Neighborhood Notes

It cost 2,357.50 to run the Milan schools last year. The Manchester schools last year cost $4 363.70. Tnere were 410 pupila enrolled. Dave Hazelschwart, of .Sharon, claims to have threshed 78,000 bushels of wheat this season with his'two machines. Chas. Warner sold to E. Jedele 8530 worth of wool and lainbs, the increase of his flock of ewea since April lst. - Deixter Leader. Among the most cheerful of the Portage Lake campers, for the last two weeks, was Mrs. Almira Sill, who has passed her Sist birthday.-Dexter Leader. A person wpuld have to look a leng time before they could find a town tl size of Chelsea that could boast of as fine lawns as can be seen here. - Standard; A census of the school children in this district has just been completed. There are found to be 1,773 of school age, of which 1,582 are white and 191 colored. There has been a total gain over last year of but nine. Ypsilanti Commercial. Carmi Middlebrooks informa the Enterprise that he is negotiating with parties who wish himself and mule to make a balloon ascensión and para chute drop. The fair that gets that attraction gets the crowd from Manchester and no mistake.- Enterprise. One of thefinest landscape views may be obtained by climbing Prospect (Birkett's) Hill. It was our privilege to enjoy the scenery from its summit for the first time last Friday morning, and we say emphatically, go and see, and if you can, take a glass- we mean a telescope. - Dexter Leader. Peter Brazer, an employé of tii Sharf Box Factory, caught his hand in a large presa yesterday morning, and crushed it so badly that it is feared ainputation of the whole or part of it will be necessary. This is the third similar accident that has oceurred in that factory within a few weeks.- Ypsilanti Commercial. M. 1!. MillspauRu losta valuable horse Monday night. It seems that the animal caught its hoof between a door and the sill, and in its efforts to lree itself received injuries from which it died soon after being discovered. Mr. Millspaugh had an offer from parties in New York a short time ago for this horse but refused it.- Chelsea Standard. The complaint against James Reilly, for horse stealing, which was to have been brought in for hearing, last Friday" was dismissed, but he was immediately rearrested on a new complaint and after a hotly contested trial before Justice Bacon was acquitted. Peter Coffield, who was arrested with Reilly, plead guilty to last complaint and was given öó days at Detroit house of correction.- Chelsea Standard. Rev. Patrick Duhig, the first resident priest attached to St. Mary church, Chelsea, died last Saturday evening in Jackson, after an illness of one week, from pneumonía. His funeral took place yesterday from St. John's chureb, Jackson, the Kt. Rev. Bishop Foley and many priests assisting. Father Duhig was a man of splendid appearance and fine attainments. His last appointment was as Chaplain of St. Joseph's Retreat, Dearborn Mich. - Chelsea Herald. A farmer near Manchester drove into his field with a new self binder and essayed to harvest the golden grain. The machine cut the grain all right, but utterly refused to bind it and neither argument, threats nor persuasión had the slightest effect on the obdurate thing. Finally the farmer sought the agent and laid the matter before him. The agent went to the field, took in the situation and suggested to the farmer the propriety of putting a ball of twine in a box. Then the farmer went and butted his head against the barn for half an hour. - Adrián Press. About a week ago there stepped from a Lake Shore train at this station a young Swede. He could neither talk nor understand Englisb, neither was he conversant with the system of making signs, but Frank Maginn took him in hand and to those who know Frank this means much. Frank and the young man started in search of some one to talk with. Many was the joke he played upon our citizens but at last they found some one who understood Russian and the Swede informed him that he wished to go to Mcckiuaw where he has a brother living. Someone had swindled him at New York and got a Manchester ticket off on him which dropped him here, some 300 miles short of his destination. He has written his brother for monev. - Manchester Enterprise. Tradition has it that Daniel Webster contributed $100 toward the erection of the Webster Congregational church. In the year 1834 one of the members was sent easttosolicitfunds and accidentally meeting Webster, stated that he was soliciting funds for the erection of a house of worsbip in a township nanied Webster, wereupon Webster made the ■ above contribution. It is to be regretted that the people of this society, which isas been a power for good so many years, did not enthuse enough to celébrate the semicentennial of its birth, and we would suggest that it would be eminently proper to have a meeting soon for the purpose of recalling the interesting things of the past, while the very few are here to teil thein and awuken through the inspiration thus excited to a new sense of duty. - Dexter leader. The September meeting of the Saline Farmers' Club held at J. 8. Kyte's was well attended. The exhibits, although not arge, were a source of much interest and instruction to such as were looking for pointers in regard to the production of the various articles exhibited. Some of the vegetables revealed the fact that the seed sown was a mixed lot, although supposed to have been obtained from a reliable firm. The show of corn and potatoes convince one that there will be no lack of seed in spite of the dry summer. Special mention of the articles exhibited would Dot be of interest to our readers, but we would refer to the fine apples grown by T. Sutherland, the pumpkins shown by S. Weinett and especially the bread and cake make by Minnie War-aer, a little girl nine years old, which was as good as that made by some ing bad more expenence.