovery. " Behold what a great fire a little matter kindleth," or " what a great matter a little fire kindleth," either would apply equally well to the conflagration Friday night. As a fire, however, it cannot be regarded as a very great succt-ss, but viewed from the number of casualties it occasioned it must be regarded as a great event. None of the accideuts proved fatal, but one at least was amusing even though painful. In the iirst place Mrs. ürin Parsons who lives adjacent to the scène of the fire, and who is somewhat of an invalid, suffered a relapse. Mrs. M. E. Gill. who occupied the house of the fire, was so seriously affected by the shock that a doctor had to be in constant anee all night and considerable alarm was feit foi her safety. Miss Gertrude Stang aroused by the lire alarm bumped her eyes severely on the bed post while endeavoring to ftnd her shoes and was kept in doors for several days. A gentleman who lives in the northern por tion of the village and who begs to have his name withheld on this occasion, hac a mishap of a similar nature. He was groaping about in the dark, in response to the alarm, with his arms stretched straight out in front by which to feel his way, when his nose suddenly came in violent contact with the edge of an open door which passed between his arras. He has since put vasaline on the atteeted member, but it is still in his way when he wishes to look at his f eet. He was heard to remark af ter the catastrophy that this was the Buret time he ever knew his nose was longer than his arms.