Local Brevities

The loop line track is finished. High School football season is closed. Ten persons unired with the Presbyterian church last Sunday. Heusel Bros. have opened a bakery and confectionery at 22 Huron street. __ Atthe close of his term, Sheriff Brenner will resume work with the Deering Harvester company. Edward Seyler has purchased the Remie property on E. Catherine street, and will remove there in the spring. The Strawberry Lake club membership talk of purchasing property on Crooked Lake and moving their camp there. The Ferguson cart ard carriage company are already shipping cutters to New York, Pennsylvania and other snow ciad countries. Christian Fritz, of Scio, reports the nut erop very poor this year. The republicans will see to it that it is bettered next year. Aid. Manly received a fall from a ■wagon and received bruises that caused him to think that perhaps Nov. 6 had repeated itself. The next of the series of faculty concerts will occur next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, at Frieze Memorial hall, school of music. Hugh Shields, of the Exchange hotel, butchered a fat pig last week weighing 336} pounds, counting the stone in the porker's mouth. The attempt of John Webber to stop Hangsterfer's ice machine with his little finger was a total failure. Witness the absence of the finger. The Palace rink has been sold to Ernest P. Cook, who will turn it into a farmers' market building. The building and ground sold for i,5 Among the names suggested for appointment to the trusteeship of the Eastern asylum are those of J. Booth, T. J. Keech and Aid. H. G. Prettyman. The library at McMillan hall is open daily from 9 a. m. to 12, 2 to 6 p. m. and 7 to 9 p. m. Sundays from 2 to 6 p. m. All who desire to read are welcome. Ypsilanti can have the Florence Display Furniture company, of Chi cago, by simply paying $15,000 spot cash. The council is still black in the face from loss of breath. The A. A. L. I. drill corps is practising for the coming entertainment. Sixteen young ladies and gentlemen equally matched will give a faney drill of foot movements. The paragraph in last Friday's Argus on "occultism" became so mixed up by the mechanical director as to be altogether too "occult" for understanding. A misplaced line did the mischief. A bullhead in the aquarium of the Eberbach drug store drew a costly lot of leeches through a small hole in the partition wall of the apartments'and ate them. Not so much of a "bullhead" after all. The funeral of Henry Fieldheusser was held Friday at the residence of his grandfather, Jacob Fischer, on N. Main street, Rev. John Neuraan conducting the services, and the remains were taken to Grayling for interment. I The M. CA. girls will have al sale of pretty and inexpensive Christmas gif ts, at the Presbyterian chnrch parlors, Saturday afternoon next, from 2:30 to 8 o'clock. The American house, when refitted, will be four stories high, will contain steam heating and a passenger elevator, and Manager Staebler thinks it probable that the hotel will j furnish its own electric lights. The children of the late Jacob! Haller wish to express their thanks i Jto the many friends of the faraily who have been so considérate and assisted and consoled them in their late hour of grief and sorrow. Also to the Zion church choir. Death is no respecter of persons and strikes down the sexton with the same reraorseless hand that it does others. Louis Steirike, sexton of Fo'rest Hill cemetery, rüed Friday morning of appendi'u_s, after an illness ot only two (!_, 3. Mr. N. Ë. Freer and family went to Gaines, near Flint, last VVednesday, to attend the wedding of Mr. Freer's cousin, Miss Lillie Mae Van Vle.et, to Mr. Andrew Slihle. They returned yesterday. The bride is well and favorably known to many Washtenaw people, she having formerly resided in the western part of the county. New officers of Fraternity Lodge, 262, F. & A. M.: VV. M., C. B. Davison; S. W., H. G. Prettyman; f. W., John M. Smoots; secretary, Chas. W. Greenman; treasurer, C. E. Hiscock; S. D., Elmer E. Beal; J. D., Geo. R. Cooper; tyler, Thos. Taylor. The installation of officers will be public in conjuction with Golden Rule lodge, No. 159. "Wanted. A second girl for Ann Arbor," was the advertisement in the "want column" of the Detroit Free Press, a few days ago, and yet tliere are scores of girls right here in the city who need employment. - Democrat. Well, but you see the "scores of'girls right in the city" are all "best girls." VVhat the fellow wanted was a "second girl" for every day. A young groom and his bride were at one of the depots last week, about to take their departure for the bridal tour. Unconscious of the joke sorae of his friends had played on him the newly wedded young man was smiling around with a placard pinned to the back of his coat, reading. "We're just raarried." It was a case where ignorance was bliss. Golden Rule lodge, No. 157, F. & A. M., Thursday evening of last week elected the following officers: A. W. Gasser, W. M.j H. B. Dodsley, S. W.; W. H. Baxter, J. VV.; L. C. Goodrich, Treas.; N. D. Gales, Sec; A. R. Thomas, S. D.; H. F. Milist, J. D.; X. J. Kyer, T. A committee was appointed to confer with Fraternity lodge in reference to a public installation. The board of public works threatens to bring a suit, nunc pro tune, against the Times for the statement that that august body chewed pepsin gum during the last executive session. There can be no further doubt that the object of the Times reporter is to bring the board into sedition with the public. This was not his first concupiscence in respect to the evils he has wrought and is still wroughting upon the board. Ben Mummery 'a short time ago was not much of a marksman. He couldn't have hit a crack in the fence and showed the bullet hole aftenvards; but he is getting on. While hunting sparrows a few days ago he shot himself in the foot, the ball passing entirely through and lodging in the sole of the shoe. He went home and pluckily resolved to keep still about it, but the ache was too intense, and he was persuaded to let his parents into the secret. The wour.d is doing well. - 0 The A. M. E. church on Fourth avenue is now lathed and plastered, and the pastor, Rev. Wrn. Collins, expresses thanks to all those who have aided in the work, the church having stood unfinished about three years, waiting for the "troubling of the waters" of generosity. All that the church requires has not yet been accomplished, the pastor estirhating that about $6150 more will be needed. It is not a large sum to raise, but will be required before the edifice will be ready for occupancy. A member of the G. C, in a communication to the Times of Friday, reterring to the Columbian ürgan concert, remarks that "the people of Ann Arbor will make an irreparable mistake if they do not come to that concert in droves. " Such a suggestion is almost an imputation on the public of Ann Arbor. University hall will be filled to the last seat on the night of the concert. Of this there is already the fullest assurance. The "irreparable mistake," if any is made, will be in ; not reserving seats in time to secure the most eligible locations. There is danger of this, and no other. 'The cxecutive committee of the Reform League-" prints a communicatión in the Times, in which is aunounced the intention ot putting the University and high school professors to the test of signing the pledge of abstinence from both liquors and tobáceo. Not they only, but all others who can be persuaded to do so, will be invited to join in the boycott of Kinr Alcohol and Oíd Nic o' Tine. The Argus is published for revenue rather than for reformation, but it sympathizes with any movement that is calculated to down tiic dirty, despicable little cigarette.