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18
Month
December
Year
1890
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Moa roe bas twenly-faur saloon keepers. The Pexter I. O. O F lodge s boominr. A new store, t is sai.l, will soon be built in Willis. The eost of the new Methodist church ia Howell is $12,800. Rev. Barry, of Saline, lias aeceptt-d a cali from Sand Beach. Revival meetings are being helü at Rowe' Corners, Sharon. 8t. Mary's charch, Chelsea, will have aew stained gUss windows. Over 350 tickets have been eold for ttie Clinton leclure coun-e. The Rev. Shannon, of Salem, is the aew pastor of Peeble's Corners. Mr. DePny, of Mockbridge, ha shipped 1,800 ioads of ashes to Florida during the past year. The deposita and bn iness of the Chelsea Savlngs bank have doubled within the past four yeara. In Manchester, stranye lo say, there are more school boys t ha n girls. The ■umbers are lol and 149 rwpectively, Hon. J. V. N. Gregory has rented his ferm, in order that he may give exclusattentioo to his duiies as legislator. The Lima grande recently decided that the "needs of the county demand temperanee legislation more than tariff tegislatio'n." The seventy-sixih birthday of Simon Weaver, of Chelsea, was celebrated on Thursday last. All his ehildren and grandchildren were prest nt. James Hosgge.an Ypsilanti bar tender, has fallen a victim to delirium tremens. Some benevolent persons raised a purse and sent him home to his mother in Toronto. A Stockbridge physician duns his debtors by publishing the following polite notice in the papers : " My family ■re sick and I want that account you we me." After serving twenty years as president of the Peoples Bank, in Manchester, Mr. Watkins, last week, voluntarily tepped out. Frank Spafford was elected in his place. Irving Hatnlin and wife, of Saline, have bid good bye to Michigan and journeycd tn their new home in South Carolina. Tliey exoect to engage in fruit raiaing. When Mr. Poweis, member of the tate board of education, visited Ypsilanti, he was careless enough to leaye his pocket book under the pillow in the sleeping car. Il was safely returned o him. Two young men, slightly sober, came out of a doctor's office a few nights since nd forgetting where the steps were, slid under the fence and had to be pulled out of the snow.- Manchester Enterprise. The next meeting of the Southern Washtenaw Farmer' Club will be held t the houie of Wra. Pease on Friday, January 9. The program will consist f reading selections from a noted author, by Mrs. F. Spafard ; essay, by Mrs. Lyman Baldwin ; debate,- "What is the relativo valué of the different eiopsofourmixedfirmiDg?" and paper by James Weir. There are forty-one saloons or places in Oakland county where intoxicating liquors are sold, of which Pontiac has Sfteen, Oxford five, Rochester four, Milford three, Orion three, and Royal Oak, Orchard Lake, Clarkston, Novi, Birmingham, Farmington and South Lyon one each. Tne amount of taxes leyied and collected from them for the Tear ending November 30, was There is no better evklence of an improvetnent in the outlook for farm property, than the fact it again begins to be in demand. During the past week two farms have changed hands in tliis 7icinity. Romain Glover has sold his eighty-acre farm westof town to Emailuel Paul, for $00 per acre. Walter Fobdick hts sold his seventy-acre farm on the town line, east of this place, to Emamiel Koch, for $64 per acre.- Saline 9bsprver. Lucius Taylor Vost No. 274. G. A. R., elected the following officers at their last regular meeting: Commander, A. D. Jackson; senior vice-commander, A. M. Sloan; junior vice-coramander, John 3teidle; chaplain, Rev. Ja Huntington; quartermaster, Alex. Sith; officer of the day, Jamea'Johnson; oflicer of the guard, Amos Wisdom; surgeon, D. B. Seeley; color bearer, Albert Lewis; delégate lo state eucampment, Rev. Jiy Hantlneton. When John Ryan started out lo do the morning chores he Doticed a hen coop hanging to hia yard fence and a dog hitched to the coop on the opposite side of the fence. Where the dog and coop carne froin was a mystery, iintil later in the day one of Mr Owen's boys claimiid the animal. The dog, which they had hitched to the coop, did not relish the idea of being nianacled. Some time Friday nicht he made a break for liherty, ilrawing hisshackles with him to the place where found. The distance from Ryan's to Owen'a is uver four miles. - Stockbridge Sun. The uncertainty of life has been again fully exeniplified in our midst. Damen Cornish, an aged man living on the Wm. Donaldson farm, 6outhwest ol town, was on Tuesday evening summoned to his final rest, with shocking suddenness. lie had been in good health nd had that day been working aboul Ihe place. In the evening he sat down near the stove, eyidently as well as jsual, but a short time after Mrs. Cornish was startled to see him pitch for■ward to the floor. She hastened to him but he uttered not a sound nor moved ?puscle- he was dead.- Saline Observer My dear young man, you probably (tiink your eighteen-year-old sweet heart is very dear, delicate and ethereal It may pain you to learn that she hai probably eaten an average of a thin pound of beef, mutton, or other flesh every day of her life, raaking 2,190 pounds of meat. She eats the same weight of vegetables and quite as mucl of bread, 60 here are two and one-fourtl tons more. Then she drinks every da a quart of coffee, tea, milk or water making a total to date of 1,642 gallons or over 26 hogsheadg of liquid. Taken 11 in all, dear boy, she is quite sub stantial.- Ypsilanti Commercial.

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