Around The County

Jay Woods now Mts up nights watching for burglars at Chelsea. An amateur dramatic club is the latett organization proposed at Saline. A. G. Mclntyrelias made a number of impovements at his mili in Alooreville. The Wabash has added about 1,000 feet of traik to their siding at Bellville. Wm. AVood of North Lake has evaporated about 9,000 pounds of apples this faU. The rain this past week was beneficial to the farmers, álthough it carne a little late. The South Michigan Poultry Associaüon will hold a poultry show at Adrián Jan. 0-10. Hon. K. P. Alian made the speech of the day at the flag dedication at Chelsea recently. Salem is inan nnusually healthy state at preeent; only 13 cases of scarlet fever there now. Mrs. Mary E Clark, an old pioneer of this vicinity, died at Brighton Friday, aged 84 years. The school in the Crafts district. Sharon, opened Monday with Kred Irwin as teacher. The masonicfraternity of Manchester will indulge in a big social time to-morrow evening. Detroit brewers paid Eli Smith of Graes Lake $1,100 for his erop of hops, 11,000 pounds. A little shaver, a ten pound boy, has been added to the fainily of Milo Shaver of Chelsea. A $5,000 stock concern has been organized at Howell to manufacture a patent buggy boot. The Congregational Sunday school at Pinckney cleared $7.00 from a cake and coffee social last week. "The Silver Slipper" is promised to the Ypsilanti opera house soon by 120 juvenile singers of that city. Little Mamie Raths of Bellville feil into a well last week and was nearly drowned beforehelparrived. Last week Wednesday, Joel Mansfield of Ypsilanti died at the home of his daughter, Mr&. C. O. Barnes, at the age of 84 years. The Ypsilanti council has authorized the purchase of a store in the Norris block for a hose room for the fire department. The Yonne Men's .Social Club will give a grand New Years ball at Saline, and already arrangements are being made for the event. Miss Sarah Guest of lielleville missed her guess while coming out of church one evening last week and feil and dislocated her shoulder. The electric licht plant at Ypsilanti is to be connected with the power at the water works, and eeveral thousand dollars saved annually. The Chelsea fire department will celébrate Tli&nksgiving by giviug a (rood old fashioned dance at the town hall on the eveninu of the 27th. Tha Methodist ladies of South l.yon must make excellent chicken pie. At a chicken pie social given recently $50 wastheamount realizedafter psying all expenses. A little son of John McMahon of Manchester was bitten by his dog last week. It was feared the dog was ruad so he was put where he could never bite another boy. From rhe flagstaff on the dome of the Stockbridge school house iloats the flag of our nation. The flag was raised Nov. 5th, and a great time was had at the dedication. Two little boys, sonio old papers and a match caused a fire in W. H. Lehr's house in Manchester. The fire was discovered and extinguished before much damage was done. The Chelsoa Herald says that the boys behaved remarkably well on Hallowe'cn. That's funny. We supposed that the rising generatioR in that villaje always behaved. Mr. and Mrs. Consider Cushman of Sylvan have managed to make each other happy for fifty long years, and they celebrated the event at their golded wedding onjthe 2d. Miss Lucy English, who recently left her home near Manchester to go to India as a missionary, changed her mind after getting as far as England, and is now safe at home again. Some of the smart young fellows at Unadilla make a practico of disturbing the prayer meetings, and the brethren are now watching and'praving thatjustice may overtake the disturbers. Ypailanti will not have to pay -any royalty for usiug the electric light towers; at least that's wliat the city attorney reporte to the eouncil, but the courts may not think as he does. It is said that a worthless apple tree may be made to bear good fruit by driving several large nails into the trunk of the tree. The iron in the wood is said to cause the tree to be fruitful. - Ex. The state tax to be raised in Washtenaw county this year will be over $10,000 more than last year. It will be a little hard on the farmers to pay this, but death and taxes must be met. The Picket tells of a farmer who is so mean that he wouldn't attend the funeral of his own mother, who died recently, nor allow his wife to take a hors to go with. Such a man is too mean to live. Clarence Jones, a 15 year old boy living at Dundee, knows how it feels to have a ballet shot into his hand. He was fooling with a revolver recently which was discharged with the above result. The boys who celebrated Hallowe'en at this place are the same boys who turned their pockets inside out to pay Charley Burch for washing the egg shells from his front door.- South Lyon Excelsior. We are to have a street railway in 1S90, the eouncil hay ing passed an ordiuance Monday evening granting Haines Bros. of Kinderhook, N. Y. athirtyyear franchise. The system is to be laid, subject to the council's approval, at once, and it most be in operation within a year to hold the right to build it.- Ypsilanti Sentinel. The Pinckney councilmen have earned the everhsting gratitude of the rest of the village by having two dozen lamps placed along the main street, so that a stranger will now be able to find the town after dark. Saline is away behind the other places in the coimty. The others all have flags flying over the school houses, while Saline has not yet been able to raise the necessary cash to buy the flag. Not inuch patriotistn there. Wm. Stimpson of Saline has just returned from a hunting trip in the northern part of the state. He didn't get much game, but he rnaüaged to lose a dog that he wouldn't have traded for half the game in Michigan. E. T. Arms has purchased a half interest in a Merino ram of Wm. Ball of Hamburg, and now has him at his place. Mr. Armis wanted to buy him out and out, but Mr. Ball said he was too good to let go.- South Lyon Picket. Frank Shaver ran a barber shop at Chelsea and had an interest in a dry goods store at Pinckney. The men at Chelsea don'tgetshavedenough tomake a barber rich, so he has closed his shop tbere and will devote bis entire time to his Pinckney enterprise. There will be a meeting of the Verïnont Cemetery Association at the cemetery, Nov. 9, 1S89.- Chelsea Herald. The final meeting of the members of the association will probably be held in the same place, but the date wül be in the distant future. The South Lyon Picket says: "Mr. and Mrs. Washburn of Green Oak have just added a new addition to their residence in the shape of a wood house, ice house and bath room." Guess the reporter must have overlooked the other "additions," the barn, the hen house and corn crib. James Keilly of North Lake does not think this has been a very bad year for the farmer. Off of his farm he has threshed 1,010 bushels of grain,and sold 167 barrels of packed apples, 300 bushels of eider apples and 75 bushels of paring apples. A new drop curtain is being painted for Alford's hall atSouth Lyon. Philip Phillips, who does the fine work on the curtain, is not only an artist, but an actor, and threatens to produce "Nevada, or the Lost Mine," as soon as the paint on the curtain gets dry. Rev. Comstock, who is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Rev. Barry, last night had a narrow escape from serious results by an accidental mistake in taking medicine. He aróse in the night to take a dose of cough medicine and by mistake got a bottle of ammonia, of which he swallowed a spoonful before discovering the error. A physician was summoned, and by the prompt administration of antidotes relieved the patiënt, and we leurn he is comfortable to-day.- Saline Observer. Mrs Geo. Nisle was about to open a beer bottle which she supposed was filled with vinegar, wheu it burst into thousands of pieces; one piece cut a two inch gash in her chin, others cut her wrists, and buttons on her dress were cut off and one piece of glass made a black and blue spot on her side. It was fortúnate that none of the pieces struck her eyes or any vital part.- Manchester Enterprise. That's usually the case. A beer bottle is a bad thing to fooi with, even if it is loaded with vinegar. A n Ypsilanti hotel that does not pretend to charge more than $2 a day. advertises that it is "heated by ateam," has a "free hack to any part of the city, including the paper milis," "good sample room up town," gives "pleasure rides to gueate," and "furnishes free baths to commercial men," The being who would aak more eats with his fore feet in the trough. - Detroit Journal. Yes, but they seetn to forget that even commercial travelers must eat, as the advertisment does not mention it. On Monday night of last week some sneak thief tried to steal one of H. D. Mowers' horses from the barn but was scared away before he accomplished his deed, by Mr. Mowers, who heard the noise. Thia is not the lirst time that prowlers have been seen around this place, and Mr. Mowers informs us that a doublé barrelled shot gun heavily loaded, hangs upon the wall in waiting to get a chance at these midnight marauders. - Pinckney Dispatch. This Mower apparently has guns instead of knives, and thieveswill do well to keep out of his "swath."