Local Brevities

J. M. Steel has been appointed post master of Scio. Two base ball teams have been or ganized among the members of th Light Infantry. Prof. Nathan Abbott was admitted a member of the Washtenaw county bar on Monday. A Saline farmer recently surprised nis neighbors by riding into town in a carriage drawn by a pair of oxen. The Lynch homestead on North street has been rented by Moses LaJoie who will take possession June lst. A large cedar pole, 160 feetin height will be erected on the Gott addition from which will float a streamer let tered "Maccabee Hill." The Ann Arbor Liglit Infantry wil attend services at the Presbyterian church in company with Welen Post G. A. R., Sünday morning. Thieves entered the house of A. A Terry, Monday night, and got away with $2-5 and a gold watch chain be longing to two student roomers. The Ann Arbor Eifles will give an excursión in July to Put-in-Bay. Arrangements are being made to have a stay of four hours at the island. The grand opening of St. Thomas Music Hall will take place this evening. Concert by Business Men's Quartette and Prof. Kempfs Singing Society. Evidently Jos. Geromiller, the awning manufacturer of this city ,is getting the bulk of that line of business in AAn Arbor, he having orders ahead for 120 awnings. The county treasurer has received $27,760 for liquor licenses this month. The licenses issued were as follows: 46 to sell liquors, 15 to sell malt beverages, 4 to brewers. University Minstrels appeared at the opera house before a large audience, last Friday evening. The entertainment given was hardly up to the Standard of last year. s Patrolman Collins placed two small boys in jail late Friday. The boys had run away from their homes in Saginaw Í and their parents being advised, they were returned home. ' A wedding was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. George Nissly, on the evening of May 18th, the contracting parties being Andrew Lindenschmidt and Miss Mary Nissly. Wm. Cheeney, of N. Y. city, will have an exhibition and sale of all deeorative art work at Mrs. Williams', 25 2i. University avenue, Friday and Saturday. All are woloome. Arborïent, K. O. T. M., of this city, will attent services at the M. E. cburch in a body on Sunday, June 19, to listen to the annual address, which is in observance of the eleventh anniversary of that order. Ann Arbor is putting on city airs and the bank clerks are now obliged to eat their dinner when they get a chance. The Savings Bank and the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank now keep open from nine a. m. to four p. m. Notice is given that services will not be held any longer in the old St. Thomas' ehurch. On next Sunday services will be held in the new St. Thomas Music Hall on Elizabeth street. Low mass at 8 o'clock and high mass at 10:30. James Coleman died at the residence of John Finnegan, his uncle, on Sunday, of consumption, aged 26 years. The deceased was a bright and expert telegraph operator, and had many friends here. The funeral was held Tuesday morning. Detective Rossier, of the Michigan Central force, was in the city Saturday investigating the breaking open of a box car and the theft of nine pairs of patent leather shoes. Ile got track of the thieves and a warrant has been issued fof their arrest. The YoungLadies' Banjo and Guitar Club went to Milan, Friday evening, and gave a concert at the Baptist church. So well pleased were those who heard them that arrangements are now being made to have the concert repeated in the near future. The University Democratie Club has just received a handsomely embossed certifícate of membership in the National Association of Democratie Clubs. It is very attractively and neatly gotten up, containing in the upper left hand corner a picture of Monticello, in the upper right hand corner a picture of the historie charter oak, and just betne n these is Jefferson's head, beneath which is the Club's membership number, 3,558. This is followed by the certifícate of membership. In the lower left hand corner is a picture of the capitol, and in the right, the White House. - ' ■ - - - An art school is to be conducted her this summer. Mrs. Dorothy Staebler, of Scio, diei Monday, aged 62 years. Henry C. Sulliyan hus been admitted to citizenship by the circuit court. Hon. E. P. Allen will deliver the Decoration Day address next Monday The famous Prince Michael will be tried here June 7th providing the at lorneys can be here at that time. Willie Ogden, a young boy sent from this city to the State Eeform School at Lansing, died there of diphtheria, a few days ago. The Business Men's Quartette is to sing at Ypsilanti next Monday evening for the benefit of the new M. E. church in that city. Two colored men named Beek have been bound over for trial in the Circuit Court on the charge of stealing timber from the T. & A. A. R'y. The Light Infantry and High School teams played a game of base ball on the fair grounds, Wednesday afternoon. The f ormer wereWictorious by a score of 10 to 2. Sneak thieves entered the hall of D. Cramer's house on Huron street, Tuesday evening, and made a good haul, carrying away overcoats and wraps valued at over 100. Keep your front doors locked. ■Sheriff Dwyer is looking ïor another norse thief, this time for stealing a horse from the barn of James Scotney, east of Ypsilanti. The horse was stolen last night and was traced towards Ohio. It is reported that J. D. Ryan made arrangements on Wednesday for the purchase of the Ilangsterfer block on the corner of Main and AVashington streets. The conaideration was away up in the thousands. A law student named Johnson claims to have either lost or been robbed of a pocketbook containing $300 at Ypsilanti, last Friday night. He offered a reward of $50 for its return but as y et his offer bas not been accepted. It is reported that another effort is to be made to stop the running of trains on the A. A. & Y. road. Such an affair would resuld result in a damge to the city and it appears as though ;hat road had already had trouble nough. The membersof Welch Relief Corps, No. 21S, are requested to meet in the Presbyterian church, Sunday, May 29, 1 10:15 a. m. A cordial invitation is xtended to visiting members that may e in the city, to join with us in this memorial service. One of the new patent screens and wnings recently invented by Charles hetterle and to be manuf actured by a ocal company, has been set up and is ow on exehition at Shetterle?s barber liop. It is a pretty good thing and ught to be a money-maker. William Ilayden, of Geddes avenue, ied last Saturday, of heart disease, ged 76 years. He was born in the ounty Kildare, Ireland, and had been resident of Ann Arbor for 41 years. [e leaves three daughters and a son. 'he funeral was held Tuesday moi'ng- Mayor Pingree, of Detroit, has given 500 to the recently organized Amerian College League, and the Courier in cstacy exclaims: ,"What's the matter 'ith Pingree?" We would say in anwertothis: "He wants, to run for jovernor and knows how to advertise ïimself." _____ Last Saturday, Frank L. Palmer, the on of Geo. W. Palmer of N. Main reet, diedof diphtheria,aged 17 years nd 9 months. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer ave the sympathy of the entire community as this is their second bereavement, a daughter being taken away ust a month ago. Ann Arbor commandery, K. T., will bserve Ascensión Day, next Suuday, with appropriate ceremonies. In the fternoonthe graves of their deceased raters at Forest Hill cemetery will be ecorated. Friends of the deceased ir Knights are invited to attend the ervices at the cemetery at three 'clock. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Dodsley were to have celebrated the 25th anniversary of their marriage, Saturday, but Mrs. Dodsley not having recovered from ie effects of a recent fall, they found necessary to abandon a gathering. A number of friends, however, remembered them with a handsome silver tea service. Henry T. Hazlitt, living just south of ie city on Main street, died early Tuesday morning of heart disease, ged 54 years and ten months. He ;arted to get out of bed for something nd feil over on the door dead. He eaves a wife. The funeral was held t the residence yesterday afternoon, ie remains being taken to Coldwater, Í. Y.,forburial. The law office of J. F. Lawrence ha been repapered and redecorated s that old friends would fail to recojc nize it. Among the new additions i D. A. Pray, who will act as Mr. Law rence's clerk and practice on his own account. A suit has been brought to settle the ownership of the land purchased some time ago for a site for the f actory o: the Advance Refrigerator Co. The parties to the suit are G. F. Allmen dinger and Sf. V. Cheever, complain ants, and Chas. Hard, G. W. Bullis and J. E. Beal, defendants. Rev. Mr. Heilman, who is coming te organize an English Lutheran church will preach in the Christian church on south University avenue, on Sundaj morning and evening. At three o'clock ie will meet all those who are interestec n the oreanization of an English Lutheran church at the Sunday schooi rooms of the Christian church. A big sturgeon hung in front of Pred Brown's two days this week for the public to guess its weight. ïhere were 22 guesses which varied f rom 6 6-8 pounds by John Bohn to one ton by W. 3. Parsons. The correct weight was S0 pounds. Charles Stoup and Ghria íetter carne the nearest to the correct figure, each guessing 80i pounds. The turgeon carne from lake St. Clair. Albert II. Perry, ex-supervisor of Sharon, died Friday night of heart ailure, aged 52 years. He was born n Sharon and had always resided on he farm on which he was born . For a number of years he was township lerk and for two terms was supervisor. Ie leaves a wife and two children. He vas a life long Democrat, an intelligent, honest and goodcitizen. The Michigan Pioneer and Historical ociety will hold its eighteenth annu1 meeting in Lansing on June lst ext. Among the papers to be read s oiie by ex-Governor Alpheus Felch, f this city, on Michigan's Court of Chancery. He will also furnish for ublication, if not ready in time to be ead at this meeting, a paper entitled The Cessions of Land in Michigan y Indian Treaties." On Monday, May 16th, the infant daugbter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Buell, of N. Fourth avenue, died aiter having been sick for several months. The parents are believers in the "faith cure" and trusted to this method of restoring the child to health until she was beyond human aid, when Dr. D. M. Tyler was summoned. The circumstances caused considerable talk in the eighborhood and developed the fact that a smíjAl colony of faith curists is located here, their leader being a Mrs. Armbruster. Prof. G. Erederick Wright, of Oberlin, will lecture in Newberry Hall, Fridayevening, June3,underthe auspices of the Geological society. The society is endeavoring to secure a fine portrait of Dr. Winchell, as a memorial for the Art Gallery. The lecture will be on the Ice Age in North America, and will be illlustrated by stereo ptieon views. Dr. Wright has studied glacial facts more extensively than any other lecturer, and his lecture has been received with high favor in New York city, Baltimore, Brooklyn and the other large cities of the country. Tliose wiio attend will spend a profitable as well as interesting evening.