Local Brevities

Union services' 'at the M. E. church next Sunday. Washtenaw farmers picnic at Whitmore Lake on the 25:11. Prof. Kempf will open a summer school and close Oct. 1 with a-iesital. The monthly meeting of the Ann Arbor Turn Verein will be held on the nth. At St. Andrew's next Sunday Rev. Tatlock will engage in the great strike. The Ann Arbor Rifles have fixed the date for their Put-in-Bay excursión at July 18. Rev. Dr. Cobern declines a tempting offer of the pastorate of a Pennsylvania church. Caroll Jones has secured a sit at a convenient salary with the electric light works of Cincinatti. The court house flag was lowered to half-mast yesterday in respect of the memoryof ex-Governor Winans. There will be no further services at the Presbyterian church until August ist, except a unión service There will be service and sermón in the Geddes school house next Sunday at 3 p. m., the Rev. E. M. Duff officiating. Justice Bogardus, of Ypsilanti, "fought the good fight' ' for four years, has stripped off the ermine, and is a private citizen. The Sentinel alleges that Rev. Dr. Ryan drives a four minute horse. Is this the same gentleman who criticized the female minstrel show? In St. Andrew's church, next Sunday morning, the Rev. Henry Tatlock will preach on "The Principies Involved in the Railroad Strike." J. J. Ferguson has secured the contract for building a $2,000 house for Mrs. Woodmansee, on Geddes avenue, to be completed by the first of October. Intelligence is received from Philip Bach, jr. , of Cooney, N. M., of the destruction of his store by fire, and a loss of $40,000, with only partial insurance. A farmer, name not learned, called at the residence of Dr. Smith last evening to have a gap in his scalp closed. a horse had given him "a corker." The body f E. P. Beard drowned near Ypsilanti, while bathing, last Monday was recovered Thursday morning by Mr. Meade of the Superior Mills who found it as he was rowing up the river. Samuel L.Skelding, a conductor of the Michigan Central when the road was owned by the state, died in Detroit Wednesday last week. He was in the service forty-six years, with never an accident. Wednesday morning last week a small pox sign .was found tacked to the residence of Mr. E. M. Daniels, of Ypsilanti. It was a trick. Charged to college students, of course. Ypsilanti would be round shouldered carrying her own sins, but for the college students. "A man is known by the company he keeps." - Ann Arbor Democrat. Precisely. The first time that we come to Ann Arbor we shall make a bee-line for the Dernocrat office. - Adrián Press. Thisexplains why the Democrat office cat has lately taken to hiding under the stove. Mrs. Charlotte D. Finley has received a diploma of honorable mention, signed by the director general and Mrs. Bertha Honore Palmer, president of the board of lady managers, as a book illustrative of the children's department of the World's Columbian Exposition. Emanating from so high a source, the diploma is highly complimentary to Mrs. Finley. The 4th was pickpockets' day at St. Joseph. Among those who were disencumbered of their valuables was E. T. McClure, proprietor of the Cook house, Ann Arbor. His elegant gold watch and chain slipped away, "just as easy!" O, those golden slippers! Sympathizing friends here talk of sending Mr. McClure a town clock, with logchain and cannon ball charm - something he can miss in time to throttle the thief. Colored Hackman Jack Loney yesterday caused the arrest of S. M. Crowell, a New York traveling man. Loney "hawked" upon the traveler's grip, and the latter not wishing to ride with him ordered him to drop it and as Loney understands, stigmatized him as the shady offspring of a mother who was no gentleman, which so mortified the Hamitic pride of the hackman that the arrest followed. . Obsequies this p. m. - Justice Bennett. ; An interesting account of the Vv'hitmore Lake celebration will appear in Tuesday's issue. Marshal Ross, of Ypsilanti, has caused the arrest of Brown & Richardson for keeping their spiritual establishment open on Sunday. The contract for supplying the apparatus for the Waterman gymnasium has been let to the Spaulding Gymnasium supply Company, of Chicago. A new flag floats over the court house. It is an elegant streamer and the blue of the stellarzone contains blank space enough for the future states of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. The Ann Arbor city parents on the father's side held a picnic at Zukey lake yesterday. Of course the Schwabian element was completely eliminated. Not a councilman but would lose a drink sooner than his life. The funeral of ex-Governor Winans occurs this afternoon at two o'clock and will be in charge of Undertaker Martin, of this city. The casket is one of those known as the "state casket" and is of red cedar with oxygenized extensión handles. A wagon loaded with ammunition passed through Ann Arbor early on the morning of the 4th. It was driven through from Detroit and was destined to Jackson. The warlike consignment was for the use of troops and was shipped by wagon as a more discrete and sure means of transportation than the railroad. The Key to the sewer won't unlock the laterals without assistance. If the engineer is overworked he should have help. With a hot, dry summer in prospect, it is going to be a neck-and-neck race between the laterals and typhoid fever with the most expeditious work that can be done on the former before cold weather. On the 4th Florian Muehlig of 96 South Main street was in Dexter and with some Ann Arbor companions visited a target range, when by accident as he was passing the target some one "let sliver" and bored I Muehlig's wrist a bullet. He brought the lead home with him still in the wrist, where it will remain till its course can be traced, then an attempt will be made to unload i him. The Adrián Press kicks because Í "the regents of the university will' insist on students taking their own ! notes." Don't like this kind of financiering, eh? and yet it is exactly in line with the Press' doctrine that the government can compel a nominal dollar to pass for a dollar by stamping it a dollar. The Argus can 't see why the students shouldn't take their own notes. They are good for Argus subscriptions if well endorsed. Major M. L. Belser, surgeon of the First Regiment, received an order on the 4th to hold himself in readiness for further orders. The Major filed and set his saw, drew his surgical knives back and forth on the sole of his shoe, and maintained an attitude of duty-like sterness, for a couple of hours, but as time went On and no further orders were received, the Major said he guessed he would go into the back room and relax his face a few minutes, which he did, and observed as the war cloud again darkened over his countenance then he feit rested. Kalamazoo is to be congratulated on the accession of Myron P. Green, D. D. S. to the ranks of her professional people. He graduated from the Dental Department of the University last week and was considered both in his studies and in operating among the best in his class. Mr. Green is well known to the writer of this, he having graduated from the Charlotte high school some years ago while the writer was superintendent of the city schools. He is a young man of fine ability and irreproachable character and is entirely worthy of confidence. He will undoubtedly achieve a high degree of success in his chosen profession.