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Day
26
Month
September
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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Burglars moved out a portion of the hardware store of Sill & Quish, of Dexter, last week. Three divorces were handed down in one batch, at Ann Arbor, last week. No "at home" cards. Salem has turned a horse doctor into a Connecticut agricultural college. He goes there ás a professor. Laying sewer pipe in Ann Arbor has begun, and already the city engineer has found that one end of a pipe weighs enough to smash a man's toes. A company has just begun at Ann Arbor the manufacture of water-gas. It will not be a competitor of the newspapers there, as it is for illuminating purposes. In these piping times of stringency, when various experiments are being tried, we have heard of no more masterly financial policy than that of the Chelsea council for avoiding the payment of bilis. The council simply doen't meet, that's all. Miss Emma E. Bower, of the Ann Arbor Democrat, secures the honorable and lucrative position of great record keeper of the Lady Maccabees of Michigan. The Press has steadily voted for this talented lady, "early and often," and rejoices that she secured it. The salary is $1,200, with an allowance of $850 for clerk hire and also S500 for other expenses. Miss Cora DePuy, of Ann Arbor, heads a "Women's Political Educational Club," which meets to hold debates for parliamentary drill and study the functions of government. When Representative Newkirk lives to be challenged at the polls by ladies, on account of his sex, he will see what he has done. No use then to "hug the delusive phantom of hope." Hugging matches will be "off." m A scion of one of the F. F. 's, of Ann Arbor, bowled up on ether, and had nine teeth extracted, after which, to still further obscure the incident, he "bowled" on some thing else, and then bowled home ward; but finding that the wearing of clothes was merely a fad put u by clothing stores, he stripped, anc leaving his bloody garments by th wayside, went home as destitute a the day he was turned into th world. Two masked tramps "held up' widow Blumhardt, of Bridgewater last week, but got nothing but pie and cakes. However, they went ou and stole her buggy, to which they hitched a stolen horse, by means o a stolen harness, all of whiAi were driven to Manchester and "tiec loose. " The harness had been pu on wrong end first, showing that the thieves knew as little about hitching up a horse as the average congress man about finance. # The Dundee Ledger confesses its ignorance of "the genus tyrotoxi con," and adds that the "immorta Webster fails to give light." It is useless to go into a disquisition on the subjecf, but if the Ledger editor will eat a small piece of cheese, wel indoctrinated with it, he will know more about tyrotoxicon, in an hour afterward, than a whole agricultura! college could learn him in an entire :heoretical term. The immorta] Webster died in happy ignorance oi he kiss-me-quick properties of Dr. Vaughn's discovery. V The Ann Arbor water company ïow has on hand something besides fish and kerosene oil to claim its attention. A stockholder asks a receiver and charges the gravest 'rauds and irregularities upon the uperintendent. Among other queer allegations it is charged that the thriving superintendent, who is also president, bought $12,000 worth of stock for $6,000, and later L10,000 more, giving thé company's notes therefor, and on this stock drew S6,8oo dividends. If the charges are true, they prove two things, viz., that the superintendent is not a fooi ; that it pays to handle watered stock in dry weather.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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