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Ypsilanti

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Day
4
Month
December
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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S. I r. Dodge has a beautiful display of cut, glass in his west window. Twenty-five Lady Maccabees visited Arbor Ilive in Ann Arbor ïuesday evening. Tlie annual convocation of Excelsior Chapter Xo. 25, 11. A. M., will be held this evening. A very enjoyable meeting of the Sappho club was held in the Library parlors Wednesday evening. ïhe annual communication of Phoenix Lodge Xo. 13, F. & A. M., will be held Tuesday evening, Dec. 8. A'e will doubtless have a number of accidents to report in a day or two. as the children have begun skating on the river. The Ladies' Literary society will meet next Wednesday af ternoon at the Young Women's Christian Association home. George Brown, the eolored man, has been bound over to the December term of circuit court. ïhe new bookcases in the High school otflce are nearly completed. When íinished they will give a dignifled and impressive air to the room. Last Saturday Itlr. and Mrs. J. A. Underwood entertained about thirty friends and relatives, the occasion being the eighteenth anniversary of their wedding Miss Martha Alban. a student in the Conservatory of Music, died of fever at her home near Willis last Monday night. Funeral services were held Wednesday morning. It is reported that the opera house will be finished and opened in four weeks. When completed it will be one of the finest equipped and most conveniently arranged opera houses in the state. Davis & Co.'s opening on Wednesday and Thursday was attended by a large number of citizens, all of whom looked as if they had found a firstrate place to buy their Christmas presen ts. Revival meetings conducted by Kev. Frank E. Arnold have been held at the Baptist church every night this week. Mr. Arnold is a most earnest and eff'ective worker, and much good will result from his efforts. The Congregational C. E. society held a puzzle social Tuesday evening at the home of Kev. Bastían Smits. About 50 were present, and were pleas antly' entertained with conundrums, puzzles and cocoa and waters. An auction social will be held at the Y. Y'. C. A. home next Wednesday evening, Dec. 9. If you don't know what an auction social is, don't waste your time guessing about it- vvait till the time comes, then go and se. In the future the Ladies' Library will be open on Tuesday afternoons from 4 to 8 o'clock, and on Saturdays from 10 to 12 and from 2 to 5 o'clock Magazines aïso will be given out as extras to those who desire to take them. Died at her home in this city, last Wednesday morning, Miss Sarah M. Pardee, aged 81 years. Miss Pardee was aunt of Mrs. Edmund Ilewitt, the Misses Stewart, and Samuel Post. The funeral services will be held this afternoon. Earle ïiashstole somehorseshoe nails f rom a man named Tucker last Maren. They did not prove lucky to him, how ever, tor last Saturday he was arrested for the theft, was tried before Justice Childs, and sentenced to 45 days in the Ann Arbor jail. The Congregational Ladies' Aid society ,will hold a hat social at the home of Mrs. X. Iligley, South Huron street, this evening. Everybody is invited to come, wearing a hat appropriate to the occasion. Eefreshments will be served. Admission 10 cents. Nearly everything in the way of dressmakers' material can now be procured ready-made. The latest develop ments are shown by Lamb, Davis & Kishlan, who will sell you ready-made dress waist linings. which can easily be ripped apart and the outside fitted on. The Ladies' Aid society of the Presbyterian church will give their annual chicken pie supper in the church next Tuesday evening. The flavor of Presbyterian chicken pie is not to be surpassed in excellence by chicken pie of any other denomination. Supper will be served at 6 p. m., and at least 500 hungry pie-eaters are expected. Mrs. Sparks, a lady of the brunette type, went to Justice Childs Tuesday uoon to have her husband arrested for assault and battery. The man was arrested and locked up in jail, and on Wednesday morning Mrs. Sparks, concluding that the batter was not so very thick after all, came back to Justice Childs and wanted to withdraw the complaint. The trial will take place Dee. 14. A movement was commenced last year to incorpórate the Ladies' Literaiy Society of this city, but nothing delinite was done. This year the society will be incorporated and a petition will be sent from the Ypsilanti society together with petitions from other societies in the state, to the state legislature, requesting a larger appropriation for the State Circnlating Library at Lausing. The next entertainments in the formal leeture course will be held next Tuesday and Wednesday eyening, Dee. 8 and 9, in Normal hall, by I. V. Flagler, concert organist and pianist. On Tuesday evening the subject of the lecture will he "An Evening with the Great Composers," while Wednesday evening will be devoted to Wagrier. These lectures will be illustrated by piano and organ selections, which cannot fail to be intensely enjoyable, as Mr. Flagler enjoys the reputation of being one of the best organists to be found anywhere in America. A young man named Francis Collins was arrested for being drunk a week ago Sunday, but was released for mak ing afftdavit of where he procured his drinks. This led to the arrest of Anson Wright for keeping open his saloon on Sunday, Nov. 22, whicli was a right proceeding, as Wright had no right to do such an unrighteous thing. He was tried before Justice Childs last Tuesday afternoon, but the examination was not finished and will be concluded this afternoon. Xot satisfied with that taste of notoriety, he met the witness Collins in a brother saloon-keeper's den, began to quarrel with him knocked him clown, and then, the witness affirms, drew a revolver and shot at him. Wright was arrested Wednesday morning on this charge, and will be tried as soon as the prosecuting attorney can attend to the matter.

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Ann Arbor Democrat