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27
Month
March
Year
1894
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Register tomorrow. Anew crosswalk has been put down across Pontiac on Kellogg street. The annual parish meeting of St. Andrew's church is being held this morning. Catherine, the baby of Dr. E R. Eggleston, died saturday of spinal meningitis. The board for the Banjo Concert is filling up very rapidly at Watts' jewelry store. William Tillman was given four days in jail by Justice pond Friday for drunkenness. Think up any democrat in the citywho has riot registered and have him register tomorrow. Rev. Dr. Taylor, of Chicago, will address the S. C. A. at University hall next Sunday evening. A new crosswalk has been put down across Detroit street on Cathsrine. Quite an improvement. Remember the Ann Árbor Banjo and Guitar Club concert in the opera house next Thursday evening. Mrs. Buryll Lewis, nee Clancy, of Reed City, died Sunday. The remains will be brought to this city today. There will be a maple syrup social given by the Maccabees Thursday evening and everybody is invited to attend. There will be a pupil's concert, Thursday evening, March 29, at eight o'clock, in Frieze Memorial hall, school of music. Pres. Adams, of the University of Wisconsin, who was the guest of Prof. D'Ooge onFriday and Saturday, left for home this morning. Mrs. Trueblood will give an elocutionary entertainment Friday evening in High School hall for the benefit of Miss Brown's sewing school. When you find a man playing overtuer to William Teil Sonatas by Beethoven and concertos by Mendelssohn on a banjo, how can you miss him? Next Thursday evening there will certainly be a great disturbance between Farland and the banjo at the opera house. Tickets on sale at Watts' jewelry store. Rev. M. M. Goodwin, of Ypsilanti, recently appointed to a chaplaincy in the navy, has been ordered to appear at Washington on the 28th inst., for physical examination. The Ann Arbor gas company are putting in new pipe at the Michigan Central station. The station has been in total darkness for the past few nights with the exception of a few small lamps. The exercises, commemorative of Christ's resurection, in the various churches of the city last Sunday, 1 were most beautiful. The decorations were tasteful and the flowers especially were magnificent. Wood thieves made a raid, Sunday night, upon a pile stored in the yard back of Fred Brown's "cafe." The wood belonged to a fnend of Mr. Brown's. Came handy for somebody in this cold weather. Ann Arbor Encampment, No. 7, I. O. O. F., will meet on Friday evening, at the hall of Washtenaw lodge, to perform work on the first and third degrees. Every member is earnestly requested to attend. Teil your neighbors, who do not take the Argus that they can get the Argus twice a week for three months, the Detroit Free Press twice a week for three montlas and the Ladies Home Magazine for one year, all for 50 cents. Ask them for the fifty cents and bring or send it to the Argus office with their name. A small child going with her father by an undertaker's store and seeing a crowd of men in there asked her father what it meant. He told her it was a caucus. The child very innocently enquired "Do they have coffins at a caucus?" A small child, going with her father by an undertaker's store and seeing a crowd of men in there, asked her father what it meant. He told her it was a caucus. The child very innocently enquired, "do they have coffins at a caucus? " The Normal school gymnasium will soon be ready for occupancy and Prof. W. P. Bowen, of the Nebraska university, formerly assistant in the department of mathematics in the Normal school, and Mrs. Francis Barton, of Ypsilanti, havo been engaged as instructors. The republicans of Sylvan Saturday nominated George J. Crowell for supervisor, and the democrats of that town háve nominated Hiram Lighthall. Supervisor Gilbert, of ten years' standing, withdrew, and his partner took his place. The friends of Mr. Lighthall should see that he is elected. St. Andrew's church offerings on Easter Sunday exceeded $1,500. Of this amount $1,000 was a memorial gift for Mr. John W. Wheeler, $500 from his wife and $500 from his daughter, Mrs. Luther. The remaining amount was given by the congregation at large. This is certainly a generous1 giving. The Pittsfield democratie caucus was held yesterday afternoon at the town house and the following ticket put in nomination. It is a good one: Supervisor, John Viegel; clerk, Chas. Roberts; treasurer, Herman Ryer; justice of peace, Wm. Rhodes, school inspector, V. C. Nichols; highway commissioner, Wm. Miller. The democrats of Scio yesterday nominated Byron C. Whittaker for supervisor; John W. Barkley, town clerk; George Moore, town treasurer; Fred Feigle, highway commissioner; John Croarkin; jusüce of the peace, George A. Peters and Edward Moore, board of review; John Wagner, drain commissioner; George Bell, Mr. Nagle, Mr. Strinjer, Patrick Sloan, constables. Prof. Trueblood's class in great jrators will hold memorial exercises it the recitation hour, 10:30, in oom 24, Tuesday in honor of Louis ivossuth, who died recently. Miss ady will givethe commemorativeorition and J. G. Halaplian,whose na:ive home is not far distant from where Kossuth was born, will give in address on the early history of the Hungarian patriot. The class will be open to all visitors who wish ;o attend. A sericJus and probably a fatal accident happened to Frank S. Whitman, a sophmore literary student Erom Buchanan, Mich., while playing baseball on the campus Saturday afternoon. Two fielders were running to catch a fiy and looking up into the air. The result was a collision with such forcé as to dislócate Whitman's neck. He was unconscious for several hours and will probably die. The junior hop, the swell social event of the year at the University, will occur Friday evening of this week. It will be a daisy. It will be held in the Waterman gymnasium, which offers the finest and largest Moor space for dancing in the state. ■ The interior of the building is completed, and a forcé of men is engaged in arranging the decorations, which will be a combination of University colors and flags. The music will be furnished bySchrimser's orchestra of 24pieces from Detroit, and the catering will be done by Hangsterfer. About 1,000 invitations have been issued. The hop is given by the Palladium fraternities.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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