County And Vicinity

County Fair at Ann Arbor, Sopt. 2528. The residence of J. S. Paqey, at Dexter. will be heated by steam hereafter. The Howell Sons of Veterans go in camp at Zukey Lake the Ctli of tbis month. Dr. C. B. Tweedale fonnerly of Salem, has gone to Cheboygan and commenced practice. The reunión of the 15th Michigan Infantry veterans will be held at Dundee, September 12. Jedele & Staebler, the Dexter buyenr, took in 15,000 pounds of wool on Saturday of last -week. The tbird horse speeding matinee at Tecumseh takes place Saturday afternoon, Aug. 11. Couutv Maccabee picnic is to be held in Howell, Saturday Aug. llth.- PinCkney Dispatch. Kev. Mr. Shannon is expected back in time to open the Congregational church at Salem next Sunday. Mr. Elisba Congdon, aged 72 years, died at his home south of Chelsea, on July 26. Another pioneer gone. Co. D. Fifth Michigan Cavalry will hold their annual reunión with S. C. Wheeler, in Salem village, Aug. 23. The Pinckney folks at Portage Lake cali their place Kamp Koxey. It is presumed "cause they are all so tired." Mrs. I. M. Whittaker, of Chelsea. died .July She was an activo memher of the V. R. C, and a lady wbos loss will be feit. A haudsome cottage, with kitchen attachment, up stair sleeping rooms, etc, is being erected at Base lake by Messrs Sill and Quish. Brother II. G. Willis, the traveling evangelist, of Detroit, has purchased a Bpanking span of gray roadsters from Jay Smith, of Dexter. They have a Strawberry avenue over in Dundee. So called, probably, from the iac-t tbat its inhabitants have a crushed strawberry hue. One oL our leading farmers informa iis that his oat erop will be far better thanhe expected. May 'all farmera be as pleasantly Bttrprised.-r-Enterprise, A spark from a railroad engine set fire to a field of oats belonging to Tuin Hitchingham, near Whittaker recently, and a portion of the erop was destroyed. Wayne loses a game at Dearborn through very rank umpiring.- Wayne Review. Very rank would, of course, mean high, way up, out-o'-sight, front rank. About half of our "county and vicin ity" exchanges are filled with thrilling accounts of hase ball games these days. It makes one feel very gamey to read them. A lot of Coxeyites canvassed Dexter for nickels the óther day. They were searchiug for money but not for work. The latter being very distasteful to them. Manchester bas a base ball aggregation which styles itself "the Foxy Coxies, Local Lodge No. 1, Knighta of Rest." Tbey are Hable to be ar-Rest-ed if they don't watch out. The Plymouth Mail has an article scoring tlie practice of selling articles by selliug chances, and raffling for them. It calis the practice a species of gainbling that is detestable. The A. O. U. AV. lodge of Ypsilanti is making arrangments to hold a picnic on the fair grounds in tliat city, next Wtednesday, Aug. 15. Tlie Ann Arbov lodges are expected to be preeent. Threshers about Dexter report tlie berry of wheat quite badly shrunken in some localities, with a great erop o straw. The latter article, an Ann Arbo buyer, Mr. Staebler, is already in the market for. It is believed that the oat erop bein gatliered is seriously hurt by the scorch ing dry heat of the past few weeks. A large, lusty growth of straw filled with light shrunken grain seeras to be the product. - Salem correspondent Northville Record. There iscomplamtfromsome portions oL the county about "a large green worm " tliat is destroying the tomato vines. Tliis worm is a great forger, and unless -watched and killed will strip the vines of every vestige of foliage and kill theni. The Chelsea Fair authorities have made arrangeinents to have a complete and thorough test made of the butter making qnalities of the mUk given by cows, at their exhihition this l'all, and invite farmers of Washtenaw and JackBon to compete in that line. Therc is great agitation ainong the young men of Dexter, just now, over a vagrunt report that a young lady bicyclist of that village is about to appear in a bloomer cycling costume. The costume is a sensible one, just the same, ïor a Uuly who rides a wheel. Jenkins says it is not a tidy habit which some have in dumping baskets oL paper on the streets, where part are "burned and the rest are blown upon the surroundiug premises. - Chelsea Standard. And Jenkins is right, even it' he does not spell liis name wilh au e instead of an i. Fishing parties to tl l o surrounding lakes are getting quite truthíul, they say that the fish refuse tobite. - Manchester Enterprise. Now we should liketohear the Ssh's side of the story. lt is intimated that the iishers have beeo so msily engaged otherwise that tlieyhave io attempt to catch a bite. A Monroe eounty farmer, who caimot (ford to take his home p.aper, is wonlering where he is ut. Accidently lie icked up a New York'paper the other lay.and the first thing he saw was a reipe tor keeping butter from getting old. Ie sent his $10 and this was the recipe : 'Kat it." The recipe is one that uever ails. Orchards, to be remunerative in the highest degree, must be cultivated. Cultivation gives more fruit and better ruit. The youag orchard should be eontinually cultivated until well into hearing. Set thirty feet apart, and vhen the branches get considerably in the way seed to grass which, when mowed, allow to lie on the ground. To-niorrow wïll be a great day at Chelsea. The Germán citizens will celébrate what is known as Germán Day. uid extensivo preparations have been nade therefor, as published heretofore. The procession starts in at 10 o'clock uid will be a fine one. Large numbers of Ann Arbor's citizens have made preparations to attend, going both by rail and private conveyance. Chelsea hasanew stock com]any, lomposed largelv of the employés of the Glazier Stove Works, known as the Chelsea Electric Ligbt Co., with a paid up capital of $25,900, and officered as follows : Presjdent- Chas. M. Davis. Aire Pres.- Archie W. Wilkinson. Ti-easurer- Frank P. Glazier. SecretMry- Ercd Wedemeyer. General lanager- A. E. Welch. Oscar Briggs left a sick bed at his : home in Saline, on Friday, July 27, and ! went to the mili pond, a distance of ■ about 35 rods, where he threw himself in and was drownéd. He had been in ill health for a long time. and knew that he could not recover. He was a veteran having served in the 25th Michigan Infantry, from October o, 't2 until the war closed. He had lived in Saline all his life except some three years residence in Nebraska. Wiltsie Post, G. A. K. look charge of the funeral services. , Last week the Ann Arbor Courier redits a "limberger clieese " item to he Saline Observeraud the " catch on" tem to the Chelsea Standard. Tlie Vrgus credited the latter to the Dexter jeader. Both items were entirely original in the Record, several weeks ago. The Courier and Argus are usually very carefijl in giviiig proper credit. Both lapeíé have so much worth copying each week that they would not have noticed a little thing like this, but with the Record it is different. - Northville Record. Now boys, whatcher got to say tothat, eh? Yesterday, I'eter Oberlee sold to W. S. Culver the last three years wool clips, amounting to 2,200 pounds at 12 cents ier pound. Two years ago Mr. Culver offered to buy that year's clip at 18 cents per pound. Last snmraer he oífered liim 15 cents a pound for the two years' lip. Moral: Farmers sell your crops, whether grain or wool, as soon as ready for inarket. - Brooklyn Exponent. We'll bet a nickel that the farmer is not especially in love with the soutliern free trade idea which the democratie party is non' atteinpting to force upon the country. Four more years of Grover did not bring Peter clover. The Ypsilantian is indebted to Prof. Benjamin Murray, of the Chemical Department of the New York Experimental Farm, for a box of gooseberries which are the product of the scientific cultivation which that school is following. The Eruit is certainly no experiment, as it is large and beautiful, and of choice quality and excellent flavor. Mr. Murray, it wül be remembered, is a gradúate ot our High School and U. of M., and has held hls position in the experimental school, located at Gene va, for manj years. - Ypsilantian. Personally, wc should prefer strawberries to gooseberries, luit, perhaps, the palate of Bro Osband is pleasantly touched with the fruit mentioned. A plan looking to a more methodical way ni doing things in the great camp is to be prsented at the next meeting, says th( Chelsea Standard : "Acommittee of ltaecabees appointed for the purpose will present to the great camp at Lansing in September a plan for the general revisión of the laws of the order. The features of thia plan that it is believed will especially commend themselves to members of the order at large are those providing for the reduction in numbers of the great camp, the provisLona for biennal sessions of the gre and district camp, the election of all th great camp oiiicers by the distri cantas, tbe election of great camp ofT by the subordínate tente and th ehange in the fiscal year making it end w it li calander year." We spent an hour al L. Palmer's ket factory last Saturday, where we f ound business movingalongvery nicely, althoujrh the partial failure of the berry erop materially reduced it in yolume froin last year. Just now, Mr. Talmer is gétting out baskets to be usod in earing for the peaeh, pear, and grape crops. Among the ingenious machines which he has invented and has in operation is one perfected this season called the bridge machine. It is used for making bridges that separate and support the layers'of berry baskets in the crates used for shipping. The machine is so constructed that it is operated by foot power, separates its tae.ks and drives :our at a time more rapidly than one could be driven by hand. Itwill do the work of six'operatives in the old way and do it much better, and is truly a marvel of mechanieal construction. - Dexter Leader. While helping thrash at the home of bis brother, Win. Paul, last Thursday, Fred Paul accidenüy feil from a scaffold I above the machine, striking head first . on the concave of thu separator, the teeth of the cyclinder caught and tore off the entire upper part of the back of the head, splitting the skull otherwise quite badly, fortunately bis fall was observed and as he struck was caught and saved from being completely mangled and cut to pieces. Dr. Nichola was sent for and did what he could to save the patiënt and relieve him of bis pain and suffering, the task was, however, a difficult one as mueh of flesh and bone could not be found, which make the closing of the opening impossible by quite a spaee. The accident was considered at thertime very serious and his recovery entirely hopeless. He was, however, consoioua and sat up and conversed while the doctor was patching up the opening. As we go to press we are informed that he is doing nicely and his recovery seems more hopeful.- Saline Observer. TUIS EEFEKS TO EOADS. Thé Manchester Enterprise bas tbis article in its last issue : "George Freeze and other enterprisins business men of Clinton put on working togs and went out on the sand road west of that village to make a thoroughfare fit for the kings to ride over. They turnpiked the röad, drew on clay and covered it all with gravel. When it gets packed down, it will be a delight .to bicvclers and a joy forever to the farmers. It is singular that the farmer who has heavy loads of wheat, wood, etc, to haul to town and lumber, feed. etc, to haul home, do not go to work and niake the roads hard and smooth, instead of waiting for bicycle riders to do it. Farmers are certainly standing in their own light. Their inaetivity in the matter of road-making will result in bringing about exactly what they do not want : a money tax for the improvement and maintenance oi highways. Bicyole riders of the country are becoming more nd more numerous, they wiiut good oads to travel over and are working ootli and nail to get the people to favor ieir efforts in influencing congress to :ake action on the subject. The League L American Wheelmen is strong; its ïembers comprise congressmen, sentors and other public officers, besides ïousands oL people wlio will not be taxed one cent to build roads, but who will be willing to vote to have other people pav the tax, if the farmers do not et a hustle on them and make roads jetter theniselves. "We have read letters and other documents whicli lead the Enterprise to believe tliat its warning s none to sotin." It is also strange that farmers when hey do work on the roads- not all of hem, bnt manv of them - will insist ipon drawing the top soil from the side of the road and dumping it in the center to make mud and alush for those who travel it. The writer of t.his traveled over a considerable distanceof road in the southern part of Branch countj', not long ago, wherie that sort of barbarous and outrageous work had just been done. If they had thrown the soil back. and taken the gravel just under it and placed upon the road bed, then in a little time a good, smooth road would liave resulted. But they still eling to the autiquated theory that all that is necessary to do is to pile up a lot of stufl' in the center of the driveway tobe tramped down. AVheu will this oíd and moss grown practica stop? It ought to send a man to jail who does it. _______