Pittsfield News Jottings

Pittsfield, May 6 -- E. Read, of Detroit, bought a carload of beans in this vicinity last week at about $1.25 per bushel.

Mrs. Richard Kellogg, who was so badly burned a few weeks ago, is no better and there is but little prospects of her recovery.

Miss Stollsteimer, of Ann Arbor, closes a most successful year of school in the Stone district this week.

Fred Straight, of Toledo, spent Sunday under the parental roof.

Plowing for corn is the order of the day among our farmers.

A. Morgan and family, of Petersburg, visited at S. Morgan's over Sunday.

The Town House school sports a new flag.

Several farmers in this vicinity have contracted with the Ypsilanti cannery to raise from one to three acres of tomatoes this year.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Stein and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fiegel were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. Summers last Sunday.

J. Perkins and family have moved into the house formerly occupied by Charles Pontney.

Hired men are becoming scarce in this locality and many farmers are without help.

J. Webb recently found several specimens of the Cicada or seventeen-year locust on his farm. They were in an undeveloped state, but alive and kicking.