County And Vicinity

One dealer at Fcvwlervüle has f-;old 70 bicycles this year. The school at Scio Center closed Friday, and Saturday the puplls took a picnic out to Portage Lake. Mrs. Kate Denn of Dexter, died May 25, with asthma. She had resided there over 40 years. Left one daughter, Mrs. Jota Devine of St. Paul. Work has commenced once more on the Ypsilanti opera house, and it is now understood tlhat the building wlll 'be completed by next October. It is to cost $13,000. As we sit in our eanctum we hear the busy sotng of the mowing machine. The earliest hay has been cut in a great imany years. - Pinckney DispatcJi. The barn ol Wm. Arnold, öouth of Pinckney, was struck by liglitning Sunday and burned, together with L',500 bushels o . .: i and 500 of oiats. The graan was insured. The Salvatiom Army has found Pexter people all so good fhafc their servioes were neet needed, and so have gone ío some place where they are needed more - Grass Lake. probably. Dr. Batwell offers a reward of $5 fOT the conviction of the thief nvho stolo and destroyed his rose bushes. He also desires fhem to come again if tliey want the reception prepar&d for t-hem.- Ypsi. dep't Daily Times. It is to le hoped that th Dr. will nöfc have the $5 to pay, bat that the thieves will come ágata and that he will shoot. One feature of bleycle rldlng tii; seasoa is that there is a vast improve ment !n tSbte po -it ion oi the il.ler.. Too many men and boys still arch tliemselTeilh'dt-ously over theL' handlss, rppareutly in the absurd conviction that it gives t-hem a pnofeeBKwial air, fout tihere are fewer o{ these ambitious somls tÁheun formerly, and the vromen, a sthey have alway.s doine, sit well and ride easily.- Ohelsea Standard.