County News

Both Cheutauqua circles picniced last Friday. Mieses Carrie and Nan Towner, are visitiDg in Connecticut. O. A. Ainsworth & Co., are in their new building on Congress-st. Miss King, the Normal preceptress, is (pending the summer in St Clair. Recent advertisements have revealed the f act that Tpsi. has a "live" grocer. Our colored brethren are getting ready tor the first of August excursión to a foreign shore near Detroit Mrs. Susan Dodge, the aged mother of S. H. Dodge, died Sunday. She had been an invalid for about twenty years. Mr. D. C. Batchelder has returned fi om Clifton Spring?, N. Y. He left his wife and daughter at St. Catharines, Ont. Robert Coy, a former druggist of this city, is here on a short visit. Says he likes traveling on the road much better than running a business of his own. Messrs. Marshal Pease and C. L. Ellis while enroute for Eureka, Cal., stoppedoff one day at Salt Lake city. They reported the swimming excellent in the briny lake. W. H. Brookn, one of the Normal professors of learning, is doing amateur work on a bicycle and quite a number of hitching posU are not yet uprooted. Rev. Maclean and Chas. King, having done London, Paris, Florence and Rome, and gazed upoa Switzerland's beautiful scenery started on the homeward route today. Geo. B. Hodge has joined a hjdraulic eDgineer corps ; before he left the city his Baptist friends presented him with a purse of $50 for effective and valnable services in the choir. Mrs. Daniel Quirk went to Chicago Monday night in response to a telegram announcing the death of a young grand child, the youngest child of her daughter, Mrs. Younglove. The east side business men are waking up and stirring themselves in gpite of the hot weather. They hoist weather signáis every day and hire a band to toot forth goul thrilling strains every Saturday night. The Ypsilanti dress stay factory had a narrow escape from burning, the other cight. One of the ironing tables was discovered to be on fire by a passer-by. The alarm was promptly given and the danger averted. Among the throng seeking to get cooled off at Petoskey are Capt. Allen, Prof. D. Putnam and daughter, Clark Wortley and daughter and Mr. and Mrs Will Clark. Mrs. Capt. Allen intenda joining the party next week. A number of our well-known singers under the direction of Prof. Pease, gave a summer-night concert at the opera house, last Fridry evening, which was a most enjoyable affair. The proceeds will be used to bear the eipeiues in having the Epigïopal church organ moved down from the gallery and placed in the froct part of the churcb. A party, compoged of Messrs. Alex Hardy, Bert. Comstock, Archie Drury, Archie Sullivan, Will Marshall, Will Carpenter, Will Puinam and Fred. Holmes, gilently 8tole away Tuesday night, as the town clock wag tolling a doíen times ; and rumor has it that tíiey are hiding in the wilderaess at Base lake, and that for the next two weeks the farmers in that región will look up their green corn patches and ben roosts. Among those who visiteo Detroit Tuesday were Mrs. Goodison and daughter Bertha, Prof. Chas. Edwards, Mrs. Keyser, Geo. Tyler, Mr. and Mrs. Sweet, Mr. W. B. Drury, Rev. Mr. Sprirjger, Rev. Mr. Cheeney, Mr. St. James, Mr. Barnes, Misses Stewart and Moore. It is rather remarkable that eaoh and every person, howeter, seemed to be in such blissful ignorance that such a thin as a big horse race was in Detroit and emphatically averred that it was simply the human race they went in to see.