Local Brevities

New gas mains are being laid on ( Beakes and North Main staeets. Jacobs & Allmand, the live shoe men ' of Washington street, have a change of ■ ad in another column. _ Abery Floyd, infant son of E. E. ; Calkins, died Saturday morning of con; gestión of the brain, aged sixteen months. - When all the contemplated provements are completed at the Hotel American, there will be 75 ■ rooms for guests. 1 The Michigan Furniture company is , showing a very prosperous condition of , affairs. It has declare a semi annual , dividend of three per cent, payable at , the Ann Arbor Savings bank. Mr. L.A. Patterson, of St. Johns, bas purchased the property of Mrs. Giles Lee on State and Ann streets and will move here in the fall. Mrs. Lee is , spending the summer at Bay View. The laying of the Hill street ] eral sewer through the old Lawrence farm will prove of great valué to ] that section of the city in draining the land. It is said that in some places the , bicycle has so far superceded the livery as to make it necessary and ; profitable for liverymen to keep wheels to rent as well as livery rigs. Services at the Presbyterian chnrch are closed until the middle of August to ' give the pastor, J. M. Gelston, his annual vacation. During the vacation ■ there will be one unión evening service at this church. ; The fire department responded to three calis last Monday. The blazes 1 were of little consequence. The ■ last cali was to extinguish some rubbish at the crossing of the T. & A. A. on Huron street. i Miss Clara L. Clark, formely a critic teacherr in the training ! school at the Normal at Ypsilanti has been elected to a similar postion in the State Normal school at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, at a salary of $800. She will return to her home in New York for a visit before going to her new field. Yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Loveridge, in Ypsilati, occnrred the marriage of Miss Hattie Brown and Mr. Glenn Seymour. They are two of Ypsilanti's prominent young people and a host of friends extend congratulations. The Jackson Patriot, one of Michigan's most progressive newspapers, has given new evidence of its enterprise by putting in a Thorne Typesetting machine. The Patriot is bound to keep up to the times and fully deserves the success it is receiving. The open cars of the Ann Arbor electric road are proving very popular. On Saturday and Sunday evenings seats were at a premium. The new excursión rates arranged for the evenings of July, August and September are tempting many to ride by the hour and visit with friends. The Sunday school of Bethlehem church will be given a picnic and an excursión to Whitmoro Lake on Thursday, July 18, to which their frriends are invited. The fare for the round trip will be adults 50 cents and children 20 cents, Sunday school scholars free. Tickets may be had at the following places: Michael Gauss, Henne and Stanger.Hutzel & Co., and M. H. Mogk at L. Gruner's. The dry weather affects theWashtenawCounty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. lts losses so far are higher than for a number of years. The assessm-ent to be made up to Augus 1 will be comparatively large. In the past four years the total assess ments amounted to $4.20 for$i,ooo insurance. The low rate of losse and expenses of the company enable the members, even with a highe assessment this year, to have a very low rate of insurance. A iarge gang of men are laying an eight-inch gas pipe from the works on Beakes street through Main to Huron street. Supt. Harry Douglas says he hopes the Iarge pipe will give steady pressure anC obvíate the difficulty experienced last winter. After six o'clock, with the old threeinch pipe, the pressure could not be maintained in spite of all that could be done. Mrs. Fred Luebke of the north side, died last Monday at her home No. 12 Wright street, of consumption. She was but little more than 32 years of age. Her infant child died the day before and mother and child were on Tuesday both buried in the same casket. The services were conducted by Rev. Max Hein and the interment was ia the Fifth ward cemetery. Last week Wednesday Mr. John Huddy of this city, was married to Miss Anna Marsh, of Delhi, at St. Joseph's church Dexter, by Rev. Fr. Fleming. Dinner was served later at the home of the bride's parents in Delhi after which the happy couple departed on the afternoon train for Buffalo, New York where they visited relatives. They returned to this city Monday. W. A. Morse, wif e and son Plinn will begin their long journey to the Golden Grate tornorrow. Mr. Morse was recentbly elected to the superintendency of schools at Sutter Creek, California and tie starts this early for his new field of labor in order that they may spend sorne time on the way with friends. During the past two years Mr. Morst has been studying in the University and also teaching part of the time in the Cleary Business College, Ypsilant He was formerly in charge of the public schools of Au Sable and has a fine reputation as a teacher. He will carry svith hiin as an evidence of scholorship ind successful experience in teaching a life certifícate, the highest gade ganted :o Michigan teach.es. Mr. Morse is a man of ability and high characteiand 5sd.ll no doubt fill his new position to :he entire satisfaction of his patrons.