Washtenaw County

The lecture course at Howell startni oiï witli 595 season tickets sold. Ie only takes iourteen potatoes to OH a bushel basket over at Stockti idge. Mrs. Alex. Soulier of Mt. Clemens, bas been visiting Dexter friends iluring the past week. Mrs. Helen A. Raywalt, of Dexter wlll spend the winter with a brolhf-.r ie Grand Ledge. John W. Cowan died at nis home in Manchester, Oct. 25, aged 71 years. The deceased had been among the ir.ost prominent men of that section (■f the county. ' Georgië McQuade is credited with 10b. bushels and Belle Manan with 3 0:: bushels of potatoes in une day, tvhich they picked up and put into a pile. Tliey are Brig'hton girls. , The new house of Br. E. B. Honey an Dexter, just conipleted by B, B. ■Williams carpenter, Fred Wyjnan :nabob, and Beese & Taylor painters, is cue of the finest in the viüage. The Tillage of "Wayne is to have a system of water works now, sure pop. If this sort oí weather continúes every village in the state will r.eed a pipe leading to the Great Lakes. Miss Katharine Burns, oï the Conscivatory of Music, Aim Arbor, 'ias Teen appointed organist of St. Mavy's obureh, Chelsea. Miss Burns will reake her home with Mrs. C. E. Whitater.- Herald. Y"e should judge by our exchanges that Ann Arbor is not the only place ia which Hallowe'en was ce'.ebrated. TliCre are other places in which the antics of the boys were worse than Ibey were here. The farm house of James Hallen, al-out two miles northeast of Chelsea, ■was burned down last Wednesday morning, together with contents. Loss $1,800, insured for $1,200 in th Washtenaw Mutual. Our readers should remember that 1be lecture of Eev. J. M. Barkley, upon "One Year in the Eebel Arrny, ' takes place on the evening of Xovember 'M at the congregational church. Single admission 35 cents. Course tickets 80 cents. The C. J. & M. railroad wiU l:e luilt into Jackson, within the next 9Ü days ; a large nurnber of people ) cing at work upon it. It is underi1!OÖ that the road will be. an outlet for the Grand Trunk. C. J. & M., mcans Cincinnati, Jackson & Macki18W.- Stockbridge Sun. Mrs. Ann M. Craig nee GrenviUe, ñieci at the liome of her son Kobert 1'.. Craig in Morrlce, Mieh., Oct. 27, aget: 77 years G mos. Tlio deeeased v;a a nativo of England, and came tii Ann Arbor with her parents white yel a child. She was a sister of Di" late George GrenviUe, who for many years kept a drug store' where Goodyear & Co's drug store now. is. (in; sister, Mrs. IVm. Taylor oí Miis city. is the only ïneinber ei 1h':: GrenviUe family who ame to Michigan in an early flay. May. the youngeet daüghter of Joliu Smith, of Ann Arbor town, died oí) Oct. 28, at the home) of lier father, of consumption, aged 19 years. I'imeral services were held on "VS cdnesday at St. Patrick's church, orthfielf, and were conducted oy Fathei Goldrick of that church, Fr. Kelly of Ann Arbor, and Fr. Fleming of Dexter. The deceased had enteied the convent at Monroe a year ago, to devote her life to the work of a sister of charity, but was obüged te return home because of failing health. The family have inany sympathizing friends in their affliction. Mrs. Lorinda Kellogg, a íormer residen) of Ann Arbo'r, dlcïl recently at Lonsing. There is a new baby over !n Milan uamed arter Mayor Pingree. That Kiel will probably never go barefooted. Alice II., widow of Ihe lato Chas. H Xanry, died on Tuesday ofl ast week, at her home n Salem, nged SO years. Mrs. W. H. Gay and daughtcr Gertiude, of Milan, Jiave gone to Grand Rápida, Wis., visiting, ior several v eeks. Chelsea's oldest resident, Daniel Tichenor, celebrated his ninety-thitd lixithday last Saturday.- Ohelsea .Standard. Jim Cisco, a Dundee cliicken thief, Is serving two and one-half years In state prison, having been sent np f:oni Adrián. The editor of the Fowlervil'.e Obeciver pretends not to know what a ■MinG tiger" is. He should move c er into some of the dry counties. "Tlios. Birkett, of Birkett, north of Dexter village, offers his farm and peach orcliard to rent. He also has r. lot of sheep and cattla lor sale. The Standard is kicking about so n;any useless po'es "adorning" tlie siieets of fair Clielsea. Why don't jci' have tlie council electrocute 1hem ? And now Xorthville is attempting lo get in ahead of lts sister cities l having a private telephone excliange estabHshed there. Hel o, Ihere ! Toker piayers in Milan are hounded 60 that ihey have to scalo ladders to gei. into secret rooms where they can oujoy thcmselves- and tlie Leader uven . U ks on the scale. Hou. Washington Gardner, secretury of state, is to lecture in the liigh tch ooi course, at Milan, Friday evening-, his subject being "The Struggle for Chattanooga." TUey have naughty, vs'icked ooys in oithville who thröw stones through cliurch windows. They should Ie epanked, and we nomínate Neal of Ih'j Eecord, as sp anker in chief. Supervisor tighthall, of Syvlan, aspil e? to the nomination of sheriff o-i the democratie ticket next fall. Weli, theré will be but little scrapping over it, and "Hi" can jusb as well te buiied as anyone. '. Ttm, Bogardus, of Milan, is entitleil te $1,500,000 as lus share of the Annecke-Jans estáte. AVhon he gels i,t. the Leader states that they will stoii addressing him as Bill, and cal] hun Mr. Bogardusi Sure. Mrs. Florence S. Babbitt attended til-; first district convention of the W. R. C. at Lapeer last weck, and v. ent to l'iymouth yesterday to .itum; the reunion'of the Sixteenth Volanteer Infantry.- Ypsilanti Öentin 1.