SOME NEWSY NOTES ABOUT WILLIS FOLKS

SOME NEWSY NOTES ABOUT WILLIS FOLKS

Willis, Aug. 14.- Mr. Chester Alban, of Ypsianti, was here on business last Thursday.

Christian Henning is having his house painted. John and Walter C. Greenman are doing the work for C. W. Rogers, of Ypsilanti.

Mrs. Ina Champion is home from the Battle Creek sanitarium much improved in health, she thinks. Her many friends and neighbors sincerely hope so.

Mrs. Bessie Wright and May Britton made visit to L. H. Miller's last Thursday afternoon.

Milt. Faust, of Cherry Hill, was calling on friends in this place last Sunday.

"Willie'' Carter is going to Dakota and is shortly to take a bride.

Drain Commissioner D. W. Barry and Jerome Allen surveyed a new county drain near Harvey Day's cheese factory last Tuesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith Tabor, of Detroit, are visiting friends and relatives in this vicinity.

Mrs. Maurice Hammond is entertaining relatives from California.

The station agent at Willis has an assistant who is learning telegraphing.

Nearly all the oats in Augusta will be harvested this week. They are a fine crop, but the straw is spoiled.

William Walsh, of Ann Arbor, was here last Wednesday.

Mrs. Henry Walters entertained about 25 people at dinner last Sunday from all along the line frim Toledo to the Centennial school house. They all went away very much refreshed.

Mrs. Jennie O'Brien has two sisters visiting her from Superior.

Lizzie Johnson and sister, Sara, spent last Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Breining.

Mrs. Wm. Bowman, of Detroit, was visiting her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A. Bussell, last week and part of this.

James Bunton and family are entertaining friends from Ann Arbor.

Mr and Mrs. Hammond entertained Mrs. Lottie Feil, her husband, and Mr. Jerome Williams last Sunday.

Orin Lindsley, who lives on the Hiram Brown farm, has bought a farm near Traverse City.

Stephen Foley and family, of Stony Creek, visited at E. A. Tabor's, Tuesday.

Mrs. Harriet Champion was visiting at Charlie Hammond's last Sunday.

As Mrs. J. M. Breining, a life long resident of this place, intends to go to Macon, Ga., soon to assume a position in a colored school or college, where Miss Alice Childs is engaged as teacher, her many friends in this vicinity thought they would give her a little surprise. So yesterday afternoon about 150 assembled at Fraternity Grange hall where they had a very pleasant time and as a token of their love and respect presented her with a gold watch and chain, after which a dinner was served. The presentation speech was made by Mr. S. P. Ballard, who as well as Mrs. Breining, is a charter member of Fraternity Grange.

Foster Hammond, wife and mother, were visiting Charles Hammond last Sunday.

Mrs. Wm. Johnson and daughter, Anna, who were visiting relatives and friends in Canada, have returned and report having had a very pleasant time.

Wm. Johnson, who has been laid up for several weeks with a sore foot, caused by burns received in a foundry in Detroit, has gone back to work.

Elmer E. Sanderson and family attended a party at Edwin Sanderson's, S. Washington street, Ypsilanti, last Tuesday evening.

Henry Walters has commenced his season's threshing with a full crew, consisting of Ben Davis, James Johnson, Ed. Gotts and C. R. Greenman.

Miss Bertha Miller is ill. She has symptoms of typhoid fever.

Miss Annie Greenman has gone to Detroit for a while.

Alphonso Markham, who committed a murderous assault on his aged parents some time ago and was adjudged insane, has come home again and gone to work on the railroad section.

Ralph Breining, who fell through an elevator shaft in Cleveland, O., and broke his leg over a year ago, and was finally transferred to the U. of M. hospital about five months ago from the Lakeside hospital of Cleveland, is at home now and able to walk around with the aid of crutches.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hammond and daughter, Ethel, were the guests of Will Draper and wife last Sunday.

Mrs. Lucy Fullington, of Toledo, O., was visiting with Henry Fullington and family last Sunday.

Mrs. Walter W. Ballard was quite ill last Sunday, being threatened with malarial fever.

Maurice Hogan had another very poor spell one day this week.

The Catholic citizens were lucky in having a good day for their picnic last week. They had a good attendance. The dance was a success,

The travel between our place and the post office has been interrupted this week so far on account of the repairing of the bridge over Paint Creek.

James Bunton and family have arrived home from an excursion to Traverse City.

Married, Saturday evening, July 26, at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. John Hammond and Miss Lillie Heath, both of Augusta township. Their many friends wish them much joy in their married life.

Elmer and Elton Sanderson had a sister and brother-in-law, from Detroit,...

...Quite a number from this place attended the jubilee at Milan last Tuesday.