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County And Vicinity

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
August
Year
1890
Copyright
Public Domain
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Saline is talking up a cheesejfactory and creamery. Livingston county lacks 785 peopte of belng as numerous as in 1880. The new Cathollc rectory at the Northflcld cliurch wil) cott about $4,500. The ground is very dry in most parts of the county ,or the farmers to plow. lïemember the pioneer soclely meeting ntE. A. Nordman's grove in Limn, Sept. 3d. An Adrián man has invented a horse corn planter that wlll plant two rows at a time. Signal service flasrs will hereafter be ilispluycil from Thompson & Co's. store at Miliin. Walter F. Lewis, of the State Normal cliiss of '87, will teach tlie Dundee school nextyear. Last Wednesday evening St. .Toseph's Catholic Cliurch atDexter made $50 by a lawn social. Tho freight house and elevator of the M. C. Il R. at Dexter are being repaired and slicked up. The arch on the M. C. R. R. at Mlll Creek, Dexter, Is belng sprung thls week. It is a fine piece of work. Cut down the noxlous weeds, thistles, etc. alonp the ronds and in the fence corners, and tluis save yourself imicli labor. Rcv. M. II. Bartram, of Milán, liad a fine, new easy chair placed in his house by 8ome person unknown during the absence of the family recently. A kind act. It is said that a number of Chelsea's young ladies are utilizing their beaux's epistles by convertins them into fancy pillows - they're awfully soft.- Chelsea Horald. Lust Tuesday, Mr?. Henry Speer, who is visiting her son in Battle Creek, feil while coming down stairs, breaking her left arm and dislocatiriK her wrlst. - Chelsea Ilcrald. The Farmera & Merchants Bank of Mllan declared a 5 per cent. semi-annual dividend on the lst of July, besides carrying over $325 Into surplus and undivided proflt accounts. - Leader. Fred J. Henderehot, of Tecumseh, Normal class '88, who is to teach at Muskegon next year, was married on Wednesday, July 30th, to Miss Myrtle, daughter of P. H. Rouse, of Pittstleld. Miss Mayme McLouth, of Brooklngs, S. D., has just been given a $1,000 position as stenographer in the Agircultural Department at Washington, after passing successfully the civil service exiniination. - Ypsilantian. On Tuesday, Aug 12th, the Catholic chureb of Northfled is to give a pinato at Smith'g grove, Whitmore Lake. Dinner wlll be served for 25 cents, and the proceeds devoted to the new rectory of tne Northfield church. The Methodist Episcopal Society, of South Lyon, whose church editice was struck by lightning recently and destroyed, have resolved to build a new one in its place, and to comnience work at once. The new building will be of brick and to cost $5,000. It is thouglit by some that the Toledo road, if not at the bottom, is largely nterested in the proposed new line from Lelands, via South Lyon, to Flint. If so the attempt to take up the road from here to Lelaods will no doubt be abandoned. - So. Lyon Plcket. The tuimel arch Is progressing. It is one of the most difflcult pieces of work in the line known to engineering. Kacli stone in the arch is of a different size and shape, and of itself a key, and an immense amount of work is necessary in cutting them. It is the tilth arch of the kind in the United States.- Dexter Leader. In regard to making road iraprovement a good many people are like the Arkanaaw traveler: Wben it rained he needed a new roof to liis louse, and when dry he did not. So when the mud is deep and the roads almost irapassable, they discuss the problem of securing better roadt. When the mud dries up the the discussion also dries up and ends in nothing.- Dexter Leader. The sarae old story, no place like Michigan. So Johny Ottmar thtnks too, as he just returned from Montana, where he went to ?eek fame and fortune a few months since. He'says the cllmate is mucli more variable than hcre, bcing extremely hot one day and uncouifortably cold the next. On the whole the West has no charrúa for liirn and he did not venture farther, but struck a bee line for Michigan, wlilcli is good enough for iiiin. - Saline Observer. The Grass Lske News says: "Unless a top is puttothls pestilential klckingon the part of di-gruntled towns over the census returns, John O. Sharp in his wrath will bollsh the whole census business of tliis country henceforth and forever. This would be a misfurtune because Detroit and Chelseacouldthen doublé upon their enormous lies about their population and nobody could refute thera. Consequently we hope John will reconeider his determination to extreme measures, no matter how much he may feel provoked." The Hammond importatlon of Shropshire sheep arrived here Sunday rnornlng. They were at once takeu to the farm. Sorae 30 went in wagons, and the balance, about 265. were driven. Ten of the siieepdied either during their journey or after arriving here, from the eftects of over-heating. But as is usuallly the case, these were the poorest and least valuable ones. The prlze winners whieh Mr. Hammond purchased including the twoyear-old ram, Windsor Prince. He was bred by the Mansells, England's greatest breeders, and has won the First Hoyal twico in succession. He is undoobtedly Hit; liuest Hhropshire ram ever brought across the pond, and is indeed the best ever bred, except perhaps the great Héctor, now dead. Windsor Prlnce occupies the position in the Sliropsiiire world thut A.xtell does among trotting stallions. They are eacti the best alive. - Yusilanti Commercial. What might have been a very serious conflugration was almost miraculously prevented last Wednesday mornlng in the house of the editor. Ou account of unusual excitement the night before occassioned by a iiew subscriptiou baving come in early in the evening the family slept rather later than usual Wednesday morning. The family noticed on awaking a kind of suttocated feeling sucli as comes from overheated apartments, and the editor aróse with much difSculty some time after day break and suspecting tliat all was not right below made his way cuutiously down stairs. The wall on the stairway feit warm to his hand and he hesitated about opening the door Into the sitting room for fear the flamen would rush up the stairway. After shouting to bis wife to let tliechildren out of the front winclow in a sheet, with great presence of mlnd he slipped out the outside doorand going Around to the wood pile seized the axe mid broke in the kitcken door. With the puil of water he had thoughtfully drawn from the ciatorn he ruslied into the kltchen the moment the door feil in. No smoke appearine he passed through the rooms without finding any tire and upon returning hurriedly to the kitchen fotiud thut a match had dropped from the match safe in the excitement of the previous evening and was liable to be ignlted at any moment. By a suelden and adroit movement the editor íecurcd the mntuh and saved what otherwis might luive been a destrnctive flre. - Ypsihmti Commercial. PITT8P1KLD. Miss Mury Cody Is visitin Aun Arbor friends. Mabel Waltz, of Wnllz station, is the guest of Louis Harwood. Henry Walker is entertaiuinv his cousin Miss Green, of Fliüt. Mary Belle White is entertalning her cousin Lottie White from a disunce. George and Knima Heinninger ppent the Sabbath with friends at DUborough. The Misse Lydia and Mary Fiegel viaited their graudparents at Lodi latt week. Station Agent Peters is very ill and has been taken to Saline for qniet and medical attendance. Arby Hurd, of Sommers, carne home last week to attend the funeral of his cousin the late Mrs. Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Caniield are yet in New York. Mrs. Canfield who lias been quite 111 is reported better and they are expected home in about two weeks.

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