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County And Vicinity

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Day
24
Month
May
Year
1893
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The big fish-yarus- are on their annnal tour. Tho eheeae factory is ruiming again. Bo. Lyon jroung men talk o! organizing a cricket club. The schools close al Manchester four weeks from tp-morrow. Tho M. E. church at MooreviUe la belng repalréd and renovated. Sunday School was organizad in district NO. -,, oí l'ittsïiekl. lasi Bunday. Mrs. (co. Hathaway. Ol Mooreville, has a watCÖ Ihat dates way back to 1812. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. FnUer, ol MUan are to remove soon to Aun Arbor íor permanent ieeidence. Bridgewaterltea go to CUnton to get their tecth puQed- not tlieir eye teeth cut, inirnl you. Earnest Stanton, of Birkett, and Miss I.cna Fiske, of Lima, were married on the lOth inst. Next Sunday llev. B. U Cope wlU preach a memorial sermón at tinManchester M. E. church. The secret societies of lX'xtcr will turn out In full dress and take part in Memorial Day exercUes. Chas. Lavey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lavey, of Dexter, died May 17, of consumption, aged 24 years. Remembcr the meeting of the AVashteoaw County Teacher's Associatlon at Ypsilanti, May 20th and 27ÜB. It wlll be a good meeting. A circus is said to have exploded in Milán a lew days ago. Nobody repoïted injured, but some feUows wew stranded without anything to subgist upon. Rev. Mr. Baumgnrtner, wlio has been preaching at the Webster Congregational church for the past six months, has been called to that pastorate by the church officials. Reader, after you have welghed your neighbor In the balance, drop a nickel of falrnesa in the slot of self-examination and ascertain your own inoral avoirdupois.-Dexter Xews. A Nortli Lake correspondent of the Tinckney Dispatch assk : -'Has that old straw luit and bare foot boy gone out of style T" Oh, no ! We have hún In the cities in great variety. Mrs. KI iza bet h Catharine Aubery King. wife of Caleb M. King, of Saline, dicd on the lüth Inat., aged 6. vears Sbe was a native of Loudon Eng., and carne to ttato country In 1857. The wool market tluts far lias been very dull. Owing to the backwardness of the season. II is probante that i great deal in this Bastion WJ De markend unxvaslied. The price wlU be about the ame as last year.- De.tcr News. Last week Jonn Qotiea sold to E. A Hauser ss-; lambi average welghi 110 pound.-, Uorn. Prom the nock Mr O. rettliMsd 8 per head. Thla is without úonbt as good a flock ol lambe as u ever shipped out of this Saline observcr. The June meeting of the W lister Club will be held at the residence of Wm. lirotkway, and the questipn for discussion will be "Are Fermer'a Organizations beneflclal to the Public ? and if BO, what can b? done tO Stiinulate their Qrowth V' An excellent programme will be preüiroil for the occasion. Doublé gates at the depot railroad croesing have taken the place of the single gatea, al. because recklesa perioaa persiBted In drlving acrosa when the gatee were down. The railroad eompany has narrowly eacaped several accidenta at this. polnt and now they iiropose to stop all crOMlng by Cjoaing the street Ypsilantian. lt paye to take goud care of your poultry as the tollowing clipping will show : At the recent poultry convention held in Wiwonsin, statistlce glven show that poultry ralsing ie one of the most profltable industries of the country. The value of the egg product la the Dnlted States for year 1892 was $2,000,000 and that ol poultry sohl by farmers to sliippers was 1 ,000.000.- Sun. There are plenty oi people nol yet beyond middle life who remember when a banana was abOUl as rare and preeious i thinir as a hot-houae rtrawberry. lt is not easy tor such people to realice that our Importa of the red and yellow Southern fruit reached nearly 18,000,000 bunches last year. or enougb to glve a whole ïmneii to every family In America. 8o. I.yon Plcket. The jrhost who has i n prowllng around our street gearlng children anil timid peopte recently , ran agalnsi a Miau i other nlght, in the shape of :i Met propelled by musclea thai made the uhost thlnk he had been struck i - a caanon ball. Thls ghost racket te one that Bhould have n stop pnt to it and a llttle cold lead pnmped tato it wniiid lic a good tbing for tlio pnbllc.- Chelaea Standard, i' seeme as tbougb the Btandard'a pnnsimniii would be just a trine gevere for ilir crime. H is a shoi-t-si-hu.il pollcy Which inclines pcople to lmy trom agenta and traveiing venderé, artlclea whlch liomo merchante have taken palaa to upply in all neoeB8ary quantitiea and at reaeonable prices. Such perlpatetic dealere cannot !■ looked to for any enterprise of benefit to the town, nor trom any help in carrylng the neceaaary bordene that fnil upon all. They are mnch more UaWe than home dealera bo earry shoddy, and to use deception in Bale, and the Imycrs are usually without remody when deceivd. - Dexter News. The gtreet cinuii having been put u worklng order, the eleetrle Hghta wer Ughted on Sunday nfehi '(r 1ht' iii-st ttae n sis weeke md everybody la pieased.- Manchester Eaterpriae. E. Y. Powell, o! Brldgewater, aged 71. committed suïcide on the 14tn Inst., by taking paria green. Ha leavee a rile and marrled daoghter. 11 was thOUght that lic was Bllghtly deranged. Vour newspaper should be a complete business directory. Every busine.-s man in tOWn should have uil advertisement in the home paper. liet the people know you are In buaineBB. -Clinton Local. It beglna to look as though the Methodist would move back into the old house again. At the meeting callled last Saturday tO talk the matter over there was a declded sentiment that way.- Manchester Kuterjni.-e. Tadpoles and spiders are earnestly sought for by the pupite of the 8th grade."- Delray NewB. Tnat'fl nothim; '. The Digger Indiana in the southwest, live on mueh the lame food.- riymouth Mail. The Milán Leader says tli.it it was "out of sorts" last week and set his locáis in four kinds oí type. Bat the items were not out of Borts at all. In fact the Leader liever lias that kind. They are nlways bright and criep. George Sherman has been putting the lay merabers of his hennery through a. course of evolution, and the result is eggs 7x8 inches in circumfercuce. George Hathaway's hens wlll not have to take a back seat or impi-ove in their art.- Milan Leader. One of the well known farmers of Sharon has hit on a new method of husking corn. It is said that he burns the stalks and huska and then goes around and picks up the ears.- Dexter Xtni. That 's ratlicr oí a husky story for people to take stalk in. F. G. Rounsville. (hlpped a car load of 1893 wool to eaatern partiea last week. The price paid was trom 12 1-2 to 25 cents per pound. Mr. Rounsville informe the Observer that he is of the opinión that wool prices win be about the same as last year. - l'owlerville Observer. On Friday, June 2d, at the reeldenee of S. M. Merrlthew, In Sharon, occurs the next meeting of the Southern Waabtenaw Parmer'i club. Mrs. I. I). Watkina will read an essay ; Win. B. Peaae, a paper; II. B. Palmer, press clipplnga ; and ''Country KiKids" will be cussed and discussed. Sis lawyers havo cstablisiicd elevel law suits on the estáte of John Antciiffe, of Manchester townahlp, valued at the time Antciiffe eickaeged wi.rlds, at about $20,000. The six lawyera enumerated are Hghtlng hard for their client. It is Bxpeeted that the estáte will ocarly or quite pay their fees.- Adrián Press. I.yinan l'urkhart. sentenccd to slate's irison for 1 f e, October 1, 1875, tor the morder of his ancle lias been rrleased [rom prison. The editor of the Sun was present in the court room at Ann Ajbor wben -Indure a. I). Crane. iinposed the seiitenfo. The lad is a Cernían, and did not then aeem to underertand or reallse what was belag done. - Stockbrldge Bnn. Two Waehtenaw eonnty farmers wrrr Iravelimr through the sunny Boutb recently and caatne to a city where 1hey had to change ears. It was a vinion depot, Uut they dldn't know it, so they engaged an honesi hackman to transier tliem ; lie drove them anmnd town for half an honr brOVgM them bark 1o the sanie deiit mul charged them 'i." apiece. - Plymouth Mail. Cheap at half the price. One of the eheerkt men we meet on our strects is tTncle Daniel Pleitte. Tbough far aloog towarda the sunset oí life, with his step somewliat infirm. nia eye still rests apon the bright side, and he eau glve many of us polottera ae to how we may grow old in years, and yet reinain yonng in heart. We trust many years may yet remain to his pilgriniage.- Ypsilantian. A sawtng contest took place at C. H. Wilson's mili last Friday. They ent ou1 12,500 toet ot lianhvood lamber in the toreooon, and in the afternoon (rom 1 to 4. they gawed S.100 making 20,500 teel in s houi-s. ciem wagered SLM1 with the head sa w ver that he could not ent 18,000 teet In a day. Tbe elghi hoora run proved coocluelvely tha1 it could be done, and even a great deal more.- Milan Leader. Here i. a. titnely paragraph from the American Agriculturlst : -'Ii s 1 DOtatoes are soaked for a short time and brushed clean with a very wrak solutinn of pols us corrosiva BUbllniate the erop ol tubera will be iniieh treer trom scab. To be ii trom seab, potatoes without scab germs BhouW be planted In soil whlch s nut Inteeted with the germa ol the parasltic fungue. Cosoentrated minera] fertiiizers aeem t.p .i Invlgorate the plant that the potatoes llghi "ii the seab. (lean seed and clean soil yiehl clean tnbere." a Btranger entering the Ypsilanti postoffice .-111,1 gazing upon the waVüs, u iMii.i ;ii once ínter t hat Quttenberg'a woaderíul Lnventlon ol movable typea liad never been heard oí here, 'and that even the oíd Washington hand presa s anknown to the cltizena ol lilis city ; Trhile tile idea that a n.-wspaper could by auy poartbllity W jniilish.'d here, woalá be treated witii Bupreme contempt. And supU an opinión woulil be Jastlfiable. The array oí "kt," "fouad," "waated,1 and ni i.-ii-t advertlaements ol almost erery aewrlptlon poeted on the walla there, ta prima facie evldenoe lliat the vaI'"' nl' a oewepaper as an adven medium is not anderstood. A nod's as good as a yrUA 1o a bllnd horse."- YpeUanti Commercial

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