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Day
4
Month
May
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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Marshal H. M. Dexter, of Milan, has been re-elected. Marshal Besimer, of Manchester, has resigned his ofrice. Roy Darwin, of this city, is the ngw operator at Urania. A. Ri Dexter, of Milan, is building a new farm residence. Charles E. Samson is building a new residence in Ypsilanti. Some improvements in the Dexte freight house are promised. Milo Curtís, of Augusta, has re moved to Muskegon county. A. D. English, of Mancheste town, sowed oats April I2th. The Washtenaw Baptist association met in Dexter this week. G. VV. Havens, Ypsilanti's gunsmith removes to Cheboygan. bixteen citizens, or JManchesttr were naturalized week before last. Sixty-two new members have been added to the Ypsilanti grange The M. E. congregation in Milan have decided (.o build a church al once. Mrs. Jacob Swectzer died in Ypsilanti April 24, aged seventy-six years. Revival meetings are being held at the North Methodist church in Salem. The sidewalks of Manchester are undergoing inspection with a view of repairs. River Raisin gets a new smitn in Mr. JMahole, who removes there from Clinton. The Dexter senior high school students wear motarboards - a la the University students. Quarterly meeting was held at the Lapham church in Salem last Sunday and Monday. Quarterly meeting was held at the Mooreville M. E. church last Saturday and Sunday. The Grass Lake News has improved wonderfully under the management of its new editor. Miss Huldah Smalley, of Manchester township, the daughter of John Smalley died recently. Mrs. Moehn, of Sharon, had one of her feet amputated last week foi necrosis or decay of the bone. J. D. O'Bnen is building a new residence on his forty acre faivn, a quarter of a mile from Whittaker. Will Ahrens, of Sharon, has a record this year of plowing thirty acres in eight and three quarte days. Robert C. Hawley, of Chelsea and Ali-,s Clara Burkhart, of Lyndon were married by Rev. H. Marshall April 26. Manchester's ball grounds are in good condition and Manchester' ball club are getting into the same condition. The pulpit and the seats in the Lapham church in Salem will be changed around and the church reshingled. Allen Dillingham, of Bridgewater, has three ewes which bropped ten lambs this spring. Who will beat the record. Mis. L. H. Kuhl, of Manchester, has sued C. Naumann and his bondsmen tor $5,000 for selling liquor to her husband. Mrs. Cynthia Larzelere, of Clinton, died April 22nd of oíd age, having reacVied the advanced age of eighty-eight. The Milan Presbyterian church is being repainted and recarpeted. The Milan Baptist church is also being recarpeted. Prohibition in Adrain works so effectively that the Manchester brewery has shipped large quantities of beer there. 1 John Roller and Miss Rosa Schaible, of Manchester, were married by Rev. Geo. Schoettle on Thursday of last week. Augusta now has four road machines, so that one may be kept in each quarter of the town. They want good roads out that way. E. H. Davis, of Milan, will raise Dakota potatoes this year. The four sent him for seed potatoes weigh five and threc quarter pounds. The measles still linger around Nora, Ypsilanti, and Whittaker. They even made so bold as to attack Postmaster Hammond, of Whittaker. The Whittaker depot burned early Sunday morning, April 21. Nothing was saved from the building as the fire had gained too much headwav when discovered. Reuben Buerle, son of William Buerle, a Freedom farmer, has been greatly troubled with the bone of his right foot decaying. The diseased bone has been removed. The ice house of Jacob Grob in Ypsilanti was burned last Friday afternoon. Loss $1,000 with no insurance. The hot fire did not melt the ice, the greater part of which was saved. A. Marx had a leg fractured by a land roller running over it. The accident occurred on Ann Arbor street in Manchester, the team drawing the roller becotning frightened and throwing Mr. Marx from his seat. There are a great variety of tramps, some silent, some talkative. One of the latter kind struck Stony Creek the other day. He was an orator, a preacher and a lawyer. He was the author of the constitution of the United States and its greatest exponent. His eloquence, however, produced little effect in Stony Creek. The receipts of the Manchester school exhibition were $40. The participante were Jay Fox, Erama Clark, Claude Bowe'n, Fred Haag Eugene Hill, Fred Burtless, Ida Silkworth, Anson Besimer, Belle Hardy, Willie Naumann, Miss Ruth Walkins, Clifford Case, Hugo Kirchofer, Artie Jacquemain Bertha Lehn, Maggie Blosser, Frec Hall, Chas. Vanvalkenburg, Misses Gillett and Case and others. Each and all acquitted themselves in a very creditable manner.