Local Brevities
From Tuesday's Daily Argus.
A marriage license has been issued to Will Hammond, of Lodi, and Miss Julia Vogel, of Freedom.
A marriage license was issued this morning to Burton Barnes and Miss Emily Richard, of this city.
Judge Newkirk has appointed Dr. Pyle, of Milan, guardian of John Sundberg, a farmer who own 100 acres of land and who has become childish in his old age.
The Michigan schools gave more towards the LaFayette monument to be erected in Paris than did the schools of any other state, the Michigan contributions amounting to $2,196.36.
The remains of Mrs. Catherine Abrams, who died in Detroit, Dec. 25, were brought here today on the 1:38 train and interred in Forrest Hill cemetery. She was 90 years of age.
Miss Julia Stone, of 521 S. Division st., died yesterday at 2 o'clock. She was 65 years old and has been an invalid for the past 10 years. The immediate cause of her death was grip. The funeral will occur tomorrow at 3 o'clock.
Mrs. Rebecca Atkinson died yesterday, Dec. 26, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Effner, at 204 E. Huron st., of dropsy. She was 79 years old. The funeral will be held tomorrow at 1:30 o'clock and the internment will be in Forest Hill.
Among the marriage licenses issued Saturday were C. G. Gerlach, of Wilber, Wash., and Miss Eliza Brown, of Ann Arbor; Charles E. Breining, of Willis, and Miss Carrie M. Haight, of Lyndon; Frank J. Glen, of Ann Arbor, and Miss Alta Lyons, of Ypsilanti.
The Webb will case was resumed in the circuit court today and George Goodman, Stephen Hadley, Herman Hudson, Charles Cratt, Mrs. Charles Pratt nee Jeannette Webb, were put on the stand to sustain the will. They were submitted to a rigid cross-examination.
Daniel Graus, a Swiss mountain guide, will give a concert at Germania hall, Monday evening, Jan. 2, under the auspices of Germania Lodge, No. 476, D. O. H. He will appear in his Tyrolean costume and will render choice music on the harp, German zither and violin.
Franklin Pierce was adjusted insane in the probate court this afternoon, Drs. Breakey and Darling making the medical examination. This is the man who threatened to shoot D B. Sutton, of Northfield, because he would not let him go to his little sister's room. He will be sent to Pontiac.
John Wilsey, Frances Griffith, John Elliott and Charles Ford were before Justice Duffy today on the charge of being drunk on the streets and were given 10 days in jail each. Two of them were arrested Saturday night and two Sunday night. One was an Ann Arbor man and the other three were of the genus tramp.
According to the long established customs of their houses, the Duke of Lodi, the Count of Northfield, and the Prince of Pittsfield met in Ann Arbor yesterday and if the tales which the snow birds brought to our sanctum are to be relied upon the gentlemen of distinguished avoirdupois had more entertainment than the Prince of Wales at a county fair.
Geo. S. Barnes, an ex-alderman of Ypsilanti, died yesterday of paralysis after a long illness. He had resided in Ypsilanti for the past 15 years, before that running a paper mill at Rochester, Mich. He leaves a wife and three young children as well as a daughter by his first wife, Mrs. G. A. Savery, of Detroit. He was a member of Carpenter Post, G. A. R.
Judge Newkirk was made happy Christmas by an addition to his arsenal in the shape of a well preserved flint-lock rifle with bayonet attached, which did duty in the revolutionary war and the war of 1812. It was given him by ex-supervisor Edward Ball, of Webster, whose grandfather carried it in the war of 1812 and whose great grandfather carried it in the revolutionary war.
C. G. Gerlach, a farmer of Wilbur, Washington, and Miss Elia Brown, of this city, were married Christmas by Rev. G. P. Coler. The romantic story of their acquaintance brought about through a photograph in the possession of a mutual friend in Canada, has been told in these columns. Mr. and Mrs. Gerlach after visiting friends for a month, will leave for their home in Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. James Clough, of Lodi, celebrated their golden wedding yesterday and were remarried in the presence of their children and a large number of friends at their home by Rev. T. B. Leith, of Saline. They were married 50 years ago in New York city and came to this county in 1854. They have one of the finest farms in the county with goof substantial farm buildings. There is not a weed to be seen on the farm and it has the distinction of being the best fenced farm in the county. Many friends will unite in wishing Mr. and Mrs. Clough a long continuance of their long and happy married life.