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Rev. S. Bird, of Salem, is holding meetings at Lapham's. The taxes in South Lyon are all paid except about $1,000. A social was held at Andrew Boyce's in Lindon last week. E. M. Sanford, of Grass Lake, has butchered an 800 pound hog. George Mills, a former resident of Saline, died in Jonesville, January 6th. A donation was given Rev. Miles Gelston at Worden, Wednesday evening. There are said to be twenty churches within ten miles of Stockbridge. Wm. Burtless, of Manchester, has received $500 for one hundred head of lambs. Emma Florence, the little daughter of S. C. Wilkinson, of Salem, died January 6th. There are 620 students in the Ypsilanti Normal school and 240 in the practice school. A mirror will be placed in the under corridor of the Dexter school house, by the pupils. Cleary's Business College, in Ypsilanti, is moving right along. It now has 164 students. A. B. Van Duzer has an eleven year old cactus tree, eight feet high, in his barber shop in Saline. Miss Susie Gordon, an Ypsilanti school teacher, will accept a position in the Kalamazoo public schools. Warren F. Pattison, formerly of Ypsilanti, has secured a third interest in the Charlotte Tribune. The insurance companies have paid $7,556.63 insurance on the burned roller mill in South Lyon. The Grass Lake bank now has deposits amounting to $41,000. It has a paid up capital stock of $44,000. The funeral of Mr. E. Chase, of Salem, was held on Wednesday of last week. He was 58 years of age. Is your town represented in our columns? If not please write us suggesting a name of a correspondent. A new saw-mill, which it is claimed will employ twenty-five hands, will be erected by Stringe Bros. Willis Harley is drawing stone for the foundation of his new house to be erected in Whittaker next spring. Benj. G. Ashby, of Ypsilanti, for thirty-six years affected by epilepsy has been sent to the Pontiac insane asylum. Hewitt & Freeman have had a private office fitted up in the rear of their office, over the People's bank in Manchester. J. W. Hull has been in the hardware business in Saline twenty-one years, and a good twenty-one years they have been too. The prohibition campaign was opened in Manchester by an address by Rev. J. R. Wytrie, of Tuscola county, last Friday evening. Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., now contains two Chelsea students, Clarence Maroney and George Schatz. A donation will be given for the benefit of Rev. W. R. Moon, this evening at the residence of W. E. Pease of Manchester township. The enrollment in the Saline schools has increased to 260. There were thirty-six pupils neither absent nor tardy during the last term. The young ladies of the junior class in the Ypsilanti high school have already treated their school mates to a leap-year sleigh ride. A. P. Bucklin died in Ypsilanti on Tuesday of last week, at the age of 75 years. His death was the result of a fall on an icy sidewalk. Saline has settled with Mrs. Henry Collum, who broke her arm last summer by falling on a defective sidewalk. The village paid $75. Miss Prisalla Traver, for many years a teacher in the Detroit and Ypsilanti schools, died at Dr. Batwell's residence in Ypsilanti, January 7th. William Slayton, of Dundee, furnishes the Toledo and Ann Arbor railroad 200,000 of the brick they are using in the new roundhouse at Owosso. Among the Saline casualties reported last week were a broken arm for J. M. Schill, a broken nose for Freddie Pierce and a severe fall for Jacob Lutz. Dundee has purchased a small hook and ladder outfit for $215 to assist in coping with fire. Some day, when they are richer than now,they will strive to put in a small engine. Mrs. Jerone A. Stebbins died in Ypsilanti on Wednesday of last week of heart disease. She had resided in that city for twenty-one years, no night of which was spent from under her own roof. The installation of officers of Superior Grange drew out a large number and the following officers were installed: Master, T. V. Quackenbush; Overseer, Geo. McDougall; Lecturer, John McDougall; Steward Wm. . Burrell; Assistant Steward, B D. Geer; Chaplain, Mrs. J. G. Rook; Treasurer, J. G. Rook; Secretary, Jas. H. Hanford ; Gatekeeper, Justin Gale; Ceres, Mrs. C. Sayles; Poniona, Miss Alberta Wilson; Flora, Mrs. E. Gale; Lady Assistant Steward, Miss Ella Bagley; Choirister, N. Pooler; Organist, Mrs. B. D. Geer. The German Workingmen's Aid Society, which last year paid out $1,237.57 for beneficiaries and sick relief and has a balance of $1,638.49 on hand, have elected the following officers for this year: President, N. Schmid; Vice-President, Fred Staggemeir; Secretary, Fred Kurfess; Treasurer, C. Lehn; Medical Examiner, C. F. Kapp; Trustees, Jacob Knapp, Wm, Kirchgessner, John Koch, Wm . Neebling, Wm. Koebbe, George Nisle, Michael Schaible, J. Mayer, Jacob F. Miller; Standard Bearer, Martin Traub; Janitor, C. Senger. The Manchester Enterprise speaks up for a new depot in Manchester in the following strong terms: "The dilapidated and inconvenient state of the Lake Shore depot in this village is the source of considerable complaint,and it is indeed a disgrace that people, especially ladies, are compelled to spend the time while waiting for trains in such a shabby, untidy and illy ventilated building. It has been suggested that a petition be circulated among the citizens and traveling public and present it to the managers of the road, but it ought not to be necessary, for the company ought to know what is needed to contribute to the comfort of the public, and it seems strange that while much has been said on the subject, they still allow the dingy and shiftless building that is devoid of all conveniences, to exist. Tuesday morning, January 10, the workmen at the gas well in South Lyon struck the Trenton rock, at a depth of 1,100 feet, wherein is found the natural gas, our stock company have been looking for for the past five months. Immediately after the drill entered the rock, a smell arose from the hole that smelled worse than any old pair of socks we ever had a whiff of. The bailer was run down and some of the water pumped out which showed strong indications of mineral water of the best quality. A quantity of it was filtered and sure enough we have it, and it is pronounced by experts to be superior to the Ypsilanti water. A quantity of it has been sent to Ann Arbor and next week we will give an analysis of it. The stockholders are very well satisfied, thank you, with the way the well is turning out, and there is no reason why they should not be as it will undoubtedly prove a bonanza for them. - South Lyon Picket.