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Chicken pox is prevalent in Stockbridge.

H. Sadler, of Lyndon, has received $500 back pension.

The Manchester cornet band give a masquerade this evening.

It has been suggested that Saline can give employment to a baker.

A union song service was held at the Salem church last Saturday.

Charles Rheinhart, of Ypsilanti, is going into the stock raising business.

There are twenty-five pupils in school district number seven of Freedom.

Stony Creekites enjoyed a pleasant social at Mrs.Ives last Friday evening.

A singing school at Whittaker furnishes entertainment for one night in a week.

Mrs. L.C. Bailey died in Manchester of heart disease, January 30th aged 51 years.

Stockbridge crieth aloud for sidewalks and the Stockbridge Sun voices the cry.

A brilliant party was given by the Ypsilanti polo club at the Follett house last week.

Ypsilanti has a new attorney in F.C. Moriarty, of Hudson, a graduate of the law school.

Miss Nora Slatterly, of Ypsilanti, died of pneumonia January 28th, aged twenty years.

The head quarters of the new postoffice inspector, F.P. Bogardus, will be in Chicago.

L.C. Hammond sold 108 sheep in South Lyon last week which averaged 118 pounds in weight.

Josiah Sloat, of Sharon, has sold two, two year old steers to J.F. Spafard which weighed 3,350 lbs.

Six saw-mills will ship lumber from the Stockbridge depot and now they are talking of a charcoal kiln.

M. Mitchell, of Bridgewater, was quite severely injured recently by a straw stack tipping over upon him.

Miss Stewart, the retiring Ypsilanti postmistress will remain as assistant postmistress in the Ypsilanti office.

At least three new boys in Milan. The fathers of the future voters are Richard Stever, Charles? and Bert Stuart.

The Cornwell fire company, of Ypsilanti, give a masquerade hall in the Light Guard hall next Tuesday evening.

Manchester voters, who are not yet registered, can do so Saturday, February 25th., in time to vote on prohibition.

Dr. Pinkham, of Milan, has had to pay for repairing a cutter. It was his own and the damage was caused by his horse running away.

The students in the intermediate room of the Manchester schools will begin the study of the effects of alcoholic liquors next term.

A tramp entered A.J. Smith's house near Stockbridge last week greatly frightening Mrs. Smith and making off with five dollars.

Rev. J.L. Cheney, pastor of the Ypsilanti Baptist church, was married on Thursday last to Miss Minnie K. Rees, of Hebron, Ohio.

Mrs. Burrell, one of the old residents of the state, who resided a mile and a half east of Ypsilanti, died January 29th, aged 83 years.

Myron H. Stanley, a former Ypsilantian finds that he is obliged to wear snow shoes to reach the school house in Manistique where he is training youthful minds.

J.F. Spafard has been buying some fat cattle. Among them was a two-year-old steer from Wilbur Short, of Bridgewater, which weighed over 1560 pounds.

Miss Kate Jackson is president of the newly organized Stony Creek Literary club. Miss Cora Welch is vice-president; Bert Jackson, secretary and Aaron Fullerton, treasurer.

The Baptist church in Salem was dedicated on Wednesday of this week. Rev. Dr. Grenell, of Detroit, preached the dedicating sermon. The new church cost $8,000 and is a fine building.

A new feed mill is being put up at the Milan depot by V.H. Warner. The Milan Leader does not herald this as the beginning of a boom a la South Lyon. Perhaps it was an oversight.

The Ypsilantian calls attention to the fact that Bradley's pop is being boycotted in that place because Mr. Bradley signed the local option petition. Possibly he thought prohibition might increase the demand for pop.

We learn that there is a well on Melwin Case's farm, west of town, which, in time of a freshet gets shorts of water and when the weather is dry there is plenty of water in it. Who can explain the cause?--Manchester Enterprise.

Dwight Kies, of Clinton, was found dead in his room in the Hibbard House in Jackson on Thursday of last week. The gas had escaped from a leaky pipe, asphyxiating him. He was a well known fruit grower and was sixty-two years of age.

There are twenty-nine non-resident pupils in the Chelsea High School out of 318 pupils. The average attendance during January was 304. There were three instances of corporeal punishment during the month, all in the second intermediate department.

A Clinton teacher recently pulled one of her pupil's ears so that the skin back of the ear was torn, bleeding profusely. Another teacher, it will be remembered, resigned a short time ago because he was charged with hugging one of the big girls.

There has been considerable mortality among the horses of Sharon recently. A straw stack tipped over in such a way as to kill a horse belonging to George Haselschwardt, and greatly injured another. A horse of Charles BUllard's was cast in his manger and one belonging to O.A. High broke its leg.

In sending items for the ARGUS, correspondents should pay special attention to writing the names of persons mentioned very plainly. There is no way to aid a compositor to decipher names except to write them plainly. The sense of the sentence assists in reading other words but does not avail in reading names.

The story of how Prof. Travis, of Clinton, came to resign the principalship of the Clinton schools, as told in the Adrian Times, is that he asked a pretty sixteen year olf pupil to remain after school and deliver a recitation she was preparing for a public entertainment. She asked her girl friends to stay with her on the ground that on previous occasions, he had kissed her. Some of the girls related similar experiences and the school board met to investigate, when Travis resigned and was given a certificate of good character.

Milan has some queer men and other natural objects, and yet they cannot properly be classed as eccentric characters, or physically deformed beings. One man is Alchin, although to a casual observer he has no more chin than any other man you meet with every day; there are Brooks that a Fisher might fish in from Early morn till shades of Knight and not get a bite; a Bell that does not ring; a Ball that is not round; in fact, a man might start out in an Easterly direction on a Dunning expedition, run across a Friend, skip up a Hill, take a ride in a Hack, Hunt all through Barnes and the Lane for Knaggs, take a run across the Ridge, bump his Head against a Sill, look Green, and never see a Jewell or a Redman, or even a Rose; in this Chase he might become quite a Hunter; although he might have to run the Guantlett, which he would Haight to do, he will meet a Royal reward, for he will see men Gay, whole Pepper, and a man who has a Pyle of patience and never swears. If his Case is not Brown by this time, and he has not made a Guy of himself, he might be considered quite a Thrasher and reasonably Young, but if he Shutes a Gardner and eats Rice he can Bray all the rest of his life and his only reward will be a Whithead full of Wisdom. We never Hearn tell of such things before. --Milan Leader.

Pittsfield.

Many farmers have been engaged lately in filling their ice houses. Some ice is left yet.

Tile has been drawn to quite an extent from near Milan by several farmers of this vicinity.

Quite a number of social gatherings have made things lively in this neighborhood, for a couple of weeks past.

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Arl. D. Guerin shot a very fine fox last Tuesday.

Jerome Parker has been on the sick list but is now feeling better.

Rev. Horace Palmer is holding a series of revival meetings in Sylvan.

E.A. Dancer and wife have been visiting Mrs. Dancer's relatives at Stockbridge.

Mrs. Frank Fisk and daughter were visiting at C.A. Guerin's, Chelsea, last week.

Miss Gertrude Pyle, of Wilmington, Del., is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Frank McMillen.

The Limaites seem to have a mania for dancing. From three to four dances here every week.

Henry Steinbach is preparing to move to Chelsea. He was rented his farm to Joseph Meyer of Freedom.

Artie B. Mitchell is going to Lansing the 18th to commence the spring term at the Michigan Agricultural College.

G.T. English is soon going to move to Coldwater and take possession of his new farm. He has a sale next Wednesday.

Charles L. Hawley has returned from the north. He tells a woeful tale of snow three feet deep and the mercury 30 degrees below.

Have you ever tried Connelville Crushed Coke? If not, order some of M. Staebler. It will burn in any stove or grate. It is cheaper and cleaner than coal. Try it.