Around The County

Thos. French is now marshal a Dexter. N. Rice is now running the Palace hotel, at Milan. Mrs. H. D. Heller is assistant post master(V) at Saline. Ypsilanti is infested with a gang o 1 e iv burglars again. 1 he Milan band is to give a grane ball in the near future. The Hayden factory at Milan na again opened up for business. Dexter Leader: Isaac Terry has five Saropshire ewes, that owu 11 lambs. At the Lutheran church at Chelsea a classofl7wa8 conflrmed, last Sunday C. Baluss is to rebuild his cooper shop at Ypsilanti, which was burned recently The York republicaus have nomi nated Georae F. Richards for super visor. The Milan Agricultural Works are do ing a large amount of business, this spring. Rev. M. H. Bartram of Milan, 3 ful of business. On Sunday of last week he conducted five different services. Alvah Reynolds, of Ypsilanti, has been granted a pension of $10 per month, with three years back pension Ypsilantian : Mrs. P. Stevens has re ceived her pay ment of $3,000 upon the ■ policy of her late husband in the Roya Arcauum. About 100,000 tons of ice were taken from Zukey lake, near Hamburg June tion. by Toledo parties, during the col v eather. Jacob Gale, aged 76 years, and for many years a resident of Genoa, diec at his home in that township, on Tues day of last week. George McKinstry, an Ypsilanti boy left hst week to lóente at Manistique but if he is not satitfied with the outlook there, he will not ston until he reacheí the Pacific coast. C iielsea Herald: Frank Marshal latei y aught a pickeral from Bowin Lake which measured 3 feet 5 inches and weighed 17 pounds. That's such ís we use fer bait here. Ëentinel: G. A. & T. Neat are in their nineteenth seasou of buying railroac ties. So far they have bought over 6,000 ties and distributed $2,400 atnong the farmers, this season. The telephone poles at Ypsilanti are being taken down and talier ones tubRtituted in their places. By this means the company hope to prevent induction from the electric light wires. The machinery for fitting up a new flouring mili at Copemish, was built by the Ypsilanti Machine Co., and is now being placed in position by a delegation of workmen from the company's shops. . Howell Republican : Munday Rev. James Kilpatriuk received a specimen of wheat direct from Cairo, Egypt. The wheat sent by Rev. Coburn, of Detroit, is ",,000 years old and taken direct from a mummy - of c mrse! Excelsior: One of our tiroid friends was rescued fruin an attark of a woodchuck last Friday by the timely arrival of some young sports, who dispatched the little animal and received the thank8 of the T. C. Dexterites are agitating the question of water works for fire protection, etc., on a small scale. A hydraulic ram, mili creek, a few rods of pipe, the public cistern and a watering-trough, constitute the full equipment asked for. Sentinel : East siders are making an efl'ort to secure a fountain. John Gilbert has a handsocne residente lot on Cross streef, which will be raflled off for $200, and by rueans of generoiis subscriptions it is expected enough will be raised to purehase a fine fountain. Ypsilantian: Frienda and neighbors last Friday eveninsr celebrated the birthday anniversary of Mrs. Isaac "Wertman, by a surprise visit at the Wertman rei-idence on Hamilton street. Valuable presenta and much social cheer characterized the occasion. A fpring meeting of the Western Washtenaw and Eastern Jackson Agricultural Society will be held at Chelsea, .Tune 4 and 5. Full committees were appointed at a meeting held last week, and the Dames insure the success of the meeting. The following froin the Pinckney Dispatch spenks well for that prosperous, Üttle village: "There is not an empty house in this village. A number of dwellings would readily rent. Who will be the (irst one to invest a üttle inoney in this business." Picket: Henry Mathieson, of Green Oak, undertook to chop the head off a chicken last week and chnpped off his knuckle. Dr. Brown, of Brighton, cut off the tinger. Henry now wonders which was hurt the most, him or the chicken. Excelsior: The G A. R. entertainment by Stansell post, Tuesday evening, ■was well patronized and netted the post over $19. The program differed from the usuil campfire held here. Although the "stars" in the program were scarce, the audience seemed tickled all over by the oddities of the entertainment. Probably the finest flock of lanbs sold in Brighton for years was that of Mr. L. Judson, which was purchased yesterday by Switzer & Ackley of Howell. There were 80 in the flock, mostly Shropshires, and when sold, weighed 8,740 pounds, an average of over one huridred pounds each. They carne to $524,50.- Brighton Citizen. The state game warden says that the law allows the spearing of grass pike, mullets and stickers. These fish are' beginning to run now. The old law prohibited the spearing of any kind of fish during the spring spawning months.and people have the erroneous idea that the oM law 3 still in force. But it doesn't apply to the fish enumerated.- Ex. The Ypsilanti Building and Lrmn Association has been [organized, wit'i the following oflicers: President, J.N. Wallace; vice-presidents, R. C. Dolpon' T. W. McAndrew; Secreti tf, P. W Carpenter; treasurer, I). C. Ba'chelder; attorney, Tracy L. Towner; directors. R C. Dolson, P. W. Carpenter, J. N. Wallace, 1). C. Batchelder, H. Clare, F. K Owen, M. T. Woodruff, T. W. McAndrew, T. L. Towner.