Pittsfield

Mr. Henry and Miss Mary Pres ton have been absent on a visit to Chelsea. Mr. Brainard Dayer, will soon be on his way to Cincinnati, to work during the winter in a carriage facto ry. Mr. J. Araz, had the misfortune to lose one of his horses lately. It had a leg broken by a fall, rendering it necessary to kill the animal. The approach of Christmas is ehown to a certain extent by the aiovement of poultry toward the market. The treasurer of Pittsfield will be at the county treasurer's office, in the city of Ann Arbor, on December 2Oth, at Saline on the 27th, at Aldrich s store, for the convenience of such tax payers as may find it easier to meet him at the points above mentioned, than at the town house, where he can be found every Friday of the present month. Dullness will be the rule and not the exception in the township of Pittsfiel.l, before spring is with us once more. The present open winter weather will help farmers one way if it does injury them in other respects. It will save feed to a certain extent. Sheep and eattle of all kinds are out in the pasture yet picking up part of their living It is not a very brisk time for items at present, perhaps there will be an irnprovement in tliat respect before long, somebody may do something desperate in order to give the reporter an item. Mr. Fred Webb, of this vicinity, attends the Saline high school this winter as he has during the past three years.