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Quarterly meeting next Sunday, November 16. Mrs. J. Worder made a business trip to Ann Arbor last Tuesday. Hauling and shipping apples seems to be the leading business in this yillage just now. The South Lyon and Northern railway is doing a thriving business now. They make immediate connection witn the Toledo and Ann Arbor passenger trains. Webster. Wm. C. Latson was in Howell last week. . . , , Felix Dunlavy unconsciously voted for protection. "Ihat's all right." A very young girl introduced herself, last Friday night, to the family of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Cushman. The Y. P. S. C E. will hold a box social, this Friday evening, at the parEonage. All are cordially invited. The Farmers' Club held its meeting last Saturday at Abner Butlers. There was a good turnout, a good dmner and a good discussion. Lima. Irving Hammond is moving his old house out of the village of Lima to his country residence. Mrs. Frank Pyle ard daughter, of Wilmington, Del., are visiting at Irank McMillsn's, her brother. Nelson E. Freer, accompanied by the Misses Kress, of Ann Arbor, spent baturday and Sunday at Mr. and &. ü. Freer's. The grange, held at Irving Storm's, was well attended on the seventh. The next meeting will be held at the home of Lewis Freer on the twenty-first of November. _ _ . Lafayette Grange sends O. O. Uurithart, E. Beach and T. Baldwin as deleeates to the convention at Ann Arbor, November 20, to consolídate the different labor oreaniïations of the county. Chelsea. W. P. Schenk is having a new furnace in his store. The old one is not large enough to warm both stores sufticientlv. The democratie ratifleation Monday night was very good for a party that has beea out of that kind of busmess for so long. The young people of the Congregational church are making preparations to give the " Temple of Fame," within a week or two. The bodv of A. E. Winans, the line man, killed at Port Huron by touching a live wire, was brought here Saturday night. The funeral took place on Monday at two o'clock, Rev. O. C. Bailey officiating. He was loved by a large circle of friends. Last Sunday night during services, overcoats were taken from each of the three churches, Methodist, Baptist and Congregational. Evidently some one wants to see which denomination has the " straight goods." It is like some people to think to get to heaven by putting on Christian things. Stony Creéis. 0. E. Gooding is entertaining relatives from New York. The Presbyterians held a spider web social at Mr. Barr's, the 7th inst. Mrs. L. H. Crane had the misfortune recently to fall and break her arm. Chas. Dunsmore, of Saginaw, is visiting friends and relatives at this place. William Fuller started Friday for Farwell, to teach school the coming winter. Mr. Pierce is very low with dropey at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Eogers. He is not expected to recover. The Y. P. 8. C. E., of the York church, will hold another of their fine entertainments at D.Finche's.the 21st inst. The Y. P. S. C. E., of the York church. gave a literary and musical entertainment at Fred Gilletts' last Friday evening. A fine time was reported. Salein. Mrs. William Doncey has returned from Corunna. Rev. Mr. Phillips spent Sunday in South Lyon. S. Walker has recovered from a recent attack of erysipelas of the face. Mrs. Dr. Oliver, of Detroit, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Dr. Walker. Miss Lathers, of Wallaceville, who has been visitinu friends, has returned home. Cal Wheeler is tenderly caring for a carbunclo, which he wears on the back of nis neck. Mr. Giegler is happy over the arrival of an eleven pound girl at his house last week. Mre. Frederick's sale of farm stock, etc., was fairly well attended. The prices realized were upon the whole moderate. ■Keep in mind the bazaar to be held in Salem, about December 16. PcBtpone the purchase of Christmas presenta until that date. A Congregational social was held in Haywood's hall last Thursday night. The refreshments, consisted of pumpkin pie, doughnuts and coffee. A general social time was had. The attendance also was good. Tpsilantl. The dress stay factory is booming again. Capt. Spencer, of Lansing made a flying visit here last week. Dr. Williams, of Chicago, occupied the Congregational pulpit last Sunday. Miss Fannie Schaffer came out from Detroit to spend last Sunday with home friends. The remains of Mrs. Maria Morton were brought here Saturday from Wakjamega. Funeral services were held at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert Lambie. Clarence Coryell, who has been trayeling for C. W. McCorkle, of Detroit, has changed firma and is now employed in the same capacity for the Chicago paper house. Fred Hale, well known here as the former genial clerk of the Huron-st sanitarium, has returned here, after three years' absence, to attend the Cleary business college. Last Sunday evening the first of a series of gospel meetings was held in the Presbyterian church with a crowded house. The meetings are conducted by Evangelista Potter and Miller, of ChiI cago, and will be kept up for a month or more. Dexter. The funeral of Volney Potter took place from the M. E. Church, Tuesday. Mrs. Clay Waite, daughter of Wm. Arnold, died of consumption, Monday. Mrs. Taylor is quite sick with pneumonía. Her son Frank, of East Tawas, is at her bedside, At Costello's grocery store may be seen a flat turnip weighing twelve pounds, raised by Thomas French Not to be outdone, Representative J. V. jn. Gregory placed one of his own raising beside it, weighing eighteen pounds. The eiphtieth aniversary of the birth of Mrs. Jerusha M. Reeve was celebrated at her home, in Webster, by a number of her friends. Among the number was Mrs. Almira Sill, of Dexter, also an octogenarian. The two were as lively and joyous as the younger ones, each one heartly enjoying this world, and looking forward with pleasure to a still better world. They are regular attendants at the Sunday services of the church, Mrs. Keeve " having been an faithful member of the Webster Congregational church for nearly sixty years.