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24
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August
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1887
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Hls bul astep-oh Dowu to the dep-oh. The way Is quite step-oh Tbat leads to the deep-oh. I slipped on a grape-oh Justby tbeday-poh. 1 boaght t hts MiuiU tea-pot. In a tore near the dee-pot Perbaps, to end the agitution. Wed better hencefortb cali ít station. Excursión Sept. 7th, $1.23. The " Flying Dutchmau " Uas flown. Hiram Kittredge is to rebuild his burned barn at once. Sam Blitz has u gocul running story te teil of the " man bear." Several of our citizens waitetl all dimmer to go camping in the rain. Treadwell, Gruncr and Cheever are putting up a new house on William st. A delicious coolness pervades the atmosphere to-day. Jlore ozone as it were. Eda V. Haveland has been granted a divorce from Win. Haveland. Ypsilanti partios. It is rumored that n. caucus is to be held by certain ones to nominale candidates for trustees. Schools commence one week from next Monday, so brace up boys and have all the fun you can until then. The Ladles' Society of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church ril] have a picnic at Whitmore Lake tomorrow. The T., A. A. & N. M. R. Iï. will put in a side track to the new boiler umi engine works of Barclay A Reeves. Jacob Reichert, of Scio, lost a rtluablo horse Sunday night. Tlils makes the second horse he has lost this year. The Nttring school trustees thia year are Messrs. J. T. 'Jacobs, Dr. W. B. Smith and L. Gruner. All good men. Three ot the Huron River band boys studied the topography of the Whitmore Lake ro.id Sunday, having pedestrianized home. Superintendent Hamilton tells us that the city is now being supplied with water from the seven new wells developed this summer. Wm. Derby has presented the Pioneer Society with some old papers, anión them beinjr a copy of the B'Hoy's Eagle, Aug. 16, 1849. Sarah M. VanAlstine, of Ypsilanti. has applied for divorce from Andrew Ij. Van Alstine, on the usual grounds of failure to support, etc. "Ti natural gas U struck in Anti Arbor the city would boom ïlself. No bouuses would be required to induce manufacturers to locate here. - Argus. Yes, " if." " Gil" Snow has purchased land of the Kitson estate, on North Hain street, just south of Hali's bakery, and will erect a new livery and sale barn thereon at once. Amasah Leland, of whose golden wedding we gaye n account last week, died Friday last after a week's illness, and Chas. H. Worden went Monday to Pinckney to attend the funeral. If yon oan show us anythlng prottler at this seKKou ihan a iflrl of 19 with golden hair rosy cheeks, ruby ilps, ami dressed In wtiltê tulle wlth blue ribbon around her neck let ub see It.- MaucUester Kulrpriae J. T. Jacobs' tborougbbred Holstein c ilf is very prelty now I thank you. The proceeds of the Sunday Schools excursión ainoiinted to $110.05. Tlie mm of f1005 was given to the Ladies' Cliaritable Union, and the balance dividid iqn illy MBong the foor Sunday Schools giving the excursión. At a recent meeting of ihc trustees it was resolved to put a new ron roof on the M. E. church- similar, ve are told, to the one on the Electric Light works building. How will it look 1 Or reverse the it, and how it will look ! Fred V. Wallace tells us that he ie about to move Henley re.-idence from Delhi down to this city, and lócate it somewhere near the University. It will have to be all taken down and moved in sections. The house orifiiually eost about $7,000, and is a very nice buililiiijf. Last Wednesday Dlght a burglar broke Into Dr. Darling's house and stole his pocket book contalnlng three cents. The Dr. h:is not yet accounted for having so much money in his possession at one time. As he s j iil phy8ician the board of supervisors will probably investígate the matter. 'i'he changes in the internal nrrangenients of the post oflice are In progress. Three tectiong of boxes, two on the east and one on the west side have been taken out and the inside working space very much enlarged. Each carrier will have a window to " talk back " to patrons thro' on ccrtain hours of the day. The contract for furnishing coal for the county court house and jail was let last Saturday, by County Clerk Howlett, to E. B. Hall and Chas. Shultz, half-andhalf, at $5.75 per ton. The bid of these two dealera being the pame, they were Biven the Job equally. Sevural other dealere bid, hut they were higher. Quincy Turner entertained burglars unawareg last Monday night, but they only eot between $2 and 3. The same night they entered E. Terhune's house on N. State st., and made attempu to enter the residences of John Schumacuer on North st., and Win. Finnegan on X. División . H geems as four offlcers might do something toward ferreling out this (rang of thieven. They wouldn't have to m out of town to find them. Two crooks tackeled Offlcer Sutherland toplay the "shell game," over at Whitmore Lake Saturday, whereupon he colIwed the "gents " and told thrni he would Hng thom over to Ann Albor where they would hve more time to learn the game. ut thfl picnic officials declined to prosecute, we are told, and ro they rnnl TI'er0 Weri atOUt twfi"ly "ookg, thleves, gamblers and pickpocks,rl,OherMthT Wh0 wcre known to be ucli by the olficers. John F. Lawrence, by his attorney John W. Bennrtt, asks for an injunction prevent Emanuel Mann trom disposing f wiitcr In r spring owned by hlm iñ 'e southwestern part of the city, to the '.AA. &N. m. K. H. Co., recitlng the W that the water from said spring flows nroogfc Lawrenee's land, and has done so from time iincnemorial, and if sold to nt to sai.l la„d, as the water is used hv prinïuu,. B íUrtlKír 3l")WS thilt l"e ftvrL ?e(rom whicl' Prof. A. H. Pattengill has sold his chestnut colt to a party from Jackson. The animal school meeting rapidly approaches. Prepare your ballots, gentlemen-and ladies. Martin & Co. will open tip a lish and oyster house at No. 26 E. Washington st. Thursday evening. A charivari party last night entertaincd the genial Jo. Martin and bride for a time ut their home on N. 5th st. Miss Nora McCarthy, oí E. Ann st was married at 6 o'clock this morniDg tu O. J. Ross, at St. Thomas church. Three of Sallnc'b high school graduates will enter the prepar&tory class at the Aon Arborhigh school this fall. In the list of pensions published laat Friday were the names of Wallace W. Bliss and Augustus W. Fullowa of this city. An inquiry at the drug stores develops the f act that the sale of quinine has nearly douïilcd since the water works have been put in. Oshkosh and Ypsllanti have not yet invlted the President. Does disloyalty stalk the itreeta of these boomiug burgs?- Boston Globe. In the case of Mary Lois Pfiefte vs. Wm. II. Druse anü Mattie Druse, foreclosure. Decree and notice of sale granted, in the circuit court last Thuisday. Doii't you forget it I "Forget what?" " Why, the great Society Excursión, on Weduesday, öept. 7th." To Detroit and 100 miles of boat ride for 11.25. The parsonage belonging to the M. E. church of Dexter, was burned Saturday p. m. the flre having caught from some old paper probably, in the kitchen. Loss about U00. iusureü for #000. Cin you not save soine line specimens of grain, or of garden produce, or of hamliwork to bring in and exbibit at the county fair? Every little helps you must remember. The Ypsilantian thinks Ann Arbor people are "going wild " over the " boom fever." It's nice, though. Just try it once and see for yourself, how it feels to reiilly boom. If you own a house and lot asaessed at fl ,000 you would be called upon to pay just $1 for the city Improvement fund. It would be one of the wisest dollars you ever invested. The Zion's church society held their regular animal meeting last Monday evening, and elected tlie following officials for the ensuing year: Trustees - Frederick Wu?ner and John Keepler. Deacon - Wm. Markle. Prosecuting Attorney Farrand carne to Michigan 62 years ago, and to Port Huron 42 years ugo. He can remember when the population of Detroit wasonly 1,000 and when Ann Arbor was larger than Chicago.- Port Huron Times. Prof. Mc Louth has been in the city during the past few days gathering muterials fjr the laboratory of the Agriculttiral college of which he is president in Dukota. He fiiuls lihnself enabled to obt.iin what he dealrai lu-re, having faileil in both Clilciigo and Detroit. Ai the picnic glven by St. Andrews church and Geddes mistión, at Geddes last Thursday, L. P. Jocelyn was presented with a handsome gold watcli for iis services to Ihe church. It was a genuine surprise to Mr. Jocelyn, but one that was well deserved. The Clielsea champions came down to Ann Arbor last Friday, and were gathered In by the Browns of this city by a score of 20 to 14. By tlie-way, our boys soem to have a way of doing opponents up Brown in the base ball line. J. A Bus, formeriy of the P. O. force, writes to his brother Fred. that he is now a member of a surveying party near Ban Diego, Cnl. After finishing work there tliey will lay out a new town about 30 miles distant from El C ijon, where he lives. The Ypsilanti Sentinel says that " the council have kindly coucluded to help light Ann Arbor by putting the electrlc lights 125 feet high; straight pok-a with stirrups on eaoh Ido." Better put tliem down just 65 feet Bro. Sentinel, you wil m-ed all the light tliey can give, on your own streets. If you thlnk there are hundreds o people out of employment, just try toflnc sonie one to do a little job. You wil spend enougb time in searching forsome one to have done It twice over yoursell and tlien the chance are that you wil have to pay an exhorbitant piice fo having it done. The Ann Arbor Courier last week had a doublé column cut of the high trestlt bridge of the T., A. A. & N. M. rail road over the Huron riyer at that polnt, from a photograph. It is a good view, taken before the Ann Arbor water works pumped the river so dry that a man could walk across lts bed without wetting hls feet, as men did last week below the Peninsular dam, below the woolcn mlll dam, and below Cornwell'a dam.- Ypsilantlan. Isn't that a dry dam item? It is stated that all passenger cara on the Michigan Central are belng litted up wilh the M. r.in antl-flre car heaters, as rapldlv as the work can be done. The steain coming from the locomotlve is cntirely under the control of the engineer. A brakeman or conductor can shutofftlie steam in one car without disturbing the supply of tlie others in the train. This car lieater, wlilch has been tricd with succcss, will prevent cars from taking fire in case of accident, and burning the passengers. But how about par boiling them with steam? The festive burglar burgles rightalong. On Thursday evening last he broke into the residence of Mrs. Seymour on State streel, and taking two satchels out iuto the yard rifled tliem of their contenU, not getting much plunder. The same night he stole Dr. Sullivan's pants from liis residence on N. Unlrersity Ave., and the Dr has not been able to find them yet. At Mrs. Ticiienor's on S. Ingalls streef, he cut out a portion of the blinds, but did nnt succeed in getting into the house. Tlie rfflcere have a big jackknitc of the " King of the Plains,'1 brand that he left in the yard at Mrs. Seymour'u whrre he used it to cut a sunflower stalk to put under the window. Ttic owncr can liave the same by provine property and calling on Jass Iinus. A friend writes ua who is out of town bol who always has the best interesU of the city at heart, making these suggestions: "Thecitlzensshould be reminded of the different amounta voted (I think f20,000) at varlous times to secure appropriations from the state and aid ia building the university buildings: In 1864 for the medical college, since then for the observatorv residence, the hall, hospitals, and I thlnk the law and museum build nga. Ihe city also gave money to aid mi ilcfraying the expenses of the American Association for the Advancement o( Science; and the year following tor the HiieiiKerfest. Every one of these were for the good of tua town. Now there sliould be no hesitancy in voting the f5,000 next r nday." Dr. Allen has a telephone. On Tuesday, Sept. Gtb.you can go from South Lyon to Pctoskey and return for $5.00. The Sunday School of St. James' Episcopal church, of Dexter, expect to picnic to-day at Base Lase, if nothing happens to prevent. Judge Joslyn freed Kate Ulber from her liusband, Herman Ulber, yesterday, on the ground of his habitual drunkeness and extreme cruelty. It was legal to vote $5,000 to the rich Corporation known as the M. C. R. R. Co., but t is not legal to vote $5,000 to induce men withbrains, but not sufflcient means, to start legitímate business enterprUes, in the way of manufactoriep, shops, etc. Isn't that argument ratlier weak ? In view of tlie 'destruction of the M. E. parsonage at Dexter, by firc, last Friday, a benefit entertainment for the Ladies' parsonage fund, will be given at the Dexter opera house next Friclay evening, Aug. 26lh, consistiug of a lectuie on "Genesis and Modern Science," by the Rev. S. H. Adams. Ir is to be lioped that the house will be filled for that most worthy object. The Argus has fouud a lechóte! point in the luw which it is afraid sonie one might split hairs over should the people see fit to vote out of their own pockets the sum of $5,000 witli which to help build up the city. lts point is that the people have no riglit to vote tlieir own money away forany purpose but for public iuiproveinents. Well, who can say thit lliis purpose is not for public improveinents? If you own a piece of property in the city worth $I,0C0, and by voting out of your own pocket a dollar or so a9 taxes on that property you raise the value of it $100, is it not public improvement ? How Is it that Howell found that 8he could not legally vote uioney in aid of the T. & A. A. R. R. shops, (as the Argus states), when Ann Arbor voted last year $5,000 towurd a M. C. Rallrond improvenient ? And Owosso voted $25,000 toward tlie satue shops that Howell couldn't capture? Isn't there considerable more llsh than fowl in that proposition ? Then, again, suppo3e some chronic kicker did propose to contest the matter in the courts, let's see how he would come ont. Ann Arbor's assessed valuation is $5,000,000. A tax of $5,000 would take froui every tax-payer one mili on a dollar. That is, if you own a piece of property assessed at $500 your tax would be 50 cents; if your property is assessed at $1,000 your tax would be $1 ; at $5,000, $5, etc. How maiiy people in this city would have to pay over $10 taxes? Very few. If one man had to pay, say $25 taxes, and he chose to contest the matter, how much would it cost hiin? Why, the lawyer's retainer to fetart witli would be the amount of bis tax, and then expenses would only be commenced. It would be a iniyhty unprofitable undertaking, and the chinees are that the case would be decided against him in the end, and he would have the whole business to pay. A C!iiiva88 among the people discloses the fact that there are very tew opposed to the proposition. All of the heaviest taxpayers are practically unittd in farorlng thiö slight additional tax f.ir the ¦dvknoement and growth (if the city.