Around The County

H. E. Shutts has leased the Occidental hotel in Ypsilanti. Volney Davenport has purchased the Mooreville hotel. Capt. E. P. Allen speaks at Dexter on Saturday evening. George Dell, of Saline, dug tenpounds of potatoes from one hill. The Ann Arbor town board has voted $100 to repair the Dixboro road, The ladiee of St. Paui's church, Chelsea, will hold a fair on November 19. Samuel Clark, of Mooreville, has sold a span of horses to a St. Ignace man, for 8380. For sale. - A potato weighing 2 pounds. Apply to Harmon Clark, Manchester. Robert E. Smith, a former resident of Dexter township, died recentlyt Jefferson, Jackson county. Reuben Miller.of Pittsfield.attends the uni versily and drives home every nigh t- a distance of ten miles. Walter Kanouse, of Mooreville, claims to posaess a squash three feet, eight and a half inches in length. A fellow, who is too meanto live, stole the carpet wuich beionged to ihe parsonage at Whitmore Lake. The Dexter Leader says that the rnarket for thoroughbred sheep, in that vicinity, is better than it has been for years. The Dexter Leader places the three political tickets at the head of its editorial columns. Wonder if it wants thetn all elected. Mrs. G. P. Tindall, a former resident of Ypsilanti, died at Placerville, Cal., recently. She was a memoer of one of the oldest pioneer families in Washtenaw county. A potato vine with the potatoes on the top is on exhibition at the Saline postoffice. This variety should be encouraged ; it would insure more accurae agricultura! reporta concerning the crops "in eight." - Adrián Press. John Schill, a Saline nimrod, went hunting and became so excited that he climed a tree in order to secure his game. But when he was about thirty feet from terra firma down went Schill to the hard, hard ground. He now feels sore, both mentally and physically. Messrs. Marquardt, Hixson.Guy Davis and Wm. Barr went down the river Monday night on a fishing expedition. Near the Tuttle bridge their boat was capsized, and the party ducked. Spears, overcoats, etc., were lost in the water, and only part of the plunder recovered next day. - Ypsilanti Sentinel. G.B. Mason, says the Saline Observer, shaves himself with the same razorused by his father from the time he was old enough to need one. It is of English make and bears the imprint of " Rogers, cutler to his Maiesty." It r probably over sixty years old, but Mr. M. wouldn't trade it for a whole bushei of new ones. From all reports, there's a big lubber named George Meyer, up in Lodi, who should be caged 'till he got some of the purecussedness out of his carcasa. After filling up with booze at Ann Arbor, he came home and brutally assaulted his aged mother, knocking her down, demolishing the furniture and making a brute of himself generally. - Saline Ob6erver. T. B. Murry has beaten the record on potato raising. It took just forty-six of his spuds to make a bushel. - Palouse City Xews. While the above is not bad, yet Rosalía can discount it. We picked 60 potatoes out of a load W. S. Harria brought to town to ship, and weighed them on Anderson Bros.' scalès. The 60 potatoes weighed just 63 pounds, or three pounds over a bushel. Cali again. - Dexter Leader. Albert Bond, the republican candidate for State Senator, has been in Washtenaw county this week. Mr. Bond is a Patrón and substantial farmer of Monroe county, where he has been a prominent supervisor for ten years. He makes a very favorable impression upon the people he meets, and hisbearing and cornmon sense ideas indícate him as a man of good judgmeut and able to enforce his ideas on any body of men, however intelligent. - Ypsilantian. We were a few days &%o permitted to sample what until then had been an unknown truit to us. It is called the pawpaw and grows wild in this section to a limited extent. It resembles a banana some in appearance, though shorter and thicker.and has numerous flat seeds. In taste, we should pronounce it a cross between a mandrake and a banana, and those who are fond of the latter fruit would doubtless like the pawpaw. It would seem that the tree might be cnltivatedin this section. - Saline Observer. The farmers this year have asked that they may be represented on the legislativo and congressional tickets by farmers, that a little legislation in their their favor might be secured. James S. Gorman, the democratie candidate for congreás, is a farmer. He lives on his farm and works it himself. He is a farmer well equipped mentally for the work the farmers desire accomplished. He bas had legislativo experience. - Araus. The fact is, Mr. Gorman tried law, and his "briefs"were so brief that he went home to have.his aged father take care of hira. The farmers pretty well understand, by the way he dodged the meat :nspection bill, how he would look after the farmers' interests in Washington. That one dodge and its motive will snfiice for alifetime. - Ypsüantian. Grant Fisher, of South Lyon, has been employed as a farm hand during the suminer by John A. Cragg. An elderly daughter of Mr. Gragg became sumewhat enamored with the gentle mannersof thesaid Fisher and on Saturday asked her father for the team to drive to South Lyon. The request wasgranted, but after her departure the father disco vered that with the daughter had gone the hired man, trunks, etc. They were tracked to Brighton, whence the couDle had continued by rail to Howell, where the officer found them impatiently waiting for the T. & A. A. train for the north. Fisher was brought before the justice, charged with theft, but after the hearing and a few words of advice from the justice, Mr. Gragg and the hired man were reconciled. Fisher is again at work. Thus endeth a pretty little romance.