In And About The City

Diptheria is quite prevalent near Saline, and several cases have proved fatal. The Misses Ladd are making sorue repairs to their home on E. Catherme street. Martin Schaller will furnish the books and periodicals for the Ladies' Library. The total attendance at the High School is 559, an increase of 20 over last year. The Detroit Safe Co. has placed a line new safe in the store of Win. Goodyear & Co. Dr. Wenley's classes in philosophy are proving very popular and his class room is crowded. Ex-Congressman Gorman of Chelsea, has started his cigar factory again with non-union hands. The Xi Psi Phi house on E. AVasbington street has been wired and equipped for electric lighting. Fraternity Lodge, So. 262, F. & A. M., will confer the first degree this evening. Visiting brothers welcome. J. F.,Schuh has been given the contract for plumbing for the new üdd Fellows' rooms in the Jlenning Block. The U. of M. Masonic club, which had intended to maintain a house this year, has postponed doing so for another year. Dundee free silverites had a pole raising last Saturday, with J. Nelson Lewis of Ann Arbor, as the speaker of the occasion. . The Detroit evening papers have discontinued their Ann Arbor columns, and willj give only items of general news f rom this city. The Commercial Printing Company, of Ypsilanti, capital stock $5,000, filed articles of association with the secretary of state last week. The Sunday Schools at Geddes and Fosters, under the auspices of St. An drew's church will resume their work on Sunday next at 3 p. m. The athletic grounds will be in charge of E. A. Crandall. He has moved with his family into the cottage recently erected on the grounds. Among Michigan patents granted last week was one to Geo. F. Key, Ann Arbor, for a railroad tie, and one to Dr. P. B. Rose, for a food compound. Golden Rule Lodge, No. 159, F. & A. M., conferred the third degree last evening. A number of visitors were present and passed a very pleasant evening. A large number of local deinocrats went to Jackson this morning to hear Candidate Bryan and other speakers at the great silver rally this afternoon. The Dexter Leader is wondering if anything will be done in that village this winter to restrict the tramp nuisance. Better try the Ann Arbor plan. On ïuesday last Welch corps, No. 218, was inspected by Miss Emma të. Bower, who has been appointed assistant state inspector. After the inspection tea was served. The new machinery for furnishing power for the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti line has arrived in the city. The poles are set and the work of bonding the rails is going on rapidly. The classes in the Y. M. C. A. night school are now at work. Students may register with the secretary. Do not delay too long, but join at once and get the full benefit of the course. Vice-President Stevenson will speak at Ypsilanti Thursday afteruoon, Uct. 29th, and in Ann Arbor in the evening. These will be his only speeches in Michigan during the campaign. F. Updike of Grass Lake, raised 600 bushels of onions on 1 acres of land. Some of the specimens are claimed to be Vèi inches around, and it wasn't much of a year for onions after all. Miss Minnie Thompson has resigned her place as teacher in the Central school, and will return to Ann Arbor to complete her course in the literary department. - Oakland County Post. Emery station will soon be out in the cold, cold world. If plans do not misoarry the Ann Arbor road will begin tomorrow to run its trains over the new short cut track just north of the city. Ladies are invited to cali at Schairer & Millen's this week, and consult Miss Kerr, representative of the Kabo corset, who will give them much information about the make and fit of a corset. Alfred J. Paul, formerly of the Hausf reund and Post, has aceepted the position of day clerk at the American hotel. Alf . has many f riends who will be glad to know that he is to remain in Ann Arbor. Four new telephones are now ready for business. For Dr. Iliusdale's resi" dence cali No. 213; Dr. Fowler's residence, No. 214; Portland Cafe, No. 175 -3 rings; Schumacher & Miller's new drug store, No. 225. Arbor Hive, L. O. T. M, held a very pleasant social last evening and netted a nice little sum. The Ladies" Library association are cataloging their library on the card system as used at the Univ ersity library. The ladies of the First Baptist church went to Dexter yesterday, to attend a meeting of the missionary society. They took a full set of lunch baskets. Commissioner Wedemeyer is holding an examination for second and third grade certificates in the council chamber. xVbout 25 applicants are present. The Forest Hill Cemetery association has completed a fine new tar sidewalk the whole length of their premises on Geddes avenue. It is a much needed and a well made improvement. The Paughters of the Revolution held a meeting Tuesday. and elected Mrs. W. !. f oty as historian, and tratisacted other business The next meeting will be held the first Wednesday ín December at the home of Mrs J. B. Angelí. The folio vving are the offlcers of the Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. Church for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. R. V. Beal; vice-president, Mrs. Wm. F. Brenkey; secretary. Mrs P. L. Bodmer; treasurer, Mrs. Chas. H. Worden. Rev. W.L. Tedrow is in Constantine, Mich , in attendance at synod. There will be no service at Trinity church next Sunday on this account. Prof E. II. Mensel and F. II. Belser are the other members of the synod f rom this city. Mrs. Ben Thompson of Ypsilanti recently entertained her mother Mrs. J. 1?. Chapman. and her grandmother, Mrs. Jos. Harper, both of Cossopolis, Mich., thus, with her own children, bringing together four generations of the family. The iirst home game of the Ann Arbor High School football team will be with the eleven from Orchard Lake military academy, who have been under the careful training of Bloomingstoni last year's U. of M. famous full back, Saturday, Oct. 24. The game will be played at the Fair grounds. A drive through the country impresses one with the general prevalence of the custom of dehorning cattle among the farmers. In a drive to Man chester the other day f ully 00 head of cattle were seen grazing along the road, of which at least seventy-five per cent had the horns removed. Af ter the regular review of Arbor Hive, No. 113, Tuesday evening. the ladies served light refreshments in honor of the birthday of Miss Emma E. Bower, great record keeper of the L. O. T. M. for Michigan. The event was a complete surprise to Miss Bower, and was greatly enjoyed by the ladies. Masonic block is receiving a coat of paint, and will present a much more attractive appearance. Telegraph and other poles are being moved out to make room for the new sidewalk. and the corner will be a credit to the city when the repairs are completed. Extensive internal improvements are also being made. The Michigan Central will run a jial train to Detroit Saturday tor the purpose of giving all who wish a chance io hear Candidate Bryan, who will speak in that city Saturday evening. The fare f or this special train ïonndtrip, is 30 cents The Central will also make a rate of one fare íor round trip on all regular trains that day. The three barns of Richard Kellogg, who lives on the motor line in Pittsfield township, were burned Tuesday morning. A full set of f arming implements, three horses and all the season s crops were destroyed. Fourteen hundred dollars' insurance was carried in the Washtenavv Mutual. The fire is supposed to be the work of tramps. The foot ball mass meeting aroustd a great deal of enthusiasm as it was meant it should. Speeches were made by Professors Nancrede and Knowlton, Coaches Ward and McCauley and Trainer Robinson. Manager Hughes announced the schedule of games, and President Prentiss went after some money and got $1,000 out of the crowd. We are in receipt of the combined July and August numbers of "Harmony," a monthly magazine published at Bombay, India, which contains an excellent half tone portrait of Hev. J T. Sunderland, pastor of the Unitarian church of this city. The magazine re prints from the London Inquirer an article by Mr. Sunderland on the "Re generation of India." The Ann Arbor Democrat is going to make its paper a connty weekly and will appoint experienced correspondents in every tovvn in Washtenaw. Miss Emily Guiwits, who has demonstrated herself to be a most capa ile and accurate reporter for the local press. will keep the Ypsilanti end of the new enterprise f rom tipping up -Ypsilanti Cor. Evening Times. The foot ball game at Athletic Field last Saturday against the Grand llapids High School showed a deeided im provement in the form of the men. Pingree play-d a star gam9 at halfback, assisted materially by the kxc 1lent interference put up by Hennett. Grand Rapids played a plucky and a scientiñc game, and one that would be a sure winner against a moderateweight team. Mosher at full-back did some flne punting. Seats will be assigned at the next rehearsal of Choral Union, Tuesday i evening next. John Kittle has bought Jonathan Sprague's house at 26 Pontiac st, and will move into it. J. F. Avery shipped four Jersey cows yesterday morning to St. Joseph, Mo. They were beauties. John Baumgardner has his men hard at work putting down the new stone walk around the Masonic block. T. B. Wilson has sold his house, No. 69 South University ave., through the Bach agency, to Mrs. Sears, of Saline. Herrick, who is making such a good showing in the tennis tournament. is being coached by McKenzie, last year's champion. Mrs. Jeff Davis, wife of our well known colored citizen, died last night at her home on E. Hurón street. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. O E. Godfrey will represent Otseningo Lodge 1. O. ü. F., at the Grand Lodge meeting in Lansing next week. and ( Mrs. Godfrey will represent the . ters of Rebeckah. Sunday evening next at the meeting of the Young Men's Sunday Evening Club of the Congregational ehurch. Prof. J. Stanley Grimes of Chicago, will speak on ' The Folly of Infldelity." A. C. Gormley, who spoke at the court house last evening, was very . prominent in oratorical circles while in ; the University and won the championship of the association one year for U. ■ of M. The flre department had a cali to the corner of State and Packard sts. this , morning. A bam belonging to cey Thompson was on fire and was practically destroyed before the , ment arrived. Rev. Frazier, of Monroe, has rented the old Behrproperty through the Bach agency. Mr. Frazier is presiding eider j of the Lake Superior i istrict of the M. E. church. but his family will reside in Ann Arbor for school privileges. Prof. F. i. Taylor addressed the noon mass meeting in the Majestic building, Detroit, on Wednesday. and Prof. B. M. Thompson on Thursday. These meetings are the most important political meetings in the city, as they reach directly more laboring men than any others. A meeting in the interest of the Tappan Presbyterian Association, will be held this evening in connection with the meeting of the 'Synod of Michigan, now in session in Detroit, in the First Presbyterian church of that city. Ilon. Sullivan M. Cutcheon will preside, and President Angelí and Prof. F. vv. Kelsey will speak. The semi-annual meeting of the Jackson association of Congregational churches will be held in Jackson uesday and Wednesday of next week. VVednesday evening Rev. J. W. Bradshaw, of this city, will addrss the meeting upon"The Evangelistic church." The delegates who will attend from Ann Arbor are J. T. Jacobs Mrs. ert Campbell and Mrs. Dibble. The third foot ball game of the season was played yesterday afternoon The ' ollege of Pysicians and Surgeons of Chicago was the opposing team. The score resulted 28 to 0 in favor of U. of M. Michigan played f ast and hard ball, and made most of her gains through the line. The P. and S. are said to have worked in some Chicago Athletic Association players, and put up a hard game.