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Day
23
Month
April
Year
1890
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Public Domain
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Saline brags of her clean streets. John Allen is to move back to his farm in Lima. T he Leader reporta four vacant houses in Milan. And now Stockbridge is to have !i new brick yard. The Milan Agricultural Co. is said to he doiug a good business. A number of newbooks have been added to the library at Milan. Dundee's cheese factory starts out with a íine prospect for the yeur. Howell proposes to put tip the coin for for a lirst clasa base ball club. Mrs. Eliza M. Roberts of Ypsilantl town died April lOth, aged (55 years. Hou. J. D. Corey and T. J. Fanell are the new trustees of Manchester. A new wire fence is b-ing built uroutid the Base Line cenictery, Unadilla Jolin lïockwood and II. L.Van Wormer have startcd a mcat market at .Milan. Miss Bertha Kalembach teaches in the Schenk district, Sylvan, thls summer. The school In district No. 10, Sbnron, vvill be taken care of by Miss Belle Dorr. A man in Ypsilanti town issaid to have drank a half-barrel of eider in one night. Accordlng to the Excelsior it is proposed to enlarge the South Lyon town hall. The residence of Win. Tuttle, at Chelsea, was destroyed by fire last Wedncsday. Augusta township will p.iy n bounty of 10 cents on woodchucks and 10 cents on crows. Evangelist Wilis has conrerted 225 men at Fowlerville. Struck a lich vein evidently. Moscs La Fountain, aged about 7."!, who lived just south of Milan, dled Sunday of last week. Tlie P. I.'s will linlrl r meeting at the Grove school house, Ptttsfleld, to-morrow, April 24th. Grass Lake townriilp wys 20 cents for woodchuck sealps, and 15 cents for cjowh and bawks. The M. E. Society of Siline la to glve a grand entertainment and chicken pie supper soon. The Stockbridge fair MMclaMnn is spending $1,000 on its race track, making a dandy of it. The house of Dan'] O'Brien, Sr., in Augusta had a chiinney shiveied by light ning recently. The church socials and one entertninment at the Shttron town Unit netted $52 the past winter. Not satisüed with wanting many other thrhgsStockbrtcfge, through its Sun.wanu a cheese factory. Yp3ilantians will havu (ce dHivered to thom t. %.'? OM, $2.50 mi f:!. OU Dei m.,,,11, Véry reasonable. The Pittstield Union Sabbath School is a great success this season, the attendauce being very large. Theyoung men of Wayne have formcd an Athletic Association, and propose to make things lively. Airs. Warren Uabcock, of Milan, is sper ding a few weeks with Iricnds in tlie northern part of the state. Tlie Sun wants a man tocóme to Stock - biiilge win) has a few tlioiisand, dollars to invest in a fornitura factory. A justiee of the peaceof Supeiior ndvertises in the Ypsi. Coiiiinereia':".Matrimony a speehilty." Calch on boys? The court house is completed at cost of bout $40,000. The" original contract was $27,4ü6. - Brighton Citizen. The Söth birthday of Mrs. Su.san Schaf fer, of Oak st., Yisilanti, was plrasatuly observed on Apiil lOth, by herfrleuds. I). B. Green, of Yp-ilanti, has been appoite by ödv. Luce a delégate to the cominif national Conference uf Chanties at Baltluiore. Lee Wolf, of Suaron, feil f rom a load of wood becsuse one of the reina which he was holding parted, and the fall broke liis collar bone. A lodge of P. of I.'s have befii organized atSliaron, willi Wm. K. Mount as president, E. E. Uiker, secretary ; Daniel Biirch, treaurer. Senator James Gorman's team run away lust week, at Chelsea, severely injuring Mr. and Mis. John lï. Moore, whose wagon they run in to. Jas. L. McQuaid is in jail at Howell for murryiug Miss Emma Dodge, of Fowlerville, last December, when he had a wife already in Penn. We understand that the lake shore company will batid a new bridge on the Ypsilanti branch across the river in this village.- Manchester Enterprise. The Hernld States that some of the farmers about North Lake are sowing rye this spring for feed. Well, it is better to sow rye than to drink it. The Ply mouth Mail man feeds his office cat on "obituaryand other alleged poetry," unless accompanied by tlie cash. We pily the cat.- So. Lyon Picket. Prices paid for graln in Dundee market : Wheat, 68@78o; oats, 25c. ; com, stielled, 38c; barley, per cwt., 75; cU.ver seed, $3.00.- Dundee Reporter. Ten milis and elevators out of 20 in the county, reported 87,048 bushels of wheat marketed duiing March, and 293,i7- bushels marketed since August lat, last. A portion of the old Hawkins house, Ypsilantl, which was built some half a century since, is being moved for the tbirO time mid will now do service on Hawkins street. The "Decftrict Skule" will ?oon be presenled here by local talent. Look out for it! It lias creatrd great consternation elsewhere ! Byerybudy goes ! - Milán Leader, Lettucf and radi-hes of our own giowing now gruce the writei's table. They weregrown underglass, ho wever. - Saline Obsirver. No hariu in taking a glass in that simpe, surely. The Con e M. P. church will be dedicated May llith, 17th and lölli, tiie opening service lo coininenceoii the evening of tlie 16th, mid the dedicatory sermón and service will be held Sunday nioriiing.tlie lStli. - Milan Leader. Learned men teil us that in Latín the word editor ineans "to rat,1' and one of the smart bretlnen ot the press addi, that in the United States it ineans to scratch around like " blazés'1 to eet BÓmellllng lo eat. Exactly !- Ex. A $10,000 farm will pay better than a $10,000 stock of merchandlM with salet at ten per cent. above cost of goods. Any mercliant who tries to sell goods at those ligures will tind hlmself in a hole sooner or later.- Stockbriüge Sun. A class inEnglUh Qrammarwill ganlzed at the Y. W. C. A. rooms on Wedesday evenint; next. Arrar.gements liave also been madeto havo plaln sewing taught on Saturday afteruoons at thrce o'clock. - Ypsilanti Commercial.. The L:idies' Iibrary Association of Ypsilanti bas received $503.43 during the past year, and patd out $424.84 leaving a balance of f 00 59, against a balance of $1.01 the year previous. Tliexe were 141 books added to the library dorios tle year. We are pleased to know tbat anotber of our old Saline boya has struck it rich out in the "wild and woolly west." Aaron Scliaircr drops usa line toacquaint us of the faet ihat he is daddy of another boy. Go wetí yoflng people, go west. - Observar. The "unlon depot" at Monroe Junction, on tbr T. & A. A. was struek by lilitnlng last weck and entirely destroyed. 'l'his wlll be welcome news to any who have ever been go unfortunate as to be ohliged to seefe shelter uiuler its roof. - 3aline Obscrver. Postmaster Cremeroffers $25 roward for the appiehensioti and evidence to convlct the person who threw a lighted match into one of the east side letter boxes, bndly Injijrlnj? two letters. Whether the offense was malicious, or thoughtlees, the authorities will punish the guilty party severely, if caught. - Ypsilantian. L. W. Briggs, of Dexter, bas sold his fine residence in tliat vil lage, and a large portion of the furniture therein, to Patriek Lyon, ofBrooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Lyon is an ex-policeman of tliat city who liaa been pl-iced upon the retlred list and pensioned. He will take possession soon, and become a permanent resident tbere. George Bryant, colored, living on section 1G had his house with nearly all the contents destroyed by lire week before last. No Insurance. It was a hard blow to Mr. Bryant for he is a poor man but a good, honest, hard working man. He had just finislied paylng for his farm whlch cost bttn $400.- Whittaker C.r. Ypsilanti Uommeroial. Kverybody is pleased to noticc tbat robins and otlier nativc song birds are much more numerous than usual in our streets tbis spring, whlle the Knglish sparrow is congplcnoua by liis absence. That Imported llttle Uilef [iroved too much for our more peaceable Yankee birds, but wben the Yankee boy with an iiir gun pot after hini, he bad to go. - Brigbton Citizen. In another column will be found the flnanclal statoment of the village administration for the past year. We would direct the atteution theretoof those persons who one year ago predicted that the"kid', admiiiistration would plunge the village into bankruptcy and ruinatlon. More money remalns in the treasury thau was theie one ypar ago, besldes in no one year havo more iunprovemente been made about town tban during the past year. Good for the " kids." - Dundee Reporter. Natban Pleroe, who bas jut returned frnui a seveial months' trip to California, telts the writor tiint it bas been the worst season there, tbal bas been experienced since the country ws settled, and that times are close and hard. He is contented to get back home once more. - Chelsea Standard. As " Nate" drove oxen across the nariow strip separating Michigan and California two or tlirce times and spent a good deal of bis early manbood in California, probably knows all about It. - Stockbiidge Sun. If the city of Ypsilanti h;is such need of revenue that it is thought advlsable to license BUCh dlsreputable exhibitions as that npened on Huron street yesterday, we hope the bat may be pussed and two dollars raised for her. That is the amount that went into the treasury, and vile-minded young men, and those more disgustintr objectSjVile-minded old men, were regaled wilh an "anatomical1' display that had to advertise itself as unlït to be seen by women and youth. We protest against the licenslng of any such exhibition here. - Yps:lantian. "I never was =o ashamed of my gnoranee in my life as I was today," said Bass. I went into a store, and there was a lady in there with a dog. The woman spoke French, and, if you'll believe It, that dog understood every word she suld, and I couldn't understand a syllable of it ! After tbat I shall never bfl alde to look a dos iu the face."-

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