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Day
2
Month
August
Year
1888
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Wm. Acton, of this city, has been granted s pension. Goodspeed is having a new floor laid in his hoe store. Hugh O'Kane brought the first peaches to market Tueadav. The first ward organized a Harrison and Morton club, Friday night The Knigbt Templara tslk of building a cottage at Sirawberry Point. Henry Gilbert and family, of Chelsea, have become residente of tbia city. Dressing and surgical rooms have been added to the homoeopathic hospital. St. George's society will have a picnic at Wliitmore Lake, Monday, Ang. 13. The new store of P. N. Stimaon on Annst is open with a full supply of groceries. Joe T. Jacobs has receaily purchased a Kentucky saddle horse for his childreii's use. Remember the reunión of the 9th Mich, at Grand Ledge next Wednesday, August 8. The will of the late Luther James has been filed for probate, the hearing to be Aug. 27. The annual teachers' institute for washtenaw county will beheld in the Seminary building Ypsilanti, beginning August 13. Mrs. Lawrence, of Salire, who was to have taken a position as teacher in one of our schools, has concluded to remain in Saline. Co. A will give their annual excursión about the 23d of August. Watch and wait for it. __ Our colored people divided themselves between Jackson and Detroit, in honor of Emaocipation day. Work on the interior of the opera house has been commenced by Charley Edwards and his paint brush. Large quantities of old wheat are being marketed, showing that farmers have no faith in higher prices. H. C. Packard's barn, in Saline township, was struck by lightning during the thunder storm Tuesday. Monthly meeting of the Washtenaw pomológica! society, next Saturday, Aug. 4, at two p. m., in Court house. The Central Mills were shut down Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, on account of extensive repairs being made. G. A. Crofoot has exchanged his Burr Oak farm for the hardware stock, store, house and lot of J. W. Huil, Saline. Rev. Thos. Parry of Michigan City, Ind., will preach both moruing and evening at the Presbyterian church next Sunday. A numberof ladiesand gentlemen went to Toms' green house Monday night, to see a night blooming cereus unlold its beauty. The postal telegraph company connected with the Bennett and Mackey cable, have established an office at the T. & A. A. depot. ' Martin Seabolt, X. Zachmann, Mercnant Goodrich and George Backu?, left yesterday mornir.g for a few day's sport at Rush Lake. The T. & A. A. company are laying new side tracks to the Heinzmann & Laubengayer's elevator, and to the electric light building. Michael Cowen, near Dixboro, lost some out-buildings and personal property by fire last week. lnsured in the Washteuaw Mutual. Small boys with tin blow-guns are crowding the sparrows out of popular notice, and, its hard to teil wnich are the greater nuisance. During the storm Tuesday the electric light fixtures and globe at corner of S. Main and Liberty sts feil to the ground and were demolished. Dr. Ramsay will preach Sabbath morning at the Methodist Episcopal church, ou "The Advantages of Holmess," and in the evening on "Faithlulness." All sod and grass has been removed from the gutters and at side of walks around the court house which gives our city a less verdant appearance. Gilbert R. Lyon, attorney-at-law, of Owosso, was in the city, Tuesday, looking after the sale of the Collier property on Liberty-st, which netted $2750. W. F. Ayres, of the T. & A. A., was in Lansing last Friday to attend the funeral of his mother, Mrs. H. C. Ayres, who died at her home in that city on the 26th. J. W. Maynard has a new delivery wagon, and will have a new horse and a new harne8S as soon as Cleveland is re-elected. - Democrat. Good-bye horse and harneas. The grand annual encampment of the Knights of Maccabees will be held at Port Huron Aug. 12th. Tickets will be pold on all railroads good Irom 14 to 18 at one (are. The new stores on Sta'e-st will make a hBndsome appear8nce aa their entire front will be of a uniform style of galvaniztd iron, which, when eanded, will look like a cut stone block. Probate Judge Harrimnn prepared the papers Tuesday, wherehy Willia-n George Hager, ag d nine months, was adopted by Geo. D. Wyman and wife. The child's parents are both dead M. H. O'Brien, operator in the United telegraph office here, has accepted a position in the company's office at Detroit. Mr. B'.ack, of Jackson, will take the position vacated here. Thk Register acknowlerigeg receipt of invitation to attend the Fortieth annual fair cf the Mionigan State agricultural eociety, which opens at Jackson, Mich. on Monday September 10. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kearn lost two children Suoday from diphtheria, one a boy two years old, the o' her a girl 4 years old. This mnkesthree children they have Io9t in the past few weeks. Tomorrow (Friday nighi) there will be a meeting of all the different iradesmen of the city in masons' hall, for the purpoee of organizing a trad? s union. All desiring to join are inviteá to be persent. While Henry Brown and family - on the Dixboro road - were at church Sunday gome one broke into the hcjse, and stole $10 in cash, a pair of punts, gold pen, and a market basket full of ck--s and pies. Sheriff Walsh receiveii a telegram from Detroit Sunday, to be on the watch for a span of fine horses attached toa topbuggy stolen from thedriving patk about 3 p. m while their ownerwas watching the races. Some fidgety persons ure wondering if Oo. A. did not particípate in the disgrace ful row at Cadillac in breaking up the Sa'vation array there, mentioned la-t week. Co. A. did not go tfirough Cadillac at all. Wm. Ross of this city, brakeman on way trriht, was thrown fro.n a car near Leoni last Ftiday, bv reas n of an open switch, and received seyere ii juries to one of hii anklns, whioh will Uy him up fur (.ome weeks. Reeves & Huater. ( the Ann Arbor boiler works, have secure I ihe ontract t lurnish tht "I" beatn xti'l iron columnfor the high school bmld .n, t.m unting to nearly $2000, also f. ir lh beams and columns for the Two Sams -tore, aoiountïng to $200 Chris. Doinelly, who li i bt-en with thn Express compin for the rat six year., is now i i Uncl Sm's ernpl v, having been a pointed la-t MoniUv. in til 'ai"iier, bv Posimaster Duffy. Ii i b p od [ ment. Frank La'son, (f Jukson, wiii take his place with the expresa ompany. W. W. Tozer is raakine; many improvements on the house he recently purchased of L. D. Wine8. The inside work is being rubbed down and varnished, new ventilators put in, new porches added, and when ready for occupancy, will be a model dwelling. Walter J. Whitlnrk, son of Joseph Whitlark, and son-in-law of Chauncey Orcutt, died at his residence on the farm on Miller avenue, Saturday niaht, of disea9e of the liver. He was 33 yers of age, and leaves a wife and child. The funeral services were held Tuesday at the Unitarian church. A telegnm was received here yesterdav morning, announcing the death of Rev. Christian F. Spring, at Hamburg, Ontario, of apoplexy. His son Emanuel, left for that place on reseipt of the end tidings, and wiil bring the remains to this city for interment. He was well-known in the county. He leavea a family. Old lady (reading without her glasses, The Register circular advertising it8 new story): "Wnipping a Wife in Washtenaw," by Andrew McAndrew ; well I think Mr. McAndrew ought to be ashamed of himself for whipping his wife ; and The Register is doing a good work in exposing him. It's a grand good paper, anyway." The Democrat referring to the Third ward pole raising and speskers of the evening, Messrs. Lawrence, Hamilton and Hiscock, says : "What a pity it ia that fuch bright young men should be on the wrong side of the fence." And those gentlemen probably regret the fact that 80me of our brightest ladies are on the other side of the fence. The house of Frank Reilly, near Delhi Mills, was broken into yesterday, in the absence of the family, and robbed of a 8lver watch, a lot of silver ware and jewelry, and $10 in money. The parties were seen by a neighbor, and a description sent to Sheriff Walsh who, with Chief Sipley, watched nearly all Tuesday night for them, but they did not come this way. John Hofmeister, an old gentleman living out on State-st road, about two miles south of the city, was thrown from a load of hay, Monday, by the team suddenlystarting, breeking his sboulder blade. Dr. Greorg attended him. Mr. Hofmeister received a letter from Germany the same day informing him that he hd fallen heir to $10,000, which eased the pain very much. The four Germán societies of the city, asaisted by about thirty Salineites and the Saline band, had a picnic at Relief park, yesterday. The procession numbered 13'2, the handsome silken banner of the Saline society attracting much attention. The societies assembled at the park at 3 p. m., and epent the afternoon and evening in singing and dancing, and having a good time. Justice Frueauff received a letter, Tuesday, from Dr. John Miller, formerly of this city, but now at the University of Upsala, Swedea, telling of some queer weather there for this time of year. They had a heavy snow storm in June, and the heaviest spring freshets ever known there. Then on July 8, another heavy snow storm . vieited southern Sweden, doing great damage to trees and vegetation. Popular Science Monthly for August says: "Mr. A. J. Scott, of Ann Arbor, Mich., bas had a pleasant experience in tree culture during his life of 80 years. He can point to trees in Connecticut, now two feet in diameter, which he planted when a boy. His present home is shaded with a grove of maples which he planted. He allows squirrels to frequent the place, and encourages them to stay. They bring nuls, some of which find their way to the ground and grow; and thereby the maples are becoming interspen-ed with nut bearing trees, which are already from six to twelve inches in diameter."

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