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Ypsilanti

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
November
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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The German Lutheran church has been repaired.

The Normal football team plays the alumni tomorrow.

B. F. Hayden has received a registered pharmacist's certificate

The Cleary college commencement exercises are in progress today.

The Girl's Club give a dance at the Ladies' Library this evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Zwergle are happy over the birth of a daughter.

Mrs. Walter Haynes returned Tuesday from a week's visit in Milan.

One hundred and fifty new books for the school library have been received.

Mrs. Borwn, of 305 Oak st., recently burned her hand severely by a gasoline explosion.

Shelly Hutchinson has gone to Australia to introduce the trading stamp scheme there.

Harry Cole has secured a good position in Toledo and began work last Monday.

Fifteen jolly Normalites made up a trolly party to the home of Miss Bennett in Eloise.

Miss Bessie Cutter and Guy Crane, of Detroit, both formerly of Ypsilanti, are to be married soon.

Mrs. Clow has had her sight restored by the removal of a cataract at the Ann Arbor homeopathic hospital.

The council couldn't get a quorum the night before election and had to adjourn until Wednesday night.

There will be a fine Wesley entertainment at the M. E. church next Monday and Tuesday evenings.

William Platt and Miss Babella Forman, of Argyle, have been married. Mr. Platt is well known in Ypsilanti.

Miss C. S.Weed of Normal st., entertained the Home Association of the Presbyterian church Tuesday afternoon.

The old hose house on S. Huron st. ,. has been purchased by John Lang and is being fitted up into a blacksmith shop.

Albert Graves, of Ypsilanti Township, will, next month move into the residence on S. Washington et., which he has purchased of Mrs. Mary Smith.

The meeting of the Young People's Mission of the Presbyterian church which was to have been held last Tuesday has been postponed one week. Meeting will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Wells, Nov. 15.

The business men of Ypsilanti having decided to develop their muscle held a meeting at the Normal gymnasium last Tuesday evening to perfect arrangements. The purpose of this muscle expansion is not made known.

The citizens of the east side are demanding that the city place an electric light at the corner of Mills and E. Congress sts. Several serious accidents have already occurred there, attributable to the inky darkness of the place.

Two men from London drove on the streetcar railroad bridge on E. Congress st. last Friday evening and the team, becoming frightened plunged to the Michigan Central tracks below. The men and horses were not injured but the wagon was demolished.

Ten musically inclined young men of the city have organized a Mandolin and Guitar Club and put themselves under the training of Mr. Walter Hewett, jr. They are alleged to have made considerable progress, having driven several people to distraction. The professor still lives.

Commercial: There is quite a curiosity in the Normal book store window in the shape of a squash. When the squash was small Prof. Maybee carved his name in the skin and it now appears in very large letters. The squash is an extremely large one and is well worth walking to the Normal book store to see.

George E. White, who was killed in the Wonderland accident last Saturday, was a former resident of this city. He was married here about a year ago and his wife's people still reside bere. He was a very estimable young man, faithful and honest in the performance of all duties. He belonged to the Tin and Sheet Metal Workers' union and carried $1,000 in the Modern Woodmen.

E. B. Newhall died at his home on 'Catherine st. last Saturday evening, of Bright's disease. The funeral was held Tuesday and the remains were taken to Detroit for interment. He was formerly a captain of a vessel on the lakes, but for the past 20 years has been in the service of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad as conductor, running between Ypsilanti and Hillsdale. Mr. Newhall was 58 years of age.