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Day
28
Month
May
Year
1897
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Public Domain
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THE CHARMER FAIR AND DEAR. He held her head afrainst his breast And looked into her eyes, And what he did to her ruby lips The reader may surinise. But never again will a woman's head Lie on his breast, And never again will a woman's lipa By his tvvo lips be pressed. For never a preacher said the words To make her share his lot. So he had to pay a thousand plunks For every kiss he got. -Cleveland Leader. The graduating class of the Ann Arbor high sohool tbis year numbers 85. The excursión trains for Detroit tomorrow will leave at 9 and 11 a. m. 3. F. Sohnh has the contract for heating F. O. Schleioher's new residence. David Schneider, of Lodi, has received an iiicrease of pension through W. K. Childs' agenoy. The electric line out of Detroit in the direction of Ann Arbor has been abandoned and the track taken up. There were six men named Smith registered at the Cook house Tuesday and all were commercial travellers. Charles Lohr, a carpenter of Albion, will rebuild the barn recently burned on the farm of Philip Lobr, in Pittsfield. The Jackson Schwabian Verein will visit the local society Jnne 13 and take part in a festival to be given at tbat time. Mr. Bd. Post and Miss Clara Woolsey were married Wednesday evening at the home of the bride's parents in Ypsilanti. The U. S. Fish Commission has placed 75,000 young fry of the wall eyed pike variety in Zukey and Whitniore lakes. All the members of tbe School óf Mnsio iaoulty will spend the sunimeriu Europe, except Mr. Jonas who will go to New York. Lepper & Wiloox, the new Cook house proprietors, are recarpeting the entire second and third floors of the hotel at a cost of $1,000. Should House bill 765 pass the present legislature, the Michigan State Normal School, Ypsilanti, will heieafter be known as the Michigan State Normal College. Tomorrow is the last day on which the sewiog schooi in tbe Conrier block will be held, and it will then close for the summer. There are still a few garments left whioh the ladies in charge of the school would like to sell. They invite all their friends to visit the rooms tomoirow afternoon, especially the mothers of the pupils. Dr. W. B. Sitnth has been re-elected presidem of the board of public works. Another clnb of four Y. M. C. A. boys gave $100 towards the building fnnd on Friday. John F. Riemen, of this oity, has been ohosen superintendent of the Monroe schools at a salary of $1,100 a year. Dr. R. S. Onpeland, of this city, and .lay Peatt, of Dexter, are .'preparing to build a dimmer cottage at Portage Lake Schairer & Millen have added their name to the syndicate uf our merchants who give trading stamps to their j toiners. The Ann Arbor Agriculnral Co. has jnst shipped one of itslargest Columbia hay presses to parties in Frankfort-onthe-Main, Germany. The Lansing Journal notes the arrival in Lansing of Dr. Samuel S. Matthews, late instructor in the medical department of the ü. of M. An elocntionary recital forthe benefit of the newly orgauized High School Oratorical Association will be given in High School hall this evening. Workrnen are busily engaged in remodeling the sture belonging to the Vandawarker estáte on the west side of S. Main st. The stories will be raised and the wbole block modernizad. The Ann Arbor Higb School baseball team played the Adrián High School nine at Adrián, Saturday, and were víctorious by a score of 22 to H. They göt 17 of these runs íd one inning. The heavy rain of Sunday afternoon did much damage to the roadway down to the Michigan Central depot and on Depot st. At the brow of the hill the street was guttered eight inches deep in some places. Rev. J. W. Bradshaw was elected a member of the board of directors of the Congregatiocal Home Missionary Society at the meeting of the Michigan Cougregational Assooiation at Saginaw Thnrsday of last week. The special train from the north Sunday evening on the Ann Arbor railroad will hereafter stop at Pontiac st., on the north side, in order to save its patrons in the northern part of the oity the inconvenience of the loDg walk from the depot. Fred Sipley was kindly remembered by a "friend" at Strawberry Lake, Saturday. He received a box and a note from the party aad the note said the bos eontained fish. When it was opened there was uary a "fish" in it, hut theie was a dead owl and a few rninnows. Tbe piano recital given by the pupils of Miss Eruma Fischer at the Bethlehem chnrch last Fiiday evening was largely attended and greatly enjoyed. The recital was taken part in by 28 pupils. Miss Fischer also played a oouple of numbeis in a charming and artistio manner. A musical program will be rendered at the English Lutheran chnrch nest Sunday evening. Tbe pastor will also give in connection with it, a report of the National Woman's Missionary convention held this week at Dayton, Ohio. Trinity ohurch was started and supported by this society. John Wiloutt had a load of hay overturned, his wagon smashed and bis leg injured on Monday throagh his horses becoming frightened at the Ypsilanti motor car as he was turning out on Packard st. to allow it to pass. They were so much frighteDed that they ran away with the above results. Miss Florence Marsh, of Detroit, has been appointed special teacher in music for the Ypsilanti Training School, by the state board of educatiou. The appointment of a new teacher in musio was made necessary by the new state law, which requires all training school graduates to take at least a ten weeks' course in music. Mr. and Mrs. James W. Robison, of Ann Arbor, came here 12 years ago to be married at C. J. Robisou's. It was not a long trip but long enough for Jim, who has plenty of business at home to attend to, and his relatives and friends here made their short stay very pleasant. Each year sinoe then they have come here, but this year their friends looked in vain for them. However their Ann Arbor friends assem bied at their cozy home last week Tnesday evening and their anniversary was pleasantly spent. - Manchester Enterprise. Dr. J. W. Morton contriboted his 100 mite to the Y. M. C. A. building fnnd Tuesday . Fred T. McOtnber is going to build a $2,000 house on Hill st. Whafc does it portend? The next meeting of the Political Equality Club will be held the flrst Monday in October. In the case of William Pease vs Min" nie Pease a decree of divorce has been granted in the circuit court. The ladies of the Congregational church will give au experienoe sooial the seooud week of next month. Appropriate patriotio exercises will be held in the various ward schools today. Tbere will be no school on Monday. Clinton Allmendinger, of Pittsfield, brought a load of timothy hay to town Friday whioh weighed 4,400 pnunds. A pretty large load that. Burglars broke into John M. Stnoots' home on Forest ave., Friday night, and stole 70 worfch of clothing and other articles. They got jast 53 cents in money. Beginning Jone 1, the Ann Arbor Electric Co. will run its lighting circuit all day, thus giving ceeded power for revolving fans and other ligbt maehinery. It will be a great convenienoe. The transportation committee of the Michigan department G. A. R. has selected the Miohigan Central as the route for the headquarters train to the national encampmeut at Buffalo next September. The oontract for rnaking the bicycle path to Wbitmore Lake has been let to L. C. Spencer, of Jonesville, for 600 and work has already commenced. The commitee expects to have enough money to make it a einder track. Divine services were held at St. Andrew's Episcopal, St. Thomas' Catbolic, Zion Lutheran and Bethlehem Evangelical churches yesterday morning, it being Ascensión Day. The nomination of Sheriff Judson ae a meniber of the Jackson Prison board by Governor Pingree has fallen through as section 5, article 10 of the constitutionsays: "The sheriff shall hold no other office." On account of the coDtinnd illness of J. W. Eisele, Ambrose Kearney has decided to reopen Mr. Eisele's grocery store on N. Fourth ave. As soon as possible Mr. Kearney will put in a full new grocery stook. The case of Lydia R. Seitz, of Pittsfieid vs. Clarence Eaton, Zenas Sweet and Clinton Allmendinger for trespass for stopping au auctiou on an attachment, at her farm recently, ocoupied the attentifn of Justioe Joslyn's court in Ypsilanti on Wednesday. The annual mite box opening and free will offering of the Woinan's Home Missionary Society of the M.E. chuich, will be held at the parsonage this evening. The business meeting is to oommence at 7 o'clock, and refreshments and program at 8 o'clock. The adjntant general of the M. N. G. haa noitfied Co. A. that the resignaiton of Capt. Ross Granger has been accepted and orders the members of the company to meet at the arrnory, Wednesday evening, June 2, at 8 o'clock, for the pnrpose of eleoting Captain Granger'a successor. G. C. Frey bas been appointed postmaster at Emery and bis appointmem will take immediate effect, as Emery is a fourth class office and his nomination does not need to be confirmed. He has purchased the stook of H. W. Robinson, the former postmaster and Emery will have one store now iustead of two. Wm. Rehfuss and W. R. Amspoker, of Ann Arbor, were in town Monday buying cattle for the Ann Arbor market. Geo. Harriott was also liere bnying for the Ypsilanti market. J. W. Machen sold each firm two head of very nice. heavy cattle. They bougbt 75 head of cattle in all in this neighborhood. - Clinton Local. Mrs. Marie Margaret Grnner, wife of Andrew Gruner, died at her home No. 20 E.Washington st., Friday nigbt, of heart failure, aged 71 years. The funeral services held Monday were largely attended by a wide circle of friends who sincerely regret her death. She leaves a hnsband and three children, Miss Mary F. Miley, of E. Washington st., Chas. Gruner, of the First National Bank, and Mrs. Etnma Sinke, of Grand Island, Neb. Oscar Lniok had a severe fall at Luiok Bros. ' planing rail] on Monday by whioh his right aukle was fracturad. Andrew Climmie, a former regent of the U. of M., and a resident of this city, died Wednesday of )ast week at Pontiao. The Ann Arbor railroad is constructing a large amount of new eidetraoks in their freigbt yard at Toledo sonth of Ten Mile creek. The annnal convocation of the diocese of Michigan of the Episcopal ohurcb will be held in Jackson, Tnesday and Wednesday, June 8 and 9. Al. U. Field's "Darkest America' was one of the best shows for fun rbat ias been at the opera honse this year and it had as large a house as any, too. The Blakeslee hanging bill failed of passage ia the senate Wednesday by on vote. The vote stood 16 for to 14 against. It will come np agaiu before the session ends. J. T. Jacobs Camp, No. 90, S. of V., invites all Sons of Veterans to join with them in the observance of both Memorial fDay and Decoratiou Day, uext Sunday aud. Monday. Charles Davis, son of Prof. T. B. Davis, was riding near Wbirnöre Lake when his wheel broke and h: was tbrown forward on his head. He was uucousoious tor several minutes, theD delirious, bnt is now recovering. The young people of the Christiau Endeavor sooiety of Carpenters Corners, on the 'motor line, give a free social party to their friends Saturday evening. A literary and mn sial program will be given. All are cordiaily welcome. A couple of tramps held up an old colored man wbo lives alongside the M. C. R. R. track Saturday night and took from him the only half dollar he had and his bat. They then rolled him down ths embankment and lit out. The house renumbering ordinance has been signed by Mayor C. E. Hiscock and the work will be beguu July 1. His honor is now an enthusiastio advocate of the soheme, although he waited until the elventh hour before he signed the ordinance. . . The Argus has received from Jason E. Hammond, state superintendent of publio instruction a very neat 28-page pamphlet of matter appropriate for Memorial Day exercises by students and others. It is full of selections of a highly patriotic order. Mrs. Anna Sedlak, of Ypsilanti, was brought to Ann Arbcr, and lodged in jail Monday uight. She is violently insane and it svas all Deputies Eldert and Huhn could do to get her here. She will remain here uncil a vacancy occurs at the Pontiac asylum. Ann Arbor Commandery, No. 13, K. T.( will observe Memorial Day, and will meet at the Masonic temple at 2 p. m. on Sunday and proceed io full Templar uniform to Porest Hill cemetery where the graves of deceased fraters will be suitably decorated. The regular meeting of Ann Arbor Cbapter, No. 122, O. E. S.. will occnr next Wednesday evening when a class of oandidates wMl be initiated. After the business of ihi eveninb a literary and musical program will be rendered and refreshments served. Last evening a reoepion was fco have been held in the parjors of the Congregational church in honor of President and Mrs. Angelí. It bad to be postponed, however, on acconnt of Dr. Angell being unexpeotedly called away frota home the early part of the week. J. W. Jones, who calis himself "tbe Albany Argus' round the world wbeelman" gave notice that he would do some trick riding Saturday night and several hundred people gathered in front of the Savings Bank block to witness the performance which was decidedly flat, the "tricks" being of the simplest character. At the Sigma Sigma high school fraternity party at Granger's academy Friday night 23 couples were present anc danced nntil 3 o'olock uext morning. Hansgsterier catered and the Chequamegons furnished the music. The pat ronesses were Mesdames Vaughan, Murfin, Huber and E. B. Hall. The hall was handsomely decorated with the frater nity flower, the red carnatiou. A. J. Warren, editor of the Saline Ob server, is the fasteet bicycler on record if you don 't believe read his own story as publisbed in last week's issue "Ye editor purcbased a cynlometer for his wheel reoently. Last evening he put it on the bike and went out for an after supperride. Returningiu abont an honr, imagine the surprise wheu he found that according to the meeter 9,(566 miles had been made.1'