West Point

On Thursday, the 27th day of August, 1891, at 9 o'clock a. m., in the Court House, (Supervisor's Room,) in the City of Adrián, there will be held a competitive examination of candidates for appointment to a cadetehip in the United States Military Academy at West Point. Each candidato for appointment must be a resident of the district composed of the counties of Monroe, Lenawee, Hilladale and Washtenaw; unmarried; between seventeen and twenty-two years of age; at least five foet high; free from any infectious disorder, deformity.diseaseorinfirmity which might render him unfit for military service; and must submit to a rigid physical examination by some competent physician, whom I shall hereafter appoint,with two other gentlemen, to act as a Board of Examiners, and be examined in arithmetic, grammar,geography, history, reading, writing and orthography. Special attentionwill be given to natural ability, and manifest aptitude for acquiring and applying knowledge, rather than mere scholastic finish and readiness of answer. Bated at Chelsea, Mich., Aug. 4, A. D,