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Local Brevities

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11
Month
November
Year
1898
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Local Brevities

George W. Butier has taken out a deer license.

The Salvation Army chairs have been sold on an execution.

Wm. P. Groves has a sheriff's deed of the Grace Lutheran church property for $1,500.

Alden Williams paid $3.45 into Justice Duffy's court for violating the bicycle ordinance.

Justice Duffy has sentenced Herman Warner to 10 days in jail for being drunk and disorderly.

Fifteen boys who carried away Harris Ball's door mat on Halloween have had to settle up the costs.

Prof. M. E. Cooley will remain in the naval service until peace is concluded. The government requires all its naval engineers to do so.

The Woman's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. has received $32.55 for 2,500 of Kirk's White Cloud soap wrappers and is still collecting wrappers.

Jos. Pierce gave a cake walk at the armory Friday evening at which 200 spectators were present, which was one of the most successful ever led in the county.

E. D. Benjamin, H. E. Douglas, B. L. Hayden, W. N. Salsbury and Miss L. B. Serviss, of this city, were successful in their examinations before the state board of pharmacy the first of the month.

Several ladies of the southeastern part of the city have been frightened lately by being seized by a man after dak. In one case one was dragged some distance. In each case the man was frightened away by their cries.

The Keystone Club has elected the following officers : President, Dr. John Kapp; vice president, Geo. V. Goodrich ; secretary and treasurer, Chas. E. Hiscock. This means that Dr. Kapp gives the annual Thanksgiving banquet at Zukey Lake.

The government has sent an automatic register clock to record the entering and leaving time of carriers at the post office. It has a loud strike which sounds in the corridors not unlike the fire bell. So much so that the other day on hearing it some one raised the cry of fire and rushed to the street for the purpose of seeing the fire horses go by.

Star gazers may expect to be richly rewarded tonight, tomorrow night and Sunday night. Prof. Asaph Hall, jr., director of the Detroit observatory of the U.of M., says that a great shower of shooting stars may be expected. He thinks the moon may interfere with the exhibition tonight. The greatest number of shooting stars was seen in 1833. While a goodly number are expected this year, the numbers next year will probably equal those of 1833, which many old citizens recollect.

Professor Maurice Francis Egan contributes to the pages of the "North American Review" for November a very clever essay on "The Passion for Distinction," He quaintly says: "In our country neither riches nor genius nor official position can insure that permanent and delightful place from which you can look down serenely, because so many people are perpetually looking up. This is never mentioned as one of the joys of heaven; it is because of the omission that some of us strive so hard not to get there."

The freshman literary class Saturday elected Fred O. Thompson, of Pontiac, class president by a vote of 113 to 111. The other officers are : Vice president, Miss Alma Dahlstrom, of Ishpeming; treasurer. Henry J. Brown, Ann Arbor; orator, Wells Utley, of Detroit; historian, August H. Roth, of Erie, Pa. ; secretary, Roscoe B. Huston, of Ann Arbor; prophetess, Miss Veva Perrin, of Detroit; poetess, Miss Edna Cumming, of Port Huron ; editor on Inlander board, Joseph Stundart, of Detroit ; baseball manager, R. E. Lee, of Coldwater ; track team manager, James Strasburg, of Chicago.

The city treasury is overdrawn $13,824.

The 31st Michigan will garrison Santa Clara, Cuba.

The poor expenditures in this city for October were $136.28.

The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Allen died Tuesday morning.

F. C. Parker now carries an official document entitling him to hunt deer.

Thirty-eight deer licenses have been issued by County Clerk Schuh this fall.

Rev. J. H. Crooker, the new Unitaria minister, is preaching very able sermons.

A pest house will be built by the city as a precaution against the outbreak of smallpox.

Ald. Hamilton is building a new store east of the Thompson block on N, University ave.

Freddie Daley has retired from the choir of St. Andrew's church as his voice is changing.

The storm sewer on Detroit st. from Division st. to Kingsley st. is estimated to cost $353.20.

The estimated cost of the Washington st. pavement is $15,253 for brick and $15,884 for asphalt.

There will be a special musical service at St. Andrew's churoh Sunday evening at 7 :30 o'clock.

The estate of Judge cooley has been settled by a division among the children without probating it.

Serg. Slossan will re-enter the U. of M. He was recently honorably discharged from Co. L, 35th Michigan.

The attendance at the university passed the 3,000 mark last Friday, the registration on that day reaching 3,002.

The hospital circle of King's Daughters will meet in the parlors in Harris hall Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.

The "Ancient Order of Shades" gave a social at the residence of Misses Mary and Ruth Durheim, winding up with a cake walk.

Amy E. Sharp wants a divorce from James Sharp whom she married two years ago and whom she now charges with cruelty.

A blind organ grinder last Saturday took off his glasses and peeping into the organ fixed the machinery which had got out of order.

The Bell Telephone company have put in telephone No. 103 at O. E. Butterfield's residence and 79, 4 rings, at C. W. Alexander's, Delhi.

Jacob Moegle is serving a 30 days' sentence in jail for drunkenness with a warning that the next offense means the Detroit house of correction.

L. C. Goodrich, grand lecturer of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, is away on a two weeks' trip. He expects to visit 25 chapters.

Walter Graves has been arrested on complaint of Jacob Becks, who charges him with assault with intent to do great bodily harm. The examination is set for Nov. 14.

Invitations are out for the marriage of Guy S. Crane and Bessie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cutter. The ceremony will take place Nov. 22, and the young people will make their home at 112 Horton ave., Detroit.

The class in physical culture for children, conducted by Miss MacMonagle, will meet at the School of Music ut 10 o'clock Saturday morning. The children's elocution class at 4 p. m. Monday at the Y. W. C. A. room.

Mrs. C. Howell, of Geddes ave., fell down cellar Sunday evening, striking against a stone wall. She was badly cut about the head and was unconscious for some time. It was feared for some time that she would lose her sight.

A Shriners' Club was organized at the Masonic Temple Monday night with Noble C. B. Davison as president and Noble A. A. Pearson secretary and treasurer. There are about 30 Mystic Shriners in this city and they will attend the Detroit meeting, Nov. 25, in a body.

Winter is approaching and the citizens on W. Huron and W. Washington sts. are not contented. They admit the $1,800 hole in the sidewalk - that is the hole that would have brought so much damages if the proper party had barked his or her limbs - has been repaired, but they say there are numerous patches of sidewalk wanting. Where is the street commissioner?

Maj. Kirk has rejoined his regiment at Knoxville.

The Ann Arbor Lodge of Elks will initiate another large class of candidates Thursday, Nov. 17.

The Ann Arbor Locals play the Ypsilanti high school team at 4 o'clock this afternoon on the Ypsilanti fair grounds.

The Saline high school football team desires to make a few more dates. They would like a game at Saline Wednesday afternoon.

Hazel Green Gillespie, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mell Gillespie, formerly of this city, died in Detroit, Oot. 25, aged 1 year and 11 months.

The opera of the "Two Vagabonds' which will be given at the Athens Theater, Nov. 29 and 30, under the auspices of the Elks, will be the event of the season.

The Misses Allmendinger, of W. Washington st., on Tuesday gave a most delightful neighborhood tea as a surprise to their mother Mrs. David F. Allmendinger.

Charles S. Thomas, '71, of Denver, Colo., has been elected governor by a large majority on the fusion ticket. He has always been a warm friend of his alma mater. He was a classmate of Francis Stofflet of this city.

The Women's Auxiliary of St. Andrew's church yesterday shipped a box of clothing for a clergyman, his wife and six children. The box was the largest which could be obtained in the city and was filled with clothing, etc

Surgeon Colby, at a talk given to the boys of the 31st Michigan, at Camp Poland Sunday night, reported that Eddie Rumer, of Ann Arbor, in Porto Rico, attached to hospital service, was doing well and enjoying good health.

The Woman's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. held their annual election of officers Monday, which resulted in the election of the following: President, Mrs. George Stimson; secretary, Mrs. E. L. Seyler; treasurer, Mrs. George Vandawarker.

Tom Tuomey found himself in jail Monday afternoon for attempting to obstruct the free passage of the Detroit motor car with his body and breaking a car window with a club when the conductor and motorman attempted to remove him from the track.

E. E. Calkins will lead the meeting at the Y. M. C. A. next Sunday at 2:45 p. m. Special music will be furnished by Don Brooks, who will render several flute solos with piano accompaniment by Miss Johnson. All men are invited to come to this meeting.

Jacob Weitbrecht, son of Mrs. K. Weitbrecht, of S. Fourth st., died Monday morning of consumption, aged 36 years. For the past 11 years he has been in Jackson, and came here in July last. He leaves a wife, mother, brother and two sisters. The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon, Rev. J. Neumann officiating.

George W. Morton was arrested Tuesday for assault and battery on his wife and his trial will be held next Tuesday. Meanwhile he is in jail in default of $100 bail. Two of his children aged two and four years were taken to the Coldwater school yesterday, where two more of them have been for a month or two. A brother of these children is at the Lansing Reform School and a sister at the Girl's Industrial School at Adrian.

Times : Henry Bierman, a wood carver in the Michigan Furniture Co. 's factory, met with a bad accident between this city and Manchester while out hunting Monday morning. He had climbed over a fence and was pulling his gun through when the trigger caught a protruding wire and discharged the weapon. The contents of the barrel entered the right arm near the shoulder, frightfully tearing the flesh and smashing the bone. He walked about three miles before reaching a house, when he was quickly conveyed to his home, 321 S. Third st., in this city. At first it was thought that an amputation would be necessary, but Drs. Kapp aud Lum made a difficult operation on the member and it will be saved. About the last word Mr. Bierman said before chloroform was administered were in turning to Mr. Armbruster and saying, "Don't let them take my arm off, Rube. "