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Day
5
Month
September
Year
1894
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Fair at Dundee Sept. 18 to 21. Mis. Ira Ciippen. of Superior town died last Friday. The cu:umbers have alsr been knock ed out by the dry weather. The Dexter eider mili commeneel grinding up applés and worms last Friday. Chas. Smith, of Shavon, is building a neiv wagon housa and corn crib on li is farm. Mis. John Hughes, of Seio village, died on the 24tli insto at hsr home, aged 72 years. God-rey Butler, of Sharon, whose ! barns wera burnad recently, is ! ing them with nsw ones. The Town Hall at Chelssa has been renovated, re-deco.rated aiul made to appear like a new placo. Home grown watermelons and peaches are b.'ing indulged in at Pinckney in large quantitles. The fruit commissioners are alter the disease affected fru:t tre?s in Uexter village, and they find quite a few. There were nine bidders for the new iron bridge to be built across the creek near Thos. Smith's residence iu Scio. The school.? at Ypsilanti openad Monday, and the Normal yesterday, with excellent attendance in both instances. Michael Timmons, of Sylvan, died Aug. 29, aged 77 years. He was a highly respected old resident of that township. The bean harvest, wlr.ch is in progresa does ñot promise a very heavy j erop. The drougth knockad the wind out of it. John P. Tracy, Manchester ; ship, lost 11 sheep by dogs, oii3 nisiht last week. Xo record o; any dogs beinsr lost. O; the last session of congress and their doings as regarde a benefit to the people of this country, we prefe? i; r.'main quiet. - Sal.ne Observer. Tlie clötning store of M. Hirschfield & Bons, at Dundee, was broken into by burglars Inst Tlmrsday night, and :rSüO w oith oí goods stoli n. Xo ! clew. Harrison A. Fairchild and Mrs. Minnie Taft were married last Thursday :it Sarnia and are now living at GOU AV. Congress Street, this city. - Ypsilantian. lier. 1'. 11. "Wliite, ivlio has acted as the pastor of the Bapt'st church at Dexter, has resigned and will enter the JS'ewton Theological Seminary at Boston. Sugar is Ge. per 1b. AVool is almost as good. If a farmer is right smart he can get a pound oï sugar for a pound of wool under this tariif reform administration. Nearty all t he vülage schools and many oí the distiict schools commenced Monday, the 3d. Whatever else may be quiet this year the schools are prospsring and doing a good business. The Chelsea papers keep talking about their fair all the time but do not give the date. Thafs a question the people are asking all the time, and never remember. "VVhat's the date ? Aside from Prof DeWitt, who has been engaged as superintendent, and Mr. Kent of Ann Arbor, who will act as preceptor, the teachers of last year will be retained in the village schools. - Dexter Leader. Wurster & Spafard report that they threshed in itwo and a-half days, 2,700 but-hels of wheat and oats for Geo. Heimendlnger. They threshed 1,060 bushels of oats in one-half day for Wm. Burtless.- Manchester Enterprise. Isaac Kimball, of Ypsilanti, died on "Friduy of last week, aged 80 years 3 months. He carne to Ypsijanti in 1828, and liad resided there ever since being probably as old a pioneer as any man in the county. He lolt five children. The Stockbridge Sun says : ."The best way to ascertain whether cofiee has been adulterated or not is to pour cold water on it. I! pure it will color the water very slightly ; if mixed with chickory the water will take a brownish hue." , Norval Hawkins, the manager of the Standard Oil Co. at Detroit, who has been arrested for being short in his accounts, is a former Ypsilanti boy, and ■well known in the county. He does not deny the charge, but offers to make good the deficit. Gèorge Nissly -Sr-, of Saline, died Frtöay, Auï. 24, aged 68 years. He was a native oi Wurtemburg, Gerlunny, and setfcléd on his farm six miles west of Saline, in 1SÖT, and has lived in that vicinity ever since. He was a man greatly esteemed in that locality. Marcus T. Woodirufi, oí the Ypsilanti Sentine!, is receiving soaie very comp-liinentaiy notices from the pres3 of the eounty in respect to the nomination for eounty clerk. He would makt' an excellent elerk if chosen to that postion, liivini the abillty to conduet its affaire in a business like manner. The Dexter Leader Is responsible for this announcenient : "E. A. Nordman, the Lima cyclone popuHst, is going to stump Washtenaw áounty in a ssiies of open air meetings, the iirst of whieh will bs held n the vi lage of Dexter on Saturday evening, September 15th. Al', especial y the ladies, are cordidl'y tnvited." An old farmer when urged by an implement dealer to buv implementf, re.'used, saying he had nothing to sell but a lot of horses and could not geil them, for threshers were now run by steam, street cars were run by electricity, an:l tliis government by a lot of d- n jackasses, and where does a lïoi'Sï come in anyway ? - Chelsea Standard. A large number of sparrows had been roosting in a . mapla tree in front of Dr. Ohl'.nger's residence until they had become n riuisance. Fred Blosser procured a shot gun and "iired" the little past? out. He killed a dozen at a .hot. - Man;-t?ster Enterprise. Yih Fr_d would come over here with hia shot gun. The little pests are jrett ng thick again. The corps of teachers in the union s;hool will be as followe : Pi of. Evaii Essery, superintendent ; Miss Marie Kiichhofer, preceptres.s ; Miss Nettie M. Gillett, grammar' department ; ■Miss Jennie Saley, intermedíate; Miss Julia Martin, Becond primary ; Mrs. lül.ie .S. Hal, iirst primary ; Miss Minnie McAdam, general as-sistant; Miss I-usy Pouaher, Avard school.- Manchester Enterprise. Thuisday, while littls Zeta Foster, the lorable little three-year-oli of E. J. Posier, was sitt:n;i on the walk with other children, Charles Dauder'á lüiig-legged bird dog carne along and snapped at her face. The vicious brute's inisoVs clipped out a sma'.l piece from her eye-brow, the wonder being that he did not bite lier through the cjieek. f3uch a dog should ba compelled lo wear a muzzle.- Grass Lake Nêws. A death mask would be better. A'.rangemdits -are being made ior a half day of sports here in Manchester. It is expected that a ball game between the North Adanis and our home team or between two outside teams will b3 played for liberal prizes. Iiicj'Cle races, toot races, sack races and other sports, all for prizes, will be y-ranged. Tuesday, Hept. 11 la the day now talksd of but the ful partkulars will be given jn next w ek's Enterjuise and by bilis. "SVe want to see a big crowd in town on that day.- Enterprise. Observation in the past has shown those who keep tab on the weather that long dry epelLs like the present are pretty certain to be followed by early frosts, which complete the devastation effected by the lack of rain. This season will probably be no exception ,to the rule. After heavy rainstorms and frosts in early September, there will probably be a spel of delightfut weather. This is not a prediction, but eimply a question of history repeating itself.- Dexter Leader. All over the country the interest in agricultural fairs is now growing. It is impossible to estímate the gooj that fairs of a really agricultural nature do the farmer. He who lives by himself and rarely sees what others have done and are doing is far more apt to get into ruts than he whose ambition is stirred by intercoursa with others in his line of work. There is ti natural instinct in most men which prompts ithem to say, "What he has done I can do." And that feeling stirs a man to do more and better than he would ever do if he made himself hia own model, which must be the case if he uever compares his work with that of others. Be sure and come to the Chelsea fair this fall.- Chelsea Hera'd. And do not forget the eounty fair at Aun Arbor Sept. 25-28. They do not conflict in the least, but on the contrary each will be a help to the other.

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