Milan Had A Gasoline Fire

      Milan, Mich., July 29.-- The high nine will play a game of base ball with the Whittaker nine at Whittaker this afternoon.
     Miss Grace Luxton is engaged to teach the Town line school, east of Milan, this fall.
     Mrs. Hall, of Ypsilanti, spent Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. L. Clark.
     Mrs. O. P. Newcomb is quite ill.
     There are five cases of typhoid fever on Wabash street.
     George Edwards, C. Kelsey and D. Eastlick are taking an outing at Crystal lake.
     Prof. and Mrs. Warren Babcock, of the M. A. C., Lansing, are visiting Milan relatives for a few days.
     Prof. and Mrs. James Clark, of Frankfort, are the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Knight.
     Little Maurine Miller left the last of the week for Cadillac, where she will visit her grandmother a few days.
     A narrow escape from fire at Postmaster Pullen's residence on County street, Thursday evening, caused quite an excitement for a few moments. In some unknown way the valve of a gasoline stove was turned on and the gasoline had run from the tank over the stove and floor, when one of the daughters lighted a match in the kitchen and an explosion followed. The flames ran up the side of the wall, burned a curtain, cracked the glass in the window and burned the window sill. Through prompt efforts and great presence of mind the flames were extinguished and the house saved. No one was burned but it was a narrow escape.
     The Milan people are hoping for a dry day Aug. 5. They are anticipating a great day in Milan on that date.
     Attorney W. J. Schuenight gave Detroit a business call the last of the week.
     Mrs. Alice Trussell and daughter Gladys returned Saturday evening from their visit at Belding.
     Mesdames Whaley and Dyke were called to see their brother, Mr. Veely, who is very ill east of Milan.
     Mrs. E. F. Pyle gave an elegant little tea Saturday afternoon to a few friends in honor of her sister, Mrs. McMurry, of Niagara Falls, who has been her guest for a few weeks.
     MR. W. H. Bowman, of Hamburg, is the new compositor on the Milan Leader.
     Mr. Claud Chapin has returned from his Detroit sojourn.
     Mrs. A. McIntyre, of Moorville, gave her Milan friends a call Saturday afternoon.
     Died, July 26, Mr. Robert Royal, of paralysis. He was 58 years old and leaves a wife, a father and four brothers to mourn his loss. The funeral took place at the house Thursday.
     Messrs. John and George Steidle took in the Toledo excursion Sunday.
     Mrs. M. Ostrander returned Sunday with her children from a two weeks' outing with relatives in Shepard.