Dixboro

First showers of the season April 5th. The maple sugar social at M. F. Galpins on Friday eyening, April 6th, was well attended. Miss Lizzie Farrll, of Ida, Monroe county, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. M. Norton, of Dixboro. We were very happy to hear that C. F. Stablcr was elected . town treasurer, of Ann Arbor town. Shake Fred. Ira Crippcn, Jr., and bride ,who were recently married at Howell are yisiting his parents. Ira says he is going to follow farming for a living. John Shankland bought a handsome yearling half blood Clydesdale colt at Fred Burch's sale, April 5th for $80.00. John has made a good bargain. The Eisele marble and granite works are putting in wrae nice work in the cemetery at Dixboro. All those in want of such work will do well to cali on John Baumgardner, manager, Ann Arbor. The monument of Samuel Molholland is a sample of their rrork. Mri. Shank, wife of Rev. John Shank, died at Plymouth on the th nst., of consumption. Mr. and Mrs. Shank were youngpeople and highly esteemed wherever they went. He was pastor here four years ago and we all sympatize with him in his sad Dereavement.