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21
Month
October
Year
1885
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"At every gust the dead leaves fall." Jll3t 30. Charlie Gibson has moved into the old Bower house on Miller ave. F red Gakle lias gone to the wild woods of the north, seeking what he niay devour. The ladies of St. Andrew's church are to hold a tea-party or social, this ev'euing, at Fireman'3 Hall. The regular moiithly social of the M. E. church society occurs this evening, in the chüich parlors. The board of supervisors were hand8omcly entertained by ex-Senater llichnioiid last evening. Tlie land in the rear of the jail, opera boute, elc, wtll probably be rental by the city as a wood market. Dr. C. E Lowry will talk to liis bibl class in the M. E. cUuich next Sunday upon "The Humanity of Clirist." The ladies of the Presbyterian society hold a social at their parlors this evening, (ruin 7 to 9 p m. AU are iuvited. Eleven milis and elevators out of 2 in this county, report 89,801 bushels of wheat inarketcd during the month of .September. Prof. Alexander Winchell hasanarticle In last Banday's New York Tribune on ¦ 3clenc as a llobgobliu." It is a rtnmg plea for the practical. Yon wouldu't think that a man would kick ubout au auction and then send his Wiffl and family around to buy goods, but It luis been and is being done every day. The school board met Wednesday evening and re-orjfanlaed by electing Judge Uuninaii, president; Junius E. Beal, secretary and Leonliard Gruuer, treasurer. Upwards of $$0 worth of new type for fine aud faucy job printiug hasjust been put In the Couriek ollice. If you want a ueat card, invitation, program, te., etc., cali and see us. The school board is to pay Wesley Hicks for the lot adjoining the lst ward school building to the soiuli, $2,650. Of this amount, $050 is to be paid Feb. lst, next, and for the balance M,r. Hicks takes the bonds of the district at 5 per cent. interest. The action of the supervisorg in reconsUleringthe resolution adopting standard time was a step backward. It is mikIcj -ti H id 1 1 uit the change was made so that our genial frlond Robison, clerk of the board, would not be obliued to lie in bed a half hour longer each moruing. John Haggerty, a resident of Scio village, met with an accident Frlday last, which resulted in hlsdeath. While leading a fraotious colt the animal ralsed upon its bind legs and struck Haggerty i blow upon the breast, with his fore feet, from which he died in a short time. Secretary Doty of the school board has certifieel the following amounts to the supervisors to be spread upou their tax rolls : For general purposes $18,000; heatlng apparatus, $1,500; library, $250; and $650 tirst payment on lot in lst ward for addition to school building, making in all $20,400. It seemed like old times last Sunday to have Dr. Winchell in charge of the bible class at the Methodist church, a position he lilled so acceptably for fourteen years previi'us to leaving the city, being succeeded by the lamented Dr. Cocker. His talk last Sunday was on the signiricance of natural laws. At the state pharmaceutical association held in Detroit last week, there were present from this city, Messrs. O. Eberbach, J. J. Goodyear, H. J. Brown, Profp. A. 15. Prescott, T. J. Wrampelmeyer, V. O. Vaughan, J. W. Langley, and O. C. Johnson. Mr. Brown was chosen president for the ensuing year. One of our merchants who has been studying up mathematica, has found out luiw to teil wuether he gets a ton of coal or not. He says there are 40 cubic feet in a ton of coal, and if you will take the length of your coal bin, mulliply it by the breadtli and again by the belgbt and then divide the product by 40, you will get the amount In tons -ind fractions that your biu will hold. The formal opening of the Ladies' Library building upon Wednesday evening t last week was a success in every way Tlie addresses of Jiulge Cooleyand President Angelí were Hstened to attentively, Ks was also the historv of the society by E. B. Pond. The building, which has cost $2,685, has been practieally paid for, and ia pleaeant home for the society. Among the doners at the opening was David Hennlng, who gave $100. Those long dclayed sidewalks reminds us: Siiniilil not the city take these walks tntirely in its owu charge. The Corporation is responsible for any accident tha ui.iy happen to a pedestrian by reason o: a defective walk. VVhy then should no tUe city keep the walks in repair? It i the private opinión of the writer tha sidewalks shauld be built and maintainet by the city the same as the streets are, a they are for the nublic benefit the saint 9 8trjets are. F. C. Mallory has opeued a restaurant in the Haven block, next to Kandal IV. There WÜl be a meeting of tlie citizen's league this evening, at the Congregationsl church. A large iuvoicc of new type received at this office, aml we are now bettcr prepared than ever before for all kinds of job printing. The attention of physicians is called to the "ad" for sealed pioposals for attending the prisoners at the county jail for the coming year. The barlej' erop of Washtenaw county, nccording to the publislicd report was 2,908 bushels from 181 acres, or 20.83 busliels to the acre. ltemember the camp-lïre. Keep it impressed upon your uiind until Nov. 21st. It will be one of the things you will want to see and hear. M. J. Lehman, as soüeitor for complainant, ha9 filed a bilí for divorce, for Elizabeth StapUh agaiust John St&pllh, botb pai tica Chelseaites. The cold wave signal flag has been changed from a black circle to a black square, and hereafter cold wuves will be heralded on the square. If you want Bohemian oats very bad - awfully bad- D. M. Ferry A Co., of Detroit, offer "to supply you with all yon wish at 50 cents per bushel. Mr. George W. Ren wiek has been appointed by the school board as teacher of music In the schools to take the place of A. Wilsey, rerirnal. A wortliy sclection. The estimated yield of corn to the acre in this couniy is 76 bushels of ears. The yield of potatocs is put at TG pur cent., of apples 39 per cent., and the cond ilion of clover is 9" per cent. Cider and eider milis were in good demand last Sanday, if one could judge by the many nqniries for the latter and the general procession in that direction during tlie day of students, town boys, etc. There is a rumor atioat that ayoiing man and two young ladiea were tipped out of a boat into the raging Huron river, near the new dam Saturday, but they didn't report their escape to the pólice. M. H. Breiman is movinir his law office to the Devancy building, Huron st., over Burehfield's, where he will have the whole second story to himself. In which to make the guilty trcmble and justicc feu red. Emily Granger, of Kalamazoo, died in this city October ISlh, of disease of the stomach, aged 66 years. Deceased was a sister of Mrs. Dr. Haskell, and her remains were taken to Kalamaxoo yesterday, for interment. The annual meeting of the Jaekson associiition of Cougregational ministers coininenced ts sessions in this city yesterday afternoon which will close to-day. Last evening Rey. Dr. Barton delivered llii' opening sermón. One of Mills' milk nragon rigs carne down Huron treet Monday forenoon at a speed that would have churncd botter in the inllk eans in abont tb ree mínate, but the horse was itopped in front of Gidley's without any danuge greater than a general shake-up. Mis. K. A. Rathbone, of Ann Arbor, has been appointed vice-iegent of Michi gan for the Mt. Yernon assoeiation, an orgunizatioii of ladies, whose work it is tocare for Washington at Mt, Vernon. Mrs. ] ithboiR.'s liity h to oiirinie Ihis state. In dolng tliis she will be assisted by Mis. Frank D. Kceler. Friilay last Couoty Treasurer Beleer, under tlie direction of the jail building committec, paid the I'auley Jail Building and Manufacturing Co., of St. Louis, Mo., $6,000, for the celia and steel work of the new jail. About $200 was retained by the committee, to be paid when some minor details slia.ll have been eompleted. The state erop report for September, just issued, givei the following figures for Waahtenaw county: Wheat- 9,111 aeres threshed 208,592 bushels, average yield 2'2.89; total acreage reported by super visors, 70,819; probable yield at same average per acre, 1,021,047 busliels. Oats -2.13 aeres threshed 87,817 bushels; average yield 41.17 bushcls. E. VV. Morgan says: "The discovery of tiinbcr tour feet below the surface, enently chronicled in the Courier, is not [uite so strange as the known tact, tliat n (ligging Captain Qoodrich's well, sev ral cedar pail sta ves, with thecrozing in hem, were found 56 feet below the sur'am and below nearly 30 feet of very lard stony hard pan." Jacob Kouts, r young man about 18 vears old, working in Fred Btabler's farm, In Ann Arbor town, had bis left leg braken Tueiday. lic was drivlag some cuttle into n yard wheu one of tlie animáis wlieeled Buddenly and Itruck his limb breaking it in two just above the anklc. Dr. SmUli set the broken llmb and reporta liim dolng well. The fellow who tackles Ohlit, Donntlly wants to have ron nerves aud a John I. Sullivai: muscle. lic eama Into the Cooriek office Monday, picked up a box containing old type metal - in inistake for a box of Dr. Chase's Heeipe book- and carried it half-way acro-s Um offlea betere flnding out it was too heavy to go by xpress. The boxonly welghed 300 poiuuR Among the corporations that have filed artides with the secretary of shite is the Huron Supply Company of Ann Arbor, with a capital stock of $5,000, of wbtcll f500 has been paid in. The object is for the sale of machinery and rijrhls, and the itockholders are BenJ. P. .Morgan, John Finne 'an, .f. B. DVÜ and Zina P. King. This meani the mana? tacture and sale of Morgan's new car coupler. Treasurer Tozer informa us that he paid out $600 for premiums last Saturday, giving a check upon the Sivings Bank for each premium paid, many of them being for fifty cents. There is about $400 yet to pay. The money burrowed with which to pay the premium lust year has been p:iid up and the interest due on the old debt besides, inaking quite a sucsceeful year of it. Two or three more sucli years would put the society on the highway to succesx. Let'l all pray foi pleaaant weather next vear, also. Tueiday at 11 o'clock a. m., Mr. Emory Townsend, of East Saglnaw, and Miss Aunie L. Fairman, were united in the matrimonial bonds, at the residence of the bride' paients, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Fairman at l'lyinouth, Ii.v. V. W. Wetmore offleiating. Only the immediate friends of the couple were present. The pre-euts were both elegant and numerous The couple left by carriage for their future home at East Saginaw, where they bad a house already furnished awaUMng their coming. Mr. Townaeud is from one of Wasliteniw's oldet and best fainilic. is a wide awake stirrlng youngmim aud has many friends hcreabouts who will wish him" all the joy and happines. that marrled life brings to uiortals.