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PICKED UP IN WASHTENAW

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
August
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
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PICKED UP IN WASHTENAW

Brief Notes From the Towns of the Country

INTERESTING TOPICS

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

Houses are in demand in Manchester.

Henry Leuick, of Lima, has a new threshing outfit.

Miss Clara Reno will teach the Dresselhouse district in Freedom.

Fred Wedemayer is building an addition to his residence in Lima.

The village of Saline will erect a 300-barrel cistern on Ann Arbor street for fire protection.

Sueprvisor Walter, of Bridgewater, has a yield of 21 bushels of wheat to the acre.

Henry Bross has moved into the new farm house of William Kirchgessner in Bridgewater.

The Manchester farmers, who have threshed oats, report a yield of from 50 to 80 bushels per acre.

Fred Garrod, of Whittaker, has purchased the farm of C. Davis, of Ypsilanti town for $70 per acre.

Carlos P. Dow and Henry Wolfe threshed 1,550 bushels of grain for M. Keeler in one day. They commenced at 8 a.m. and quit at 7 p.m.

In ten years the Manchester high school has graduated 96. Of this number 22 are teaching, 14 are girls at home, 11 are girls married, 10 are in college, 6 are farming, 5 are clerking, 5 are stenographers, 2 are lawyers, 2 dentists, 1 fireman, 1 in business, 1 a mechanical engineer, 1 banking, 3 dead, and 12, including 11 of the class of 1902, unclassified. Outside of the class of 1902, 29 per cent of the graduates have attended institutions of learning. In all the high school has graduated 210 persons.

It was in April, 1837, that H. M. Russell, one of Saline's pioneers, ate his first Michigan grown apple. It was a sweet bough, and so pleased was he with its variety that he planted the seeds on his farm he now owns south of town. The following spring when the sprouts came up he selected one and cared for it carefully for several years. Wednesday he brought to this office two fine specimens of fruit picked from this tree which is still in alive and in a thrifty condition. The fruit, however, is much changed, resembling the sweet bough much in appearance, but quite sour. This is doubtless one of the oldest apple trees in the state.

-Saline Observer.