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Day
11
Month
March
Year
1891
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Public Domain
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Simth Lvon is still after that flouring mili. Manchester will have a " wind-miU ' ticket at her charter election this spring Gregory has an alliance store where alliance men are to have goods at whole sale rates. Heck's flouring milis at Tecumseh was burned last week. Loss $40,000 with $21,000 insurance. The masonic fraternity at Manchester has issued a masonic directory for the benefit of the craft. The Farmer's Vigilance Association is to meet at Grange Hall, Ypsilanti, next Saturday, March 14. Kimble's iron-elad stone boat is now being manufactured at Manchester, in large quantities for the trade. Grass Lake is to have six new street lamps this spring. That is so one may be able to see the grass in the lake. New maple sugar parties are already being given, New maple sugar this time of year ! That's not a sapless issue. Mrs. Bridget Schwikerath, of Chelsea, died March 2d of consumption. Her husband had died five months previous. The Ann Arbor train failed to put in its appearance on Friday evening of last week. We have not learned the cause. So. Lyon Picket. The annual free seat offering for the benefit of the Rev. J. H. Mclntosh will be held at the town hall, March 18, '91. - Chelsea Herald. An average atttendance of 281 out o an enrollment of 293, reported by the Manchester schools for February, is a thing to brag over. The Sunday evening temperatura o the M. E. church is a serious strain on the grace and good nature of fleshy people.- 80. Lyon Picket. Cold waves soon melt, and winter's back is broken, but do not hoek your overcoats, boys, until after St. Patrick's Day.- Chelsea Herald. Frank Kane of Whitmore Lake, attended the funeral of Gen. Sherman at St. Louis, Mo., as one of the escort from the Ohio State University. There is some talk of organizing a building and loan assoeiation in South Lyon, provided the necessary stock can be secured. - So. Lyon Picket. Rev. H. M. Finnegan, S. J., of Detroit, is to lecture on " St. Patrick and his Work," at St. Mary's church, Chelsea, on the evening of March 17th. The chapter masons of Manchester have been invited to Adrián to-morrow night to see the Monroe Chapter men work the R. A. degree in a higlily artistic manner. Mr. J. E. Albright, of Stony Creek, who bas carried the mail between thai place and Milan for the past four years, has secured the contract for another term of four years. - Milan Leader. A Wayne man upon hearing of the death of Gen. Sherman made the following characteristic remark: "Well, veil, all the smart men are dying. Don'tfeei very well, myself." - Wayne Review. Dr. Warner, of Oak st., who servedso long and faithfully in the army during the last war, has been generously remembered at the pension office, 'and now receives a monthly remittance as he deserves. - Ypsilantian. It would seem as though money ought to be plenty when we take into consideration the fact that the People's bank received from Detroit and paid out in carrency $12,000 during the month of February, besides their regular deposita. - Manchester Enterprise. "Do you know," she said, "that clock reminds me of you every time I look at it ; do you notice anything peculiar about it?" "Why, no; I really can't say as I do," he replied as he drew nearer, "except that it doesn't go." Then he got red in the face, and in a few minutes vanished. This is the nineteenth century and civilized Michigan, but you would hardly believe it when you know that the village of Stockbridge has intredicted playing cards of all kinds and will lock up anyone caught playing any card game. - Chelsea Herald. According to that, Stockbridge isn't much on truinps. Doctors sometimes meet with accidents and the rough roads of the past few weeks have been very trying to their buggy wheels. Dr. Kapp came home with the tire off one of his wheels a few nights since, and Dr. Eb. Conklin walked into town a few nights ago on account oí a broken wheel. - Enterprise. Among the ladies of Dundee the work of preparing articles for exhibition at next fall's fair, is already in progress. The ladies department of the fair will never lack interest in the number and quality of the exhibits. No community contains ladies who will take greater interest in making such department of a fair interesting and attractive than the ladies of Dundee. - Reporter. Six of the M. C. R. R. conductora were fired from the road Tuesday . They were among the oldest and best men on the road. Two of them Hiram Hawley and Charles Chambers, live at Wayne. Hawley has been on the road for 21 years and Chambers 18. They are not only good railroad men but most agreeable and accommodating and have hosts of friends. The reason of their discharge is supposed to be for letting a "spotter" ride without pay.- Plymouth Mail. The price of farm lands in most sections of the country is now so low that they are a better purchase than city property, which has almost everywhere been boomed above its actual valué. Many cities which are growing rapidly are so heavily in debt that their future is very doubtful. When a man buys farm property he knows exactly what encumbrances are on it, for he places them himself. There is very little township indebtedness and this is what is turning the thoughts of shrewd capitalists to property in farms as the safest now offered. - Chelsea Henild Daniel Burch, of Sharon was in town yesterday with a face that reminded us of "scar-faced Charley." He says that he tried to sit on a rail and lead a young heifer; when they reached the Sharon hill the heifer made up its mind to go home regardless of Dan's wishes to come to Manchester, and they had a little circus there in the road. Dan hung onto the rope and when the neighbors assembled they found him slightly disfigured but still in the ring. Misfortunes never come singly, so a few days later he ran into a barbed wire fence and cut a long deep gash in his nose. - Knterprise. The large black dog that has been seen upon our streets for several days past belongs to Vayne, and has quite a history. If we remember right it is six yeara this coming suinrner since the faithful animal tírst saw Wayne. Previous to this it is said he belonged to the renowned Chicago base ball club, and they took him with them about the country as their mascotte. It was on one of their trips froni Chicago to Detroit the dog was lost off the train a Wayne Junction. He found a home a the nieat market, which is about 90 rod from the railroad track, and every da since then, when. the dog would hea the expresa train coming he would star for the railroad as fast as he could rui and chase the cars up the track unti they had passed him when he woul slowly return home, only to repeat hi race again the next day. How the an: mal caine to this place we do not know - Plyinouth Mail. The Plymouth Mail protests, vigor ously, against what certainly seems lik an iñjustice: "The Detroit lawyers, o a certain class of them, want more cir cuit judges for this county. It was bu a few years ago that. one judge at a sal ary of $1,500 per year dia the business Now we have four with salaries of $6,00( each - $24,000 per year - and they ar crying for more. "Three good judge with some vim in them, who woiilc bring cases to trial at the time set fo them, and not parley with the lawyer so much, by holding court a reasonabl length of time éach day, could do all th business of the county and save to th people $25,000 or $30,000 a year. Abou the only good that; we can" see to come from making more circuit judges, is to give a good fat office to some third or fourth class lawyer, who could never earn more than one-third of a judge's salary, at law practice. The greater portion of the taxes of our county come from a lot of useless, high salaried officials, who kill time at the rate of three or four hours a day, when they are not fl8hing or bumming, and draw $10 to $20 a day for it, while the majority who help to pay it earn from $1 to $1.50 per day."

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