County

Measles are reported at Mooreville. The Chelsea maishal gets a salary of $420 a year. The Dexter schools have 242 pnpils enrolled. Chelsea pays twenty-four cents a load for einders. The Baptist church in Milán has been recarpeted. Uriah Steffy is one of the new pensioners in Milan. Webster farmers have been buying corn from the west. Miss Case will teach in theMooreville school the spring term. Alonzo Conkright has moved trom Chelsea to South Lyon. H. L. Stoup & Co., is the name of a new grocery firm in Hudson. Malignant diphtheria has causee the closing of school at Cheiry Hill Miss Mabel Guiwits, of Clinton died last week at the age of 22 years. The expenses of the village of Chelsea for the past year have been $1,943.90. Ypsüanti has four agencies for bicycles. There ought to be plenty of wheels there. John Taylor has sold his home at Whitmore Lake to Mr. Holmes, of Scio for $1,100. William Wood is making improvements on his newly purchased homestead 111 Chelsea. William J. Canfield has been elected superintendent of the Pittsfield Union Sunday School. Two hogs belonging to Charles Alban, of Augusta, when marketed showed a net weight of 857 pounds. Joseph Hodgeman, a Pmckney, farmer, has a Durham calf which weighed 103 pounds when a day old. George W. Turnbull has been reelected village attorney of Chelsea. He gets $10 retainer and pay for actual work. The York literary society met at O. C. Goodings at Nora last Friday evening, Edwin Loveland is president of the society. The North Webster reading circle has thirty-one members now and is discussing just now the necessity for a thircl party. The latest in the line of church entertainments in Clinton was a bachelors' social, held at the Baptist church last Tuesday evening. The Ypsilanti rod and gun club have elected the following officers: J. H. Shephard, president; E. S. Dodge, vice-president; D. P. Schuier, Secretary. Gilbert Brown died in Pinckney March 22nd, aged 67 years. He had been a resident of Michigan for fifty years and a deacon in the Congregational church ior 26 years. Ira W. dippen, of Ypsilanti, was married March 2yth, to Miss Minnie J. Wilbur of Howell. On the same day William Scotney and MissMin111e Lambie, both of Ypsilanti, were married . Gov. Luce will attend a camp fire in South Lyon April iSth. The Governor's career as a soldier can be told in few words. He didn't go to the iront in 1S6I neither will he do so in iSSS. Mr. Hubbell Middlebrook died in Clinton, March 24th. He made the remarle that he was not leeling well and thought he would lie down when he suddenly fell dead. He was y 2 years of age, a veteran ofthe Jate war and a Michigan pioneer. Seventy-five thousand bushels of wheat ha vu been shipped from Stockbridge during the year, and an effort is being made to raise $2,000 as a bonus lor building a flouring mili in that village. A meeting was held lor that purpose last evening. The Germán Lutheran church, of Ypsilanti, will build a parsonage for the Rev. M. Kionka during the coming summer. Itwill cost $1,000. Chas. Reinhardt, L. S. Esslinger, George Richel, George Otto and L. C. Foerster constitute the building committee. The new editor of the Pinckney Dispatch, A. D. Bennet, was married on Thursday evening, March 22nd, to Aliss Julia L. Barnard, and on the following Saturday evening was nominated for tovvnship clerk on the republican ticket. Honors seem crovvding thick and fast upon him.