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Local Brevities

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
November
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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LOCAL BREVITIES

Pingree's plurality in the state is about 70,000.

The overdraft in the school funds amounts to $10,848.60.

There were 23 democrats in the seventh ward who voted for Pingree.

The attendance in the public schools is 2,094, an increase of 11 over last year.

The primary school apportionment gives Washtenaw $12,030 of school money.

Justioe Duffy Wednesday married Wm.D. Morris,of Scio, and Miss Edith B. Staebler, of Chelsea.

Rev. and Mrs.Croker give a reception next Monday evening to the members of the Unitarian church.

The city clerk has made up his mind to hold a school of instruction for election inspectors prior to the next election so that the counting may be finished by 9 o'clock.

Preston B. Rose was reminded Tuesday that during the civil war he had bis leg amputated Sunday afternoon and voted on the following Tuesday morning. This is a record probably unequaled in the state.

Mack & Co. 's annual chrysanthemum sale has come to be a looked for event among the purchasing public and, in fact, among the ladies generally. The fourth annual sale will take place on Thursday next and the display of this beautiful autumn plant which will then be made will be a handsome one. The plants will be given away to purchasers of $2 worth of goods. Cousins & Hall, the florists, furnish the chrysanthemums.