Dexter

Miss N. Shurtleff, of Ann Arbor, is visiting the family of A. A. Buckalew. The six months old baby of Geo. Eder, barber, died on the16th inst., of bowel complaint. Will Presley, of Lansing, is here on a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Presley. Mrs. Dudley has gone to Flint to enjoy the luxuries of that city in the belief that change is beneficial. Miss Coots, step-daughter of John McDonald, has taken a trip to Ann Arbor on a visit to her friends. H. C. Gregory who has been very seriously indisposed lately, is now nearly restored to a normal condition. Miss Florence VanRiper, of Chelsea, was here a few days ago enjoying herself with the family of Chas. Coy. Miss Josie McNamara went to Bay City to attend the marriage ceremony of her brother James on the ioth inst. The Misses Lawrence, who have been here visiting the family of E. H. Andrews, have returned to their home in Ypsilanti. A. Soulier went to Detroit on the 18th to attend the funeral of S. D. Hollister, formerly conductor on the M. C. R. R. Minnie Boggs is on an extended visiting tour and during her absence will take in Detroit and St. Mary's Academy, Monroe. Godfrey Helle, while assisting in preparing ice for storing, fell, badly injuring his head but is now improving. It was a close call. Adam Deckert and wife have started on a ten day's tour on which they will take in Plymouth, Detroit and many other places of note. John T. Raywalt has gone to Cassopolis, Cass county, to winter with his son-in-law, Ed. Bennett. E. Jedele, John's partner, has gone with him. Edwin Scott started on the 16th for Kirkville, Mo., to see his brother-in-law who is dangerously sick with pneumonia and his recovery is very doubtful. Mr. Daniel Forsyth, of Pennsylvania, and his bride, nee Jane Neeley, late of Howell, Mich., have for a few days been the guests of R. J. Webb and family. The paternal grandfather of Isaac Terry, of this place, is the progenitor of five living generations His age is 88 years and his intellectual faculties unimpaired. John W. Spoor and John Pidd went to Ypsilanti a few days ago, ostensibly on business and we will not be so uncharitable as to question the pretended errand. A series of union revival meetings commenced here on the 11th inst., and are still ín progress. They are conducted by Revs. Adams, Claflin and Burns of the Methodist, Congregational and Baptist denominations respectively. If anything can be done to reform Dexter these ministers will do it. The wooden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. George Williams, of Webster, was celebrated at their residence on the 12th inst. A large number of guests were in attendance, and the presents were numerous, all wooden, of course, and useful. Among them was a valuable extension table, and it was promptly pressed into service to contribute its part in the performance of the duties incident to the occasion, and in that capacity it was assigned the greatest burden of the evening, viz: the refreshments for the crowd. Everybody was happy. Thomas Birkett, one of our heavy men, financially, started on the 17th on a tour through the south, in company with Hon. M. E. Ramsey, of Leslie, Mr. Moore, of Lansing, and Ex-Railroad Commissioner, Wm. McPherson, Jr., of Howell. They intend to have a time of it, and if they are all like Tom, they will. They will halt at many of the prominent places on the way, especially at Ellisville and Hattiesburg, Miss., where they are extensively interested in yellow pine lands being jointly owners of about seventy thousand acres of which Birkett's share is about 16,000 acres. They go as far as New Orleans and will be absent about two weeks. There is a man in Dexter who is so systematic that he even washes his feet by rule. The first of January was the regular day for the quarterly ablutions. His wife prepared the solvent for the occasion, hot water being the usual liquid, and because of the infrequency of the cleansing, a high temperature of the fluid was necessary so that the cause would be adequate to the effect to be produced. From long accumulations of incrustations on the members, the epidermis was naturally rendered dull of sensibility and when the fellow immersed his extremities, from the aforesaid dullness he was not readily admonished of the scalding condition of the water, nor was he made aware of it till the scales dropped off, a process that left the cuticle entirely unprotected, and before the pedals could be withdrawn the blistering process was completed. He now heads the fashion of wearing cotton flannel shoes. At Bay City, on the 10th inst., Jas. McNamara, esq., of Alpena, was married to Lillie Conmey of the former place. Father McNamara, brother of the bridegroom, assisted by two other priests, officiated in the ceremonies. James was once a Dexter boy, and is a perfect specimen of a self-made man. Like a traction engine he always moved by his own forces, adopting for his motto the adage that, "Where there is a will there's a way." He struggled along to a good common school education, then by teaching some of the time he forced his way through the University at Ann Arbor, and chose law as a profession and then faced the world determined to succeed. He adopted as a field of action the enterprising city of Alpena, and the appreciative community of that place elected him to the legislature in 1885. He is now prosecuting attorney of Alpena Co. "Try" has always been his maxim, and the contraction "can't" he says he never knew the meaning of. He says the world shall never be the worse for his lived in it.