County And Vicinity

The Chelsea schools close to-day for ihe liolidays. Tlie Lilios' Libmry of Dexter is conipnsed of 860 voluraef. The Saline Q. A. K. boys are to liave a grand bal) Christmas. It is asserted that $50 per acre can be realized frcm sugar beets. Smith Huil, fonnerly of Saline, died at Salt Lake City, Utah, recently. South Lyon is to have a Merchant's Carnival soon after the holiday.-. Mornlng prayer and sermón at St. James' Church, Dexter, to-morrow. Mrs. Derlne, of Webster township, died Dec, 12, aged 97. An old resider.t. Clover seed, so far as threslied tbis year, averages about one bushei to the icre. Saline' tnxes are lower tlian last ytnr, au', stil 1 higii enougU to satisfy the people tbeie. The Lidies of the M K. churo.h, Saline, will five the Temple of Faine next llOMlh. All of the churcheg in Saline will have 3bristmas exerclses either to-night ortonorrovv. The Chelsea fire department give an oyfter supper next Wednesd iy evening, Deo. 31st. Tlie Cbelsea Union P. of I. ig to meet n Chelsea Dec. 27th, at 2 o'clock p. m , to elect oflicers. The Christmas festivities In the churches at Dexter will be of uuusual interest tilla year. The eastern stock market is very poor hls winter, and western buyers are losng money on sbipments. A P. of I. social Is annouuced to take )lace at the residence of VValter Ucade, n Webster, on tlie veningof Salurdsy, Dec. 2Tth. There ar 2-1 taxpayers I ti Hotvrll who )ay over $100 eacli. The most piiid by any one man ie $585 79, by Wm. Mct'hersoii, Sr.; the next $4G4 9Ü by Alex. Mc?herson. A Pittsfield farmer ha- had the mUforune to lose tliree borses the past year. That would seem to dlsprove t!ie saying liat "lightning never strikes twive in t lie ame place." - Salii:e Ubserver. An exchanpe says that a man by the name of Corn was niarrled to a Udy named Wheat, Ín chiirch at Iosco and tlie choir etunned the audiencr present upon he occasion by slnging "What Shall tlie Harvest líe." - Plymouth Mail. Our Cherry HUI correspondent lust week said that it was rumored that the Aun Arbor aud Ypsllanli street railway would be extended to this place. It's the Srst news of the kind we have heard, but k'fer come, we'll glve it a glad welconie. - Plymouth Mail. A man who recently went West is sald o have wrilten home as follows: "This s indeed a wonderful country. Every latnlet is a town, every lown a city, every farm a ranch, every barn-yard a cornil, every inound a mountuin und every man a llar." We have an Indian museum at our ifflce - Silting Bull'a sacred coat, hls autograph, dress made by a Sioux squaw, lej;ins and ornaments - urtiules klndly left lere for luspi ction by Mr. Ancil Williams, who procured them from the Indiana durng his sUy at the ajjency. C ill aud see them. A notice has been posted on the door )f the Qillelt church (.Sliaron) warniag all persons fiom clislurbinjt or removing any portion of the property, and the mii.ch penple are considernbiy excited over it as it looks as though the Gillett lielrs were attetsptin to take posession of the property. - Enterprise. Tliere is scarcely a day passes wlien we do not see sonie one, ofien a lady, hurrying to {jet out of the way of a fasl coming team. It would be veil for such drivers to remember that under the laws of Michigan and the declsions of our supreme courts, pedeitrians have the rigbt of way mi all regular cross walks and eidewalks and are not obliged to run to get out Of the way. T. C. Owen has received from a fiiend in Wesl Virginia a beautlful pair of sucns. The iiitie ïeiiows, not yet full growo. are lively and apparently In jjood condition. It' lie can keep them so until spring, they will be an attractive feature on tiis grounds, and with hls cooiis and 'piissums he should be ab!e to make himHt-lf solkl with the colored population. - Ypsilantlan. The next meeting of the Southern Washtenaw farmers' club will be held at Wm. Pease's, on Friday, Jan. 9th, at 10 o'clock a. ra. The programme will consist of reading selections from a noted author, by Airs. F. Spafard; essay by Mrs. Lyraen Bldwin; the question for discussion, Wliat is the relative value of the different erops of our mixed farmiug Paper by James Welr. - Enterprise. How dear to my lieart Í9 the old yellow pumpkin, when orchards ure barren of .-tulliii tur pies; wlien peaclies and apples have both beeu a fallure und berries of no kind have greeted our eyes. How foudly we turn to ihe fruit of the corn field, the t ruit t luit our children are taught to despise; the old yellow pumpkin, the mud covered pumpkin, buncombe big pumpkin, that makes sucli good pies. - Ex. A new fuke is heing worked on the farmers in some ncljthborhoods by a couple of alleged hurki-iers. They cali at a residence and proclaim tliat one of their chickens husesoaped and got in with the farmers' Hoek. They get perinission to catch it, and soon hive one of the farmer's hius in tlieir wagon, tliey have lost none at all. In thi way two men gather up a good 8:zed load of poultry every day. The farmers wh'im they vlsit are out a lien apiece. - Pinckney Dlspatch. There 13 a joke golng the rouuils at the expense of a modest young newspaper man in a neighborinsr town whicii is so good that it ought to be true. The young man, in question, it appears, was recently Invited to a party where the home had recently been blessed witli an addition to the family. Accnnipanied by liis best xirl he met his kind hostess at the door, and lifter the customary salutation, asked after the welfare of the baby. The lady was suffering from a cold, whlch made her slightly deaf, and he mistaken ly supposed that the young man was Inquirlng about her cold. She replied that thonsrb ehe usually had one every winter, this was the worst one she had ever had ; It kept her awake at night at first and conti ued her to her bed. Then noticio ; that the scrlbe was getting pule and nervous she said she could teil by his looks that he was going to have one. The paper carne out as usual ncxt week, but the editor has given up inquiring about babies.