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3
Month
May
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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The story on the seventh page, by R. Rider Haggard, should be read by all. Now is the time to subscribe for Thb Register. Cass Sutherland, of Salem, recently worked up into lumber in his mili a tree which was 5 feet, 6 inches, in diameter at the base, 3 feet in diameter at the top, and 72 feet high. It went up 60 feet without a linib. From it were made 5,580 feet of quarter-sawed lumber. Wlillmore Lake. Four ice cream parlors at Whitmore Lake this season.- Henry Swindeman will soon open his restaurant in the Close building.- Wm. Dunlap is doing the mason work for his new house. - A Fowlerville man will open a restaurant in Michael Trainor's house. - Mrs. Weidenman returned to the Lake, this week.- Mrs. Silsbey's house will appear in a fine new coat.- Frank Spiegelberg has been severely afflicted with pleuropneumonia.- Mrs. Lizzie Payne, of Port Clinton, O., is at her father's, E. W. Snell.- R. Snell is at present very low. - It is believed that some of our citizens would be tempted to break the spearing law if they could do so in the dark. It is difficult to give up such sport. - The hotels are receiving many repairs. - The appearance of the wheat in this vicinity causes the farmers to be somewhat discouraged.- About $75 (wholesale) worth of tin pails were shipped here to peddlers, Saturday, and are being sold throughout the country. There were two loads of them, and there is no necessity for a lack of such.- The Hamburg toughs had a grand jubilee, Saturday night. As this was their last chance the beer flowed freely. Some of them were thoughtful of us and visited our burg. It will be a heavy stroke for that town. Webster. Mrs. Lomas is on the sick list last week.- Mr. and Mrs. Henry Scadin visited Mr. and Mrs. Henry Queal, of Hamburg, last week. - Jay McColl has returned from the Agricultural college, the college closing on account of scarlet fever.- The South Webster reading circle meets at George Phelp's, Friday evening, May 11.- Mrs. John Spoor, of Ypsilanti, visited at Mrs. Scadin's, Sunday last. - Rev. Mr. Butler anticipates visiting his old home at St. lohns this week. Ctaelsea. Mrs. Amelia Glover, after an absence of about three years, has returned to her old home in this village.- The school board have decided to engage for another year all the teachers employed during the past year except two. Prof. Loomis is retained. - Dr. Finch's wife and children are expected from Toledo this week. They will reside on south side of Middle-st, first residence west of Main.- A Cleveland club has been organized here of 208 members. - Our creamery, after being closed about three weeks for repairs, will be opened again for business next week.- Calvin Conklin, of Sylvan, has purchased Frank McNamara's fine residence on the west side of Main-st.- H. S. Holmes' late residence has been on the move for about a week.- Rev. A. M. Boolgoorjoo, of Marash, Turkey, who spent a few weeks here, and preached several times at the Congregational church three years ago, and who has been etudying aince at Yale Theological eeminary, took passage for his native home on the steamer Alaska, which sailed from New York Tuesday of last week, April 24, at 3:30 p. m. - The Democratie oaucus, Saturday afternoon, was enlivened by a contest between M. J. Lehman, who desires the nomination for prosecuting attorney, and Tim. McKonê, who aspires to that for sheriff, Of 208 votes cast {nearly every Democrat in the township), preference was expressed for the claims of Lehman over those of McKone by 140 to 68, and the delegates to the county convention, for the nomination of county officers, were requested to use all honorable means to secure his nomination for that office. Saline S. 8. Union. A meeting, held in the interest of the Michigan Sunday School unión, at the M. E. church of Saline, Friday evening last, was addressed by M. H. Reynolds, the statistical secretary of the union. Maps showing the present growth of the work, were exhibited, and it was deemed best to attempt a township organization for Saline, and perhaps also for some other townships adjoining at an early day. The following persons were elected as offlcers for Saline township, - to form an executive committee, viz: Prof. C. A. Blodgett, president; G. B. Mason, vice president ; Andrew Warren, secretary ; Mrs. A. C. Clark, treasurer. It is expected that a local convention will be held in or near Saline ere long, to awaken new enlhusiasm in this work. NI y Creek. The spring has been cold and backward in this vicinity. - The hearts of the farmers were gladdened, Monday, by a fine ehower of rain. - Wheat is looking quite poor this season. - Ed. Russell, a former resident, visited at E. Stone's last Sunday. - Mr. Hoover has traded his farm for one near Jaekson, and is moving there. - G. W. Harmon has erected a fine new barn on the farm occupied by S. Southworth. - The measles are beginning to disappear from this vicinity. - The concert at the M. E. church last Friday evening netted somewhere near $16.00.- New picket fences are beginning to appear on every side as the result of Begole Bro's Lightning fence machine. - Lee Salsbury contémplate a trip to Mackinaw to spend the summer. Saline. S. H. Moore's horse became frightened, one day last week, and ran away, doing but little damage.- Wm. Gillen, of Jackson, is visiting in town. - John Wahr and family, of Ann Arbor, Sundayed at C. Burkhart's.- C. Burkhart has moved on his farm just west of the village. - Mr. Hunter is sick at the residence of his brother-in-law, F. Corden, jr. - May day carne in with a snow storm. - Jonas Bond's remains were taken from the vault and interred in the Saline cemetery, April 28.- John Schaffer is building an addition to his residence on Ann Arbor-st. - The saloons have secured their bonds by our council allowing thein to go into the township for their bondsmen. The following is a list: For Mary Schaffer, John, her husband.and W. W.Wallace; John Frank,- Mike Alber and Mart Bchill ; Otto Jarrandt,- Wm. Gentner and Tpsllantl. A young man from Detroit took a " header" from his bicycle, last Sunday, and had to be laíd up for repairs at the Hawkins house for two days.- E. M. Comstock, who has been traveling in the west for his health, ia expected home the last of this week. - Scarlet fever is making some headway among the little people, but no serious results thus far. - Mr. Grubb's ice-house caught fire from an engine spark last Friday and burned.- Mort Tower, of Chicago, an ex-Ypsilantian, made his friends a short cali last week.- E. Zeilers and family have moved to Detroit.

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