Our Boys

The Free Press' Washington correspondent has the following to sav of two U. of M. boys who will enter congress this spring. MJraduates of Ann Arbor. who but a short time ago were students in that famous institution. are making wonderful strides in public Ufe. Marian De Vries, who representa the Stockton (California! district in the new congress, will be the youngest member of house. He was graduated from Ann Arbor in the class of 1888 and is one of the brightest of the "freshmen" congressmen. He has been described as a Populist in many nëwspaper reports, a designation that makes him very angry. TIe is a straight-out Demoerat and don't care who 'knows it. Judge William H. King, who will be the sole representative of Utah in this congress. is another Ann Arbor man who graduated in the same class with De Vries. He has had a brilliant career, but never tires of praising his alma mater." Attorney J. R. Larimer, of Topeka, Kansas, a son-in-law of Addison Osborn who lives two or thre miles east of this village, has forined a partnership Judge Judge T. F. Garver under the flrm name of Garver & Larimer, with ofiices in the Columbian building at Topeka.- Milan Leader. Mr. Larimer is a gradúate of the Law department with the class of 1882. Kev. Frederick A. Dean, pastor of the Central Congregational church at Chattunooga. Tenn., a foriner popular U. of M. boy. is exciting considerable public interest by his work for the esiablishing of an "institutional church" in that city. He intends to form a working girls' circle, schools of domesticscience, workingmen's clubs, and other ways to "teach the ignorant, heal the sick and preaeh the gospel." The plans prepared by líev. Dean are quite attractive. Times.