Ypsilanti - Local Brevities

There are 950 students iu the Normal.

The first quarter of the Normal school year ended last Friday.

A little daughter was bom to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brooks, Friday.

Rev. Wm. Gardam exchanged pulpits last Sunday with Rev. John Mockridge, of Detroit.

Mrs. Margaret Stevens, of Plymouth, mother of Charles L. Stevens, of this city, died last week.

The Young People's Mission of the Presbyterian church met at Mr. and Mrs. H. Webb's, Tuesday.

Henry Haskill, of Toledo, a former Ypsilantian, will be married Nov. 22, to Miss Dora Haywood, of Claremont, N. H.

Ypsilanti city fathers are discussing the dropping of some of the heavy insurance carried on the waterworks plant.

The football game between the Normals and the alumni last Saturday resulted in a tie, neither eleven being able to score.

William Corbley, of Crystal Lake, aud Miss Agnes Owen, of Ypsilanti, have been made Mr. and Mrs. Corbley by Rev. R. K. Wharton.

Twenty-flve of the business men are taking advantage of the Normal gymnasium, Monday and Thursday evenings under the instruction of L. P. Whitcomb.

The jury acquitted Prof. B. L. D'Ooge of violating the bicycle ordinance last Saturday on the ground that the ordinance was not valid, the proper legal formalities in its passage not having been complied with.

The Cleary Business College graduated 42 students last Friday with very interesting exercises. Mayor Maybury delivered a very polished and eloquent commencement address. The college is increasing rapidly in attendance and efficiency.

There are eight announced candidates for the Ypsilanti postmastership which is expected to be filled next February. The candidates are Harlow Wells, P. W. Carpenter, J. B. Wortley, Chas. Stevens, Ben. Kief, Frank Stowell, George Barnes and Mr. Graves. They are already laying their wires.

Twenty relatives walked into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. DeMosh Sunday evening and presented them with a fine oak chair. A little later a party of 30 Maccabees arrived with a fine supper. Each party were in ignorance of the other. The occasion was Mr. DeMosh's 33d birthday.

Eleven of the graduates of Cleary's college last Friday are residents of Ypsilanti as follows: Shorthand course - Misses Etta F. Berry, Gracia M. Frederick, Oveda Frederick, Dora E. Fletcher, Clara M. Fulton, Stella G. Shaw and Messrs. Milton L. Dake, Geo. W. Revenaugh, Edwin Revenaugh and Eugene Strang. Business course - T. S. Cope.

Charles Suanwick, a butcher in the employ of Harris Bros. & Co., has fallen heir to $155,000. The money was left him by relatives in England, of whose existence he had entirely forgotten. As soon as his employer can find someone to fill his place the lucky man will lay aside forever the implements of his trade, and sail for merry England to enjoy his fortune.

M. B. McGregor died at his residence on S. Adams st., Monday morning of paralysis, aged 66 years. Until striken over a year ago he had been a perfectly healthy man, never sick. He was bom in London, Out. , and had resided in Ypsilanti for eight years. The funeral services were held Tuesday and the remains were taken to Strathroy, Ont. He left a widow and five sons, William R. and James E., of Ypsilanti, Albert R. and Charles H., of Alpena and P. D. McGregor, of Chicago.