Picked Up In Washtenaw

The state veterinarian, who examined the cattle on the farm of Benjamin Feldkamp in Bridgewater, several of whose cattle have recently died under suspicious circumstances, advised Mr. Feldkamp to remove his cattle from his farm and to keep no more there for a couple of years. The doctor thought the disease was a fever brought in by Western stock.

William Baxter died in Manchester Friday from apoplexy, aged 92 years. He had been in the dry goods business in Manchester for over 50 years, and will be greatly missed. He leaves two sons, Charles Baxter, of Ann Arbor and William Baxter, of Pennsylvania, and two daughters, Mrs. Henry Townsend, of Manchester, and Mrs. Dr. Brown, of Cincinnati.

Eva, the nine year oíd daughter of Ediwin S. Blythe, died June 20 in Detroit, where she had heen taken from her home in Manchester for treatment of an injured knee.

Rev. A. T. Camburn, of Waterloo, has married a Miss Sweet of that place and his parishioners are wishing him a happy married life mingled with much sweetness.

William Merriman, of near Manchester, who for a long time has been in poor health attempted suicide last week by cutting his throat with a razor.

Hon. J. K. Campbell and daughter, Miss Anna, of Augusta, are attending the International Sunday School convention in Denver, Colorado.

Bert Youngs is getting ready to rebuild his mill in Augusta, which was recently burned.

Edward Brown, for thirty years a resident of North Lake, is dead, leaving a wife and eiight ehildren. He was born in England in 1835.

Otto Jarrandt died June 25 in Wyandotte, of consumption. He formerly lived in Saline and his remains were brought there for burial.

George Riley, of Lyndon, had his hip fractured the other day by being thrown out of a wagon while the team was running away.

There are twelve members of the Dexter lodge of Maccabees and four of the Lady Maccabees buried in the Dexter cemetery.

Round trip tickets are sold on the Hawkes-Angus line between Jackson and Grass Lake for the small sum of five cents.

Víctor Saylis, of near Milan, has lost the middle finger of the left hand by getting it mixed up in a grub pulling machine.

The May payments for butter fat and hauling at the Saline creamery was $3,689.84, the largest month in its history.

Alfred Miller and Fred Jerry, of Saline, are said to have captured a rattler on the Hurd marsh with 12 pairs of rattles.

A horse on the H. R. Palmer farm in Bridgewater fell through the floor into the basement without injury to itself.

Dr. E. B. Kellogg was married to Miss Cora Fletcher at the home of the bride's mother, in Sharon, June 25.

Mrs. Caspar Raby died in Manchester June 22 aged 81 years. She broke her hip about four months ago.

A number of shoes and grain bags have been found between Dexter and Delhi near the M. C. tracks.

Potato bugs have destroyed many of the tomatoes set out for the new Manchester canning factory.

Ernest Brighton and Miss Cora Ganss were married in St. Mary's church, Manchester, last Thursday.

There are two cases of scarlet fever in the family of Mrs. Maggie Lehman, in Manchester.

Webster farmers greatly regret the fact that they did not sow more wheat for this year.

Conrad Buetler died in Bridgewater June 21 of Brigrt's disease, aged 74 years.

C. C Dorr and family, of Sharon, are back from a visit in California.

Little Mary Bryce, of Bryce's Corners, has broken her arm.

Michael Alber is building a 36 by 70 foot barn in Saline.

John Pidd is building a new barn on his farm in Lima.

A new band has been organized at Dexter.