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Mrs. Ira Carpenter raturned home the last of the week. Ed. Finell was badly hurt while working in the woodss Saturday. C. L. Downer was working in Ann Arbor a few days last week. The personal property of John Koch was sold, by sheriff's sale, Friday. A couple of our boys, aecompanied by their best girls, attended the exhibition at the Morey school house, last Wednesday evening. Dexter. L. W. Briggs and wife, are again at their home in Dexter, after an all wlnter's absence in Detroit. Scores of men are at work on the second railroad track between here and Chelsea, with expectations of a large additional force in a few weeks. Several farmers are on the "still hunt" for homes in our village, and the indications are that Dexter wiü be juatily entitled to be called the "Farmer's Retreat." Rey. S. H. Adams, of Chicago, with his wife and boy, have promised to stop at Dexter on ïhursday of this week, and makea short visit with old parishoners. The doctor is on his way home from Florida, via Clifton Springs, N. Y. Ypsllantl. The Sweedi8h Ladies National Chorus on April 16th, will end the Normal course. Mrs. Fred Williams, nee Bowling, of Charlotte, spent last week with Ypsilanti friends. B. T. Sweeting has purchased the stock of Johnson & Co., on Cross-st, near the depot. Ernest Lodeman, of the Agriculiural College is visiting, his parent Prof. and Mrs. Lodeman. Insurance on the home of W. C. Stevens recently damaged by fire has been adjusted at $3,150. We didn't get the private insane asylum after all ; but then we didn't need it as badly as Flint. The Y. W. C. A. will hereafter hold informal receptions at their rooms every Saturday evening. Analysis of the city water proves it to contain certain medicinal qualities besides being pure and soft. The Rt. Rev. Thomas Davies, Bishop of the Diocese of Michigan, confirmed a class of eighteen in the Episcopal churcb, Sunday evening. Miss Hilda Lodeman, who studied in crayon and water-color portrait work in Dresden, has started a successful class in the art, in our city. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Ferrier and son Harry left for the sunny south, last week. Business and pleasure will be combined during their etay. Chas. W. Mansfleld, of Grand Rapids, traveling salesman for the J. W. Butler Paper Co, Chicago, has purchased the O. N. Conkling farm near this city. Tomorrow evening, Rev. W. T. Beale, Baptist pastor, will give an illustrated lecture on Pieketi's Charge at Gettysburg, for the benefit of the Sons of the Union. Two colored fellows, McCoy and Jones, indulged in a tight the other night and AlcCoy has a broken head. Jones has tkipped, although public sympathy seems to be on his side.