Local Brevities

Local Brevities

From Tuesday's Daily Argus.

A new cornice is being put on the north porch of the court house.

The Unitarian parsonage on N. State St. is being handsomely repainted.

The Senate at Lansing has passed the one-sixth of a mill bill for the relief of the soldiers of the late war with Spain.

About half of the new brick cornice on the front of the Aprill block felloff this morning, striking the sidewalk in front with a crash.

A lady has given a new definition of Pasteurized milk. She informed an Ann Arbor friend that it meant milk from cows turned out to pasture.

How rumors differ. One has it that the D. Y. & A. A. road is making money hand over fist and another has it that they are losing $100 a day.

It is reported that a big reception is to be tendered Congressman Henry C. Smith in this city by Editor Eugene J. Helber, shortly after commencement. The large barn of J. B. Laraway in Norhfield was struck by lightning last week and was set on fire in two places. Happily the fires were promptly extinguished.

James B. Willis, of the firm of Harkins & Willis, is preparing the ground for a handsome new residence to be built on his lot on Traver st. The work of digging the cellar will be commenced this week.

Fred J. Schleede, the bookbinder, was in Toledo yesterday in the interests of his patent. He is negotiating its sale to some large manufacturer. He says his device can be used in millions of cases to advantage.

 The Ann Arbor road and the West Michigan were the only two roads in the state to comply with the law requiring that family tickets be issued. This was some eight years ago, but the call for family tickets is still very small.

The remodeling of the house on W. Huron Street, recently purchased by Mrs. Watson, of Dexter, widow of the last Prof. Watson, the great astronomer, is almost completed. It will be very costly arranged and ready for occupancy in two weeks.

Koch Bros. yesterday received the contract for the Beta Psi house, which will cost about $25,000. Their contract is for the house complete, including the work. Architect Eisenmann, of Cleveland opened the bids and awarded the contract.

The parties interested in the Koebbe drain in Freedom had a meeting in the city yesterday for the purpose of agreeing upon the route, assessment, etc. They conld not come to an understanding and the usual legal but costly course will probably have to be taken.

The will of Eleanor Beatty, of Saline, has been filed for probate. The estate consists of a farm of 80 acres which is devised to her nephew, Ashley B. VanDuzer. This nephew is also appointed executor. George W. Barr and Agnes A. Barr are the witnesses to the will.

Joseph Hawley, of 520 Forest Ave., died at his residence at 12:30 a.m. of old age. He was 62 years old and leaves a wife and several children. The funeral will be held from the residence tomorrow at 10 a.m., and the remains will be taken to Rochester, Mich., for interment.

The gray team attached to the Polhemus omnibus while standing in front of Dr. Kapp's office this morning were startled by a passing car and started to run. In front of the Willard house the right wheel ran against a post and threw one of the horses on its back and the run was ended. No damage was done.

Last evening the annual meeting of the Washtenaw County Medical Society was held at the Hawkins house in Ypsilanti. Dr. George Dock, of Ann Arbor was elected president; Dr. Ellen Murray, of Ypsilanti, vice president; Dr. J. F. Breakey, of Ann Arbor, secretary, and Dr. J. A. Wessinger, of Ann Arbor, treasurer. Dr. Lynns read an instructive paper before the meeting.

The board of review opened its annual session this morning. Present were Supervisors Childs. Schneider, Fischer, Krapf, Shadford and Biggs, and Assessor Seylor and Clerk Harkins. This week the board will go through the rolls and make all the changes they think proper.  Next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday will be "kickers" days.

As there may be many changes in the city owing to changes of value, every tax payer who cares to make any objection should be on hand or forever after hold his tongue. The board has started out to do its work very thoroughly and conscientiously.

From Wednesday's Daily Argus.

The County Teachers' Institute will commence July 5, in Ypsilanti, and will last 18 days.

Forty students of the Toledo high school and manual training department visit the university tomorrow.

The university Choral Union has received invitations from two separate organizations to give a grand concert in Detroit next winter.

The Y.P.S.C.E will serve ice cream and cake Monday evening, June 19 on the lawn of the Congregational church. Ten cents for everyone.

Grand Lecturer L. C. Goodrich conducted a school of instruction for Royal Arch Masons at Mt. Pleasant last evening at which 125 were present.

There are 20 prisoners at present in the county jail and not a woman among them. In fact it has been some weeks since there has been a female prisoner.

Application has been made by the mother, Mrs. Fanny Gilbert, of Sylvan, to the probate court to declare her two children, Ora Agnes and Ralph, dependent children.

Miss Mary Tate, of Saline, formerly an inmate of the Eastern asylum at Pontiac, is again reported to be in her previous condition and steps are being taken to return her to the asylum.

The remains of Rev. F. J. A. Crowley, of Mt. Pleasant, who died in Ashville, N. O., passed through Ann Arbor this morning. They were accompanied by Fr. J.D. Engleman and Dr. Albert Getschel.

John Sachs was arrested last night at Ypsilanti at the instance of Ben Slade the agent of the American Wringer Co., and brought to the jail, charged with fraudulently disposing of property held under contract of sale.

The mail service between the depots and the Ann Arbor post office is to be re-let.  Bids will be received up to Friday evening, June 23, at 6 o'clock p. m. The contractor will have 17 trains to make and it will include day and night service.

Fries & Meinett, of Saline, have purchased the feed, rolls and elevator machinery that goes with them of Henizmann & Laubengayer. They are engaged this week in removing their purchase to Saline where they will run a feed mill and elevator.

The office formerly occupied by the Evening Times has been rented to F. Stofflet, the news dealer, who will occupy it with a cigar store. A ticket office for the opera house will also be run in connection. The basement maybe occupied as a billiard hall.

In the divorce case of James A. Hammond vs. Mary A. Hammond stipulations have been filed in the case that the case shall come np for a hearing next Monday and that when the decree is granted the custody of the child Eugene Hammond be given his mother until he is 14 years of age.

The first of July the post office officials will begin their vacation. Each employee is entitled to 15 days without I loss of pay. Two carriers and usually two clerks have their vacation at the same time. The carriers have substitutes when they are on vacation but the remaining clerks are expected to do the work of their absent comrades. By going in this manner it will require about three months for all to get their vacations. All have to be on duty when the university opens in the fall. This will require that the round of vacations be completed by the middle or latter part of September.

From Thursday's Daily Argus.

The June examination of teachers for second and third grade certificates is being held by Commissioner Lister in this city today and tomorrow. There are 22 applicants who are taking the examination.

Benjamin Bacon had two fingers on his left hand taken off by catching them in a press in the Glazier Stove Works at Chelsea yesterday. This is the third accident of the same nature occurring in this shop in the past six weeks.

The New State Telephone Co. commenced work on its Whitmore Lake line yesterday. It is to be part of a line to Howell. The charge for a telephone message will be 10 cents. The line is to be in operation to the lake in two weeks.

The Lyndon Cheese and Butter factory has filed its articles of association in the county clerks office. The following are the stock holders: S.A. Collins, Mrs. S. Collins, Horace Leek, Delancey Cooper, William E. Wessels, John Clark, James Howlett, John McKone, Luke Reilly, George Boyce, Samuel Boyce, Allen W. Skidmore, Orson Beeman, George Beeman, Clement A. Barber, Orville Gorton and Homer Ives.

Senator Charles A. Ward deserves the warmest gratitude of the entire city and university for the magnificent manner in which he engineered the one-fourth mill bill on its passage through the state legislature. lts success is due to Senator Ward's efforts more than to those of any other man and the Courier is glad to make this acknowledgement Senator Ward has labored faithfully for the district which he was called upon to represent and although belonging to a hopeless party minority in the legislature his efforts have succeeded far beyond the expectations of his warmest friends. -- Courier.

John and Willie Van Fleet, the two boys who were arrested at Mason for stealing a Dexter horse were taken before Justice Buchanan in Dexter yesterday afternoon waived examination and were bound over to the October term of the circuit court. The older boys' age was given as under 16, and he claimed to be absent from the Lansing Reform school on leave, but inquiries there show that he was discharged because he had served out his time and the superintendent said he was too old to be received back here. He must consequently be over 18.