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17
Month
February
Year
1888
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The measles are prevalent at Azalia. Chelsea awaits a building boom. Is it coming this spring? The senior class in the Saline high school has seven members. The Milan Leader wants a fair associftion organized in that village. One house in Whittaker contains six families, seventeen persons in all. Joseph Weis died in Freedom, February 6, aged seventy-four years. School in the Iron Creek district, in Manchester township, has been closed. Hauser & Co., the Saline lire stock men have 900 sheep ready for shipment. The protracted meetings at Stony Creek closed for the season, week before last. There are thirty-six letters in the M'lan postoffice, whose owners are not to be found. Lowery Bros., of River Raisin, sold 6,000 pounds of pork to J. F. Spafford, last week. Benjamin Allen has traded land in Dexter township for the Monitor House in Pinckney. It vas a little Ypsilanti girl who inquired, "Ma, what makes the electric lights wink so." Mrs. Hattie C. Fuller, died at Willis, February 3rd of consumption, aged twenty-nine years. Over in Saline, the cornet band has to pay five dollars into the village treasury tbr a license. The stock for the new church seat factory in South Lyon had been nearly raised, at last accounts. Over five hundred fowls were exhibited at the poultry show in Ypsilanti and they were fine specimens. A social íor the benefit of the Webster M. E. church was held at Stearns Wheeler's last Tuesday evening. There have been 658 pupils registered in the Normal school this year. There are now about 550 in attendance. A base ball team for the coming season has been organized at South Lyon, S. J. Watts being elected manager. The sidetracks at Hamburg are often filled with cars now and there is need of greater sidetrack accommodations. The Ypsilanti Sentinel is sending out sample copies and those who receive them will find some spicily written articles. F. J. Salsbury, of Nora, cut a basswood tree recently which measured 86 feet from the ground to the lowest limbs. Several pickerel, weighing over fifteen pounds each, have been caught in the River Raisin mili pond this winter. The United Workmen of Manchester, held their firat meeting, in their newly decorated hall, since Tuesday evening. Mrs. Mary Cross, died in Ypsilanti February rd of consumption, leaving nine children. She was forty eight years of age. Mrs. Kunningundi Schade, widow of the late Leopold Schade, died in Ypsilanti February 4th, aged 69 years, of consumption. Work at the South Lyon gas well has ceased until the engine can ve repaired hut the consumption of mineral water still goes on. Walter Cook, vvho left Ypsilanti a few monthsago,died of consumption in Omaha, Nebraska, February 5th. His remanís were brought to Ypsilanti. Among the big turkeys at the Ypsilanti poultry exhibitidn was one belonging to Andrew McKinney, of York, which weighs forty-one pounds. M. G. Carlton, a Jackson journalist, has purchased the Grass Lake News of J. Stivers, changed the publication day to Saturday and will make a live local paper outofit. i. William D. Midgley, of Detroit, carne to Ypsilanti to get a bride and iound Miss Sarah E. Meanwell willing to change her name toMidgley. Her name was so changed, February 6. Two of the Ypsilanti pastors were ill Sunday before last and the following Tuesday night was made hideous by a crowd of brawlers. Was there any connection between the two facts? An unoccupied house, belonging to the Thomas Parker estáte in Sharon township, was burned last week. It was the work of an incendiary and two attempts to fire it had been made. It was unirured. An attempt wasmade to re-organiz the Saline tire company last week and only four men showed enough interest in it to turn out. After Saline has lost three or four of its best business blocks, the kre-organizafcion will be effected. P. H. Murray has been appointed Jostmaster at Salem in place of T. . Vaiietta, who resigned because he expected to remove to Gladstone, Mich., where he will start a clothing store. The change in postmasters takes place April ist. J. C. Rouse has purchased the fine 300-acre farm of John Koch, in Pittsfield township. Mr. Rouse has now nearly 1,000 acres in Pittsfield of as fine farming land as the sun shines upon and ought certainly to consider himself as well favored and content with the fruits of his labor. - Saline Observer. The following are the school directors in Manchester township: io. 3, James Wallace; No. 4, B. F. Matteson; No. 5, S L. Palmer; No. é, J. H. Nelson; No. 7, Martin McMahon; No. 8, V. B. Van Winkle; No. 9, Mathias Saley; No. 1, Fractional, F. H. Dorr; No. 3, Fractional, J. F. Spafard. Robert C. Lambie, of Superior, received a very severe injury Wee nesday, whüe engaged in sawin wood at the farm of F. H. Hiscock While in the act of shoving the saw he slipped, falling on the buzz-saw and cutting his hand severely. I will probably be several months be fore he can regain the use of hi hand. - Yosilanti Commercial. The Manchester millers signec the petition for election on Toca option and three of the Germán mer cnants refused to buy their flour on that account, but bought flour out o: town. The price of flour suddenl1 dropped to 45 cents per 25 pounc sack, at the mili and store where their flour was sold and one of the merchants who had out of town flour, dropped the price to 40 cents People began to stock up and the Sharon miller, who sells considerable flour in the village, seeing a chance for spéculation, bought up all the 40 cent flour, saying that he wouk rather buy than sell. - Clinton Local

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