Around The County

Clinton is to be lighted with electric lights. Bt Kev. Bishop Foley visiteo Chelsea Saturday and Sunday. Fraterniiy grange at Willis celebrated ite 16th annivereary on Aug. 19. Bishop Foley visited Pinckney last Monday, and St. Mary's congregation ontertained him right royally. Every farmer in this county should take a vaeation next Saturday and attend the pirnic at Whitmore Lake. The twin children of Mr. and Mrs. U. B. Zrim of Ypsilanti both died last week, being xearly a year old. George Lockwood of South Lyon has shipped 300 barrels and 25 crates filled with cabbners to Detroit this season. The Island district schoolhouse in Bridge wat er is being re-nided and repaired, making it the finest in the town. has begun for John Fitzgibbons of 'Wayne. He has been appointed an umpire in the international league. Militad wants to db a snmrner resort. A project is being discussed of overflowing a lot of poor land and manufacturing a lake. Phoenix lodge F. and A. M. of Ypsilanti is bound to be at the top and is epending $1,000 in overhauling and refurnishing the lodge room. The South Lyon Picket strikes the key note for booming the town by exemptiDg manufacturing institutions from taxation for five years. Thebirthsin Livingston county more than doublcd the loss by death last year, there being 309 births and 150 deaths. A healthy increase. Al. Travis of Ypsilanti doe notcare to be deputy marshal of that city any longer and has resigned. James Showers nas been appointed in his place. 8. T. Young of Howell celebrated his 80thbirthday Aug.19. A reunión of his familv was held, six of the seven children being present with their families. The officers elect of the South Lyon band are as follow: E.T. Chilson, president; J. C. Odell, vice president; T. H. Clarke, secretan-; Frank Lamsen, treasurer. Alonzo YanDyne of Ypsilanti is abie to be around again, just recovering from three broken ribs and a fractnred collar bone, caused by the caving in of a ditcb. The station agent at Whittaker started out to take a ride with Will Holland after his young colt, last week. By the time the colt had smashed the bugL gy into splinters the agent wished I he had not gone. The Ypsilantian vigorously protests against a corduroy stone walk that bas been laid in front of the Sanitarium. That's all light : the proprietors probubly stand in with the shoemakers of the city. James Maloy, a Green Oak horse doctor, knowsinore about horses this week than he did a few weeks auo. He put his hand into a horae'smouth to pull out atooth and the horse shut down on it, taking the nail off his thumb. The boys near Green Oak have a new method of getting their drinks. They take the rye straw and run it through s clothes wringer, after it has been threshed, and one farmer has a tubful I fif the most villainous whiskey ever made. Howard Moore of Whittaker didn't keep his eyeon thehandleof thechurn while churning butter last week. The crank flew off and struck him in the mouth, cutting it and making it nearly half an inch larger, until a doctor called and put several stitches where it was cut. Either the hitehing posta in Chelsea are weak or the horses are unusually strong. Last Wednesday, E. S. Spaulding's team brok e the post to which tbey were hitehedand started forhome, but only went a block when they were' caught. Mrg. G. W. Lyous of Slockbridge is notan aeeomplished acrobat. She attempted to vault over a wheel in getting out ot her carriage and might have been fairly successful had not her skirts caught in the wheel, throwing her to the grouml and injuring her. When ehe recovers she will use the steps. Dr. R. B. Bell of Ypsilanti asks the city council to award hiru $500 damages because bis three-year old boy feil into i a hole in th street that was unprotected. He says he wants this amonnt of cah, and if the rouncil doesn't give it to him he will sue ihe city. ïhe council laid the matter on the table. "And have you heard the news That's jiist now going the roundb? We've got a Hule danghter And its weight is just eight pounds " ThuB spouts Brother Nissley of theSai line Observer, and the cause of the ef: fusión is the arrival of an eight ponnd I addition to the editor's family. Our congratulations. The girls of South Lyon have a good many picnics during the year, but there ie one day each .year that they have a picnic "all by themselves." Friday i Aug. 16, wastheday that it was held' kthis year, and Sil ver Lake was the place, but as even Editor Chilson of the Picket whs not allowed to be present no report can be given of what happened. y , A resolution was passed in the Ypsi lanti common council at the last meetI ing instructing the marshal to see that I f Cerf4'P 8alonkeepter obeyed the P law. What is the matter ? Doesn't the marshal in Ypsilanti dare enforce the law against 11 crimináis, or must he wait until the council designates some particular one? Such u resol ition looks suspicious. i Now won't the Ypsilanti Sentinel huve la chance to gei even with the Ypsilanfl??uad Commercial. The "watchdog oí theGreek city" has claimed allalon that there would be trouble in building the waterworks within the appropria,tw'7nrdn1tme then PBPerii have claimed that $7o 000 was all the taxpayere would beasked for. Now comes the Board of w íe.r Commissioners and asks for an additional appropriation of $50.000 to k complete the job. Höw they dare ask it is a mystery, after one of the papers Ifigunng out recently that the original ■ appropriation would not be used Saline recorded four births last week. Plymouth supplies thesparrow-killing air gune from six different manufacturera. Seven carloads of emigrant from Germany were unloaded at Brighton last week. The Goodyear honse at Manchester is to be rented to two old hotel keepers from Concord. A wiid steer hooked Joaeph Liudsey of Dexter laat week, break ing a rib and cutting him up. The school trusttees of Dexter are prepared for a cold winter as they have their supply of coal in the bins. Frank Kennedy, son of the ex-postmaster of Brighton, has been ordained, and celebrated his iirst mass athia home church last Sunday. George Miller of Manchester has sworn off throwing atones at dogs. He threw at one but missed it and the stone went through a píate glasa window. Chelaea hackmen will now be obliged to pay three dollars each to the village for the privilege of drivingto the depot amd watching the passengers walk up town. The "elixir of life" has been tried on two residente of Saline. (Jpon one it had no effect while it made the other want to kick over the stove and whip the doctor. The Northeastern and Oakland Co. Sailors and Soldiers' Association and the 8th Michigan volunteers had abig time at their reunión at Pontiac last week. The citizens entertained them right royally. A little son of Frey Falls, a farmer living near Milan,. met with a peculiar and fatal accident recently. He put the tine of a pitchfork into his blouse, and falling down, ran the tine through his throat. The "young men" of Saline enjoy themselves evenings by carrying off gates and similar deviltry. The village conncil riaes to the occasion and offers $10 reward for anyone caught indulging in that kind of fun. The following fairs are to be held in this vicinity: At Jackson, Sept 2-6; State fair at Lansing, Sept. 9-13; Exposition at Detroit Sept. 17-27; at Morenci Sept. 17-20; at Ann Arbor, Sept. 17 -20; at Adrián, Sept. 23-27; at Ypsilanti Sept. 24-27; at Chelsea, Sept. 2426. Our farmers wiil have their time pretty well filled, it they attend them all. All the people in Jackson are not Hars, and one of the mot truthful writcs in the Saturday Evening Star about a snake which he'caught in Whitmore Lake while fishing through the ice last winter. The reptüe was very large and.beautifully colored, and whéh the hook was removed from its mouth coiled itself and sprang fifty feet into the air several times. It then satdown on a cbunk of ice and took a lunch with the Jackson man, and after smoking a mild cigar slipped bacK into the water. This snmmer it carne to the Jackson man's house as a star boarder, and it saves his littlegirl from drowning every time she falls in the water, lifts pickles out the barrel with its forked tongue, and keeps the lawii sprinked by filling up on water and spouting it all over the yard, although it acted a little diffldent about this last job until the Jackson man removed nis the-graes