County News

Manchester now has an up-town telegraph office. mZ- ,'. ,. .„ There are 238 scholars attending the Manchester schools. Mrs. Sally Poucher celebrated her 80th birthday, at Manchester, Aug. 31st. Isaac Shaw, three miles south of Saline, will build a handsome farin residence. The Baptist church society at Manchester have refurnished a portion of their church. J. H. Pratt, of Knowlesville, N. Y., has purchased a car load of lambs in the vicinity of Dexter. Chas. M. Fellows, of Sharon, has been nominated for congress by the prohibitionistsof the second district. Dr. C. F. Kapp, James Kelly and A. F. Freeman were elected directora of the Manchester schools, last week. Miss Dora Ambrose has commenced her second term in the Stony Creek school. Sheisa.very popular teacher. A 10-year-old Tecumseh girl sold $21 worth of Dutch cheese, the past summer, peddling it frora house to house. - Enterprise. Geo. Rawson, of Bridgewater, finds that bis wheat threshed over 27 bushels to the acre, considerable more than he expected. Manchester citizen do not feel the hard times, one of the jewelers there having received $700 worth of diamonds last week. Mat D. Blosser, editor of the Manchester Enterprise, is taking a vacation, and as the paper says, has left the devil to run it during his absence. The Republicans of Sunerior township will hold a caucus in the town hall, Saturday, Sept. 15, at 2 p. m., to elect delegates to the county convention. Services in memory of the late Bishop Harris were held at St. James' church, Dexter, last Sunday. Rev.Wm. Galpin delivered the memorial sermón. The same streel, fakir that worked Ann Arbor bas been at Mancheeter. We sympathize with the citizens there, but at the same time misery loves company, you know. Hon. A. J. Sawyerand J. F. Lawrence will speak in Superior town house, Friday evening, Sept. 14. J. W. Donovan, of Detroit, will speak at Salem station, Saturday evening, Sept. 15. Mr. Sawyer will speak in Chelsea Sept. 15. Dennis & Glover, our machinists, have taken the contract for making 4,000 patent siding gauges for the patentee, S. G. Hosack, of Ann Arbor. The contract amounts to about a $1,000, and will keep them busy through the fall months. - Saline Observer. The Republicans of Lenawee county have named the winning ticket, it being as follows: State senator, A. D. Gilmore, Blissfield; probate judge, R B. Robbins, of Adrián; sheriff, Edward C. Baldwin, of Medina; county clerk, Geo. W. Fleming, Rome; treasurer, W. C. Moran, Hudson; register of deeds, A. W. Smith, Adrián; prosecuting attorney, D. B. Morgan, Morenci; circuit court commissioners, G. W. Ayres, Orant A. Rogers, both of Adrián; surveyor, James Blair, Morenci; coronéis, John O. Knapp, Adrián, H. B. Ellis, of Blissfleld. At the Saline annual school meeting, the worthy citizens wrestled with the juestion of cutting the hay in the yard in front of the schoolhouse. The Observer's account is as follows : "A motion to parchase a lawn mower and keep said yard as a lawn, was sat down upon po unceremoniously that the mover thereof was almost sorry he had said anything about the matter. Another motion was then made that the hay be cut once a year and the seed threshed out and sold, but it is needless to say that it was lost, as also a motion to let the grass stand and go to seed and return again to theyirgin soil thatnourished it. About this time the meeting became serious on the grass question and decided that soDiething motnentous ought to be done. And it carne in the shape of a motion to cut the grass every month, which was modified to only during the sumrner, but the majority of votes was on the wrong side of the question, and the motion was lost to sight and meinory dear. A motion to cut that highly prized grass twice each season, was dropped in the same hole as its predecessor. Finally the matter was disposed of by leaving the 6ubject to the discretion of the school board." Webster. Rev. J. E. Butler has left his charge here, to attend the Theological seminary at Chicago. John Cushing was seriously injured by a mustang pony Sunday afternoon. He is not yet out of danger. Miss Nettie Latson will cominence her duties as teacher of the blind in the school at Lansing next week. The Y. P. S. C. E. elected offlcers for the next quarter as followg' President, Ray McColl; vice president, George Phelps; secretary, Emma French; treasuer, Jessie Williams; correspondingeecretary, Mrs. Ira Backus. Chelsen. E. G. Hoag is on a business trip to Buffalo. H. M. Woods startedon a trip to Kansas Tuesday. James Baughman will start his'evaporator on Thureday. W. F. Crafts, of Sharon, has gone to visit friends in Dakota. Miss Polly and Carrie Clager are attending the State fair this week. H. S. Holmes is putting a steam-heatingapparatus into his new residence. Rev. J. H. Mclntosh has gone to attend the annual meeting of the Detroit M. E. conference. Wm. Vuiler and fainily, of Fort Gratiot, are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. M J. Noyes. Mies Lyra Hatch will leave on Thursday for Bellevue, where she is engaged to teach the coming year. A preacher of African descent will cominence a campmeeting on the Chelsea fair ground on Thursday, to continue ten days. Several of our citizens were in Detroit Wednesday - soroe on business, Bome to hear Mr. Fisk's speech in the evening on political issues. Hon.JohnF. Scanlan, of Chicago, and Hon. E. P. Allen, of this Congressional district, will speak in Chelsea on the protection of American industries, next Saturday evening. Frank Staffan, who escaped so narrowly from being blown to pieces by the premature discharge of a blast, has so lar recovered as to be able to appear upon ouretreets once more. Pittsfleld. Mills brothers have 14 head of Holstein cattle at the State fair this week. Clinton Almendinger drove over to Jackson this week to attend the State fair. Mort Freer and A. Steger have gone to attend the National encampment of the G. A. R. at Columbus. Mrs. Moses Wilsie has been spending several weeks with her relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilsie. Milan. The Milan delegation to the county Democratie convention did not come home very mach elated. Treachery is charged up against some of the neighboring towns. The Milan postoffice was broken into Tuesday night, but less than one dollar was taken. The burglars also got into C. A. Moore's store and took some cigars. The funeral of Miss Sarah Palmer who, for many years, was postmistrnss here, occured on Thursday. Miss Palmer was said to be one of the best postal clerks of the service. The Democrats arranged for a big day on Saturday. They raised a 100-foot hickory successfulïy. Then Stearn3 talked an hour or more to show what kind of tariff man he was. He praised Grover a little and announced C. H. Manly for the evening. Manly went to the rink snd found it silent and alone. Then he talked to a moving throng in the streets, while the Kickapoos had an audienee of about 3000 people around them. Manly's democracy was ata discount. Th ■ 'V. Farmers' Club. The S. . farmers' club met at the residence of E. O. Allen, in Bridgewater Sept. 7. Mr. Allen üves in the extreme south-east part of the district included by the limits of the club, their territory being Bridgewater, Manchester and Sharon. Geo. Rawson, an early settler of Bridgewater, furnished a paper upon the topic for discussion, "Grass is King ; how tosecuremore of it or find a substitute." He commenced with the quotation, "All flesh is grass;" the king is flesh, henee grass must be king. Mr. Rawson showed conclusively that the product of grass and hay, fed to btock, was better for the farmer and the farm than so much cropping. In the discussion which followed.C. M. Fellows said thethree extreme dry seasons past were making the farmer look anxiously for a substitute for feeding stock. He had sowed rye for pasture, but had not plowed it under to test its fertilizing properties. R. Green thought land that had been seeded should not be plowed upeven if a good catch was not secured, as the soil needed rest. He thought farmers tried to raise too much wheat. B. G. English thought that less acres should besown to wheat and morework be placed on the amount sown. D. W. Palmer, D. G. Rose, A. Hitchcock, and many others joined in the discussion. Mr. Wallace and wife, James Kress and wife, and Mrs. Morgan joined the club. The meeting adjourned to meet at the residence of C M. Fellows, in Sharon the first Friday in October. Wbitmore I.iiko. Co. A.'s tournament, Saturday next. Rev. S. W. Bird is at conference in Detroit. Sam. Osborne has been rusticating at Petoskey. The firm of Pray & otiles has been dissolved. F. W. Rane returned to the Ohio State university, Monday. Miss Minnie Horner opened the fall school with 25 pupila. Mrs. Rev. Bird is visiting relatives in Port Huron and elsewhere. L. J. Stiles sells personal property on bis farm at auction, the 2Oth. F. G. Rane, of Detroit, has visited at his brother William's, this week. The T. & A. A. has gradfid a much needed approach to the side track. Miss Lizzie Bailey, of Ann Arbor, has been the guest of Miss Annie Rane. Henry Swindeman has been subpcened to Detroit as grand juryman. Theo. Clark of Grand Rapids, en route for Niágara Falls, stopped off at this place a few days to visit old friends. Charles A. Pray bade his Michigan friends "farewell," Monday evening, and Btarted for Denver, Colorado, with $ $ in his eye. The school board has engaged Fred S. Horner, of Cherry Hill, to teach our winter school. The action of the board is univereally approred. Mrs. Ellen Roe, of Plymoutb, we are informed, will make something grand of the Knight property on Fulton-st, in the way of a sew house. Tpsllantl. Will Vought, of Kansas City, is home for a short time. Mr. and Mrs. Ebling celebrated their silver wedding Mónday evening. Hon. E. P. Allen greeted old friends at his home the first of the week. Republican hats are plenty now, and 80 are the level heads that wearjthem. Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Trim have been made superlatively happy over the arrival of twin baby girls. The G. A. R. force to the numberof 20 or more left for the reunión at Columbus, Ohio, Monday afternoon. Bruno St. James, late of the Bee Hive, this city, has gone to Ann Arbor to seek wealth in a mercantile venture of his own. Miss Ella Sampson, who is fllling the position of Btenographer with a Detroit firm. epent Sunday at home with her párente. It is eaid that C. M. Fellows, of Sharon, the prohibition candidate for con(rress, intends taking up his residence in Ypsilanti soon. Monday evening, a party of young lads while returning from Ann Arbor on bicycles got into a big race and Craig Bowling was the one to take the header and have to be carried home unconscious.