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Day
17
Month
June
Year
1896
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A. F. Freeman -vvill be tlie Officer oí the íay at Manchester July 4th. AVhoop ! Whiz ! Phiz ! Bang ! Fourth of July celebration at Howell, July 4th. June 24 to 26 inclusive, are the days fixed upan íor the Ypsilanti Driving Club's meeting. Chelsea's new water works are to be in operation by Oct. lst, just in time to freeze up. Palmer's basket factory at Dexter has been unable to meet the (Iemands so far tSiis seasoa. Geo. A. Hanson, of Milán, graduates fro'm the Richmond, Va., College at lts present commencement. Mtb. D. A. Townsend of Ypsilanti, will te-ach the 2d grade in the grammar department at Saline next year. The home of George Foster in Chelsea, was sbrück ty lightning Sunday beioi'e last, but not injured very mach. Mayor Pingree has accepted an invi bat losa to deliver a 4th of July orattoin at Manchester. Let the eaglp scream. Tlie Lieader says of tlieir tth oí July celebration : "The men wlio liave money to put up, ha.Te not the money to put up." Married, at the liome of the bride's parents in Azalia, on W'ednesday evening, June 3d, Miss Ooral Waite and Mr. Ilarry Sweeny oí Wooster, Ohio. Clias. Baggs, of Chelsea, shipped a car load of eider vinegar to Detroit parties recently. Since which time Ohelsea Jiae not leen nearly so tart. Lightming struek Louis Burg's residence last Saturday evening, and tore off a aumber of &hingles, but none of the family were injured.- Chelsea Her ald. David Eddyingtoin, of York, died 0n Jume 5th, aged 25 years 8 mos. He was a yomig man mucli respected, and nis death was quite suelden, he anly baring been ill ten days. An Ypsilanti nigfot watchman fell down stairs the otlier night and was severely injured. A night watch should sleep at the bottom oí the sfáirway, not at the top. - Monroe Democrat. Cards are out amnouncing the marriage 011 next 'Wednesday evening oí Miss Marión Eugenia Reynolds antf Mr. E. Riola.ud Boyo at the residence Of the 'bride's parents in Detroit. - Milán Leader. AYm. Eoe, on tne Clark farm, had a fine horse killed by lightning Sunday aftemoon. The animal was standing alone in tlie staWe with both döore oi)en when a bright fla.sh caotne and struck tflie horse.- Saliae Observer. Heory Ftsh was in Brooklyn Sunday to attemd the fuinoral of his iather wlio dted Friday of apoplexy and paralysiis. He was siek only two dnys, was 82 years old and neA'er before called a doctor. - Saline Otxserver. The ladtes a.nd gentlemen oí llawell liave boeu doiaig theiT share lately to beautiiy the county eourt yard by planting ílowers, ote. It now reniahis for blie supervisors to do' a little more im tlio w&y or improvement.- Plockney Dispatch. Mr. Aiexander, oí "Webster, was in tlio city last "week, with some extra nice stra.wberrios. He iurormeil one of our reporters tliat his lamily oí sis and 'whnt oompa.ny comes, Will cat twelve Ttmshels of strawberries this season. - Dextor Leader. Recent ratos are said to have sreatly brjgbtoned the proepects for wbeat, and except in a few cases -chances aro favorable for au aTerage yield. It Is tliougbt nothing can now hinder the development of the head and that 1ihe growing graln "will be able to weather the remaimder oí the seasou ■wjjthout mo're rain. Rust is Tast düsappeartng, and the Insect is not worklng as persistently as at first - Howell Herald. lite êóunfcry nortii of the viliage Wfcus viisited by the hca viest raii storm in years last Saturday ant farmers report considerable damage tö crops, corn and potatoes in man; places being washed entirely out o the ground, and fields deeply gullied - Dexter Iveader. A few days isinee Fred Jerry cnlled us inbo his yard to view some plum trees that hang about as full of fruit as they can hold. There are clusters containlng as many as -M0 pluma and otlier branches numberlng rom 15 to 20 plumis on a 7 inch. space. Looks as tihough Fred was in luck this time. - Saline Obserrer. Mr. S. C. Gridley placed upan öur talle Momday a twig bearing an o.pple half grown, and another twig from the same tree with two full clusters of blossoms. There is evidently an effort on tlie part of that treeto escape tlie codlin moth, and provide Mr. Gridley witii a supply of apples wHether or no. - Ypsilantian. A southern journalist hits she uaij on th head in this : "Iet the young man about town out of a job, try a year on the farm. Plowing behind a mulé will gire him a new oonstitution, take the kinks out of his head, tlie frog out of his throat, the Aveakness out of his legs, the coras off his toes and give him a good appetite, am honest living and a Fight ofheaven." Since the Commercial some ntao years ago the Pattison family has become widely separated in inore w;iys tíatm one. C. K. Pattison, the fatiher, jis in Eustis, Fia., preachins and workimg for prohibition and ïree silver. "Wlarren Pattison, the endest eon, is pulblishing a paper at Cosmopolis, Wash., and laboring hard for the republioans and the A. P. A. Fred Pattison, the youngest son, is in Únele Sam's regular army, stationed in Idalio. we believe. He vates a-ad talks democracy. Fremont Patöson, the eecoand son, has gone out oí fue u'iiicycle business. He now has a store in Ypeilanti, and is sellSng "three cargoes" of black pepper a day. Politically lie lias a "splce" of

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