Among Our Neighbors

The eorn erop in York is reported to le the best yield they have had in many years. Oats are also a heavy CPOp, and wheat is turning out tar beyoncl expectation. Little straw. but plenty of grain. The eouncil met last night and appointed a coramittee to investígate and confer wlth S. M. Bixby for the establishing of an electric liffbt plant here. Chelsea Standard. Xotwithstanding the faut that & new houses are being erected her season, there is a shortage oL sraoant houses, and people are having a aard time to iiml residenoea. C. .1. Chaudler informa ua that the prico of egfis is lower nuw than it bas been in the'month of August in twentylive yeare. Wm. Bacon is apending a few daj 9 al Ueading. superintending the shipment of a earload of poultry to Nev? York. Master Harold Cla.ier lit the Bre tor the iirsttime this afternoon at the foundry of the Glazier Stove Company. Chklska Herat.d. Among the attraetions at our coming fair, vvill be the raoes and ball games as foliows: Thursday, 2ï40trOt, best 3 in 5 mile heats. Purse $35, Ist $20, 2nd $1U. 3rd $5 Bicycle race. free for all. Three good pri.es. Ball game. purse $20. Priday, free-for-all trot or pace, best 3 in ö. mile heats. Purse $80 Ist $40, 2nd $25, 3rd $15. Three minute trot. best 3 in 5 mile beats. Puree 825, Ist $12, 2nd $8, 3d $". Ball game purse, not yet üeciüeci on. R. A. Snyder is erectlng ati S1800 house to replace the one recently deBtroyed hy tire. (jeo. Beckwith is overeeeing the job. C. J. Chandler & Co. have oponed their poultry warehouse for the season and will take in poultry on Taesday and Wednesday of eaeh veek. Dexteii Leader. There carne near being a c-ostlyblaze at the Novelty Store last Friday. Simon Schairer lighted his alcohol jlamp and dropped the match on the ftoor, supposing it would go out. It did no such thinr, hovvever, but set ftre to a large mosquito-bar curtain hanging in front of the jewelry window and instanlly thö whole thing was abla. Chas. Hoftmeyerhad the 3ndsofsveral of his fingers sliced off in the 'alicer" at the basket factory last Friday. They were not cut back far enough to permanently injure them but it was a mighty close Bhave. A movement is on foot to hold an Oddfellows' picnic at Whitmore Lake at an early date. It will be a gathering of all the lodges in the county. Indications point to the attendance of foreign pupils at the Dexter schools the coming year being larger than ever. Ypsilanti Sentinel. From a private letter we learn that Rev. M. M. Goodwin has returned and joinedhis family in New York city, where they are having a pleasant time. His stay is indefinite. of course, as the Columbia is a white whirlwind" and it cannot be said how long will be her stay in port. Lieut. John P. Finley, of the U.S. A. . is the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mfs. F. 8. "inley. Lieut. Finley is on his way to Fort Leavenvvorth, Ks.. where he has been ordered, to auties in the military school of instruetion. Fort Leavenvvorth is now the largest army port in the country. At a directora' meeting of thi Opera House company held Friday evening. xino; ollice.is wure elected : kient, J. B. Colvan; vice-president, A. L. Nowlan: y-treaeurer, V. L, Pack. D. ' L. Quicfi bus resigned from the board. The gentlemen say that the will be pushed vigorously. Hon. Perry F. Powers, president of the State Board of Education, was in the city durlug the )ast week in the interest of Normal school.