Local Brevities

Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Eeicheneoker, Tuesday, a haby boy. Willard Foster died at his home in Liodi yesterday afternoon, aged 82 years. Several of tbe rnembers of Arbor Hive, L. O. T. M., went to Ypsiianti Yednesday night to visit the hive there. By a resolution of the board of school rustees, tbe teachers in the Ann Arbor chools will receive two weeks' pay ou ie Friday previous to the Chriatmas ïolidays. It is a kind and thoughtful et. Less than a month and a half is left n which ladies can exercise the leap rear prerogative. It will be eight years )efore they have another ohanoe, as 900 is not a leap year. Get a hnstle n yon, girls. At the meeting of the board of reents Wednesday, the speoial committee ppointed to look into the advisability E establishing a university printing lant, reported adversely to the scheme íb local firma do the work so oheaply. Now that election exitement is over hö Argns would request its regular orrespondents to give it the benefit of ome of the happenings io their respecive localities. Good breezy letters rom connty oorrespondents are always ppreciated. Frank E. Saulisbury, of St. Louis, ied at tlie hospital, Thursday of laat week, never recovering frora an operaion performed on him the Monday jrevious. Deceased had been a snfferer or the last two years. His remains were taken to St. Louis for interment. The pie social . at the Presbyterian hurch parlors, Friday evening, under ;he au8pioes of the Christian Endeavor Society, was greatly enjoyedby the 125 people who were present. During the vening some excellent music was f arnished by the VValdo Mandolín Trio. Did you send any of the 6,253,363 pieces of mail matter jvhioh went to be dead letter office last year? If you did some of the more thaD thirty-three honand dollars found in dead letters may have been yonra. Anyway, direct your mail matter properly hereafter and keep it out of the dead letter office. Mrs. Rosa Opal, daughte of Mr. and Mrs. John Eiting, died at the famly home, 71 S. Seventh st, on Wednesday morning at 9 :15 o'olock, of consumption, aged 32 years. The funeral services will be beid at the house at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Rev. A. L. STickias, pastor of the Zion Lutheran church, will conduct the services. "You made a slight mistake in my poem tbis morning," said the poet. 'Sorry," replied the editor, "what was it?" "Well, I wrote, 'The clouds hang murky o'er the west,' and you made me sav, 'The crowds hang turkey o'er my dei-k?' "Oh, is tb at all," said the editor "That is not surprising. It will soon be Thanksgiving you kuow, and we were simply wondering where that turkey is to come from." President Angelí and Prof. B. M. Thompson were among the guests of honor at the Cburch Club banquet in Detroit, Thursday evening of lasj; week. Dr. Angelí responded to the toast "Tbe peace of tbe world,". and in the absence of one of ttie other speakers Prof. Thompson responded to his toast. The club is composed of the laity of the Episcopal churoh in the diocese of Michigan. At the meeting of the citizens of the north side, who are interested in seouring a honse of worsbip in that part of the city, held Tuesday evening, tbe following were elected trustees and direoted to secure at once a building site suitable for the new cburch: Charles H. Mauly, George W. Weeks, A. M. BoweD, Spencer D. Lennon, S. M. Bangs, George Spathelf, jr. , and Gilbert Rhodes. Priday night's Times contained an announcemeiit that there would be a Thanksgiving excursión to Chicago for $1 the round trip. The way in which people tumbled over themselves in their eagerness to find out the truth of the statement showed very plainly that like the rest of tbe world Ann Arbor people were wide awake to get a big thing for very little. When the item was corrected to read $5, as was intended, there was not quite so mucb of a rush. It is said the telephone wire conuected with the Times office was heated to a white heat from oonstant use for a time. A citizen on Brook st. had a vivid experience early Saturday rnorning tbat he is trying hard to forgot. For some reason he awoke about 5 a. m. with a start. Looking through his bedroom window he saw a cloud of smuke and a sheet of flame creeping along the wall of his neighbor's house. With a blood-cnrdling yell of "fire" he leaped from bed, pnlled on his trousers, seized a pail of water and still yelling, rushed out into the nipping air in his most abbreviated costume and flew to the rescue, only to fiad that his neighbor was merely burning some rubbish between the two houses.