Local Brevities

Remember the Pachmann concert tonight. Sleighing partieS were numerous last night. Ice is over five inches thick in the river now. Add. Collum will open a saloon at 7 Ann street on Saturday. A lodge of the Knights and Ladies' of Honor will be organized in Ypsi-, lanti. Try the Argus for three months. Twenty-five cents gets twenty-six papers. Prof. Sill, minister to Corea, expects to leave for his post about February 20. The Kickapoo Wigwam Club have Jeased rooms over Stiegelmaier & Clancy's store. Lent begins February 7. Between now and that date society will be fully occupied. The ladies of St. Andrews parish give a social in Harris hall next Thursday evening. Not a marriage license has been issued in this county since the last issue of the Argus. Skaters had lots of fun Saturday. The snow fall yesterday made owners of cutters happy. This has been one of the dullest three days known in the history of Ann Arbor news gathering. Goethe Commandery, No. 28, United Friends, give a social dance to their members Thursday evening. The subject of missions will be the topic for the Wednesday evening meeting of Bethlehem church. 10-Governor Luce will address the Students Christian association next sunday morning on farming. Zion church society will hold a meeting next Monday evening to take action on the building of a new church. The children are niaking great preparations for the fancy dress party at Granger's hall tomorrow evening. The ladies society of Zion church meet with Mrs. Max Hein, 41 East Washington street, next Thursday afternoon. Meeting nights of J. T. Jacobs camp are changed from every Tuesday evening, to the first and third Thursday evening. Or. Heneage Gibbes gave a very instructive lecture before the Inland league last evening on his experiences with cholera in Calcutta. J. M. Allen, for many years editor of the Dexter Leader, died at Wayne yesterday morning. His remains were brought to Dexter last evening. Ouartermaster Jones yesterday sent twenty-five fatigue coats and nine helmets of the Light Infantry to Lansing to be traded for new ones. Junius E. Beal has been putting in a fine billiard room in the basement of his residence on Fifth avenue and Williams street, finished off in oak. Hon. F. E. Mills, of Pittsfield, read a paper before the students of the Agricultura! college at Lansing, on the "Mangement of a Dairy Herd" and answered the questions that suggested themselves to the members of the class. , Rev. Fr. Elliott, of New York, had a large audience at St. Thomas chureh Sunday, and delivcred a;i able and iuteresting discoiirsd on St. Paul. Several Toledo parties have been seriously talking up a project to establish a canning factory in this city to can tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, etc. An Argus reporter was informed by the Cook House that business was good and improving every day, very niuch better than at the opening of the year. The directors of the Ann Arbor street railway company meet today to take action looking toward obtaining new cars. The general public hope that the nevy cars may soon be here. The Political Equality club, organized during Miss Anthony's visit, will meet at Newberry hall, Friday, February 2, at 2:30 p. m. All interested are cordially invited to attend. There will be a council meeting tonight to consider the extending of the time for the payment of taxes and the subject of electric lighting and the payment of the University Aid bonds. The W. C. T. U. will meet in McMillen hall, Thursday, Feb. 8th, at 4 o'clock. Every member is requested to be present, as business of importance will be brought before the meeting. , A concert of sacred music was given by the choir of St. Andrew's chureh and Prof. A . S. Houghton, Sunday afternoon, in the University hospital, which was highly ap■reciated by the patients. The next regular meeting of J. T. Jacobs Camp, No. 90, Sons of Veterans, will be held on next Thursday evening. A full attendance is desired as business of importance will be transaeted. W. J. Booth, of this city, gives a lecture entitled "My Trip up the Nile," at the entertainment and social of the Ypsilanti Presbyterian ladies at the residence of D. C. Batchelder tomorrow evening. Prof. Cooley's lecture in Toledo last Friday evening, was the first o a series of six to be delivered be fore the University Extensión course of that city. The next lecture wil be given next Friday evening. Talk about the long distance tele phone, it isn't so much ahead afte all! The Ann Arbor Argus say Susen B. Anthony "has made he voice heard from New York City t Kansas!'"' - Grass Lake News. A successful concert was given last evening under the auspices of the Unity club by E. N. Bilbie, violinist, assisted by Felix Lamond, organist, of Christ church, Detroit, and Miss Minnie Davis, pianiste. Rev. A. W. Mannwill conduct a service for deaf mutes in St. Andrew's church next Monday evening. Rev. Mr. Mann is well known atnong deaf mutes throughout the west for the work he has been doing among them. Thomas Tougheed and John Conelly, two tramps, were drunk on the streets Saturday and were singing comic songs. They were arrested by Deputy Sheriff McCabe and sentenced by justice Pond yesterday to five days in jail. Rev. Dr. Holland, of St. Louis, Mo. , one of the most eloquent pulpit orators of the day, will begin a series of lectures on Divine Manhood in St. Andrew's church February 18. The lectures are before the Hobart guild on the Slocum foundation. The Argus does not always contain so much advertising. In the course of three months, its reading columns will be found to greatly exceed in number its advertising columns. It costs less than a cent a copy and wants you on its list of subscribers. A thrilling serial story of love and adventure will commence in the Argus at an early date. It will be given in generous installments and will be concluded before the three months' subscriptions are up. Send twenty-five cents and get the twicea-week Argus for three months. The Clayton & Lambert Mf'y of Ypsilanti filed their annual report Friday. Their capital stock is placed at 5,000, of which $1,000 is paid in. The personal estáte is $575; debts, $1.50; credits, #539.67. The estáte is equally divided between Nelson J. Clayton, Joshua Lambert, Charles R. Lambert, Bert Lambert, and John E. Lambert. I Congressman Gorman on Friday ast while coming out of the Capítol t Washington at the 'conclusión of 1 session of Congress, feil on an icy 1 idewalk and injured his shoulder. Congressman Thomas, of this state, who is a physician, attended hhn, , nd sent him to his home in a hack. , The Woraan's League were pleasantly entertained on Saturday afternoon at McMillan Hall by the girls rum the medical department. Papers werc read by Miss Jordán, Miss ook, Dr. Solis, Miss Bishop and Miss Allen, after which the girls had ! a general discussion which was bjbth j irolitable and iuteresting. Cut out a coupon from our second I jage. The views there advertised ; are offered sjmultaneously with the offer made by the Argus by the ! cago News-Record, which has the; arrest circulation of any daily in lie west and by the large eastern japers. The Photographic Tour of! he World is well w'orth getting. TheAnn ArborLight Infantryhold a meeting tomorrow evening at their j armory for the purpose of taking some action regarding their club rooms. The club rooms -are a source of rnuch expense to the com)any and there is considerable talk of giving them up. It seems a pity as the rooms are very elegant ones. Last Friday night, at the meeting of Arbor Tent, No. 296, K. O. T. M., the title of Past Commander was conferred on Finance Keeper William Stimson and Record Keeper Geo. Lutz, Jr., with the appropriate badges. To say that they were both surprised is putting it mild, but nevertheless, they thanked the members of the tent for the favor conferred on them. Prof. D. A. Hammond, a prominent state educator, is now associated with S. W. Beakes in the publication of the Ann Arbor Argus, which they have cbanged into a semi-weekly. Mr. Beakes took hold of the Argus several years ago when it was at a low ebb, and made it a prosperous, readable paper. Under the newmanagement there is promise that it will be better than ever. - Morenci Observer. The Ann Arbor Argus is now published semi-weekly, and no doubt the next step will be to transform it into a daily. Such a consummation would bring it an avalanche of fame, money and glory. The Argus is 60 years old, and we hope it will turn its two-hundredth year under its present management. - Grass Lake News. Your hope is a go brother, provided you will keep the Argus company in its old age. Of the many socials held Friday evening it is safe to say that none was more enjoyable than that of the Epworth League. About a hundred gathered in the parlors of the M. E. church and indulged in a social good time. Several novel amusements were introduced that added much to the gaiety of the evening. There was no formal program, but the purpose of the gathering was the extensión of acquaintance, and in this it was highly successful.