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A blacksmith is wanted at Eaton's Mills.

No time is being lost in the saw mill at Eaton's Mills.

A new saw mill is among the Gregory possibilities.

The South Lyon gas well will go down two hundred feet further.

The exporting of cattle and sheep from Manchester still continues brisk.

The Manchester lodge, A.O.U.W. are spending $150 in their lodge room.

Gay parties in sleighs have been traversing the county roads in all the townships.

The new Baptist church in Salem is about ready for dedication. It cost $6,000.

Orin Burkhart, of Lima, has a three-year-old colt which weighs 1385 pounds.

It cost the Ypsilanti school board $500 to repair the boiler at the seminary building.

The Webster farmer's club holds its next meeting at Wm. Latson's, February 11th.

The king of F. A. Barton's turkey flock, in Pinckney, weighed 22 pounds when dressed.

Herman Paul, of Bridgewater, was cut about the head recently by his ax flying from the handle.

Tracy R. Hascall, formerly of Ypsilanti, died in Detroit, January 23rd, of congestion of the lungs.

The Plymouth fair association have elected T. C. Sherwood president and C. B. Crosby, secretary.

Sore throats and colds seem to be epidemic in Manchester, and for that matter pretty generally about the county.

A dime social, for the Whitmore Lake church, was held at the residence of Joseph Pray last Friday evening.

Rev. Mr. Moon, of Iron Creek, was presented with thirty dollars at a donation party given for him January 20th.

Ex-Mayor Scovill, of Ypsilanti, was married to Miss Nina B. Mavis, of Detroit, on Wednesday evening of last week.

The young people's society in the Manchester Baptist church held a pleasant social at James Wier's last Friday evening.

The Manchester depot is an exceedingly venerable structure, but it contains an ink bottle which is as old as the depot.

Miss Fidelia Black, a pioneer of Salem, who had spent fifty years of her life there, died January 24, of quick consumption.

Whitmore Lake offers an opening for a meat market. The present firm have decided to retire, if they dispose of their fixtures.

Half of the $10,000 capital stock for the company which is to manufacture church seats at South Lyon, has been subscribed.

The Congregational church, of Chelsea, have called Rev. H. Scott Roblee, of Minneapolis to the pastorate of their church.

The Southern Washtenaw farmer's club met at J. F. Spafurd's, Tuesday. They had a royal dinner and an excellent discussion.

N. Conklin, of Manchester, still keeps his inventive faculties at work. His latest is a machine for holding brooms while being sewed.

They are talking pickling factory over at Plymouth and the farmers are wanted to pledge themselves to plant a hundred acres of cucumbers.

The total precipitation reported to the state weather service at Ypsilanti, during December, was 2.28 inches. At Manchester it was 2.99 inches.

The Milan Leader gloomily prophesied six feet of snow last week. Brother Smith should recollect that Michigan is not going out to Dakota.

A farmers' institute was held in Brooklyn, Jackson county, on Monday and Tuesday of this week, which was attended by some of the farmers of this county.

Prof. Travis thinks he can make more by employing his inventive faculties than he can teaching the Clinton schools and has resigned to look after his patents.

Mr. L. D. Watkins, of Manchester, read a paper on utilizing waste places for forest growths before the State Forestry Commission in Grand Rapids last Thursday.

Fred Roper, of Whitmore Lake, and James Duncan, of South Lyon, went fox hunting recently, but although reynard finally eluded them, they gave him a lively chase.

The masquerade ball at Goodyear's hall in Manchester, on Friday evening of next week, is for the benefit of the Manchester cornet band, which deserves a good benefit.

South Lyon claimed to have enjoyed the largest farmers' trade of any village of its size, before its mill burned. If it hopes to retain much of that trade, it must hasten to rebuild the mill.

W. E. Boyden, of Delhi Mills, has been re-elected president of the Southern Michigan Shorthorn Cattle breeders Association and William Ball, a member of the executive committee.

The Methodists of Whitmore Lake, Hamburg and Webster united in presenting their indefatigable pastor, Rev. S. Bird, with a handsome cutter. An appropriate and timely present.

Rev. Mr. Gelston, pastor of the Peebles church, was donated $53 by his congregation. If the weather on the night of the donation had not been so stormy the donation would have been larger.

Changing the position of the furnace in the Milan Presbyterian church makes all the difference between a warm church and an exceedingly cold one. The congregation are delighted.

Our Dexter correspondent is receiving a good many press compliments lately. And now comes the Chelsea Herald and desires to take lessons of him in the art of writing up marriages, etc.

Lawrence, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Burnham, who removed from Milan to Tower City, Dakota, died recently of croup, within half an hour after being attacked by the dread disease.

The Saline Manufacturing company have elected the following directors for the ensuing year: D.F. Reeves, A.J. Warren, C. Burkhart, J.A. Klein, C. Yedele, Geo. Schumacher and Bernhart Teepe.

A Dundee boy by the name of Wise, wasn't wise enough to refrain from stealing. He took a can of oysters and has been sent to the reform school until he is 18 years old. It will take him four year s to reach that age.

Anyone who saw a number of ladies entering the residence of Hiram Martin in Bridgewater, Wednesday afternoon, need not have been alarmed. It was only a meeting of the ladies society of the Methodist church.

Two barns, two miles east of Ypsilanti, belonging to Prof. J. P. Vroman, were burned Wednesday evening of last week. The fire was started by a lantern accidentally breaking. The loss was $1,400, insured for $1,000.

Liberty P. Beach, who died in Ypsilanti, last week was another early settler of Superior, where he settled in 1836. In 1851 he engaged in business in Ypsilanti, where he has since resided with the exception of 17 years in Medina, Mich.

This evening the hearts of the bashful young gentlemen of Manchester will beat high with hope that they may not be allowed to languish as wall flowers at the leap-year party and for once in their lives will have some one to see them home.

The lyceum at Hamburg is discussing the tariff, local option and like weighty and important topics, while the Gregory lyceum wants to know if Abraham Lincoln was a greater man than George Washington and the North Lake lyceum whether Washington wasn't bigger than Franklin.

Frederick Andrews, who, in 1828, settled on government land four miles northeast of Ypsilanti, died in Ypsilanti, January 21st, aged 80 years. In 1849 he moved to Ypsilanti, where, for a quarter of a century, he was engaged in the grocery business. His last days were spent in the Ypsilanti Sanitarium.

The old Boston sleighbells on Mack Robison's baggage sleigh team, sound very different from any others in town. They were first owned by Mack's grandfather when a young man, and have been handed down from father to son. They are 100 years old, but are good for another century. - Manchester Enterprise.

The editor of the Dexter Leader celebrates its twentieth anniversary, and pledges himself to continue to furnish a paper, "strictly neutral." The Laodiceans were condemned for neutrality : "I would thou wert cold or hot So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot I will spue thee out of my mouth." - Ypsilantian.

David Moore, one of the pioneers of the state, died in Ypsilanti January 19th, aged 93 years. He was born in New York. In 1830 he settled on government land in Superior, this county, and remained a resident of that township until 1876. He was a veteran of the war of 1812 and leaves eight children as has been well remarked, "Truly, a good man has gone to his reward."

It is reported that a man of a large family, who lives south of town, who has the reputation of abusing his family, drove his wife out doors recently and refused her admittance to the house. Her children took some blankets from the house and she slept in a corner of the fence all night. We have the brute's name but withhold it out of respect for the family. - South Lyon Picket. ,

The ladies relief corp, in Ypsilanti, have installed the following officers: President, Mrs. Cornelia Sevey; Senior-vice, Mrs. Eveline Pattee; Junior-Vice, Mrs. Elvira Clough ; Secretary, Mrs. Nellie L. Bowen ; Treasurer, Mrs. Nannie Forsyth; Chaplain, Mrs. Melvina Coquillard; Conductor, Mrs. Mary U. Russell: Asst. Conductor, Mrs Ruth B. Edson; Guard, Mrs. lda Graves; Asst. Guard, Mrs. Nancy Carpenter.

The Michigan Farmer of this week says: "However much depression may exist in fine wool sheep there is one part of the state where the breeders of Merinos never neglect their flocks. We refer to the section around Saline, Washtenaw Co., one of the early homes of the Merinos in Michigan, and there they still reign supreme. But the farmers in that neighborhood are also paying a good deal of attention to thoroughbred cattle, and quite a number of them are investing in Shorthorns."

We have often wondered why some dogs cry or howl when they hear a bell ring, a horn blowing, etc. Nate Schmid's dog will cry when he hears the German Lutheran church bells, Mike Brenner's dog will cry when he hears the hotel bell and other dogs will take on fearfully when they hear the band play or a horn blown. Some people explain that the sound affects the nerves and gives the dog pain, but we can scarcely believe it, as we have known a dog to run out upon the hotel steps and begin to bark as soon as he saw the landlord take the bell in hand. J.H. Kingsley's valuable hunter seems so fond of music that he visits Haeussler's drug store two or three times a week to hear Fred Martty play upon the mouth organ, and he will wag his tail and frisk about in great glee as soon as he sees Martty take up the instrument, and when he begins playing, the dog will elevate his nose and begin that peculiar and sometimes not unpleasant crying noise as long as the music continues.

Chelsea

J.N. Howland, of Ypsilanti, bought pelts and hides here Wednesday.

Greenbaum, the tailor, has moved into the Staffan building next to the hotel.

Hicks and Sawyer's colored minstrels performed at the town hall, Thursday night.

Andrew Wagner, of Deerborn, was here Tuesday and Wednesday looking after the brick trade.

The ninth annual masquerade ball of the Chelsea Cornet Band will be given at the town hall on February 10th.

Jo. Ruche has moved her dressmaking business into the upper rooms of the Wilkinson store, on East Middle street.

There has not been a time for twenty years when there was so little wheat moving here at this season with good sleighing.

The Rev. Mr. Walker, of Ann Arbor, talked on temperance, to a Union meeting, last Sunday night, at the Congregational church.

Lumber is being got out and stone hauled and other preparations made for an unusual amount of building and repairing in and about Chelsea next summer.

A large number of farmers and gardeners about here have sent their names to Congressman Allen for a supply of seeds from Uncle Sam's seed dispensary.

Prof. Berk lectured at the Congregational church, Tuesday evening to a small audience on the beauties of Hawaii. He gives another lecture Friday night.

A party of relatives and friend went from here Monday night [to] give a surprise to Tim Drislane and wite, who recently moved to Lodi. It was the anniversary of their tin wedding. A good time was had and many presents left.

The Herald published an account of a self styled "High tea party" in this village last week. Mrs. Grundy was very much perplexed to know wherein that party was any higher than any other party until she finally discovered, after due inquiry, that its unusual height only consisted in having high chairs to sit in and a desert of codfish with the tea, whereupon the old lady settled down with a great composure, satisfied that ye editor had not done violence to the well known reputation of the press for never publishing anything but what is literally true.

[From another Correspondent.]
Miss Alice Mills spent part of last week in Ann Arbor.

Everybody has filled their ice houses, but still there is ice left and likely to be.

The annual masquerade given by ihe, Chelsea cornet band will be held in the town hall February 10th.

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