Telephone Franchise Before Council

Will Come Up at Milan This Evening

Improved Service Offered by Old Company - Many Building Improvements 

Milan, Mich., Oct. 13.-- The matter of the franchise of the Monroe County Telephone company, as petitioned by Messrs. Seth C. Dixon and F. W. and W. F. Gradolph, of Dundee, will come up for action at the council meeting Wednesday evening. Some people here are quite favorable toward having the independent phone come here and establish an exchange, while others are very much averse to it. It is doubtful which way it will come out in the vote of the councilmen.

Albert Lane is removing the icehouse on the property he recently purchased from Amos Hall, abutting the Wabash railroad property, and is planning to use it for a hay and grain warehouse.

H. L. Neff, of Detroit, is in town today on business.

E. C. Post, who is projecting the Dundee sugar factory, stopped here last evening accompanied by his wife, enroute from the west to their home in Dundee.

A. F. Horton, an employee of the Owosso Sugar company, is here again looking after their interests among the farmers, who have raised large acreage of sugar beets for them this year.

E. L. Black, of Saginaw, had business here yesterday.

Irving Hamlin, of Southern Pines, N. C., visited Clarence F. Needham and family yesterday afternoon.

William F. Ayres, of Adrian, was in town last evening.

A. Amner, of Detroit, made Milan a call last evening.

Philip Hasselblad, the postoffice inspector, has returned to Detroit after looking over the Milan and York post-offices.

Fred Noble, of Azalia, was in town yesterday afternoon.

Last evening, Mr. and Mrs. Webb Blackmer had a social family gathering at their home on E. Main street.

The Michigan Telephone company are making arrangements to give all their subscribers of the Milan exchange long distance telephones, and will also give night and Sunday service, which has been desired for a long time.

Walter B. Redman made a business trip to Dundee today.

H. J. White, of Detroit, is in town today on business.

The Misses Casper have returned to Adrian after a visit with their uncle, John Bunce, and family and Mrs. Rosina Redman.

Will A. Farmer, who has been visiting his family at the home of C. M. Blackmer since Friday, returned to Toledo this afternoon.

S. N. Rice, of Washington, D. C., made Milan a visit today.

Lyman G. Howe's great moving picture entertainment will hold the boards at Gay's opera house this evening under the auspices of Milan lodge, Knights of Pythias.

William H. Murray, of Ann Arbor, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Murray, and attending to legal matters here today.

J. W. Kimball is here from Kalamazoo on business.

R. W. Colton, of Washington, D. C., called in town today.

An automobile from Dundee passed through here this morning en route to Detroit. F. W. Gradolph and Mr. Hittig went.

Albert Lane is buying and shipping potatoes and hay.

J. W. Johnson, of Kalamazoo, came to Milan this morning.

Mrs. Fed H. Knaggs went over to Ann Arbor this afternoon to be with Mr. Knaggs during his operation.

George B. Gilbert and family will remove to Howell withina few days with his tailor shop.

Whaley Brothers are employing about 25 ladies and 20 men in their cider mill and evaporating works.

Okley Davenport went to Dundee today advertising for George F. Minto.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Guy are entertaining guests from out of town.

Thurlow Blackmer came down from Fowlerville today en route to Chicago, and is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Blackmer.

O. H. Westfall, of Ypsilanti, is calling on old friends today.

E. Griffith, of Saginaw, made a business visit here today.

Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Squires are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Reid Darling, of Ypsilanti.

H. L. Lawrence called here from Detroit this afternoon.

C. J. Shaw, of Owosso, made a business call here this afternoon.

F. J. Hammond, of Whittaker, was in town a short time today.

Nearly all the farmers of this section have their corn cut.

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Milan, Mich., Oct. 14.- William H. Druse, who was born in York township, near here, and who has always lived in this locality, died today at his farm in Ypsilanti township, at the age of 64 years. He was troubled with dropsy, following a siege of typhoid fever. For several years he owned and operated the York flouring mills between this place and Saline. A widow and four children survive him. The funeral will be held at his late home Friday afternoon and interment will be in the Childs cemetery, near Whittaker.

Patrick Nolan, a prosperous farmer living southwest of this village, had the misfortune to lose the first finger of his left hand, while disentangling cornstalks from a corn binder while in operation, having caught his finger in the machinery.

The social of the Presbyterian Ladies' Aid society held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Webb Blackmer last evening was largely attended.

Mrs. William H. Houseman has been ill for several days.

The Owosso sugar company is advertising for men and boys to help harvest the large crop of sugar beets in this locality.

Mr. and Mrs. Hyzer are making arrangements to begin housekeeping in M. A. Palmer's new house on First street.

Maurice Day has returned from his two-day trip to Detroit.

Wila P. Lamkin has the work of building an addition to his residence well under way and it will soon be finished.

Irving Hamlin, who has ben visiting Clarence F. Needham and family, has returned to his home in Southern Pines, N. C.

W. H. Sweet, of Ypsilanti, passed through here yesterday in his auto en route from his farm west of town to his home in Ypsilanti.

F. S. French was over from Dundee last evening.

Milton Davenport is working in O. A. Kelly's hardware store.

Mrs. Fred H Knaggs returned from Ann Arbor this afternoon and reported her husband as having passed through his operation without any ill effects and getting along well.

Fred Nobel has returned to Azalia after a visit here.

L. Dunn, of Ann Arbor, is in town today on business for the Michigan Telephone company in the mechanical department.

The Lyman H. Howe picture entertainment given in Gay's opera house last evening under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias drew a fair sized audience, and pleased the people.

Walter B. Redman has returned from his Dundee trip.

Surveyor Jerome Allen, of Ypsilanti, is in town today.

Thurlow Blackmer, of Fowlerville, who has been visiting his parents, left last evening for Chicago on a business trip.

E. Hoppe and J. Munson, Michigan Telephone linemen are here from Ann Arbor today, doing line work on the local exchange.

Walter F. Stimpson, of Detroit, spent the night with his parents.

U. G. Rockwell, of Detroit, is visiting his wife and other relatives here today.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis left for Lansing this morning, where they will visit their friends and relatives for a few dasy.

Mr. and Mrs. Squires have returned from Ypsilanti.

Mrs. John Gauntlett, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Forbes, a few days, returned to Elk Rapids today.

William Woolcott went over to Ann Arbor this morning.

Fred Hasley has his new house enclosed and is shingling it.

Dr. L. Aiston, of Azalia, and his brother from Chicago called here today.

Amos Taylor has charge of the evaporating department at Whaley Brothers' apple works. He has worked at it for 29 years.

Edwin Farrington went over to Ann Arbor this afternoon.

Clayton Braman, who has been ill, is able to attend school.

The Detroit Register company is gradually taking on more new men. They now do the work for the Stimpson Standard Scale Co., making their castings, which were formerly made in Tecumseh.

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Rev. George B. Marsh was born in the city of Hamilton, Ont., Canada, in October, 1869.

After a few months spend in Toronto, he came to the United States in December, 1890, and shortly after entered the employ of the Monitor Printing and Publishing Co., of Rockford, Ill., with whom he remained for several years.

At the earnest solicitation of the presiding elder of Rockford district, Rock River conference, Methodist Episcopal church, he resigned his position with the Monitor company and served appointments at Bussett, Forreston, Ill,, and was ordained a local deacon by Bishop Andrews at Freeport, Ill., October, 1896.

He immediately left for Michigan to assume charge of the church at Wolverine, Bay City district, where he remained for three years. He was then appointed to Chelsea circuit, and organized the church at Lima, which is now associated with Dexter church.

At the end of the year, much to the regret of his people, he was transferred to the Tipton charge, Ann Arbor district, and has just closed there a successful three years pastorate.

Mr. Marsh received his education at the Collegiate Institute, of his native city, and the Rockford Academy, Rockford, Ill.

He was admitted to Detroit conference on trail in September, 1897, and four years later, having graduated, was ordained elder by Bishop Warren at Bay City.

While serving the Wolverine charge Mr. Marsh was married to Miss Blanch Bate, the daughter of a well-known citizen and prominent Methodist of Rockford, Ill.

He is extremely well liked in Milan.