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Picked Up In Washtenaw

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
September
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
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Brief Notes From the Towns of the County

 

INTERESTING TOPICS

 

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

 

The Dixboro schools open Sept. 15.

 

School opens at Manchester Tuesday

 

George Lehman will teach the Dorr district in Sharon.

 

The Dexter band expects to make its first public bow Monday.

 

A number of new lightning rods have been put up around Manchester.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Fletcher, of Lima, have a little son, born this week.

 

Miss Nora Reade will teach the school in the Heatley district at North Lake.

 

The damage to the Sharon town hall by a storm this summer has been repaired.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Wells Martin, of Manchester, have a little daughter, born Aug. 27.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bertka, of Freedom, have had a ten-pound daughter since August 25.

 

The new Willis depot is a handsome structure. Stock yards are being constructed near it.

 

Uncle Sam has leased the present postoffice in Saline for 10 years more. New boxes will be put in.

 

Miss Mabel Barrows, of Ann Arbor, will teach the school at Delhi Mills which opens next Monday.

 

John Stule, of Scio, threshed 224 bushels of oats from a three-acre field in which three bushels were sowed.

 

Wilbur Short, of Bridgewater, threshed 380 bushels of wheat from 10 acres, and average yield of 38 bushels to the acre.

 

It is reported at Dexter that the Boland line is to be at once completed to Dexter and that village made the eastern terminus.

 

Postmaster Charles Pullen, of Milan, had $3 taken from .his vest pocket in the middle of the night by a burglar who entered his residence Wednesday night.

 

Fred Lucht, of Lima, threshed 1256 bushels of wheat from 45 acres and 618 bushels of oats from 12 acres, an average per acre of 28 bushels of wheat and 51 bushels of oats.

 

Farmers in Sharon and that locality report an epidemic in the sheepfold, attacking chiefly the lambs. Capt. E. P. Allen has lost about 50 lambs from his flock. Postmortem reveals the presence in the stomach of a vast number of worms which are said to subsist on the food in the lambs' stomach, so impoverishing the animal that it dies of starvation. It is a serious trouble and no certain remedy has yet been discovered. - Ypsilantian.

 

Roy Ives, son of Homer Ives, who resides just north of the village, met with a narrow escape Tuesday. He was working in the bean field and heard a rifle shot and then felt his straw hat move. He removed his hat and discovered two holes through the rim, in such a position that the bullet which made them must have passed within a quarter of an inch of his head. He does not know who fired the shot; but some time before some boys had been hunting woodchucks near there. - Chelsea Standard