Local Brevities

Luick Bros. are furnishing the lumber for the Ann Arbor Closet Manufacturing Co.

Luick Bros. have the contract for furnishing the lumber for the Homeopathic hospital.

At a special meeting of the common council today the sewer work of Schneider Bros. was accepted.

The Modern Woodmen had a delightful dance Wednesday evening. Some 60 couple were present.

The Sorosis received nine additions to its membership at its annual initiation last Saturday evening.

About one-thirteenth of the students of the literary department of the university are former Ypsilanti Normal school graduates.

The foundation walls of the new Homeopathic hospital will be up to grade line by Saturday night. Koch Bros. are pushing the work.

The funeral services of Minnie A., daughter of Walter and Sarah Kendall, of Fosters Station, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Thomas B. Wilson died this morning of tuberculosis of the bowels, after an illness of over a year. He was formerly a barber on Forest ave. He leaves a wife and three children.

Dr. Edward W. Bemis, of New York, president of the bureau of economics, will be here Dec. 8, to speak on "Monopoly Problems." This address will be a feature of the Good Government Club lecture course.

Another post is reported to have come back Wednesday evening. There seems to be some connection with the social dances in the city and these posts which disappeared Hallowe'en.

The Oberammeragau Passion play will be presented by veriscope views in St. Patrick's church in Northfield, Sunday afternoon, Nov. 19, at 3 o'clock. They are very highly spoken of. Admission 25 cents.

At the regular meeting of the Chapter of the Eastern Star Wednesday evening, three new members were initiated. After the work was completed, the Stars sat down to a banquet. The evening was finished with a social dance.

The remains of Mrs. Martha Wells, of No. 507 S. State st., who died Monday at the home of her son in Chicago, were brought to Ann Arbor this afternoon. Funeral services tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock at her late residence. She was 79 years of age and an old resident of the city. 

A citizen asks: "If the supreme court has decided that the city must maintain the Michigan Central Bridge on Detroit st., will the city have to maintain all the bridges which may be built over the Ann Arbor road? Will it not be cheaper for the city to insist that the Ann Arbor road raise its tracks and maintain its own bridges?"

The city authorities have left the crossing of the culvert over Allen's Creek on W. William st. in a dangerous condition. On a dark night there will be great danger of stepping off the sidewalk, which in itself is only half finished. This crossing should be good for a judgment of $3,800 against the patient taxpayers who will not complain if they have a little more damages to pay.

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From Saturday's Daily Argus.

The hardware dealers in this city have decided to close their places of business at 6 o'clock in the evening from Nov. 20 until May 1.

W. W. Wedemeyer delivered a lecture on "Lincoln" last evening in the lecture course of the Congregational church of Webster. The next speaker in the course will be Judge of Probate Newkrk.

L. Dresselhouse and family, of Manchester, will occupy No. 830 S. Fourth ave. about Dec. 1. Mr. Dresselhouse is a well-known farmer and fruit grower. He comes to the city to educate his children.

Hon. A. J. Sawyer' has purchased the building owned by Mrs. Mary Day on E. Huron st. After he has arranged the second story as he desire it, he will remove his law offices from the opera house to this building.

The case of Luther L. James vs. Zenus Sweet and four Ann Arbor businessmen for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution, has been appealed to the supreme court on the ground that Judge Kinne erred in ruling that there was not evidence to sustain the prosecution.

Through the teachers' appointment committee of the literary department of the University of Michigan, 132 students and graduates were aided in securing positions as instructors the  present year. One hundred and two accepted positions in Michigan schools and 30 in institutions in other states.

The funeral services of Sophie, the wife of Franklin Moyer, No. 1138 Martin st., will be held tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock at her late residence. The interment will take place at Pebbles' Corners. She was 41 years of age. Her husband and one daughter survive her. She was born in Canada.

James C. Henderson, manager of the Ann Arbor Organ Co., is home from a successful southern trip. He reports the foreign orders for the export trade as coming in very nicely. During the coming week 92 organs will be shipped, destined for London, Liverpool, Glasgow and other places in Europe.

Dr. George G. Groff, who studied chemistry in the University of Michigan in 1874-77, and has been some time president of the state board of health of Pennsylvania, is now in San Juan, Porto Rico, as secretary of the board of health of Porto Rico and general promoter of educational and hygienic interests. Dr. Groff is a surgeon of the volunteer army.

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From Monday's Daily Argus.

Born - To Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Jones, an eight-pound boy.

Fred Meyer will move into his new house on W. Washington st. next week.

A change of time went into effect on the Michigan Central this morning. The train that went west at 7 :48 a.m. now goes at 8 :18 a.m.

Grace M. Luxton, of Milan, has had her father, Colin Luxton, appointed her next friend in order that she may sue Andrew C. Mead for damages, she says, she sustained through Mead's negligence.

One of the new houses of D. Fred Schairer on Hill st. was completed Saturday, the painters finishing their job. John Walz has the contract for another house for Mr. Schairer adjoining this one.

Nine Ann Arborites took the Mystic Shrine degree at Detroit last Friday night. They were Sid. W. Millard, John Lindenschmitt, H. Wirt Newkirk, John Koch, Fred Staebler, Dr. Dewey, Dr. Kinyon, Dr. Copeland, Royal Jenny.

Marriage licenses issued: Ross W. Jury, of Northfield, and Pearl B.Phillip, of Howell; Tracy H. Bissell, of York, and Nellie Kinne, of Augusta.

The Ann Arbor Closet Co. has so far proceeded with its new factory that the iron roofing will be put on next Monday. The company will commence operations about Feb. 1.

Laura, the six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Blaess, of Lodi, died Saturday night. The funeral services will be held at the home of the parents tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Interment in Lodi cemetery.

Fred Hinz and August Redies got into an altercation Friday night in a saloon. Hinz smashed Redies over the head with a beer mug and knocked him senseless. He pleaded guilty to assault and battery this morning and Justice Doty fined him $10 and costs.

Philip Maine was up before Justice Doty last week for being drunk and was sentenced to five days in jail This morning he was brought up again on the same charge. Justice Doty remembered the Maine and stamped a return on him for 20 days more.

South Lyon is in line for the Detroit & North Western electric road that is nearing Northville now.  This is a pretty straight "tip," and before another year South Lyon will likely have low rates and better service to Detroit. It is understood that the line will pass the Starkweather farm, three miles west of Northville, where the suburban race track will be located for the purpose of giving races on the Highland Park plan. - Jackson Press.

L. D. Watkins has been something of a hunter in his day, and besides tackling all kinds of wild game that roamed the woods of southern Michigan, he has hunted elk in the wilds of Nebraska. But he has not been very "sporty" during the past 25 years, and we supposed he had lost all interest in the chase, until we learned  that he and Dr. Carrow and Harrison Soule, of Ann Arbor, had taken out licenses to kill deer, and will operate in the forests of Presque Isle county. - Manchester Enterprise.

Fred Huntoon writes the Argus: For your information, will say I joined the 42nd Infantry some time ago at Fort Niagara, N.Y., was at once assigned to Co. E., and appointed corporal with promise of sergeant at first vacancy. In our trip across the continent our train was ditched at Castle Rock, Col. Fortunately I escaped with a few bruises. Expect to take Transport Hancock in a few days for the Philippines. Am looking forward to a great trip, and hope to get to the front before the trouble is over.  I am feeling fine, and wish to be remembered to all my old friends.

Fire broke out in the building occupied by the American Wringer Co., just north of the motor line waiting room, last evening shortly after 5 o'clock. Before the fire department could reach the scene the blaze had gained such a headway that all the contents were destroyed or rendered worthless. It has not yet been learned whether the fire started from the stove in the rear room or from a lamp explosion. Ben Slade, the manager, says he does not know whether the company carried any insurance on the stock or not. He estimates the loss at about $500.

Detroit seems to feel very proud of its liquid air lecture, if one may judge by the way they are advertising it in Ann Arbor, and the price of admission. Ann Arbor citizens will be glad to know they will shortly have the privilege of hearing Prof. Freer lecture and seeing him experiment with liquid air without having to make a trip to Detroit, or paying a high price. Prof. Freer's lecture is in the Unity Club course and will be given as soon as possible after the arrival of the liquid air machine at the university. It was shipped from New York some time ago and is expected daily. With this machine Prof. Freer will be able to make any desired amount of liquid air, and he is planning many interesting and some very unusual experiments.

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SOME SALINE NEWS NOTES

Geo. Schairer, J. Henry Fish, Jacob Sturm and Fred Jerry were in Howell on Tuesday as witnesses for the prosecution against Wm. Laing.

A lecture course is being arranged by Prof. Tooze and the pupils of the high school. 

A station has been established at the electric railway crossing over the Ann Arbor railroad.  A change will be made in the time table of the electric road so as to make close connections with the trains there. The change will be very convenient for the people of Saline and Ypsilanti.

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CIGARETTE BOXES GAS JET AND A COT

COMBINATION THAT CALLED OUT FIRE DEPARTMENT

Innocent Co-Ed Thought That the Shower of Meteors Had Arrived

A combination of some empty cigarette boxes, a lighted gas jet and a cot bed brought out the fire department and numerous curious people last night to 511 Monroe st. The house is occupied by Mrs. W. M. Ferris and there are several students rooming there. Dangling from a gas fixture directly over the bed were several cigarette boxes. They caught on fire and dropped. The bed blazed up. The fire department, however, was at the scene in time to keep the damage down under $100.

Some sparks were dropping down in front of the window of an unsuspecting co-ed below. She afterwards remarked that the thought the shower of meteors had arrived.

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DECEMBER JURY DRAWN

The following jurors for the December term of the circuit court, to be here Dec. 5, were drawn today:

Ann Arbor City -- Fred Marken, Henry Wesch, Fred Brown, Chester S. Elmer, N. H. Barrows, Theodore B. Williams, John Ferdon.

Ann Arbor Town -- Christian Rief.

Augusta -- Frank Merritt

Bridgewater -- Charles Green

Dexter -- Edward Brown

Freedom -- Charles Stierle

iLma -- George B. Perry

Lodi -- George Jedele

Lyndon -- George Rowe

Manchester -- John Van Tuyl

Northfield -- Charles Koch

Pittsfield -- William Cody

Salem -- Myron Bailey

Saline -- Seldon Wheelock

Scio -- Stephen Cavanaugh

Sharon -- Justus Daviter

Superior -- George Quackenbush

Sylvan -- Homer Body, Oliver Cushman

Webster -- Albert Litchfield

York - Daniel Murray

Ypsilanti Town - David Owen

Ypsilanti City - C. W. Haynes, Washington Hawkins