Local Brevities
From Tuesday's Daily Argus
The usual Thanksgiving dancing party will take place at Granger's academy Thanksgiving night.
John Fischer, the W. Huron st. butcher, has purchased four head of fat cattle of Albert Lichtfield, of Webster.
The passenger receipts of the trolley road at the Ann Arbor station run from $900 to $1,000 a month higher than the Detroit office.
Commencing with yesterday the early morning train south and the noon train north on the Ann Arbor road will stop at Urania. A new station has been established called Ypsilanti crossing, where the Ypsilanti and Saline trolley road crosses the Ann Arbor road.
Dr. Nina Walker Oliver, a graduate of the homeopathic department, has been appointed woman's physician at the school for feeble minded children at Lapeer. This is in compliance of the law passed by the last legislature, that at all institutions where there are females, a woman physician must be appointed.
Reserved seats for the dedication of the new St. Thomas chuch, Sunday, Nov. 26, can now be had either at Sheehan's on State st., or at Rinsey & Seabolt 's on Washington st. Archbishop Ireland will preach in the morning and Mgr. Conaty in the evening. The same ticket admits to both services and costs only $2.
The patrons and pupils of school district No. 8, Dexter, township, will give a Thanksgiving entertainment on Wednesday evening, Nov. 22, at the new town hall in Dexter township, one mile south from Silver Lake. This entertainment will consist of a box social, musical program by a graphophone, followed by a social dance. Admission 10 cents. The ladies are requested to bring a box filled with supper for two, which will be sold at auction. Everybody invited.
Charles A. Briggs, of New York, has been secured by the Students' Christian Association to deliver a lecture in University hall Saturday evening. His subject will be "The Scientific Study of the Bible."
The largest meeting ever held at the Young Men's Christian Association during the week of prayer was the opening meeting last night. And, judging from the expression on their faces and their words, the interest among the men was in proportion to the attendance.
The new St. Thomas church will seat over 1,000 people on the day of dedication. It will be crowded to hear Archbishop Ireland, who will preach for the first and perhaps the last time in Ann Arbor. Dr. Conaty, the president of the Catholic University in Washington, a brilliant educator, will preach in the evening. Don't fail to hear these two equally brilliant Catholic prelates and educators.
Three organizations in the city are observing this week as the week of prayer for young men, and two are observing the same week in the interests of young women. The former are the Young Men 's Christian Association of the university, our downtown association and the Students' Christian Association. The S. C. A. also hold meetings this week for young women, as does the Young Women's Christian Association.
The hen roost of Mrs. Bobert Shannon, of W. Summit st. , has been visited and a rooster and five hens disappeared.
S. E. Sheldon, on an acre of ground on Packard st. , raised nine and a half tons of chicory. He used a pound and a half of seed.
He must think chicory is a pretty good crop to raise. Mary Bach Henderson, formerly of this city, who has been spending the past, 18 months in Portland, Ore., was married Nov. 7, to Harry d'Orguerre, of New Mexico. Mr. and Mrs. d'Orguerre will, for the present, make their home in Spokane, Wash.
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From Wednesday's Daily Argus.
Yesterday afternoon 1,500 children gathered at the opera house to witness a dog show. The jam was so great that in many of the seats two children were placed. And it was all for live cents a head.
In '98 there were, 1,192 lockers taken at, the Waterman gymnasium. This year so far 1,250 lockers have been allotted. The demand is so great that more have been ordered and are expected to arrive in a few days.
Joseph Richardson, of Charlotte, formerly a resident of Ann Arbor, died suddenly last evening, aged 56 years. A brief telegram was received in this city. It gave no particulars or the time of the funeral. Winfield Banfield, his brother-in-law, and other relatives expect to attend the funeral. The deceased was born near Ann Arbor. He was a machinist by trade. At one tune he worked in Karpf 's planing mill, and for some years, in connection with Christian Schumacher, ran the old Armstrong planing mill. For a number of years he, was in charge of the Charlotte electric light plant. In 1885 he married Harriet Banfield, of this city. She, with three sons- Percy, the electrician of the Charlotte electric light plant; Don, in charge of the Grand Ledge electric light plant, and a younger son, Willard- survive him. He enlisted at the beginning of the civil war and served though the same re-enlisting twice. He was a private in the Second Michigan Infantry of Welch Post, G. A. R.
The lodge of Elks will be presented with a Cervus Alces tonight.
Christian Spaeth, Rb Armbruster and William Corson left this evening for the north to hunt deer.
Fred Krause, the auctioneer, reports that poultry this fall is bringing a good price. At the Shipley auction held on the Armbruster farm recently, chickens were sold for 31 cents a head, duck 40 cents, geese 75 cents and turkeys $1.05.
At a depth of 881 feet the drill in the campus well this morning again struck limestone. For 56 feet it had passed through shale, since the 10 feet of limestone struck at 815 feet. In this shale there had been indications of gas, shown by the bubbling of the water in the sand pump. There is much interest to know how far the present formation will continue. The mineral water strata underlying Michigan will probably be struck in the next 800 feet.
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From Thursday's Daily Argus.
The new vestibule for the entrance to the Cook hotel is being put in.
The home of Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Nicklas was gladdened last evening by the arrival of a bright little girl. Mother and daughter are doing well.
At the meeting of the Michigan State Sunday School Association at Battle Creek yesterday, E. E. Calkins was made a member of the executive committee for three years.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Prochnow celebrated their silver wedding at their home in Northfield yesterday. There was a large attendance and a most enjoyable time was had.
Dr. John Kapp, Emil Novak, Wm. Corson and Reuben Armbruster are the latest Ann Arborites to take out deer hunting licenses.
Wm. Walsh has been engaged as the Washtenaw county agent for the McCormick people. He will commence selling farming implements Dec. 1.
Elmer, the four-weeks-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kapp, of Fuller st., died yesterday. The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the parents' residence.
Edwin C. Burdick, of the university electrical force, saw stars this morning. He thinks he saw all the stars in the heavens in one second. He struck an iron beam in the University hospital with his head.
Prof. Alberto Jonas, of the University School of Music, will leave next week for New York, to take part in a concert with full orchestra to be given in the Metropolitan opera house on the evening of Nov. 25. By special request, Prof. Jonas will play Paderewski's Concerto. The concert is given for the benefit of Stark' hospital.
Last evening at 8 o'clock, John J. Gutekunst and Miss Emma Koch, daughter of Mrs. Adam Koch, of Superior, were married at the home of Mr. Gutekunst, No. 1205 Pontiac st., Rev. A. L. Nicklas, of Zion's Lutheran church officiating. John Koch and Herman Koch and Miss Fredericka Gutekunst and Miss Anna Gutekunst attended the couple. After the ceremony some 50 guests sat down to a sumptuous supper.
The price of season tickets for the Y. M. C. A. Star course will remain at $1 throughout the entire season. Those who intend purchasing tickets for any of the later numbers should secure them at once and have the satisfaction of getting their money's worth three or four times over. The first entertainment was all and more than was promised, and there is every indication that the remaining numbers will not fall short in merit.
Charles Fantle, of St. Paul, was in the city this morning and held a perfect levee as his many friends crowded around him. He is at present engaged in looking after the buying for his son's stores and his real estate interests. Although he had lived in Ann Arbor so many years he could not help but express his surprise at how this city is improving. He asked the Daily Argus, "What are you going to do with this city?" He was told that within 10 years it might be a city of 25,000 inhabitants. Mr. Fantle has the same pleasant smile as of old.