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County And Vicinity

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Day
15
Month
January
Year
1896
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Public Domain
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Livingston county's board of supervisors is to tackle the local option law question. f A new school house is wanted at Milán, and the same is belng agitated in the columns of the Leader. James Murdock wants $200 for damages to himself from falling on a sidewalk at Northville. Better pay him be.'ore it reaches $1,000. The Maeonlc fraternity of Ypsilanti distributed 60 baskets iilled full of provieions of all kinds, to the poor of that city on New Years Day. The Y. W. C. A. of Ypsilanti won $15 by a bread tag contest in that city. The society also was given a new wash boiler and two handsome comfortables. John Keywalt, who was for many years a resident of Dextfir village, died at the home of bis daughter, Mrs. B. D. Bennett, of CassopoHs, on Jan. 8th. The burial was at Dexter. Holly business men are talking o! organizing a local te'ephone exchange. It is estimated ïifty 'phones can be placed at $10 a 'ptoone. Even tin edttor could "hel!o"' at that price. Milford is in high glee just now, for a. medicine company is holding the boards there for two weeks, and are giving free shows, an;l of courss advertising and selllng thelr medicine. The ]NTorthville Record wants each school board and town boa.rd to publish an itemized report of all money spent by them annually. That's business, and is what is practically done here. There was what was termed a bir.hday party given at St. Luke's parish house Ypsilanti, on the evening o: Jan. 1, when all the people who carne brought with them good reso'utions lor the coming year. Speaking of big hogs, there we. e a couple of heavy omes shipped from 1he stock yards here last Thureday. One, ia sed by G. S. Jewe'J, welg-hed 840 Ibs., and another weighing (530 lbs., raised by Wm. Soadin. - Dexter Jader. The Michigan Pres Associatlon hag planned an excursión to Mex'.co to start from Chicago ï-'e.t. 15th. Do we want to go '? WeU I Will we go ? Thafs the question !- Milan Leader. Bet you the scoots that you go. There are in Livingston county 920 oíd soldiers who served in. ihe late rebellion. One of them is over 90 years of age, while there are four over 80, and 16 over 70. The remaimder are between 40 and CO years old. The Dexter public school was never in a. more prosperous or healthy iondition th.an now. It is one of the 1 est equipped and thorough choo's in the county. Ii you have children to seud to schooi, just bear the above facte in mind. - Leader. Aa exehange is responslb'e for the fo'.lowing : "A man nanieJ Moon was preeented with a daughter by his wiïe. Tliat was a new moon. The o'-d man was so overeóme that he went off anti got drank. That was a full moon. And when he got sober, he had 25 cents left. That waf the last quarter." When the old lady met him at the door with a broom stick, it vas no doubt an eclipse. Kather a shrewd piece of financiering-was accomplished one evening last week, by a couple of young bloods. They caught a fel'ow from Ypsiliinti with more conidence and money than brains, and succeeded in gettimg a nice little loan out of him on a purported diamond pin, and ■ülien on the foHowing day gave the Jasper the laugh when he wanted them to redeem the pin. We wiü further say to the young men that we know for wfoat purpose the money was used, and our advice is : "Better look a leedle out." - Howeil Herald. Th marrlagea in this county during 1895 were more than one each day of the year. There have been 26 interrments at Oakwood cemetery, Saline, during '95, as against 18 for each of the two preceding years. The southern Washtenaw Farmers' Mutual Ins. Co., has added ten to its membership during the year, and made no assessment. Louis Dettling, of Freedom, who made so mueh trouble for the officers wliüe in jail here, died at the Pontiac asy'.um last week? His remains wore taken to his home in Sharon lor burial. Oscar Gareiesen, leader of the Ypsüanti Orohestral Society Avas made the recipiënt of a handsome diamond ring, by the society members, on New Year's eventng. The present expressed the feeling of the society toward him because of bis successful labors therein. Who owns a dog ? Our supeivisor states that there are bet ween thrce and four hundred dogs in this township, but he was only able to put 100 on the roll and one-third the owners of that number have k'cked, and aay tliey never owned a dog. - Mancheste:1 Enterprise. It was our good fortune to-day to set teeth tuto a home grown and ivell developed oraiagé. The ruit ■as grown at our home where Mrs. Warren lias several more' of the same variety that will be ripe in a short time. - Saline Observer. And they raise Figgs down in Wayne, so what's the matter with this cllmate, any way ? The c'erk at the Belleville hotel, Christmas, fil'-ed a'l the lamps, by niistake, with gasoüne and all was ready for a first class illumination, when the sensitive nostrüs of a young lady guest detected the mistake, and she with others, was saved from going 'to meet the glrl on heaven's green, li;i Ut the iré with kerosene."- Monroe IK iiio; r:i (. Míes Ida Oesterlin of Anu Arbor, and Miss Grace Dickerson, of Bridgewater were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gehringer last Tliursday. As tney were r.eturnlns home their hojse became umnanageab'.e, upset the cutter and landed the contents in the snow. AVitli the assistance of i'i-ieii'ls they arrived home safely, more iscared thaai Imrt. - Frce:lom oor. Enterprise. New Bostan's preacher told some of his church members 80 pl.iin'y about their sins, the other evening, that they gathered around him at the c!ose and prepared to jaw it out with nim, but he waived the "st-iff-necked and perverse generation" a way and lnui'led to his residence. - Monroe Üemoerat. Tlie preacher should not indulge in such things, for they stingeth Iike unto aspe, and biteth like Tiercé buil do-gs. Peop'e do not lke to have their short-comlngs paraded pubüc'y. Tafïy is much prefeired. A ludios lodge oí Macoaboes ivm recently wganlzed in Manchester, whicli, the Times is informeel, created quite a Wt of amusement if not tronble among lts own niembers. The lodge was formed, the ladies took the oath, got the grip and pass word and rode the goat iu the initiation. It is a good lodge and started out in good shage witli bright lorospects for the future. Everytliing went along nnoothly for several days nntil it was noised about that soine one of the flock had let the cat out of the bag and the secreta of the order were making their way out among strangers. The matter was traced down to a married womau wlio went liome from the lodge meeting and thougjit that the secrets and initiation of the order were too funny to keep and began rehearsing them to the liired girl in the kitcüen. Of course that settled it and the next day all the glrls were fretting the grip and the otlier funny work of th( lodge as they termed it.- Daily Times. I The program for the Farmers' Instltute, to be held here the 28th and 29th of this month, is competed and in the hands óf the printer. M.iyor Pingree, ex-Gov. ILuce, and other noted speakers will be present, and HiPir neviral addresses can not fail to interest and instruct. - Wayne Review. How are you golng to start In the new ye-ar ?- Xorth Adama Advócate. S'O far as we can figure it. about as Pollows with us : Mentally - Sound. Morally- Upright. Physically- Robust. Flnancially- Busted. - Adrián Presn. The vigorous exclamation of a Tekonsha farmer, who i-emarked, in an experience meeting, that he has "got religión and don't care a d m %vho knows it," recalls that of an o d Frenchman in this city, long since deceased, who found grace In a Methodist revival on the east side, years ago, and said, "I been ver' bad man; I drink, I swear, I He ; I do bo do more- d- n 'f I do !"- Ypeilanti Senttael. For several years past the town of Mishawaka, Ind., has been scourged annually by contag'.ous disease, causing many deaths. About three months ago an epidemie of diphtheria broke out which quickly spread over the entire village, with many fatalities. Workmen engaged on nn electric plant shut off the water the other day to drain the large pit or reservior from which the water mains of Mishawaka are supphed. The bid of the pit was covered with dead iiish, snakes, dogs, cats and other dead animáis. Workmen who attempted to clean the pit were overcome. All of the water used in Mishawaka was drawn through the mass of decaying animal matter. There is more reading done in our farm neighborhoods than in our cities ; the good typical farm lioute has its newspapers always and its magazines frequently. Nor are the district schools so inferior, though their qualities vary much from year to year. With good teachers in charge, the country distriet school is botter than the city graded school, because ït is more tree from mere maohinery and is calculated to deve op the individuality of pupils. Hundrcds j of men and women of high standing and experience to day are thank.u! for the litt'e wooden country school house of their childhood days, in which the educatiönal methods j)ursued were infinite'y more scieuuiic and va'iuable than thone now ïo

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