News Notes From Pittsfield

Pittsfield, May 11.- Charles Roberts who has been on the sick list for some time, is now improving. 

The spring term of school in district No. 3 closed last Saturday with appropriate exercises. A. Summer, the teacher, will teach the coming school year. 

Mrs. Charles Cubitt is visiting friends in Alcona county. 

The trustees of Pittsfield cemetery are putting a Page wire fence with iron gates around the cemetery. 

Martin Kappler is now station agent and postmaster at Pittsfield Junction. 

Walter Sutherland visited Detroit last Sunday. 

But little wheat or rye was sown in Pittsfield last season. 

Frank White lost a valuable horse recently. lts death was due to running against a wire fence. Charles Johnson also lost a horse a few days since, which fell dead in a field as he was working it. 

Pittsfield, May 12.- Frank White lost a valuable horse last week. Cause, a barbwire fence. 

There are several cases of whooping cough in this vicinity. 

John Geddes sports a new top buggy. It is a "daisy." 

Four pupils of the Carpenter district took the 8th grade examination at Ann Arbor last Saturday. 

Darwin Lowry is still on the sick list. but is slowly improving. 

F. Ticknor and E. Hutzel are erecting a lot of page fencing on their respective farms. 

Harry Rose, our genial mail carrier, has a new mail wagon and is therefore prepared for all sorts of weather. 

A. W. Summer closed his school in the Town Hall district last Saturday with a fine program of exercises, after which refreshments were served. 

Mrs. N. Lewis is recovering from her recent illness. 

Farmers are engaged in plowing for corn. Rain is needed badly. 

Wedding bells have rung out in our quiet town. Geo. Mayer is the happy man, having taken unto himself a wife, Miss Matilda Gall, of Ann Arbor. Of course the "boys" and some who were "boys" once serenaded. All of their many friends unite in wishing them a long and happy life. The Argus congratulates.