Personals

ltev. Mr. Earp is expected home fo tliis week. MIssBrownie Whecdon is visitlng rel atives at East Saginaw. 1Ü88 Maggie Bower has returned from a stay of some weeks at Orion. Mrs. Bassett and son of Ypsilant!, are the guests of Mrs. Jolin Clark, on Jefferson at. Mrs. C. J. Kintner is taking a pleasure trip to ltichmond, Washington, and Philadelphla. Mrs. Dr. Stork, of Norwalk, Ohio, is the guest of her sister Mrs. E. T. Bradley on División st. Theodore Royer is visiting h$ párente on División st He is engaged in businers in Illinois. J. J. Reed and wlfe are spending the peach season with Mrs. Reed's fatlier, Daniel Hiscock. Ernest Coman hns returned to school, from a sumuier stay at Fox Lake, W19., and Kankakee, III. Mrs. J. II. Palmer and daughter left laat Friday for a three weeks' visit to friends in Elkhart, Iud. Eloo Pond and daughter Louise, of Corunna, vislted relatives in Ann Arbor last ThiiNday and Friday. J. E. Beal left Monday for Toledo f rom whence he took a boat for Alpena to be present at hia sister's marrlage. Miss Nettie C. Daniels left Monday for Indiana, Penn., to flll the same position ;is teacher in the normal as last year. Mrs. J. B. Bushman of Buffalo, N. Y., and Miss H. M. Lyman of Leroy, N. Y., are visiting Mrs. John Boylan on N. 5lh st. WI11 C. Cirman of Enst ijaginaw, visited his little nieces and nephews, the children of Geo. H. Pond, the first of the week. Among the arrivaU Sunday at the Ilygeia Hotel, Old Point Comfort, Va., were V. C. Vaiighan and wife, of Ann Arbor. William Barnett, oue of Ann Arbor's old boy?, has returned from Chatham, Canada, for a fewdays' visit accompanied by his sister Anna. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Turner who hare been spending the sumnier here with their relatives, have returned to East Saginaw for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Beal, and Mr. and Mis. Marcus J. Sill, of Dexter left for Alpena Monday to attend the mnrriuge of Miss Etta Field, to-day. Miss Carrie M. Palmer returned last Thursday from a three weeks' camp at Nepessing Lake, Lapeer Co., where she was the guest of the 8. N. Club. Evart H. Scott, Dr. W. F. Breakey and Maj. Wm. C. Stevens left the city yesterday for a week's stay at Old Misslon Beach, the new summer resort n which they are intereated. Mrs. R. A. Beal, Mrs. Mary D. Beers, Mrs. E. E. Beal and daughter Alta, left the city yesterday a. m., going to Alpena by rail to attend the marriage ceremony of Miss Ettn M., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Field, to Artliur G. Hopper, of tlmt city, which occurs to-day the 7 tli in.-t. The city warrants for the past month will undoubtedly be given out next Saturday. It U thought everything will be in running order by that time. About 25 or 30 carpenters and masons went to Detroit Monday to take part in tlie derantistrntioiiB of Labor day. There were upwards of 1,000 carpenters In a body in the line of procession, whlch was estimated to contaiD about 13,000 laborera. 'I'hose who attended the encampment at Adrián are loud in their praises of everything about the aftair. It wa one of the events that will be treasured in the niernory of the old soldier and their friends attending until the last reveille shall sound. We devote a considerable pace this week to onr schools, but we know of no bettcr way to use it. Schools that are so popular thut f6,000 is received in one year trom foreign tuition, are entitled to a grcat deal of considcration at the hands of the local picas. The facts and figures given our readers this week, are taken trom the yearly reporta and show completely the woikings of the entire school 8 v stem of the city lor the year. The enrollment at the High School is tur in excess of last year at a correspondlng date and last year was in excess of all previous years. The Courier taiggests an employment office, where persons having light jobs or chores to do, might tlnd the person to do it Many years ago, there was an old gentleman in Ypsilnntl who made a good business, especially in the fall of the year, by going from house to house, with a box containlng a few handy tools, screws, nails, putty, etc, to perform little jobs of repair to doors, windows, or whatever might be In need. If the work required somethlng that he did not have with liiin, he made a note of it and came again. In this way he made a living for liiin-rlf, and was a useful member of the community, until death. But he had no successor, and it is a difflcult matter now to liinl a man to do a small job, without sending to a builder, who will "send a man,'' nnd chareea half da y for un hour's