County News

Fred Hale, of Alma, spent part of the week visiting old friends in this city. Mts. A. J. Clark died Saturday of congumption. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon. Miss May Ebling, second daughter of Mr. A. Ebling, is dangerously ill with brain aifficulty. The Booth-Laflin case will be carried to ahigher court, Laflin having waived examination. Mrs. Chas. Mott, of Detroit, was the gueBt of her sister, Mrs. Doctor Watling over Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. Morford were called to Newark, N. J., last Friday, by the death of a married daughter. Miss Jesgie Pease has returned from New York where she has been studying mnsic for the last five months. Mr. and Mrs. Amsden, late of Brooklyn, spent a few days in Ypsilanti, while en route for Hastings, Minn., their future home. Mr. Sidney Rathfon has bought the place owned by J. M. Orcutt, the absent Bohemian oat man, completeiy furnished for f 6,000. Father De Bever was made the recipiënt of a handsome book-case, Wednesday, by the pupila of St. John's school, in celebration of hb 60 th birthday. Mr. H. L. Wartz was accidently thrown from her buggy, Saturday, in attempting to drive up a bank sideways in the dark. Mrs. W. received some severe bruises. J. H. Kingsley, of Manchester, visited our paper milis Monday and Tuesday, eeeking information regardiag the pulp mili he expects to start at Manchester. Mrs. Chamberlain, widow of the late Doctor Chamberlain, died of consumption, Friday last. The funeral was held at her late home on Washington street, Monday afternoon. Mrs. Fletcher Tower is in St. Paul, Minn., this week, packing her household goods, as she intends to spend the summer with her mother, Mrs. Wartz, in this city. Miss Lillian Crawford, teacher at Charlotte, has returned to her work after a brief vacation owing to the schools being closed to let the children have all the measeis they wished. We believe 105 youngsters enjoyed this privilege. Some httle excitement was created at the Fifth ward school Tuesday morning owing to a little fracas which took place between Mrs. S. Lockwood, one of the teachers, and Mr. Jas. Bentley, an exbook agent, which ended in his drawing a revolver upon the lady and after serious threats, fleeing to the depot and boarding the Lake Shore train. Heonly journeyed. as far as Manchester, however, when he was nabbed by the officers after considerable trouble and brought back to this part of the county and jailed. It seems in the sweet olden time this gentleman and lady formed a literary partnership for the grinding out of poetical poems, but, ap in due time, he borrowed wealth of the lady, this soulful friendship necessarily wained, sputtered and died out, the grand finale being on Tuesday morning when the gentleman peremptorially demanded release from his obligations, which of course was not granted by Mrs. Lockwood, who is a plucky woman even if she does write oetry.