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

Huckleberries are a light crop.

Dr. Gates, of Dexter, broke his right arm the other day.

Edwin Rowe, of Sharon, will build an addition to his house.

Stockbridge school trustees are to be paid $10 a year for their services.

Grass Lake has agreed to get along without raising any village tax this year.

Miss Elliott, of Ypsilanti, will teach in the fifth grade in Dexter in place of Miss McKay, resigned.

The Chelsea council at its last regular and adjourned meeting allowed bills amounting to $951.53.

Postrnaster Bailey, of Manchester, wrenched his back so badly the other day that he couldn't act as postmaster for a couple of days.

Miss Marie A. Breitenbach, daughter of John Breitenbach, of Lyndon, was married July 16 in Chicago, to Dr. J. L. Trinkhaus, of Peoria, Ill.

A ten year old lad named Booth, living near James Wing's in Scio, was badly burned about the face by an explosion of powder Wednesday afternoon.

W. J. Ackland, of Dexter, has purchased a furniture and undertaking establishment in Flushing, Mich., and will remove to that village in a few days.

Mosquitoes bother the cattle so much in the western part of the county, it is said, that they will not stay in the fields and graze and they cannot be made to gain in weight.

Among the recent births in Washtenaw have been a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kleinsmith, of Delhi Mills; a son to Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Greening, of Lyndon; a son to Mr. and Mrs. William Bahmiller, of Dexter township; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Little, of Chelsea; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Koenketer, of Freedom.

Notwithstanding the report that the huckleberry marshes are flooded, one lady in the village thought she would go, as has been her custom. Her experience was anything but profitable. On arriving home her shoes were ruined, her hat a wreck and her dress fit only for the rag-bag. She had paid 50 cents for the horse she drove and had secured a half cupful of berries. - Manchester Enterprise.

The delegates to the democratic county convention to nominate county officers from Sylvan are D. R. Hoppe, H. D. Witherill, August Hoppe, Herman Schaible, Adam Faist, Chris. Weber, J. P. Foster, R. J. Beckwith, Frank Leach, William Schatz, James Taylor, Conrad Lehman and J. E. McKune. They were named by William Lehman, candidate for sheriff, and are the first of the list which will be kept and carefully studied by the candidates for county office.