Local Brevities

Hugh Brown, of this city, has been granted a patent on a holder for calendars. The Forest Hill Cemetery Association has accepted the handsome new iron fence that has been placed round Forest Hill cemetery. Mr. Frank W. Wilkinson and Miss Annie E. Ware were married at the M. E. parsonage Monday evening by Rev. B. L. McElroy. Stephen D. Gates and Mre. Ella Stevenson were married at the residence of Jacob B. Dingman, N. Main st., on Sunday afternoon by Rev. B. L. McElroy. "Out of the past Grand opera house, the Athens theatre vvill be transformad" says the Ann Arbor Courier. It is a past grand, but it never was a noble grand in the world. - Adrián Press. Willard L. Burris bad bis foot badly burned at the Ann Arbor Agricultural works one day last week and has suffeced rnuch pain in consequence thereof besides being inoapauitated froru work. Anton Schiappacasse, the well known Italian fruit dealer, of N. Main st., has taken unto himself a second wife in the person of Miss Emelie Aügillni. The couple were married by Rev. E. D. Kelley on Friday. James Callow, charged by Gately & Donovan, of Dexter, with the embezzlement of goods frorn thern, and who was brought here from Lmdington, was taken before Justice Duft'y Monday and bound over for trial at the October term of the oirouit oourt. Prof. W. S. Perry, who is enjoying the breezes of Les Chenaux islands, tbe other day caught a pike which was 38 inches long and weighed ll1 pounds. With pardonable pride the professor had his pioture taken witb the flsh in nis band to show to bis friends when he returns to Ann Arbor. Carrie A. Crippen, of Superior, has entered snit in uhancery for a divorce trom Ira W. Crippen, to whom she was martied Nov. 7, 1893, on the ground of desertion and non-support. John Disoher, of Ypsilanti, has also flled sait for divorce from bis wife Louisa Disoher, who left him April 16, 1895. Dr. Geo. E. Sanford, of York, has invented a new bicycle motor to assist wheelmen in hill olimbing. It is a corupressed air motor, utilizing the hollow frame of the machine for storage, and. oompresses the air when descending one hill for use in asoending the nexc. He has applied for a patent. This invention should be of great practioal utility to wheelmen as it weigbs but two pounds, is very simple and costs absolutely nothing to run it. Cards are out announoing the marriage of Miss Ida Louise Bliss to Mr. Dorr Isdell Gasser, to take plaoe Wednesday evening, Sept. 1. The total amount paid into the treasnry for oity taxes during the month from Ouly 15 to August 16 was 134,801.80. The sewer tax amonnted to $3,100. St. Thomas' Catholic church will give a fair at the armory dnring the ooming wintyr, the proceeds of which will go towards the new chucrh building fund. Business is so brisk with the Hay & Todd Mfg. Co. that the larga forcé employed in their mili here is working until between 9 and 10 o'clock each night to oateh up with the orders. Koch Bros. are pusbing along the work on the foundation of the new Northside oburch on Broadway, and it will not be long before the Fifth warders. have a ohnroh building of their own. Two pipe layéis in the W. Liberty st. sewer were covered over with eand Friday by the earth caving in. The top ernst did not break through and they were thus probably saved from serious injury. Presto, a newspaper devoted to the music trade says the following good words for the Ann Arbor Organ Co. : "The Ann Arbor Organ Co. is placing in the market a fine line of new styles and everybody is pleased with them." The remains of Miss Malloy, who died at Pontiao were brought to the home of her sister at 47 N. Fourth ave. Friday. The funeral services were held at St. Thomas' church Saturday morning and the remains were interred in the Northfield cemetery. It is stated on the anthority of one óf the best known educators in tb. is part of the state tbat the name of Kev. Camden M. Cobern, formerly pastor of the M. E. church in Ann Arbor, and now of Denver, Colo., is prominently mentioned for the vacancy in the presidency of Albion ooilege. Mrs. May Wheeler has brought suit for damages in the circuit court against William A. Gwinner, un the charge of selling liquor to her husbund, who she olaims is a minor. Wheeler is the young fellow who sometime ago attempted to commit suicide after he had been on a spree. The civil servioe oommission will hold regular semi-annual examinations for deputy collector, olerk, storekeeper, gauger and messenger in each internal revenue distriot Sept. 18. Miohigan applioants can receive the necessary instructions from the ooilectors of the respective districts or on application to the civil servioe commission. Martin Schaller has rented the store formerly occupied by him at 19 E. Washington st., to Chas. H. Major, and is now looated in the Vandawarker store on S. Main st. , with his stock of books, stationery and wall paper. Mr. Major will oocupy the E. Washington st. store with his art deoorative wall paper and painting establishment. The work of wiring th general library is now going on. The lights will be arranged on a new plan entirely. Over the desks in front of each seat there will be an eleotrio light so that eaoh one as he studies or read will have as good a light as his neighbor. The work is progreseing finely but will not be finished much before the latter part of September. - Times. Several years ago, an Englishman living in Pittsfield township shelled two headas of perfect wheat in his hand, while threshing. The wheat that year was shrunk and he put the perfect heads away for seed. He has just threshed from the fourth sowiug of the parent seed thus secured, 117 bushels of top notch white winter wheat, every successive erop proving the wisdom of starting with the few grains thus secured. - Detroit Evening News. On Sunday night the large motor car which plies betwenn Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, struok a Jersey cow belonging to J. B. Steere, of Pittsfield. The drawbar of the oar was driven up through the floor by the force of the ooilision. It was a fortúnate thing that it was not the small car whiob struok the cow for it would have assuredly been thrown from the track and might have resulted in muoh injury to the passengers. As it was they escaped with nothing worse than a bad fright. The publio schools of the city will resume work on Monday, Sept. 13. The Athens Theater will be opened Saturday, Sept. 4, by the Ward & Vokes company in "The Governors." Abont 200 of Ann Arbor Masons and Eastern Stars took in the Masonic excursion to Tashmoo Park on Wednesday. The C. M. B. A. will have a banquet at the Cook house next Wednesday evening. Covers will be laid for 100 guescs. Married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin W. Waite, in Scio, on Wednesday, Mr. Ray A. Randall to Miss Edith Evelyn Waite. The Ann Arbor Organ Co. has made and shipped 1,250 organs so far this year. This output is more than that for any two years since the business was started. Hay fever sufferers are remarkably scarce this year and there are many who lay tbeir freedom from this annual afflction to the absence of ragweed from the yards and highways. J. F. Schuh, will do the plumbing and gas work for the stores of F. M. Hamilton on E. William st. He also has the contract for the plumbing, etc, for the residence of Geo. Darrow. The Sunday school pionio of St. Andrew's church will be held on Rhode's island Thursday next, Sept. 2. Thepicnicers will start from in front of the church at 10 o'olock a.m. Tbe new series of postal cardssoon to be issued by the government to take the place of tbe present issue are to be J-3 of an inch narrower só' as to more readily fit the inside of a No. 6 envelope. Tbe regular annual meeting of Ann Arbor Chapter, No. 122, O. E. S., will be held next Wednesday evening, Sept. 1, at whioh time the eleotion of officers fot the ensuing year will take place. A large turnout of tbe members is partiouarly desired and requested. The renumbering of the honses in Ann Arbor was oommeoeed the iirst of this week and is being pushed rapidly forward. The Argus has already printed some stationery for use by one of our Main st. business firms which bears the new number of its place of business. Patrick Murphy returned home yesterday afternoon from Ann Arbor wbere he went three weeks ago and had a tobáceo cáncer removed from bis lower lip. Patrick is looking pretty palé but says he is feeling fairly well. His friends are hoping for a complete oure. - Clinton Local of Aug. 20. It has come to the ears of the Argus soribe that a number of farmers in Washtenaw county carne into Ann Arbor when wheat was np to 75 cents a bushei and oontracted to sell their wheat at that prioe. Are they kioking themselves now for their action? Ob, no. Tbey only wish they had iron bouts on so as to make the impression more permanent. Mrs. Annie Besant recently leotured on Theosophy in Ann Arbor. The Argus says: "In the course of her remarks she said tbat the physician who understands psyohio law can heal or kill by thought alone. All persons inay acqnire this power. " Aha! That explains it. We now understand the fatal powers of some physicians. We had always supposed it was the medicine. - Adrián Press. While going tó Ypsilanti on his bicycle Friday night Dan Fishall, of tbe Cook house, ran into a chicken which orossed his path. The collision was a bad one both for the chicken and the bioycle, as the "biddy" got tangled up in the wheel rnuch to the detriment of her good looks and to the usefulness of the wheel whioh was broken and twisted. Mr. Fishall finished his journey by the motor. There were two fatalities arnong members of the M. N. G. who attended camp at Island Lake this year. One was that of Herbert J. Whitney, of Co. A, Second regiment, who died at his home in Coldwater, from brain trouble caused by overexertion during ene of tbe forced marches. The other was that. of Charles M. Kennedy, of Co. C. First regiment, who died at Tecumseh from conoussion of "the brain caused by being hit on the temple by a pitched baseball. Mr. Kennedy was playing first base for Co. G, Ypsilanti, at the time and it was in the flrst inning of the game that he received the injury. Hutzel & Co., of this city, have been awarded the contract for the constrnotion of a sewer on Huron st., Ypsilani. City Engineer Key bas beon insrrnoted to prepare plans and specifioations for a ehed back of flreman's hall suitable to store the road roller and other city property. Mr. Meivin P. Porter and Miss Marion A. Otis were married at the home of the bride's parents No. 4 Mary st, on Monday rnorning at 7 o'olock, by Rev. J. M. Gelston. Frank Curtís had bis foot badly out at the fire in Holmes' livery stable Sunday morning He reoeived it while iicking ont the large office window in bis effort to save the office desk. The baptismal water nsed in thePresbyterian church Sunday morning oame :rom the river Jordán, lt was the happy thought of a missionary friend of Airs. F. W. Kelsey, who sent it to bnr to use in this baptism of their children. - Times. The treasury of tbe Ladies' Charitable Union is altnost empty and there are saveral sick people íd the city who need immediate attention. A replenishing of the treasury through timely gifts by kindly disposed persons is earnestly requested. A strong rumor comes from Ypsilanti that Rev. Charles Allen, of Detroit, will be tbe next pastor of the M. E church in that oity and that Rev. E. 1 V. Ryan, the present pastor, will take Mr. Allen'e present position as presiding eider of this distriot. J. B. Davis, tbe agent of the White estáte, has been granted permission by the board of publio works to build about 2,100 f eet of sidwalk of tar concrete about i.% inobes below the established grade, in order that when stone walks are to be laid they eau be bnilt on top of the tar walks, using them for a foundation. Rev. E. D. Kelly discovered a couple of men endeavoring to break into his hous9 on Thursday night of last week. Opening the window of his sleeping apartment he called out "Look out, boys, I'm going to shoot. " The fellows did not wait to see if his gun was loaded or not but rapidly made tracks from the vicinity of the house. The bicycle path bee to ent down Allen's hill and smooth out the path at that point and wbioh was beid Friday afternoon was attended by 30 members of the Cycle Club. The hill at tbe side of the path which was 12 feet high was out down and several bad holes were filled up with the surplus earth thus obtained. The ladies provided lemonade and sandwiches for 150 people, which were served at intervals as the work progressed. Walter Weinberg, August Henkleman and Antony Wood, all claiming Detroit at their residence, were arrested in that city by Detroit offleers and brought to Ann Arbor Thursday of last week, charged with having on the night of Tuesday, Aug. 17, stolen a quantity of cigars from oars on tbe Michigan Central track. They had their exaiaination before Justice Duffy Monday morning and were bound over for trial in the circuit court. In default of bail they will be kept in the jail. The annual school meeting of district No. 1, city of Ann Arbor, will be held Monday, Sept. 6. At this meeting an eleotion of three trustees to fill the places of Trustees Emma E. Bower, Evart H. Scott and John R. Miner, wbose terms expire, will be held. The polls will open at 9 a. m. and close at 8 p. m., after wbich the annual meeting to hear the report of the treasurtr and pass on tbe appropriations necessary wiil take plaoe. The meeting will be held at the engiue house on E. Huron st. Tbe Modern Woodmen excursión to Jackson and Clark's lake, Friday, was well attended by members of the order from this oity. Tbe address by Emery Townsend, of Saginaw, an old Northfield boy, was "one of the finest, " and the sports were well contested. Font oamps, Ann Arbor, Hudson, Jackson and Battle Creek, took part in the tug of war, which resulted in a dispute between Ann Arbor and Hudson as to which was the winner. The judges were unable to decide the dispute and the matter has been left to a vote of the delegates from each camp that was present. The officers of the association for the ensuine year were elected as follows: President, N. J. Baker, Adrian ; first vice president, W. H. Maokey, Hudson ; second vice president, Joseph Seeriter, Battle Creek; third vice president, Wm. Shadford, Ann Arbor; secretary and treasurer, Enoch Sears, Ann Arbor.