Local Brevities

The shoe stores are again closing at six o'clock. The Lyra Maennerchor gave a party Sunday evening. The street car service now is giving excellent satisfaction. An April fooi social was held at the M. E. church last night. Geo. Rauschenberger has bought the store of W. B. Rane, at Whitmore Lake. The excavation for the basement of the new Bethlehem church has commenced. George Spathelf, jr.,has purchased the property on the corner of Moore and Traver streets. The Lansing Liederkranz has invited the Lyra Maennerchor to at tend a dedication of a flag, June 20. Four candidates will receive the initiatory degree at Otseningo lodge, I. O. O. F., tonight. A banquet will follow. Rev. Dr. Davis, of Detroit, will conduct the regular quarterly meetihg services in the First M. E. church next Sunday morning. The Kappa Sigma people were banqueted at Hangsterfer's by E. M. Walsh last Saturday evening. The occasion was a very pleasant one. The village of Chelsea by a vote of 217 to 139, decided to make contract with the Chelsea Electric Light company, to light the streets of that village. The final settlement of the estáte of the late Enoch D. Davis has been completed, and the entire property goes to his wife, Mrs. E. D. Davis, as per terms of the will. J. Henry Van Tassel was chosen secretary at the Epworth League convention in Detroit, last week. Prof. D. VV. Springer was made a member of the advisory board. "Joseph de Maistre and the Catholic Reaction in France" will be the subject of Prof. Walter's lecture before the University Bible class of the M. E. church next Sunday at 12 m. Remember: Place, Newberry hall; time, 7:45 p. m., April 4th; admission, 10 cents; object, a piano for the Y. W. C. A. Come and see what the result of some of our class vork shows. The Ann Arbor telephone exchange has readjusted telephone rates, making the followiug tariff: Business establishments, $36; residences within a mile radius of the exchange, $30. The U. of M. Silver Club will hold a meeting in room 13, law building, Friday evening April 5th, for an informal discussion of financial topics. People of all shades of opinión are invited to be present and participate. The third of his course of lectures on the topic, "If you had your Life to live over," will be delivered by Dr. Cobern next Sunday evening. In addition he will give a posttude on "Mr. Ingersall's Views of the Bible." A unión meeting of all the young people's societies of the city will be held in the auditorium of the M. E. church next Sunday evening at 6:15. The delegates to the State conventions of the Epworth league and V. P. S. C. E., which were held last week in Detroit and Hay City, will give reports. Saturday evening, April 6, at 8 o'clock, Mr. J. E. Beal will deliver the third lecture in the Epworth league lecture course. His subject will be "Fording a Fiord." Six years ago Mr. Beal, in company with friends, spent a very pleasant thsee weeks cycling across Norway and Sweden. His lecture will describe this fascinating trip. Don't forget the entertainn, nt this eveuing at Johnsou lunr. Mu-'J sic by Burkhardt, eiocution by Handy, and pictures in charcoal anïi chalk by Alexander. Hall over Beal's shoe store; doors open at 7 :3o. Admission, 10c, children, 5c. Dr. G. Stanley Hall, of Worcester, Mass., will deliver a lecture VVednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock, on the "Study of Children." The lecturer is too well known to need comment. He should be heard by all who can possibly attend. Admission, 10 cents. The Rev. Yung Kiung Yen, M. A., a native missionary from China, will give an address in St. Andrew's church, Friday, April 5th, at 4:30 p. m. Rev. Mr. Yen is pis or of the Church of Our Saviour, a native Christian organization in Shanghai, and holds services at the hospitals for men and women and at three outlaying points. He also gives instructions in physiology to the medical students in St. John's College, Shanghai. He was invited ast winter by the "Society for the Suppression of the Opium Traffic," to visit ïngland, and was busily engaged here for some time as a representaive of all Chinese Christians, in Drotesting against the traffic in opium. Mr. Yen was educated in America, and is now revisiting this country for the first time in thirty years. He is a graceful and earnest speaker and will have much that is nteresting to teil us about the mission work in his native land. No one can plead the cause of China more forcibly than he.