County News

A. D. Jackson, of Milán, attended a reunión of the let Michigan cavalry in lonia last week. Herbert Coe, aged 16, died in Detroit Dec. 25, 1887, and his funeral was held in Milán Dec. 27. Henry Queal, of Webster, was married Dec. 29, 1887, to Miss Kate Ball, a daughter of William Ball, of Hamburg. Charles Murray, of Salem, received seven shot in his leg recently, which George Bowen intended for some partridges. Some of the ladies of Pittsfield township have organized a home mission society, of which Mrs. C. C. Sherwood is president. Miss Matie Stever, of Milán, was married at her parent's residence, Dec. 28, 1887, to Charles H. Harris, of Augusta. Charles and Catharine Brenion, of Bridgewater, have recently lost two daugnters, aged 9 and 10 years, of diphtheria. Dr. T. J. Ritter, of Dexter, received word last week of thé death of kis mother in Milton, Pa., who had reached her 70th year. Rev. J. D. Shults and Perry Lamkin have leased M. L. Rice's broom handle factory at Whittaker, and have started out in business quiet auspiciously. - Milan Leader. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Vogel, of Manchester, blessed with a daughter, but one day to late to be called a Christmas present. Ditto Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lamming, of Sharon. Mr. and Mrs. f red S. Steinkohl, of Manchester, a son, on Christmas. Mrs. Kapp, mother of Dr. John Kapp, of Ann Arbor, and of Dr. C. F. Kapp, of Manchester, died last week at her home in Northfield township. She was the mother, also, of Mrs. Dancer, Mrs. M. Braun, Mrs. David Steffe, and Mrs. ■Charles Prockner, of Northfield. Manchester lodge F. A. M.( elected the following officers : W. M., John F. Nestell ; 8. W., Mat D. Blosser ; J. W., Frank Spafard; treasurer, Geo. J. Haeussler; secretary, Ed. E. Root ; S. D., A. F. Freeman ; J. D., A. J. Case ; lst steward, M. Brenner ; 2d Bteward, J. C. Gordanier ; organist, Clarence Case ; tyler, E. G. Carr. Wiltsie post, G. A. R., in Saline, elected J. H. Fish commander. Acme tent, K. O. T. M., elected David Sears, past commander; Alfred Miller, sir knight commander; John H. Bortle, S. K. L. C. ; Frank E. Jones, S. K. R. K. Saline lodge I. O. O. F., elected J. H. Bortle, N. G. ; G. J. Ehnis, V. G. ; secretary, O. E. Hawkins ; treasurer, Henry ■Collum ; and representativo to grand lodge, Henry Collum. A Belleville correspondent to an Ypsilanti correspondent is sarcastic: "As New Years day is the day new resolves are made, wouldn't it be a good plan, Mr. Postoffice Clerk, of Ypsilanti postoffice, to put into practice some scheme whereby to better cultívate your memory ? The best example for practice ■would be something like the following: 'Put the Belleville package of the Ypsilanti Commercials aside from otner mail matter. Henry Raymond, the mail carrier, will always cali for it.' Eepeat this formula before and after eating, and twice before retiring at night. By the end of a fortnight, we think, if you follow this rule faithfully, that you will be capable of remaining .yi_your present position." Saline. Mrs. L. Wallace, Mrs. F. Fellows, Mrs. F. St. John, Mrs. A. E. Howard, and Miss Ann Rice, visited at Rev. Gallop's at Ypsilanti, holiday week. - A. S. Wheelock, of Bridgewater, and Miss Etta F. Baker, of Saline, were married in Ypsilanti at the residence of Rev. ■Gallop's, Dec. 28.- Clarence L. Curtis, of Somerset, and Miss Lydia Koch, of Pittsfield, were married in Saline at the residence of Rev. W. E. Colwell, Dec. 27. - W. H. Hawkins and L. Yost, of Ypsilanti, were in town to buy horses Dec. 30. - Those who attended the hop at Lake Ridge, Dec. 30, report a very fine time. Always have a good time at Eddie's.- Will Hall, of Planville, is visiting old friends here. - Ezra Norris failed to appear in the liquor trial of Khinefrank vs. Layer, on Dec. 28, before Justice McKinnon. Therefore the defendant was discharged.- Bert Ames, of Ypsilanti, called on old friends the past week. - There will be a select masquerade hop at the opera house about the middle of January. - Mies Lizzie Burns, of Bridgewater, is visiting at A. K. Rouse's, on Congress-st- The entertainment which was given at the M. E. church, Dec. 28, will be repeated by request on Jan. 11.- John M. Schill who hves two miles west of here, slipped and feil on the ice Jan 1, and broke his arm. Whllmore Lake. F. W. Rane has returned toColumbus college after a holiday vacation at home. - Délos King has recovered from his sickness. - Landlord Smith is on the sick list. -Mrs. Mary Duncan is visiting in Jackson. - Geo. Sheffer is among the sick. - The ice harvest has commenced. - H. C. Nichols, who has been visiting here, has returned to Ann Arbor. - Miss Mabel Stiles has been visiting relatives at Fowlerville.- H. Spiegelberg was at Toledo Monday, "working up" the ice business. On account of the freezing there, he was not very successful.- A box social at the residence of H. Pinckney, last evening.- Frank McCormick and sister have returned to Mason after a visit here.- A short time since, Peter Galligan received injuries when a work train on the T., A. A. & N. M."ditched". He was brought home and is at preeent seriously afflicted. Mr. Galligan took an active part in the late railroad war at Howell, having two narrow escapes, at one time being cut down with an ax, and at another was hit with a rifle bal!.- The lecture at the M. E. church by Prof. J. F. Berk, of Cudac, on the "Beauties of Hawaii," was well attended and a general satisfaction manifested. He gives another lecture at the same place, Tuesday evening, Jan. 10. An admission of 10 cents will be charged and the proceeds donated to the church. - The following officers of the M. E. Sunday school have been chosen for the year 1888 : Superintendent, L. J. Stiles, reelected ; assistant, Mrs. Rev. Bird; seoretary, Miss Clara Elliot ; treasurer, Miss Tillie Deyhle; librarian, Jay Pray ; organist, Miss Anna Rane.- The M. E. pulpit is now extravagantly lighted by a handsome nickel plated Duffield lamp presented by the Sunday school.- During the two weeks that the T., A. A. & N. M. station house has been open, the business has been flourishing.- John Bañe, aged about 80 years, was seriously injured by slipping on our .streets Tuesday. Tpsilantl. Wm. Waldron and family, of Detroit, are visiting Ypsi. friends.- Miss Fannie Hall has gone to Detroit to spend the month with Geo. Peck's family.- Mr. Salisbury, of Adrián, was in the city Monday looking over the postoffice candidates.- Hal Glover has departed for San Francisco, where he will open the western office for the sale of the Ypsilanti dress stays. - Miss Louise Smith, daughter of editor Smith, with whotn she has spent her holiday vacation, has returned to her stndies at Oberlin. - Mrs. Liyermore's lecture for Tuesday is indefinitly postponed, owing to the illness of the lady.- Union religious services at the different churches in succession every evening of this week. - The Union school scholars have been enjoying an extra long vacation. Boilers in school building were unsafe.- Banks refuse Canada money at par ; stores following suit.- Mrs. Ed. Skinner slipped on the pavement, Sunday, and sprained her wrist severely. - E. P. Bucklin, an elderly gentleman, feil on the icy pavement, Saturday evening, and crushed his hip in Buch a manner that his injuries may prove fatal.- P. F. Powers of Cadillac "Happy New Yeared" with his many friends here this week. - The hotel on the east side, kept by M. H. Burgess, was partially destroyed by flre Monday. - Chas. M. Norton, of Leslie, is in the city assisting in invoicing J. H. Sampson's hardware stock, which he has purchased.- The Natural History department at the Normal have made some valuable additions lately in microscopes, minerals, fossils, and valuable collections of forms of marine life. Webster. Mrs. James E. Butler, of Webster, is seriously ill. - Lombard bell ringersgive a concert at the Webster M. E. church next Wednesday evening.- On Jan. 14, the Webster farmers' club will hold a meeting at the residence of the president, Ira C. Backus. There will be music, a dinner, an inaugural address by the president ; a paper by Johnson Backus ; discussion of the paper ; and the following subjects will bediscussed: "Midwinter care of stock," and "The grain ration ; should it be ground fine or coarse for cattle? " Brldgewater. Treasurer Blum bas the taxes nearly collected.- Rev. and Mrs. Geo. P. Wright, of Morgan Park near Chicago, are here, visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Justus Watson. - Albert Palmer, of Kansas, is home visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Palmer, who are in very poor health.- Mrs. D. W. Palmer, who had a stroke of paralysis, is able to be out. - Geo. Rawson, who drove nearly 300 feet and struck natural gas, has driven anotherwell,on the opposite side of the house, to the depth of 180 feet, and obtained 150 feet of water.