Local Brevities

Quite a little snow fell here Wednesday. The bookstores close at eight o'clock now. Trees have been planted on the hospital grounds. Remember the bazaarof the Ann Arbor Light Infantry. Omer Moore has removed from Dexter to Ann Arbor. M. J. Lehman has moved his law office to Masonic temple. Earl Ware is building two new louses in the fifth ward. John C. Travis, of the Courier, ejoices over a little daughter. The high school library has had ppropriation of $25 for magazines. The U. of M. Republican club íeld a ratification meeting Monday ight. Ex-Ald. Eugene Mann is happy ver the advent of a little girl at his ïouse. John Temple Graves lectures in University Hall on Saturday evenng, Nov. 18. The Trinity Lutheran church has eceived a gift of $5,000 towards juilding its church. Rebekah lodge I. O. O. F. give n oyster supper in their hall next Vednesday evening. Revival meeting will begin next unday in the M. E. church, conucted by the pastor. Good music will be furnishec veryiight at the bazaar of the Ann rbor Light Infantry. Dr. Carrow addresses the oung People's Vespers in St. Andrews chapel Sunday evening. About 300 Arm Arborites took he cheap Michigan Central excursión to Detroit last Friday. The meeting at Unity Club next Monday evening will take the form of a social. All are cordially invited. Dr. Carrow will address the Young People's Vespers in St. Andrews' chapel on Sunday evening next at 6:45. B. F. Watts, finance keeper of the Knights of Honor, has payed $2,000 insurance to Mrs. James M. Stafford. Charles Eisele had his collar bone broken Sunday, while playing with some companions. He is fifteen years old. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Binder, of West Liberty street, celebrated their silver wedding anniversary Wednesday evening. The Young Peoples Society of Christian IJndeávor will hold a county convention in Saline Friday, December jrst. Wm. W. Wiedemeyer, a former Lima boy, was elected orator of the senior literary class, of the University, last Saturday. Miss Nina May Fall, daughter of Charles S. Fall, now of LosAngeles, Cal., is to be married December 4 to Walter S. Hubbard. ' The State Savings Bank will be the depository of the school moneys paying five per cent on deposits anc charging five per cent on overdrafts A new Henry George man has ar rived in town. He is being care fully cared for in the family of Eu gene Mann and will vote in twenty one years. John Ziegler died Sunday at his home on Liberty street, aged fiftytwo years. He had been ill for some time, but died suddenly while sitting in his chair. Mrs. Berger died at her home on the corner of W. Seventh and Jefferson street Friday. She was the mother of Gottfried and John Berger. , The Midway Plaisance at the bazaar of the Ann Arbor Light Infantry next week will be great. It will carry you back to the World's Fair. The imiitations of the various villages is excellent. The sewers to the first of the month cost $6,903.50, as follows: materials and supplies, #3, 682.75; engineering and help, $910.55; overseeing, $220.72; labor, $2,089.03. Hareafter the labor bilis will form a much larger proportion of the cost. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wurster celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of heir marriage Wednesday evening. Collegiate Sorosis, founded at the University of Michigan in 1886 as a collegiate branch of New York Sorosis from whom she holds her charter, has filed articles of incororation under the laws of the state of Michigan. The Goshen Carpet Sweeper not only received first premium at the World's Fair at Chicago, but was used universally in the buildings by the appreciative attaches. We direct attention to the Company's advertisement. Mrs. Frank Henderson, of Pittsfield, died Wednesday, aged fortyïve years. Her maiden name was Sattler, and she was twice married eaving a husband and four children surviving. Her children are Louis and Fred Breisch and Catharine and Charles Henderson. Christian Trenkley, of Lima, had his left leg broken a few days ago in a runaway. He lay helpless some time before he was picked up and cared for. Mr. Trenkley has been singularly unfortunate, having had the same leg broken in nearly the same place about a year ago. The #30,000 bonds of the city for sewer purposes have been sold to Spitzer & Co., of Toledo, at par with accrued interest. The bonds are to be delivered as follows: $10,000 on January 1, $10,000 on February 1, $10,000 on March 1 or sooner at the election of Spitzer & Co. Rev. Grindall Reynoids, of Boston, one of the most earnest clergyraen in the Unitarian body, will preach at the Unitarian church of this city, next Sunday morning and : evening. Mr. Sunderland's sermón announced for the evening is "Jesusand Miracles," will be postponed one week. The Ladies' Home and Foreign Missionary societies of the Presbyterian church hold a meeting in the church parlors this afternoon at three o'clock to be addressed by Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe, of Detroit, who will teil of her recent trip to Alaska, and by Mrs. Olinger, a re}urned missionary from Corea. Mrs. Oliva Wilson died at her home in Ypsilanti last Sunday, aged 69. She was a sister of Mrs. Prof. Williams, of this city, and lived with her here until her marriage in 1842 to Rev. John A. Wilson, who was for thirty-five years pastor of St. Luke's church in Ypsilanti. She leaves one daughter, wife of Capt. Clinton Spencer, and one son, John A. Wilson, of Ypsilanti. The remaining Women's Union Meeting, preparatory to Mr. Mills coming, are to be held as follows: Saturday, Nov. 18, 3 p. m., Presbyterian church parlors; Saturday, Nov. 25, 3 p. m., Baptist church parlors; Saturday, Dec. 2, 3 p. m., Baptist church. These meetings will be continued daily after the arrival of Mr. Mills. All ladies interested are requested to attend and bring a friend. The annual meeting of the Michigan Conference of Unitarian and other christian churches was held last week Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, at Mt. Pleasant. Rev. W. D. Simonds, of Battle Creek, preached the opening sermón. Rev. J. T. Sunderland, of this city, read a paper on "Why I Believe in Prayer." Prof. W. H. Pettee, of the University, was elected vice president of the conference for the coming year. Mrs. Georgia McPherson, nee Rathbone, died at the residence of her mother, Mrs. E. A. Rathbone, on Sunday last, of consumption. After finishing a course in the Ann Arbor High School and pursuing some studies in the University, she was absent for a year in Europe, where she was married to Prof. John H. T. McPherson, of the University of Georgia, while at Geneva. For the past few weeks she had been ill in this city. The funeral services were held Tuesday evening.