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Saline will raise $800 by tax this year.

Dexter has one saloon less than last year.

Gregory is to have a new tent of the Maccabees.

Nelson Tuttle, of Ypsilanti town, is barn building.

Dexter rejoices in a number of new hitching posts.

Maurice Hammond has enlarged his residence in Whittaker.

The Manchester high school alumni hold a reunion in June.

Joseph Dibald died in Sharon May 14, aged 21 years, of consumption.

L. Z. Foerster, of Ypsilanti, has bought a blacksmith shop in Bridgewater.

Mumps - the delightful mumps have attacked the children of Manchester.

Three additional reservoirs for fire protection are being built in Manchester.

The Lima town library is much improved by the new books just added to it.

Manchester will have the pleasure of witnessing a ball game on decoration day.

The Webster farmers club had an interesting meeting at John Pratt's, Saturday.

Mrs. J. M. Johnson, of Ypsilanti, died May 15 of consumption, aged thirty-seven years.

The Sunday school at the Bennett school house in Superior numbers over fifty members.

Some of the Manchester farmers have plowed up their wheat fields and planted buckwheat.

Our Manchester readers may keep their eyes open for a goodly batch of Manchester news next week.

Horatio Burch, Fred Steinkohl and John Wisner are the newly elected trustees, of Manchester.

The young people of the Methodist church in Ypsilanti held their annual festival Tuesday evening.

Comstock Post G. A. R., of Manchester, will have appropriate decoration day services this year.

Hattie E. Gilbert died May 13, in Ypsilanti, aged twenty-one years. She was the daughter of John Gilbert.

The Social Club, of Manchester township, had an exceedingly pleasant meeting at Mrs. J. R. Holmes's yesterday afternoon.

James Hogan's family in Bridgewater, have had quite a seige of measles, six members of the family just recovering from it.

Dr. H. A. Caw, at one time a resident of Lima and Manchester died in Lapeer county, May 9th, of paralysis, aged 65 years.

Only one member attended the last meeting of the Manchester council. He was hardly numerous enough to constitute a quorum.

The Southern Washtenaw and the Norvell Farmers Clubs unite in a meeting held Thursday, June 7th at the residence of L. D. Watkins.

Supervisor Burch, of Manchester, estimates that Cleveland will have a majority of 175 in Manchester township this fall. He thinks he has been growing in popularity.

Manchester now has hopes of obtaining the new depot it so much needs. The railroad commissioner has seen the delapidated old depot and will recommend a new one.

The pastor of the Stony Creek church, Rev. Mr. McMahon, has just recovered from a seige of the measles, which has been epidemic throughout the county attacking old and young.

Mrs. Lucretia Kingsley died suddenly in Ypsilanti, May 11th. She had resided with her daughter Mrs. Alverson Drury for the past twenty-five years and was eighty-three years of age.

A burglar broke into Van de Murk's store and the Lake Shore depot in Clinton, but secured no booty commensurate with the risk he ran. Burglars rarely secure big hauls now-a-days.

Frank Ponek, an Ypsilanti opera house employee, was so excited by Shaun Rhue played in the opera house last week that he fell some twenty feet, breaking an arm and suffering other injuries.

Louis L. Burton, of Detroit, was married to Miss Frances H. Cheever, of Ypsilanti, May 15th, by the Rev. Wm. Galpin of this city. The bride was president of the Sappho club. The wedding was in St. Luke's church and was a very pretty one.

The street "water works" met with a sad mishap last Saturday, as it was crossing the stone walk in front of Deubel's mill. Either the team was too strong or the reach too weak, for the forward and rear wheels parted company and let the front end of the "horizontal standpipe" down upon the solid stone, bursting it open and flooding the street with water. In accordance with the eternal fitness of things, Saturday was unusually windy and the dust seemed to enjoy a glorious holiday. Ypsilantian.

C. R. Pattison, the former editor of the Ypsilanti Commercial, having returned from Florida, his interesting series of letters to the Commercial from that sunny land have ceased. His last letter describes the breaking away from the republican party of the colored men of the south, because they find that they are better treated by the democrat than by the disreputable white leaders of the republican party of the south. The Commercial’s series of letters from various parts of the country have become a taking feature of that journal.

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Dexter.

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Quite a party, of Dexterites spent Wednesday at Base Lake.

Mrs. Kate Smith, of Mason, has been visiting her mother Mrs. Murdock.

Miss Louise Taylor, of Ann Arbor, spent Sunday with some of her Dexter friends.

Mrs. G. S. Sill and daughter, Mrs. M W. Edgar, drove through to Detroit last Friday.

C. F. Crane, of Toledo, is home on a short visit to his parents, Hon A. D. Crane and wife.

Mrs. A. C. Nichols, of Ann Arbor, visited Miss Marian Phelps of this place, Saturday last.

Farmers in this section are too busy to come to town and our streets are quiet in consequence.

Mrs. Geo. H. Sleator, of Alpena, and her little ones are visiting her father, Mr. William Warner.

The new law by which the county gets one half the liquor tax, we fear will leave Dexter village a little short of funds.

A subscription paper is circulating for the purpose of getting the street sprinkler out again. There surely should be no difficulty in raising the required amount.

Fishing occupies a portion of the time of many of our Dexter young people and they seem to be fairly successful, judging from the number of "finnies" seen on our street.

S. A. Crane, who has just finished painting the Congregational church has gone to Detroit where he expects to improve the outward appearance of several houses by the use of his brush.

F. F. Taylor and family left Tuesday morning for their new home at East Tawas, where Mr. Taylor expects to engage in the dry goods business as a member of the firm of W. M. Locke & Co. Their manny Dexter friends wish them abundant success.

While there are poor fields of wheat to be found in Dexter township, there are also many fields where wheat promises to be a good crop. One Dexter farmer has 2,000 bushels of wheat in his bins, another has 1,000 and a third has not sold any wheat for several years, waiting for a rise in prices.

We understand some effort has been made to form a stock company for the purpose of putting rollers into the Dexter Mills. Why don't some live person push this matter and see if the thing can't be done? And why could not the old Peninsular Mills be remodeled into - say a paper mill? The water power is one of the best on the Huron River. Don't let Dexter get mouldy.

Our Soda fountains are running and C. S. Smith is preparing to open his ice cream parlors. Just get your cream the night before, Charlie, flavor properly, and leave it out of doors and we venture to say it will be ready for sale the next morning without any exertion on your part in the way of freezing it. However we hope for warmer weather soon and Smith can make as good cream as any one.

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Freedom.

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Miss Allie Guinan is on the sick list this week.

Mrs. Jacob Lutz returned home from Detroit last week.

Miss Rosa Fausal, of Manchester, spent Sunday with Mary Vogel.

School in district number 7 closes Saturday with rhetorical exercises.

The Methodists have been having quarterly meetings at the “Little Church.”

E. C. Warner has paid us a visit but we would all be pleased to see his smiling face again.

Chickenpox decimates the ranks of district number 9. Too bad, for the first month there wasn’t but one absent.

Mr. Freddie Johns, of Sherwood, Ohio, arrived here Saturday to attend the funeral of his uncle, Mr. Dresselhouse.

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