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Day
23
Month
September
Year
1891
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Public Domain
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Dundee made about $600 Clear on her fair this year. The M. C. R. R. are Improving their grunüs at Chelsea. The fruit evaporator of Geo. Mitchell, at Lima, la running night and day now. The machlnery for the new ereamery at Ypsilanti has arrived. Harvest home testiva] at the opera house, Saline. Sept. 25th. The Manchester Enterprise has completed lts - " i h year añil has been a very successful Enterprise. A greater acreage of wheat is beiiiii' SOWn thaii usual this ïall. A South Lyoo nrm have put a i cleaner into their elevator. The bending works, burned at Howell some time ago, are tu be rebuilt. l'eter Welenett, of Saline, has invented a new iron fence post thai b.e hopea will make a fortune for Mm. The River Rasin mili in Bridgewater has been thoroughly overhauled, and ïs now belng run by CSias. Koernig. The editor ol the Manchester Eb prise has nis nerves strengthened by gardenera who bring in cholee bundles of celery for lus mastlcatlon. The Chelsea Standard is a bright, handsoiiie paper, witli an energetic pen weilded in its behalf. H appears to be thoroughly wide a wake. A much Iarger area of corn ground will be sown to wheat in this section than usual, as i he season has been favorable to clean tillado md the fields are in fine condition to receiye and bring forward the sown wheat.- Enterprise. The ladiea of the Baptist church Win hold aimual fair and festival on Oot. 2d and 3d. It is desired that every member of the church and society will dónate Bometbíng, and thereby make the enterprlee a success. - Milan Leader. A stranger in town noticing the eudden advent of school girls into the city this week. reinarles that the Windows of heaven must have been opened, for the angels are all coming down among us. That man is a judge of feminine beauty.- Ypsilam ia n. We had a wedding in Lima last week, Conrad Finkbeinder, Ji, to Miss Kate Strahle, of Sharon. The happy oouple were treated to a serenade by the boys with horns, gun, etc. Mr. and Mrs. Finkbeinder are going to live in Uncle Lute Cooper's house.- Chelsea Herald. A shrew'd swlndler la worklng Van Buren county farmera by taking orders for political charts. The orders eventually prove to be a certifícate of agency and an agreement by the purchaser to buy one dozen charts. These are delivered by a confedérate and the farmer usually compromises. - Chelsea Standard. A great many accidenta are being reported In our state caused by the explosión of kerosene. Slnce the last legislature lowered the test of Michigan oil it is not safe to fill a lamp by the light of another or light a Hre with it imless your life is insured. and then you had better not do it.- Pinckney Dlspatch. Miss May J'.owcrman, near Hanover. picked this aeason 5it qxiarts of huckleberrles, whlch netted her $49.15. 8he woulü easily have secured the other four quarts to make an even 600, had shc not upset her pail white "whallng" a massassauga thai was tryiitg to become one of lier shoe strings.- Adrián Press. ■ E. J. Bissell has bren appointed receiver for the defonct Milford state bank. The cause ol the faUnre is attributsd to a series of unprofltable investments and liad lo.ms. The aniount of liabllitles and The prospecta oí the depositors for recoverlng their money are vet mikiiown. Bx-Gov. Begole, of Fllnt, is among the heavy 8tockholder8. Dr. H. P. Slgler and sim. Claude, who have been across the water to the Sandwich [slands for the paal few "weeks, returned on Thursday eveniiifi last. Thcy report everything fine at the islands and the voyage liome a good one. B. C. Staekable, whp went witli them rematned in Holohilu with liis brother.- Pinckney Dlspatcn. On Saturday laat Clyde Beeman, ol Lima, fifteen yeara okl, stumbled and feil while running clown hill and broke both his torearme. In the right arm both bones were broken; in the left the radios only. llirec years ayo the same latí broke both arme in a similar manner, though not in the same places, in falling from a eherry tree. The road trom Kast Manchester to Wm. Rehfuss' farm was never in as fine condition as it is now and it is a great pity that the farmers could not have seen the advantage gained and continued on east ]ast James Wier's. We onderstand that Mr. i:iifuss spent a considerable sum of liis own money in making the road.- Manchester Enterprise. Tbe majority of the scholars 11 this district are glad that their vacation will ï.i st another month. Tiiis is ju.st the seasoa when Dame Nature is doing her ixst to eoax the young- out of doors. The mu genius ripe and n i to be gathered. It is the ghooting seaaon, and every fellow old enough to have a gun wants to use it.- Chelsea Herald. Ir is currently reported that many young men in their zeal to make a bijx record as sparrow shooters and perhaps also tho money there is in it. have bren guilty oi a Wholesale i wanton violation of tho law protecting the song birds of the state. With them "everything goes." Wrens, jrround sparrows, cow buntings, yeliow throats, chewinis and gwallows ilaughtered premiscuously and delivered to township and city clerl Engüsli sparrpwB. It is also reported that cases are being worked up in regard to severa! rtolations oi law. the penalty íor v.iik-h is Hve dollars íor each blrd so destroyed.- Citizen. Jacob Heselseh-werdt and Jaco Kerns, oí S.vlvan. will probably no race horees any more. Last Tnesda pvcning while endeavoring to se uhk-h had the best horse, their Im.ü .ules became Intermingled, throwin ftverythlng In a heap. One whci was taken oíf of the buggy of Kerns two from the buggy of Heselschwerdi Knus escaped with lmt a gcare bu Heselschwerdt went into the dltc resultlng in a dlslocated elbow.- Chel sea Standard. Oíd Monkland, July ii, 1S41. i the teadlng of a certaln marrlage cei tlflcate that united as one, Mr. Ai drew Craig and Margaret Trail, both of the parish of Crosshill Quad Sacra The service took place at Glasgow, July L6, 1814. The certifícate dlffera somewhat In make-up and styl front those used on American soil and i-; really a relio tor future generatlons. Mr. and Mrs. Craig will be remembered by many of their Saline frlends.- Saline Observer. We understand that Mr. Geo. Il Hammond intends to soll all of his Shorpshire sheep, and devote bis farm south of thls city to breedlng trot tlng borses. it is said that the Crosby. of GreenvUle, have made him nu offer for every sheep on the plan about 700 head, iiicii he may accept It is also said that he has contracted for raising his sheep barn, and fitting it for horses, and has had the Burreylng done for a mlle track. which he wlll soon fit up. - Ypsilanti Commercial. Three adjoining dwellings on Am Arbor street are occupled and ownet by octogenarlans. These men havi ftach done their share in holpini; to beautify this country and make oui villago to rank auiong the prettiest in the state. If the active men ol to-day will manifest an equal interest with the founders of our town, the result would be the most desirable residence village in the state.- Dexter Leader. Chas. Lemon was requested last suiumer to get an estimated valué of a lot in tliis village, having on it only a small barn. The result is quite interesting. The estimated valué giren by nine competent men who were intorviewed privately was as follows: $350, $500, $400, $250, $500, $350, $400, $üOO, $400.- Dexter Leader. An associatlon has been formed at Dexter for the parpose of building a vault in tlie village cemetery. Gco. P. Paxson, on the Swamp road, has just threshed 29 3-4 aeres oí Clawson wheat, yielding 1,172 bushels by mensure and 1,270 bushels by welght, making an average yield oí 42 3-4 bushels per acre. Mr. P. thinks there were aerea in liis íield which would liave yielded 50 bushels to the acre. Also threshed 16 acres of oats yielding 880 buslicls, averagiiiü' .")." bushels to the acre. Tliis is a sample of the productiveness ol (arm lamls about Dundee when worked by a thorough farmer llke Mr. Paxson. - Dundee Reporter. On Tuesday, Sept. 8th the wrlter enjoyed the pleasure of meeting with bis rcuinient, 20th Michigan volunteers, at their 2üth animal reunión at Lansing. One hundred of the old boys were there. Business meeting was held iu the Senate Hall in the Capital. Anu Arbor waa the place deeided upon for hildiug the next reunión. We have been very fortúnate in the last year, in regard to deaths, ha ving lost but two members during the year. After the business meeting was over, Col. Grant, who is one of the judges of the supreme court finally invited the boys to visit the supreme eourt room and office of the judges. Wfcen he carne to lis own desk, after unlocking he said, "Boys I want to show you something." He thcn took out of hls desk a boa a bout íour and a hall inehea long by two and one half iuclies in width, and said, '"The eoinrade who made and gave ihis box to me is here to-day." The box is of pine and was made with a Jack-knife. Dpon opening the box he said, "The eomrade who turne iliis sec of chess men is also present." They were giveu to him in 18(52, and upon being asked if he wou ld sell tliem. the Col. said that the 20th was not worth money enougb to buy them. - ]

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