Snap Shots

While not particularly given to the use of slang Fred Weinberg's refrain at the present time is "get your skates on."

Farmer J. D. Ryan who has been out on a marketing trip through the southwest for a few weeks is home again to round up his Irish bulls for the fall branding.

The trouble with the service on the electric railway is that a stranger needs to employ a private detective agency to find out which of the numerous cars will take him to his destination.

"Ask nothing but what is right and submit to nothing that is wrong," was Seward Cramer's parting injunction to Eddie Christensen as the latter joined the Benevolent and Protective order of Benedicts today.

After having successfully braved the dangers of a summer campaign at Base Lake Phil Schumacher goes into winter quarters with his conscience as clear and srnooth as the top of Johnny Wahr's head.

For a city with a bachelor mayor the crop of Christmas weddings in Ann Arbor is not only unusually large and attractive, but it is as well a pointed reminder to those who are passing into the sere and yellow leaf.

Those who have observed the closely calculating and methodical habits of Hud Morton need not be alarmed because he has not been seen in his accustomed haunts for a few days. That new baby is cutting its first tooth and Hud's time is fully occupied with domestic cares.

The Argus owes an apology to Editor Pearson, of Pearson 's Weekly, for not including him in the list of Lisemer's prize winners where he is entitled to second place, but the truth is Pearson's former friends have rather lost track of him since he has indulged himself in the luxury of a family, hence he was overlooked.

When Hon. John C. Sharp was in Ann Arbor the other day he said: "I hear my old friend Mike Lehman doubts my being a farmer. You just tell Mike to come down and see me and I'll convince him that I am pretty much of a farmer even if I have to let him help me milk and feed the pigs and he can sleep in the same room "Sky" Olds did too.

The second floor of the Lawrence block on Fourth ave. now harbors a lawyer, a real estate agent, an insurance agent, a dentist and a doctor. The redeeming feature of this combination lies in the fact that the doctor is paid by the city to treat the poor and the wretch who escapes with enough to make medical attendance worth while will have that coming free of cost.

Cold chills play hide and seek along the somewhat enlongated verebtrae of Seward Cramer whenever he thinks that the 28th day of December is so near and yet so far. Have courage brother. Lord McCauley died and the junior sage of the Argus was born on the 28th of December and yet it will not be unreasonable to make it the anniversary of a few more conspicuous events.