County News

"Adventures of Tad" is a charming story. Do not fail to read the first chapters on the eeventh page of this number of The Register. Saline union school has twenty-eight foreign students. Patrick O'Brien, of AVhitaker, died recently of heart disease. Jack Allison, of Milán, has settled on a fruit farm at San José, Cal. H. E. Burnham.of Milan, will remove his grocery business to Detroit. An infant child of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Gage of Manchester, died Nov. 28. Prof. John Dewey, of Ann Arbor, will lecture on "Spooks" in Milan Dec. 16. Wm. Freeman, an old and respected citizen near Manchester, died Nov. 26. Alfred Lewis, of Milan, had four colts bitten by a hog and one of them had to be killed. Alfred W. Hamner of Ypsilanti, a Bohemian oats dealer, has been convicted in Flint of obtaining a signature to a promissory note fraudulently. The Ypsilantian says that the Pittsfield swamps produced 20,000 bushels of onions this year, which gold at an average price of 65 cents per bushel. $13,000 in Pittsfield in one year from onions ! Saline. H. Miller and Robert G. Tripp left Tuesday for Little Clam lake to work in the pine woods.- E. W. Wallace and wife returned from their visit to Chattanooga Tenn., Dec. 1.- Mrs. Eugene Helber, who has been visiting her parents at New Orleans, La., has returned. - Mrs. E. P. Harper who has been visiting at Chattanooga, Tenn., returned home Dec. 1.- Mr. Mugg, the great poultry fancier of Dundee, Sundayed in town.- G. J. Nisely left Saturday for Grand Kapids, his wife accompanying him as far as Eaton Rapids.- The old engine house was sold by the counci' Dec. 1, for $49 and bell tower for $5.- Mrs. Blumhardt, who lived one anc one-half miles east of Saline, in Pittsfleld, died Dec. 3. Mrs. B. had an ovarian tumor removed last week.- M Weimer, of Buffalo, is learning the fancier business of G. J. Nissly.- R H. Marsh has shipped over 70,000 lbs of poultry since Aug. 17.