Local Brevities
The board of fair managers will meet October 18, when it is desired that all the board be present. W. G. and E. Dieterle have placed a telephone in their new furniture store on East Liberty street. William Herz has the contract for the inside decoration of the new Bethlehem Evangelical church. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Granger will give their annual children's dancing party this evening in their hall. The Hausfreund und Post has passed the the sweet sixteen period, and last week began its seventeenth year. Fred Williams has been 'bound over for trial in the circuit court on a charge of stealing a horse of Chas. C. Goodbpeed. Unity club course will open next Monday evening with a concert by Oscar Garreisen and the Ypsilanti orehestral society. J. H. Cutting will build a handsome residence on Hill street, on a lot between the Tesidences of Dr. L. P. Hall and Prof. T. A. Bogle. A new crossing has just been put in at the corner of Main and Kingsley streets. Residents of that section say it is the best in the city. The local high school foot ball team leceived its first defeat of the season last Saturday, Ypsilanti Normal team being the aggressor. The score was 32 t0. __ The ladies' aid society of the M. E. churoh has chosen officers for next year as follows : Mrs. R. A. Beal, president; Mrs. W. F. Breakey, vii e president; Mrs. C. A. Murna, secretary; Mrs. C. H. Worden, treasurer. Rev. J. T. Sunderland, who, together with his family, is abroad for a yeart has been engaged by the British Unitarian association to go to India and investigate the work of the organization there. He will accordingly visit that land during December, January and February, meeting Mrs. Sunderland in Egypt, Adolph Weinberg has taken out a license for pawn broking. The aiinnal meeting of tbe board of supervisors will begin next Monday. The Ann Arbor gas company has donared Wellsbach burners for use in the couuoil room. Sixty new members were voted into the Y M. C. A at the meeting on Tuesday evening. F. C. Parker has bought a half interest in the Frank Minnis razor strop. Tne manufacture will be extended. New telephones in the city are those of Dr. R.' S. Copeland, W. G. Palmer, the State street draggist, and VV. E. Pardon. Work on the new factory of the Ann Arbor Organ company is progressing nicely The workmen are now on the fourth floor. The Bach agency has sold the German M.E. church, corner of División and Liberty streets, to the Seventh Day Adventists.who will use it as a church edifice The consideration was $5,000. Next Sunday morning Dr. C. M. Cobern will begin a series of sernions on the Bible. His morning topic will be, "The Bible as Literatura," his eening topic will be "The Bible as a Revelation." Mrs. N. L. Bailey, of 32 East Huron street, invites the attention of the ladies of Ann Arbor to her manicuring and hair dressing parlors through the columns of the Argus. She has very pleasant quarters up stairs in the Salyer grocery building. Burglars entered the grocery store of John Bissell, the hardware store of W. J. Knapp and the bazaar of J. Bacon, of Chelsea, Tuesday night and stole a number of revolvers, knives and some money. No arrests have been made as yet, but the officers think they know the right man. Andrew Jackson Lucas died at his home, No 6 Thirteenth street, Tuesday svening at five o'clock, of Bright's dissase, aged sixty-three years, three months and twenty-four days. The funeral services were held at the Second Baptist church Thursday afternoon, Rev. Mr. Johnson, of Ypsilanti, officiating. The remains were buried in Forest Hill cemetery. Mr. Lucas was born in Bracken county, N. Y, June 14, 1832, and had resided in Ann Arbor about sighteen years. He leaves a wife and daughter. The case of Dr. Kapp, of Manchester, againsfc Jacob Heimendinger, to obtain payment for medical attendance in the Heimendinger family during the small pox epidemie at Manchester, came up in sirouit court on Monday, in the shape of a mótion to file a bilí of particulars. [t seems that Dr. Kapp's bill for services amounts to some $1,645 for forty-five days of attendance upon the family, two or three of whom were ill at once. While the bill seems high, there are circumstances which give the doctoi-'s case considerable weight. The gieat interest shown in the series of faculty concerts in the University School of Music justifies the statement that the concerts are among the sjreat attraotions of the season. The Srst concert in this series took place last evening, in JFrieze Memorial hall. There will be five ooncerts during the firsr semester. Tickets are now on sale at the usual price. As the nurnber is limited ït would be well to secure tickets as soon as possible. The Choral Union series this yeaT will be more brilliant than ever and will consist of at least nine, possibly ten, concerts. The thirtieth reunión of the Twentieth Michigan Infantry Volunteers was held in Chelsea Wednesday. About 100 members of this notod regiment were present. A business meeting was held at 2 p. m. and the officers elected for the ensuing year were : Col. C. B. Qrant, of Lansing, president, and J. T. Hammond, of Jackson, secretary and treasurer. At 6 :30 p. m. the members with their friends asseinbled in the Congregational church and listened to the annual address of Capt. C. T. Allen, of Detroit, which was liberally applauded. At 7:30 they assembled at the town hall, where a delicious repast had been prepared for them. Nmnerous addrsses and toasts were delivered. Rev. J. M. Gelston made an interesting report at the state synod in Adrián on Wednesday, regarding the work of the local Tappan association. He stated that effective religious work had been done all the year, that there were 401 Presbyterian students in the University, 49 in the high school and 67 unclassified. Recommendation was made for an endowment of $80,000. It was recommended that Chas. F. Buncher and Edward Pendleton, of Detroit, be chosen to succeed Rev. Wallace Radcliffe and E. O. Walker as trustees of the association, Prof. Kelsey read a very interesting paper on the subject of the Presbyterian students of the United States, compared with the number in the University. He said that from 1840 to 1850 the average number of graduates going into the ministry was 24 per cent of the graduates, but it had gradually decreased to 16, 13 and 8 per cent. Still out of 146 studente going to theological institutos from the University the Presbyterian college secured 54, and the Unitarians had obtained bnt three. With the establishment of sectarian colleges, and with a prejudice existing sometimos against the University and the necessity of there being special instruotion for the ministry, it would be a wonder if a single gradúate would fit himself for the ministry. He defended the University as a worthy place for students and allowed that with 600 Presbyterian y oung people to "leaven the lnmp" the moral tone must be high. Tomorrow's foot ball game will be with D. A. C, on tho athletio field. Chas. H. Warren has bonght the Geraldine Staebler houso on Cherry street for $2,000. E. A. Sponce effected the sale. The Bible instituto which has been in progress iu Newberry ball his week, closed Wednesday evening. It was well attended throughout. The Eberbach Drug and Chemical company has pleasant news for Argus readers in the nevv advertisement which appears today. A house belonging to Mr. and Mrs Ralph Whiting, in Pittsfield, just east of the city, caught fire on Wednesday, and was considerably burned. The '.'ommittee having the Hay & Todd subscription matter in charge have succeeded in raising the amount to $2,600, almost $1,000 higher than last week. Robert Staebler was made a Patriarch Militant Wednesday evening by some of the prominent Odd Fellows, who remained in Ann Arbor to exemplify the degroe. Sheriff .Tudson's force raided the rooms over Polhemus' saloon Wednesday evening and three women were arested. They will be tried in Justice Pond's court on Monday. Jacob Polhemus furnished bail for the three. A lively contest has just closed in the Y. M. C. A. Dnring the month of September the membsrship committee divided, with Frank Parker and J. A. C. Hildner as leaders, each side striving to see which could get the the larger number of new members. J. A. C. Hildner's men eame out ahead, 48 to 25, and the defeated side will now furnish a hearty supper to the victors. Frank D. Hainmel died Wednesdaay at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hammei, in Pittsfield township. The cause of his death was blood poisoning, contracted from a slight wound on his leg, received at the county fair by jumping off a fence. He was sixteen years old. The funeral will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock and the remains will b burie in Lodi cemetery. A meeting of the school board sas held Tuesday evening. The most important matter considered was the resignation of Trustee Gruner.who wishes to retire from the board. The resignation was laid on, the table. Bills to the amount of $4,500 were allowed. Misa Ella Bennett was employed as teacher four hours a day and Mr. Osborne was placed on full time until January 1. High school hall was granted to the Ladies' Library association for an entertainment. Jaccob Hoffstetter died Wdnesday evening at his home, 48 East Washington street, of consumption, from which the has been a sufferer for some time. He was 46 years old. He acted as well as usual Wednesday noon, ate heaitily and was preparing to go driving when he was taken suddenly worse and died at 5 :4o. Mr. Hoffstetter was born in Et-zingen, Oberamt Balinger, Wurtemberg, Gerrnany, coming to Ann Arbor when five years old. The fnneral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Iuterment will be made in Forest Hill cemetery. Ex-State Seuator David Q-. Rose, one of the best known men of Washtenaw county, died Monday night at his home in Sharon township, after a long illness from dropsy. He was sixty-nine years old and leaves two'daughters and a sou. Senator Rose was married twice, his second wife being Mrs. Rowe, of Grass Lake. Mr. Rose was born in Sharon, Ct. , and with his pareuts removed to Sharon in 1833, where at the age of 15, at the death of his father, he was left to build up the home. In his early manhood he supplemented his district school education by a course at the Grass Lake aoademy, and has always been an honored citizen, holding varions township offices, and was state senator in 1881.