Local Brevities

E. L. Seyler will assume the duties of city treasurer next Monday. There are over 80 patients at the university hospital and more coming. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hinz on May 5, a boy. Another Httle typo come to town. Nearly 100 children attended the L. O. T. M. ohildren's party at the Maccabee hall, Thursday afternon of last week. Several Ann Arbor wheelmen headed by W. E. Walker placed the stakes for the bicycle path from here to Whitmore Lake on Friday. New artificial stone sidewalks have been laid down by Fred Brown and Fred G. Haas in front of their properties at 4? and 49 Miller ave. George R. Kelly has pnrebased the well known Gibson photograph gallery on W. Hurón st., and has placed Fred Berryman in charge of it. The Washtenaw Tirnes Band cleared a neat little sum by the minstrel show at the Grand opera house Friday night which will be devoted towards the purchase of uniforms. At the drill of J. T. Jacobs Camp, No. 90, S. of V., on Monday evening, tbe uniforms loaned them by the military department were distributed among the raembers present. The Woman's League are serving refreshments in the faculty room at University hall after each of the May Festival concerts. . The proceeds will go to the gymnasium fund. The Salvation Army gives a social tomorrovv evening at its rooms on N. Fourth ave., when the swearing in of new soldiers and commissioning of officers will take place. Mr. Michael Sage, of Lodi, and Miss Lillian Marshall, of Ann Arbor, were married at the Presbyterian manse, Thursday of last week, by Rev. J. M. Geltson. They will reside in Lodi. Frank Hees is mourning the Iosr of a pair of pneumatic tires which were completely ruined by nis bicycle passing over a broken bottle Monday morning. Both inner and outer tobes were ent through. Spencer D. Lennon, of the north side, has started a poultry farm to be known as the Huron Poultry Farm, and will make a specialty of raising Barred Plymouth Rock fowls. He has had two incubators at work for some time hatching broilers for tbe markets and will hereafter be able to supply spring chickens at any eeason of the year. Edwin Warren, of Ypsilanti, bas been granted an increase of pension. The Ann Arbor Turn-Verein will take in the excursion to Toledo on Sunday. The MeKinstry 'oase aas been pnt over until the Ootober term of oourt on aooonnt of the absence of John R Miner, who is a witness in the case, in California. D. Fred Schairer, Rev. J. W. BradJ shaw and Prof. M. L. D'Ooge are on a cominittee appointed reoently to consider the advisability of hiring an assistant pastor for the First Congregational j ohurcb of this city. Mayor E. H. Grant and Aid. Greenfield and Nudeman, from Marshall, were in the city Friday looking over the work done by the stone crusber. Their city is thinking of parohasing one of the machines. Sell tbem onrs. A state organization of íhe Michigan oiroles of King's Daughters and Sons was efïected Thursday of last week at Detroit. Mrs. J. Murfin, of Ann Arbor, was elected state secretary, and Mrs. Wait, a member of the executive committee. A Guild social will be held in Harris hall, which will be preceded by a dramatic performance, and the one-act farce, "The Decision of the Court, " by Brander Mattnews, will be presented by Mr. Karl Harriman, Miss Bock, Miss Taylor and Master Gerald Brown. The Ann Arbor High School nine defeated the All-Freshman team of the U. of M. Saturday by a score of 12 to 7. Donnelly's pitching for the High' School was very steady, ing for the Freshmen was slow and j beartening to the remainder of the ; team. The officers of the Washtenaw Connty Baptist Association eleoted at the meeting in Saline Thnrsday of last week to serve for the ensuing year are : President, H. E. Brown, Ann Arbor; vice president, Mrs. H. C. Ammerman, Ypsilanti; secretary, Edith Fox, Ann Arbor; treasurer, Fannie Warner, Chelsea. Rev. Henry P. Horton, assistant minister of St. Andrew's church, will be ordained to the deaconate in Trinity chnroh, Detroit, next Sunday evening by Rt. Rev. Bishop Thomas F. Davies. Rev. Wm. Prall, rector of St. John's ohnrcb, Detroit, will preacb thesermon. Several Ann Aibor larlies and gentlemen will be present on the occasion. Wheelmen were oat in great force on the different country roads Sunday afternoon. The heavy rain prevented them reaching home, however, and the motor brought back nurnbers from Ypsilanti, while busses, other vehioles, and the trains brought back crowds from Saline, Whitmore Lake, Chelsea, Uexter and Detroit. The Dexter Leader says : "Although it is some time till Germán Day, arrangemeuts are already being made for the celebration of that day here next August. The celebration will be held in Srnith's grove on the Chelsea road, about half a mile from this village. Everything is beiug done that will insure a big time.:' George H. Whiting, of Pittsfield, died at bis home two miles soath of Ann Arbor, Tuesday of last week, of Bright's disease and was buried Friday afternoon. Mr. Whiting was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1835, and came to Michigan with his parents in 1844. He was 62 years of age and had lived on the farm on which he died for 58 years. Jealonsy caused a N. State st. husband to try and lick a supposed rival Thursday night of last week. The "rival" was toe rauoh for hirn and handled "hubby" so badly that he tried to get Justioe Pond to help him out by issuing a warrant for the arrest of the cause of his jeaolusy, but that gentleman declined to be a party to any such proceedings and the matter has been dropped. Ann Arbor Chapter, No. 257, Daughters of the Revolution, held its final meeting for this season at the residenoe of Mrs. Harry B. Hutchins, Thursday afternoon of last week. During the afternoon the secretary, Mrs. Huldah Richards, in behalf of the chapter, presented Mrs. Angelí with a box of beautiful roses. In acoepting the same Mrs. Angell responded in a touching manuer. The next meeting will be held on the first ThurBday in October at the residence of Mrs. Martha Oswald. Al. G. Fields' "Darkest America" is billed to appear at the Grand opera house Tuesday evening, May 25. A program party will be given at Granger's academy tomorrow night after the concert f rom 9 to 12 o'clock. President McKinley on Monday sent to the senate for confirmation the name of Regent George A. Farr as collector of customs for the western district of Michigan. The Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Electric Railroad Co. ohanged its traok over into the middle of the road just east of the old junction on Packard st. on Sunday night just after 12 o'olock. This does away with a very bad curve in the line. The third lecture in the Henry M. Loud Wesleyan Guild leoture course at the First M. E. church Sunday evening, by Dr. L. T. Townsend, of Washington, D. C, was a scholarly address of an hour's duration. His subject was "Man from the Scriptural and ácientifio Points of View." Au entertainment for the benefit of the building fund of the new St. Thomas' church will be given in the school hall Wednesday evening next. It will consist of readings from Shakespeare by Rev. E. D. Kelly selections from James Whitcomb Riley and other humorous writers by Karl E. Harriman, etc. The Ann Arbor Browns defeated the Atlantis toam, of Ypsilanti, in a garué of baseball at the fair grounds Friday aftemoon, by a score of 11 to 8. Only a small urowd was present. The return game will be played in Ypsilanti some time next week. Tbe b'atteries were: Ypsilanti, Haight Brothers; i Ann Arbor, Donnelly and Monroe. Clerks, Attention ! You are cordially invited to be present at the "Cleiks' meeting" at the Y. M. C. A. rooms next Sunday afternoon. The meeting will be in charge of a number of clerks in the city. A violin solo will be given by Ross Spence and the Arion Quartet will sing. loe cold lemonade will be served, if it be a warm day. Yon should not miss it. For a time last Saturday afternoon and evening DeHull Travis thought he was out his bicycle. It suddenly disappeared from in front of Fred Biermann's store on W. Washington st., and it was not until late in the evening that it was discovered that another wheelman had ridden off the wheel by accident. It kept the ofh'cers pretty busy for a time, however. Rev. T. W. Young, on Sonday night, preached at the First Baptist church, a sermón on "The Second Coming of Christ." It was the first in a series of four sermons. The subjects of the otber three are: "The Second Coming of Chirst and the Millenium," "The Second Coming of Christ, and the End of the World," "The Seoond Coming of Christ and the JuJgmeut. " Drs. Lcomis & Geist, of Detroit, Mich., have opened up an elegant drug store at the old stand of Clower & Son. Two cleverer gentlemen never put foot on Grantville soil. - Newnan, (Ga.) Advertiser. Dr. Loomis was a former Ann Arbor boy, and Dr. George Geist graduated with the medical class of last year, and was married last Tuesday to Miss Jane Farnham, of Ypsilanti. The Grass Lake News says: "Grass Lake has only one fault. She runs too much to stomach-stuffiDg. A oouple of neighbors can't meet, a committee come together, or initiation be har', without refreshments. The thiug promotes dyspepsia and is carried to extiemes. " Same kind of a thing here in Ann Arbor and it is a regular nuisanoe for the ladies, too. We know of one good lady who only had four "socials" in one month recently to provide for and serve at. The only flying-machine tbat has ever actually flown - that is, niairy tained and moved itself in the air by enerpy generated in its own mechanisrn - is one lately constructed, aftar years of Jaborious and disappointing experiment, by Prof. S. P. Langley, seoretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The first full and only authorative aooount of this epoch-making invention will appear in MoClure's Magazine foi June, in a paper written by Prof. Langley himself, and illustrated with diagrama and pictures made under his direction. This is probably the most important magazine paper ever published in this country. The Sohwabischen ünterstuetzungs Verein will give a picnic June 6. Germania Lodge, No. 476, D. O. H., will bold a picnic in the Schutzen park May 23. Fred Huntoon and Arthur Jones have rented a cabin on Strawberry lake for the season. A burning chimney at J. M. Martin 's house called out the fire department Wednesday morning. Mrs. Anna B. Bach is improving her residence with a modern bathroom. J. F. Schuh has the contract. The motormen on the stieet car line are now arrayed in new blue uniforms with bright brass buttons. Dr. Mary Wood-Allen will speak in the Congregational church Sunday evening on "The Beatifio Vision." Rentscbler, the photographer, will do all tbe class pbotograpbic work for the medios and dents this year. Good ior Fred. County Clerk Schub says be broke ' the record ou the issuance of marriage licenses yesterday when he made out four of them during the day. There will be no meeting of the sewing school tomorrow on account of so many of the teachers being in attendance at the May Festiavl concerts. E. E. Beal has moved the barn from the Kingsley st. front of his lot at thb corner of N. Main st., and will eiect a neat cottage where it stood in the near future. Mary F., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A. Crosby, of Fourteenth st., died on Friday last, aged 9 years. Funeral services were held Sunday from the house. Tuesday morning Charles Estleman and Fred Fountain were taken to the Iouia reformatory for five years and one year respeotively, by Deputies '. field and Wackenhut. Titus F. Hutzel, Christian Martin and Eugene Oesterlin, sr. , are the delegates trom the Ann Arbor Arbeiter Verein to the state convention to be held at Owosso, June 8, 9 and 10. The receipts of the Ann Arbor Railroad from Jan. 1, to May 7, 1897, was 1440,494, against $388,366 for the same period of 1896, aud f356,227 for 1895. This shows a gradual increase. A contractor from Jackson was in Ann Arbor Saturday and stated his willingness to pave Main st. with briek at $1.25 per square yard. This would i bring tbe oost to about .$40 per ] ness frontage. James MoNally was given a 90 days' sentence at tbe Detroit house of correoiton, for a second offense as a drunkard and tippler, by Justice Pond on Wednesday, and Marshal Sweet took hirn there the same day. The legisiature has passed a bilí I amending the dog tax law so that hereafter the money colleoted on suoh tax sball remain in the school district where collected, and not be turned over to the general sohool fund. Mrs. Catherine Stoll died at hei home 119 W. Huron st., Monday mom ' ing, aged 59 years, 7 months and 13 , days. The funeral services were held at Zion Lutheran church Weduesday i afternoon, Rev. A. Nicklas officiating. . About 100 couples attended the last of the series of dances given by the i Modern Woodmen at the Liight Infantry armory Tuesday night and enjoyed a very pleasant time. Dancing was kept up until 1 a. m. to musio furnished by the Cheqaumegons. Mrs. Mary E. Greenman died at her home 93 Broadway on Tuesday, aged 48 years and 6 months. The funeral services held at the house Thursday afternoon were conducted by Rev. J. T. Sunderland and the remains were buried in the Fifth ward cemetery. At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Peninsular Paper Co., held at Ypsilanti Tuesday, the usual dividend was declared and the following directors were elected : D. L. Quirk, J. E. Beal, A. A. Van Cleve, D. L. Quirk, jr., H. L. Stoop, B. S. Boyce and Philo Ferrier. The game of baseball between the Ann Arbor and Detroit high schools at the fair grounds Tuesday afternoon broke up in a ruw on account of decisión of the umpire in the eighth inning. He decided that Snow, of the Detroits had interfered with a batted ball and called him out. This Snow denied and the Detroit team quit the field. Tbe Epworth League of the First M. E. church at its annual meeting Monday evening elected the following officers: Paul Voorheis, president; Miss Carrie Dicken, first vice-president; Miss Adda Stevens second vice-pesident; Miss Bessie Finch third vice president; F. G. Drenning fourth vice president; Clarence Noble treasurer; Miss Ora Sperry secretary. The league will hereafter be supported by the voluntary contributions of its members and friends the dues system having been abolished by vote at this meeting.