County

Lima granger's picnic to-morrow. The Normal school has its Diamond. The Sharon milis are being repaired. It looks as if Clinton was to have only one saloon. The Ypsilanti Baptists held a strawberry festival Friday. Paint is improving the appearance of a number of Dexter houses. School has closed in the Tuttle districts in Ypsilanti township. A social hop occurs at the Clifton house at Whitmore lake, to-morrow night. B. F. Wade has been tendered and declined the marshalship of Manchester. The Ypsilantian calis the rains of last week glorious, tremendous and copious. The Superior grange cornet band give an entertainment at the hall this evening. The Grass Lake News says that "Manchester is one of Michigan's prettiest villages." Milán has defeated the Pearls, of Detroit, and the Milan base ball players feel happy. John VanCleve has been elected secretary of the peninsula paper mill company in Ypsilanti. J. H. Wickmore, founder of the Dexter Leader, has just received a pension with $1,000 back pay. Many residents of the southwestern part of the county have been enjoying fishing excursions to Wampler's lake. Mrs. Lyman Davenport is building a new house on her farm near Saline, to replace the one recently burned. Delmer Brooks, a Michigan Central freight conductor, who hved in Ypsilanti, died at his home on Thursday of last week. A blue racer snake was caught near the Congress street bridge in Ypsilanti recently, which was six feet four inches in length. Anti-masonic conventions are not near as numerous as they once were, but there was one held at Salem station, week before last. It has come to the point when every stranger who arrivés in Manchester is pointed at as an applicant for superintendent of the schools. Charles Jarvis is erecting a circular house on North Huron street in Ypsilanti. He will have a brook running through his yard and will possess a unique home. Scott Colby, of Dentón, has a hen which recently laid an egg seven and three quarters inches in circumference,. which weighed three and thiiteen sixteenth ounces. Next. Louis Hindelang and Miss Nora Dailey, both of Chelsea, were married in St. Mary'schurch May 2o,th, by Rev. W. P. Gonsidine. The happy couple have the best wishes of the Argus. The young woman's christian association have elected the following officers in Ypsilanti : Miss Maggie Adair, president; Miss Allie J. Densmore, vice-president; Miss NelHe Bales, recording secretary; Miss Hattie Hopkins, corresponding secretary; and MissKittie B. Dennis, treasurer. Township clerk, J. M. Clark, of York, received for record as' an estray last Thursday one light cream colored female pony, with black mane and tail, has B. C. branded on left shoulder, and a small scar on right shoulder, about four years old, weighs about five hundred pounds. The pony was taken up by Charles Hettler. Mrs. George McKim, who died in Superior recently, was born in Vermont in 1797, coming to Michigan with her first husband in 1826 and settled in Superior. Two years later, E. Stacy, her first husband, having died, she married John Bramble, who died a year and a half after their marriage. She married her third husband, George McKim in 183 1 and survived him twenty-seven years. Mrs. Mosette, aged 90 years, passed through town last Saturday en foot en route for Leoni. She had been visiting friends in this locality, and her erect figure, bright eye and sprightly manner made her appear much younger than a person just entering on the home stretch of a ful! blown century. Mrs. M. never took snuff, smoked a pipe, or took opium. She expected to reach Leoni without undergoing much fatigue. - Grass Lake News. Norman Dwight, of Scio township, died Monday noon on his farm which has been his home continuously for fifty years. His death was caused from dropsy. He was buried from the Webster Congregationai church, of which he has been an active member for over half a century Mr. Dwight was born in Massachusetts in 1815. When twenty-three years ot age he carne to Washtenaw county. He was a school directoi in the township for over ten years, a deacon in the Webster Congregational church and had been superintendent ot their Sunday school. Jonathan Holmes, of Manchester ownship, and his son Sam, went ishing in a little lake near his farm he other day and the former came retty near rurnishing food for the ish. It seems that he is subject to udden attacks ot faintness, and while ie and his son were sitting quietly in he boat, one of these attacks came upon him. Without any warning VIr. Holmes, senior, dove headlong over the side of the boat. The son aw the movement jus't in time to ump to his rescue and grabed him by he foot. By dint of hard work Sam mlled his father into the boat and aved him from drowning. It was