Local Brevities

LOCAL BREVITIES

From Monday's Daily Argus.

Plymouth has an Ann Arbor st.

The city schools opened this morning after a two school days' vacation.

Five men from the 34th Michigan have been transferred to Co. A, of the 31st Michigan.

Lapeer sends six students to the university, who went home for the Thanksgiving vacation.

There are seven railroad cases on the docket for the December term of court and nine divorce cases.

The city will deliver the Farmers & Mechanics Bank $31,000 of paving bonds tomorrow morning.

First Lieut, Fred W. Greene gave the Ypsilanti company a Thanksgiving dinner at the Y. M. C. A. tent.

There will be a party at the Nurses home tomorrow evening in honor of the graduation of Miss Bertha Dietzel.

Saturday afternoon a marriage license was taken out for John G. Earl and Miss Annie E. Scott, both of Ypsilanti.

Rev. J. T. Sunderland, in his sermon at Oakland, Cal., yesterday spoke on "What would I do if I were Twenty again."

The branch of the D., Y. & A. A. electric line, through Plymouth and Northville from Wayne will be completed by Christmas.

The barbers itch which has made its appearance in this city has also broken out in Tecumseh, where it afflicts young ladies and gentlemen alike.

Mrs. J. W. Kline has just sold out her millinery stock in Hillsdale and after visiting friends in Chicago, will join her husband, who is a dental student in this city.

The Northern Michigan Teachers' Association at Cadillac Saturday passed resolutions asking the legislature to provide three additional normal schools in various parts of the state.

James Hagan died in Bennington yesterday aged 75 years. He will be brought here tomorrow. He was the father of Arthur Hagan, Mrs. George Cropsey and Mrs. John Tice, of this city, and Mrs. Kane, of Mt. Pleasant.

Prof. A. B. Prescott testified in the Sanderson murder case in Battle Creek Saturday. He made a chemical examination of the murdered man's stomach and found six fragments of glass in the stomach and intestines and also arsenic.

Two hoboes out of a party of five were injured by a freight train at Hillsdale last week one of whom died shortly afterwards. After an inquest his remains were shipped to this city. On each arm was tatooed an artistic lndia ink design. None of the other tramps knew where he belonged.

President Angell has been invited to deliver the graduation address before Chicago University by the following telegram: "Chicago, Ill., Nov. 25. To James B. Angell, President University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Congratulate you on Michigan's victory. You will consent to give convocation address in January. --"WILLIAM R. HARPER."

The first annual report of the Detroit, Ypsilanti & Ann Arbor railroad makes a fine showing as to the earnings of the road. The income from the operation of the road was $389,454.24. The gross earnings were $1,415,559.42, expenses $1,026,105.18. The interest on the bonded debt was $280,000, interest on current debt $7,136.80, taxes $62,592.01. Net income $62,592.01.

The annual doll's bazaar of the Junior Auxiliary, of St. Andrew's church, will be held at Harris hall, Saturday afternoon and evening of this week. A large number of daintily dressed dolls will be exhibited for sale together with home made candies. The proceeds are to be used for a Christmas missionary box. The admission is five cents. Children under six, accompanied by older persons, free.

Tie a string about a yard long to a common door key and take the string in the right hand, holding it so the key will clear the floor by four or five inches. If you can hold the key steady enough it will begin to swing back and forth in a straight line. Let another person take your right hand, the motion of the key will change from the pendulum-like swing to a circular swing. If a third person will place his hand on the shoulder of the second person the key will stop. Try it and then explain it if you can.

The young Ypsilanti woman who telephoned information to the officers here which led to George Lane and William Drewyou, of Dundee, being taken from an Ann Arbor train about 10 days ago, makes affidavit that the young men did not steal or carry away any money or valuables belonging to her and that any statement that they did is false and malicious. It will be remembered that the young men were released without any charge being preferred against them and in the light of this affidavit they stand acquitted of any wrong doing.

From Tuesday's Daily Argus.

Koch Bros. are building the foundation for an ice house at the hospitals.

Five lawyers and a number of interested parties are busy this week trying to settle the administrator's account in the Bennett estate.

The war number of the Michigan Alumnus will be out Saturday. It will contain a complete write-up of all Michigan men in the war.

The following marriage licenses have been issued by the county clerk: Henry H. Bross, of Bridgewater, and Alice G. Millspaugh, of Clinton; John Burnham and Clarissa Bartholomew, both of Milan; Carl C. Henning, of Wisconsin, and Clara R. Zahn, of Lima.

Judge T. A. Bogle is connecting up his home for electric lights.

Lewis Kurtz is building an addition to his store, Koch Bros., contractors.

The regular annual election of Welch Post, G. A. R., will occur Tuesday evening, Dec. 13.

Grand Lecturer A. M. Clark will hold a school of instruction for the Masonic lodges of Washtenaw county at Ann Arbor Dec. 15.

William James and William Duggan have commenced suit in the circuit court to enforce a mechanics, lien of $62.73 for repairing the house of M. J. and Ellen Martin.

Mrs. Ella M. Miller has commenced a suit for divorce against John Miller in the circuit court. She charges that he drove her and her two children out of the house after 11 o'clock at night.

Attorney T. D. Kearney is moving his offices from E. Huron st. into the Lawrence block. In his new location he has an elegant front suite and will be much more pleasantly located than at present.

The sixth annual conference of the teachers of chemistry will be held in room B of the chemical laboratory of the university Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 27 and 28. The last meeting was held in Chicago.

William E. Stocking, of this city and Lima, is a candidate for sergeant-at-arms in the house at Lansing. He filled that position at the special session of the legislature J. Q. A. Ramsey, of Detroit, is one of his opponents.

Ray Norris and Mr. Hollinstein, have just instituted a new chapter of the Phi Chi fraternity in the New York college, of pharmacy. The local chapter was organized here in 1883, and is the parent chapter. Another chapter exists in Chicago.

Prof. E. Jay Hale, who graduated in the law department in '79 and for many years taught in the Detroit high school where he was the head of the commercial department, was found dead in his bed in a hotel in Marion, Ind., yesterday. He was the traveling representative of the Ellis Publishing Co., and married Miss Anna Wines of this city. His death is supposed, to have been caused either by heart disease or congestion of the brain.

St. Mary's Lodge, No. 3, of the Free and Accepted African York Masons have elected the following officers for the ensuing year: W. M., J. T. Forchue; S. W., J. J. West; J. W., O. L. Jackson; treasurer, S. Adams; secretary, S. Baylis; S. D.,  J. A. Freeman; J. D., H. Thornton; stewards, G. A. Craig and G. W. Gough; tyler, Thomas Gough. A public installation of these officers will be held next Monday evening at K. of P. hall corner of Washington and Main sts. to which the public is courteously invited. A talk on Masonry will be given by the Worthy Master-elect J. T. Forchue and a festival will follow. The committee on entertainment consists of S. Adams,  J.J. West and J. A. Freeman.

The next lecture in the Unity Club course will be given Monday evening, Dec. 5, by Hon. J. M. B. Sill, of Detroit, on "Korea and its People." Mr. Sill is very well known in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, as he was formerly president of the Normal school at Ypsilanti and resided in this city when he was appointed U. S. minister to Korea by President Cleveland. He will speak from his own knowledge and observations of the people of that country. The fact that America is about to acquire valuable possessions in the Orient, and perhaps will be forced into participation in the solution of the eastern question makes it very desirable that our knowledge of the countries involved should be as thorough as possible, The lecture is therefore opportune.