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Whitmore Lake is crowded with pleasure seekers.

The hay crop in Northfield is better than was at first expected.

The wheat crop in Bridgewater averages better than expected.

The receipts of the Saline fourth of July celebration amounted to $750.

A. H. Perry will erect the iron bridge in East Manchester for $600.

A five and a half pound eel has been taken out of the river at Dexter.

Andrew Craig died in Saline on Tuesday of last week, aged sixty-five years.

John F. Spaford, of Manchester, rejoices over a little girl at his house.

Andrew Miller has sold his stallion, Torn Palmer, to Homer Moore for $500.

Philip Fohey's barn in Northfield, which burned recently, was insured for $800.

Fred Schill, of Saline, had a horse choked to death by its halter the other day.

Simon Winslow, of Lima, recently had his arm broken by being kicked by a horse.

Rev. James Butler has resigned the pastorate of the Webster congregational church.

The engine in the Ypsilanti electric light works has a fly wheel fourteen feet in diameter.

Rumor has it that a steamboat is among the possibilities of the near future for Pleasant Lake.

Ypsilanti had its second circus this year, Wednesday, it takes Barnum's circus to draw a crowd.

Congressman Allen delivers the oration before the Grass Lake farmers club at their picnic this year.

The new first ward school building in Ypsilanti is 34 x 60 feet with 14 foot ceilings. It is rapidly going up.

The South Lyon school cost $2,259.34 last year. Of this amount $626.75 was borrowed money and, interest.

Adam Schlahc and Miss Eva Bachinski were married in Ypsilanti Sunday before last by Rev. Martin Kionka.

South Lyon will vote July 30 upon bonding itself for $2,000 to build an engine house. She wants to avoid destructive fires in the future.

The Stockbridge Sun is republican inclined with slight prohibition leanings. There doesn't seem to be anything democratic about it.

Mrs. E. Ogden, of Bridgewater, while picking cherries, the other day broke both wrists by falling from the ladder. She fell fourteen feet.

George H. Fisher and Miss Jennie Finnell were married in St. Patrick's church in Northfield by Rev. Jno. Wernitt on Tuesday of last week.

John Ellsworth, of Ypsilanti township, harbored a tramp the other night who relieved his hired man of $2.50 before lighting out for parts unknown.

Mrs Angeline Skinner, who died recently in Wichita, Kansas, at the advanced age of eighty-four, was one of the pioneers of this county. Her remains were brought to Ypsilanti for burial.

The members, of the Manchester base ball club were served with a warrant for stealing a dog, which had followed them home. The case didn't materialize, the complainant paying costs.

A sixteen month old baby of Bernhardt Kuhl, of Sharon ate some paris green, which had been put on potato plants the other day and it was only after a hard struggle that its life was saved.

New barns dot the landscape of the county this summer to an unusual extent, as witness those of Henry Brinkham, Salem; of Guss Neiss, Freedom; of A. Hitchcock, Sharon; E. E. Gorton, Ypsilanti; L. Warner, Superior. - Ypsilantian.

A correspondent from Willis has figured out the number of acres of crops 111 Morgan School District this year as corn 256, wheat 287, meadow 250, beans 62, potatoes 52, oats 126, buckwheat 15, peas 5 Hungarian 5, rye 2 1/2, melons 1, onions 4.

There is a T.J. Farrell in Manchester and also a T. J. Farrell in Virginia city, Montana. Both have livery stables. Both are interested in one way or another in hotels. Both are jolly men, and about the same age. And yet it is doubtful if the two Farrells know each other.

John W. Patchin Esq. was married to Miss Ruth Watkins in Manchester, where both the happy pair reside, July 6. They took a wedding trip to Chicago. Mr. Patchin is a rising member of the bar and Mrs. Patchin has just graduated from the Manchester high school.

Last Saturday morning, about three o'clock, some one, who wished to make greater speed than he was capable of, stole a horse from Deacon Gooding's barn, and rode it down east a few miles and left it in the road to die. It is supposed the horse was rode to death; it was covered with sweat when found. --Nora correspondence Observer.