Local Brevities

Mr. and Mrs. Ross Granger give a dancing party to their pupils Saturday evening. Col. H. S. Dean has received his commission and qualified as regent of the University. J. T. Jacobs is elated over the ownership of a fine Flashlight colt that was born Tuesday. The president appointed George S. Laird postmaster at Chelsea, Tuesday, vice Wra. Judson. The Political Equality club will hold a meeting at Newberry hall this afternoon at three o'clock. At the meeting of the State Pioneer Society at Lansing, yesterday, Ex-Gov. Felch was re-elected president. The T. & A. A. railroad is running so short of coal that a number of freight engines are now burning wood. The meeting of the Ann Arbor Light Infantry to elect a first lieutenant will be held next Wednesday night. The members of the Michigan Dental association are to be given a banquet at Granger's academy this evening. The clerks on the east side oi Main street are anxious to meet their co-laborers of the west side on the baseball diamond. Next Monday evening a social will bé held at K. O. T. M. hall. A fine program has been arranged, and ice cream and cake will be served. A memorial service in honor of the late Dr. Ford will be held at University hall next Tuesday at 4 p. m. Addresses will be given by President Angelí, Dr. Vaughan and Prof. D'Ooge. Prof. A. A. Stanley will preside at the M. E. church organ and direct the choir during the next year. He will organize a chorus of forty or fifty voices and the choir loft will be enlarged to accommodate it. "Children's Day" will be observed at the M. E. church next Sunday morning. In the evening the second lecture on ' Shepticism and the Bible" will be given. Topic, "What the Bible is and What it is not." Mrs. A. S. Benjamin, superintendent of parliarnentary usage for the National W. C. T. U., will give a series of three drills in Harris hall, commencing Monday evening, June 11. Tickets tor the course, fifty cents; single admissions, twenty-five cents. Next Sunday afternoon at three j o'clock anniversary exercises will bel held by Arbor Tent, K. O. T. M., Rev. V. L. Tedrow conducting them. Following the exercises the Sir Kinights will march to the cemetery where the graves of those who have passed away will be decorated. Otscningo Lodge, No. 295, I. O. O. F.,elected the following officers, Tuesday evening: N. G., Jas. H. Ottley; V. G., Geo. W. Clark; R. S. , John J. Ferguson; treasurer, George H. Miller;. representative to grand lodge, John J. Ferguson. The new officers will be installed at the first meeting in July. On the 28th day of next September, Ex-Gov. Alpheus Felch will celébrate the 9oth anniversary of his birth. Would it not be a nice thing for the citizens of Ann Arbor to give our honored and revered fellow-townsman, whose name has been a power in national, state and local councils for so many years, a public reception on this occasion? A number of Ann Arbor Masons attended a meeting and banquet of Union Council, and S. M., at Ypsilanti, Wednesday evening. Fred Kuhn, a carpenter working on the new house of D. F. Schairer, feil from a ladder at the third story Tuesday atternoon. Nothing broke his fall ur.til he reached the cellar, but strange to say he was not badly injured. Isaac Davis and his mother who were charged with discovering and stealing the $250 that Mrs. Eli.abeth Evans had buried, were examined before Justice Pond, Wednesday. There was no evidence against them and they were discharged. The directors of the State Savings Bank met Tuesday and elected W. J. Booth, president, vice A. L. Noble, deceased; and f . D. Ryan to the vacancy made by Mr. Booth's promotion. N. J. Kyer and Dr. D. A. McLachlan were chosen directors to fiil vacancies. The committee of the Bethiehem church society having general charge of the new church have elected Rev. John Neumann chairman and G. Wahr secretary. The building committee, consisting of Rev. J: Neumann, T. F. Hutzel and John Koch, will report plans and estimated cost of the new edifice at the July meeting of the committee. lt is told or one ot our new patrolmen that recently when he went to arrest a man who was so drunk that he couldn't stand alone, the officer was bound to put a pair of handcuffs on the man before he would touch him. Rut in his nervousness, this being his first arrest, the officer snapped the handcuffs shut and couldn't open them again. Marshal Banfield should give his force daily handcuff and club drills. The Marshal, with Officers Collins, Peterson and McCabe, armed with search warrants, visited a number of students' rooms yesterday, in search of stolen signs. From half a dozen places they brought away a dray load of signs, embracing everything from an opera house "Taken" to a "Boarding" sign ten feêt long. Other places will be searched today and warrants issued for the offenders. It is probable that the fad of sign stealing will be less popular in Ann Arbor now. Street Commissioner Sutherland has in his possession a photograph which shows plainly how well the minor ordinances and admonitions of the city government are obeyed. In Hanover park there is a sign about ten feet long and two feet broad upon which is printed in letters a foot high, " Keep oñ the Park. ' ' Notwithstanding this order of the city so publicly displayed, the picture, which was taken by a kodak fiend, shows a young lady seated on top of the sign and another standing beside it. Invitations are oat for the wedding of Jacob R. Bischoff and Miss Emma A. Ardner, which is to take place at the residence of the bride's mother on Detroit street, next Thursday evening at six o'clock. Mr. Moses Gomberg, instructor in organic chemistry in the University, was at Benzonia, Tuesday, where he was a witness before the coroner's jury in the inquest on Anna Thacker, whom it was suspected had been poisoned. He swore that he had examined portions of the stomach, liverand brain and found arsenic in all the parts. The jury rendered a verdict charging the woman's husband with administering the poison. At the banquet given by Fraternity Lodge, F. & A. M., this evening, the following toasts will be responded to: Toast-master, Prof. Levi D. Wines; A Universal Brother hood, Hon. Wm. G. Doty; Membership, Chas. E Hiscock; The Clergyman as a Masón, Rev. Sherwood Roosevelt, Owosso; Medical Masonry, Dr. Victor C. Vaughan; Impressions, Rev. Henry Tatlock; L & i, Prof. H. N. Chute; A Talk, Hon. A. J. Sawyer. The parishof St. Andrew 'schuren, Detroit, of which Rev. W. O. Waters, formerly assistant rector ot St. Andrew's church in this city, and curator of Harris Hall, is the rector, is about to commence the erection of a grand edifice, to cost 50,000, and to be known as St. Andrew's Memorial church, in honor of the late Bishop Harris, who was so beloved by the people of this diocese. Sunday's Detroit Free Press gave illustrations which indícate that it will be by far the most beautiful church edifice in that For a superb exhibition of the assine qualities, the committee of the board of supervisor that has been ordering sorae of the fine old trees on the court house square cut down, cannot be equalled. A few weeks ago a fine maple on the west side was cut down without any excuse and yesterday morning a man started in to cut down one of the finest of the row of old elms that lines the north walk. After the tree had been damaged so that it will probably die, one of the parties in charge was induced to cali a halt until the matter could be brought before the committee again.