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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
October
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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The opening of the A. M. E. church fair has been postponed until next Wednesday, Oot. 21, when it will open with a cbildren's concert. The Michigan Central railroad oornpany has conclnded to make a special ronnd trip rate of 80 cents for the trip to Detroit Satnrday to hear Bryan. A special traiu will rnn frorn Jaoksnn to Detroit on that day passing throngh this city at about noon. The next attraction at the Grand opera house is "The Fast Mail," Saturday, Oct. 2. Gilmore's Band is billed to appear here Deo. 1. Miss Evelyn Gordon will close a week's engagement tomorrow night. The company has played to good houses all the week. Mr. León Jones, of Spokane, Wash., was married Thursday of last week to Miss Mary L. Gilkey at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Gilkey, in Richlaöd, Minh. Mr. Jones was a former well known resident of this city, and was in the employ of the Ann Arbor Organ Co. He was also a member of the Chequamegon orchestra. A movement is on foot among the Odd Fellows in the university to form a club, something similar to the University Masonio club which has been so great a success in the past two years. Last year there were 42 Odd Fellows in the nniversity. If a club can be formed this year it is proposed to rent Ko. 48 Washtenaw avenne, as a club house.' The union printers in the Ann Arbor Courier office quit work last Saturday allegiug that its manager, Mr. Travis, would not pay the prioes that are paid in all the other offices in the oity, viz., 30 cents per thousand ema for compostition and $12 per week for time work. The Union printers claim that Mr. Travis wants the type setting done at 20 cents per thousiind eins and $8 to $11 a week for time work. There was a livoly free silver rally Wednesday night at the Mills school house, 2}4 miles south of Ann Arbor. Addresses were made by Arthur Brown, M. J. Cavanaugh and Frank Elmer Mills. After the speeches Cone E. Sperry and Mr. Mills continued the discussion. Eitber Sperry landed on Mills' uose, or Mills landed on Sperry's nose, or botb, and a brisk pugilistic encounter followed, böth gold and silver claimiug the victory. Yesterday Sperry was in the city to get a warrant for Mills' arrest. - Times. The form of the official ballot to be used iu Washteuaw county che coming election, Tuesday Nov. 3, was made up Wednesday by Judge of Probate Babbitt, County Clerk Dansingbnrg and County Treasurer Rehfuss. The silver Democratie ticket occupies the last position on the ballot, the order being - Republican, Democratie, Prohibitionists, Peoples, National and Union silver. The scriptural saying tbat "the last sball be first and the first shall be last" will be literally fulfilled in tbis oase after that election is over. The Ann Arbor railroad trains now have just three miles less to run between here and Whitmore Lake. They commenoed running on the new piece of road between here and the Lake Wednesday. Emery station will be a thing of the past, but the road still keeps forging ahead with its uumerous improvements. Thero is a probability that a station will be located on the new line about half way to Whitmore Lake so as to be easily accessible to the residents of Emery and vicinity. It will be uot far frorn Northfield churc'i. On Saturday night Schumacher & Miller threw open tbe door of tbeir uew drug store to soíicit a share of the publio patronage. They have at 45 S. Main st., one of the neatest drug stores in the city. Since its former occupant moved out, the store has nndergone a complete transforrnatiou. A new plate glass front bas been put in, new floor laid, the inside painted in a níce delicate tint and with the handsome oak fixtuies, manufactured by Rauschenberger & Co., it presenta a most in viting appearance. The gentlemen who oompoee the flrm are well known to all. Mr. A. C. Sohnmacher, the senior partner, has for 23 years past been in the employ of the Eberbach Drug and Chemioal Co. He graduated from the nniversity with the pharmacy clasa of '84, and is one of the most experienced pharmacists and manufacturing chemists in the oity At present he is a member of tbe state board of pharmacy, having been appointed in 1894. His term will expire in 1 899. Mr. Herman Miller, the junior partner, has been connected with the drng business for aboat six years. He was with tbe Mann Bros. for two years and with the Eberbach Drug and Chemical Co. for nearly four years. He holds a registered pbarmacist's certifícate. Both are capable young men of knnwu intagrity and shonld make a success in business.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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