Around The County

A Pinckney hardware dealer is to remove to Dexter. The United States Express Company has an office opened in Ypsilanti. The Standard Oil Co. has let the contract for building an oil-house at Chelsea. TheoiBceof the Chelsea Standard has been moved into quarters in the new Babcock block. The furniture factory at South Lyon bas received an $S0U order froiu a firm at Sioux City, Iowa. Thecounty board of school examiners will hold a teachers' examination at Saline Friday, August 30. The yield of wheat in the vicinity of Saline is not as bad as it might be. Wm. Young reports an average of 31 bushels to the acre, and Chas. Rhoads is notfar bebind with 30 bushels for an average. The water in the race at Dexter is so low that it is not possible to run the basket factory full time. Three Ypsilanti doctors are sick, and obliged to take their own medicine, Drs. Batwell, Oakly and Knapp. Miss Louise Eendricks, of Hamburg, leaves this week for lron Mountain, where she will teach this year. The county clerk of Livingston county has issued 321 inarriage licenses since the license law went into effect. Business is dull with the Manchester flremen and they gave a dance last nightto relieve the monotony. Miss Mae Lambert, of Ypsilanti, is credited with editiug last week's Ypsilantian, a very creditable paper. Fred Haven'fi arm was eaught in a pulley and broken twice while he was threshing near Saline, last week. E. D. Glenn of Pinckney has accepted a challenge to "'whistle" W. W. Harris of Jackson for the state championiship. J. P. Wood & Co. of Chelsea only shipped 408 bushels of huckleberries this eeason, much less than usual. ITow that summer is nearly over the eitiüens of South Lyon are t.ying to make arrangements to have their streets sprinkled. Fully 8,000 people were present at th e exercises of laying the corner stone for the new court house at Howell, August 10. The supervisors of Oakland county had a big time at their annual picnic at Orchard Lake, Aug. 13. Rev. C. T. Allen and R. E. Frazer did the talking. The Methodists of Milan have invited Rev. M. H. Bartram to remain with them another year. He is a fine dominie and it will be hard to fill his place. The Germán Workingmen's Society of Saline has been prei aring for a big picnic at the grove to-day. A dance pavilion, 60 by 80 feet, has been erected. George Winans lias had enough of the "promised land," and has returned to his home near Brighton. Before leaving the Oklahoma country he sold his interest in the State Herald. The Ypsilanti papers are now blessing the beauties of free delivery, which makes them pay as much for a paper delivered at the Ypsi. post office as it vi ould if it was sent to Texas. Wert Cushen, a young boy of South Lyon, feil one day last week and broke his right leg in three places. As he has been a cripple for sometime past, this last accident falls very hard upon him. A club from Manchester went to Chelsea last week to play ball. They probably forgot v. hat they went lor and couldn't have "played" very well, as they were defeated by a score of 47 to 0. The South Lyon base ball club publicly thanks the citizens for the " liberal " manner in which they respond when the hat is passed aroünd. Two whole dollars was the amount cantributed towards paying the expenses of the last two games. A floral novelty in the shape of a green rose was shown us a few dayssince. It was a perfect rose in shape, size, etc. Dut the petals were dark green, rauch reserabling narrow green leaves. It, together with several other handsome specimens shown, was grown by Mrs. G. B. Masón, who has a very fine collection of them.- Saline Observer. C-D. Cutting haa been agent of the U. S. Express Uo. at Clinton for many years, but another man filis his posttion now. He wouldn't get up in the middle of the night and go to the trains, as his salary was so small that he couldn't afford to work 24 hours a day. He doesn't feel very bad, however, ashe is now Uncle Sain's representative at the post office there. Rev. Lincoln of Webster is spending the summer in rusticatingat Strawberry lake. He has his family with him and they are safely located in four large tents. He has large number, of his congregation visiting him daily and has held services there two Sundays. Last Saturday he killed a large rattle-snake near his camp, which he displayed to nis visitors Sunday. Sebasün Finkbiner, a farmer living west of Saline, met with a terrible accident last week Wednesday. He feil in front of the knives of a mower and the horses ran away. One hand was cut off .and the other one hung only by a few shreds. His legs were badly cut also. Amputation of both arms above the ïnjury was necessary, leaving him a helpless cripple for life. A peculiar case was tried before Justice Power Tuesday in which Isaac bopp was plaintiff and Charles G. Smith of Detroit, defendant, and was decided in favor of the latter. Mr. Smith gave his note to the plaintiff some 17 years ago, and up to within the past three or four years has paid $30 per year on the same, all of which it is found amounted to about $53 more than the face of the note together with the interest.-Briehton Citizen. Mr. T. W. Baldwin last Saturday exInbited acunosity which puzzled everycody, and no one could be found to nameitor tell its origin. ín appearance it resembled a snake, being about eight inches long and of a pure white with a head and tail similar to that reptile, but it showed no signs of life, and was thought by many to be a vegetable growth. It was found on theground by tu - Chelea Standard, rhat s right. Fish stories have grown a httle stale and it ib time to begin on fcnakes.