County

The Whitmore Lake sining chool has closed. The Ypsilantian has commenced ü crusade against the cigarette. John Randall has bought the farm Of C. E. Campbell, near Milan. J. Sturm, of Saline, has been reaping a harvest in cutter sales. Mrs. G. M. Smith, died in Ypsilanti, January ióth, aged 42 years. There will be 110 Junior exhiition in the Ypsilanti high school this year. The South Lyon singing school is going to sing for the benefit of the Grand Army. ; A big pouitry show, open to th world, will be held in Ypsilanti February 6 to 1 1. E. Bascom, of Stony Creek, fiactured a thigh by falling on the ice, une day recently. G. J. Nissly, of Saline, captured $100 worth of prizes at the Grand Rapids poultry exhibition. M. E. Root, of Salem, died January 12 of pneumania, aged íbrtythree years. He leaves a íamily. The Saline river is being stored in many ice houses in the shape of huge chunks of ice, clear as crystal. The average attendance for the past three months at the Gregory ounday school has been fifty-eight. A company is being organized at South Lyon to establish a planing mili and to manufacture church seats. Eliza Johnson, bom a slave, but for the past forty years a resident of Ypsilanti, died January 13, aged 86 years. The members of the African masonic lodges of the state banqueted in Ypsilanti, Monday evening, although watermellons are not in season. Accidents from slipping; on the ice are yet in order. South Lyon has one. Mrs. Waldo Whipple slipped, on Wednesday, of last week, and broke one of her ribs. James L. Camp, of York township, died Tanuary 17.. ofquinsy, at the age of 38 years. He came to this county about four years ago from Kendallville, Ind. The barber who locates at VVhitmore Lake must be handsome,says a Whitmore Lake correspondent, as i that would enable him to please his gentlemen sustomers better. Miss Km ma C. Fritz, of Lima writes from Alameda county, California, of the flowers blooming anc the grass growing in the valley anc snow falling on the mountains. The Ypsilantian has private advices that Manchester vvill vote for prohibition. This is astounding intelligence, especially to those posted n Manchester's previous elections. A gay and festive time vvill be held at the Follett house in Ypsilanti next Wednesday evening, the occasion beine the annual reception of the Ypsilanti Polo and Socia! club. Of course the Chequamegon orchestra furnish the music. J. T. Campbell, who has been making an extremely readable anc lively paper out of the Pincknev Dispatch, has sold out to attend the lavv department of the University. The new proprietor, A. D. Bennett, is a good printer well as localizer Alex. Smith, the chairman of the York local option committee, personally canvassed eight sections O! York, obtaining 154 signatures anc reports 95 per cent. ot the votes on these as in favor of prohibition. In Milan village he says he obtainec: 65 percent, of all those to whom he applied. A petition is being circulated to the legislature for a íaw forbidding any person fishing with hook anc line in YVhitmore lake for five years. As this happens to be the only way in which thcy can fish, Whitmore would be pretty well stocked with fish at the end of such a five years. 'The finding of mineral water at South Lyon has avvakene i the denizens of that fire stricken village to the fact that now is the time to boom. The South Lyon Picket says: "The finding of mineral water ast week seems to have given us a fresh -itart and capital and energy that has for years been lying idle vvill be brought into play and ourtown push onware! with the sweeping tide of progress." That mineral water seems to have the effect of making the South Lyon ëditoré eloquent.