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Dexter Department

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Day
17
Month
September
Year
1880
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Public Domain
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-Olías. It. Whitman was in town ldst week. - Bankrupts liko crimináis are toci highly- noted. -The inhabitanta of Dexter should invariably be Dexter-ous. - Miss Lizzie McOmness is visiting relatives at Eaton j; 15. TylfT iucceeded in sendinj? the first load of wheat over tlie new bridge. -The way to effortnally lay olit a red-hot radical republican is to ask him if hf has heard from Mnine. - Acoordine to reports the coming i winter will turn out a prent many Benedicts in and about onr rillftge. -Miss Marian Phelps has gone to Olivet, Mich., where slie lias engaged as assistant teacher in Olivet college. - Rcv. T. McNamara 0. S. C. lias assumed the editorship of that spicy little college paper: The Notre Dame Scholastic. - A cerlain eoneeited sport of Iexter was fleeced out of $30 at Ann Arbor last week. Cause- too much drawpokor. -The Ladies' Library nssociation havp rrntert the room over B. Alley & Co's store, and moved thither all their proper! v. - Tnvitations have been issned to a limited nnmher of friends for a Wedding of sorne magnitude at PinckneJ on Tnesday next, __Miss Carrie MoHoflin left for Loii don, Ont., Wednosday last wlipre she will enter the chnrch school at that place for the ensnipcr year. Posooe P. ('opplnti'l oiie of our most efficiënt and enterpvisintf citizens will leave for Florida next week on a yirospecting tour. Should a favorable, locatioh bëreachedlie willpermanentlysettle. - Tiie iieat market srems to have lipcorne disoonrapefl and will not advimce to piaddon the farmers lieart.-Tbe present i)ríoe SS ets. lias hut líttíe inducíve qnalitiés for the farmers and pmispniieritiv onf markët ís hot loaded. The, M. É. conference has enáéted a change in the M. E. ministry at Déxter. Rev. AY. J. Campbell late of St. Clair wili occnpy the pastoral residence at Dexter, viee Kev. L. P. Davis who has been assigned a clmrch at West Bay City. -The Conrier correspondent languishes in a terrible state of anxiety over tlie alleged transgression of a Dexterite who has '-fenced in the public streets." Tt is hard for the c. c. to realize what a man can do with his oum property. -A dissraceful row oceurred in front of red ribbon hall dnring the exercises there last Bunday evening,butas nearly all the participants were red ribbonites we snppose it did not créate tlie "bad impression" it would have done had it been otherwise. - A Inrge nnmber from bere intend tó attend the state fair, and a greater nunv ber are thus industrimisly employed this weel?. But after all , there will hot be perhaps, half the amount of humanity from this part of the country as there was last year. - Eddie Lawton a tweive-yenr oíd son of Jerry Lawton, accompanied by another boy of his age, went clandestinely to have a swim last week. Edrlie was carried iuto deep water and would have taken his last bath but for the timely arrival of a student visiting Fr. Slattery, who plunged in andrescuedhim as he was koíiis: down tlie last time. - Marshal Tubbs was endeavoring to extricate the hind les of one of his mules when it abruptly extricated itself and planted its hoof square in the face of the marshal. A complete back summersault, the loss of flve teeth, and a badly bruised face were the consequences. He says the muledidn't mean it, and we believe him, for it iü not characteristic of a muie's nature tö do such things. -Jim Blaine, of Maine, Can it be, are you sane ! To let these Demócrata, Aye, growing autócrata i 'Midst all the cömmotion And republioah lotion ötep in without Irying; Or bribing, or buying But by an honest Demo-Greenback gain, Carry thy own sweet state of Maine ? -A fellow named Viney who liad made himself conspicuous by exhibiting his pugilistic propensities about town for the last few days, formed the acquaintance of ;i man from Waterloo named Randolph and wishing, mutually, to progresa in acquaintanceship, indulged iíl a big drvmk. Randolph being the possessor of a fine liorse and carriage invited hiS newiy-formed, driinien friend to take ii ride. This being agreed on they started out that niiht and the only portions of tlie pleás ant journey Mr. R. has any recollection of, are, of finding himseif in the road next morning. where his new-found friend had (having undoubtedly bidden him adieu) evidently left him and, takIng the horse and carriage left for parta unknown, leaving bis benevolent fñend to bemoan his loss and brace up on the bitter experience. -The monotony which theannonncement Of a red fibbon lecture produces among ourinhabítants, goesfar to show that the poort and charitable efforts of the advocates of temporáneo are but lightly appreciated by olir average citizens. It is a patent fact that the öld enthusiasm which waS wont to flll our halls with interested audiences, has, through some unknown ly died out. Last Sunday evemng was a painf ui illustration of this continued apatliy. A speaker of considerable ability wasengaged to address the mass meeting but the mass portion of the meeting was very slim. Lecturas of this kind are very unprofitable and would soon créate a bad state of affairs ín the treasury department of the club. Somethinff must be done,and we would advise the club to have longer intervals between lectures and advertise them more thoroughly. Those republican papers tr.at prophesied that the Hancock boom wonld soon die out are yet waiting patiently for the Brst sígn oí its weakening. It grows and enlarges in all parts of the country day byday. Thereseems to be no let-iip to republican conversions to Hancock. Exchanges trom all parts of the country are tillledwlth records of such. conversions. Let them come! The more th niwrier!

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