Local Brevities

Welch Post, G. A. .R., install officers this evening.

The ladies of St. Andrew's church gave a social last evening.

Skaters are making the best of the ice on the Northern Brewery's pond.

J. V. Sheehan has been elected a director of the Michigan Iron Mining Co.

N. J. Kyer has been elected a director of the Michigan State Millers association.

Hugh Johnson and Miss Ora Green, of this city, were married last Saturday.

Another delightful faculty concert was held in Frieze Memorial hall last evening.

Otto Kirchner, Esq., of Detroit, opened his lectures in the law department, Tuesday.

Mrs. Philip Bach recently found in her front yard an old Roman coin of the year 44 B. C.

E. E. Barney died in Springfield, Mass., this week. He is a brother of S. R. and R. C. Barney.

The Knights Templar give a reception and banquet to Rev. M. M. Goodwin, of Ypsilanti, January 30.

Rev. Dr. Cobern leads the last meeting of the week of prayer in the Congregational church this evening.

There were 41 persons from Ypsilanti admitted to the opera house Tuesday evening to hear Sol Smith Russell.

Augustus W. Fellows has had his pension reissued at the old figures and dated back two years ago, when it was reduced.

John B. Moloney's old Ann Arbor friends congratulate him upon his appointment as collector of the port of Detroit.

The funeral of Thaddeus Thompson, Tuesday, was conducted under the auspices of the Masons, and was largely attended.

William C. Spohr, of Dundee, and Miss Addie Lidster, of Ridgeway, were married by Justice Bennett on Wednesday.

Rev. Dr. Holland, of St. Louis, Mo., will begin his course of lectures on the Slocum foundation in Harris Hall, February, 18.

Dr. V. C. Vaughn responded to the toast "The Relation of the Miller to the State," at the Miller's banquet in Lansing, this week.

George Green, treasurer, of Ann Arbor town, will be at the court house Saturday, Jan. 20, 94, to collect the remainder of the taxes.

Prof. Hinsdale on next Sunday begins a series of lectures on Jesus as a Teacher at the Church of Christ, after the morning service.

The receipts of the M. E. church for 1893 was 4,980.02 and the expenditures were exactly the same. The pew rents amounted to $3,058.16.

Young People's vesper services will be resumed in St. Andrew's chapel at 6:45, next Sunday evening. Mayor Thompson is expected to speak.

 The Young Men 's Christian League will hold a meeting in their rooms, No. 12 E. Washington St., 2nd floor, Sunday, at 3 p. m. All young men are invited to attend.

A house in Salem belonging to Louis Hagen burned down Sunday night. It was not occupied by any one, but was stored full of hay and farming implements.

The First National Bank elected the following directors Tuesday: Philip Back, Harrison Soule, Moses Seabolt, Wm. McCreery, Henry Cornwell, John F. Lawrence, E. D. Kinne and James L. Babcock.

Miss Theresa C. Brenner, of this city, was married last Sunday to Joseph S. Orr, city attorney of South Bend, Ind. The marriage was solemnized at St. Thomas' parsonage, Rev. E. D. Kelly officiating.

The Ann Arbor Schuetzenbund this week elected the following officers: president, John Meyer; vice-president, Dr. John Kapp; secretary, Gottlieb Knapp; treasurer, Christian Martin, shooting master, Louis Kurtz; second shooting master, William Wermer; steward, Reuben Armbruster.

The Gesang Verein Lyra elected the following officers this week: president, Simon Dieterle; vice-president, Mrs. R. H. Kempf; secretary, Herman D. Allmendinger; treasurer, August Koch; janitor, Robert Gwinner.

The opera house on Thursday night was packed to its capacity to witness LaTosca's Opera Farce Co. i It was the grandest production that has ever visited Chatham, and LaTosca has few equal as an operatic singer. - Chatham, Ont., Planet.

The Lady Maccabees held a regular meeting on Tuesday evening. About nine o'clock they were surprised by a number of the Knights of the Maccabees, who marched in on them and invited them out to the dining room, where they had provided an oyster supper.

Something new and attractive will be presented at the Baptist church on Monday evening, Jan. 15, in the way of an orange party. Oranges produced in Ann Arbor will be sold from the trees, and oranges grown in Florida will be served in the dining room.

There were 237 new estates probated in the Washtenaw Probate court during the year 1893. This does not include the old estates which have been probated anew, which would easily run the number up to 275. The number of new estates probated last year was comparatively light.

S. C. Griggs & Co., of Chicago, will soon issue a book by John P. Davis, a graduate student of the University, on "The Union Pacific Railway: A Study in Railroad History, Politics and Economics." The book is said to be a work of high order and will certainly be received with interest by students all over the country.

Prof. G. H. Hicks, of Agricultural college, has been given a position in the agricultural department at Washington to determine the germinating quality of seeds. His salary will be $1,200. The position was obtained under the civil service rules. Mr. Hicks has been pursuing some studies in this city for the past few months.

The Equal Suffrage association of Michigan will hold a convention at Newberry Hall on the fifteenth and sixteenth of January. Rev. Anna Shaw will speak on Monday evening next. Rev. Caroline Bartlett and other eminent speakers on Tuesday evening - afternoon session from 2 to 4 p. m. All interested are cordially invited to attend these meetings.

The Masonic year book is just out and contains excellent portraits of the following prominent Masons in this county: William G. Doty, Charles E. Hiscock, W. W. Watts, Josegh Clark and C. B. Davison, of this city; F. B. Duebel, E. P. Allen and Tracy W. Towner, of Ypsilanti; George H. Kempf, William J. Knapp and John A. Palmer, of Chelsea.

Unity Club will resume its meetings on next Monday evening. The entertainment will take the form of a social for which arrangements are being made, in which all of the different church organizations will participate. The entertainment is what is known as the "annual church meeting and supper." Everyone interested in the church and Unity Club is cordially invited.

By request, Mrs. Eliza R. Sunderland will repeat at the Unitarian church next Sunday evening the address she gave before World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago on "The Value of Comparative Study of Religions," and a week from Sunday evening her address given in the Woman's building of the World's Fair on "The Influence of the Higher Education of Women upon Domestic Life."

Rev. J. T. Sunderland will begin next Sunday morning a series of six sermons on "Some of the Great Dead of the Past Year: Lessons from their Lives. " The subjects in the series will be: 1. "General Armstrong and Hampton Institute, or the Educational Solution of the Negro Problem"; 2. "Lucy Stone, and the New Day Coming to Women"; 3. "Gounod the Musical Composer," illustrated by selections from his music; 4. "Elizabeth P. Peabody, and the Modern Kindergarten Movement in Education"; 5. "Professor Tyndall, and the Relation of Science to Religion"; 6. "Edwin Booth the Actor, or Religion and the Theater."