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Day
6
Month
November
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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The winds made free with the cbimuey of thti chnrch at Free Churoh in Washtenaw, and dropped most the bricks dowu its own throat. Tbe new hall at Arbeiter grove. Ypsilanti was formally dedicated Thursday night of last week with a dancing party. There were 103 couples present besides a large number of onlookers in the gallery. A team hitched to a wagon-load of raw potatoes, ran away in Ann Arbor, and sowed the streets with free potatoes, each of wnich wiuked an eye painfully, as muoh as to remark: "This takes the staroh out of me!" Disagreeiug abont a flnancial matter, two Ann Arbor men met and fougbt in the Ann Arbor Savings baDk. Sornetinies g'ild was ou top and sometimes silver, hut the general effect of the battln was in favor of a Stabler staudard, tiil Stabler was pulled off by the gold bug cashier. An oíd photograph car tbat went through last summer's cyclone at Dexter, siuce when, it's a leaky old concern, and a wreek from stem to stern, is a rock of offense and a stumbling blook to the town. People make "faces" at the face making shop and take a "negative" view of its presence. If it is not soon removed the whole village will backslide. A lad 12 years of age was killed at Aun Arbor, last week, while jumping upon a moving train. In his company was Jimmie Blytheman, who of course escaped. Loaded down with crimes and escapades of all sorts, that boy Blytbeman, bears a charmed life and slips safely throngh, while misfortune, the prison and deatb await others at the threshold. 'Tis a strange world ! Ann Arbor cannot float $10,000 worth of 5 per cent sewer bonds because boilders all want the bonds payable in gold. Let Ann Arbor hnld on a little. The shylocks will shortly be fighting with each other to get hold of tho-e bonds without the gold olause. Let the city teil the skinflints to hold their breaths till they get the gold clause. We would see that they were permanently divorced from their "wind" before gold went into the contract. The Adrián Press refuses to trade Poterses with us. 'Spected as rouch, coufound it But then our Gus isn't suob a bad fellow after all. - Ann Arbor Courier. No, be isn't. "fur a fact. " The only lapse from perfeot virtne. of wbich he was ever guilty was when, in the course of his congressional campaign, be spoke in a church in Monroe county, aud at tbe close of his speech, as the lights were being turned out, became confused aud exolaime "Where in h - 1 is my hat?"

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Ann Arbor Argus
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