County

Dundee has a young ls,dy barber. Turkey raíTling matches are popular in Lodi. L. C. Piílmer has removed from Dexter to Howell. There are 163 children in the Sputh Lyon schools. Front fences are being removed n Saline - a vast improvement. John Roberts is building a r.evv house north of Salem station. Three cases of scarlet lever wcre reported in Sharon last week. There were 323 pupils enrolled in the Chelsea school last month. There are thirty-two non-resident pupils attending the Saline schoolsThere were 242 pupils enrolled in the Saline schools dunng November. Ihomas Birkett has moved his office oe. wheels from Dover to Dexter. Dr. John Gauntlett, formerlv of York, has opened an office in lílissfield. E. Westfall, ot Augusta, has 4,200 pounds of honey on hand this year. George Paxon, of Dundee had 3,300 bushels of corn on thirty five acres. The new Baptist church at Stockbride, will be dedicated, December 2O. Ihereare twenty-seven resident pupils in the Dexter high school. The Michigan beekeepers' associaion meets in Jackson, December 12 and 13. There are 293 students attending the Manchester school, oi whom 153 are boys. Congressman Allen has moved his !aw office into the new bank block ín Ypsilanti. The Chelsea savings bank has placed another large fire proof saté in its office. A new set of school books have been adopted in the Saley district in Manchester. The Pincknfy Dispatch has been greatiy improved lately by its editor, A. D. Bennett. One grocer in Salne, has laid in a stock of hickory nuts - a hundred bushels in tact. Rev. Lede re r, the Saline Germán pastor, has a Germán school with 60 pupils in Saline. Charles Hartsuff, of Unidalla, lost the end of a finger while playing ball recently. It cost Manchester two cents a banel to fill one of its ïesevoirs with water recently. Burglars secured about forty dollars at Garrett Cross's residence in Ypsilanti last week. The Saline Observer has been greatiy improved locally by its new editor, George J. Nissly. Governor Luce recently visited the itate normal school and [made an address to the students. Nissly, the Saline poultry fancier and editor, had 15000 pounds ot turkey plucked for Thanksgiving. F. E. Ortenberger, of Bridgewater station, has purchased 200 bushels of hickory nuts this fall. Five hundred and thirty seven turkeys were picked by one house in Manchester for Thanksgiving. Ed. Schneider, of Bridgewater, bfoke an arm recently by falüng from a tree, while hunting coons. Mrs. O. H. Newell, of Ypsilanii, died Thursday, November 22, ot peritonites, aged fortysix years. Roscoe C. Begole, of Pittsfield, was married to Miss June Smith, ot Bellville, in that village, Nov. 27. L. D. Watkins, ot Manchester, has added the 104 acres ot the John Braun farm to his landed possessions. Charles Lavey, son of AKred Lavey, of Dexter township, died November 25, aged twenty years. A. Brooks, ot Sharon, had some money taken from one of his overcoat pockets while in Manchester last week. Geo. VV. Barton died in Unidila after a long ilmess, November 20. He was born in Lymlon forty-seven years ago. One hundrefl and ninety-three of the pupils oí the Manchester school were neither absent nor tardy duiing November. F red VV. Cooper, of Chelsea, vas tnarried to Miss Linda Bloomer, ol Point Edward, Ontario, at the home of the bride, November 21. Charles Jackson, aformer resident of York toyvnship, has been èlecteil treasurer of the republican county ol Crawford on the democratie ticket. John W. Da neer, of Lima, and Miss Lizzie HaiIen, of Webster, were married in Üexter, November 27 by Kev. Fr. P. Loghoan. The Southern Washtenaw farmers' club meet at J. R. Holmes' in Manchester town to-day to discuss Woman's Work and VVoman's W ages. 1 he treasurer, of Ypsilanti town, will receive laxes cery Friday and Saturday during this month at the grocery of A. H. Smith in Ypsilahti city. Miss Nellie Welch, of Northfield, was married to Charles Ryan, of Hamburg, at St Patrick's church in Northfield, November 28, by Rev. P. Wernert. John Brokaw unJ Miss J. Muson, both of NorthfieUl, were mar ried by Rev. P. Wernert at St Patrick's church in Nurthfield, on Thursday of last week. Jabe Pierce and Miss Amelia Stret'tcr, both of" Ypsilanti, were oined in matrimony November z8, by Rev. H. Miller, pastor of the Ypsilanti A. M. E. church. The Gr.iss Lake News has been doing so well, tiiat 't will enJarge next week to the size of the Argus and fixes its price at $1.50, a sum which it will well be worlh. Miss Marv A. Klager, daughter of M. Klager, of Saline township, was married to Rev. Frederick Miller, of Beaver, Mich., at the Bridgevvater Lutheran church, November 21. At the residence of the oride's mother in Augusta, Willimn Ransmore and Miss Vina Townstiid, both of Augusta, were married by Rev. J. Carter 011 Wednesday, Nov. 2S. Slade Lazell, of Bridgewater, is visiting in Kelloggsville, N. Y., an! writes from there tliat the hills are covered withsnow, and ihatit rained there svery day in October, ex'ceptng two. The Adrián Press speaks of the removal of O. E. Hawkins from Saline as being caused by the number of widows in Saline, as chronicled by the Observer two weeks ago. Let us whisper somt-thing to you, dear Adrián Press E. is no longer unmarried. "Philander Prkins" viited Clinton recently and Clinton still survives. Outside the newspaper world, Philander is known as ex-state oil inspector, E. J. Smith, now of the Adrián Press, and he is one of the best newspaper mui in the state. He batidles a decidedly humorous quill. The Grass Lake News affirms that "it never hinted that the pedal extremities of the Ann Arbor Argus philosopher contains digestive or gans" and denounces any viliain who said it as "a prebald and brindle backed microbe." Perhaps so, but he did teil about some enormou-i stockings for sale at a Grass Lake dry goods store, wh ch would have made a Chicago girl blush from envy. E. A. Nordinan tells how the Dexter postmaster was selected in 1861, when H. B. Muscott and Fred Carlisle were rival candidatesto succeed Dr. Jeffries. It wasfinally decided to hold an elec.tion for postmaster and this was accordinglv done, a regular poll being opened, the names of voters recorded and a return of the election made to Hon. Bradley F. Granger, then congressman. The result showing that Muscott had received a majority of the votes, he was accordinglv appointed.