County And Vicinity

She measured out the butter with a very solenm air; The mllk and sugar also; and she took the gieatest care To couut the eggs correctly and to add a little bit Of baking powder, which you beginners oft omit. Then she stirred it altogether aud she baked it full an hour - But she never quite forgave herself for leaving out the fiour. - Spriugfleld Homostead. County Pioneer society annual meeting at Ypsilanti June 13. Dexter is getting to be almost as great a bicycle town Milan. The Ohserver aeserts that Saltae lias i liaiik. Does the Observer joke? E. R. Doane, of Webster, is erecting a ïicw basement barn, 40x76 ieet in size. Ttlie Saline gchool board lias retaineil tlie present corps of teachers for next year. Tli Ypeilanti council refused to appropriate $300 to beautify the paiks ' of that city. Perry C. Bepew, of Sylvan, has sokl 34 ,acres off the west side of his farm to JoJm Conaty. Young People's Presbyterian' social at the home of Mrs. Fred Henne, Saline. Friday evcning. . There ie complaint that the heavy ramy have injured cornfields in different parta of the county. Ben Boper's widow wDl continue tlie barber business that he carried on wkile living, at Dexter. Louis Yager, of Lima, lost 12 valuable rfieep by logs, last week, and eeveraj anore were badly bittn. lii o regardteig the black knot ás very severe and yóu had better take a look t your tres, hadn't you ? It is fliow the season once again ito scrape the mud from the sides into the center of the average country road. Mrs. SaraJi Mansfield, oí Ypsilanti, aged 87 years, died May 24, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. O. Harinee. Flower thieves are up to tlieir old tries at Ypsilanti. Pepper them ■with rock galt. It anay save- the fkwers. L. R. BroTvn has removed from SaliaiO to Beldin-r, nvJiere he is io engage in A confectlonary and restaurant business. The aseessment roll of the village of Howell shows over $1,400,000 vorth of taxable property in that coumty ee&t. Same of the farmers have had to hustle when a pleasant day prescnted Ltself, in order to make up for the ju.-iny wet ones. Ghrietopher Goodwill, aged " 80 yflars, dled May 84, of heart disease and dropsy. He had resided in Ypsilaaiti 50 years. A band of gypsies have been seouring the southern portion of the county, vcry nmeli to the aainoyance of the p-eople tiuereof. Thoso Miio desire to have a 4th of July -cli'li] -itHMi i-hould begin to explode tlie boipbs soon., or it will be everlastingly too late. Mrs. XicJiola.s "Wliitanorc of Manchester, age-d Tl years, died May 20, of kklney trouble. Ihe W. K. C. took cliarge of funeral services. Win. Campbell lias liought the Hiram High farm east.of the Sharon Center church, and Samuel Campbell liaa bought the Campbell farm. Mts. Emnia McTCierson, wife of Al-ex. , MePberaon, died at her home in Ypsilanti, May 22, aged 52 years. Slie had llved in that city about 18 years. Tlie Genmaai-American society of WashtiMiaw county is coimmencing arrangeiinen.ts for its fourtlx annual celerbratáoii, to be held at Chelsea Aug. 9tli. Sylvan townBhdp recelves $28.98 anore primary momey Uiis year tlian last, amd the number of children of BCbool age ís fifteen tess.- Chelsea allí. The Manchester "Grammar Eoomers" w&Uoped the syntax out of the NörvlUiane, at ball, last week. They were deoidedly "active transitive."- Adrián Press. Wan. CroTV-Ioot and -vife lormerly of Saline, tave moved into the LaRue liouso on Main Street. Mr. Crowfoot is ia the real estáte business.- Pinckney Bispatdi. The auinber of farmers and fruit growers who wlll spray their trees ]ias inaterially increased this year. That's the road to Buccess, and the only one in tlie fruit line. Ooi. R. Finley Sinriey, of Flint, is to deliver nn address ander the auspices of the Chelsea K. O. T. M's, at the opera house, on Friday evenling, Jime Tih. Xo ad'mis.sion. E. A. Nordmaa, "Win. AVood and Jo!m Zalm been appointed commisei mera ïor Lima towuship to prevrnr til:' spread oí black knot in fruit trees rand yellowB iu peafth trees. "Wliat use is Coxoy, aoyhow? Tin' dull world aske, a bllmkln'; He's je.st t.liis ise, that feller f, He's set ihu world a-tliiinkin'. - üoston Courier. "Helio, pop!" was the salutatiou of lïevemue Collector Schmid's younjiee1 "kul" tlie otlier day. It was the firstt me Selimid had ever met him. He eame to help the eider Schmid to speoid the reverme.- Adrián Press. The pupila oí the öth and Gth grades of tlie Chelsea schools had the jnumps to suoh an ext-eait tliat they had to give iip tlieir flower Festival last Pridey evening. They couldn't stand too É-well au aftair, you Icnow. One of the society events of Ypsilanti will be the marriage of W. S. Oavpenter, son of Tosianaster P. W. CiriH'iiirr, and MdfiS Helen C. Trim, daughtr oí E. E. Trim, Esq., at the ('(inui-cg'ational ohurch on Tuesday evening June 5. Sunilay May 27 wm observad by Manchester Ixdge F. & A. M., as itb iumual [memorial day, Services ap proprknte thereto were ïekl at Ma sanie Hall, and tlie graves of all de ceased Mason in the cemetery at that plaoe were decorated ivitJi flowers. Bui-glars broke into tlie reeidenee of W. H. Da■eIlport, near Saline, the other night, stole his pants, and ate up lall tlie goodt himgs in the pantry. Miuli to tlL6 dis-embarrassmeut of Mr. Davenport tlie pants vere veturned after the change in the pockets had been abstracted. Kieseed is tlie editor who oan keep liis temper aaid refrain from using language unfit for publicación, ivhen ho niot.ioes a delinquent subscriber diiving back ihoine with a load of wood -svhi&h diO has been unable to sell for a cash value.- Plymouth Mail. Wood you bellere he could. Wre it mot for the low price of wheat our millers might do a thriving business. The water is plenty an j the pover stroiig, but the prioe of w'iheat will aiot move it, only a few bushels occasionally, henee the milis T.ke siiMiy otihers are enjoying somewihiat of a rest.- Salime Observer. The Dexter Leader hits two popular fallaeies very neatly : "The town man is apt to tiiiink all a farmer does is 1" sit out in IHie sha-de and watch tliings grow. A country man thinks all the tOAvn muil lias to do is to sit beliiud a counter and rake in money. T.hatris the renson every farmer wants to move to towii and every business man envíes tlie farmer." A level headed correspondent of the Enterprise remarks : "Stray dogs been seen among the farmers' sheep within a few days. People owning dogs had botter take eure of them. Ome of the dog owners says no one has the right to shoot a man's dogas loaig ae Jie pays taxes on it, but let us catdi these dogs amoiig our slioej) aaid we will take the right, tax or no tax, you bek." For twenty-five years Mrs. Judge Babbitt kas beeai busy collecting differeait frtyles of t,lw old pioneer dishes sucíl ae thO fathers and mothers of tlie pact geaieration used, and has now in lier posseeslon 152 pieces, which are -n-ell worth eeeing. Keeeatly slie recedved an invitation to i'xlubit these reanijiders of the olden time at the pio.iesr meetiug to 'be held in thO Methodist clmroli, Juue 13th next.- Ypeilantian. TJie S. "W. Farmer's f'hib -vvill meet wiili Mr. and Mies HiteliCjOCk, Sharon, ou-Friday JunO lst, and discnss the following qnestion : Resolved, that in üranting the right of i-uffrag.e to woanan the hdgheet int-eresbs of society ■v,Ul be promoted. Mrs. Hulbert wil] spi'ak on taie affü-mative and Geo. S. Rawson on the negative. There is little doubt but that the wlll be interesting.- Enterprise. Cavanaugfe Lakers are tiusy getting affaire about the camp in good repair, aaid a few new cottages are to be erected, 011e of tlie-m betug under wa,y at present. Tlie late is very high, the groumds ore in good ooaidition, and altogether our popular euramer resort ne-r looked prettier tiian this year, and if preeent iiidioations count tor ausht, the seatsoii -w 11 a llveiy one.- Chelst-a Staiidard. A correspondent of the Ypsilanti Commercial gives tJiis bad case of top knot : "We join in our Ypsilanti tovn correspondent 's theory about the black knot. On black cherry trees it is beet to cut thean down and get rid of tlie whole by buming. Last year we had severa! trees Lnfected and took pains to trim all the knots off, cuttimg in some cases nearly the whol top off. Thte year they are woree taan ever, as -n-hat to was left lias more knots than before." ThO attention of highway com'ers as well as every land owner or occu paart, is lnvlted to tJie statutes of Michigan whioli provktee tliat every occnpaait of land in Uiis state is required to cut ck"wn all Canada tiüsUes growing om his jiremises, or the w:y passing by r tbrough the saine, as often each Afar as shall prevent ihmn gotng ito se&d, nnder penalty oí fine oï teil dollars for evei-y muU failure. The hiylnvay Coanmissioiu'i- must notiïy all wlio faii to comply Avit-li thlfl law and if in fiv.' (iays ilii'y d oot cul tliein down, the oammJeeioner Jias it done and collects tlie expense tromt he owner or occupant. In an opinión of the Supreme court oí Michigan, di'livcred last week, it was held thnt the right to the use of liiglnvays could not be limited to the mearas of transportación contemplatcd "wh-eii the laad was taken or giveai for ttoat purpose, tmt must include all ionproved agencies for transporting freiglit and paesengers and transmittiing intelligeiice, tJiat have or may come into use, Including liorse, steam and electric cars, telegrapli poles, etc; amd tliat these canaot be considered as imposlng an additional usage upon abuttlmg property. That seems to be pretty far reacliiinig, aud wo'iild permit a towii to grant the use of a Mgliwny to aaiy raiüroad or canal wliich Avould Jiot ol)struct its common use as a hiigliway, with no private riglits of property to interfere. It cosnpletely covers Bil such cases as ■vere brought agaimst the motor line in Pittsfield and Ann Arbar.- Ypsilaaiti Commercial. " HIT 0R MISS." The following poent was written by Mrs. Wra. Scadin and read at a meeting of the Webster Farmers' Club held at the home of Mrs. A. M. Chamberlin, May 12 1894 : ' Hit or Miss" was the subject I tho'tlessly chose, Dhen sat down to write with the greatest repose, elighted to tlilnk I had happened to light on A subject so good and appropriate to write ou. ?hinks I to myself, " What a motto is this ? '11 take it for mine throughout life, 'Hit or Miss.'" Then auother thought came, " Would the consequence be Just what we desired ?" Let us figure and see. Yhat. a plight would the farmer soou flud himself in Should he with that motto his spring work begin ! Hit or Miss " goes the plow with a din and a clatter; Plow deep or plow shallow- 'tis really no matter. He would surely hit somethiug ere lie carne to a stop, And theu wonder at missing a very good erop. Ve next take the lawyer. Of eourse he la tryiug 'o do all be can for hls side without lying. A sure hit every time he is aiixious to make, o our motto'll'ne'er do for the lawyer to take. The preacher makes Mts thougli we winee and we smile, And try to appear so uneonscious the hile, lis duty.is plaiu euougb, though he does it in love, Ve must put the coat ou wheu it flts like a Klove. ' Ie liever must miss, 'twouldu't do for a minute; Or, as the phrase goes, he wouldn't be '■ in it." he doctor comes next wlth his powders and pills, 'o cure the whole list of pains, aches aad ills. hat humaus are air to; we'll have to admit i', x powders aud doses aud tries hard to hit it. 'e'll wblsper it softly, the truth of it this is, ometiiues he mav cure but more often he misses. 'hen a serious side to our subject appears, y which ye may proflt through all coming years; s we travel through life let our inottow be tbis, Try to hit all the good, all the evil to miss." Among the excursionists from Mt. leasant, Frankfort, etc, over the T., A. A. & N. M. K. K., last Sunday, was a Urs. Noble, whose husband kept a larer shop over the American Express Otapany's old stand, on East Huron t, sonie 12 or 13 years ago. She wasery much surprised at the growth of ■lie city, and declared th'at it had been nproved so much that she hardly knew ït, and could scarcely flnil her way to any given point. She seemed quite well acquainted with Dr. Franklin and qthers who lived liere in those days, and recalled many incidente to mind that transpired about that time. She seemed quite well pleased with her visit, and if lier anxiety uot to be left behind by the special train was justly rewarded she was not imong those who were compelled to return from the depot on tlini evening and seek quarters with friends here for the niglit, grumbling at their hárd luck in being too late to catch the train, and at the extra expense thus foreed upou them. The Ann Arbor Courier praises the press of neighboring places for the liberal advertising given the May festival which was given there last week. If in otlier cases, as in the Sentinel. ágement forgot proinised courtcsies, it is doubtíul if ín the future the complimented papers will feel like advancing gratuitous publicity to such entertaiunaents.- Sentinel. Had the Sentincl applied for tickets as the Enterprise did, they would probably have been gladly furuished. Manchester Enterprise. And yet the Sentinel is not altogether wrong. The success of the entertainment was largely due to the publicity given it by the generous editora of the country newsoapera of the state. They each and every one paid for tickets of admission just as truly as if they had sent their cash, for they gave the enterprise what is cash to theni, advertising, and without that advertisiug certainly the festival would not have been the success it was financially. The newspapers should have .been treated generously, and their complimentary tickets should have had no string tied 'to them. Neither should they have been couipelled to beg for thein. The village of Fenton pays one-lialf the expense of putting down walks when the citizen desires to build a stone or cement walk. Where is Ann Arbor's vaunted enterprise? Echo, p-r-i-s-e ! Did you hear it?