County And Vicinity

Dr. F. E. Moyer has hung out hia shingle at Whittaker. Peaches are reported a short, erop from all parts of the county. Augusta, wife of Michael Goltz, of Lodi, died Aug. 8, aged 62 years. Dundee expects to have her streets lighted by electricity after Sept. 1. Emanuel's Sunday School will picnic in Schmid's grove, Manchester, Aug. 30. The machinery for the new flo-urlng ing mili at Belleville is being jut in The Catholics realized about $90 from their picnic held at Whittaker last week. Mrs. C. C. James is erecting a liandsome and commodious cottage at Base Lake. Michigan has 17 cities with a population exceeding 10,000, and Washtenaw has one of 'em. "Echos from the Diamond," says the Wayne Tidings, wouldn't scintillations be more flashy? Many of the farmers have commenced fall ploughing, where it is wet enough so that it is possible. About 150 Germans went to Chelsea last Thursday from Ypsilanti to take part in the Germán Day exercises. There will be some rare attractions - something entirely new - at the County Fair to be held in this city Sept. 25-28. David Wilcox, near Dexter, threshed 225 bushels of wheat from seven acres of Land. If that wheat had only been corn? The 43d Sunday School Convention Institute for Monroe Co., is to be held at Azalia, Aug. 21st and 22d. A fine program has been prepared therefor. Considerable wheat is being marketed now-a-days. The farmers are cleaning the old wheat out of the bins preparatory to filling thein up with the new erop. An oily tongued fakir talked some of the easily gulled Clinton people out of $25 the other night. Clinton has electric lights, and is quite a town, and yet, think of that! The office of the Hawkins House, at Ypsilanti, has just been thoroughly refitted with a 'new tile floor, an ornamental fireplace, etc, making it extreinely attractive. Out of a total of eleven games played this season, our ball team have won eight. They have won the last seven gaines, which beats last seasou's record. - Clinton Local. Richard Coe, near Urania, has just harvested and threshed sixteen acres of alsike clover, which netted him a trifle over four and one-half bushels of seed per acre. - Saline Observer. The man who forgets about the Farmer's picnic at Whitmore, on Sept. 25, will not only do himself a wrong, but deprivo liis fainily of a wonderful sight of píeasure. Everybody proposes to be in it. Archibald McMülan-, severa] years ago the proprietor of the Dexter Leader, now one of the proprietors of the Bay City Times-Press, is being talked up as democratie oandidate for congress in the tenth district. "Whats the matter with the daisy ; the tulip and the pink; the sunflower and the pansy? we know them all, wc think. - Xorthville Record. That's all right. You don't belong to the "general run" of people you know. The populists are to hold a jubilee camp meeting at Dexter on the public square on Aug. 18, at 8 o'clock p, m. Good speaking by Gus Peters. No music will be necessary, as Gus will give them song enough. Sixtoen dollars is the a-mount deposited witli the Piymouth töwnship treasurer to tiie credit of the poor fund ias tiie dying vequest of Amy Sheriunn, after the exeeutor had paid all tlie debts oí the deceased. Tlio populista are to hold a jubilee camp at Dexter on the public square on Aug. 18, at 8 o'clock p. m. G-ood speakling by Gus Peters. Ko music will be jiccossary, as Gus ■will give tliem song enough. The Manchester school board is busy seniling out the catalogue of tlieir excellent schools, and advertising thein throughout that section. In that way Manchester has built up a splendid reputation for its model schools. Arcliibald McMillan, several years ago itiie propriefor of the Dexter Leader, aiow one of tlie proprietors of the Bay City Tittnes-Press, is betog talked up as a democratie candidate for coaigress in tlie lOtli district. Jerome Allen went to Saginaw last Friday and brought home bis daughter Cora, who had been sick there with typhoid fever for several weeks. -She stood the journey well, and was rejoiced to get home once more. - Ypsilanti Commercial. AH the Bomen Catholie Sunday Sclvoo'.s of I.ivmgston county wül Joln tlie pspoteetamt schools in the great county Sunday School rally to be held ftt llowell Aug. '22d. It bids fair ito be aso. event even great er thau last year, avIii'H it Avas an immense succes-i. To encourage clover make the soil rich and don't feed or cure the last erop. Let the seed mature on the land. It won'tget lost. It" the clover maturing it seems to be wastecj don't worry. It will hold the suow, act like a mulch oñe year and thén root to make more clover another year. - Farm Journal. Farmers and otbers are advised to give a day at least to the destruction of thistles and noxious weeds that grow in the flelds and along the highways. The pernicious Canada thistle now seeins to have a rival in the Russian thistle and a vigorous warfare should be carried on to extermínate them. - Enterjrise. The game last Thursday, between Dearbom and Wayne, finally broke up ta a row, with Dearborn ahead. Thie umpire left om the first train, to escape belng mobbed. - Wayne Review. Why didii't you swipe him one with a bat Or somethiiig ? These miserable umpires are dangerous persons to be at Xarge. Fred, eon of Mr. and Mrs. Foster LitchfieW, of Delhi, died Aug. 3d, aged 31 years, aft er a lang eontinued illnese. Hts disease baffled the skill of physicians, and on autopsy developed the fact that It caime from a malignant internal gro-vtto, the probable resul of en injury. HO was born in Webster, Dec. 17. 1863. The T. & A. railroad has commenced cutting down the hills between Nora and Urania, thereby reducing the heavy grades that have worried the road ever since it was bnilt. The men, about sixty, are boarding in this village, the most of them at the Babcock hotel. It will take two or tliree inontlis to complete the work.- Milan Leader. It is stated that there are about twenty applicntions for every vacant teae-her's position hi the county. ThLs rmakes wage stow, but does not necessarily iinprove the quallty of the teaching-. A poorly paid teacher does not -vork with near the energy amd heart that a fairly paid one doe?. This is !true iai every line of labor. We were amused a few days since when asked by a citizen "what has become of electric railroad." Really what has- nothing of course - as was predicted and expressed by many when the cry was first started.- Saline Observer. Micawber was always waiting for something to turn up. This road is simply waiting for something to turn it up. The southwestern portion of the county is infested with a gang of chicken thieves, and farmers should set some sort of a trap to catch them. A shot gun, properly loaded, aimed at the door and so adi usted that the opening of the door will fire it off, will have a tendency to lessen the ardor of these thieves somewhat should they once get a taste of it. The Davenport bank building is nearly finish ed and the proprietors are hopeful of soon being cosily and comfortably located in one of the neatest and most convenient little banking quarters in the state. The finish of il is of selected stock of quarter sawed oak, dressed and polished by Joe K i ton whose taste and work cannot be excelled. - Saline Observer. Walter Dennison from Pompéii that he has made the ascent of Mt. Vesuvins, whence came the destrnction wliich nearly 2,000 yeara a;o overwhelraed the people whose houses he is visiting. He looked down several hundred feet into the ante-room of the bottomless pit, but the door keeper wasn't visible and Walter didn't send in his oard. - Ynsilanti Commercial. Adam Francisco, on o'd soldier, died at t.he home of hls sister, Mrs. Jesse lame, last Saturday, at 12 o'cloelc. He has been far eoane years a great sufferer from rheiimatasm nud for the past frwo years lias made his home witli Mts. Liane in this vïïlag. Tbe funeral was. held at the house Monday morming and tifie remains, taken to Aun Arbor for burial.- Uexter leader. The three barns of the farm of Leon ard Bassett, in Lodi, were burned last ïhursdiiy, together with their entire contenta. It is supposed that the fire caught from some hot ashes dumped on the ground by tlie men who had been threshing there that day. H. O. Lamkin owned the grain and other contenta oí the barns. The total losa is over $3,000, insnred in the AVashtenaw Mutual for $2,500. Hear! Hear! Ilear! Ia it possible that Milan is guilty of all this, cliarged by the Wayne Tidings: "With two pitchers and a catcher from Ann Arbor University, a third baseman from Ypsilanti, and the balance of the team from their own town and the aasistance of the umpire, "Milan" base ball team defeated the Athletics of Wayne by a score of 17 to 16." Why didn't they mob the umpire ? Hing Lee.Ypsilanti's Chinese laundryman, isn't worrying over the ChinoJapanese war. He says, Let 'em fight, China got plenty men. Neither is he deeply interested in Chinese success. He thinks her defeat would overthrow tlie Tartar dynasty and restore the nalive Cliinese dynasty to the control of the Flowry Kingdom, and that tlie nativos would welcome any foreign influence rather than the Tartar rule. - Ypsilanti Commercial. As the tneadow mole has become such a nuisance in so many places, the question arises, bow to get rid of the pest. A correspondent writes to the Farm Journal: "To trap moles bury a large jar so that top of it sball be about a half oi' one inch lower than the bottom of mole run. Cover with a board or stoue and give the mole time to drop in. It was one of iiiy tasks when a boy to trap tlie moles in this way, and many a mole 1 caught in that river bottom, forty y e ars ago." A jiev kind of potato destróyer has beeoi discovered i a the shape of a worm. He enters the vine a little dist&nce above fhe gTound and sips bis ivay down to the pot atoes, providing there's any in the liill. The vi nes wither and die. The only way to extermínate the rasca! is to seek Mm out, lay him on a good hard bjock and hit him eeveral rather hard raps with an ax or any t hing within reach.- Fowlervüle "Obeerver. Married, at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the home of the bride's parents on Tolan ai., in tliis village, by Sev. Mead W. Kelsey, of Traverse City, Mr. Mansfield M. Davenport, of Mooreville, and Miss Evelyn M. Ward. The wppy young people left on the 5 o'clock train for Detroit, from which point they will go on to Branford and Weiland, Canada, and Niágara Falls and Crystal Springs, N. Y. They expecttobe absent about two weeks. - Milan Leader. The Plymouth fair is to be held Sept. 25-28. All right. We'll paste that date in our bat, make it a point to take ifin, run over to Northville and make a raid on the Record man's commissary department, and show him what an organzed appetite can do toward wrecking a newspaper.- Adrián Press. We were about to invite Bro. Stearns over here to see our pumpkin and cattle show on the same date, but he can probably stop on his way home from Northville, after that appetite has been assuaged. A girl's taste diifers according to aige. At Bixteen she wants a dude wifcti tooth picked ehoes and a mi(iroscopic mustaehe ; at twemty a ctoieï justiice wíth a pile oí tin ; at twenty-five she'U be satified with a member of cojigres-s ; at thirty a countiy doctor or preacher viU do ; at tliirty-five anything that wears pants.- Fowlerville Observer. Sow the questioai is, how in the Old Nick the Observer jnjan ever found out so much iilxiut the gtrift never having been one himself. The directors of the union savings bank, feeling that they needed a better place in which to do business, and wishing to do somethingto better the appearance of our village, have purchased the land on which the old union hall block stands, of the Unterkircher heirs, and will erect a handsome brick block there this season. Geo. L. Unterkircher will remove the building from the site. Dr. C. F. Kapp, George Heimendinger, John Wuerthner and A. J. Waters are the building cominittee. The sight is the flnest in the village and a modern brick building will add much to the appearance of exchange place.- Manchester Enterprise. The Ypsilanti Commercial tells this : "Tliere is a queer freak in the yard of Dr. James, on Pearl st. A thrifty young catalpa tree was in bloom there two inonths ago, when suddenly a large part of its top apparently died. In two days the leaves and flowers all dried up, and are hanging black upon the tree now No cause of the disaster could be perccived, hut the stranger part of it nou appears. After being apparently dead for several weeks, the branches are being reclothed with fresh leaves." The flrst leaves got a whiff of tliat Ypsilanti mineral water, andconcluded thej had woke up in the wrong country, am it has taken them all this time to fint out their mistake. J. D. O'Brien liad an experience one day last week that he don't care to re peat very soon. He had a 2-year ok heifer that would not stay in the pas ture, so he caught and put arope on her so as to fix something on her to keep her from getting out; as she stootl quiet he did not tie her but let the rope laj on the ground and set his foot on it; the rope had a knot in one end and was uu braided a foot or so ; the heifer at las became frisky and lit out ; as the rope was drawn along the noose caught his foot and he was dragged about 20 rods through logs brush and stubs, am escaped with some bruises and sprainet ankle. Jerry says if he ever prayed for someone to come along with a gun i was just about that time. - Whittaker cor. Milán Leader. WORTJI KXOWINO. White and Yellow turnips can be sown as late as the twentieth of August and do well. By thinning and good cultivation their growth can be greatly hastened. Experience teaches that roots make bulbs faster when the bulbs are left exposed and not covered with the earth If you have any late beets or turnips that are likely to be too late, try vigorous thinning and baring the bulbs. Lettuce grows well in the fall, and you can keep up the supply by sowings in August. Sow a mixture of curled and fringed varieties in the same row. It is time enough to sow winter radishes the latter part of the month. Il' sowii earlierthey will, of course, grow larger, but tlieu they are not as crisp and delicate as the smaller, later sown bulbs.