County And Vicinity
Milán will elect villagc oflicers ni-xt Monday. Mrs. Craiir, of Milán, dled last week, ageü 8G yean. Brighton G. A. R. post liol'is a c:imp fire Tliursday niglit. 'J'he cliarter election of Clieliea occirs on Momliiy, March lOth. The Salem young folks are matiog quite extensively this season. M. C. Edwards, of Milán, liad his house damaged $35 by lire recently. The Sun would liketoseea clieese factory established nt Stockbridge. Many of the Brighton (Mtizens have filled thelr ice houses wilh 4 inch ice. During every inontli this winter farmers have done plowing in this county. Baron & Masón are to remove tlieir machine shop from Saline to Ypsilanti. John Geddes is to bnild a new house on his farm nortli of ChelBea Iliis spring. The good people of Sylvan Centre are soon to have a "decstrlcl Skule" entertainment. Triiey Gorton, of Salem, and Miss Nettie Losey, of Wallaceville were married Feb. 19. Stock bridge his nlieady tixed upon dates tor her Aiinual fair, SepL 30 and Oot. IimdS. About $60 was r;allüed hvadonatlon to lUv. Caldwcll, the Pretbytwlau minister ut Saline, recently. Aa applination for a catnlogue of I lie poultrv fann was the past week received from New Zealand. - Saline Observer. Mrs. Nancy E. Conklin of Chelsea wlio died Feb. 19, had lived there over .'jO years, and had been a widow 23 years. The boy3 are catching "suckers" and other fish from the river, wliich u?u:illy do not run til] spring. - Saline Observer. The local press are quite unanimous in urging tliat only the best men be noniinated for municipal oflkes at the coming elections. There's a gang in thls town that nceds looking after. They would steal the Lord's supper - i f they could get into his dining room. - Plymouth Mail. A man over at Pontiac who died recently left a will bequeathing 11,000 to needy widows of Oaklaud countj'. Now is the time to catcli on. Go early and avoid the rusli. - South Lyon Picket. The voters of Ypsilanti township will be called upon to vote upon a proposltion to buy a site and build a town house, the moiint nameQ uiaiufor boing pbtoed at $1,000, at the coming spring election. Last Saturday while Jas. Hudler was ridingon his ice boaton Cavanaugh Lake, be was thrown off near the landing, striking a plank wlob injured hiin quite badly. - Chelsea Herald. Riding on the ice? This year? Too thin! The young people's meetings Sunday evenings at the several churches are accomplishing ïnuch good, and we notice that similar organizations are springing into existence all through the country in his vicinity. - Milán Leader. The Dunc'ee P. I.'s nre holding biueckly discussions of great questious at their meetings. Last Mondny evening, after disoussing the question,th-y dcciJed that farnilng is more protitable than the mercan tile business. - Reporter. Howell capltalists seem to think that they have ahout as good as got the South Lyon School Furniture Company, while the South Lyonites claim that the company has no intención of moving the plant. How is it? - Brighton Citizen. The T. & A. A. I'y. have been busy fixing a new track south of this station and around the sink hole that has caused thetn so ïnuch trouble. Quite a number of our citizens are employed with their teams in doing the job.VVhitmore Like cor. Picket. We have received No. 2 of Vol. 1 of the Venture, a small publicación issued monthly by the Manchester High School pupils. It is a creditable sheet, not only as to literary mcrit, but au honor to the push and vigor and enterprise of the Manchester schools. The G. A. R. ftamp-fire Saturday nigbt was a most enjoyable aftair, and the excellent program rendered gave the guests au idea that considerable literary talent abounds in Milan, and no small amount is confined within the walls of Lucius Taylor Post.- Leader. Farmers who come into town to remain several hours should see that the blanketson their horses are securely fastenetl. When walking around town one can see about as many blankets on the grouud or around the horse's feet as upon their backs. - Chelsea Herald. The Milan Agricultural Works are booming. Big orders for the celebrated Begole lightning fence machines are getting to be commou occurences; and, with manufacturing land rollers, harrows, and other farm implements, it keeps the factory humming. - Leader. We didn't recognize our old friend the Pinckney Dis)atch last week with its new beading and chango of form from quarto to folio. But we must confess that the new dress is in excellent good taste, and that the editor and its readers are to be congratulated upon the change. The Flint Globe tells of a farmer catching a fellow going out of his pasture one night with a sheep on his back, and blazed away at him with a shotgun. The Globe naively adds that the iellow dropped the sheep, went to Ann Arbor the next day, and when he returned he had a glass eye. We notice some of our exchauges report Win. Lindíley at the Pontiac asyluni. The fact is, WiUiain was a litlle ' light beaded, doe he says to au overdose of medicine lie was taking, and was hurried ofl' to Ann Arbor, but next moruing he gave conclusive evidence that he was no lunatic and returned home. - Observer. An exchange very cheerfully says: 'When you hear a man sneering at his local paper you tnay knovv at oucü that the does not spend any time or money in making them better. A man who cannot see any benelit arising to his town from the influence of IocüI papers is of as little value to the towu as a year old delinquent list." Mrs. Ballard's tulip3 are nicely up. In her thirty years' expurieuce of raising the beautiful flowers she has no recollection of seeing them break ground iu February before. 1890 beats the record of the dead years. The froga, the blue birds, and the robins are out to belgbten the enjoyment that stands aentinel round a cornmunity of happy homes. - Willis cor. Ypsl. Commercial. The lady of this village who Is paoing the expenses of a poor sick woman at a Detroit hospital, under the condition that the act is not to be made public, is truly manifesting the spirit of Christ, who said "see that ye teil no man," to those hc had blessed. Tliere is too little active christianiiy in the world nnl too mucli sounding of trnmpets betore tliat little.- Nortliville Record. At Ypsilanti last Thursday a meeting was held at Granre Hall for the purposc of orgnnizing a farmers club, the object being to disciHssucli subjects as may be pertinent to farmers. The meeting was presided over by H. D. Platt and the name of the Farmers' and Citizens' Grande A.Uiar.ce of Ypsilanti, was chosen, the inembership not to be liniited. The next meeting i to be held on Baturday March Stil, when the committee on constitution and by-lnws will report. The tarifl' will be the ürst subject dUscussed. All well rejiulated schools have some ííuage by whicti theirintellectual capacity ia measured. In ours it is our Alpha Sigma society, of whlcli we are justly proud. The original work done ijy its members far excela that done In miy "preceding chapter of the Sigma's hïstorv. Wlthin the last year it bas advanced so rapidly In general that wc are now willing to place it beside aDy like society in the state. It was organized in the fall of '86, and set suii October 17, 1886, wltta Frank Dorr as captain. Since that time its proceedinfcs have been varied, until this year under the skillful management of the 90"á and Ot's, it glides smoothly over the great literary sea, which is
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