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Among Our Neighbors

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Wheat seems to be turning out bi than was expec Hunti'i's should remembar that tbey cannot lawfully hunt woodcock beforë the 15th day of August. The llth annual farmer' picnic t the Wampler's lake aummer resort will take place Thursday Aug. Jst. The trustees met Monday evening and decided to beifin work on M, :hurch as boob as possible. A. buildiny: cotumittee ivas appointed, conistinti of Bermain Gieske, C. VV. Case and Rev. Yokum. One of the men employod on the La ke Shore work train was struek in the back by a chunk of dirt that rolled o't'thecar, on Tuesday, and is threatened with in iiammation of the kidneys. Dr. Ohlinger is treating him. Saline Obsp:rver. Geo Tower, vvho has for weeks betn sick, is still very low and his reoovery is almost hopeless. John ,Hasner who works for Arba Hurd feil baokwards froui a wagon Monday morning striking on his head and shoulders. The wagon wheel passed over his head producing a slight concussion of the bi'ain, knocking out jveral teeth and jarring hhn up generally. A remarkably queer discovery was unearthed by Sela Htzgerald, Wednesday roorninjr. While engaged in digging a nevv we-11 on the late riall lot, he íound a grape shot closely wedged in a ihunk of blue clay, 24 feet beiow the surface. The baü is perfect, clean and bmooth, is not rusty or disfiured, it measures 1 3-lö inches'in diameter, and is of hard iron. Thi discovery brings out several ideas, and the general question is, How did it get there or wnere (lid it it come from? It is now on exhibition in Lister & Sheeder's window, set in the clay in which it was found. Chelsea Standard. A small party of friends gatbered at the home of L. ïlchenor Thursday evening last to remi ad him of the fact that it was the sixty-ninth anniversary of his birth. P. C. Morey and Albert Koester of Detroit are spending a few weeks here preparing engravinsjs lor tile new catalogue soon to be issued by the Glazier fetove Company. Huckleberries are only a small erop in this vicinity this season, only about tnenty-flve bushels per day being the average shipped through the American Express Co., aainst about seventyñve bushels in otner years. Cfelsea Hekald. Mr. and ïifrs. John Shan., of Lima, béfame the happy parents'oí a daugtei-, born Thursday. Juiy 11, lt)9ú; but tneir joy was turn mto grief, for tüe infant Sied the next Sunaay. Miss Minnie Steinbach, who has been in the millinery business witfi Bell at Ann Avbor the past season, bas returned to spend her vaeation vvith many relatives and frienda at Chelaá Lima. Emerson Hali's residence and bi and their contenta at Waterloo bju v afternoon írom a def" was a high . The loss nee, 12,200. The United Brethern eb and barns near by were also burned. Loss. $3,500; no insurance. Dexter Leader. Upon complaint of his father, who alleg-es him unruly. Charley Johnson was taken to the industrial school at Lansing VVe.dnesday. Geo. A'. Peters doesn't intend to let his peaoh erop be a failure by default ii he can heip it. He has drawn 700 barrels of water from the river and put on the trees. Wm. Andrews, living in the southern part of Scio township, captured an aniwal in an old drain on his farm, a couyears ago, tiiat has since öffereS afertile field of speculation for all wno have seen it. The animal has been uxhiOited at the county fair and looked at by a number of learned men, all of wtiom have m-ononnced themselves at 'oss as to wtiat it was. Last week the ■ - i ty of a Duniber of our citizens was aioused, among whom was R. P. C'ope'a?d,and,armed with Johnson 's Natural History, he took a trip over to see it. kwee then h,e has looked the matter up v7 carefully and it is his belief tliat the strange creature is a Cayopolin Oppossum, which is described by Johnson a a native of Guiana. If this is true ll]e little feüow i a way from his Dative healtii. YPSILANTI COMMERCIAL. , ''Accidental suicide!" is a new term Uf nomenolature, invented, or discovere" by an Ann Arbor coroner's jury. I A 3-year-old child of Henry Camp, pvingon Oak Street, fel) into an empty well l'uesday. and was seriously iniured Py the fall. The well was 30 feet deep. I Tony Ryan, ex-Street Commissioner, wttrtth a series accidsnt a few days rSO. He was working with the machinF.y at the new well when a block feil Pni struck liim on the head. I The Marshal has entered a complaint ffanist the proprietors of the Hawkins pouse for keeping the bar room open Fir hours last Saturday night. The l-'e will betried next Wednesday. Lthe"er-al irPsilanti.wno gave his name lea ait' turaed UP missing about a IhaJ" lt was ffenerally supposed :ia' ne had been kidnapped, and ditf nt earch had been made for his rntreabouts since his taking off. Yesnl ty afternon while the new City L.l ,was runnaging around in the K closet, he discovered the lonsrïihK- FS1' hidden away among the Sb. On the Fourth of July, 182?, or f u BenJamin Woodruff made a ' Ct V fu a celebl-ation here, and sur'i in hat tbo tou'n be named Ypsilan■},, ui01' üf the General of that name, he T 1 f?ained a si&nal victory over 'Ufksin Greece, which resul ted in 'i-eeo '?-.endence of that country, he Sr hls pieture was presented ;o , ,;i i(ty by the Greek Government

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Ann Arbor Register