Manchester Mention

Miss Martha Kuhl visited Tecumseh friends over Sunday. John Martin left for the East Tuesday to visit a brother. Mrs. Geo. Ileimerdinger has been quite sick with bronchitis. Fred Burkhardt of Elkhart, Ind., has been visiting here a few davs. Ernest Twist of Jaekson, has been making his mother a short visit. Born, Sunday Jan. l'th. to Mr. and Mrs. Alliert Drêsselhouse, a girl. Plumbers have been putting new apparatus in the Freeman House. Messrs. Henilershot and Schaible go to Toledo today to buy their stock. Mrs. ('lias. McMahon has been suflering i'roin a severo attaek of la grippe. W. F. Rehfuss of Ann Arbor. was in town on business the first of the week. The iirst product of the new cheese factory was put on the market 1 tiday last. Mrs. Frank Kuhl and children of Jaekson, have been visiting at Lambert Kuhl's. Eugene Kirchgessner went to Adrián Thursday to see the comic opera "Waug." A bout a dozen young people attended the dance at Bridgewater last Fridav night. Adrián parties were in town Friday last, looking over the Southern Washtenaw milis. G. J. Ilaeussler was confined to the house a couple of days last week with a severe cold. Mr. and Mrs. TI. P. Welling of Tecumseh. were at Harmon Clark:s over Suiulay. Mrs. C. W. Case and daughter visited Anii Arbor friends a few days last week and this. J. 1). Ennis Torrey took charge of the People's Bank during Cashier Case's absence. Miss Mina Wisner aceompanied by a lady friend trom Ypsilanti, are visiting Miss Mina's parents. C. W. Case went to Ann Arbor Saturday afternoon on business in connection with the Sarah loon estáte. The high wind Sunday partly de raoshpd the okl building opposite C.J. Robison's, on A nn Arbor st. Jas. Kelley went to Brooklyn and installed the bflicers of the G. A. R. at that place Saturday evening. Past Commander Watkins installed the new orlicers of the Maccatees, 1 hnrsday evening of last week. Some lioys while scuftiing in front of Steinkohl's drug store last Tuesday, broke out a large window glass. Dr E. M. Conklio went to Saginaw Monday, to attend the annual meeting of the Grand Chapter, R. A. M. E. Allen of Ypsilanti. was here Saturday homeward bound from Clinton, where he had been on business. ï. B. Bailey went to Saginaw Monday to be present at the annual meeting of the Grand Council, K. & S. M. Mrs. L M. Baldwin returned home from Lawrence Tuesday, where she has been visiting her sou, Dr. Zeil Baldwin. Joseph Kramer broke through the ice one day last week, while crossing the river, and saved himself with difliculty. Albert Case and wife of Jackson, arrived in town Friday, and visited at their daughter's, Mrs. F. I). Merithew's a few days Grand Secretary F. T. Ward of Hillsdale, was in town Tuesday evening, and installed the newly elected oflicers of the K. of II. Mr. John Gauss and Miss Xellie Gray were married Wednesday by I{ev. Vokum. They wil! make their" home on the Schaible place soutli of town. Mrs. W. C. Kirchgessner and mother, Mrs. Healy of Grand Hapids, returned home Fridav night, accompanied by Miss Caroline Kirchgessner of this village. 1 he dramatic company that were playing at Arbeiter Hall, closed the week's engagement Saturday night wil li the largest crowd we have seen al a show here in several years. Welearn another troup has boo'krd an engagement for a couple of nights sometime in February. The funeral of Georgië Miller, the unfortunnte boy wlio broke through tlie ice and was drowned recently. was held Saturday morning at the Mi. E. church, and was largely attended. The scholars of the several departments, and the members of Junior Epworth League, furnished some handsome iloral designs. A eer tai n lady, it is said, wished to go to the show one night last week, and she had no money to go with but she had a scheme, aiid it worked to perfect ion. she went to the family grocer's and purchased two poundsof butter on ace 'uut. tlien walked across the street and sold the same to a rival merchant for cash. When the curtain rolled up the lady was tliere, and she laughed in her sleeve at the game she had played as often as she did at the show. A fair sized audience gathered at Ajbeiter Hall last Friday evening to listen to the brilliant young orator Walter M. ( handler, of Texas, deliver his lecture "Kaïnbles and Keveries in Europe." Mr. Chandler is a law stu dent at Michigan University. and has been assigned a place on the coming U. of M.-('hicago debate. He has traveled extensively in European eountries, and keeps one spellbound by his interesting and instructive manner of narrating his experiences and travels in those historie lands. Tl is ease and grare, his eloquent oratory. and his plfasing manner readily wins the attention of the listener; and he is without doubt, the ablest speaker ever before a Manchester audience.