Neighborhood Notes

Mr. and Mrs. Ot o Bennett retnrned home to Ann Arbor Monday.-MHan Leader. . Glenn V. Mills wasin town this week Ketffinformat'on for his Directory .- Cbelsea Herald. Miss Duella Townsend was entertaineri hy fn,nH9 in Ann Arbor last week. - Chelsea Herald. this week.-Cfaelsea Herald. The Kational Building and Loan A - palies for building purposes.-bennne!. Two small boys with th cigarettM „ucweded in peí ting fire to F leet Chapman's barn, Orion, the 28lh nlt , whicn was entirelv consumed. To masked burglaw entere.! the house of Rev. Fr. Kennedy last Fm1y vpnmtr and carried away about 100 00 in monev, oíate and other vaiuaD.Ypeilauti Commercial. An item goingtheroundsof theprws, milHB ciosed temporarily bat the sou.b mili ie running.- Senünel. Mrs E E Osband and daughter, Mida.' and Mies Grace Loomis have gone to Grand Rapids to join a P! friende who will start in a few days for Chicago ín a boat which will be the home of the whole party dann? their stayinChicogo.-YpBilautiCommercia'. The stringency of the times seern U afifect the freight business on the I. U R R As many as flfteen or twenty freight trains have usually passed each day For the past week trom bix to ten have been the numbe.. The passender trains are also far from being crowded. - Dexter Leader. The new postal cards, of which 2,500000,000 are to be printed, will be manufactured at Castleton, a suburb of Albany. The contractor geta bout onethird of a cent apiece for tbem, and it w understood that the sale of them by the eovernment will net an annual pront ot S2,000,000,- Chelsea Standard. The new law relating to half holidavs, which goesiuto effect next mout h provides that on Saturdays from 12 o'clock noon until 12 o'clock at niglit is a legal half holiday for all banks. Al notes, etc., payable on Saturday will thus be considere! payable on the Mondav following.- Stockbridge bun. As E. A. Nordman was asked TuesdRv what he whb doing for pasture, be replied: "All the fetd l've got to spesk of is pond liliec. The cattle wilt walk down to my lake and get hold ..f a branch, ana pull in far enough for four or ti ve bead to reacb oiher branches, and they, together, will pullinenoimous roots and have a feaat. - Udxter Leader. ín Wasbtenaw couuty the grassliorDers have damaged oats considerably and are eating binding twiue. Coru aDd potatoes are standing the drouth well. Oats are moBtly all secured. Clovei is a fair erop, but srcoihI growth ig in need of rain. Fruit in thiásecuon, except apples, holds out well, grape?, eepecially, wül beagood crop.- Chel=ea Standard. X Schmid relates a singular occurrence that took place at his cot'aee at Sand Lake a few eveniDs since. Iney sent up a large paper halloon wüich went up to a t-reat height, then ít struck a current of air that canied it west and Boonitstruck another that camed it east and fiaally outofsigbt. A short time after, while setting off eome nrworks they were surprised to see the balloon descend within lOOfeetof whore it went up.- Manchester Enterprise. The following is a list of offlcers elected bv the recently organized teaeher's sociation. President, M. ,1. Cavanaugn; vice-president, Wm. Wedemeyer;Becretary, Miss Emilie Neuberger, Cuelsea; treasurer, Amida Parke, Chelsea; cummittee on exhibit, Alice Quackeubusb, Ypsilanti: Nellie Doane. Salem; Allie Shuar?, Dixboro; Carrie Wright, Ypailanti;cocumittee on program, Jotephine Hoppe, Cbelsea, May Thompson, Wurden, Emily Treadwell, Ann Arbor, Xetiie Gillett, Manchester. - Chelsea Standard. Aa Island Lake ybungtter went in Bwimming Sunday and was enjoyirg himself hugely when he observed hls father coming his way, and, fearing a thrashlne, fled for a friendly wheat üeld and hid,leaving hisclothesou the bank. Hls father, coming up, recognized the clothes and jumped at the conclusioe that the boy was drowned. A large crowd eoon gathpred and the lake was dragged, without finaing the boy, ït is needless to add. After lying concealed for eight hours ana watohing the searchprp, the youngbter discovered himseli. -