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Dexter Department

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
December
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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Frarid ttarlow i a Bftiesman at Lincoln, ííeth --John C. Tuotney is in tho grocery business at Kanstis City, Mo. - Dressed hogs are coming in freely, andbfing aboutSS to$5.50perhundfcd, - Johü. ÍLDevine struggles manfully tlnder the terrlflc title of deputy town clerk. -Guiñan Bros, of Dexter township have sold their farm to the original wner Mr. JewelL -Town elerk and deputy sheriff Voley H. Potter, is visiting relatives and riends at St. Croix, WiSi - Holiday goods of all descríptíons re being received by our merchants, ■ho evidently anticípate fl hatvest in mid-wipter. last week, by receiving an utograptí letter from presidetlt-eject Garlíeíd, as a reward for his fidelity in tbe late ampaign. -Frank H. EvartS has g'ohe to ColCH ado on a prospectirig tour, the prospectus being- we are lnformed- a Ufe artner In the pleasatit ucctlpation of connubial alliance. -The store lately viieated by E.Jedele has been leased by Messrs, Doble and Brown feather renovators, tvlio have placed a fine improved fflachíne therein aöd await feathery developöients. - Perhaps the most beneficia! offspring of our council, is the "toWn pump," from which no wüVer has evef been draWü since it flrst mftde lts appearance as a public nuis&iice and ext pense -Chris. Bilby had a nail driven into one of his Fmgers, while shoeingahorse, last Fïiday, and has been a sutferer oí intense pain since. It wifi be some time betore he can resume Ml öccupatlon. -The Episcopal Social at the fesidence of Henry C. Gregöfy, Tüesday evening, was a decidëd süeeess, and cöhsideï'ing the miserable in-èatlief the large attendance was Something wondei'fuU T here was a small boy with söme pow der, , . And in trying to iriake ït go louder Ite sueceedPd so weil, That his friends couldn't teil Ilis rettiains from a dish of clatn inoW' der. n - Horace Hurlburt gave tWo lëotures at reform club hall Monday aiid Tuesday evenings. His lëctürös fibóünded with humorositiCü ftnd his comical cartoons of Butler, Conkling, Garfield etc, drawn by chalk oti & large canyasSj were vvell worttl vitnessing. - A certain bully named Ball, wlui achieves his greatest "victories" Over drnnken or helpless men, covCred hiraself vith glory by Shamefully beating Pfeteï Madden white iiitoxicated, last Satui'day evening-. Just about where the rnaïshall was hen this brutality was tratiiirjiring is a tnystery which quires an eplahation. - Invitations Were issued a short timo since, annoühcihg the wedding of Miss Delle VVaite of this place, and T. . Ritten M. t. of Milton, Penn. The appointed time being Dec. 5th,. afid high society wedding was anticïpateff. fiüt during the interval, Miss Waitê's bfother-in-law- Prof. J. C. Watson- died, and further expectations of an elite affair, were reluctantfj Míifsríe'd.Last Sunday the nuptial serenwny was quietly performed by Kev. L. L. Gage at the residence of thebrïde's fathei tèfore an assemblage consisting of a few relatives and friends, . - A man snpposed to be 60 yeafs oíd and giving the Ham of Charles Joiinson came to Pïnckney last Thufsday and put up at the Globe hotel, informing the prefiïietof- Mr. Allen- that he was suffefing intensely from the effect of a kick near hls stomach. Dr. Hayes was sumftioned and did his utmost to relieve Jiitn, but he died Sunday, öiid was böried Monday. ïhere is a mf' tery eonnected with the aiïair whi'ch receïved no ventilaton at the liands of the deceased; he said he had two ioro-fliers livine near Hastings, and that all the information couia av gusanea iïodj him. -Norman E. Aïïetï Offr star photographer is abotft to lettve with a view of locating softíe vhere iíi Florida, ówing to the poortieaïtfïof hiswïf Mr.Allen leaves many friends in Deiter ho regrei this essential resolution very rnuch. He edited the first newspaperinDexter the ""Bulletin, "under theöom dfpUime of "Qaindnne' ltwaílfttt sheet priatefd at Arm Aroor, afid ftïs humorod articles elected much coïïimfeodation frorn people in this vieïnfty. It was issued "semioccasionally," and was "nentral in politics-, physics. dogmatíes,- etc." ír. Alléii has the best ■wishes oí all in Dexter tor lus Mture guccess. -The "W'. T. C. U. affect to be much perturbed by the magua ninaity of Ihe Leader in assertingthatthe association had resolved itself Jrtto a befievolenfc society iat the fulRüniefit of certain scriptural oblif;ations( i. e., "clothing the naked, feeding the hüngry," etc. We cannot see any reascm for this "terrible" state of pertmbatioflj eveu supposing the assertion of the Leader to be wholly false. The object Of the W. T.C.Uij is, unquestionably a good one, but that of a benevolent society would be rauch bettei'; they shoüld, therefore, curb their wrath añd seriously considefr the "sseitioh of the Leader." in the light of a suggestion. Our villgo f urnishes a largo field for Buch charities. and Many a shivering form Uius clothed, ndliungry children thus fed. would forever bles the promoters of snob a. jioblo and cnaritab e design.

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