County News

Miss Nora Babbitt is at Alma, Mich., aking baths and Germán lessons. Judge Ninde has been appointed administrator of the Lambert Barnes esate. William H. Deubel has bought the Skinner property on Washington-st, for $4,500. The doctors report an unusual number of cases of malarial fevers in city and vicinity. Mrs.Dr.McAndrew.who has been very ïll with typhoid fever, is slightly improving. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Deubel and daugh;er are enjoying the cool breezes at Mackinac this week. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Holbrook and daughter, Emnia, are visiting friends and relatives in Ohio. The Ypsilanti band excursión Wednesday was well patronized by citizens and farmers in general. E. N. Colby, our east side jeweler, will be married to Miss Alice M. Burrell, of Dentons, Wednesday evening, August 17th. Robert Wilder gave a very interesting talk on foreign missionary work, last Sunday evening, at the Baptist church. Our city has just paid a trifle of about $5.000 on that everlasting Hillsdale railroad bond, and there's $60,000 more to be paid y et. Mr. Zeil Baldwin and sister Maude, of Manchester, gave Ypsi. friends a cali while en route " overland" from Detroit to their home. Rev. MacLean was seized with a severe billious attack before reaching home last week from New York, and has been quite ill ever since. (Jarda are out announcing the marriage of John A. Miller, a former Normal student, and Miss Clara Parsons, daughter of Samuel W. Parsons. Walter C. Bellows, favorably known among the theatre circles of New York, is spending his summer vacation in this city with hi father, Prof. Bellows. Geo. B. Hodge has given up his position as member of a Chicago engineering corps and accepted the principalship of the Le Seur, Minn., schools, at a salary of $1,100. The contract for the erection of the new bank building has been awarded, J. B. Palmer, of Detroit, being the lucky contractor, his bid for the job being $18,800, which was 1,700 lower than Ypsilanti bids. The manufacturing of the Ypsilanti bustle bids fair to give employment to a number of people for an indefinite length of time. Messrs. St. James and Hayton are making all arrangements for rushing business.