Local Brevities

An Elk lodge is talked of here. The Strollers play in Dexter to night. The Arlington House is being re painted. The Mikado is dated for the opera house, May 28 and 29. John C. Walz is building a house on West Jefferson street. F. W. Dembois has sold his farm and will remove to Detroit. Hobart Guild will hold its annual meeting next Thursday evening. The Epworth league holds its annual election, May 13. Rev. Henry Tatlock spoke on missions in Hamburg, Sunday. The Oak Grove club will hold a beefsteak supper at Zukey lake, May i5 Prof. F. N. Scott is having an addition built to his house on College street. St. Thomas school holds its. annual June festival in the opera house, June 7. The Choral Union hold a social at Frieze Memorial h.dl, Friday evening. Rev. C. M. Cobern exchanged pulpits Sunday with Rev. Dr. Pattison, of Lansing. Prof. Stanley lectures at the School of Music on Thursday on Richard Wagner. The Michigan Central paid out $10,000 for removing snow from its tracks last winter. The Kenyon college nine play the Universities on the athletic field Wednesday afternoon. Deputy county treasurer Peter Lehman will build a house this spring on West Liberty. Rev. J. W. Bradshaw exchanged pulpits Sunday with Rev. H. Van Ormeren, of Grass Lake. John Goetz, Sr., will extend his store on South Main street back to the alley and put in an elevator. The lecture of Prof. Kelsey on Pompeii will be given in the Presbyterian church next Saturday evening. A law partnership has been formed between Charles H. Kline and Jas. C. Lewis under the name of Kline & Lewis. The University base ball nine defeated their old rivals, the D. A. C, in a game here Saturday by a score of 21 to ii. Elocution recital, High School hall, Friday evening, May 3. Best home talent on the program. Admission five and ten cents. A reunión of the old scholars and teachers of school district No. 3 fractional of Pittsfield, on the gravel road, will be held next Friday evening. The University lost the second annual debate with Northwestern at Evanston, Friday night. The debate was presided over by Vice President Stevenson and was an able one. The Humane society offers a reward of $100 for the discovery of the person who has been poisoning dogs about the city, and hopes that they will be able to pay the reward. William Masón died last Thursday night, aged sixty-two years. He was born in England, and had resided in Northfield for thirty-seven years. He leaves a wífe, seven sons and two daughters. Ypsilanti Grange will hold an open meeting in Union block, May. 4, at 1:30 p. m. The subject to be 'considered is "Science in the Óom111011 Schools." All patrons and teachers are very cordially invited. Andrew J. Fuller died at his home on Thirteenth street, Sunday, aged forty-six years and four months, leaving a widow and two daughters. The funeral services were held in St. Thomas' church at nine o'clock this raorning. Michael O'.Mara, a resident of this city for the past forty-eight years, died at his home on Ann street, last Friday night, aged seventy-three years. The funeral services ere held Monday morning in St. Thomas' church. ' Stark & Gartee have put in a telephone. Fred Harpst is building a new house on Packard street. The Oracle board, of the University will be elected next Saturday. James C. Lewis, of Utica, has removed to this city and gone into the law business. Mrs. S. Doane, of El Paso, Texas, has sold her lot on So. Main street through the Bach agency. The Sons of Veterans give a mock Trial by Court Martial next Thursday eve at the G. A. R. rooms. Patrick Malone, a Livingston county man, got drunk and paid $4.70 into Justice Gibson's court on SatHrday. The Dundee Reporter speaks in the highest terms of the concert given there by the Ann Arbor Concerc club. Mrs. S. R. Davis has sold her farm west of the city through the Bach & Butler agency. Consideration, $2,700. Senator John W. Daniels, of Virginia, lectures in the Student Lecture association course next Friday evening on "Americanism and the Monroe Doctrine." G. Frank Allmendinger is having the old brick house on South Fifth avenue, just north of J. E. Beal's residence, dismantled today, preiaratory to building a new house. Chris. Brenner is the owner of he Monitor barn and will run a eed and livery business. There is also a strong of an agricultural implement business being started in the building. R. M. Coate, son of Rev. Mr. Coate, of Wauseon, at one time a compositor on the Argus, has graduated from the Chicago theological eminary, and has accepted the pasorate of the Congregational church n Ortonville, Minn., at a salary of 8oo. John Reynolds, of Howell, arived in Ann Arbor yesterday. He ays his farm is looking in fine condition. Last fall he sold five fat cattle. If he had them now he vould receive doublé the amount of money. He is looking forward to a srosperous year for farmers. At a joint meeting of the trustees and building committee of the Bethehem church it was decided to offer heir building and lot, corner First and Washington streets, for sale. Particulars regarding the sale can be obtained from August DeFries, John Koch, Titus Hutzel and A. C. Schumacher. An Argus man met W. R. Pierce, agent for the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Co., manufacturers of the Champion binders and mowers, recently, and was informed that the company had made more sales, up to the present time this year, than during the corresponding months of any previous year since the company was organized. This seems to imply that the farmers are feeling the new life which is beginning to púlsate in every channel of business. Ann Arbor had a spelin skule this week, and the Courier says many educated people went down on easy words. For instance Prof. Wines took his seat on "believe," and a University senior on "solar." The simple word "peddler" took the breath away from five contestants in i succession, and the word "brawling" sent a whole lot sprawling. A professor was taken down on the word "scurrilous," which was a scurrilous advantage to take of him. It took about an hour and a half to down all the contestants, which proves conclusively that it was quite a spell after all. - Ypsilanti Commercial. Alanson Moore, returned from Indianapolis, Ind., yesterday where he was called by the death of his son, Fred A. Moore, who held the position of chief operator for the Western Union telegraph company in that city. The deceased went to Indianapolis 22 years ago, and had worked his way to the management of the company's business there. He was bom in VVisconsin, Feb. 12, '51, and lived here a number of years with his parents, learning the trade nights and mornings at the M. C. R. R. station while attending school. He assisted the operator here, who at that time was Aaron Parsons, and thus acquired a thor1 ough knowledge of the business. He left a wife and two daughters. His mother and father, Mr. and -Mrs. Alanson Moore, live on North Thayer