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From Friday's Daily Argus

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
June
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
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Six Bell telephones were put in at Saline this week. The Dexter band plays in Saline on Memorial day. The Students' Christian Association has exactly 650 members of whom 209 are women. William D. Barris, '00 medic, died last evening of spinal meningitis. The remains were taken to his home in Kalamazoo this afternoon. In the divorce case of Eva Gould vs. David H. Gould, Judge Kinne today granted a divorce. D. C. Griffin was the complainants solicitor. The Saline Observer is informed that the electric line between Saline and Ypsilanti will be ready to operate within 30 days The work of grading commenced in the village last Saturday. Beginning next week, Nelson Parret will carry the mail between this place and Ypsilanti. He will complete Joseph Snover's contract, which ends the first of July. - Belleville Enterprise. William Robinson, of Ypsilanti, has filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States district court. He places bis liabilities at nearly $6,000, and has no assets, except such as are exempt from execution. Mrs. Elizabeth Bredder, daughter of Mrs. John P. Shaw, No. 821 Church st., died last evening of Brights disease, aged 53 years. The time of the funeral will be announced later. Mr. Bredder is expected home from N. Dakota tomorrow morning. Stevens T., son of John and Mary Lynch Smith, of 802 Kingsley st., died last evening of a stomach trouble aged 24 years, 4 months and 3 days. The funeral services will be held in St. Patricks church, in Northfield, on Monday morning at 10 o'clock. The deceased was unmarried. William McCready and Frank DeLay called on Justice Doty this morning and paid $3.45 apiece for the pleasure of riding a bicycle on the sidewalks. What was unusual about these cases was that neither of the gentlemen claimed they had not heard of the ordinance. The Michigan Telephone Co. received a carload of hard drawn copper wire at this station for building long distance lines. The carload contained 30 tons of wire. Within a short time the Bell company will have nine circuits in operation between here and Detroit. The 11 year old son of Mrs. Emma J. Vogel, 626 Hiscock st., had his leg broken last evening in a rather unusual way. He was either fighting or wrestling with another boy near Pardon's butcher shop on N. Main st. The boys say they were wrestling, but bystanders think the boys were louder than ordinary. After an apparent dispute on the corner they adjourned to tho alley where they wrestled with the result that the Vogel boy was thrown and his leg broken in two places He was carried into the butcher shop and Dr. Spitzley, the city physician called. He examined the leg and the boy was sent home.