Local Brevities

A WORD SA VING POEM. Some cooks bake wlth cottolene, "-. " " lard, " " use no grease at all, But theirerust's mighty hard. Some men chew their plug tobácea, ■' ' " the tag, '.' " never work their jaw Except to chew the rag. Some men put their ads. in papera, ' " ' them on the ïence, " " never advertlse, Who ought to have more sense. The. Times says that Asqension day carne on Thursday this year. Will the Times please teil ns what d,ay it comes on in other years. Andrew Campbell, of Pittsfield, has been appointed vice president for Washtenaw couDty of the Michigan League for Good Roads, by President Webber, of Saginaw. A special meeting of Ann Arbor Chapter, No. 122, O. E. S., will be held next "Wednesday evening and a large class of candidates, nnmbering between 20 and 30, will be initiated. H. Wirt Newkirk, master of Washtenaw Lodge, F. and A. M., Dexter, together with several members of the order will be present at the meeting of Fraternity Lodge, No. 262, F. and A. M., this evening. The work will be on the third degree. The pupils of 'Mr. Frank Smith, of Ypsilanti, and Miss Minnie Davis gave a very interesting pupils' recital Friday evening last, at Christ church. The pupils, both violin and piano, reflected great credit on their teachers, and showed the careful training that they had received. The headquarters of the Micnigan committee of pharmacentieal research has been established in this city. The committee aims to bring about a cooperation of chemical workers in al colleges. Dr. A. B. Presoott, dean of the pharmacutical department, is the chairmau of the committee. The May returns of the statistioal división of the department of agrioul ture on the condition of winter whea show an increase of 5.6 points above the April average, being 82. 7, agains 77.1 last month, and 82.9 in May 1895. The averages in nine principa winter wheat States are: Pennsyl vania, 64; Ohio, 55; Michigan, 90 Indiana, 85 ; Kentucky, 77; Illinois, 90 Missouri, 81; Kansas, 96; California 100. Edward Dormer, who is one of the oldest inhabitants in the city, and who made the olaim some time ago that the name of the city was given it by hi father, lost all the few belongings he had on Monday night by fire. He lived in a little, old shanty in the stone yard ou Ashley st, whioh was built for a shelter by Charles Schott when he was daputy sheriff and guarded the prisoners in the oounty jail as they worked at the stone piles. The fire was caused by the explosión of an old oil stosre. The investigaron by a oommittee of the common council into the official acts of Justice Gibson and Marshal Peterson, has been oompleted and practically nothing has been found wrong with either of them. In JusfcioeGibson's case it was found that he had not made a monthly report of fines colleoted as required by law, and that was due to his not knowing that such a law existed. In Marshal Peterson's case the committee found that he had reported and tnrned over all fees oollected by him and due the oity. Soms cornplaints are heard ooncernng ball playing on the stieets and sidevalks. One jewelry flrm on S. Main st. has ented their stand for the past 40 years, .uring which time they have paid over 120,000 rent. The sermón next Snnday night by üev.J.M. Gelston, pastor of the Presbyerian church, will be uponj" Politics and religión." The Political Equality Club will meet Monday at 3 o'clook, with Mrs. Lukins, 39 WaBhtenaw ave. All intersted will be welcome. Jas. L. Babcock is having anew conrete walk laid on the south side of his ïandsome property, corner of N. Diviion and E. Ann sts. The society of Christian Endeavor "ives a social this evening at the lecture oom of the Presbyterian ohurch for he benefit of the magazine fund. The next regular examination of chool teachers for second and third rade certificates will be held in the opervisors' room in the oourt house, Thursday, June 18. Mrs. Carrie Eldert is the chosen repesentative of Arbor Hive, No. 113, j. O. T. M., to the biennial review of he Great Hive to be held in Saginaw, June 9, 10, 11 and 12. The Ann Arbor Colts and the boys of the eighth grade in the third ward chool played a game of baseball last Priday. When finished the game stood 18 to 4 in favor of the Colts. Aspirants for positions gn the postoffice force of this oity should get their application blanks of Ed. I. Taylor, ecretary of the U. S. civil service )oard, before next Monday, if they in;end to take the exaimnation to be held Tune 6. The old frame building at No. 7 W. Washington st., whioh has been torn down to make room for P. Pred Reimold's new two story brick store, was he oldest frame building in the second waid. John Schneider, of S. Ashley t, says he slept in it in 1841. The leap year parties given Thursday evening, May 8, by the L. O. T. M. and the ladies of Granger's dancing elass were successfnl in every particuar. The music at the latter is said to ïave been exceedingly fine. About 50 couples attended the L. O. T. M. party and 25 conples that at the academy. Col. C. V. R. Pond, chairman of the transportaron comroittee of the Michgan department G. A. JR., has called a meeting of the committee at Lansing next Tuesday, May 16, to select the route to be taken by the Michigan veterans who will attend the national enoampment at St. Paul in September. The children of the slxth and seventh grades of the first ward school to the aumber of 40, picniced at Weidenmann's grove, Whitmore Lake, last Saturday., They were in charge of the eaohers, Miss Ruth Durheim and Miss JVIabel Benham. They had a fine time and returned home in the eveninj; tired )ut happy. . A young gentleman started f rom Ann Arbor on his bike to flnd Pinckney, büt unfortunately got lost. After wandering aimlessly over the hills near Silver Lake he afc last reached Pinckney a wiser but a very tired youth. - Pinckney Dispatcb. Now, who is the Hcyelist in Ann Arbor who will confess o being this wanderer. A. A. Pearson, local editor of ,the Times, bad his bicycle exchanged by someone Thursday night of last week. Be was perfectly contented w;ith the ;rade, however. It is one of the few instances on record where a man was perfectly contented with a trade he had made and is anotber shining sign that the millennium is surely approaohing. Every town says an exchange, has a liar, a sponger, a blatherskite, its riohest man, some pretty girls, a girl who giggles, a weather prophet, a woman who tattles, a half dozen lunatics, a neighborhood feud, a justice of the peaoe, a man who knows it all, more loafers than it needs, men who see every dog flght, a boy who cuts up in chucrh, and a "thiug that stares at women." The recommendation of the board of public works relative to the grading of S. University ave., has been accepted by the committee on streets and work has been commenced. A tile culvert will also be put in across Forest ave. near Israel st. The work on Tappan st. , which has been done under the supervisión of Street CommisBioner Boss, was also inspected and found to have been finished in good shape and at a cost of $55 less than the city engineer's estimate. Between 300 and 400 people took in the excursión to Toledo, Saturday via the Ana Arborroad. The train, which had been so kindly and generonsly placed at the disposal of the ladies' by the railroad eompany, numbered seven ooaches. The excursión was by no means as large as would have been expected considering the low rate of the f are, $1, which inclnded admission to the Valentine theatre to witness the last production of "Julius Caesar" by the University Drarnatio Club. Many Toledo people were also present at the performanoe. Gtermania Lodge, No. 476, and Friendship Lodge, D. O. H., celebrated the 49tb anniversary of the order at Germania hall, Thursday evening of last week. The exercises of the occasion were fitting and appropriate. During the evening John Mayer addressed the assemblage and in the oourse of his remarks gave a history of the order and of the two lodges in this oity. Germania, the older of the two lodges, is a very prominent faotor in Germán interests in Ann Arbor. It was the first society to agítate a Germán Day in Washtenaw cnunty to celébrate the landing of the first Germán emigrante on the shores of Atnerioa. It was also the first Germán society to take the ■ initiative in the matter of the building of a Germán hall in this city. Choral Union rehearsal at School of Musio this eveüing. A nmnber of beech trees have been planted in the Allmendinger oernctery west of the oity. Dr. .7. W. Morton has got corufortably installed in his new office rooms at No. 12 E. Washington st. Some Farmers & Meohanios Bank stock which cbaaged hands Saturday sold at $1.67% a share of f TOO. Golden Rule Lodge, No. 159, F. and A. M., has issued a neat little book containing a fnll list of its membership. The Y. P. S. C. E. of the Presbyterian church will give an entertainment in the ohnroh parlors this evening. Admission 10 cents.By the failure of tbe Everett hotel, at Saginaw, which has been closed by creditors, E. T. McClure, proprietor of the Cook house, loses 6,000. Parker, Colburn & Schneider have put a handsome sign over their store on E. Washington st. Stark & Gartee were the artista who made it. Ann Arbor Lodge, B. P. O. E., initiated two one-armed candidates at its meeting May 7. They were James S. Gorman, of Chelsea, and Charles Collyer. Koch Bros. have been awarded the contract for building the foundation walls of the new St. Thomas' chnrch. Price, $2,400, which does not include sonie extras. There are less than 400 standing room tickets left unsold for the May Festival, which opens in this city next Thursday. After these are disposed of, no more will be sold. J. F. Sehuh has been advertising the past two weeks to sell 3,000 feet of rubber hose, in lots of 25 and S0 feet for 12 cents a foot, and bas already sold over 3,000 feet of it. The ocngregation of the Zion Lutheran church has extended a cali to Rev. Alexander Nicklas, president of the noithern district of the Ohio Lutheran synod, to become pastor of the church. Jacob Líndermann, of Lodi, was thrown from his buggy Friday evening last, through hishorse becoming frightened at an electrio car and running away. He was considerably injured through the fall. Gladys, the little two years old danughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Allen, of Brook st. , died Friday evening of typhoid fever. The fnneral took place Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, Rev. J. M. Gelston offioiating. For the exohange of reserved seat slips for regular tickets to the coming May Festival, the ticket office at the School of Musio will hereafter be open f rom 9 a. m. to 6 p. ra. every day. Ticket holders will please notice. On Monday evening, May 18, a literary entertainment will be given at the Presbyterian church by Judge Harriman and son Cari, of Ann Arbor, and the pastor, Rev. J. P. Hutchinson, interspersed with music. - Milan Leader. The La dies' Aid Society of the English Lutheran church will give an ice cream social at the church parlors this evening. Mr. Mayama will give a stereopticon entertainment illustrative of his native oountiy, Japan, beginning at 8 o'clock. Admission 5 and 10 cents. It promises to be interesting and all are invited. The largest sbipment of freight by express that has been received in this city in many a long day, was that received by the Hay & Todd Mfg. Co. via the United States Express Co. last Friday morning. It weighed one and a half tons, and from its largeness shows the energy with which the oompany is pushing forward its arrangements to get started in business in this oity. It is reported that S. Edward Rogers is dying in the Berrien county poor house. The poor feilow a dozen years ago was the oity editor of the Jackson Citizen, but drink floored him. - Qrass Lake News. "Gog" as he was faniiliarly called, was a compositor in the Ann Arbor Courier five or six years ago. For over twenty years he was city editor on James O'Donnell's paper the Citizen. The following are the delegates from this city who attended the Washtenaw Baptist AssooiatioD convention held in Milan last week : First churoh - Rev. T. W. Young. Rev. A. Ten Brook, D. E)., D. A. Briton, Rev. N. S. Barton, D. D., E. W. Hunt and wife, Rev. A. R. Alead and wife, Mrs. Snauble, Mrs. J. N. Lewis, Mrs. M. E. Cooley, Mies Helen Salyer, Miss Emnia Alexander, Miss Snsie Dorrance, Mrs. F. Sfc. John ; seoond chnrch - Rev. W. S. Bradden, Jacob A. Jobbs, Mrs. V. V. Blackbum, Mrs. L. Green. Ex-Ald. M. G. Prettyman has been offered a position on the board of public works by Mayor Walker, but has declined to accept it in spite of all the arguments nsed by the members of the street committee and others to induce him to do so. His own private business absolutely prevenís him from taking a public office. The Argus is sorry that Mr. Prettyman has to take this stand as he was one of the best aldermen that has sat in the council ohamber of the city in many a year. His fearless, conscientious aotions earning for him the respect of even his political opponents. On Monday afternoon about 5 :30 the last aot in the Paltridge-Purfield marriage, which created something of a sensation last summer, was enacted in the circuit oourt room. The hearing did not ocoupy over half an hour, tbere beiug no one present bat the offlcers of the oourt, the lawyers and two witnesses. At the end of the proceedings Mary P. Paltridge was granted an absolute divorce from George H. Paltridge on the ground of crulety. Mr. Paltridge did not put in an appearance nor offer any opposition to the deoree and the only witnesses examined werL Mrs. Paltridge and her mother. Tonight the freshman banqnet takes place at Qranger's. A rifle range is being arranged for the marksmen of Co. A. The Foley Guild will meet tornorrow evening in the St. Thomas' school hall. Dr. J. A. Dell has sold his little Shetland pony "Toby" to parties in Grand Rapids. A bout 30 conples particípate in the Tueeday and Saturday program at Granger's academy. There will be a program party at the Univsrsity Sohool of Dancing on Saturday evening, May 16. Ascensión Day services were held in Zion church yesterday morning at 10:30 o'clock. Rev. Henry Luetjen, of Ypsilanti, conducted the services. Ascensión Day servioes were held yesterday in St. Andrew's Episcopal, St. Thomas' Catholic, Zion Lutheran and Bethlehern Evangical ohurches. The names of Martin J. Cavanaugh, Thos. D. Kearney and John L. Duft'y are eaoh mentioned as the next possible oconpant of the city attorney's offioe. The walls of the new Germán Methodist otraroh in the seoond ward are up to their fnll height, the rafters are on and roofing will soon be oomuienced. The ontlook in M. E. ciroles is that the general convention, now i x session at Cleveland, will divide Michigan into four conference distriots instead of two At the annual meeting of the Epworth League held Monday night, Prof. D. W. Springer was elected president, Dr. R. S. Copeland, lst vice president, Miss Mabel VanKleek, secretary, and Paul Voorheis, treasurer, for the ensuing year. The program announced by the Great Forepaugh-Sellscoinbined shows is everywhere carried out to the letter. At Detroit, Thursday, May 21. The posters, couriers, pamphlets, programs and other advertising matter of the Forepaugh-Sells aggregation are the most expensive and attraotive we have ever seen. Mrs. Alice D. Clements, nee Cramer, singe the title role of the opera Iolanthe which will be given at Spokane Falls,Wash., by one of the leading olnbs of that city, this and tomorrow evenings. The lady who was to have taken the part was taken siok during the reheaisals and the club sent to Moscow, Idaho, for Mrs. Clements. Miss Annie M. Glassford, whose reg; istered letter was taken out of the post! office by Win. Simmons and Burt Rob! inson some weeks ago, died at the hospital Wednesday morniug. Sbe was ; taken ill suddeuly, at Mrs. Parker's on ■ S. Fourth ave. , where she was employed, last Friday.and was removed to the hospital where an operation for appendií oitis was perforrned, but she did uot í rally from the af eer effects and died as 3 above stated. Her remains have been taken to Clinton for burial.