Local Brevities

It was a warm school meeting. Eastern Star chapter meets tomorrow night. Chas. F. Staebler is the opera house decorator. Mrs. Robert Metcalf, of Brooks street, died yesterday. K. O. T. M. excursión to Lansing on the nth. Fare, $1.25. Somebody who was probably dying for noodle soup, Friday night stole the wires and stakes of Prof. Trueblood's croquet set. Mr. William P. James and family expect to move into their new house on the corner of Packard and State streets about the middle of this month. While on a country run, ten miles from home last Thursday, the tire of Simon Butlei's wheel lost its wind, and he walked in. Blowed? Why certainly he was. Something which by reference to ancient books was decided to be rain, feil yesterday. It is said that it will work no damage to crops. It was what was called a shower. The Prohibitionists get at it today at 2 p. m. , in county convention, at the court house. What ! prohibitionists in Washtenaw? Yes, sir; right here in Washtenaw. The populist county convention to name a county ticket and two candidates for the state legislature will _be held at the court house Sept i8th, at 11 o'clock a. m. The 17A annual fair of the Stockbridge Union Agricultural so■ ciety will be held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 2. 3 and 4. The premium list is unusually attractive. Mr. Bach has been continously on the school board of Ann Arbor 41 consecutive years. This, we venture is an unmatched record. If itcan be beaten let the affidavits or personal witnesses be forthcoming. Miss Mary Lithegon, of Manistee, will be a student at the University this next year. She recently inherited $800,000 by the death of an únele, and has now decided to take the medical course in the U. of M. and finish her studies in Paris. - Daily Times. N. D. Corbin is engaged in recompiling the ordinances of the city of Ann Arbor, eliminating and burying those that are dead, and assorting and arranging those that are alive. It is a work that requires care and painstaking. It is in competent hands. Frank E. Case, of the Ann Arbor organ factory, is desirous of organizing a band out of new material, from 15 to 20 years of age. This is not designed as a means of eradicating the Russian thistle, but an honest, earnest effort to secure to the city a band of young members, full of vim and good lungs. Those wishing to belong to such an organization should interview Mr. Case. The jury in the case of John Meyers, of Ypsilanti, accused of opening his saloon too early in the rnorning, said it was all an optical illusion; that he never did it. Discharged. They say the municipal whiskey law of Ypsilanti won't hold water in the courts, because the record does not disclose who voted for it. The record is, yeas S, nays none. After the appointment of the committee to arrange for the birthday of Gov. Felch, at the bar meeting held Saturday, Hon. A. J. Sawyer was elected president of the Washtenaw bar association, Arthur Brown secretary, and J. W. Bennett treasurer. The new president was escorted to the chair by J. F. Lawrence and B. M. Thompson, and made a happy inaugural speech. The secretary of the State Agricultural Fair Association has the thanks of the Argus for compliraentary ticket to the exhibition. The association has accomplished grand work in making the State Fair the great success that it now seems likely to be. Exhibition open from September 10 to 21. M. F. Clements having bought the old Dr. Kellogg property in the Fifth ward, has opened up the mineral well used by the doctor with marked success. The well has had a rest of seventeen years. Itis 500 feet deep, and the water which is strong in mineral properties, comes to the surface as cold as the heartof a plumber. Mr. Clements proposes to place the water on the market. When a horse has been a slave to a man all his life and breaks a leg, it would seem a very small return to the animal to mercifully end his misery with a bullet A horse that had a broken leg was allowed to He helpless all night, on Hill street. Two small cartridge shots were emptied in its head but these were not sufficient. Ladies of the Humane society called attention to the suffering animal and it was at last killed by J. J. Goodyear and M. C. Peterson. Mr. Takenoski Fururya, from Japan, formerly a student of the University, was in the city last week, having revisited America in the interest of a tea house. He gave some account of the situa'rion reharding the Korean woodchuck over which China and Japan are now squabbling. He verified what Count Neshina had previously said of the high esteem in which the Argus is held in the Japanese slands. The Argus subscription ist is steadily increasing. A very happy feature of the late reunión of the Twenty-second Michgan Infantry at Pontiac, was the return of the old battle flag to the survivers by the identical ladies :rom whose hands it was presented thirty-two years ago. The ladies were then known as Julia Comstock and Emma Adams - now Mrs. D. S. rloward and Mrs. Wells Utely, of Detroit. That the same ladies who n behalf of the donors gave away the flag more than a generation ago, should have survivedjto re-present it, was one of the happy indulgences of time. It goes that a traveling man who was in the city, last week, while walking in the evening with two adies, was halted by two men who 50 cents. He responded sy drawing his revolver, and the men created immediate and sudden remoteness between them and him. The "half dol." was spent for ice cream and soda. So it goes all through life. Today we walk fourth n the pride, pomp and circumstance of manhood, with a half dollar in our pocket, and tonight it goes into the till of the frozen hearted con:ectionery man.