Picked Up In Washtenaw

Lafayette grange hold their next meeting at Mr. and Mrs. G. T. English's home, January 7.

The Manchester firemen give a mask call, New Years.

Burtless & Amspoker, of Manchester, have shipped two carloads of cattle and three of sheep and hogs this week.

John Hohenstein has purchased the residence of H. Burch in Manchester.

Chas. Koerning, of Bridgewater, has an egg 8 inches by 6½. Such eggs ought to be sold by the pound.

Almost half of the pupils of the Manchester schools have been home because of the mumps.

Bridgewater is being canvassed for a rural telephone.

The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. John Haeussler, jr., of Freedom, died Dec. 7, of cholera infantum.

Fred Campbell, of Grass Lake, has purchased the Elmer Stark farm in Freedom.

Mrs. Shoor, of Sharon, is building a barn 50x30 feet in size.

Fred Kuhl, who works for Charles McMahon, of Manchester township, was kicked by a horse he was doctoring this week. A three-cornered gash was cut in his forehead, but the wound is not serious.

Frank Ulrich, of Freedom, has returned from his northern hunting trip with one deer. He purchased 80 acres of hard timber in Alger county.

It is believed that Mr. A. F. Freeman, of Manchester, will be reappointed to the state tax commission. Mr. Freeman is a good man for the position and his many Washtenaw friends hope he may be retained.

Miss Abbie Drake, of Salem, will be married to Alexander Spiess on Christmas Day.

Walter Rorabacher, the storekeeper at Pebbles' Corners, has associated his brother from Traverse City in business with him under the firm name of Rorabacher & Rorabacher.

Oscar Stimpson, Clinton Stimpson, Bert Hammond, of Saline, and C. H. Wilson, of Milan, have purchased a big tract of timbered land in Mississippi.

Prof. Hicks. of the University of Cincinnati, will build a summer cottage at Portage lake.

Charles T. Shields, who died at Park City, Utah, Nov. 29, was born in Dexter 50 years ago.

John Roberts, jr., son of John Roberts, of Webster, was killed last Sunday in Chicago by being struck by a street car while crossing the street in a blinding snow storm.

Fred A. Peters, son of George A. Peters, of Scio, who left San Francisco Nov. 6, arrived Sidney, Australia, Dec. 1.

Orrin T. Hoover, the well known editor of the Chelsea Standard, is to be the new postmaster of Chelsea. He will make a good one, too.

Mrs. Stephen Clark, of Chelsea, broke her ankle Wednesday by falling on the icy sidewalk.

School district No. 9, of Sharon, has purchased a new organ.