Press enter after choosing selection

Local

Local image
Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
June
Year
1885
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The school board meet Tuesday evenIng. The 800 feet of hose purchased by the city comes through the lirui of Ilutel &Co. There were 105 bilis allowed by the council Moaday evening, amounting to $2,964.41. The strawberry and ice creara festival at the M. E. church last YYednesday evening cleared about $50. Eev. S. H. Andrews, foruierly of Chicago, witl 8eak at the temperance meeting Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. All of the saloon keepers In the city have paid their t;ix wiili tlie exceotlon of two. Rev. Wm, J. Camplell, the presiding eider of the Adrián district, occupied the M. E. church pulpit Sunday evenine. John Ross has a colt four days old, sired by l lrwin's Meuibrwo Gold Dust, for which he has been offered $100 in cash. If our council is not careful its financia! record at the end of the year wlll bo on a par with the Detroit base ball club's record. The Egau Imperial Truss Company is bw fairly on the road to success. Last week nearly $1,000 worth of orders were shipped. The fear of cholera has prevented uiany Ann Arboreans froin carrying out conteniplated European tours tliis summer. The best orange on our market just now is cultivated in Southern California, neur Los Angeles, at Riverside. It is a sweet, dellcious, thin-skinned orange of light color. Mr. Keech has just been putting in several lightning arresters with which he iniends to ward off tlie "ungovernable slayer of man." The Union hook and ladder company tovs appeared for the flrst time in their new uniforuis on Decoration Day, and they looked very nice in them. Remember the pioneer meeting, to be Tield at Saline, on Wedaesday Juue lOth. The good people of Saline will make tlie ¦occasion onè of pleasure to those attendiiig. For a few weeks past butter has been very scarce article in this market. Olemargerine has been sold in its place, and one merchant had butter shipped to him from Indiana. Several cases of struwberries wliicli came to our ïuarket last Suturday were ruied by the rainy weather, wliich had rotted them. The shippers stand the loss on sucli fruit. The conncil at its meeting Monday evening appropriated $500 for the entertainment ind expenses of ttie American Science Association, whlch ineets here this summer. The jail couimitU.'e WÜJ meet in tliis city Thuraday (to-morrow), when the question of locatioa will be decided npon, and the contract for the erection of the building complete.!. The Ann Arbor Lock Spring buggy gar company are about rendy to comí menee their works. It is to be hoped they will iucceed, as they have a spring whlch must certaiuly meet the approbation of the public. Henry Johnson was bronght to the jail Friday night for attempting to shoot Mr. Bnstwick, the operator at the depot in Dexter. It seems the two men had a little altercation, when Johnson whipped out a revolver and fired, the bullet just grazing Bostwick's head. The residents in the vicinity of N. Ingalls and North streets, are greally exerclsed over the fact that the non-rsident owner of a couple of vacant lots in that ¦vicinity has written on here to know if a fflrut-class beer garden woukln't be a good thing In that neighborhood. It is a question that one or two financiera would like to have answered, as to how much Prof. C. E. Greene proposes to charge the city ns superintendent oi the construction of the water works. The council seemed to leave that door open when electing him to the position Monday evening. At a meeting of the vestry of St. Andrew'g church, Monday evening, the following gentlemen were elected delegates to the 51st annual convention of thls diocese, to be held at Detroit, commencing next week Wednenday: John M. VVheeler, Chas. H. Richmond, Prof. Geo. 8 Morris; alternates, Dr. Palmer, Prof. Denison, H. T. Brown. The Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank election was held Monday, and the following drector8 were chosen : Reuben Kempf, W. F. Breakey, John Burg, Ambroge Kearney, E. Duffy, D. F. Sclmircr, Wra. C. Stevens, D. Mclntyre and Wm. A. Tolchard. The directors then chose offleers as follows : President, lteubeu Ketnpf; vicepresident, E. Duffy; secretary and cashier. Wm. A. Tolchard. The new fire engine for the sixth ward engine house arrived Friday, was tested by the fire department Saturday, and pronounced all O. K. It was purchased of the Button Engine Company, of Waterford, N. Y., ia knowu as No. 4, and is a neaHooking, trim-built machine, capable of throwinj; two Btreams if necessary, d oost $600. The öth ward boys have waited patiently for their fire extingulsUer, and are right proud of the same. The wool market will open witli pricea at about 20 to 22 cents. The high school senior class hats were furnished by A. L. Noble. To-inorrow, June 4th, is pension day at the county clerk's office. Jos. Powers was arrested for tapping the til! at Thos. F. Leonard's, Tueeday. Winans & Stafford have commenced work on their big marsh south of the city. Jake Fowler was taken to Chelsea yesterday to respondtoa charge of burglary. City Marshal Fall has several cans of fruit belonging to somebody if they can identify them. At the Decoration Day services held at Grinnell, Iowa, Mrs. N. D. Plerce read au original poeni. If you would lik a chance tojinyest in a good roller rink this month, you can flud one in Ann Arbor. Sheriff Walsh received four now boarders, last Friday night, Chelsea and Dexter each contributlng oue. Soine ruthless vandals are engaged in shooting dogs. Several ladies who have lost pets are indignant over it. And now the cut worm is cutting up, or rather cutting down the gardeners' and farmers' potatoes, tomatoes, etc. Burghrs broke into Mrs. Boyd's house on Fifth street, last night. Look out for the crooks, for tliere is a gang iu town. Kalph, a little grandson of Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Wliite, died at Jackson, May 30th, and the remains brought here for burial The M. C. ft. R. have graded the side track to the new milis of the Cornwells, and the improvemeuts at that point are beinj; pushed. The eleventh anuual meeting of the state pioneer society lias been postp'oned from Jnne 3 and 4 to June 17 and 18. It nu ds at Lansing. Clarence Bcny, of the good-lookinjr P. O. forcé, took a " header " Monday night, and spoiled all the beauty of his face for a few days. "Mr. Campbell lives,1' says the Detroit Evening Kews. Just so, my dear. So does our neighbor's dog, but lie is a dit ty cur just the same (the dog, of couise). The western brewery firm is engaged at present iu re-layinu the pipes that sup rly that institution with water from the spring on the hill to the Southwest of the city. Wt: shoukl hare had an item about the Seauüful, damp good weatlier this week, jut the alleged super-sensitiveness of one of our newspaper friends causes ai to desist. Fred Henion ná Fred Kberbach went to Horseshoe lake last Saturday and caught 53 pounds of pickerel. N. 15. - This is not a flah story. Affldavits furïlched. The state pioneer society wants some generous pioneer of tiiis county to dónate i Washtenaw county history to the ibraty of the afotesaid society. Address Geo. H. Greene, Lansiug, Micli. The Cougregationalists 1 iold a meeting of the woman's foreign missionary sociey at the Webster church to-daj'. A arge number of members of the eliurch q this city made arrangements to attend. The okl jail square will now be entirely occupied by residences. Mr. A. De ?orest having sold the last lot thereon veste rday to Arthur Covert, of Lima, for 51.400, who will build a new house there soon. The Toledo & Ann Arbor R. R. will lave a new time table out this week, to take effect next Sunday. The ouly material chaiige is in the running of the train 'rom Toledo, whieh will arrive here one tiour later than at present. A fine job of street work is beiug done jy Aid. Henderson on wliat is known as the 5th street hill, coinmenclng at Packird st. and running south to Hill st. It will cost several dollars, hut the great improvement is worth all of the outlay. Saturday was woodchuck day at the office of L. Davis, who is township clerk of Ann Arbor, and he took in and pnid tor 200 scalps, at 25 cents a plece ïielson Garlinglious brought in flfty in one lot. If other towns would join in tliis good work the tax would be less on this township. A fair si.ed audience greeted the entertainment given by Prof. Kenipf last Wednesday evening, at the opera house, and those who were there speak in words of praise of what they saw and heard. The singing of Mme. Maria Tilden was especiülly fine, and Mr. Fiölich'8 handling of the bow was good. Tlie funeral of Dr. A. W. Chase was held Tluirsday last, attended by the different Odd Fellow and Musonic organization of the city. The remains were taken irom the depot to the cemetery, the procession being headed by the CIipquamegon band, where the last sad rites were performed over one who had been a prominent person in the affairs of the city. Mayor Kapp has been appointed upon the board of medical examiners in place of Dr. W. B. Smith, because of the latter's " ofïensive partisanship," probably. Dr. Batwell, of Ypsllanti, has alao been appointed on the sam board to succeed Dr. F. M. Oakley, r. moved for the same cause. Both appointmentR are good ones, however, thatof Dr. Kapp being certainly excellent. Wednesday.May 20th the marrlage of Mr. Cumings, metnber of law '85, of Chicago, 111., and Miss Jernie Tremaine, of this city, daughter of Warren Tremaine ,was rftlehnited at Wavne. The bridal party returned the game evenlng as far as Ypfilanti, listened to the Chequamegon entertainment, and then returned home- the event being a surprise party to their many frlends In the city. Through the efforts of Mrs. Benj. Day, Mrs. Tlieodore Royer, and Mrs. R. A. Beal, a grand work has been performed for the society of the M. E. church, it being 110 less than raising a sufflcient amount of money to cancel the entire debt of the society, including that upon the steam heatinf; apparatus. The deb upon the parsonage of $2.000 is provided for in tlie will of the late David Qodfrpy The ladies have procur#d notes runnltift from one to two years, inaking the pay inents easy, and thus pledging in a sub stantial way the funds necessaiy, for thi desirable object. If tliere are any persons in the city who may deslre to extend the hospitalices o their homes to one or more members o the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science, which will assem ble in this city thu last week of Augus next, they are requested to scnd in thei Dames to the committee at an early date alsoall persons who have furnished rooms en-suits or single, for rent, will pleaso re port the number of rooms and the num of persons that can be accommodate tlicicin. The terms for the rent of room can be arranged wlth the committee : F IX Bennen, J. H. Brown, E. B. Abel, J Q. A. Sessions.