Local Brevities

Washtenaw county gets $10,279.5 school ruoney. Maccabees you are wanted at your emple this evening. Remember Living Whist at the pera house tonight. The Whitney Opera Co., left this . m., for London, Ontario. The Unitarian church cook in even new members last Sunday. Emmett Coon has patented a evise for draining stable floors. Next Monday the Epworth league of the E. church elects officers. William G. Dieterle has been juilding a cement walk at his resi[ence. Albert Schumacher's residence on Vest Huron street is being painted )y Vm. Herz. Charles Stabler is putting in a cement walk in front of his store on S. Fourth avenue. The Light Infantry drilled on the corner of Huron and Ingalls street VVednesday evening. Herman Markham, of South Seventh street, is grading the sidewalk in front of his residence. The postoffice is being thoroughly overhauled and cleaned by the proprietor of the building, J. E. Beal. W. James has purchased a lot on the corner of State and Packard streets to build a $3,000 house on it. Elmer E. Spencer, formerly of the Ann Arbor postoffice forcé, has been appointcd a letter carier in Chicago. A brush pile on West Washington street yesterday afternoon annoyed the residents of that section. It was started by the boys. A meeting of the democratie county committee will be held at the supervisor's room, at the court house on Wecinesday, May 16. All should attend. There were 200 couples in attendance on the dance of the United Friends of Michigan at the rink Tuesday night and they had a most delightful time. Miss Bessie McGlowan, daughter f Owen McGlowan, of Detroit, ied Sunday of heart disease. The uneral was held in St. Thomas' hurch, of this city, Tuesday. "The Testimony of Experience o the Truthof the Gospel" is the ubject upon which Rev. J. M. Gelston, of the Presbyterian church, willl speak next Sunday evening. The Woman's Michigan Press asociation meets here June 5, 6 and Everything possible should be done to make it pleasant for these bright ladies during their sojourn here. Supt. E. C. Thompson, of the Saginaw city schools, was in the city Thursday. He was on his way o Lansing where he spoke last evening before the Superintendente ■ssociation of the state. Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Martin have beautified their grounds at the corner of S. Fifth avenue and E. Liberty street with flowers and ferns. Last year their efforts were destroyed by vandals tearing out the plants by the roots. Farmers and Fruitgrowers are interested in the destruction of insects devastating their orchards. For your protection use Eberbach's Insecticide for spraying trees, etc. A 25c package is sufficient to make 50 to 100 gallons solution. This )aration, also White Hellebore, Dalmation Insect powder, Paris jreen, etc, fresh and of prime juality can be procured from Eber)acb Drug & Chemical Co. 2t The board of visitors to the State Vormal School has been inspecting :hat institution this week. The Doard is composed of State Superntendent Vorheis, of Indiana, Supt. E. C. Thompson, of Saginaw, and ommissioner Enoch Andrus, of Barry county. Tonight will occur the regular meeting of the G. A. R. A full attendance is desired as business of importance pertaining to Memorial Day exercises and Sunday services at the Congregational Church, Sunday, May 27. Comrades kindly remember this and be present. Aid. Manly announces that the side-walk committee will meet at the city clerk's office on the Friday evening succeedin!? the regular counci meeting at half past seven oclock when every one who has any sidewalk grievance is requested to ap pear, if he can get in the room. Meeting of the Humane society at the Congregational church at 3:30 p. ra., next Sunday for the purpose I of forrning a permanent organization. We hope that there are enough people in Ann Arbor who are interested in trying to secure the human treatment of animáis to fill the church. Come and speak for those deserving kindly treatment but who cannot ask for it. Two divorce cases were comnenced in the circuit court yesterlay. Mrs. Lottie Inez Neithammer 3f this city asks for a divorce from Charles C. Neithammer, whom she married October 28, 1892. William H. Leonard, of Ypsilanti, asks for a divorce from his wife, Eli.abeth L. Leonard, to whom he was married July 1, 1870. The Sunday evening bible talks on "The Pamphlets of a Political Idealist, or the Book of the Prophet Isaiah," given by the Rev. E. M. Duff in St. Andrew's church, will be resumed on Sunday evening next at the 7:30 service. The special topic of the next talk will be: "Foreign Policy: A Losing Struggle With Demagogues." An erroneous impression seems to have gone abroad in regard to the May Musical Festival. An innocent paragraph in the city papers has given rise to this impression. This article stated that an effort is to be made to make it a distinctly society affair - that people are expected to come in full dress. People are expected to come prepared to listen to some first-class music, to concerts of the highest grade, and no attempt is to be made to make it anything more. In other words, says Prof. Stanley, bring receptive minds and enthusiasm, and do just as you would at any ordinary Choral Union concert. Speaking of the sewer ordinance which was drafted by City Attorney E. B. Norris, the Register says: "It is certainly an able document, and conclusively proves that the gentleman is a wise lawgiver as well as an able lawyer. Mr. Norris has certainly done his duty as an officer of the people during the time he has been city attorney, and has been the means of saving the city considerable money. It is the opinión of many citizens, who take an interest in municipal affairs that E. B. Norris has made the best city attorney Ann Arbor has ever had." This sounds funny in the Register which has on all occasions denounced Mr. Norris. Yet it is true. Mr. Norris has made an exceptionally good city attorney. He has a legal mind, and has no superior as an office lawyer in the city.