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10
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June
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1891
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Manchester now sports a genulne gun club. Stockbridge la booming handsomely along this season. Thcre will be a dance at Lima town ball Frldaj evening. Howeil bas just concluded to have a eldewalk built to her cemetery. There nre plenty of applicanta for the vacant position oí Sup't of schools at Ypsl. X.xi Satunlay the Milán liase ball club will cross bals with the Ypsilanti club. Pioneer meeting at Dcxter to-day. Arrangement have been made l'or a ílne time. Farmers in the western part of the county are planting more beane than ever before. The Memorial Day address at Nashvillv, Tenn., was delivered by Hon. E. P. Allen, of Ypsilanti. Mrs. George B. Hodge has returned to Ypsilanti from Grand Forks, N. Dakota, to remain durlng the Bummer with lier íather, C. R. Champion. Gooil roads are a snre slffn of a high state of civilization. How many townships in this county can boast of such a coíidition? Each one ought to. Depnty Game-warden Cushlng, of Brighton will not continue the prosecutian against the thirteen Hamburg sportsmen caught spearing in the Hurón river. I'inckney Dispateh: "The Art Loan alt Aun Arbor has Icen a. grand suceess íinnncially, and ihose who have visit-ed it from this place pronounce it very fine." Calvin Kempf. son of Godfrey Kempf. formerly of l'nadilla was killed reeently in Seattle, Washington, by a runaway. The remanís were brought to Chelsea for burial. Tliie Stoekbridge Sun has been shinIng for seven years now. with not a single ray obscured, but growing stronger and firmer in the firmament continually. May she shine 011 and on forever. A movement is on foot by the Knights Templar living at Ypsilanti to form a commandery there. It is elaimed they would start oïf with seventy membera and receive substantial support from the citizens of the" place. II vaseline or butter is applied to the skin, lmmedlately after a blow of any kind there will be no dlscoloratlon. But to be effectual it must be used directly after the accident. The bruised feellng may be removed with witeh hazel.- AYestern Rural. Horatio Seymour of Waterloo has dug .a well 83 feet deep. Horatio, you know, once ran for president on the democratie ticket.- Grass Lake Xew.s. And old Horatio got in a hole. - stockbridge Sun. Yes and so did the democrat Horatio, and lie is there yet. Xolw comes the days when the sturdy fermer durnps a load of dirt into a mud hole in the higlnvay. yeJla "haw buck!" to iiis off ox, pricks the igh one with a 'brad-a.ll, and goes home under the 'impression that he has worked out liis road tax in f uil. -Ex. Several papers are reportiug that Kev. G. H. Hopkin.s who wandered away from home while insane. has retumed to this place. When Eev. Hopkins ca me to himself he went to the home of tria wlfe'a perenta ín Port Sanilac and has not been here at all. - Ptockney Dispatch. The rtllage authorltlea have 1 n smoothing the waj' to the village lockup. The lock-up has been enclosed with a hiíjh board íence for a pound. That meaos that "critters" both human and inhuman, found running at large Khall be driven to the new corral. - Stockbridge Sun. Siiiih1 anieles stolen from the clothin.il st(ir' of Mr. Sanders, at Ypsilanti, recently, were found in the room of a student named Alired Mitehell, upon liis room being searched. The young man 'had gone to his home at Marine City, and an offlcer went after him and brought him back. "Twenty-three per cent of the marriagefl solemnized in this county are tallures. I fijfured it up some time ago from the number of divorces granted, and 'the number of marriage Ucencea lssued during the same time; aaid I believe it is even a higher per cent than that now. It is strange how many divorces have been granted lately."- Pinckney Dispatch. The Forty Hours Devotion was a grand suceess at si. Mary'a church. Bev. Father Finnegan preaehed moet eloquently, and made frienda of the entire congregation by liis earnestnesa and oharming pereonality. A teature of the closinii on Seturday moraing was the proeession of young ladies ■ dressed i:i white witli wreaths andveila through the church. The entire congregatloo Joined in the einging ol the Te Deum.- ('lwlsea Herald. The mellow goose, the mallard duck, the black bird and the crow. is hen' from south ra fields to watch our cornfields grow. The hungry hawk, the liuiiirry dun, will sometinies come tilonc and add their tuneful racket to the buil frog's cheerful song. The farmer's boj' sent out to plow, will find a stack of hay, lie down upon ïts stinny sid and sleep for half a day. The dry goods clerk with doleful yawn, no customers in sight, on bales of two cent calicó will rest from morn till night. A gentle languor falls upon the bravind the best, and printers are the anly ctees, who have no time to rest. Y'psilanti people are breaking themselves all up over a rumor that Pingree & Bmlth are to remove their large shoe factory from Detroit to tha.1 city. The finn employs 500 hands regularly. A "big thing, gentlemen. Manchester is hoping for a shoe factory. Prol. W. H. Brooka lias arrived at Y]isiian;i trom California, mach improvied ta health. The boys up .-u Dexter have been puiling up aldewalks, and doing what are so generally condemned for. The Plymouth Mali i boom'.ng wate works for tliat place. They expeci ui put thcin in lor about $25,000. Mnltiply it by two, niy friend. The 4th of Jnly will be celebrated ai Xorthvilic, and the Record expects aevenal thousand people In town on Tlint day. Which will be a good record. Mrs. Kdward I'. Gregory, ivlio died in Howell recently, wns a daughter of Wm. MoFherson, and was born at Howell in ls:i'.). The country was quite new then. Last Wednesday evening Principal J. M. 1!. sili of Normal, at Ypsllanti. received the Junior class, and on Thursday evening the senior olass. Both occasions were very pleasani ones. W. I'. Beech lias been choeen Justlce of the peaee at Ypsllamti to tako the the place of Frank JohIvh resigned. Mr. Jotílyji lias gono to Muskegon and is engacred is tile real estáte, law and insuranee 'lmisness. August Blank lias Juat recovered $2,000 from Llroola township, for brenkinc; through a bridge with a load of wood, on a aecond trial. On tho first trial he secured a judRemeot of 93,500. D. L. Quirk. Sr. and Jr., and Mrs. W. Ij. Pack, of Tpsilantl, have gone to Europe. They will visit England, Ireland and severa! other countrles before returning home, lnclndlng the Isle of Mann the birthplace of Mr. Quirk. Tlir recent warm weather has bro't out 'fruit rapidly and crowors.ïn this vicinity aro feeling mucli encouraged at the increasing prospecta ofva fair erop. The damage done by the frost seems to have beem lesa tlian first estima tod. - Leader. The email chlldren of St. Joseph's parlsh presented Rev. Pr. Kelly witn a puree of $65 Tuesd&y. it was given as a token of love and esteem in wtiich thelr departlng pastor is beid. - Dezter Leader. We are sorry to learn That poople so f ar forgot themselves as to take flowers and slips trom planta placed no thr graves in Oak Qrove eemetery. Thore isa ver.v strtogeni law againet such deseorations and we hope that ttoe act will not be repeated. - Knterprte !. But one flap: floated in the breeie here Decoration day, and that was J. Costello's. Whnt's the reason that halyards cannot be put on the park and 'sehoolhouse flag statte? There are times shpn the village shonld display the national colors.- Dexter Leader. llonday evening, while E. R. Beal, the druggist, was enjoying the bear dance at Council Hall, somebody broke out a light of glass at the rear of the building and entered his store. Nothing was disturbed but the till, from which about $3.00 was takin. - Sentinel. There is a searcity of applicants for tli pailway mail service. All citizens of tlie United States, 'between the npres of 18 asid :!." are e-liglble, and those desiring to be examined should write at once to the United States Civil Service Commissioner at Washington for blanke and instruetions. ■tire. H. C. Greirory has given) to St. .Ia nies' society a permanent ment oi $500, to be used toward the support of a elergymam. She lias aleo preaented the church with a beautiful carved wood reoeptacle for tho communion services, as a memorial fur her deceased husband. - Dexter Leader. There is a wonderful piece of sldewalk patchlmg on Rlver gti t jnst nnnh of North street. In the space of rtlr.-cr rode, nineteen patches, of hall inch and inch boards one io three feet loog, are malled over holes in the plank walk. AVhen the democrat aldermen see fit in allow the city to have a street commissioner, we hope that officer will go and look at That walk.- Y'psiSllantian. We used to llave just such walks diere, but they are not near as mumerous as heretofore. Tlie Ypsilantian apologizes to an old ibnchlor of that city in this way: "Our pology is due to (ïardner J. Cross for our blunder In menttoning him as a married man. We trust to 'be excused on the ground that 5t was a natural supposltlon that so good a man as he must have had hia trials and imperfeetions shared and lialved, and lus joys and exc-elli DClea sbarodl 'and donbled, as only a man cao who is the husband of a KOOd wlte." A committee at Ypsilanti appolnted tu Investígate tlie desirability of stabllahiiig a creamery at that place, made this report: "Therefore your committee havlng made a thorough nvestlgation, wonld earnestly recommend the organization of an asaoclation under the co-operatlve plan for a coinbin 'd Butter and Oheeae Faetory of the centrifuga! system, with capacity of not less than 20,000 pounds of milk per day." Another didn't know-it-was-loaded -luis been diseovered, this time in Ypsilanti. Hls name is Conrad and he attends tho Normal. Last l-'riday morning while carelessly handling an unloaded (?) revolver the wenpon was diacbarged, the bullet striking John Morse, the well known Normal athlete, in the ankle. The wound 5s not a particularly serious one, and Mr. Morse ïns nearly recovered drom its effects; luit it was a great disappokitment to liim, coming as it did the day before fleld-day sports at Aun Arbor in which he was to contest; and it also (ii-evented his accompaning the D. A. !. team of atliletes to Pittsburg, Pa. - V])-i. Commercial. A tempeFance editor lias followed a busiii'i oí indiana corn from the fleld to tbe bar, vla the dlstillery. He fimls tliat a bushel oí corn will maleo four gallons of whlakey which retalla for $16. The governintnt n; $2.60; the farmer Kets 4-0 cents; railroad 'ts $1; the manuíacturer ets $i; the retailer gets $7; the consumer gets drunk and gets .SI and cusís. The same corn if fed to a j)ík wtmld produce about 13 cents worth of breakfast bacon and furnish no excitement hatever outside the pig sty. At the annual election of the Saline Arbieter Vereln, held at their hall recently, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President - J. üeoi'ge Ehnis. Vice l'res. - Frank .John. Secretary- Otto Jarrandt. Trcasurer- (. A. Ltndenschmidt. iled. Ex.- c. F. Onterklrcher. Flag Cariier- George Haar. Trustees- E. Helber, M. Seeger, Sam'l Josenhans, E. A. Hauser, J. F. AVcissinger.

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