Picked Up In Washtenaw

PICKED UP IN WASHTENAW

Brief Notes From the Towns of the County

INTERESTING TOPICS

About People and Things Which are Told in a Short and Crisp Manner

Whooping cough has started in at Manchester.

There is a good apple crop in Bridgewater this year.

Great preparations have been made for Maccabee Day at Saline July 31.

The barns of A. Hitchcock and Theo. Koebbe in Sharon have been struck by lightning.

It is intended to have the cement plant at Four Mile Lake ready for operating by January 1 next.

Mrs. J. M. Breining, of Willis, has accepted a position as matron of the Normal school at Macon, Georgia.

The new well at the Manchester creamery struck a good flow of excellent water at the depth of 100 feet.

Mr. and Mrs. Warren B. Thompson have bidden farewell to their friends at Worden and sail for England today.

The Manchester L. O. T. M. will have a finely drilled team to compete for the prize at Maccabee Day in Saline.

People, who wish to reach Ann Arbor from Delhi, have to ford Honey Creek or drive some distance out of their way.

The Augusta potato crop has been damaged by the rains. Most of the Augusta potato crop finds its way to Ann Arbor.

A large number of the perch in Cavanaugh Lake are said to be dying. Dead fish are seen floating on the surface of the lake.

Paul Chase, of Sylvan, while drawing hay, a few days ago, was injured by being pulled from his load through the breaking of the whiffletrees.

Mrs. Jacob Bareiss died in Manchester township July 10 of cancer of the stomach, aged 58 years. She resided with her only daughter, Mrs. E. Gauss.

Mrs. Sarah Dibble died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Walker, of Salem, July 12, aged 80 years. She had been in failing health for a long time.

Herman H. Swartout, of Pinckney, jumped from a load of hay to avoid being pierced by a falling hay fork. He struck on his head and fractured his skull.

Mrs. Mattie A. Benton died in Dexter July 11, aged 28 years. Her maiden name was Waldron and she was married in 1896. She leaves a husband and two children.

Elias S. Clark, a prominent resident of Stockbridge, where he had lived for years, died yesterday aged 65. He had built a dozen buildings in Stockbridge, including three grist mills.

August Kapp, who for many years resided in Bridgewater, fell from a building he was erecting in St. James, Minn., July 10, and was instantly killed. He leaves a wife and seven children.

Rev. O. F. A. Spinning, who died at Grass Lake, July 14, had been for over 50 years in the Baptist ministry and many residents of this county knew him. He had been some years ago located at Milan.

During one of the thunderstorms last week a bolt of lightning struck the edge of Cavanaugh lake, just west of the ice house and bored a hole In the bottom of the lake two feet deep and 4x6 feet across, throwing the mud and sand in a heap to one side. - Chelsea Herald.

Skunks and coon are destroying more chickens up around Manchester town, than Toledo thieves are able to do down in Riga. The marauders with four legs, like those with two, come around in the night time when the fowls are asleep, and have easy picking. - Adrian Press.

Charles Spencer Pearce, who died in Dexter July 9, was born in Yates county, N. Y., in 1843, and came to Ypsilanti when a boy. He enlisted during the civil war in a Missouri regiment. He had been in the employ of the Michigan Central for 12 years. His wife and five children survive Mm.

The Dexter cemetery corporation has $357 at interest from the sale of cemetery lots and $45.42 balance in the contingent fund. The officers for the ensuing year are: President, R. P. Copeland; secretary, John O. Thompson; treasurer, Mrs. H. C. Gregory; collector, John W. Barley; sexton, Thomas French.

The Webster Farmers' club will meet at the home of Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Morrison, Saturday, July 26. An address is expected by Prof. J. C. Knowlton. Hon. William Ball will read a paper on Expansion. Recitations will be given by Walter Tubbs and Master Roy Merrill and a select reading by Mrs. E. N. Ball.

William VanDyne, a prominent farmer of Salem, on July 10, fell from the peak of his barn, while adjusting the pulley of a hay fork, to the barn floor, a distance of 25 feet, striking on his head and shoulder. One arm was broken and his head was badly bruised. He was unconscious for several days but is now recovering.

Portage Lake is said to be three feet higher than in the past few years. A party of Ann Arborites built a boat house on this lake in 1892, when the water is said to have been as high as it is now, and expecting it to remain so they waded around in hip boots until they had completed the house right out in the water. But the water receded and their boat house was left high and dry, some eight or ten rods from the shore line. This year once more they can float their boats into their boathouse.

The following teachers have been engaged at Chelsea for the ensuing year with their salaries: W. W. Gifford, superintendent, $1,000; Edith E. Shaw, principal, $475; Idalene Webb, science, $450; Florence Bachman, English, $425; Clara B. Hemens, eighth grade, $350; Stella Miller, seventh grade, $320; Mabelle McGuiness, sixth grade, 320; Libbie Depew, fifth grade, $320; Mary A. VanTyne, fourth grade, $320; Florence E. Martin, third grade, $320; Florence Caster, second grade, $320; Frances C. Noyes, first grade, $320; Mrs. J. McKain, music, $200. The teachers number thirteen and the salary list $5,140.

Levi H. Haynes, for many years a merchant in Saline, died in Fargo, North Dakota, July 11, aged 82 years. He first came to Saline in 1841. After a few years he moved to Detroit and after ten years there he returned to Saline, running a store on the corner of Main and Adrian street, later he built a brick store on Adrian street. In 1874 he again removed to Detroit and five years later to Dakota. Here he achieved considerable fame in growing wheat for seed, the demand for Haynes Blue Stem wheat soon exceeding the supply. He grew this wheat after a long series of selecting the largest heads and largest kernels for seed. The remains were brought to Saline last Tuesday for burial.

Since the death of his father in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, recently. Henry Kirchofer has received a number of family relics, among which are two pictures, one of which is 242 and the other 132 years old, and they are now displayed in Jenter & Rauschenberger's show window. They are in a remarkably good state of preservation, the former being a pen sketch and the latter a steel engraving bearing the inscription, "Their most sacred majesties George III. and Queen Charlotte" and their family. Mr. Kirchofer's father was pastor of a church for 50 years in the above place, and Henry remembers distinctly the pictures, etc., in his home, which he left when a young man. His brother Sam, who was formerly of this place, but now of Kansas City, Mo., received his share of the family silver, etc. - Manchester Enterprise.