County And Vicinity

Farmers say that liired help will have td work for less wages this year. Fred Jerry and Sela Fitzgerald are the new deputy sheriffs at Saline. Eighty new books have just been added to the Ladies' Library of Ypsi. The Enterprise congratulates the people on the healthfulness of the weather. Herbert A. Taylor anl Archy Gauntlett have each been appointed deputy sheriff for Milan village. The explanation of the Enterprise is sufficieut - only we had to borrow that paper in order to obtain the article in question. Somebody sends money to the editor of the Chelsea Standard, and never signs théir name to the letter. Old Santa Claus, of course. One Owosso barber haa been in business för 25 years and in that time 150 of his patrons have died. The rest escaped by a close shave. - Fenton Independent. Fred M. Freeman has entered into partnership with his brother, A. H. Freeman, of Manchester, and the new iirm is Freeman & Freeman. Success to them. A lively groom of 82 and a blushing bride of 68 stepped up to the altar and were united in marriage at Plymoutli recently, and the Mail devotes a column to the great occasion. If the boys would get at it and sweep the snow off the pond they would find the skating much improved. - Manchester Enterprise. Snow ! Wish we had sume here in Ann Arbor. The latest enterprise at Dundee is a fruit canning establishment. If their fruit is like the apples to be bought here they will want an electric chaser to remove the worms before canning them. The supreme court reversed the decisión of the lower court in the case of Wm. Brighton vs. the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R'y company. It is probable that the suit niay be tried again in the March term of the circuit court. - Enterprise. W. K. VanDeVenter, of Dundee, says the Leader has been awarded the second prize by the publisher of the Standard Dictionary for the second best essay, competition open to the world, on how best to teach the "Standard Scientific Alphabet." The Chelsea Standard and Adrián Press both copied the saine item from an Ann Arbor paper last week, the Standard crediting it to the Argus, and the Press tothe Courier. - Milán Leader. That is rather strange.- But then you know the old sayins great minde run in the same channel, of course. Up to last Sunday morning the Congregational society was short about $1,300 of the amount needed to entirely pay for their new church ediflce. On that day pledges to the amount of $779 were made. It is hoped to be able to haye the society free from debt on the day of dedication. - Chelsea Standard. Stone sidewalks are durable and there are no spikes sticking up through t.hem to stub your toe against and to tear one's dress. They are as oily as a book agent's tongue and when a little of the beautiful falls upon it, alas, the wicked stand in slippery places. Some folks sit down upon the walks hard enough to crack them, but they have stood the racket well. - Manchester Enterprise. The builders of cement walks here have obviated that slipperyness by slightly corrupting the surface of the walks when constructing them. milan's i. o. o. f. temple. The Milan Leader gives this account of the dedicatory services on Thursday evening next: "Preparations are going steadily forward for the proper dedication of the handsome new Odd Fellows' Temple, just completed and furnished. The handsome carpets and other furnishings of the lodge room and parlors present an appearance of elegance and comfort, and the new home of the Odd Fellows, Campers and Daughters of Rebekah will be one to be appreciated and enjoyed. The dedicatory ceremonies will begin as soon after seven as possible and will close with a bauquet, at which accommodations will be made for more than four hundred people. Music will be furnislïed by the Minnis orchestra of Ann Arbor. The various committees have been hard at work for several weeks, and are still at it, and report everything coming on in good shape. Three-linkers will be here from almost everywhere, and a most enjoyable aft'air is anticipated. Capt. Charles Manly, of Ann Arbor, has consented to be Master of Toasts, and responses will be made by Grand Master M. R. Salter, of Ithaca, Past Grand Masters, Jonathan Sprague and Harrison Soule, of Ann Arbor, H. Wirt Xewkirk, of Dexter, Col. E. H. Sellers and J. Nelson Lewis, of Detroit, and others." Mrs. Chas. Root, Cedar Springs, Mich., was told by physicians that they could do nothing for her. After taking two bottles of "Adironda" she was able to do her own work and ride to town to do her shopping. Sold by John Moore.