County And Vicinity

In Some localities grasshoppers are appearirug dn alarming numbers. The Cleary College at Ypsila-nti, is to run a summer school this year. A fine flowing well has been Btrue!,on the farm of 51. J. Noyes, olChelsea. The lecture course at Howell wiU oonsiist of two concerts and six lectures the coming year. Jolm Bross, of Dexter has sold liis bandsoine sail and row boat ro W. K. Sagendorf, of Jackson. Manchester people are a little tlow In making arrangements, but they will give yon a jolly good timo, ii tO' go ove.r tóere on the 4tli. of next month. Ida and Flora Breitenwischer liavg not been absent or tardy irom BchooJ in District No. 7, Freedom, for the j-ear. Those are the kind of girls that grow to be the best of wives. Tbere is a growing sentiment among our citizens that about nine out of ten of the dogs in. tlii.s towa can be spared, yea - that they oughí to die, and if they won't die they should 'be killed. - Manchester Enterprise. Dogoned good sentiment to keep om growing. Many of our readers wlB ,remembcr X. E. Allen, who was once a. photographer here. He now lives in "Leslie and a local paper says that last weck eomc onfi invaded his hen roost nnd carried a,way a biddy and a aicfeí full of eggs aibout ready to liateh. Xonne never experienced such a misfortune os tliat here. - Dexter Leader. A Fairíield farmer recently remoTed a walnut stiimp from a field, where It bad flourished as a 'stump ïorty years. It was sound and will wake three cords of wood. The preservation of this stump recalls the remarl of a boy who said 'that a celar fence post would last forever, for Iiis fatlier hiad tried It three times.- Moinroe Bemocrat. A letter from Dr. Angelí, of the University informs Pro?. Whitney that the Ypsilanti High School has bees placed on the diploma Hst for three years. For several years the acceptance was for one year, then ia 1894, for two years, and this year places the school among the very lest in the state, as three years is the extreme limit ever granted to any school. - Ypsilan tian. Aestheticim, in Hillsdale, has progressed to that point where a high school girl remarks that she 'does so admire those Piymouth Rock chickens; they have such pretty foliage !"- ilonroe Democrat. The same girl no doubt who always woregog-glei in the winter because the treea presented bare limbs. - Ann Arbor Oourier. The latter must have "been a U. of M. student.- Pinckney Dispatch. Yes, and she registers from Pinckney. Knowest tihou she ? Capt. John Spoor has added the ïollowimg articles to Cashier Newkirk's museum : A military pass issued to himself when at Bridgéport, Ala., iu 1804 ; a hundred-dollar confedérate bilí ; a twenty-íive cent "s;hin plaster" of the state ol South Carolina, also on-e of Alabama and oue, öf Georgia ; a coupon of a Georgia 6tat? band, and two Confedérate postage stompe bearing portraits of Jeffersou Bavis, these being very rare.- Dexter Leader. "TVill yer gimme a quarter for {h-e cent pieces ?" inquired a boy In a Jasper store the other day. The clerk said !he would. Tho boy laid dom iive cents In pennies, grabbed the quart-er and struck out. He vas cfaased and made to fish up twenty cents more. This was highway robbery- clefir case. The boy distlnctby bargained for a quarter, íor whieh he would and did pay five cent pieces. Of counse it "was a Bliek trick, and lt ground the smart clerk to be out-financiered by a freckled-face, snubnosed, drewl-moutihed kid. - Monroe Democrat. , ' Michael Wade, of Lima, died at th home oí his ron, John Wade, on June 3d. Miss Tillie Schwab, of Freedom was married Jume 2d to John Saek, oí Adrián. The ladics oí Bt. Mary's parish, Ohelsea, realized $36 írom a soclaj Tecently. Kest meeting of Sylvan Ladies Aid Society at home of Mrs. E. A. Wa.ru ThuiBday June 11. The many friendis of Thos. S. Sears, af Ciiflsea, will ls glad to1 liear that he is arouind again. Kev. 'W. H. Walker will commemce his pastoTate at Emporia, Kas., 'Sep. 20, leaving Clielsea Aug. 9. Hon. Thos. E. Barèworth, of Jacksom, is to Celiver the commencemeni addres.s at ChelKea, Juine 18. W. II. Glenn. o' Xorlh Ivake, Is building- himseif a ik -v houKe. Xo pune oa . the glen heuse oryice versa allowed. One of the bells cast at the foundry in Xorthville some mont-hs sinee, üiow rings out clear and sweet in ton& ia íar oïi India. Chlsea will gradúate 18 írom lier high school this year, the same íi? ];i. i;. And a vry large numbia1 for a place the size of Chelsea. Tai is the way the Mail puts is : 'Pluek. Push. Progresa. Plymouth. That's it." Why not prefix Plenty to Pluck, and Pretty to Plymouth '? IS D. S. Fish hatchery at Northville. gets $13,000 for new buildiags, CSoogressman Spalding hoving suceecded in gettlng the bill througb "bath hou'ses. I'lymouth has a baby show, commencing to-day. All sorts and conditions of babieíi wiB get prlzes, even to th snutobiest nosed and reddest haired darling brat of a tootsy M"ootgy in ttoat section. Bert Draper has a flock of fortytwo ewes that were reliered of 865 pounds ö; wool the other day by sliears manipulated liy G. Frank Holoomb. These ewes have fiïty lambe. Who can beat it ? - Milau Leader. Arthur Hoive has ostablished in 'Milan a, faetory for makimg berry boxes and crates. Tiie promise of aai enormous erop oí berries makes tilie prospects oí business good, ana ií a igikver in tliat section wishes 'o. box he can get it if he knows Ho we. One ühing in favor oí Howe'H "box, rs tliat it hiolds the most hem right tide up, the 'bottosn never belmg placed quite up to' the middle.- Adrián Press. Mis. Jlartha Clark, widow of the late Ilon. A. K. Clark, died at her home in Saline May 25, aged 65 years. How to save as much of the moisture as possible is a. matter whicfc has received the coneideration of l cientlsts amd farmer. There are metíaods by which water may h& Btired for future use, but sucïi are not practicable on all farms. There is one way to partially prevent loss, and -wliicli is familiar to all farmers, and tliat is to keep the surface of the ground wOiich is occupied by a erop always loóse. If a shower comes, mucli of the water will flow off the hard ground. but if the soil rs loose the water wiU more easily go down. Constant Ktirring of the soil also prevent loss oí a large portion o[ the moisturt; already in the eoil. Another queer gun has fceon added to Cashier Xewkirk's museum. It is presented by L. C. Eodman and svsué by him ertrtained from Wm. Trenholm, It is of a carbine pattern and; haj stamped on the side of the lock 'U. S." "Harper's Ferry, 1837." It lias a short round barrel and liighly polislied stock. The latter is embellished with variouis ornamentations, among them being the Masonic emblems. Chas. Stebbins also adds two keys of an electrotype machine, each being stamped with the letter "N," taken from the rutas of the Detroit : Journal building after the explosión. They will be made into a pair oí j sleeTe buttons.- Dexter leader.