County And Vicinity

Milán is to have a new veneering factory establislied tliere, the machinenfor which has already been shipped. There have been about $25,000 wortli oí improvements added toNerthville's business blocks and residences the past year. The Dundee Ledger makes a plea for the adoption of standard time. That would be too convenient, altogether, the people couldn't stand it. The title on the outside reads : "The Noyi Record." Tlie headings upo" the inside pages read : "The Northville Record." The reading matter reads "like the Northvüle Record used to." Perhaps its all right, anyway, only it struek us as being unusual. The postage stampa of the present administration curi up like the sacred snnImrnt grass leaflets of drough stricken Nebraska. We have heard many reinark: "What ails the new issue of postage starups ? they curl up so." Grover or II i 1 1 must. have breathed on them, everything seemsto beblasted that they have touched, even the Tammany ring itself.- Howell Herald. Ilere are some facts from Mississippi thatmay give our supervisors a few points if they need any: The supervisors of Bolívar county, Mississippi, draw mileage from their journeys to the county seat, and the record reveáis the following charges: Stephens 152 miles; Lovingood, 42 miles; Murrell, 52 miles; Beever, 200 miles; Wises, 162 miles. Tlius one county in Mississippi is almost as large as the whole state of Rhode Island. I). W. Barry, county drain commissioner, has made his final order establishingthe proposed drain north of this vil lage and has named it "Mili LaKe Drain." He was liere Tuesday and Wednesday preparing the assessment district. - Chelsea Standard. As Captain M. T. Woodruff was leaving Light Guard Hall last evening, he was given a written petition for his resignation at once as Captain of Company G. The petition was signed by thirty-eight members of the company and is reported to be an outcome of dissatisfaction with Woodruff at camp last year. - Ypsilantian. Be a good ueighbor. It doesn't cost in dollars and cents near what Mr. Penurious Pod calculates. A generous heart grows always, and the more he grows, (judiciously of course.) the better qualified is he to see how and where he can make his business grow. - Fowlerville Observer. The village of Chelsea and the township of Sylvan should join together in purchasing a stone crusher, and thus be able to make roads that would last forever.- Chelsea Standard. Another '- generation has got to come up and get J liold of things in this county before any road work will ever be done. The prel sent one is "dead agin' it." A Washtenaw county man at 76 is in f the clutches of the officers, the meshes of the lavv and the county jail, all for stealing a cow of the Jersey breed. He sold the cow over in an adjoining county, then after a while he wandered back for further inspection of dair}' plants. ïhat's where he made a buil of it, for he wasn't sharp enough to steer clear of Mike Brenner, the Italian sheriff, henee bis arrest and entry into Ann Arbor select society. - Dexter Leader. Miss Viola Jedele, of Dexter, had a happy 16 year old birthday, Jan. 2. Benj. Becker is organizing a class of about twenty boys aud young men with which he expects to shortly organize a biass band. Mr. Becker has been for the past ten years engaged in teaching bands and was several years connected with a state institution in Illinois. There is little doubt but that if Ben's patience and the boys' wind hold out, Dexter will have as soon as possible an excellent band. - Dexter Leader. Aunt Dinah Posey, for so many years a resident of this city, where she has laundered the liuen of many of our citizens froin their early youth, died in Detroit last Saturday. Auntie Posey was formerly a slave, and escaped bondage before the war. Her age is not known, but it certainly can not fall far short of the century mark. The remains were brought here for interment. A little four years old daughter of Nicholas Webber, of Dexter was fatally scalded the other day by tipping a kettle of boiling water over onto itself. This account of a New Year's picnic comes to us through the Northville Record, but without any affidavits accompanying. It is true, of course or the Record would not record it: "Editor and Mrs. Slocum of Holly gave the clergy of that village, with their families, a Ntw Year's dinner party. Slocum feit a little out of place and several times when a leg or a wing of the turkey escaped from his fork and slid, with a liberal amount of grease, clear across the table he was on the point of saying a word which is newspaperly speíled with a lower-case h and a 3em dash, but was fortunately checked each time by Mrs. Slocuin's quiet, but decisive, "James!" When the clergy sat down to the table they remarked that the dinner "was out of sight. " Slocum who was counting on enough feed being left over to carry the family along for a few weeks, ruade the same remark after the appetites of the clergy had been satisfied." Mrs. Ellen O'Hara, aged 88, died Jan. 9r at the home of her daughter Mrs. Conley, in Webster. Sbe had lived in Scio over 60 years. Mrs. Mary Ilarrison Wheeler, wii'e of John C. Wheeler, died Jan. 3, at her home in Webster. The couple vvere niarried June 14, 1849, have had flve sons and tliis is the first death in the family. Au editor is a man who lives on wha other people owe hini till he starves to death. A subscriber is one who takes the paper and says he is -rell pleased and he tells everybody else "you oughi to subscribe." After he has subscribed two years and a half, the editor writes to hun to let him have $2.50 and tUe subscriber writes back to the editor and tells him not to send his old paper any more for there is nothing in it, and then the poor editor goes and starves some more. - Northville News. Swindlers are said to be working the country school directors in tliis State. They claim to represent II. li. Pattengill, state superintendent of public instruction, and that they are sent out to introduce uniform text books. They visit the directors singly, ask thera to sign orders for the new books, and the orders later turn up as promissory notes. The Southern Washtenaw Farmer's Mutual Fire Ins. Co. has paid $256.61 losses duriug the year, of which onlj $40 worth occurred durning the year, the balance of $216.66 occuring during the previous year. Lucky. Total expenses for the year $317.31. Total membership 297. Total risks $690,955. Mrs. Judge Babbitt, on behalf of the W. K. C, of Ypsilanti, and Mrs. Mary A. 8tarkweather on her own behalf, have signed the contract for the umi Soldier's Monument for that city. The Sentinel says of it : "The design is one selected from a number by Mrs. Starkweather, and is both simple and handsorne. An octagonal base supports a shaft, which is srmounted by a neat capital, the whole forming a pedestal for a statue of a standard bearer in the act of drawing his sword to defend his colors. The statue, which will cost $1,500, is the gift of Mrs. Starkweather, who bas increased the amount of her beneficence to that extent." There do not appear to be any Mrs. Starkweather here in Ann Arbor. If there are an}' they are very modest about it. I. O. O. F. HALL, HILAN. The new Odd Fellow hall at Milan, which was dedicated last Thursday with such great eclat, is thus described by the Leader, of Jan. llth : "Ou the 4th day of December, 1893, the present site of the new Odd Fellows' Temple was occupied by a two-story building owned by Mrs. P. A. Kelsey. On the morning of the oth this building, together with its two neighbors on the east, was a niass of ruins. The big fire had swept them away in its fury, leaving desolation and loss in its track. Mr. Kelley began rebuilding bis store at once, and purchased the Vescelius property between bis and Mrs. Kelsey's lot and built another store now occupied by Dr. Harper's drug store. "The Odd Fellows, whose term of lease in the Blackmer block would expire in a few months, now conceived the idea of purchasing Mrs. Kelsey's lot and erecting thereon a home for themselves. A coinmittee was appointed to solicit funda amoug its members and otliers to pinchase the property, and success crowned their efforts. From tbat time on the project has been pushed on w th indefatigable energy by every member of Wolverine Lodge, and there now stands before you the complqted building, and, as the illustration sliows, it is a handsome one, a credit to thé fraternity and the village. The cost of the entire building, furnishings, etc., will probably be close to $5,000. "In addition to the lot purchased of Mrs. Kelsey a strip of land 4x100 feet on the west was donated the Lodge by Archy Gauntlett, the deed conveying he1 same stipulating only that the property should never be used for saloon jurposes. "The building committee having charge of this enterprise is cornposed of Nelson Taylor, Aaron W. Sauford, George Sherman, H. L. VanWormer. C. M. Blackmer, J. S. Bray, Asa Whiteïead, and Wm. Lee. "The building is 27x90 feet on the ground. The lower story is fltted up or a store the entire size of the buildng, and is to be occupied about the 20th nst. by J. M. Putnain & Co., better aiown as the "Racket Store." "The second floor has a parlor 20x20 eet, banquet hall 20x51 feet, kitchen 2x24 feet and a closet, besides the hallway, and will be used for all the social jurposes of the various I. O. O. F. orders. The third floor is for lodge purposes only. The lodge room is 26)x48 feet ; ante-room 11x27 feet; waiting-room llx18 feet; and three parapheralia rooms about 8x15 feet each, besides a small closet. A new carpet occupies the floor of the lodge room and parlor. The ante-room and waiting-room are also carpeted ; and new chairs have been added. The dedTne proper thing nyw is 'he's cutting ice." Not "lie's sawing wood." See!