Personal

Mrs. Wa,. Salyèr visited in Lawton ■this week. ,: Miss Victoria Leutwein left for Chicago Monday evening. Frederiek Pistorius, sr., is very sick at, liis hotne on Packard st. . Miss Emma Stevenson, of Peekskill, N. Y., is visitiug in this city. Dr. George Burke, of Detroit, visitad relatives here over Sunday. II. G. Prettyman is on a business trip to Mobile and New Orleans, La., this week. Mr. and Mis. Oscar Schmid, of Jackson, visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schmid and family over Sunday. . Mrs. R. S. Greenwood and daughter Graee have returncd home f rom their vvinter"s stay in Los Angeles, Cal. H Miss Mary Clarkson gave a progressive pedro party, in honor of Miss Sarah Angelí of Detroit, Friday afternoon. Mrs. F. W. Slocum, of Chicago, is spending two or three weeks with her father, James II. Wade, in this city. Miss Ida Shannon, of W. Sumruit st., éntertained '20 of her iïiends trom this city and Ypsilanti on Friday evening. Karl E. Miner bas opened an office for the practice of law in the Bank of Commerce building, 81 Nassau st., New York. Charles E. Hoffman, who teaches in .distriot No. 11, of York and Augusta, has been visiting nis sister, Miss H. E. Hoffman, this week. Among the arriyals at Washington, D. C.,. mentioned in Wednesday's Free P-ress appeared the name of Trof. T. .0. Trueblood, of Ann Arbor. Fred Showerman, New York manager for the Hay & Todd Mfg. Co., will take up his permanent residence there. Mrs. showerman, after a couple of weeks' visit in Ann Arbor, will join him. ■ Mrs. Franois Stofflet entertained the members of the "Don't You Wish You Knew" club 'at her residence on Lawrence st. Thursday of last week. The time was passed with vocal and instrumental music on the piano, mandolin and guitar and a fine supper at 6 o'clock at w hich the gentlemen were also present. E. W. Butler, of Waukesha, Wis., was here visiting his sister Mis. Jas. L. Babcock the early part of the week, and made a pleasant cali at the Argus office ïuesday morniDg. He says Milwaukee is progressing finely and will celébrate its semi-centennial with a Mardi Gras, similar to that of New Orleans but on a larger scale, f rom June 27 to July3. . The Clenadis debating society of the high school gave a very pleasant reception at the home of Miss Effie Godirey, 420 N. Fourth ave., to Lyceum No. 1, in honor of the debaters who dëfeated the Detroit high school last j?rïday evening. Miss Godfrey was assisted by Misses Mildred Waie, ííarie Turner and Louise Pardon and the recéption was a great success. Hon. Timothy E. Howard, of South Bend, Indiana, chief justice of the supieme court of indiana, was honored Suuday by being presented with the Laetare medal by the University of Motie Dame. The honor is conferred in recognition of personal worth and unwavering üdelity to religión, education and the law. Judge Howard was bom on a farm near Ann Arbor, and was educated at Ypsilanti, the University of Michigan and Notre Dame. He is now serving his second termas a judge of the supreme court.