In And About The City

Oliver Lutz is spending a two weeks' i -vacation in Indiana. AU wheelmen are invited to be in line tomorrow in the grand parade. Harry Watts of Kansas City is in the city visiting his father J. C. Watts. Mrs. S. G. Miller and daughter Orla left Tuesday, for avlsit in California. Prof. R. H. Kempf was in attendance at the Michigan Music teachers in Detroit. Charlie Stabler is the architect of the banners that will swing out to the breeze in tomorrow celebration. You ean get a good cheap lunch at the Salvation Hall next Saturday also Ice cream and cake or lemonade. Miss Ella Ballard of Geneva, N. Y., is the guest of Miss Susa Wheedon, Miss Wheedon will spend the winter east. The Unitarian Sunday school picnic at Campbell's grove on the motor line, last Saturday, was a most enjoyable affair. ïhere will be meetings every night at the Salvatiou Army Tent also all day Saturday and Sunday. All are welcome. Dr. Copeland was elected an officer of the American Homeopathie Eye and Ear society at its recent meeting in Buffalo. C. E. Pease and Miss Lucy K. Cole, of this city, attended the meeting of the Michigan Musie Teachers' association on Monday. The first of the union Sunday evening services will be held in the First M. E. church next Sabbath. Sermón by Kev. J. M. Gelston. Misses Carrie Perry and Ellen Bennett were among the Christian Endeavor excursionists who left for San Francisco Tuesday. Three hundred tickets were sold for the excursión to Toledo last Sunday, and the Harugari and the Timts band cleared some money. Prof. Henry O. Adams will spend iiext year in Europe. He will devote his time to the stud y of the management of European railways. A large number of f riends of McClellan Mogk and sister Amelia, went to the depot with them Tuesday morning to bid them good bye on their trip to California. Prof. E. O. Austiu, who has acceptalily filled the position of superintendent of the Saline schools and will occnpy the sarae position next year, is in the city. The civil engineering class returned Saturday from the northern part of the state, where they have been camping out, doing field work and having a good time generally. Some exeeedingly smart individual took the trouble to cut a ropee on the Times awning Saturday night.- Times. And that explains the lop-sided appearance of our contemporary, Monday. After successfully braving the dangers of a score of lires, Fireman Her man Kirns fractured his leg in a most prosaic manner Monday by rolling off l'rom the hay mow at tlie department stables. These warm evenings make one think of what a snap the street railway company would have if they put an ppen car on the Ypsilanti run after I supper aiil make a round trip fa re of 15 cents, 3'íie Strest commissioner is now gravelling Packard street. Packard street cannever be maintained in in accept able condition, however.until the street car track is raised and the road bed given a curvature sutiicient to shed the water. The drygoods, hardware and clothing stores of the city haVe agfeed to close at i! o'clock Sauirday evening, and stay elósed until Tuesday morning. Owing to the celebration coming on Saturday, they will not be able to cióse up during the day. The Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Electric Railway Co. will make a speciaf effort to handle the crowds between the two cities tomorrow. Extra cars will be put on the Ypsilanti división and the fare will be reduced to 25 cents for the round trip. People who are guilty of breaking in upon the slumbers of their neighbois with the discordant notes of a lawn mower at unseasonable hours of the morning will have something to ex plain to 5t. Peter when they appear before the pearly gates. I'rof. De Vivían Wood.who died at Boonton, N. .1.. tást Sun.lay, will be re membered by the older residents of Ann Arbor. He was professor of physics and civil engineerin the l'iiiversity from 185Í) to 1872. He has since been with the Stevens instituto of technology at Hoboken, N. ,T. He was buriei here. The National meeting of the Voung People's Christian Dnion of the L'ni versalist church will be held in Detroii at the church of our Kather, .] uly 7 'to 13. A large attendanee is expected from all parts of the United States. A delegation of twelve young people from the Unitarian chvirch of this city wi attend, besides Rev. Mr. and Mrs Sunderland. Mr. and Mrs. Kar! Kern are the happy parents of a girl. Rev. Hicks, of "Whitmore Lake, was in Ann Arbor yesterday. Judge Jlrown and l'ainily will spend the summer at Old Mission. W. K. Childs is entertaining his nephew, F. B. Cate, of Milford. .las. s. Handy will probably lócate in Chicago for the practice of law. The high school athletic association is $50 in debt on the year's work. Born, on Wednesday morning, to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rawden, a girl. The Ann Axbor Typographical Union will be in line in tomorrow's parade. Dr. Wait, of Salem, participated in the commencement festivities yesterday. The new state telephone company have their wires stretcht d f rom Detroit to Wayne. Samuel Heiidrickson and wife will make their homewith their son Firman in Chicago. E. L. J. Smith had the misfortune to have his milk-wagon ruined in a runaway yesterday. Miss Belle Sperry left Monday for a summer in Europe. She expects to return about Sept. lst. Mrs. Olivia Hall has selected gas fixtures for her home on Volland street from J. F. Shuh'a new stock. Prof. D. W. Springer goes to Milwaukee to-day to attend the meeting of the National Council of Education. A. C. Schumaeher has been at Mar Island this week attending the meeting of the State Board of Pharmacy. John Boswonh leaves Saturday for Fullerton, California, where he will probably make his permanent home. John F. Lawrence entered Harry CoiTant of Monroe and Win. Butler and Geo. Kenwick of Detroit Wednesday. The street railway company has secured the use of Campbell s grove on the Ypsilanti road for the use of picnic parties. Schneider Bros. have begun the construction of the Arm street sewer. X. State st. f rom the main sewer is the fust point of attack. Dr. C. W. Clark, of the class of '75, who is now residing at "VVinnipeg, is the guest of his nephew, Dr. Ernest ! Clark of this city. Benj. Brown, oldest son of F. J!. Brown, of Ann Arbor town, has fcoiie to Illinois, where he will represent Evans & Co., school supplies. There was a slight lire in Wm. Good year & Co. 's dry goods store yesterday morning. Considerable damage was done by smoke. A leaking gas meter was the cause. The V. M'. C. A. will run a refreshment stand at Yandawalker's new building next Saturday, .Tiüy 3. Cofl'ee, sandwiches, ice cream and cake. lemonade and other things that are necessary for suoh a stand may be found there. ïitus Ilutzel has the contract to till in the Hunter pond on Wl Washington street. The dead cats, dogs and other forms of cussedness that will be buried with the lillinc; of this pond should be a cause oí rejoicing for the denizens of that locality. ïhe senior class got back at the regents for the charge of .?100 for the use of the gymnasium for the senior reception by cutting them off the "comp" list. This cross flre is said to have cooled the atmosphere on the campus., if it has not cleared it. Harry Williams, of Coiumbus, Ohio and Fred Johnson, of Nashville, Tenn , two colored men, were arrested at Jackson, Monday, by Ollicers Wackenhut and C&nfield and brought to Ann Arbor on the charge of committing the recent burglary at A. H. Ilagen's. The people of the north side will give an ice cream and strawberry festival on Rhodes island on Monday afternoon and evening for the benefit of the new church, The island is being cleaned up for the occasion and a foot bridge will be built to the main land. The founda tion of the new churcli was comrnénced Wednesday. Patriotic day at the Y. M. C. A. rooms next Sunday, Juty 4, at 2:45 p, in. The spirit of Hunker Ilill will certainly be manifestad by Judge H. Wirt Xewkirk, who will deliver the patriotic address. Extra mnsic will be furnished and fans and a cold drink will be used to overeóme the heat. Show your patriotism by helping to make this the largest meeting of the year. There will be special "Parlor Services" at the Unitarian church every Sunday evening during ' July and August, from 7 to 8 o'clock, conducted by various members of the Congregation. The meeting next Sunday evening will be led by l!ev. Adelaide A Cloflin. Subject, "Thoughta Suggested by the Queen'S Jubilee and the Fourth of July." Mornin g services, wbicb are discontinuecl during the vacation of the schools, will be resumed September 1. A gang of car thieves have been robbing the Wabash road lor a year and a half. Their last criminal act was to rob a car of eight barrels of whiskey without breaking the seal of the car. The act was accomplished by boring up through the car and through the bar reis and drawing off theliquor in this way. Two of tlie gang were caught iü miles sou; Sunday morning and they " peacheil"on theretnair.ing eight and all but two are now in custoiiy in the Peru Ino. jail. One ol those s'tiil ai large is an apsil-mti man whom the offlcerg are attej;.