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Day
11
Month
December
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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S. II. Dodge is having the front of his store repainted. The house recently occupied by Geo. Amsden is being repaired. The Ypsilanti Orchestral Society will give a concert in Wayne this evening. The Twentieth Century Club wil! give a party in the Ladies' Library Saturday evening. The Young I'eople's Mission of the Presbyterian ehurch held a very enjoyable meeting with Miss Hattie Swift, Monday evening. In the future, the Ypsilanti Orchestral society will hold their rehearsals in Cleary hall Monday evenings. Visitors will not be admitted. Miss Jackson began work in the Normal training school this week. Bhe will teach the. second grade, in place of Miss Caffee, who resigned. The store formerly occupied by Hangsterfer. in the Beal block, is now occupied by Geo. J. Preston, with a line of gentleman's furnishings. The Epworth League will give a marshmallow social in the basement of the Methodist ehurch this evening. All are invited. Admission 10 cents. The revival meetings conducted by Rev. Frank IÍ. Arnold at the Baptist church are being continued this week. Many conversions have resulted from the work. Vegetable wool blankets are the latest at L;imb, Davis & Kishlar's. If you never have seen anything of the kind, just step into the store and examine them. The improvements which were made on the outside of King's grocery a few months ago have struck in, and new shelving on the west side of the 'store will be the result. A barn and some sheds belonging to "W. L. üelke, on Grove street, were set on fire last Monday evening by a cow kicking over a lamp. The sheds were burned, but the barn and contents were saved. Dr. Boone leaves today for an extended lecturing tour. He will lecture in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, and will spend a short time in Ohio, North Carolina and Florida. Dr. Batwell's house was entered last Monday night and Sfiy in bilis stolen from his pocket book. Entrance was gained through the office door, which was unlocked with a skeleton key. No trace of the robber has been found. Ypsilanti iodge, Na. 128, F. & A. M., elected the following officers last week: W. M., Charles Stevens; S. W., M. M. Read; J. W., George Wilson; treasurer, E. B. JTewhall; secretary, F. B. Deubel; S. D., W. W. Brooks; ,1. D., Elmer McCollough; tyler, William Court; stewards, Messrs. Dolson and Thompson. Contract for opera house scenery and stage settings was let this week to Losman & Landis of Chicago; the lighting to the Central Chandelier Co. of Toledo. The di rectors expect to be able to open the house during holiday week, though the scenery will not be all completed before the middle of January. - Ypsilanti Commercial. A progressive pedro party was given at S. H. Fletcher's home Friday night. The ladies' ace prize was won by Mis. Minnie Gridley; the. ladies' booby prize j by Mrs. Eva Fletcher; the gentlemen's ace prize by Mr. Mont Crane, and the gentlemen's booby prize by Miss Leila Stowell. who played in place of one of the gentleman. The next meeting will be held this evening at the home of Frank Stowell. At the council meeting Monday night the distinguished gentlemen considered the petition of the Women's League that the Hay & Todd Mfg. ('o's sign be removed from their mili, and aftr considering it considerably, considerately laid it on the table. 'I he ladies who orignated the petition will hereafter be obliged to wear thick veils i when walking in the vicinity of the objectionable picture. A few days ago a gypsy woman boarded the eleetric car, headed for Aun Arbor. tihe carried a bag made of carpet sewed together, and firmly tied to a stick, with which she carried over her shoulder. Aft?r sitting down in the car she laid the bag across her lap, whereupon it began to move and show signs of signs of life. "Wliat have you in yourbag?" inquired one of the passenger The woman opened the bag and produced therefrom a little gypsy baby, rosy and solemn and warm apparently much pleased with its manner of locomotion. Mr. J. E. Pomeroy writes some amaz ing stories from Hilo, Sandwich lslands, where he spending the winter. He speaks of seeing string beans 21 inches in length, cucumbers 18 inches long and a squash as big as a washtub. He went up a mountain to see a waterfall 75 feet high, emptying into a basin 400 feet across. In this basin is a turtle over 100 years old. and weighing 2200 pounds. It is said to have been taken there and presented to a chief of the lslands more than a huudred years ago. (Come now, Pomeroy, is this the way the sand-w(h)ich is in the islands affects you ? Ed.) Additional Ypsilanti local page 9.

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