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Our Man About Town

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
July
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Now, if the Hurón street residente would folio w the example of Dr. Breakey ind fix tbeir grounds, from the walk to the curbing, lay stone gutters, and otherwiso iniprove their property, Huron street would be one of the prettiest in town. I think that the ground in front of n resilience ouglit to be kept in just as good order as the lawn itself, and it certainly enhances the beauty of the place. It is now the Uring, if you have childien and, of conree, if you can afford it, to have a little rig for them to drive which is their exclusive property. The first to purchaae one for bis children was Prof. G. L. Morris, theu E. li. Hall. our popular coal dealer bought a donkey and oart for bis little ones, and now A. L. Ko ble one of our enterprising clothiern has a cute little rig for his children. Such conveyances are very pretty scen upon our streets, and it is hoped orher chil dren may be the owners of their own ve hieles. Last week was a good week for the urn brella fioml. A number of persons in formed me that their umbrellas were car ried off from the porches where they were loft standing, and one youDg man, when going home after business hours at nigh saw two persons, a man and a boy, wit] several umbrellas ia their possession their actions aroused his suspiclons anc he ooncluded to watch proceedings. The man, after looking oarefully up and down the street sent the boy to the porch, presumably for an umbrella, but hearing a slight noiee he called softly to the boy and they quickly disappeared. In walkinft about the oity one day thi weok, whan in the vicinity of the Michi gan Central depot. I stopped to admir the quiet beauty of the surroundings. was standing down on the flat north o the station, and from State to Detroi streets, tbere was nothing to mar th scène bef ore me. The bandsome depol the beautiful and well kept terraces, th pretty fountain bubbling over the rook made a most oharming picture. I thin! the Central deserves special praise fo keeping everything in such perfect order and that part of the city bas certainl, been vaatly improved. I do not wonde strangers think Ann Arbor a pretty place. Wby is it that people will not rctnov the high board fences whioh surronnc their residencos. Tlioy must tkiuk the; add to the beauty of the surroundings o else they keep them standing to oover up perhnps a dirty back yard. There are a good many of these unsightly reminderp, of not the dark ages, hut of yeara goue by when everybody feit as if he mustsurround his property with a high board fence to keep out the animáis whioh roamed the streets, but at this age of the world, when cattle, and other animáis are kept off from the streets, why not remove these ancient land marks from our midst, and i( there must be a fence let it be a light one of wood, or an iron one which is better. I know of sevoral fences which are an eyesore to many, and where the view from the adjoining houses is cut off completely. If you have fruit in your gardens the high board fences will rot keep out the boys. They will stay out better if you will trust them by taking down the unsightly objects.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat