Around The County

Dcxter is to have a park. Malarial fever prevails at Saline. Augusta has 587 children of school The Dexter high school has fifty-two students. The Manchester Enterprise istwentythree years old. , The Adventists are looking for a churchsite at Willis. Corn near Manchester will be onethird less than a full erop. Prof. M.J. Reed will take charge of the Saline schools during the ensuing year. The Dexter Leader protests against the pasturing of cows on the village etreets. Wm. Judson will take charge of the Chelsea post office about the first of October next. The Milan school has an enrollment of 200 pupil, of whom forty-six are in the high school. Ypsilanti schools adjourned for two days, in order that the little ones ïnight inspèct corn and pumpkins. Over $100 was collected at the mission service held recently at the Saline Lutheran church-a very credilable amount. Ypsilantian: Familiarity with the divine purpose is always one of the Btrong cards with reformers of the St. John kind. Grace Fitch, of Lyndon, left with the Chelsea Standard, recently, a hen s egg whice weihed 3J ouncea and measured 6Jx8 inches. Farmers Turner and Winans both attended the Ypsilanti fair. Sort of looking around, you know. Farmer Gorman was not there. David Hammond, the democratie nominee for member of the state board of education, is a son of the late Horace Hammond, of Augusta. The ladies of the Saline Presbyterian church will give a harvest festival tomorrow evening. " Let us give thanks, as we are most bounden." Lieut. John P. Finley.an old Washtenaw boy, now famous, has been elected a member of the American association for the advancement of the sciences. Manchester village had 1,156 people ïn 1880 and now has 1,190. The population of the township, including the village, was 2,516 in 1870, 2,394 in 1880 and 2,173 in 1890. Daniel F. Eeeves, of Saline, takes a very rosy view of life just now. He threshed 110 acres of wheat and obtained therefrom 2,429 bushels, which he sold for $1.00 per bushel. Not once in a thousand times does a mare foal twins and those bom seldom live, but Mr. Wm. Meyers, of Augusta, is the owner of a brood mare that is the proud mother of two beautiful colts.- Ypsilanti Commercial. Prosper Fullington exhibited at the Ypsilanti fair a pair of banana meions, of the nature of a musk melón, but in shape and taste greatly resembling the banana. This is a new melón in this section and deserves notice. Charles Hammond, of Whitaker, thought it necessary to carry a loaded revolver. One night, upon retiring, he began to hand'.e the instrument- with bad results, for the revolver went off, lodged a ball in hig leg and set his clothing on fire. Prof. Irwin Shepard, now at the head of the Btate normal school at Winona, Minn., met his old comradesof thel7th Begement here yesterday. Prof. S. was bom in Chelsea, this county, was eduated at Olivet, and has since taken high rank among American educators. - Ypsilantian. One of Dexter's Eomeos called upon his Juliet, the other evening. On his return he was tackled by a number of cruel men who, as the Leader expresses it, "stripped him of nearly everything but his reputation." The young man is game, however, and will continue to visit his enamorata as of yore. The Register desires a correspondent at Chelsea. Do you want to get married or just correspond to pass away time ?- Chelsea Standard. The Register is not particular. Some one is wanted who will send us all the news, and if some marriagable young lady will undertake to do that, The Register will not object. Mrs. L. W. Britton's residence in Dexter burned to the ground on Thursday morning at two o'clock. Mrs. Britton was away on a visit, and the house had been unoccupied by the family, for heveral weeks. Loss about $1,500. Mrs. Sarah Carr, an old and respected lady, died from excitement caused by the burning of the residence. The memorial tablet recently unveiled at Ypsilanti bears the following inecription : " Erected by the Michigan State Normal School, In Memory of lts Students Who Died at the Front in the War of the Rebellion." It bears the names of Meivin W. Dresser, James T. Morgan, James W. Bingham, John H. Marvin, Webster Ruckinan, Fred S. Webb, Henry Gould, Freeinan Spear, Alexander McKinnon. Husb ! Don't say a word. Duxter has a ghost ! An invulnerable ghost, too. Boys and girls tried to "lay" the phantom, but the ghoet would not down; grown men shied rocks and bootjacks atit, but the ghostdidnotseerato mind. "At last accounts,"says the Leader, "the ghost is still alive." It will probably remain alive until the next fish is caught or the next niassasauga is slaughtered - inthefertilebrain of the Leader. P. S. The ghost has been caught. It is one of Dexter's most prominent young ladies. A A ,F. C. and N.A.Wood, three of the most prosperous farmers of this county, took Lansing by storm, recently, with their exhibit of fine Merinos. A. A. ■won first on two-year old ram; second on one-year old ram ; third on ram lamb; first and second on ewe threeyears old or over; first on two-year old ■ewe; Becond on one-year old ewe; first and third on ewe lambs. F. C. took first on three-year old ram; first on oneyear old rara ; second on two-year old ewe; third on one-year old ewe; eecond on ram and four of his get. N. A. won first on ye.uling ewe ; third on threeyear old ram and third on one year old ram.