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23
Month
July
Year
1897
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The Ypsilanti opera house season will, open Aug. 31. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Julius H. Sanford, Wednesday, a son. Born - Monday morning to Mr. and Mrs. George F. Key, a son. The Baptist church Sunday school will picnic at Cascade Glen tomorrow. Yerington's College ad. on page 4 is among the new ads. this week. Don't fail to read it. The examination of teachers for Washtenaw county will be held in the court house Aug, 19 and 20. The congregation of Trinity Lutheran church gave a well attended ice cream social on the lawn beside the church last evening. John Young, who has been eoachman for Judge Cooley, has been appointed janitor of St. Andrew's church and Harris hall. Quail and partridge are unusually thick throughout the state this year, and sportsmen are looking forward to plenty of sport this fall. The summer normal school onder the management of M. J. Cavanaugh will begin at the high school next Monday and continue four weeks. Mrs. Ether D. Newton died at the home of her son Judson Newton, near the Peninsular paper mills in Ypsilanti, on Tuesday night, aged 79 years. Robert Tidswell pleaded guilty to the oharge of disorderly in Justice Pood's court Monday morning and was fined $1 and $8.25 oosts or 10 days in jai. líe went. A woman leffc her pooketbook containing 90 cents on a desk in the postoffice the other day. When she oanae back to look for it the pocketbook was there bat the money was gone. The Petoskey Resorter in its list of those who have contributed to the wheelway fund of that place, has the name of "C. W. Wagner, Ann Arbor, 5." Mr. W. is an enthusiasüo bicycliat. The Bethlehem church Sanday school will hold its annual picnic at Relief park next Thursday afternoon. Rev. Koebling, of Dexter, and others will speak and a musical program will be rendered. Seward Cramer, '.he roagh and ready architect óf the Ypsilanti end of the Times, has been gradually remodelling his mode of life for some monthe, a reaction his friends could not acconu for, but vheu it is kuown that the young man has been on a still hunt fo rooms for light housekeeping everything is as plain as the nose on a pig's face - Ann Arboi Democrat. William J. Thurston, of Dexter, has applied for a divorce from his wife Frances Thurston, alleging oruelty. The residenta along Hill st. and Geddes ave. want water mains laid on hose streets so that they can utiliza the ewer system. They should have them. The divorce snit of Eliza A. Brogan vs. Thomas P. Brogan has been amicably settlprl. The stipulation of discontinuance was flled Saturday afterDOOD. The Ann Arbor Browns and the Atantis of Ypsilanti have arranged for a i series of five baseball games to deoide ! whioh is the champion club of Washtenaw oounty. It is stated that the prospects are very good for the ereotion at the university lospital of a new building containing a nurses' home, kitcheu, dining room and steam laundry. The university antborities have been granted permission to stretch electric wires from the campus to the hospital for' the purpose of lighting the hospital juildings and grounds. About 100 is still needed to put the bicycle path to Whitmore Lake in good condition. So far as the contraetor is concerned the job is finished, but the coating of fine gravel that it should aave remains to be put on. The jury in the trial of Archie Miller vs. Fannie Scherraerhorn, in Justice Duffy's court, returned a verdict of guilty, and the irrepressible Fannie was flned $25 and costs or 60 days in jail. The case is to be appealed. The common council appropriated $225 át its meeting Monday night to gravel Packard st. from the motor line janction to the eity limits. It is a much needed improvement as the condition of the street is disgraoefnl. The L. A. W. has reeeived the addition of nearly 35,000 new members since Jan. 1, 1897. Among the Ann Arbor people who have joined the last two weeks are E. E. Calkins, L. P. Hall, Jas. G. Lynds, F. R. Mechem, S. M. Yutzv and H. N. Chute. A young lady jumped off a street car at the corner of Main and Hnion sts. , one night last week, before the oar stopped and as a consequenoe took a header, greatly to the disarrangement of her wearing apparel and her dignity. It took her a minute or two to get her hearings after her mishap. "Go for somebody qnick ! There's a bug down iny back," otied a Pine River girl to her best man while out walking the other evening. "Hadn't I better go for the bug?" he suggested. Then she fainted dead away and when she had unswooned the bug had finished its evening stroll and goue home. - Standish Wave. The Miohigan Central has posted the ollowing notioe : "On and after July 8, all mileage books issued by tbis ompany will be linaited to expire Deember 31 and such tickets will not be ïonored on trains or aocepted for pasage. " This is the first step toward dopting interohangeable mileage ooks, good on 39 railroads, to be isued shortly. Hanna, the little dangbter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Scliurnacber, had a )irthday Friday, and in the afternoon 20 of her little friends were invited to a party at her home 89 W. Huron st. The tables spread with dainty food were prettily deoorated and the little guests had a merry time of it, partiouarly in the evening wben Mr. Schuraacher set off a quantity of flrework lor their amusement. Prof. B. A. Hinsdale leotured before the summer school stndeuts at Tappan hall, Tuesday night on "Reading for the Teacher." "Reading a list of books," he insisted, "can make no man a teacher. He must also read largely in every line of literature, professiona books, and books on the history of edu oation. These studies are as neoessary to the success of the teacher as profes sional study is to the dootor or the law yer. " Fred J. Renteohler, the photographer was awarded a medal at the recent oon vention of the Photographers' Associa tion of América at Celeron, N. Y., for a group of a dozen photoghraphs. Between 8,000 and 10,000 photographs were on exhibition and the character of the work was very high. "Finny" is to be oongratulated both on his success in getting the medal and on the excellence of the work that obtained it for bim. - I George G. Stiruson has pnt in a new telepbone, No. 58 - 3 rings. ] Arthnr S. Lyons, of Ann Arbor, has i been granted an inorease of pension. The shade trees arotind tbree sides of : the oampus ate being trimmed np. Mrs. Mary E. Johnston, of 14 Wall : st. , has been granted a supplemental peusion. Offloer Collins is doing duty on the State st. beat these nights, Officer Isbell takes bis place on Main st. The various sooieties of the Betlehem chnrchwill give an excursión to Detroit and Pat-in-Bay on Wednesday, Ang. 4. An application has beeD made for the admission of Jas. Gaine, of the townsihp of Nortbfield to the insane asylum at Pontiac. The Washtenaw Times Band has elected the followingofficers: Manager, George Ziefle; secretary, Ernest Bross, treasurer, Herman Werner. Persons contemplating joining the League of American Wheelmen shonld hand their ñames to any one of the following gentlemen. E. W. Staebler, H. G. Prettyman, Htirry Haber, Farmers & Mechamos Bank, or Don S. Stevens, consul L. A. W. The hard times have forced a new style among country editors, and many of them now wear a belt instead of suspenderá. When tbey get word from home that there is nothing for dinner, they simply tighten the belt another notch and feel too f uil for utterance. - Chelsea Herald. Dr. Stevens, of Minneapolis, Minn., and. Miss Carrie Bell, were quietly.married at the home of the bride's motber, Mrs. Susan P. Bell, 40 S. División st. on Muüday afternoon, by Rev. L. B. McElroy. Dr. and Mrs. Stevens left for their future home in Minneapolis the same evening. The state teachers institnte for the onnty of Washtenaw of the series of 89? will be held at Ypsilanti, commenoing at 10 a. m. Monday, Ang. , and closing at 4 p. m. Friday, Ang. 3. There will be no enrollment fee nd every teacher or wonld-be teacher is nrged to be present. City Clerk Mills says he will not teoeive any more sparrows while this hot weather lasts. The smell trom the decomposing bodies is too much of a strain on the nerves of those who have to connt them. Isn't tbis sparrow bonnty business considerable of a humbug and expense anyway? The Ann Arbor Turn Verein bas elected the fullowing officers: President. Ottmar Eberbaoh ; vice president, Charles Dietas, sr. ; secretary, A. W. Sorg; oorresponding seoretary, Wm. Arnold; treasnrer, Wm. Herz; oashier, Christ. Brann ; lst turnwart, Chas. Rettich; 2d turnwart, Henry Weitbreoht; zeugwart, Gottlieb Sohneider; oolor-bearer, John C. Fisoher; steward, Conrad Schneider. Edvvard Marsden, of New a, Alaska, will speak at the Y. M. ' C. A. rooms next Snnúay afternoon at 2 :45. Mr. Marsden is a gradúate of the Sitka Industrial School aud ta College and is at present attending 1 the snmmer law school here. The ' eet upon whioh he will speak is, "The 1 Gospel Abroad and its Triumphs. " In addition to bis talk he will furnish some very iuteresting musie. Do not fail to hear him. Fans and lemonade for the heat. Abont 700 persons, including those f rom Ypsilanti, took in the Y. M. C. A. excursión to Detroit and St. Clair Flats Thursday of last week, and everyone reports a very enjoyable day. The boat ride to the Flats was highly praised by all and the crew of the steamer Sappho deserve mnch credit for the manner in which they entertained their many visitors. The crowd, thongh not aslarge asexpected, was one of the best that ever left the oity. The exact prooeeds from the exoursion is not yet definite. A good story on the wife of one of the professors here is going the rounds. It seems that her husband is away and that she went out the oth.er night, leaving her little giil at home. The lady returned rather late and could not get in. In vain did she attempt to ronse her daughter. Neighbors were called in to assist, a small boy was routed ont of bed to clirnt in the window, and flnally they were about to cali up pólice headqnarteis and ask for bnrglar toois to foice the door in, when au entrance was effected. - Times. St. Thomas' cbuicb oleared $503 by the picnic at Whitinore Lake, Jnly 5. W. F. Wanzeck is about to open a barber shop on E. Hnrou st. , next door to Caspar Rinsey's groeery. Poundmaster Blackburn shot two dogs belonging to Mis. Jas. Bogle and Daniel Hiscock Wednesday, on account ofjtheir strange actions. The Washtenaw connty berry erop is fnlly np to that of former years and is of tbe best qnality. Last week over 300 bushels a day were shipped from this city and this week the output has increased to at least 500 bushela a day. Miss Cornelia Kerr, who was once a teaoher in the schools of this city, died Monday at the home of her sister, Mrs. Strnm, in Saline, after a long continned illness. Funeral services were held at theresidence Wednesday. Burial in Looi. The total amount taken in by City Treasurer Seyler for the flrst week of receiving taxes was $5,770.88. Colleotions each day were as follows : Thursday, $921.54; Friday, $970 31 ; Saturday, $1,140.58; Monday, $799.16; Tuesday, $597.47; Wednesday, Two girls solemoly. allege tbat the campus is haunted. 0-a.e nifíht reje.ntly tbeynawa gitl dressed ia white-sitting naar the -Hbraryv gLe got up and wrang her hands, flitting slowly towards the Tappan Oak, where she disappeared. Otheis say they have seen the sarne thing. Mrs. Mary Egeler, wife of Chris. Egeler, of Ann Arbor towa, died Tnesday afternoon. The funeral services were held at the house yesterday morning, Rev. Wm. Pisher offioiatiDg, and the remains were interred in the Northfield burying ground. Miss Mabelle A. tí age, danghter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Gage, died at the family home, 7 Mary st. , eavly Wednesday morning, aged 19 years and 3 months. Tbe fnneral services were held at the houee yesterday afternoon and the remains were interred in Highlandjcemetery, Ypsilanti. The Northside Island Park Association will give a social and band concert at the island on the Huron river near the boulevard, Friday afternoou and eveniug, July 23. Masic furnished by the Gilt-edge Band. Come and have a good time. Everybudy invited. The proceeds to go for the building fund of the new ehuroh. Such a season as this for honey, bee jeepers say bas not been seen for sevíral years. Bloom of nearly all kinds ias been plentifnl, partioularly white slover being abundant, and white clovjr makes the finest of honey. The Dasswoods are now coming out in heavy bloom, and the bees delight to work apon this flower, which coutains a reat deal of honey. Frederiok Lombard, one of the earliist settlers of Lodi, died of oíd age on Inesday aftfirnoon at the old bomestead in that to.wn. Mr. Lombard was 88 years old at the tirne of his death. He leaves one son, three danghters and 121 grand ohildren and great grand children. Be was bom in Garweiler, Wurtemberg, Germany, and had lived in this county for 50 years. The line fenoe in the rear of Chas. B. Davison's yard on N. Main st. , canght fire abont 2 o'clook Satnrday morning from the spontaneons oombnstion of á manare pile. The fire was first geen by L. Grnner, who notified Mr. Davison. With assistance the fire was soon extingnished by that t-entleman, bnt not before a good sized strip of the fenoe had been burned. Prof. J. C. Knowlton's leotnrss on "The Trial of Cbrist f rom a Lawyer's Standpoint," delivered before the stndents of the nniversity summer sohool ■were listeDedto bya large andience and proved as highly interesting and instrnotive as when he delivered them in this city some time ago. The leotures received a marked degree of nntice in the oolnmns of the daily press of Ann Arbor and Detroit. Among tbe notables at the ringside at the Fitzsimmons-üobrett veriscope pictnres last Thnrsday night, and whom the Times negleoted to mention, ■was the Eighth Ward of the city of Ann Arbor, as the editor of the Demoorat is designated. He was so anxions to be present that he took the perilous ride to Ypsilanti on top of the trolley car and belped push the load along by reading aloud some of his electrifying silvereditorials. - Times. Petoskey had a Maccabee celebration Wednesday of last week and this is the way in which it aö'ected the poet lauréate of the Petoskey Daily Resorte!, published by Charles S. Hampton: "I'd like to B A maky B And B in the parade. That eaunot B So here I B A waiting in the shade, While all the BB It seems to me There are in all the land B coming here From far and near And marching by so grand."