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Dixboro

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
April
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Wm. Rice is very low with lung disease. Maple sugar social at M. F. Galpins, Friday, April 6th. Willie Shuait has gone to Detroit to work for his uncle, Wm. Ruthruff this summer. There was not much of a turn out at the church social held at Mr. R. Townsend's last Friday on account of the bad roads. George Crippen, town of Superior's, new supervisor is a young man of sirling qualities, and worthy of the office in every respect. Town meeting passed off very quietly with about two-thirds of the voters out. The democrats elected their ticket with the exception of supervisor. s Cali on a man of business, in the hours of business, transact your business, then go about your business, in order to give him time to attend to his business, that's business. So says some ot our knowing ones. We were sorry to here that Louie Myers, who has been running a farm near us the past year for the Gates Brothers, of Ann Arbor, is going away. Louie was a good neighbor and a stirring fellow. Ground was broke for the foundation of the new school house Tuesday, April 3d. The building will be let by the job above the foundation. The specifications and plans can be seen at M. F. Galpins, Dixboro. Mr. Alaxander Campbell and wiie the jovial oíd gent and lady who have been stopping the past winter with their nephew, G. A. Campbell, have returned home to Jackson. Uncle Alack we shall miss thee. William Goetz, of the firra of Goetz & Son, of Ann Arbor, seems to take solid comfort riding in one of the celebrated Ferguson road carts bought recently through M F. Clements, agent. Will and John Goetz own a splendid farm near Dixboro. William Eldert, the popular M. C. R. R. policeman at Ann Arbor, is ïaving some repairs done on his iouse in this village. George Ruth■uff, of Ann Arbor, late of Dixnoro, is doing the work. George las quite a good deal of carpenter work in the country. We've been thinking of late, we've been thinking that as soon as the weather will permit we will take a trip to one of the many lakes in our vicinity, to spentl a few days with the funny tribe. Hope we will have better luck than we had the last time ye editor and ye correspondent were out together. A school girls composition onDixboro-Dixboro is a little village ot ioo inhabitants, it has 3 streets, Main st, Back st. and Mili st., 1 store, 2 blacksmith shops, 1 carpenter shop, 1 saw mil!, l church and an old school house, but we ore going to have a new one this summer.Won't us girls be glad. Dixboro used to be bigger than it is novv but that was before I can remember. Oh I forgot to teil, that there is 1 doctor 1 pceacher 3 or 4 carpeters a painfer and I don't know what else that is all I can think of this time.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News