County News

Mrs. E. M. Lamb has purchased the Mt. Morris Reflector. Chelsea has invested in new flre apparatus, and engine house. Mr. Dexter, of Milán, has leased the Barton house, Ypsilanti. The loss of the Milan school building by fire, has been fixed at $3,888. Tecumseh will have a band tournament in August. Poor Tecumseh. Miss Fannie Bogardus, of Ypsilanti, is home from New York for the summer. Ira T. Colby, for fifty years a resident of Ypsilanti township, died Sunday, June 3. Dogs are fast disappearing in Pinckney by the strychnine process. Incendiarism. So much money was lost last year in wool that this spring buyers are going slow, and the ruling price will be about 25 cents. Prof. Fred Field, of Tecumseh, will be principal of the Manchester schools next year. F. J. Bartlett, of Northfield, who has been sick with typhoid fever, is now out of danger. Mrs. Dr. Laraway, of Dakota, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Geddes, of Ann Arbor township. The Ypsilanti iron company think they have a bonanza in some ironlands they own in Wisconsin. From all accounts, potato bugs have become disgusted with paris green diet, and have left us. Thanks. Mrs. Martin Meivin, of Hamburg township, gave birth to twins, June 4, weighing ten pounds each. Next. C. S. Gregory and wife, and Adam Deckert and wife, of Dexter, are in the boundless west, on a pleasure trip. Ira F. Colby, of Stony Creek, died June 3. He was in his seventy-ninth year, and had been a resident here 50 years. Bro. Bennett, of the Pinckney Dispatch, is in a way of becoming famous, as he has been elected captain of a base ball nine. Mrs. Albert Forsyth, a prominent lady of Ypsilanti, died last Thursday, living only one and one-half hours after submitting to an operation for the removal of a tumor. She was treasurer of the Ladies' relief corps. The June meeting of the Saline Farmers' club was held at Delos Townsend's on Friday, June 8. The day was fine and the attendance good. The club is emphatically opposed to patronizing irresponsible agents and peddlers. In fact the practice, by our local dealers, of sending their agents through the country is becoming a nuisance. The question as to whether it was more profitable to buy stock to feed than to raise it was discussed. The next meeting will be held at E. C. Warner's, near Ypsilanti, July 27. Wliltmwro Lake. Steamer Lizzie Payne again plies the lake.- Frank Tyler, of Ann Arbor, visited friends here Sunday. - Mrs. Lizzie Roper, of Ann Arbor, has been visiting relativos here.- Miss Sibyl Stiles, of Fowlerville, visited here recently.- Mrs. Gretton and daughters, of Ann Arbor, are occupying Nelson Steven's cottage. -Miss Allie Walz, of Walz, and Fred S. Horner, of Cherry Hill, were guests of friends here Saturday and Sunday.- Dr. J. H. Lemen, of Dixboro, fished at Whitmoro Saturday. - Last Saturday evening a number of friends assembled at the home of Miss Mabel Stiles, to celébrate with her 17th birthday. - Miss Ida Cadwell, of Ann Arbor, was the guest of Miss Mabei Stiles Saturday and Sunday. Ypsilantl. Miss Carrie Richards is home froni Johnstown, Pa., where she has been teaching drawing and music in the schools. - The Yount Ladies Cooking club had themselvesphotographed Tuesday, armed with stewpans, rolling pins, cookie cutters, etc. - This evening at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Anisden, will take place the marriage of W. B. Jansen, of Kansas City. Mo., and Miss Kittie Amsden. Rev. Mr. Earp, of Ann Arbor, will officiate. - Miss Cornie Howland has returned home from a four month's eastern visit.- The Stay factory is running early and late, and with extra help trying to flll the immense orders daily received from eastern and western jobbing houses. - Most of the dry goods houses have signed a contract to close at six o'clock after July 6, but a number of the wide awake stores will remain open until eight o'clock just to help pass away the time and keep strangers from thinking that the city has gone off for a summer vacation. - Wm. B. Bradley has disposed of his Huron-st market to F. S. Clark, and will take a western trip before making another business venture. Mrs. Bradley and daughter will return to New York city. - A large fine tricycle has been brought into the city by Ed. Wallace, an enterprising young business man, and several of the young ladies are taking modest little rides in the back streets and lanes. - The Eoyal Arcanum folks had a fine spread at the Follett house, Monday evening to which their wives and sweathearts were invited. Hilaron. The recent rains make the Sharon farmers feel happy. - C. N. Fellows is spraying his appfe trees with a solution of London purple, in the hopes of raising a erop of fruit free from woims.The Baptist society of Clinton held their a n nu al social at D. Watson's, of Bridgewater, Tuesday. A full house and a full yard. It was Mr. Watson's birth-day. Webster. The society of Christian Kndeavor elected officers for three months, as follows : President, I. Backus ; vice-president, Dorr Queal ; recording secretary, Jennie McColl; treasurer, Jennie Latson ; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Scadin. - Mrs. Lee. of Grass Lake, visited her brother, Mr. Ball over Sunday.- Mrs. Beckwith of Port Huron. is visiting Mrs. Boyden.- Miss Nettie Latson, with a number of Brighton Iteachers, made a short cali at her home, Saturday.- Miss Jessie Williams closes this week a successful years' teaching in the school-house on the plains. Ghelsea. il Miss Victoria Adaline Westfall, daughter of Palmer and Fannie Westfall, of Lima, died of brain fever, in Freedom, where she was engaged in teaching school, on Friday, June 8, 1888, at the age of 21 years, 8 months and 26 days. Addie was a very excellent and ble young lady, and her sudden and untimely demise leaves both the neighborhood of her home and the school district where she was teaching in great sadness.- Death has also visited the family of Clarence Gage, of Sharon and taken from a devoted husband and four children, (the eldest 14 years of age) an affectionate and faithfulwifeand mother. Mrs. Eliza Wortley-Gage was bom in Leicestershire, England, July 4, 1851, and died June 9, 1888, of inflammation of the bowels. - Rev. Mr. Holmes preached at Dexter, last Sunday, a. m., and attended a funeral at Lima Center in the afternoon. - Mrs. Homer Briggs, of Ypsilanti, was the guest of her cousin, E. L. Negus, and wife last Thursday. - M. J. Noyes, contemplates building a new barn on his farm, about four miles south of this village. - Some log cabins are to be put up at Cavanaugh lake, so that pleasure seekers may enjoy a taste or rather a hint of pioneer life. - Rev. J. H. Mclntosh will attend quarterly meeting at Lima next Sunday, a. m., and Rev. Mr. Holmes will occupy his pulpit here. Plttsfleld. The fine large barn recently finished at an expense of several hundred dollars, by Daniel Seyler, of Lodi, waa the scène of a dance last Tuesday evening, at which about iifty couples'were present- Mortimer Twichell, of Hamburg, spent Saturday and Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Henry DePue.- Mies Libbie Reeves and Miss Carrie Klager spent last Sabbath yery pleasantly with friends in Milan. - ÏVIrs. Joe White and family who have been seriously ill with measles, are recovering. The daughters are again in the Normal, the eldest of whom graduates this year, while the son Frank has resumed his school in the Robert's district. - Some colts belonging to Herbert Wheeler and J. A. Lansing, while running in the field a few days since, came in contact with a barbed wire fence, and were seriously cut and injured.