Local Brevities

The Arm Arbor Light Infantry will give an Easter hop. The bigwëll at "the waterworks is now down over twenty feet. A good sized addition to the Cook house will be built this spring. johnsonTent, K. O. T. M, will attend a meeting of the Delhi tent on Tuesday evening. Mrs. Helen Post, who had resided in Vpsilanti for thirty-three years, died Saturday, aged 84 years. Four cars are running on the main line of the Street railway and the service is much improved. Koch Bros. have the contract for building W. G. Dieterle's doublé store on Liberty street, this spring. The Woman's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. netted $10.25 at the social at Mrs. Schairer's, Friday evening. Miss VVadsworth, of Boston, Mass., spoke in the Second Baptist church, Sunday evening, on "Home and Foreign Missions." Rev. Ryan, of Ypsilanti, will lecture before the Washtenaw county Sunday school institute at Christ church, this evening. The Courier is authority for the statement that Samuel G. Miller, of this city, has a farm in Kansas 22 miles long, with not a grasshopper on it. Mr. James Quincy, of Forest avenue, is very ill with typhoid pneumonía. He was first taken with the grip which developed into the above named trouble. Mrs. John W. Bennett slipped on the ice on Ann street Sunday morning, and in falling struck her face on a picket fence, inflicting a severe cut which just missed one of her eyes. Charles Schroen, of Saline, will take a position with the Star Clothing (Noble's) house, of this city. He has been in the employ of 1). Nissly, of Saline, for the past three years, and is a first-class salesman. The killing off of the flocks of sheep begins to teil on the mutton market. The price for dressed carcasses is now 3 cents against 2 cents last year. - Courier. This is the way the Courier has of accounting for the rise of prices of sheep predicted by the Argus when the Wilson bill passed. President Cleary, of the Cleary Business College, Ypsilanti, is about to launch a new educational magazine, to be known as "Educational Extensión." As the name implies, a wide range of subjects will be treatcd, and everything that appears will be original. An able corps of writers from Michigan and various other states has been engaged, and eacli will contribute a series ot articles on his special subject. Thus will the meritorious character of the magazine be assured from the start. The prospectus which he has gotten out is a beauty. The designs, in three colors, on the cover, the headings of the pages, the type that will be used, and the paper, have all been selected with the object of giving the magazine an artistic appearance. The outlook for the success of the undertaking, from all indications at the present time, seems te be most flattering. The Argus wishes President Cleary abundam success. The ladies of the Presbyterian church give a tea social next Thursday evening. The ladies of the Presbyterian church will give a tea and social L'hursday at Op. m. You are invited. John Wisner, of Manchester, slipped on a snow drift on a sidewalk and sprained his leg, and has been confined to the house for some time. A crow was seen flyi-ng north last Monday. - Manchester Enterprise. Hope some republican will have to eat n, this spring. - Adrián Press. The next regular meeting of the V. C. T. U. will be held Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock, at McMilian hall. Important business will be transacted. The Woman's Auxiliary of the V M. C. A. desire to express their thanks to those friends of the city who so kindly presented them with kitchen and table supplies. Philip McManus, of Ypsilanti, returned from the soldier's home last Thursday. got his pension and brated. He paid $5.20 costs in Justice Pond's court yesterday. Howard E. Coffin, the substitute letter carrier, has been recommended for promotion and has beeti given mail route No. 7. Carrier W. F. Armstrong has been changed to route No. 5. Rev. W. E. C. Wright, district secretary of the American Missionary association, will give a lecture, illustraied with numerous stcreopticon views, in the Congregational church, Wednesday evening, March 20, at eight o'clock. Admission, ten cents. Grocery men (in Ann Arborj are now busily engaged brushing the flyspecs off their maple sugar and having new "Fresh Maple Sugar" cards printed. This is a sure sign of spring. - Commercial. This is a base libel on Ann Arbor. A slander suit will follow. Messrs. F. P. Saddler, lit '95, J. V. Oxtoby, law'95, and C. F. Kimball, law '95, won the debate over six other contestants in the law lecture room and will represent the University in the debate with Northwestern. The University will be well represented. Sotneone ought (o take up a collection and send to Lincoln VanOrden, of Ann Arbor. He lately shot a dog over there, and a judicial freak iined him $2 and $3costs. We can 't concur in such asentence. He ought to have been paid a bounty, even if he shot the canine on pupus. - Adrián Press. All persons having rooms to let during the classical conference to be held in this city the last week in March, will please notify D. F, Mertz by letter or cali on him at Newberry hall from 9:30 to 10 a. m. or 3 to 3:30 p. m. If notifying by letter, please state the price per day for rooms or rooms and board. Manchester held a quiet election Monday, the citizens' ticket being successful, excepting treasurer. The following officers were elected: President, W. Kimble; trustees, E. E. Root, D. McCord, A. J. Wurster; clerk, B. W. Amsden; treasurer, F. Steinkohl; assessor, H. Burch. One of the hottest contested village elections for many years was held in Chelsea yesterday. Two tickets were in the field, the citizens' and the workingmen's. The workingmen's ticket carried by a large majority: President, Geo. V. Beckwith, 77 majority; Frederick W. Rodel, clerk, 75; trustees, August Mensing, 63; Geo. P. Glazier, 49; John P. Foster, 73; treasurer, John W. Beissel, 66; assessor, Edgar Williams, 94.