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Mrs. Richard Hopson, jr., entertained friends from Detroit last week. Mre. Maurice Hammond, of this vicinity, is very low from a stroke of apoplexy. Pat O'Brien's barn was struck by lightning in the storm of last Wednesday, killing several horses and burning the barn. Charles Wheeler's barn accidentally caught fire last Friday night. His hay, wheat and wool were consumed. Mr. Wheeler barely escaped with his life. Lima. Miss Inez C. Stocking is attending the teachers' institute at Dexter. Mrs. Eugene Freer's visitors returned to their home in .Tackson, Saturday evening. Frank Parsons and family.of Pittsfield have been spending a few days at Simcon Winslow's. Nelson E. Freer spent Sunday with his cousins, Mr.and Mrs. Geo. H. Kempf, at Cavanaugh Lake. Quite a number of the farmers have threshed and wheat is turning out better than for the two past years. Ctaelsea. Miss C. Whittaker, of Lansing, is home for a brief visit. Miss Donegan, of Chicago, is the guest of Miss Greening. Wm. Emmert and family will soon lócate in Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. B. Franklin, of Lansing, is the guest of Mrs. Jabez Bacon. Mrs. T. Shaw and daughter Mary will spend some time with relatiyes here. Kev. and Mr?. Hoag entertained Rev. Neumann and wife, of Ann Arbor, last week. Mrs. Josie Heneka, of Kalamazoo, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. K. J. Taylor. A large number of people are in attendance at the soldiers' encampment at Detroit. Rev. Van Anken, of Grass Lake, and Rev. O. C. Bailey,of Chelsea, exchanged pulpits last Sunday. The Y. P. S. C. E. of the Baptist church will hold an ice cream social at the town hall on Saturday evening, August 8. tillan. Mrs. Wallace has returned from Chicago. Miss Fannie Day is visiting friesdn for a few days in Ypsilanti. Geo. Hanson, of Calumet, is visiting Milan friends for a few days. Mrs. Chas. Thompson gaye a tea to a few friends Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Hulbert, of Minnesota, are the guests of J. C. Rouse this week. Harry Edwards and wife have returned to Milan from the northern part of the state. Miss Grace Huntington is entertaining Miss Brooks, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, this week. Master Kenneth Markham, of Ann Arbor, is visiting his aunt, Mrs. G. R. Williams, for a few weeks. The Mooreville Baptist church is to be furnished with a carpet from the store of John Burg, in Ann Arbor. John Oliver and family have traded their house and lot in Milan for several acres of land in Augusta, and will move some time in the near future. Mrs. Webster, of this city, was married to Mr. Piert, on the fourth of July, but Mr Webster still thinks he has legal riglit to claim Mrs. Webster, and as he does not feel likedoing theEnoch Arden act, he has compelled Mr. Piert to say farewell to his bride of three weeks. Mrs. Webster is still living with her mother. Wbltmore Lakr. Master Geo. Todd, of Kalamazoo, ia visiting his grandfather, Alex. Todd. There will be a social hop at the Clifton House, Saturday evening, August 8. Quite a number of our veterans and citizens are taking in the G. A. R. encampment at Detroit. Frank Markey, of Fort Wayne, Ind., has just graduated and is here visiting his grandfather, Ed. Roper. Miss Grace Caldwell is visiting her únele, Délos F. Smith, Clifton House. She goes to Chicago soon to visit her sister, Mrs. Carrie Brown. D. C. Fall, the genial second bass of the Business Men's Quartette of Ann Arbor, is nicely located in "Camp Comfort," beside first bass Alvin Wilsey. Next service at the Methodist church will be Sunday evening, August 9. The Business Men's Quartette are inyited and no doubt will furnish the music. Miss Minnie Drake was at the Lake Tuesday, on her way to her home in Ann Arbor, from Alma, where she has been stopping some time at the sanitarium. The hops at the Clifton and Lake House, last week Frid y and Saturday evenings respectiveiy, were well attended and an enjoyable time had by those indulging. Mesdames O'Connor and Man, with their families, have broken camp and returned to their home in Detroit, in order to entertain Chicago friends during the G. A. R. encampment. Landlord Allie Stevens' youngest son, Master Rae Stevens, met with a painful accident last Saturday. He feil from the roof of a shed and cut open his thigh, but he is around again as lively as ever. The concert for the benefit of the Methodist church by the Business Men's Quartette. is down for Tuesday evenine, A'jgusl 11. They will be asílsted by the eminent guitar soloist, Miss Hattie Long, and her brother. the violinist.