Among Our Neighbors

Dexter has a now fire engine. It is proposcd that the line will strike Dansville, Plainíield, Pickncy, Birkett, Dexter and Ann Arbor, where it will connect with the Detroit motor line. - Dexter Leader. It was deuided at a meeting held recently to hold a farmer's institute at Chelsea, Tuesday and Wednesday, January ti and 12. The program committee is hard at work arrangiag a suilable program.- Dexter Leader. It is expected that the re will be incorporated at Lansing this wsek, a company whose object is to build and opérate an electric railway, for thepurpose of oarrying both passengera and light freight betweon Lansing and Ann Arbor. Arch Miles, for the past two years, clerk for Ed. Croarkin, has aocepted a situation in the wholesale clothing house of Rosen wald & Weil, of Chicago, and will begin his new duties about January 1.- Dexter Leader. The Saline Observen- Sornething our village sadly needs- a humane society. There are too many horses left standing on our streets f rom morning until night and many times much longer, without food, shelter or drink, stormy and cold days not exc epted. Monday evening while on the way home from Tompkins. W. H. McKitchen's horse suddenly reared up and fell over upon the ground dead. The event took place tuis side of Leoni. 1 he animal was highly Aalued by its owner. Heartdisease was thesupposed cacs3of his death. - Grass Lake Ivews. Une of Manchester's most enterprising farmers has looked up his assessment in the Southern Washtenaw Farmers Mutual Pire Insurance Co., and says that they had averaged a little more than $2.50 on his $4.000 stock, or, about 63c. on each $1.000. As he was one of the first members, this covers a period of 26 years. -Manchester Enterprise. Daniel Davis, an aged colored man, was severely injured 'ast Friday. Davis is a cripple, having Io3t a footand walked upon a wooden peg. He was engaged in hauling rubbish from the water works grounds for Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, when his horse kicked him upon the crippled limb, fracturing a bone, On account of the man's age, it is doubt - ful íf he can ever recover sufficiently to get about without cr utehes. - Ypsilanti Sentinel. The Bridgewater correspondent for the Manchester Enterprise says: "A great many from here went to Clinton last Sunday to hear Judge C. B. Grant. It will be remembered by some that his brother, James Grant, taught the center school here about 38 years ago, the judge being then a student at Ann Arbor. We were informad by Judge Grant that James died about a year ago on the old farm in Maine, where both were bom." Arthur Miles found a vaculty in his eider barrel that he suspicioned was on the increase from mysterious noctunal visitations of which he entertained superstitious conceptions. He shrewdly tied a string to his cellar door and carrying the end up to hi3 bedroom in the second story, attached it to a bell. In a short time he had a nibble. Creeping down to where the apple nectar was deposited he found three juvenile French gentlemen guzzling the same. He offered to settle for $5.00, spot cash, but the young men were out of coin. Now, Mr. Miles sayshe must have more - that justice demands it! - Grass Lake News. "We've got to economize,!' said M r. Gargoyle to his wife. "Very well, dear, " replied the good woman, cheerfully. "You shave yourself and 111 cut y ou hair." - HarlemLife.