Milan

Cold rains so far this week. Miss Onie Williams is quite ill this week. Mrs. C. Clark is off on a short visiting tour. Musicale at Mrs. Whitmarshs's. All are invited to attend. Mrs. Bennett is entertaining Mrs. L. Smith for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Sill visited Saline the first of the week. Mr. Curtis, of Milan, died Monday morning after a severe illness. Mr. C. Gump, of Ann Arbor spent Sunday with friends in Milan Mrs. Kedzie, of Canada, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Blinn, for a few days. Potatoes are very nice and quite plenty and quite cheap this fall at Milan. Mrs. Mason and Mrs. Pinkham are visiting friends in Dundee for a few days. Miss Lena Blinn is at home for a week's visit from the school of music at Adrián. Mrs. Blinn and Lenaand Mrs.Kedzie will visit Mrs. Case, of Waterloo Tuesday. Mr. C. M. F ulier, of Ann Arbor, visited friends in Milan Saturday and Sunday. Thurlow Blackmer, of Detroit, visited his parents and friends Sunday in Milan. Mrs. Dr. Mason, of Alma. is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Pinkham, for a few days. Miss Grace and Miss May McGregor visited Detroit Friday and Saturday of last week. Mr. David Hitchcock is buying in the wheat market and seems to be full of rush and enterprise. Miss Hattie Wollcott has returned from ifpsilanti and will visit her mother here tor a few days. Miss Julia King has returned from her sojourn in Saline and will attend school in Milan this winter. Mis. O. A. Kelly was called to Oak Harbor, Mich., Monday, to attend the funeral of her mother, Mrs. Zimmerman. Mrs. Will Huntington and children, of Jackson, are visiting herhusband's parents Rev. and Mrs. J. Hunting:on, this week. Rev. Jay Huntington, wife and daughter, returned from a several days sojourn at Ann Arbor, Monday, in attendance upon the Baptist convention. Last Wednesday Wm. Wha!ey & Co. took in over thirteen hundred sushels of apples. They are doing a fine business making apple buttér and apple jelly. The Milan school board have hired Miss Waite of East Milan to teach in the intermedíate department. So Mílan's school has five teachers and it keeps them all busy teaching "young idea how to shoot." Mr. Rease, a drayman of Milan, was badly hurt Friday by a locomotive running into the back of his Iray throwing drayman, horses and dray into the air. Mr. Rease is in a very critical condition, the horses ïurt some and the dray perfectly demolished. On Saturday evening Mr. T. Fitch, of California spoke for protection in Milan. He was a very pleasant speaker but either became muM'H 'T infentionHv misreoresemeu i..cis. i aiuvja iu suuii' :hat protection mercases the wa;es of labor while iti bis comparisons he stated that American labor received twice the wages of Enelisb labor and three times that of Gorman labor. He seems to forget that in Gennanv protciiion runs i'arnpant. He did not ill.mpt to show why labor received butur pay in fiee trade England than iii pfotccted (ïcrmany. When he noticel ihe bad point which he liinl m ule he sucMenly referred '.o his notes and took another tact. Sorrie committeè has made a great mistnke ín importing repuhlican speakers tbr this place.