Local Brevities

LOCAL BREVITIES.

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From Yesterday’s Daily Argus.

The Sunday train on the Ann Arbor road bas been discontinued.

The Salvation Army shows no dimunition in its nightly ardor.

Alderman Johu Koch moved into his fine new brick residence at 331 S. Ashley street yesterday.

Major Kirk returned to his command last Friday and was given a royal reception by his comrades with whom he is very popular.

Arbor Tent, No. 296, K. O. T. M., will serve tomorrow night, Nov. 18, after the review, a bachelor spread. All Sir Knights are invited.

The Bell Telephone Co. has put in the following new phones: Mrs. L. M. Palmer, 208; Dr. H. K. Lum, office 216-2 rings, residence, 258; Fred T. McOmber, 216-3 rings.

The annual harvest festival will be celebrated in the Bethlehem church next Sunday morning. The church will be appropriately decorated. The choir will render special music.

The ladies of the Northside will give another one of their old time turkey dinners Thanksgiving, from 1 p. m. to 8 p. m., for the benefit of the new church. Admission 25 cents.

J. V. Quarles, '66, is the most prominent of the five candidates for the United States senator from Wisconsin and if elected will make an addition to the U. of M. men in the senate.

The Michigan Alumnus, which comes out Dec. 1 will be a war number and Mr. Prentiss, its manager, is very anxious to get information concerning all the alumni and students in the war.

An entertainment will be given by the Peake sisters in Harris hall Monday evening for 15 cents admission. The sisters are 13 ladies of the city and the burlesque is said to be extremely laughable.

The New State Telephone line is now connected with Flint, Bay City and Saginaw. It expects to have its line between here and Jackson completed by Christmas and will then push on to Albion, when it will be connected through to Grand Rapids.

The U. of M. band made hosts of friends at the Y. M. C. A. fair and together with the growing interest was responsible for the largest crowd yet at the fair. Several new features were sprung on the crowd last evening and all went merrily.

Henry H. Camp has appealed from the decision of the probate judge admitting to probate the will of his father Admiral E. Camp, on the ground that his father was mentally incapacitated, being under the undue influence of his wife, son-in-law and two grandsons.

The meeting at the Y. M. C. A. Sunday, Nov. 20, at 2 :45 p. m. will be addressed by Supt. H. M. Slauson of the city schools. All men are cordially invited to come and hear Mr. Slauson. His subject will be, "Mental Habits as Factors of Success." Special music will be provided.

John Koch broke ground this morning on Oakland ave., near Prof. Hudon's residence for a $5,000 residence for C. W. Wagner. Oakland ave. is becoming one of the elegant residence streets of this city. Mr. Koch has eight houses to plaster yet and several foundations to build.

The case of Stockwell vs. Judson et al., which was to have been tried this week in Howell to which circuit it was transferred from this county, was yesterday adjourned until the January term of court on application of the plaintiff's attorneys. This is the celebrated Salem case.

Frederick Schmid has just received intelligence of the death of Christian F. Hauser, a former resident of this city, from cancer of the jaw at the Pontiac asylum. He was 70 years of age and had been at Pontiac for the past 11 years. Eight of his old acquaintances here defrayed the expenses of his burial.

A writ of error for the appeal of the case of Joseph E. Gage vs. Pittsfield township has been received at the circuit court. The jury in the circuit court last fall awarded Mr. Gage $250 damages for injuries he received in the spring of 1897 by being thrown from his cart which ran into a rut on a Pittsfield road.

Arthur Brown and John Koch will soon have the south side of E. University ave. from Prospect st. out to Packard, completely built up with houses. Mr. Brown is building four and Mr. Koch two. The foundations of four of these houses are already in and the frames of two are up and nearly inclosed. The work is being rapidly pushed.

Supt. A. D. DeWitt, of Dexter, informs us that arrangements are being made for a rousing teachers' inspiration institute, to be held in either Ann Arbor or Ypsilanti near the close of January next. The session will last for three days. Eminent speakers and leading educators from abroad will be present. School boards throughout the county will be asked to close their schools, that every teacher in the county may attend. It is hoped that this may be the greatest educational rally ever held in this county.

Three carloads of butter and eggs go through this city on the Ann Arbor road every week. They are large refrigerator cars. The last one to pass through here contained 30,000 pounds of butter. If a person had to eat this butter at the rate of a half pound a day, he would have to eat on this carload for 165 years. A carload of eggs contains 200,000 eggs and if a man 21 years old started in to eat up a carload at the rate of an egg for each meal he would be 204 years old when he got through and awfully sick of eggs.