Lived In County For Forty Years

LIVED IN COUNTY FOR FORTY YEARS

Milan, Mich., July 7.––Mrs. Desire Smith, who has lived here upwards of forty years, is dead, aged 73 years. She was a highly respected citizen and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Her husband entered the civil war and died soon after, leaving her with a family of four children, two of whom survive her, Mrs. Frank Ross, of Clare, and Mrs. Willard Halstead, of this place.

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MILAN MATTERS.

Milan, Mich., July 7.––Atty and Mrs. G. R. Williams entertained a few friends on their lawn in picnic style Saturday.

Mrs. R Wilcox is quite ill with lagrippe.

Geo. Edwards is recovering from the fall he received last Friday, while painting at Hotel Stimpson.

Sedgwick Dean is improving his property on Gay street by building new cement sidewalks.

Several Milanites are fishing at Crystal lake.

W. H. Sweet, of Ypsilanti, passed through Milan on his automobile the first of this week.

Mrs. J. C. Brown, of Saginaw, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. L. Taylor, for a few weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Royal and son spent Saturday with friends in Oakville.

Mrs. D. Case is quite ill with malarial fever.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Wilcox and children returned Sunday from Whittaker where they had been on a visit.

Editor W. H. Houseman spent Saturday and Sunday with friends in Moronic.

Mrs. E. A. Farmington and daughter are visiting friends in Detroit for a few days.

H. Teeter, who has been with Geo. Minto, the clothier, for a long time, has accepted a position with C. S. Wortley & Co. at Ypsilanti.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stimpson are entertaining a little boy that reached their home June 27.

Miss Idalene Webb is visiting friends in Detroit for a few days.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Gauntlett are entertaining friends from Detroit this week.

Mrs. Robinson, of Frankfort, is the guest of Mrs. T. W. Barnes and H. S. Knight and family for a few weeks.

Miss Cecil Lockwood entertained guests from Ann Arbor and York the first of the week.

A. E. Pitman has returned from his Detroit sojourn.

Mrs. Chas. Clark returned from a week's visit with her daughter, Mrs. M. Crane at Tecumseh.

G. V. Shoenhart and family are entertaining guests from Toledo.