County And Vicinity

C. H. Stannard's bicycle repair shop s mow, on Main st., at Dexteiv Several of our cltizens have made irramgements t o go to Mancfewter Saturday. Acoordlmg to ttie News there is a ively fanner's club in Grass T-ake. Not too Wet, either ! George Spicer, at Whitmore Lake had 38 sheep and lambs killed by dogs m one niglit recently. Among other new things Dexter is to have a mew tailor fehop. You see the dd towp, i Bwaliinig up. Buildings on tli-e premises of the old Jay property at "Whitmore Lake are ■being renoTated and iinproved. If dogs appear on t-hes treets of Dexter uninuzzled they are at once arrested and put in the pound. Han-esting has coimmenced. Usually it starts in abo'ut the middlel oí July, Beldom until after the tth. A man at Holly gave 100 bushels oí potatoes íor a pig íour weeks old, and then got the best end of the bargain. Tlie stockholders of a canning lactory at Dundee are offered $2,000 for a plant that cost them about $8,000. Slimmer boarders have commencOd to aiTLve at "Wlhitmore Lake, and It looks as if taere Iwould be, a larger supply than usual. A oew grocery, provisión, crockev.v, etc, Btore i-s to toe started in the Alley store at Dexter, by a man fron) t'h Independent state of llonroe. The Dexter Leader says : "The flying ant is said to be thei latestpest. They aTe larger than the common ant, have yellow bodies and go in swanns. Hon. H. "Wirt Newkirk and Schoo; Commissioner Wedemeyer are to orate eut Ivima on the 4:th ot Tuly. A good pair, end Lima fblks will draw to fhem. Improvements are oonstantly be'ng made in the Freeman house at Manchester. "Am." wlll show the peoplo wíiat a good lawyer can ti o in running 'a good hotel. ■ Aban t35 Bastera Star3 {rom Chelsea expoct to go ito Grass Laks tomorrow Oventas by invitation of the cfaapter there. Thatt hey will liave a celestial time goes ■without saying. W. W. Wedemeyer le announeed to speak Ín twb places on the -Uh oí July. Jtust hovrt he is to! divide liimself up satisíactorily for the fcccasioa is a myste-y to all ttrat thel gentleman himself. He knowfc how to tío it. Ifae people of "Wliltmore Lake are are maüng an e'fort tos ecure a erow tor the 4th. Tliere will be three military coimpanies present, Ypsi., Aun Arbor amd Adrián, and otíher attractions are advertteed. Tliose going there will hare a good time. Th'at Saginaw man who advertised ibicycles fo'r Bale on $2.50 per mo. paymerüts, ttoe puxchaser to send .$1 in advance, has falled to keep liis promise bo far, but has kept thej $1 all rilrt. This is another instanc? öf tlie wisdom of dealing Nvith liomp merchantis. Mrs. Mary Duraind of Ohelsea, dieö recently at Battle Creek, and her remains were broughtto her 'home ïor interrment last week. She was fl. daug-hter of Elisha Congdon, was C8 years oíd, amd leaves a .husband rvnd four children. Her life was one that endeared tier to her family and neighbors. E. M. Fohey is postmaster at Pinckney, and when a yonng fellow was ralsing a disturbance in the oííice recently JToOiey attempted to throw liim out, wnen the y. I's brother Euscr.e Mann, came to the rescue and gave Fohey the worst end of the racket The P. U. then bix)oight Buit againsi Mann for assault, the jury returnec a verdict of guilty, the Judge ïined him $5 and costs or 30 daya injail You eee it is dangerous business to monbey with Uncle am's officials Plymoutfh will celébrate the ,4tb n a beconnlng way. Clark C. Wortley, of YpMlnmi, ails July 4 froim Montreal ior Europe. Prof. Fred'k Pease, of Ypsilamü, leare.s to-morrow for Europe to spend iis nummer racation. Grasshoppers are destroying ields of grain, etc.. near Pinckney, espeicaly werking in tlhtó bean iieldé. M. T. IVoodruff, of tho Sentlnel, Mts bc-cn chowen president of +he Ypilamti Higfl School Alumni AssociaA new cigar factory lias TDeen opened at Dester by Jolm Eisman, iormery of Ohelsea, fent more reeen tly ef Owosso. -On ISatiirdaly last a chapter ot Baughters of the American Uevolution was.iormofl at the 'home oí Mr-'. Joi;n A. 'Wiatltng, Ypsilanti. Anminl reunión 'of tke 5h Mich, Cavalry at Xorthville, July 3. Amone; tibie papers will te one on ""What e did 33 yeara ago' to-day at Gettysburg." Manchester promises a lot of Ïud for the 4th. Special trálnfi will be run. and will leave the ,vÜlage after the fireworks. tÜUB giving all a chance to see all there is in. it. The io-llowimg Is a. biography in brief of a late noble pioneer of this coumty : "DaTid Wheeler Primer was born in Connecticut, June 5, 1807, and moved wítih hs parents to the the.n new country of central New York. in 1810. He was married to Flora I. Ramdall in 1829 and she died in 1833. He oame to the territory of Michigam in 1836 and ín 1837 was man-ies to Fedelia . Kandall. He was for many years a school teacher iboi liin New York and 'Michigan. He was township clerk of Bridgewater over 30 years, and secretary W ttoe B. W. Ins. Oo., for 17 years, He had led a quiet life Yor eeveral yvyai-s but always kept up hls interest in public nnd polttical affaire, and liad kept a diary oí tlifc daily happenings since lie was 21 yoa-m .oí age. He died June 19, 1896, agetl S9 years."