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May Wescott is no better.

Frank Cooper has a very sick horse.

The snow is gone and so has Christmas.

F. A. Barnard and wife, of St. Paul, Minn, is visiting at H.G. Hinkley's.

We learn that there is one case of diphtheria left at Charles Barker's yet.

Will Eaton is home from Troy, Oakland Co., where he has been working the past season.

Charles Montle kinned fifteen partradges on Christman, with a muzzel loader and no dogs.

Married on the 25th of Dec. by Rev. E. M. Butler, Wm. H. Links and Jennie Walder, both of Reese.

Fred Eaton who is still in Point Reyes, Cal., writes that he has forgotten how snow looks, and that it is warm and pleasant there now.

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Miss Mary Wescott is quite sick.

A.C. Cooper is drawing a cab in East Saginaw.

W. E. Hosmer and wife returned to Holly Saturday night.

Old Santa Clause will have to use his buggy this time, or take it a foot.

Sampson Murphy is doing his level best to enclose his new barn. He needs it bad.

Uncle Silas Nelson's brother and nephew, of New York state, are at his place on a visit.

They are to have a christman tree at the Grove school house, under the auspicies of the Advents here.

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Winnie Jarvis is very sick.

We learn that Mary Prescott is a little better.

Some farmers are plowing where it is dry enough.

Myron C. Furgison starts back to his school in Wisner next Friday.

Jennie Baldwin, who has been sick with inflamation of the lungs is better.

Peter E. Alger, of Tawas City, is visiting relatives here. He intends to move back again.

Our open winter seems to be the cause of much sickness, and the physicans are passing daily.

The late heavy rains have broken up the roads and the going is very bad except on the sand ridges.

Old Mrs. Lovett is very low, and no hopes of her recovery. She is at her son-in-law's, A. Currier, Mrs. Hett Reid is at her sister's yet, in Battle Creek. Her sister is very low, and no hopes of her recovery.

Madison Murphy had his log house raising last Saturday, on his place. He had hands enough to raise to the required height.

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Plenty of snow with good sleighing.

Mary Wescott was taken to Clio to be treated by Dr. Gotchell.

Frank Cumming's three children are down with the chicken pox.

Rev. Mr. Mott preached at the Grove school house Sunday evening.

Wm. Sears has threshed his clover seed, and had eighty-one bushels.

The chicken-pox is quite prevalent in this vicinity, and a mild type, so far.

J.J. Powell has tone to Atlanta, to attend to his interests in his village lots there.

Rev. E. M. Butler has sold out, and will rent the Daniels house and lot, at the grove.

Alanson Currier lost his youngest child last week with diphtheria. The rest are out of danger.

Frank Gifford made us a call on his way to Tuscola, from the Flint deaf and dumb asylum, where he is employed.

Willie Hawes started for the lumber woods Monday, having received a bad hurt, and came home to recruit up his ankle.

Our interesting treasurer is making short calls at most every resident, taking up his collections. Horace makes a good one.

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Items of interest this week are as scarce as one dollar bills. Elder Shears, of Acron, made as(?) a call last week, while on his way to Flint.

Alanson Currier's children are all over with the diphtheria. We do not learn of any more in the township.

The township board met the 30th, and extended the time for the collection of taxes, in this township one month.

We are having splendid sleighing, with about eight inches of snow, and the order of the day seems to be hauling wood to Clio and Flint.

Wm. Sears, of this township, took a load of clover seed to teh Clio

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Our thaw was set back by a cold wave Monday.

Rev. F. M. Butler has moved into the Daniels house.

F.A. Barnard has gone west again, to attend to his business, as general manager of the Hartford Life Insurance Company.

John Zimmerman, while chopping, slipped and fell striking his side on a large knot, hurting himself severely for a while.

There was lively work changing chatties and real estate here last week. A.C. Cooper exchanging a house and lot at the Grove, for an interest in 40 acres in Birch Run, with G. W. Jones.

T.C. Curtis is hauling lumber and stone on his forty in Birch Run, where he intends building him a house in the spring.

Hiram Soper cut his foot severly while chopping, disabling him from work. His neighbors have clubbed together, and helped him to keep the wolf from the door.

Daniel Fuller's children have been quite sick. It was first thought to be the diptheria, but proved to be a cold, after having the chicken pock.

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Our township treasurer says he has the taxes about all collected.

Mrs. E.A. Barnard is visiting her sister, Mrs. H.A. Miller, at Vassar. Frank Hermann, who has been working the Schram farm, has taken a farm south of Grand Blanc.