Neighborhood Notes

Saline has nineteen bicyelists. Teacher' exaruination at Saline tomorrow. Dexter Congregationalists will build a parsonage. J. W. Eosier has moved from Dexter to Jackson. The Manchester Catholirs have bought a rectory for $1,200. Saline is sad because she once haJ three bands and now has none. The editor of the Saline Observer has an oíd coin bearinü the date of 1618. Munith topera are so thirsty that they break into cellars and steal their beer. Wm. Ball, of Hanaburg, sold a fine horse to Mr. bavenport, of Grass Lake, for $200. The contract for the new Ypsilanti town house has been let to Joseph Hutting for $675. Vermont Lodge P. of I. held an open meeting in the Vermont school house, Monday evening. Hon. J. J. Woodman, of Paw Paw, will deliver the address at Whitmore Lake nezt Saturday. Rey. D. H. Conrad has been asked to remain another year as pastor of the Chelsea Baptist church. The supervisors' annual picnic for Oakland county will be held at Orchard Lake on Wednesday, Aug. 26th. The next meeting of the Southern Washtenaw club will be held at the residence of M. B. Wallace, Friday afternoon, September 4. Wm. Burtless is a successful wheat grower of Manchester as well as successful politician. His erop this year is 2240 bushelp.- Tecumseh News, Wm. Hannan has owned the farm occupied by him in this township over 58 years. We hope he may live to occupy ït many years more. - Exchange. C. R. Parsons left Friday morning with 180 nice fine-wool fheep and a box of Plymouth Rock chicks for Texas. He will be gone five or six weeks. - Saline Observer. Quite a curiosity may be seen on the Webster road, opposite Frank Preston's gravel bed. The limb of an oak tree appears to grow into an adjoining elm tree.- Dexter Leader. The county history man is around and well spoken of, and we may surely conclude that a correct history of the county would be appreciated by the people.- Dexter Leader. Bass weighing three poundseach were speared last week with a pitch-fork at Manchester. If this tale goes down with the public, the Enterprise may teil another.- Adrián Press. It has gone out that May White, the sjeepin.' girl, lives in Munith; she resides in White Oak, when at home, but isjust now stopping in the village of Stockbridge under the care of Dr. Brown.- Stockbridge Sun. Anold farmer says after a horse gets nine years oíd a wrinkle comes in the eyelid, at the upper corner of the lower lid, and every year thereafter he has one well deflned wrinkle for each year of his age over nine.- Manchester Enterprise. I. H. Woodman, the fruit evaporator man, arrived in town on Tuesday to look after the prospecta for fruit and get the evaporator in order. He says there is more fruit in other states than in Michigan, and farmers must not expect a big price for apples.- Manchester Enterprise. Oh! what a whopper, thatis.thestraw stack of Geo. Burroughs' on the old Doyle farm south of this place. It contains the straw from 175 acres of grain, and is over 100 feet long. The amount of grain realized from this straw was about 4.0C0 bushels of wheat, oats and ye.- Belleville Enterprise. Mr. and Mrs. Moore, of Gregory, passed through this place Friday with' the remains of their infant babe, for interment in Redford cemetery. During a few moment8 absence of its mother the little one drank the water from a dish containing poiaonous fly paper.- Houth Ljon Excelsior. Merritt Ward has a wagon winch has been in use since his birth, thirty-four years ago. The same material composes the wajjon as then, except one tire. There is no favor shown it yet on account of age, as it carried about two ions of wheat up the elevator bridge the other day.- Dexter Leader. Wm. Case'e family, this week, are entertaining a resident of Tokio, Japan, Nagamasa Minoda, who has already spent two years in the high school at Vnn Arbor and two years in the literary department of theUniversity, from which he expeots to gradnate with the class of '9.- South Lyon Excelsior. Chelsea haslately organized a Young Man's Band. The followinv; are members: M. A. Shaver, leader; Geo. Beckwith, cornet; Otto Steinbach, cornet; Ilenry Steinbach, cornet; Henry Wood, oornet; Will Freer, piccolo; Munson rkhardt, alto; Fred Canfield, alto; Geo. Staffan, tenor; Chas. Milier, tenor; Roy Evans, baritone; Roy Leech, base; And ros Gulde, snare drum; Fred Fuller, bass drum. Frank Diens, of Clinton, had a narrow escape from breaking bis neck Tuesday forenoon. He was helping thresh at James Halladay's and feil from the loft in the barn, wheie he was pitching bundlee.upon the floor below, a distance of sixteen or eighteen fiet,strikingupon his head and shoulders. He was badly stunned and bruised, but luckily no bones were broken. Itisa wonder he hadn't broken his neck. - Tecumseh News, FÍ8h stories may seem a little out of order, but as long as fish will bite there will be stories about them. Last Thureday C. L., Eugene and Charley Severance unearthed a cup of worms and drove to Whitmore Lake for a day's fishing. They chartered a boat, wormed their hooks, spat on the bait and commenced. In less than one hour they had pulled iu 115 finney beauties. Charley, the baby of the family, made a record of capturing thirty fish with one solitary worm, and twenty-seven of