County And Vicinity

School district No. 10 of Sylvan, has glven & new starry flag to the breeze. E. B. Hovey, a former resident of Cbetaea, died at Hts home in Mt. ant last week. The Saline Ladies' Aid Society mcete with Miss Cornelia F. Smith, on Thursday Jan. 1', at 2:30 p. m. Hon. E. P. A Hen and fatnily of TpsiJ.inti. pent Christmas with the famiJy of Wm. Campbell of Sharon. The tax-payers oï L'ma are Uke unto the Jews of old as thcy went to Jerusalera to meet the tax-gatherer. A couple of Saline boys killed 35 i-als in one evening at ttie slaughter house thore, saysthe Observer. Kats! The Saline O'bserver tells of a snake beiag 'killed in 'that tovvn recently. Must Bell a bad grade of budge over there. It is announeed that Mr. John Cook of Urania, is to open up a grata market at the west elevator at the depot in Saline. The Monroe dramatic club, last Friday, presenled "Freezing a motherin-law," 'and struck it rich. Every married man in tlie city but three, were present.- Adrián Press. The Ilowell school building must te an old i'ashioned concern or clse they have a craze for bric-a-brac. Three boys of that school paid for a seat which they broke, that was made ia 1837. Fred Howlctt and Miss Josie Jackson of Gregory, were united in the ho'y bonds of matrimony De;:. 19, The young people are well known and will receive the best wishes oí a host of iriends.- Pinckney Dispatch. Walter C. Keade, oí Webster township, died last Friday, aged 42 years, 4 months. Funeral services wei e he'-d Sunday, from the Congregational church, Webster. The deceased was from a titled English fami y . Miss Aüce E. Whieeler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Wheeler, of Saline, is to le married at the home he the bride's parênts, to-day, to Mr. ICneeland B. Simmons, of the same, place. The couple wlll reside in Saline. ' The Ypsilanti Sentinel locates Dr. Kapp of Manchester, at Am Arbor, and then sort o' ehuckles over the fact that he only secured a $400 verdict Por a doctor's bi'll when he claimed $1,600. You see it is not ahvavs Ann Arbor people who want big pay fOL' their services. The mèmbers of a farmers club at Milford come out and say Khere wil! be no hunting rabbits with ferrets on their several premises. Walt til] along in February and aftér the pests have destroyed some fine youag orchard tliey wiil' beg the hunters to extermínate "{hom in any wny po3tiblft - Pinckney Dlspatch. At a meeting of the board of directora of the Chelsea Electric Llght Co. Monday evenlng, an order was placed for a new Corliss cngine of 150 norse power. It will be placed in poBitton at the works as soon a.s possibïp and will probably be running within the next 00 days.- Chelsea Standard. A few weeks ngo Tred E. Flemming was presented with an Irish setter dog by a friend from Addison. who was about to remove ; the northern part of the state. The dog was Drought to Dundee, and aïter a few weelis 6tay it was missed and lts whereabouts unknown. Word came here that the dog had made its way back to Addison, some 40 miles distant. Il was ei' n i to Dundee this week - Dundee Reporter. W, 1, Dutcher, one of HoweU's o'd and much respected eitlzens, died at his home on Clinton street, on Sunday last, aged 81 years. The deceaed was a native oí Xew York state, and carne to Michigan in 1846, locating in s-;o township, AVashlcnaw county, where he remained until 1861, when he removed to Iosco, this county, ■-herc he owned a large farm. About twelve yeai"s ago he came lo Howe'.l, wiiere he has ever since lived. Tlirce kous and three daughters were boni to Mr. and Mrs. Dutcher.- Howell Herald. Th quantity of Christmas packages handled by the postoffice liere was fiurprising. Evidently, even If the 'times are hard, everybody iound a way to buy gifts for loved ones. strange thing, too, may be mentioned In this connection. Of the more than twenty merchants with whom we have talked, not one but had a better 'holiday trade this year than last, and this in splte of the fact that the weather was the very worst possible. Can it be that the hard times are a-eally beiter, and that we kocp talking of "hard times" from forcé of