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Local Brevities

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
October
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

LOCAL BREVITIES.

Mr. Marshall O. Waggoner, of Toledo, and Mrs. Victoria A. Browne were married at the residence of the bride's daughter, Mrs. L. D. Wines, last evening at 6 o'clock.

Parker, Colburn & Schneider have sold their hardware business on E. Washington st. to George C. Hascall. It will be carried on under the management of George E. Moore.

The school district in Dexter which was one of the two districts in the county in which the free text book question carried is now desirous of rescinding its action. A meeting for that purpose will be held in about two weeks.

M. Brenner, who has done so much for the improvement of the St. James hotel corner, wants to round off his labors with a good brick pavement and is pushing a petition for the pavement of Huron st. from Ashley to Fifth ave.

Glenn Trowbridge, who enlisted in a Jackson company, of the 31 Michigan, is home on a furlough. He was detailed as orderly on Ge. Brooks' staff and accompanied the General to Porto Rico, so that he was in all the scrimmages on that island.

Judge Newkirk has decided that the administration of the estate of James Richards, who was murdered in Superior, will not be reopened. He had previously awarded the property to the illegitimate daughter in England and two of Richards' sisters sought to have the property awarded to them.

The Elks initiated a class of 16 last evening, following the initiation with a banquet at which some excellent speeches were made. Among the guests from out of the city were Rev. M. Collins, of Detroit No. 34, Messrs. Weinstein, of New York No. 1. Town, of Jackson No. 113, Ryder, of Peoria, Ill., No. 20, and "Count" Villa, of Washington, who is just back from the Klondike.

Prof. G. P. Coler will preach at Trinity Lutheran church next Saturday morning. In the evening the W. C. T. U. will have charge of the services. The story of the crusade and a brief history of its outcome, the organization of the W. C. T. U. and its various departments together with the incidents in the life of its great leader Frances E. Willard, will be presented by local speakers. A cordial invitation is extended to the public.

Mrs. Flora A. Swiggett has entered a suit for $5,000 damages against Herschel Goodspeed, Delbert C. Goodspeed, Sheriff William Judson and Deputy Martin Wackenhut. Some time ago the Goodspeeds obtained a judgement for $296.61 and costs against Karl E. Swiggett, who had been in their employ as a cutter. The officers took certain household goods in attachment on the debt that were supposed to belong to Swiggett. Now Mrs. Swiggett claims the goods were hers and not her husband's hence the suit.