Local Brevities

The Loyal Gaards eleot offloers this evening. Two hundred and ninety students and citizeus left Wednesday morning on the excursión to Chicago. The Johnson Co-ïiedyt Co. has been playing to good houses all the week and has made a good impression on its audieuces. The teachers of the First ward schools were given an "All day sucker party" by the pupils on Wednesday afternoon in the second grade room. The marriage of Mr. Frank Ratti and Miss Mary Schiappacasse was celebrated at 8t. Thomas' cburcb Wednesday morning, Rev. E. D. Kelly performing the ceremony. A new directory of the subscribers to the telephoíe exohange at Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, has just been issued by the Telephone Co. and banded to its patrons by Manager T. J. Keech. A most enjoyable danciDg party was given at Granger's Academy jesterday afteruoon. Sixteen nnmbers and two extras were dancedo fine music furnished by Al. Long, Geo. Vandawarker, Mrs. Morton and Walter Crego. Glen V. Mills is pnsbing the canvass of the city tor nis new directory of AnD Arbor aud Ypsilanti, which will be issued Jan. 1, 1897. The canvass reveáis the astonishing fact that one in every four families in the city at the time the present directory was got out last January, have moved away or chauged their residenoe. Yeeterday was Thanksgiviug Day, aud owing to the fact that the regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. should have been held in the afternoon, it has been postponed until next Thursday, Dec. 3, at 3 p. m. at the Y. W. C. A. rooms, over the post office. At this meeting the president, who was state delégate to the recent National convention beid at St. Louis, Mo. , will giye a report uf tbat great meeting. All are cordially invited. Martin Clark, the trnant officer for the Ann Arbor schools, wishes the Argus to inform the publio that the new school law of 1895 requires all children f rom the age of 7 to 16 years to attend school. Some parents supposing that the old repealed law is yet in force which made the school age from 7 to 15 years take their ohildren from school at tbe age of 16. The iaw is very strict, and any parent or guardián who refuses to send cfaildren to school during school age is Hable to be summoned to appear before a justioe of the peace and on couviction of not complying with the Iaw, can be fined from flve to flfty dollars, or be sent to jail.