County And Vicinity

She dives, she floats wlth zest Ou the hlghest breaker's crest; The summer glrl is rlffht In the whirl- . And she likes tiigh rollers best. -Puck. Mrs. Martha Stoll, of Saline, is visit-ng friends in the citjr. Miss Anna Bross, of Dexter, is attendng the Suinrner Normal. Ed. Krapf, who had been visiting in Stockbridge has returned horne. Schuyler Foster, of Chelsea, is spendng the summer here in Ann Arbor. Miss Mabel Ives, of Unadilla, is yisitng relatives and friends in the city. Mrs. George McClain, of Chelsea, is be guest of Ann Arbor friends for a ime. Wm. Schatz, who had been visiting riends here, has retunred home to Chelsea. Merrill Proctor, of Stockbridge spent a couple of days with Ann Arbor friends his week. Miss Julia Tuite, of this city, is the guest of relatives and friends in Dexter or the summer. It is reported that several incautious fisherman liying near Whitmore Lake are soon to be taken in by Dëputy Bell, for Ilegal fishing. Nitrate of soda is a very good thing to have ou hand to use in forenig along the late planted crops. Pound it fine and then le careful not to use too much. The proposition to secure telephone service at Whitmore Lake is a most excellent üiie. It seems as though it would pay the people of that place to have a phone put in. A man who is supposed to keep up with the signs of the times remarked to a Courier scribe : "It is altogether probable that within two years a demand for good driving horses will be experienced." Miss Minnie Steinbach, who bas been in the milliuery business with Miss Bell, of Ann Arbor, the past season, has returned to spend a few months with her many friends in this vicinity. - Chelsea Standard. A young girl about sixteen years of age, living in Ypsilanti, attempted to commit suicide a few days since, because her mother drank. If anything ander heavens could bring that mother to her sen3es, this deed certainly ought to. This is the time of year to harvest your weeds, and pathmasters should remember and read up on the law and ascertain their duties. Milk weeds, prickly lettuce, burdock, and even the dreaded Russian thistle are reported plenty on the highways. Cut 'em down. The citizens of Dexter are complaining about their wells going dry. Don't blame them- the wells - any. IIow could they be expected to keep up their flow without any water falling upon the earth to supply their source? The well owners will have to sink pipes in the bottom of their dry wells and thus replenish the supply. The Ann Arbor Courier registers a kick because the county seat has no beautif.ul Michigan Central flower gardens like Ypsilanti. - Dexter Leader. No, not exactly that either. But it seems as though, taking everything into consideration, that Ann Arbor deserves better treatment than she gets, that's all. Deputy Sheriff Byron McCauley, of Dexter, brought in from his burg last night, Mrs. Kate Van Arsdale who will probably be pronounced insane within a 'few days. She has been acting very queerly and has lately developed a liking for beating the children about. Her husband came to Ann Arbor with her and is still undecided which course to pursue. "Every piece of waste land along the rivers and every hillside in the state should be plauted to forests or nut hearing trees of some kind." - Ann Arbor Courier. Thus, for ten cents per line, can a great newspaper be coddled by doctors, to secure them more fractures. - Adrián Press. Here is an insinuation that a doctor pays for advertisiug ! Ye Gods, man ! Did you never hear of the code of ethics? One of our exchanges teil us about a farmer who tried an experiment lasi year to find out whether potatoes paic him best sold from the field at curren! pnces", or stored uut il spring. He pul away 100 bushels at 60 pounds to the bushei . In the winter he weighed them and found them shrunk to 8i bushels. These at GO cents per bushei brought $40.80 ; and for the same he could have gotten in the field at the time of digging, $75. In addition the cartage would have been saved, interest on monev, and valuable time in the spring. The Salvation Army has given notice that they will carry the fort of Ann Arbor by storm this fall, the first attack to be made Aug. lst. Sentinels are already on the outskirts and spies have been securing all information possible about the strength of the enemy here When the battle opens up it is thoughi it will be a hot one, and the connomuling will be tremendous. The attaching army will be anncd with the Word o] the Master and their lances will pierce the hearts of the ranks of Satan in such a way that the evil in them will die and the good be preserved to everlasting life. He used to be the meekest man In all tlie human ruce: But since he bouglit a blcycle He travels on his iuee. - I.ifo. llev. Clessler, of Bridgewater, waa in the city over Sunday. A. W. Wedemeyer, of Chelsea, callee! on friends bere Sunday. Landlord Stebbins of the Stebbins' House Dexter, was in the city Sunday evening. Miss Anna Fellows, is attending the suminer school at Aun Arbor. - Saline Observer. Misses Katie Luckhardt and Christina Stein, of First st., are visitiug friends in Dexter. Henry Bower, of this city, has been visiting his old neighbors in Salem during the week past. L. L. James and G. T. SM, of Dexter, are registered at the Mervue Club House, St. Clair Flats. .Miss Amelia Xeuberger and Miss Matie Stapish are atteudingthe suminer Normal School at Ann Arbor. - Chelsea Herald. . Mis. B. O'Brien, of Chelsea, who has been visiting friends in Ann Arbor and Detroit, has returned home. - Chelsea Herald. Some farmers should olan toearn more, others should plan to save more, and still others with a little more carefulness and gumption could advance in both ways. Steady grumblers are like the old horse thatacquiredsuch ahabit of shaking his head and switching his tail in fly time that at last he kept up the motion all the year around. Says Governor Hoard : "I would not keep a cow on my farm that would not earn me $50 a year with butterat twenty cents a pound. Some of mycows the past year have earned over $60 at the creamery." Although lightning has been very shy this year, vet on Friday the electric fluid struck on the farm of H. V. Watts, of Lyndon, and killed about nineteen sheep, twelve of which were insured in the Washtenaw Mutual Fire Ins. Co. The government erop report averages Michigan up on corn in this way: acreage of corn as com pared with 1894, 104 per cent. while the average condition is only 69 per cent. This year, in the whole couutry, there are seventy-six millions of acres planted, which is an increase of six million acres. The increase in the acreage of potatoes is about the same.