Local

Iíather dry - every way. Roaila to happinesis - all roads leading to Ann Arbor July 3d. Tlie lióle lo the ground at the M. C. lt. H. (Jepot is growing to mammoth proportion8. The next meeting of tbc Webster Farmers' club will be held the flrst Saturday in September. Twelve ears loaded with excurgionlats to see the buse-ball game went tlirough Monday a. m. on the M. C. Chas Braun, brother of Ann Arbr towu's supervisor, was married Thursday last to Miss Mary Andrea, of Ann Arbor town. Love Feast and sacrament at the M. E. ehurch next Sunday wlth service omitted in the evening on account of the Baccalanreate. That hole (cleur throagh to China) in the center of the walk across Aun streef, from the north front of the court house, ha8 been filled with Toledo mud. We have received the Calendar of the MtctaigM State Normal School for '85 86. It ia a Beat pamphlet of 72 pages, and shows a total attendance of 870 students. County Clerk Robison is now a resident of the third ward, havlng removed vvith liis family to the old jail building which he has haiidsoinely tixed over as a residence. Milán Cornet Bami will play n Ann Arbor on July 'M at the celebration for $40. - Milán Leader. Yes, good things como high, but we must have tnem for our Fourtli on the 3d. "Ye local" failed to fïnd a city or town in hia recent irivels wliere the people carried local time. Standard time is uuiversally adopted. Bilt Ann Arbor cannot come to iliat time. Ladies who travel our streets complain bitterly about the water careless lawn sprinklers tlirow upun the walks. Ladies whose heultli is at all delicate are obliged to wéér rubbers to protect their feet. The attention of the Street comtuittee of the commoii couucil is called to the coudition of the streets, and the necessitr for "slickinj: a'p" before commencement. Nearly every street is covered with suoall cobble Otones tliat ou;ht to be taken off. Here is a chance for the "booming cominiiu-i'." Kil. Gott, of Detroit, writes to :i prominent cilizen of Aan Arbor that he knows of au Eastern inanufacturing finii wliicli is iooking about for a good western location. They woulil eunploy 100 hands and wuuld enlarge tlieir business. Suca a chance as this ought to be seized U[on without delay. William Yeager who tnysteriously disappeared frora his home ia Dexter last week and for whom a reward of twentyfive dollars was offered has turned up. He neither committed suicide, got diunk or went crazy. He went to Saline a any ordinary man would to visit friends and wlicn he got ready he returned to hls home looking and feeellng well. To show how much money can be inve9ted in a small space we give this exampie. In the doublé sheet Fourth of July posters issued for the Ann Arbor celebration at this office, there were thirty (iiüerent fonts of type represented, eacli fount coBtlng on an average 40, wheu it was new, muking tiie nice little suin of $l,2(Xt represented in type inone bilí alone. The Mayor addressed a commuiiication to Adjutent Oenend Druinm, of Washington, asking for tlie loan of a piece of ordnauce to be used in the celebration here on the 3d of July, and received an answer f rom the captain of ordnance refuslng the request. Col. Dean 8ays the orJiiunce department U fearfully and wonderfully made. They stoppcd hls pay once for mislayiug two rusty bayonets. He is making an effort and saya he will succoed in gecuring the desired cannon froni Detroit. Eminent Sir Kuight V. O. Doty, and Sir Knlbt C. S. Fall, returned f rom St. Louis, Mo., last Siiturday, where they had been to secure qmrten for the Anu Arbor Cominundery during the coming triennial conclave to be held in that city from Sept. 21t to 2üth inclusive. They succeeded Ui obtaining quartere on Olive streef, dlrectly In front of the grind reviewing stitnd, and opposite the e.xposition building, and expert to have between 30 and 40 swords in line on that occasion. Messrs. Doty and Fall ure loud In their prai8eg of the hospitality of St. Louis Knights. One of tlie level-headed oíd seltlers of tlii city jrives it as his opinión that the procr tliing to ilo to shut ott' a reat ¦munt of slckness is for the city to purehiise a tlmusaiid or two bushels of lime, liire two or Ui ree men and teams, and under the direetion of the lward of IkmIUi havo i-vüiy altr closet in the city inspectcd .ind ii proper amount of lime placed In each om, He says that by putl''g in a sulHcient quantity of linie the entire contents of a vault will be eaten up and deHtroyed. He thinks the city eva well atl')rd to go into tbis business, nd we re not sure but the suegestion Is a wiae one. The average school boy's face is a picture of intense dellglit. School'sout. John G. Gll is putting a new platc glnss front in liis market on Washington Rtreet. Oleomargarine has a frieml here and there. Of coiirse such friendslilp is vcry strong. Zions' LuUwna icfaool, on Washington strcot, oponed Btonday, wlth (;. Kurti teacher. The Turn Verein nf tliis city went to Pleasant Loke lust Banday, mul had a sood time. The Fifth wanler have i htird rod to travel these days to rOncb tli.-ir up-towM friends and businesf. The crosa walks from the post-offlee corner are being repalred, much to the satisfaction of the public. It is reported that Rev. Mr. Seeger, pastor of the St. John (Germán Lutheran) church, at BridgewateT has reaigned. Ai thur Svveet resened Iwo youjag Pollock's who altempted U) swini airosa the race last Saturdtiy but got bcyond their deoth. Attend the K. of L. excursión to Orchard Lake next Saturday. It will be a delightful one, to h new locnlity, aud a beautiful place. Mr. A. Horning, fonnerly in the cinployof Jihn Kcuk & Co. of tlils city, died at Grand Hapids last week, where lie liad been living for some time. A horse belonging to L. Rhode got scared at somethinw at the Central Mills, on Kirst street, last Satimlay mul ran away, and was considerably injured. Not having liad any rain to speak of for tb! past four weeks, two or tliree Ann Arbor people have ligntfled a great desire to supercede the wcuther clerk for a few days. Thta week closes up the last of the delicions ttriwberry. It bas been a welcome visitor and is sadly bidden adieu. Raipbarriea and clierrlee will be the Dexl on the li.-t. Special trains will be run to and from Ann Arbor July 3d, on tlie T. fc A. A. R. H., glving all on the line a chance to take Iti the celebration and return after the lireworks in the evening. About flfteen of the local wheelinen go to Detroit to-moirow to the Animal Meet of the State División, 1.. A. W. They have races in the aflerno.m and a boat ride ou the river in the voniug, The Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Railroad Co. is selling tickets to Toledo and return good until the 25th, at excursión rutes, to attend the June races now in progress there at $1 85 for the round trip. Capt. Scliuh says he is the Detroit Chib's Mascot hut theyare mutware of it. He says he never won a bet in bis Ufe and this yeur he has bot ngaiRSt the Detroit's every chance bc oould set and lost every time he bet. The Executive Comnüttee of the Improvement (booniing) Association have secured the names of noarly every business uian in the city and wlll probably cali a meeting on Monday next for permanent organization. In the great Charlotte fire the firin of whicb Chas. II. Jones, toimerly of tliis city, was senior membcr, suffercd consid erably. Tlie roof of tlieir building was buriied off and tlie stock of clolhlng daruaged by water. Fully nsured. Last Saturday Harry Nicbols, Fred Henion and Henry Kyer rode to Whitmore Lake on tlieir bicycles, making the di8tance in 511 minutes. Sunday evening they returned in exuctly the saine time, without a dismount etther going or coming. Hon. E. P. Allen, Hou. Chas. K. Whitman, both of Vpsilanti, and Hou. BT. W. Cheever, of Ann Arbor, will adilres the K. of L. excursionists at Orchard Lake, Siturday. Trains leave the T. & A. A. depot at 7:30 a. m., returninp-, leave Orchard Lake at G:.'!0 p. m. The tire alarm at abont lá'J o'clock this a. m., was caused by soine old rags catchiDg tire that were stored under the ilewalk in the Hamilton block and belonging to the Register office press room. The fire was fortunately discovered and extinguished before any (Umage was done. The flrst edition of the Detroit Evenino; News to-day had four pictures of notcd bicyclists now In attendauce at the State Meet In Detroit, consistin; of J. H. Johnston of Detroit, J. E. Beal, of' Ann Arbor, X. II. Van Sicklen of Chicago, and L. D. Munger, the champion Of Detroit. Mrs. D. B. Tracy, of Detroit, lectured on "Home Missions" at the AI. K church, Whitmoi e Lake, last Friday evening ; and the Wliitmore Lake Home Mission Society was organized wlth these offlcers: I). A. Pray, president ; Miss Mabel Stiles, Secretary; and Frank W. Rane, trcasiirer. Last Suturday a disastroiis fiie visiud the little villuge of Dundee, some twenty miles south of this city on the T. & A. A. R. H. O'Donnell's large stave and heading factory was burned to the grouud, together with William Slayton's lumber yard. O'Donnell & Co. lose about$12,000 with $2,700 insurance, Slayton loses $1,200 with no Insurance. A bad blow for Dundee. The contract fer erecting the new IIobart Guild Hall has been let to D. J. Ros?, the price being about $15,000. On Monday morning workmen commenced the tearing down of the old Sperry house on the corner of Huron and State streets, and the work will be pushed. It is expected that Mr. Morwick, wbo superintended the construction of the Tappan school buildiding will et in the same capacity in the construction of this biiililing. David D. Story, proprietor of the Story photograph establishment on Huron Street, opposite tlie court house, died last Sunday niglit about 12 o'clock at his room above the gallery, of pneumonía. He was a young man, only 23 years of age, a metnber of the Ann Arbor bioycle club and an enthofiwtlo lover of the sport. He was strickcn with the tenible raalady on Saturday and died the next day. Hls mother attended hini and the best medical skill tu promptly summoned to relieve him from tlie agony of the diseaee but to which his constitiition, natural delicate, feil an easy prey. The bereaved mother and relatives of the deceased have the sympathy of his many f rienda and asociatcj in thiscity by whom he was held in liigh isteem. Funeiiil sarviccs wcre lield at the I'resbyterian church Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Story's only sister lives away down in the hcart of Texas, sonie 80 miles away from any rallroad or telegraph cominunication, and is probably as y et una ware of her brothcr s death.