Neighborhood Notes

There are L'54 pupils in the Saline fchoole. St. John' (hurch, Ypsilanti, will hold a fair. The Episcopal cDarch at Hamburg is being repaired. Fred O. Martty, of ManeheMer, will start a ne' drug store. The white ribhon agitation at Howell has been very successful. The new Methodist church in Ypfcl'anti is ready for the roof. Lenawee county' slone-pile has f[ ed a lamentable failure. The nexl fair in Chelsea will be held iheseeond week in October. The net recetpteof the Latherao fair in Cbelsea amouuted to $'M'.'. A neat fence has been built aroand the depot grounds in Chelsea. Ray O. Buckelew, of Dexter, bas an even flock of 113 coarse wool lambs. Frcd Schlandertr, of tliis city, will slart bottling work. in Dexter next spring. Union temperance meetings will be beid in Chelsea the tirst Sunday of each month. Chris. Wurstner, of Bridgewater, broke a rib in a runawaj' at Manchester, ast week. Audrus Guilde and Luella Townsend are editing the echool column in the Cbelsea Standard. The Woman's Relief Corps, of Chelsea, is raising money to build a soldier' monument in Oak Grove cemetery. P. J. Ilausner, of Pittsfield, has dug ".hirty bushels of potatoes from seed farniBued by three potatoes a year ago. Miehael Stierle, a prominent Saline farmer, died last week Tuesday. He came to this coiintiy from Germany in 1853. A South Lyoii pliysician hai removed a piece of wood which had been imbeddeil in a mare's miisclefor over a month, The farmers of Öcio and vicinity have taken a contract to furnish aboul 500 perchofstone for tne new University buildings. Two North Lake men, W. H. Glenn and Bert Hadley, husked seventy-fiye bushels of corn and tied the stalks in eight hours. The editor of the Soutli Lyon Picket ■-ïow sporls a cañe, but protests that he does EO, on account of rheumatism and not diidish proclivities. Webster Gilette, formerly of Ypsilanü, :iow located in Ñe York, has lately inrented a magnetic door bell, which '■s winning him considerable fame. 'The residènce of John Hawley, who .ives south of Tecumseh, burned to the ground last week. Mr. Hawley was arreeted on a charge of incendiarisni. Jae. Beas'ey, an aged citizen of helsea, while wheeling dirt on a wheelbarrow Wednesday, dropped iead. He was troubled with apoplexy. M. J. Noyes raised corn this year that yielded 139 bushels to the acre. Amasa Gilbert husked the corn, and is authority for the statement.- Chelsea Herald. Four hundrcd and fifty residents of ( linton have signed the pledge; if one inndred and fifty keep this pledge tfiroughout üfe, there will be cause for ngratulations. The Glazier-Strong 0 Stovi1 Co, will pat up a large engiue house in Chelsea. They now employ sixty men und wi 1 employ twenty-five more when the building is completed. The Alpha Sigma Debatlng society in the Manchester high school has decifieá that marriage is not a failure. It ie, howevcr, with them a matter of theory, not of practice. The weetern horseman did not drive a flourishing business here. They hold the wild, untained steeds of the western prairies at too high prices to suit this market.- Manchester Enterprise. The little party of three, of which J. H. Bortle was one of the number, made a grand record In the North. Thev eaptured and took into camp eighteeñ deer, besides a good supply of fish and small game.- Saline Observer. When workmen returned to the sewer trench this morning they found it filled with beef, a coUple of fat steers having tumbled in during the night, knocking out beams and causing the sides to cave in.- Ypsilanti Sentinel. Frnk and Dan Boatman undertook to whip the conductor and run the ïiotor themselves, last Sunday night, and paid $15 fine each and costs' amounting to $53, in Juntiee Bogardus's' eourt for.their fun. - Ypsilantian. J. B. Brown, of Superior, Washtenaw connty, had the largest load of wool brougnt to South Lyon this season, 250 leeces, and wcighing 2,460 lbe. One of the best loads was purchased of H. ohnson, of Northville. G. Lenox, of this township, had the heaviest,- average fleece-washed wool was 13J lbs -Picket. Those who have raised fruit the past tew seasons have made such nioe profits that others have been induced to en-jage in the bu-iness. Mr. Rauchenberger has determined to set out au additional nmount of peach trees and zrape vines next spring and has sold to Henry Rushon, south of town, 1,100 and to George Heuber, west of town, 1,000 peach trees to be set next Manohester Knterprise. ,T. E. Sherman, of Brookfield, has thirty-threeswarms of hees, and waa looking for r erop of about 800 pouids ofhoney. Hestarted in to harvest it the other day, when lo, and behold, only 125 pounds could be scraped out Some rascal without fear of God or the law had come in the night and made way with the other 600 poundi?. Sherman has coraplained to the authorities, and claims it is mixing bitter with the weet,with a vengoance. - Stockbridge Sun Rev. Lera; Warren was greeted with crowded house at the Congregational .■ hurch Sunday evening. Among the statistics given, he said that Washtenaw i ounty hasseventy-threechurch sittings to each 100 inhabitants and that in Menominee county there are only eleven church sittings to each 100 inhabitants. In southern Michigan many of the villages have more church accommodations than are needful, while large tracts of country territory are destitute.