Whitmore Lake

Excursión from Owosso yesterday. Hops at both halls last Saturday evening. R. Prentice is enlarging his recently built house. Not an excursión over the M. A. L. yet this season. Many of our citizen will help kick up the dust at Island Lake this week. Miss Matie Drake lost a small silver watch with gold chain attached, Monday. Two policemen will attempt to see that all things go well at the farmers' picnic. Our new fruit and vegetable stand seems to do a profitable amount of business. Such sports as tub races and wheelbarrow races are indulged in at the Clifton House. Mr. Payne, of Port Clinton, O., who has been visiting at E. W. Snell's, has returned home. More campers have pitched their tents in the east side grove, and some have broken camp. Prayer meeting at the M. E. church will be held on Friday evening instead of Thursday, this week. The Misses Sibyl Stiles and Susie Kenyan, of Fowlerville, have been guests of Miss Mabel Stiles. Our depot with a coat of paint is much improyed in appearance, but the accommodations are as usual. The trotting which was to take place on our atreets last Saturday was postponed. But one horse was ready. At present the number of guests at the hotels is not great, but new arrivals will soon fill the places of the departed. Our genial merchant, L. J. Stiles, received some not very slight injuries while lending a hand at the moving of the postoffice. Late arrivals at the Clifton House are : Geo. H. Miller, J. Slattery and sister, Wm. A. Gruner, R. A. Lutz and Hudson Ellis, all of Ann Arbor. Prof. Charles Carlisle, of the Detroit school of elocution, will furnish a program of his charming recitations at the Webster M. E. church this evening. If Howell people were successful in having the Sunday excursions discontinued, it certainly would not injure the feelings of the Lake people any. The Washtenaw county poineer society will hold their first picnic here on the 20th, in the Lake House grove. This will doubtless add to the enormity of the crowd on that day, and the largest congregation ever sëen at Whitmore Lake is looked for then. The Lake House register shows the following recent guests : Dr.T.J.Sullivan and wife, Gil. Snow and family, J. F. Breakey, W. X. Stevens, J. E. Taylor and wife, H. C. Nickels, Ann Arbor ; Mary Tobin, Ama A. Tobin, Annie Doulon, G. A. Woodford and family, Detroit ; Mrs. E. B. Roe, Plymouth. Better drink buttermilk than ice water this hot weather. Our creamery ia unable to supply the demand for its butter. Mrs. Howard, of Saline, is the guest of Rev. and Mrs. T. Robinson. ' Southern breezes cometo us freighted with the fragrance of orange blossoms. In a game of ball between Ann Arbor and Chelsea, Tuesday, Chelsea won. Score 10 to 6. Our recreation park has been in iminent danger from fire, which has overrun adjacent fields. Miss Phoebe Turnbull, who has spent the past year with an aged aunt in Canada, is at home again. The season for shipping stock- sheep and hogs- has opened, and shipments are made by Wm. Judson about once a week. Strangers are seen on our streets daily. Many of them are campers- some at Xorth Lake, some at Kavanaugh. Mrs. Polly Sawyer, mother of Hon. A-. J. Sawyer, died last week Wednesday, at the advanced age of 90 years and 11 months. B. J. Billings, of Toledo, mail agent on T., A. A. & N. M. R. R. was shaking hands with old friends here Tuesday night and Wednesday. Mrs. W. J. Danser and baby, of Stockbridge, came over last Thursday, and spent a few days at Kavanaugh Lake with her mother, Mrs. D. G. Hoag. C. H. Wines has let his farm, on which he has spent many years, and is making arrangements to move into town. "He will occupy Mrs. Billings' house on Middle street. Last Friday Mr. and Mrs. Dudley, of Battle Creek, and their two beautiful children, arrived from Ypsilanti, where they had been visiting, and spent seyeral days, the welcome guests of their brother-in-law, W. J. Knapp. Mrs. H. F. Gilbert's night-blooming cereus blossomed last, week on two successive nights - four blossoms the first night and two the second. As soon as the flowers began to open the news spread through the town, and more than one hundred persons came to witness the beautiful sight.