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Day
9
Month
December
Year
1896
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Public Domain
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Otis Walker oí Salem. Ivas been a very sick man for some time. ' A progressive pedro club is being OTganized by Oheteea yoiirag folks. Parttes are canvassing Manchester wïth thf idoa of estiabTNhing a fcrandry. Salm farmers have generally complted corn hutskiug and are prepared far -winter. The water works at Chelssea are mippiyilng the citiüens oí that place wlith aqua pura. Mws Ella Rose hias returned to her borne in Sharon after a year's visit wtttb her wster in Duöuth. Mtis. Harriet Bufllard of Bharon, will spend the with lier daughter, Mrs. A. Giillett, In Perrington. Dexter's progresssirve pedro ctab met with Mr. and Mns. Eld. Croarkin, at J. T. Honey's ïïoune last evenffiag. S. W. Holmes is üie delégate oí the Norvell Farmer's Club, to the general conventlion now in session at Laneing. Mrs. MelLnda Hooker who dled at Graiss Lake recentily. cairae to Manchester in 1834, where she lived tiihta 1861. ; . The Eastem Star Ohapter of Manchesrter visited the Brooklyn ohapter last Friday eyening and had a jolly good time. Henry A.bbey, of "WilClis, died on Sundáy liat, aged 75 years. He was the father of Mrs. George Hammond, of TpsiBfanti. Misf, Jenmie Tuttle graduated as a tratoied tiurse in a H'-ooklyn, N. Y. hospïtaa fecently. She was formerly a Cltóleealte. Good grazing for cattle, sheep and horses iasted tiintil Saturday after Tbankegiving, lm now the animáis lrave all been homsed for winter. Geo. W. TurnButl, village attorney, gtves notilce that he wiflil proceed to codlect poll tax from all Ohielsea voten at the poinit of the law 'if necessary. An iniant cfoild of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schiairer, oí Scio, died Friday morning last, and funeral services wero beid Sunday from the Scio chmrch. . ' A prominent cirtizen wonders if the Inw relative to the sale oí tobáceo and eigaretrtes is fully obeyed by all dealers in this town.-Wa.yne Review. Or any otiher town. TJios. F. RushtoTi is commaader, Dan ButcIi vice coto., H. H. Fellows senloT vice, Jöhn Braun quartermaeter, and H. Kirhlhofer delégate at large, oí tlie Manchester G-. A. R. Wan. SeymouT alias Dudley, who waB arrested for steaflüng sheep at Stony CJreek, is wanted in Elaton Co. foT stealilng a tearo of horses. He aippears to be quite a criminal catch. It ie not often that a farmer drives into town and hltches hls hcrse withwiithout covering the animal with a blanket. The man who does it ougbt to bc wamed not to repeat the act. - Enterprise. 'i Geo. A. BeGole Is chancelor commander, Juaius M. Klein vice.B ert J. Hewlett prelate, Bert B. TaraBull K. of R. and S., John D. "Watson M. oï Finance. Edgar A. WÍHiams M. of Exohequer, of Cheïsea lodge 19i, K. oí P. Tommy McNamara has sold his welj known pacing hiorse "Handsome Almont" to Tommy James, of Pexter. ThiB was the tastest norse ever owned in Oheteea, having a trot.ting record of 2:25 and a pactng record oí 2:29.- Cheísea" Herald. Neall, of the North4lle Record, has Induced a local hotel to give him his Sunday dinnere at 25 cents each, and Is patting the proprletor on the head and tafiying him up with compliments. Of coturse taffy pays- but wbat wild become of the hot-el ? People wonder why the railroads do not let people know when Ithey intend to clwinge time oards. Often people are put to considerable inconvenience In going to take a train only to ïind a chango has been made and areieft, or have to wait.- IHaterprise. The etandpipe erected for the water works system presenta a beautlful appeairance now. Wat-er was pixmped into it for fh"e first time last Saturday, and as iit was not exactly water-tiight, it leaked and now look like one huge icicle.- Chelsea Standard. i The gravel train and steam shovel of the Atnm Arbor road is again working on this end of tihe road, and the men are stopping at Bundee, oxpecting to be here about a month. New stdetnackfi are.beiing constructed near Manhattan.- Dundee Reporter. "We are glad to nolt-e that a minibar of the street ïamps about which we "kicked" last week luave been put in to first clias. eowlttion. C3an Ave keep them so ? - Dexter Ieader. That is cool ! Get on a jamboree ;ml kiok the lamps and theu congratúlate the autnoxitïee for putting thein in order again. Can they be kept so ? Wel! probabíy 'tí Thompson betaves himsel'í.- Adrián Press. Ero. Thompson is not such a high kicker as that. There 'fe a sOander somewhere. Txjok out for ewindlters. A stranger eofld a cornpownd of nífcric acid and mercury as a silver-plating lixiuid to same Hudsan peopTe a few days ago. The effect of the soluiton ïat.s only a few honre btrt the memory of the Rwuvdle lingera an indeíinfte time.- Manchester Enterprtee. We euppose it fe not generadly known that the man who pays for luis paper in advance Ls hardiy ever sick, liever ha any caros or the tooth ache, kis potatoes never rot, the -weevil never eats tuis wheat, the frost never kïMe Ws corn or beans, his ba bies never cry at niglvt' and hLs wife never scoCKte,- Fp-wlerviUe Ob-erver. Pontiac has a new social organizatiom na meel the "I -I-gO you-pro clnbf The members are all young marrled people, and the natural inïerence is ■that tlify woa't alwayjle ltliatway. - NorthvMle Record. And then wül follow a change oí tlie name to the "If-you-go-I-go," and disbandment.- Adrián Press. The new Ypsilanti opera ho-use whiicb for three or four years had hung, like Mahommed's coTfin- between th heavens and the eaa-tU- is now, wi!th the excepfcion of the seating, practically oampleted, and wil] be entirely finished in time this seaeon for the hea.vy tragedias t o grasp his tin sword, and rush on the vilLlaln ex(ilalming in accente more horrible t han the others, "W-r-r-r-etch ! I .will dUtroy thee-ah !" (Sword passed through body- under left sleeve onteide of coat, Tragedian coolily wipes off the "bïood" on his boot-leg, which reaehes near to the body, and villaim and curtain drop together, amid thumderous acclamatóons oi the audïence.)- Adrián Press. Reien-ing to a Press item. the Monroe Democi-at remaiks : "The 'abominable' región is a section of the anatomy not described in our physiology. Kimdly explam, deor brorther." Huch abominable ignorance ! Well, sir.the regían Üescribud is the apex oí the oome, Hituated about three degrees and thirty minutes south of the equator, except in certam abnormai' cases in Monroe, when it lias been found above the diagram and in 1)erihelioo with the thorax, making it uncertain whether it were best to treat the pattent ïcw diphtheria or petitiloa Gen. SpaldiiiR for an appropriation for ilrcdging the alimentary canal. Never liesitat to ealil on ue when in need of Information. We are here for that purpose. - Adrián Press.

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