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Day
21
Month
October
Year
1887
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A. L. Noble has a lady bookkeeper. The Chronicle will be printed at the Oourier oílice. A bifí game of foot-ball ínay be looked for to-niorrow, on the campus. A change of ad this week for Bli.ss fe Soo, jeweïèra, tfce oMest Iiouho m the city. J. T. Jucob.s & CompaDy will furuiph tbe class liáis, silk liles, f-r the senior lawg. A. Y. Ames made a Hying visit to i tro, last Saturday, toad rcmainod ver $uuday. I. :ist ye:ir K. I! Hall sold (i. 000 tona nf ooal, and lie expeets to wll as ranch more this season. Melville MoGee, an aitoruey from Jackson, was in the city Wednesday, on business iu the circuit court. No. ;;ö2, held by C. Smelt, drew the stove at the last entertainment given by Kentfrow's Jolly Pathflnders . Friday evening Üct. 28 is the timo announced for the concert to be given by the city band at Beethoven hall. E. Oesterhn rejoices in being the father of a girl baby, that carne to enliven the family ciicle, a few days ago. The office of the Baltimore and ühio telegraph company will be closeJ in this city, but two otbers hire can do the business. II. B. Bryac, of the liegister, returned f rom Charlotte, Tuesday, where he has been for several days visitiug relatives and friends . Oliver M. .Martin, the undertaker and funeral director, has nut used any ice tlje past summer in preserving bodies. It has all been done by-embalming. The Ann Arbor Register will print the proceedings of the board of supervisors for $96.50. Other bids were fis follows: Argus,8104; Courier, $147; Ypsilantian, $121.87. Henry A. Uavis, a gradúale of the law departinent of the university, died in Chicago, last week. At one time he was actively eni;aged in temperauce work in thiu state. Many prominent repubhean journals are outspoken in their denunciation of the g. o. p. scheme to cheapen whiskey while the necessanes of life are highly taxed.- Bill Poster. The Detroit aud St. Louis clubs play iu Detroit next .Monday at Becreation park. A large number of base ball enthusiasts expect to go duwn from here to witness the game. A jury man from Manchester, gerving on the present panel, did not know until Tuesday, that J. J. Bobison was no longer couoty clerk. He evident ly does not read the couuty papers. (.'. T. Hill, adminiBtrator of the estáte of the late Edward Urake, will sell the personal property at auction on the farm four miles southwest of the Lodi cemetery, Thursday, Oot. 27. Mr. and Mrs. 'Warren, of AJbion, N. Y., who have been visiting tneir daughter, Mrs. A. L. Noble, left for Mt. Clemens Tuesday, where they will remain for a short time before returning home. The sooner tbe odious raarriage license law is repealed the better for the reputatioii of a civilizad state government. There is not a redeeming feature about the abominable measure.- Adrián l'ress. C. M. Webb, the Ann street furniture dealer, sold a handsome set of parlor furniture last week to a gentlemau from Mt. Pleasant, and Wednesday, another big load was Bhipped to parties in Cüelsea. Cluthiug stores have cards in their windows bearing the following inscription: "This store will close at 6 o'clock every evening, except Saturdays." It has been suggested that they keep closed Sundays, too. Geo. W. Weeks and wife, of the Fifth ward, are making an extended trip east and south. Sunday they were in Washington, D. C. The following day they left for Chau City, Va. They do uot expect to return for several weeks. The alarm of fire Tuesday night was occasioned by the burning of oiled rags in the paint shop of the Ferguson manufacturing company, on Detroit street, the old Arksey building. The services of the fire department were not needed, as the ñames were extingished with a few pails of water. Mrs. Caro.ine Fuller, wife of the late Chas. Fuller, aud for a long mimber of years a resident of Houth .Main stret, died in Tecumseh last week, nged 77 years, Í5 months and 19 days, of general debility. The remains were brought here for intermeut. Slie leaves one son, Geo. Fnller, clerk at the Bussell bons'-, Detroit. A. L. Noble sDent Iiiesday in Detroit. The new apparatus for the dental college Wlll COBt $500. A. O. Crozier, of Grand RapiúV, was in the city over Sunday. Geo. Sutton, of Northfield, has lipen quite sick for a week or moie. Judge Harriman returned from his western trip last Friday mght. Tbere is a very flourishing lodgo of tbe Sons of Tempcrance in Ypsilanti. There are four regular fish markets in the city, besidos several grocerymen dealing in fish. Secretary Wade's salary bas boen increased to $2,200 per anmim, by the regenta. The Ann Arbor Browus play the l'niversity club to-morrow, on the fair grounde . Wlll Flynn, dent, returned from West Hranch Saturday, and resumed bis studies Monday. F. P. Bogardus, Martin Cremer and Chas. Woodward are candidates for the Ypsilanti postoftice. Dr. Rominger's oollection in the uniyersity museum contains over 6,000 geological specimens. Itwill probably be aome tima before the chnical department of the umversity will be removed to Detroit. O. J. Schiappaoasse did a tbriving business vending peanuts and candy at the Brighton fair, last week. The First Baptist church society, of Yvsüauti, celebrated tbe 50tli anniversary of their organization, Sunday. Dr. H. Gibbe, of Westminster oollego, Lomlon, Knglaud, has been appointed professor of patliology m the uuiversity. Fred Cutler, of the Commercial hotel, at AlbioD, Bpent öaturday ia the city. He was at one time clerk of the Franklin house. Miss Bessie Bucklin, of Monroe, aged 16 years, sister of Mrs. Dr. J. C. Wood, of this city, died Saturday, af ter a long illness. Lennon & Young recently threshed for T . Fohey, of Webster, 1,000 bushels of wheat bet ween 6}4 m., and 11 o'clock. F. A. Johnson, M. D., has reoeived the appointment nu assistant to the ohair of surgery nnd opthalmology and otology. Dr. George, as instructor in materia medica in the department of medicine and surgery, will receive a salary of 8500 per year. The mothers' meeting for this month will be held at the Presbyterlan churoh on Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 28, at 3 o'clock. A Pittsfield Germán farmer, William Gutekuntst, departed this lite last week the foe assailing him bem? quick coneumption. Dr. H. K. J.ane, assistunt professor of physiology, has resigned, and Elmer Sanford appointed to üll the vacanoy; salary $400. John McElroy and Nelson Brundage will act as appraisers of the estáte of the late Seldon W. Shurtleff ; claims by court, Jno. C. Mead, executor. Chas. De Groat committed suicide in the jail at Ponliao last weck, and his careass was shipped to this city, and conveyed to the pickling vat. During the absence of Pres. Angelí, on the tishery oommiísion, Prof. Frieze will act is president, making the fourth time he has served in snch capacity. Ed O'Brien, of Mt. Ploasaut, took in the sights Saturday night to the tuue of $44, of whioh amoant he was relieved while making the rounds of the town. The farm house of F red Bartlott, of Nortlitiold, wan destroyed by iire last Fridny .Most if the contento were sa ved. Loss nearly covered by iusurance. ilenty Richards, wha is oxtensively engnged in the manufacture of hard wood lumber, has started a ynrd on Detroit street, opposite X. Znetiraann's resideuce. H. 0. Waldrou who lias been residing in Lansing for several years, and til 1 later in Los Angeles, Cal., has returned to hia oJd bome in this city, and will winter here. The remains of Mrs. Dave Williams, of Albion, were brought to this city last Saturday for interment. The funeral services were held in the afternoon from the A. VL E. church. The salaries of Profs. Wood, MoLaehlan, Vaughau and Herdman, in the homoeopathic college and department of medicine and surgerv reapectively, have been increased to $2,000. Dr. D. F. McGuire hs reeigned the professorship of opthalmology and otology, in the homoepathic medical college, and Dr. C. E. Sterling has been appointed to the positioo. To-morrow will oocur the fourth meeting of the Michigan school-masters club in room 24 of the main building. Papers will be read by Profs. Calvin Thomas, A. Lodeman, W. H. Payue, and others. Jacob Teufel, of the Second ward, gave a birthday party the first of the week. A big time is reported, beer and wine fio wed freely and there were plenty of good things to appease one's appetite. The regenta set down most beautifully on Dr. Donald Maclcan, and gave uim to uudei stand that he or other professors must u t rush into print regarding matters v liich properly come before the board. The clothing merchanis, halters and mer-hant tailors, have entered into an agreement tb close their stores every night in the week, Saturdays excepted, at 6 o'clock until Dec. 18. After the holidays they will again close at 6 p. m. The first estáte administered in the probate oourt of this county, was that of Geo. W. Noys. on April 2. 1S37. Letters of administraron were granted to Jas. Noys. The appraisers were Henry Rumsey, Geo. Richards, and Russell Bntlon. An elegautly illustrated book, entitled "Niágara aud Beyond," has just been issued by the Michigan Central railroad. It contains desoriptions of the falls of Niágara, wntteu in English, French and Germán, and sketches of interest along the Michigan Central to New York, as well au over the different branches of the central in this state. V. H. Lewis, of the Follett House at Ypsilanti, and many years ago proprietor of the Goodyear house in Manchester, keeps a splendid house and has a large putronage, which he riohly deserves. - Enterprise. And some years ago proprietor of the Leonard and St. James hotels in this city. Talk of patronage He had the cream of the business, and a guest who once stopped witu hira was sure to come again. At a meeting of the Star Mountain mining company, held at the court house Monday. the following bo:ird of directors were elected for the ensuing year: J. W. Candler, J. B. Price, Detroit; J. J. Robison, E. Duffy, W. W. Whedon, S. Clemente, Anu Arbor; F. C. Rector, Henry Smith, Tecumseh ; Eli Thayer, Norvill. Advisory directors : Geo. A. Scrippp, Wm. Reíd, Detroit ; Geo. Hessen, Tecumseh, T. S. Edwards, Carlton; 8. A. Carpenter, South Lyon; Nate Schmid, Manchester ; Geo. Greene, Hrooklyn; Wm. Dansingburg, Augusta; P. Clark, Dundee. The directors afterwards met and elected J. W. Candler president, J. J. Robison, vice-president, E. Duffy, treasurer, and W. W. Whedon, secretary. E.C. Warner, of Ypsilanti, has been elected secretary of the county board of sohool esarainers, ut a salary of $1,500 per annum. As there are 166 schools in VVashtenaw county, and as the secretary is obliged to visit ea:h one at least once a year, ñe will have his hands full. Mr. Warner prepared for school at Little Falls Academy, N. Y. He has had 21 years' experience in the district schools of Michigan, and four years in New York. Since 1881 he was one of the school examiners of this county, with the exception of one year. He is well qualifled for the positiou of eeoretary of the board . South Lyon fair Oot 27-29. Dr. Earp was in Detroit Monday, .Ino. Eisele was in Orion yesterdny. Bishop Gillespie was in the city Tues day. S. S. Bhtz spcnt Wednesdny in De troit. Mack & Schmid have received a larg stock of pluah cloaks. More maohinery has been purchaset for the new steom laundry. Kev. Dr. Bamaey will leoture Sunda evening on "Student Life." Kooh & Halier shipped yosterday a lot of f urniture to St. Ignace. öeo. Parks will be examined to-day, for carryiog concealed weapons . The temperanoe people will give a social to-night in C'ropsey's hall. Mrs. Jno. Boylan visited Mrs. Carrie Noys-Hodgenian, at Pinokney, last week. The number of students in the homoeopathio ooilege is steadily on the inorease. Alvin St. Clair had the fore flnger of lus right hand nearly cut off in a shaper Saturday. .Miss Lizzie Dignan, formerly with Tuomey Hroa., is now olerking for Mack & Sohmid. There will be a meeting of the Unity olub Monday eremng, and an mteresting program. Miss Minnie Kichuiond left Taesday for Boston, Mas., for the winter, to study painting. Jacob St. Clair and Emma Wise, were married Tuesday evening by the Rev. V. VV. Bamsey. MaoK & Sohmid sola a few days ago a house and lot in the firet ward to Gotleib Bietke, for $800. Jno. Cook, Chelsea, bas been drawn as a juror in the United Statee court now in session at Bay City. Schuh & Muehlig have contracted to put in the Bteam heating apparatus in Edmund Clancy'a new house. Mrs. P. L. Tuttle and her nepliew, Hammond Tuttle, of Geneva, N. Y., are the guests of Mrs. M. ü liower. The students' lecture association promises a number of very interesting entertainments during the winter. O. T. Alexander has been elected president of the uuiversity dramatic club, and J. H. Lee secretary and treasurer. The seats for E. W. Wallace's uew opera house, in Saline, will be manufactured by St. Clair and Sons, of this city. Willie Loomis, son of Georgo Loomis, left for Sau Diego, Cal., Alonday. H has accepted a position there as bookkeeper. Look out next; week for the advertiiement of Henry Bichards, who is about opening a lumber and wood yard on Detroit streel. Tammany hall, over Jno Reynold's place, will be dedicated next Wednesday evening by a grand ball. Admission 50 cents. Company A has been taking a rest sin co the encampment, and active hos tihties will commence Monday evening at the armory. The grand lodge, I. O. G. T., have been holding a very sucoessful meeting in this city since Tuesday. Some 20l) delegates were in attendance. Geo E. Bliss, of Jackson. and Miss Jessie NeUon, of near Olivet, were niarried yesterday. W. V. Bliss and wife, of this city attended the wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Matthews desire to expresa thuir thanks to inany kind friends during their recent bereavement, tiie death of their young son Charles. The "Choosing of a Calhng in Life," for young men in particular, will be the theme of Kev. Dr. Eddy's discourse at the Presbyterian church Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Geirge Loomis will leave for Sau Diego. Cal., soraetime next mouth. They uiay remain there per manently if they aro pleased with the etate . J.J. Walker, and niue of his employés, left yesterday for Easex Center, Ont., where the Walker liros. have the contract to erect a stoDe depot building for the M. C. K. R. Dr. Frank Roberts, who has just returued from a seven month's trip in Europe, stopped off here yesterday to 89e his uucle, B. F. Cole. The doctor, who lives at Ft. Madison, Iowa, is homeward bound. Rev. J. T. Sunderiand will preach next Sundiy moruing on "Everlasting Punishment, in the Ligbt of the Springfield deciBion and the Andover trial." In the evening his subject will be, "Is Inquiry in Religión Safe V" The followiug are tlie officers elected by the Young People's Society of the Presbyterian chureh : President, C. E. Goddard; vioe-presidents, Mr. Kaneman and Miss L, Markham secretary. Miss Roaewarn; treasurer, O. H. Webster. C. Mack . one of the directora of the Detroit fire and marine insurance company, was in Detroit Tuesday, and attended a meeting of the directors and stockholders. The capital stock was inoreased from $200,000 to $400,000, for the purpose of letting in a number of üetroit's wealthy citizens. Frederick Kirn was found dead in hU bed Sunday morning. His age was 67 years and 5 months, and for the past 33 years had been in the employ of the Michigan Central railroad, as repairer and section boss. He was the father of Mra. Jno. Koch and Fred, both of this city . The funeral Tuesday was very largely attended. An excellent manner of President Cleveland's capacity has been afforded the public by a perusal of the numerous speeches he has made on his grand tour through the west. No other president bas ever withstood such an orde;tl. He has met the people of the West with democratie simplicity. No federal superstition or oourtly ostentation bas followed his journey. No effort in marmer or speech to surround himRelf with royal halo or to dazzle the western eye, but a plain, commonplace, every day man has met tbem and taken them by the hand, and exchanged congratulations. He stood squarely before them as a citizen, chosen to the highest position within their gift, seeking their requirements, and the entire west, irrespective of party, received him as such, and judged him as suoh, and the judgment has been favorable.- Monroe Demotrat. Miss Mary L. Hall, of the fourth grade in the Art School, during the last year, it is underatood, will not continue her studies this year. She intenda giving private lessons in drawing during the coming winter in Ann Arbor, Mioh. Miss Halls absence from the aohool will be much regretted, and it ia hoped her success may be as marked as her talent and ability. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Miss Hall is a daughter of Mrs. A. R. Hall of this city. For the past tive years she has attended the art school, and was one of two pupils only who were advanced from the second to the third grade in the third year out of a very large class the conditions having been too severe for the other scholars. Such a distinctiou among so many students of merit, meant of course, something more than merely devoted appheation on her part, and wbb regarded by the whole nohool as a promotion because of the artistio excellency of the work of the two student so advanced. Her work will soon be on exhibition at her studio at her old home, where a he will give instructions in drawing and water colore. "Peterson" for November is before us ; it is evidenty determined to o out, this year, with flying colors. The steel-plate is tne ünest of the year: it is a copy of one of Millais's most charmiug picturea of children - the portrait of pretty Uttle Misa MufTet, of nursery fame. The wood-engravinj,' ''Three Home-Rulera" ie, in lts way, equally notioeable: it is the loveliest production of Kute Greenaway's facile penoil. The fashionplates display their usual excellence, and amoug the numeious interesting stories fi very noticeable one is "Alee Beton, by the popular Sotithern authoress, Mis M. (Í. McClelland. The prospectus fo 1888 offers the promise of even greate attraotions for the coming twelveniontb "Peterson" is really a household-necessi ty. Every lady should take it. Th terms are Two Dollars per year, with greatly reduced rates when taken in clubs, and with unusually fine premium to Ketting up olubs. Specimens sen free to those who desire to get u club. Address Peterson's Magazine, 30 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pb.

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