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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
November
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Several of the ooilege fraternities had their initiation ceremonies Satnrday evening. Lniok Bros. are erecting another house on their planing rnill property on N. Fourth ave. ' F. Stofflet sold over 3,000 newspapers Wednesday and could have sold more if be had had thern. The second number of the fifth series of facnlty oonoerts was given at the School of Musio last evening. Those who took part in it were Prof. and Mrs. Zeitz, Gardner S. Lamson and Alberto Jonas. The Woman's Anxiliary of the Young Men's Cbristian Association will hold its annnal meeting Monday, Nov. 9, at 3 p. m., in the rooms of the assooiation. All rnembers are requested to be present. The annnal meeting of the Needie Work Guild will take place on Thursday nest, Nov. 12 at 3 p. m. , at the residence of Mrs. Perry, on E. Washington st. The public is invited to this meeting. The state board of pharmacy is in session at Lansing, with about 70 candidates for pharmacists' certificates in attendance. A. C. Sohnmaoher, of tbis cith, who is one of the members, is attending it. Tbis was Sheriff Judson's telegram to Governor-elect Pingree: "You have carried the cnnnty by 500 and I am electedfgsberift'. I made the biggest fight of my life." Perfectly correct, Mr. Judsou. It was au election fight for your life. It looks as thongh the now St. Thomas' chnrch was going to be pushed still further forward towards completion, as Rev. E. D. Kelly is advertisiog for bids for the stone work, rough oarpentry and roofing needed to get the edifice euclosed. Burglars broke into the residence of John M. Wagner, the S. Main st. bntcher, Weduesday night, and carried off $G0 in cash and a nuinber of articles of jewelry. George Kelly, an old jail bird, just out of state prison, has been arrested on suspicion of being implicated in it. fiobert Hemphill, jr. , of Ypsilanti, superintendent of the A. A. & Y. sleotrio street railway, says that the electrio cars will be running between Ypsilanti aul Ann Arbor by Nov. 15, sure. The bond wires botween the rails have been put in and nearly all the trolley wire has been placed in position. Next Sunday is rally day for the English Lntheran congregation. All its ruembers and friends are earnestly invited to be present at all the services. Lecture on the life of Luther in tlie evening, illustrated with a nnmber of stereopticon views. OÊferings for the day for Home Missious. Everybody welcome. Miss Anna Elizabeth Knnkle, the noted Shakesperean reader, of Boston, will appear under the anspices of the oratorieal aseooiation this evening, at 8 o'clock, in the law lecture room. She comes highly recommended from the best critics of the east. She will read "As You Like It. " General admission 23 cents. J. G. Halaplian, lit '94, the young Greek who during several years of under-graduate and gradúate study at the University of Michigan, rnad? many friends about this city, is leader of a project to establish a military and naval academy in Toledo. The move bas the endorsement of many public spirited citizens to whom it has been mentioned, as tbey see that it would help to advertise Toledo botter than auythiug that could be projected, and would be the means of bringing there scores, if not hundreds, of active, energetio young men from all over the oountry.