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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
August
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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South Lyon p.iys $1,050.83 in village iaxes. Clinton eipecta to have a half-mile track. The creamery at Maaitfa burned lo the ground reoently. The new picklingfactory in Ypsilanli is reafiy to begin work. R. A. Snyder, of Chelsea, wlU move his business to Ann Arbor. E. E. Smilley, of the South Lyon furniture fact'iry, has assigned. The cucumber erop in the vicinity of Grass Lake is estimated at $25,000. Two Stockbridge firm3 have bought 130,000 pounds of wool this season. A ballooniet will be one of theattractions of Germán Jay at Manchester, The Brideewater farmers' picnic will be held at Palmer's Grove on August 22. Rev. Thomas Holmes, of Chelsea, is preaching, for the present, at Ypiilanti. From nineteen acres Jacob Klein, of Lima, recently threshed 460 bushels of wheat. J. T. Berry, the enterprising erocer of Worden, has adopted the city delivery system. Miss Mallory, of Dexter, has been engaged as teacher of the Mills district of Pittsfield. Chelsea citizens, like rnany la Ann Arbor, do not always obey sidewalk ordinances. A local board of the Capítol Building and Loan Association is to be established at Saline The people's second annual picnic at North Lake will be held about the middle of this mout li. Tbe Eastern Michigan agricuUural fair will be held at Ypsilanti, Sep ember 15, 16, 17, ánd 18. George Calhoun, a farmer who lives near Clinton, from flve acres threshed 200 bushels of wheat. Farmers in the yicinity of North Lake say that potato bugs are not affected by Paris green this year. A fire was started in Haessler's drug store in Manchester, last week, from a lamp which dropped to the floor. Messrs. Allen and Griffen, of Augusta, have been iighting, partly with the aid of fists and partly with the aid of lawyers. Lightning, last week Wednesday, struck the barn of Patrick O'Brien in Augusta, killing a span of horses and burning the barn to the ground. Thus far this season, only thirty-nine of our exchanges have announced that "the voice of the thresher is heard in the land." What can the matter be?- Adrián Press. H. D. Platt, ex-oil inspector, has turned over to the state treasurer $5,436.47, which is the balance remaining after paying expennes for inspection during the past six months. C. W. Sanford, as one of the Mexican war veterans, bas been invitedtooccupy an honorable position during the great G. A. R. parade at Detroit. He will accept.- Manchester Enterprise. J. N. Thomp3on, of Worden, set out theotherday to hoe up nettles, and, while so doing, ran across a rattle snake three feet long. This nettled him so much that he immediately decapitated the reptile. The 141st New York Infantry will hold their reunión at Wellsburg, N. Y. Wednesday, September 10, 1891. As there are a number of members of this regiment residing in this part of the state, exchanges are requested to copy. Geo. L. Unterkircher has tried the experiment of keeping the tops of peach trees trunmed off, giving the trees a' dwarfed appearance, and he is satisfied that it is not only much more convenient to piek the fruit, but the limbs are much less liable to break down.- Manchester Enterprise. The Dexter school board has elected the following list of teachers for the coming year: Principal, E. D. Walker; preceptor, James E. Eagen; grammar department, Josephine Costello; intermedíate department, Myrtie Baird; third primary, Mamie Murdock; Becond primary, Kate Krause; first, Jessie Doane. Dexter recently sent a coinmittee, censisting of E. A. Nordman, Patrick McGuiness, J. E. Hall and R. C. Reeve, to investígate the practical working of the Centrifugal butter machinery as managed by the farmers near Elgin and Batavia, 111. They reported themselves atrongly in favor of establishing a factory in Dexter. Pickpockets were numerous at th Whitmore Lake encampraent on Sunday, and among the Ann Arbor vioti ms, Bays the Register, was Representativo J. V. N. Gregory. Now we would just remind the Register man that all the big men don't live in Ann Arbor. Representativo Gregory's home is on a fine ranch in the township of Lima. - Dexter Leader. Geo. J. Nissly's new evaporator has arrivei and ia being put in position. It is of improved make and has a daily capacity of 150 bushels of fruit. Improvements aggregatinit about $1,000 will be made by Mr. Nissly, making his plant avery complete one. The capacity will be 250 bushels per day and from fifteen to twenty hands will be employed.- Saline Observer. On Tuesday morning Fred Staebler, who had a lung trouble for some time aróse as usual and was eaüng an apple, when he was taken with cougliing. He went to the door and beyan to spit blood and his wife seeing hic condition called for help and John Jackson went to her a8si8tauce. Dr. Kapp was summoned, but before hearrivedthe man wasdead. -Manchester Enterprise. Charles Shaler cut ten acres and twenty-eight rods of wheat for Hugh Hanlin a few weeks ago, in seven hours using a six-foot McCormick binder. He wants the man who can beat that record to step out and make himself heard.- Milan Leader. Theabove may seem a remarkable act in a harvest field, but if ae is anxious to be outdone we will willingly match himup (o his own disgust by the side of Wilber Cornish, with his new six-foot Champion, who has nearly doubied that araount in the same time two or three different times this season.

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