Neighborhood Notes

J ratale m il havea sorghuni mU next season. now lias a la'iie' liive of the Maccabees. Belleville is likel.v to haveahiveof the Maccabeev. Hanburg MethodlBta have organizad un Epworth League. Burglars broke into the I). L. rfc. N. depot at Howell, lat week. Miss Ellen Clark, of Dexter, die 1 Tborsday morningof la grippe. A Soutb Lyou man bagged six deer in the northern part of the state. ,.! Edgar, of Manchester, has reei ved a patent on a refrigerator. Arthur Simm-=. of Webater, will teach the school in theJuhnson district. Lafayette ürange will meet tomormw at the residenca of W. E. Stockin;;. There are twenty-seven foreign papila ia the Chelsea Union school. Mrs. Heurica Koch, of Lima, died last week at the age of sixtyseven. Oakland connty gets SS,18j and Livingston $4,616 2ö of Ine bchool money. Solomon Tale, of Bridgewater, has : iped two carloadsof hogs lo BulTalo A barn belonging to James McMullen of Milan, biirned to tlie ground Tlmrsdsy. Clinton íh tr ing to organize a dancing clasp. It already lias a tempe ranee cinb. Patrick Ilagsrty, an old resident of Lyndon. died last week at the age of eiglity yeare. lire. Martin, a well known lady of Lodi, died last week Wednesday after a brief illness. James W. Jacksun, of Whittaker, has received back pension money to the amount o f $160.80. Rev.S. S. Chapín, rector ot the Episcopal chureb in Stockbridge, bas accepted a cali to Fort Gratiot. Tbe next meeting of the Southern Washtenaw Farmers' club will be held j.tthe residence of W. H. Henion, Friday, December 11. If the Soultern Washtenaw Farmers,' cinb can have its way, golden rod will be thenational fiower. The votestood: polden rod, 26; clover, 10. Mre. Lewis H. Wier, sister of Capt. E T. Allen, died last week in Englewood, 111. She was for many years a resident of Sharon and Manchester. Tracy L. Towner, of Ypsilanti, has been appointed county agent of the State Board of Corrections and Charities in place of L. B. Greene. A. A. Wood this week received a ckblegram from his brother George, who arrived in London, Tuesday, all safe, after a s!x' een days' sail.- Saline Observer. M. E. Sül went bird hunting recently ia sswamp three miles soutb of Dexter. A charge of gun shot from a companion'sgun accidentaliy struik liis faee and bids fair to destroy the sight of one ye. The Dexter Leader reminds theresi(ients of that village that they live under the shadow of the greatestUniversity in the United S:ates and urges ihem to make better use of theiradvantAges. Miss Mütilda Weston, a maiden lady j.ged sixty-two years, üied in Dexter Tcently. She settled in the town of Webster during the year 1S36. Miss Weston was fouud dead in an out building. We wonder why someone does not ,iut up some sheds to rent to farmers who come into town and stay geveral kours. It is a shame to have borses out in the cold so long. - Manchester ''nterprse Henry Hayes, a former Dexter boy índ now editor of the leading organ of "he Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, has just returned from a visit ■fUli his sou, Harry Hayes, of Lima.- Iexter Leader. AVhaley & Sons' eider mili has shut iown for the season. This firm probbly bas a press with tbe largest capacity for eider makiBg in Michigan; with ihis press alone as high as 140 barrels of eider has been pressed out in ten aours.- Milan Leader. Charles Bues, of Freedoin, brought -flirteen bags of buck-wheat to Jerjalem and took away 838 pounds of Lour bes-ides brao. Figure that out and see if it does not pay to have grain ia good Bhape.- Chelsea Standard. Pittsfield is well represen ted at the chools in Ann Arbor and Ypailanti. Bert Bray, Dan Elsworth, L. Rice, Anna Combs, LoisHarwood, Philip Berole and Delaney Begola, are attending the Normal; Mark Case and Arthur herwood attend the Cleary College; "lara Case attends the Ann Arbor high school; Fred Webb is studying law at Ihe University. Olen Pepper was driving a team with a load of lumber acroas the race bridge n Wilson's mili yard Wednesday morn:ng when the lumber slidoff the wagon, -triking him and knocking him off the bridge into the race, ten ortwelve feet elow, the lumber on top of him. He was badly bruised but no bones were öroken. The ice broke with his fall which probably saved his life.- Milan ".eader. There's a growing, steady increase in ihe growing occupancy of the Monroe . ail, as cold weather aDproaches. The '.rampshave "got onto" theold buildng, and break right in any night and get a warm place for lodging, and the sheriff has to threaten them with arrest f they don'tclearout. Andthat's why :he tramp wriggles the digits, while the thumb rests lovingly on his probcscis, as he takes a look at the law officer. - Adrián Pres. The lyceum Wednesday night was a ecided success. The question distussed was. Resolved, that marriage is a failure. Chief on aflirmative, Henry Stimson.chief on the negative, Florence Cole. The question was decided in the negative. The next meeting will occur December 2ai, the following ::uestion to be discussed, Resolved that ihe signs of today indícate the downfall of the republic- Chelsea Standard. The optimistic decisión of the first (luestion lead one to believe that the econd will also be decided in the negaiive.