County And Vicinity

TIn L'.sliinir machine o w ñera are 11 great w mand juut now. Thu green cora erop is said to be practically inexhaustible. The rye in Wtn. Steveusou's field at Noith Lake, was 72 Eeet tall. A State Teachers' Institnte will be beid at Howeil August 28-27. There is over $200,000 au deposit in the fcwo hanks of Mancbester. Pus tin aster Burkhardc of Saline, bas fixed up the office u üné sbape. Henry Wood and .Miss Blanche Cole, of Cbelsea, were married Juiy 21. The cycle path from Cbelsea to Cavanaugfa Lake is being pusbed rapidly. Miss Bertfaa Spencer, of Lima, bas returned home from her western visit. The members of St. Joseph's cbureb, Dexter, celébrate tbeir 2öth anniversary to-day. . Lyinan B. Dalrymple, who bad been a resident of Belleville for the past half century, died July 21. A part}' of twenly of the friends of Misa listella McFetridfte gave her a surprise last KrMay evening. Pinckney and Stockbridge are fighting it out. witli clubs and balls. FirSt round Stockbridge 10, Pinckney 5. Miss Rosina Hegge died at her home home in Freedom, July 21. She was a very estimable young lady. Dr. Pyle. of Milan, bad a wheat field tliis year that yielded over 40 busbels to the acre. Tbat's a good pile. The Xorthville Record promises a lickin' good time at the teacher's meeting to be held there on the 9th. 'i'hose who last fall laid in an extra supply of eider will be in luck tbis fall. - No apples no eider. - Observer. Thonipsou Grimes, who had been a resident of Pinckney since J846, died July 27, aged 72 years, 8 months. Tbe members of the M. E. church of Chelsea who were over 50 years of age, were entertained by tlie Epworth League Friday. Some of our men who have plenty of time at their disposal are occupying tbemselves with i new industry, that of furnishing wooden lawn swings to a tired populace. Tbe small boy - and some older ones too- are saving up tbeir pennies as Barnum& Bailey's show is coming to Ann Arbor, Aug. 17. If yon desire to see any of the people of Dexter jnst head for Base or Portage Lake, and the chances are ten to one vou'll find 'em there. Miss Clara Bell Webb, of Dexter township, and Chas. L. Mould, of Plainield, were molded into one at Howeil July 15, by Justice Stowe. The valuation of the real and personal property of tbe village of Cbelsea as approved by the board of review is: Real, $175,175; personal, í?42.".!)2ó ; total, $599,100- Standard. Wm. Wood, Sr., who lives near North Lake, feil from tbe top of a stack of wheat he was topping out, 23 feet to the ground, striking on bis head. He was severely njured. The Leader insinúales that the gold 'ever bas uot been high or hot enough to tliaw out the inclinations of any Dexterites toward trying tbeir fortunes in the Alaska gold öelds. Farmers should see that uo Canada hislles are allowed to go to seed on their premises. It is said that duriiiK the old of the moou in August is tbe proper time to cut them. Tbe village dads of Manchester have resolved to have residents build walks out of any kind of material they may order, and it is thought that Mancbester will now improve her ways. Prof. and Mrs. C. O. Townsend who who have been in Germany for the past two years, arrived here Wednesday morning. Mr. Townsend bas accepted a position in N. Y. City to begin in Sept. -Saline Observer. Floyd Page bad a narrow escape from a serious in jury last Friday. A hay iork feil while being used and one of the iines ran tbrough the fleshy part of bis leftlegabove the knee, making a wound about three inches long.- Dexter Leader. Thompson, of the Dexter Leader, has discoyered, by a chain of circumstances that " A man wbo rides a bieyele adds oue more feature to the lengthy list of bis life's uneertainties." He'll talk in a more cheerful strain wben his shins heal. - Adiiau Press. Come to town Aug. 17? Of course you will. Wbat's going on thatday? Just as if you didn't know. When you promised the children six week's ago that you would take them, the date of tbe circus bas been firmly impressed on your rnind ever since. O. C. Bostwick has received from the South another collection of curios for his museum. It consists of a Mexican cavalry saber, Columbian guard sword, Japanese sword, a pair of navy handirons and several pieces of grape and cannister.- Dexter Leader. The bicycle ordinance made by the council works like a charm with our people, but strangers are little affected by it. When they come into town and see fit to take a run down one of the wal ka they do so with all of the freedom and ease imaginable. - Saline Observer. Just refer them to a justice once or twice. ïhat would be surlicient for all. A Missouri farmer after numerous experinients, thinks he has succeeded in developing a potatoe that will grow without vines. He says a fleld planted with vineless potatoes ínay be worked with the ordinary harrow. Where's the potatoe bug to get a living? The ladies' aid society of the Baptist church will hold an afternoon social at the residence of Cornelius Throop, Friday, August 6th. Conveyances will be at the church at half past two and also at five o'clock. All are cordially invited. Tea served from five till seven.- Olilán Leader. There awaits an owner at the Record office, an umbrella, three pairs of ladies' kid gloves, a lady's purse, a child's purse, two odd kid gloves, lady's shopping bag, jack-knife, bicycle pump, two pairs specks, etc. The most of the articles have been on hand for some time and have been previously advertised.- Northville Record. If that isn't a confeasion ! Editor Robinson, who has charge of the display of weather signáis in Union City, bas grown tired of explaining the ineaniHg of the ordinary signáis, and has invented a code of bis own. It is simple and practicable. An overcoat on the flagstalt' indicates a cold wave; a fan means that it will be warmer; a.n open umbrella, general rain ; closed umbrella, local sbowers ; a rubber boot is a sign of suow. A farmer writes to au exchange. "Every year I hear of caterpillars destroying whole orchards, and there is nothing to dispose of more easily. I bore a hole deep enough to reach the sap, till it with sulphur and Uien plug it up. The result is tnagical. The sap takes up the sulphur to every brarich and twig, the caterpillars at once die. I have never known a tree iujured by it, and Ihave pursued this cour.se foryêars. Take a ride through the country and carry a three-foot jine stick with you. Cut a notch every time you see a piece of farm machinery standing out of doors unprotected, vrind cracked, paintwashed off and irons rusting. We will wager your pine stick gives out before your Leam gets tired. Implement dealers and nianufacturers are not making much iuss about this. It suits them all right if it suits the farmer. This is the grossest kind of carelessness, and if every farmer would build acheap, strawcovered shed for tools or implements, to shed rain, wind and sunlight, and use it, they would save hundreds of dollars annually. The new telephone line betweeu Waterloo and Stockbridge, bas been named by its owners the Rural Telephone Line of Waterloo, and the offlcers of the same are, Delancey Cooper, president ; Lynn L. Gorton, secretary ; Orville Gorton, treasurer. There are four different lines terminating at the store of Henry Gorton & Son, in the village, connected by a switchboard. These lines not only connect Waterloo with Stockbridge and Chelsea, but with the following farmers along the route, who have telephoues in their houses: Sidney A. Collins, Horace Leek, William E. Wessels, Geo. Gorton, Heury Gorton, Celia Deun, Orson Beeman, Orville Gorton, Hugh McCall, Geo. Runciman and John W. Howlett. The office at the Stockbridge end of the line will le in tlie Brownell store, under the charge of Chas. Brooks, the undertaker. This story may sound a litlle "ratty" before it is finished, hut tv of the best men in the township, M. A. Patterson and Township Clerk Nichöls, vouches for its trutlifulness. Mr. Nichols has a brother "Art," of Cassopolis, viaiting I hini and to while away time, went out to Will Thorntou's place to assist tliat gentleman in gathering in his ripened grain, but owing to rain it was necessary to abandon that work and they concluded to olean out the corn cril). The fust battle (no reference to Bryau's book) found 127 dcad and wonnded rats lying on the battle field, after whioh great victory the conquerors reveled in their own glory and awaited the dawn of another day to complete their work of death. The second day 48 of those longtailed qnadrupeds found lonely graves, and the victors, thinking they had done enough, quietly abandoned the iield, (they could find no more victime) and coinmenced tlie work of gathering in the harveat. - Plymouth Mail. There is no use of talking, these "Art" Nichols's are great people when it comes to heroic tales.