The brewery at Manchester has been ivpai...
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Brief Notes From the Towns of the County
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The brewery at Manchester has been repainted.
Larry Kirk is building a new barn in Manchester township.
There are 363 children of school age in the Manchester district.
Miss Florence Collins, of Lyndon, is teaching in Eaton Rapids.
Miss Martha Kusterer is teaching in District No. 3, of Freedom.
Miss Josephine Hoppe, of Sylvan, is teaching the Lima Center school.
Miss Flora Saley is teaching in the Grossman district in Manchester.
Thomas Murray died at his home in Dexter township Sept. 8, after a long illness.
Miss Nellie Mingay, of Chelsea, Is again preceptress of the Clinton schools.
Remember the biggest fair in the history of the county will be Sept. 9. 10, 11, and 12.
They grow big turtles in Manchester. Leo Senger shot a 22-pounder on the upper pond.
The little two months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Riedel, of Manchester, died Sept. 3, of dysentery.
There are 1,248 books in the Dexter school library and 285 children of school age in the district.
Mrs. William Trolz died in Sharon Sept. 3, aged 59 years, leaving a husband and two grown children.
Misses Elizabeth Rawson and Jessie Aulls, of Bridgewater, are teaching school in the upper peninsula.
The Junior Stars, of Chelsea, have won 20 out of 25 games of base ball and scored 436 runs to 216 for their opponents.
The Manchester Enterprise is 36 years old and a good type of a village paper, always filled with interesting local jottings.
George M. Sutton, of Manchester raised 800 bushels of oats and Wm. F. Martin 700 bushels, an average of 50 bushels to the acre.
Miss Bertha Faber, daughter of Wm. Faber, of Chelsea, died in Jackson of typhoid fever aged 19 years. She was buried in Manchester.
The Manchester schools cost $5,134.46 last year. The estimate for next year is about $450 less. The sum of $3,300 is needed for teachers' salaries.
Editor John O. Thompson is now a school trustee, being unanimously elected in Dexter to succeed S. L. Jenny. O. C. Bostwick succeeded himself.
Mrs. Sarah Ann Whittington, who died in Sylvan Sept. 2, aged 83 years, came to Michigan in 1834 and to Sylvan in 1840. She left two sons and a daughter.
Rella Howard, the little niece of T. Wellwood, of southwestern Manchester, was severely bitten in the face by a dog last week, the wound requiring a doctor's care.
Fred Jedele, of Dexter, had a big barn filled with hay and grain destroyed by fire Tuesday, The fire is supposed to have originated from spontaneous combustion.
Bernhardt Koebbe died in Freedom Sept. 4, aged 71 years. He located in Freedom in 1846 and was a successful farmer. He left a wife and three children. The funeral is held Sunday in Emanuel church in Freedom.
The Dexter schools cost $5,221.72 last year, of which the teachers got $2.628 and $1.000 of the school bonds were paid. The sum of $339.99 was realized from foreign tuition. The school tax voted for this year is $3,800, an increase of $200 over last year.
The following are among the Lyndon teachers: Alta Skidmore in district No. 3, known as the Canfield; Kate Collins at Lyndon Center; Marguerite Conway in frl. district No. 12, known as the Mclntee; Edna Deade in Collins Plains, district No. 5; Nora Reade in district No. 10, known as the Heatley.
John G. Feldkamp, of Freedom, did something this year that is new in his experience. He had a field of timothy on which two weeks ago he cut a second crop, securing splendid hay. What was peculiar about this was that the timothy had blossomed out and stood up just as well as the first crop that had been cut.
Director W. .T. Knapp has completed the school census of Chelsea, and finds there are 428 children of school age in the district. Of these 208 are boys and 220 are girls. This is a slight decrease from last year's numbers. In fact the number of school children has been steadily decreasing for the past 10 years, although the population has been increasing. Ten years ago when Mr. Knapp took the census there were 462 children of school age in the district. It was then a common thing to find six and eight children in a family, nowadays such families are not found very frequently.--Chelsea Herald.
Miss Caroline W. Kirchgessner and Arthur C. Jacquemain, both of Manchester, were married in St. Mary's church Wednesday morning by Rev. Fr. McGlachlln. The church was prettily decorated. The bridesmades were Miss Christin Stegmiller, of Jackson, and Miss Marie Fisher, of Adrian. The groomsmen were Oscar Kirchgessner and Henry Jacquemain. The ushers were Rolland Lehr and Carl Nufer. A large and elaborate reception with many guests from a distance was held at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Kirchgessner, and in the evening a goodly company danced in the third floor of the Kirchgessner building.
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