Ypsilanti

Mrs. John F. Hicks, of Tecumseh, Is visitiug at the home of Dr. Wallin. "Pap" Kinseley got a bundle oí some $r00 back pension money this mornlng. - W. M. Osbaud was ealled to New York last Frld&y by the illness of. his sister. Mrs. Ed. Cornwell left yesterday for an extended trip to Nova Scotia and the New England states. Rev. Mr. Richmond, formerl.v pastoi of the Presbyterlan church iu tais city, is visiting old acquaintances iiere. Charles W. Haynes and Win. Washington have been grantéd an inerease of pension, and Mrs. Cora A. Baker a uhíott's pension. Some thief entered the Dolsoi biock the other night during the absence of Mrs. Harriet Showerman and stole a pecketbook containing $u.5O besides a picture. Duane and DeWitt Spalsbury were again called to the 'bedside of their fatber In Lenüdas Saturday night. he ha ving suffered a relapse. Mrs. John Wilson and daughter Florence,, oí Albiou. and Mrs. George Thompson, of Detroit, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. George McBlcheran. Geo. E. Waterman left Saturday evening for Jamestown, X. Y., to att( ml the National Photograi)lier's Oonvention whlch is to be held there this week. ■Webster and Meath, of Detroit, have the contract of putting in the steam flttings for the new heating plant at the Xormal. The contract for the building has not .vet been let. ■Don Jewett wás in the city over Sunday. He states that he had just filed Saturday in the Wayne county courts his bill. whieh disputes Mrs. Florence .McDonald-Jewett's claims to the estáte of his father. Ralph G-alloway has recovered liis feioycle whieh was "stolen" froin 'n front of the postoflice Frlday niglit. It turns out it was siinply a practical joke, some of his friends having hid the machine from hm. James W. ('aso. of Mustegon, and formerly of this city, was in town today. He is at present manufacturiug a patent bed mattress and hopes to secure capital to move his faetory from Mmskégon to this city. There will be a basket meeting held on nest Sunday in the 'beautiful picnic grove just above the first papfer mili. Services at 10:30 a. m. and 3 p. m., under the auspiees of the Second Baptist chnrch. C. A. Carter, Pastor. The Ladies' Library building was brutea i uto Friday nfeht last. entranee being effected through the rear door. Evidently the same f ello w who did the successful job once before gave the return engagement, but thls time nothing was missed from the interior of the building. Samuel Barnard has disposed of iiis ereamery business to Elmer Brown who traded him some propërty on Chicago avenue for the ereamery and flats. Mr. Barnard will lead a retired Ufe. Mr. Brown is now estabIished at the ereamery and conducting the business. Italpli Gallo way had nis bieyele stolen, from in front of the post olliee Friday everiing. He stood the machine up in front of the building and stepped in for bis mail. When he came out he was om- a bk-ycíe. And now he walks the same as us wüo liever did own a maeliine. There are two ganga workingu stringing the wires for the Xew State Telephone Co. between here and Detroit. On 'Safurday night they were only three 'miles apart and are working toward each oth'er. It will consequeatly Ibe possible most any day now to "Helio" to Detroit over the new system. Bon. and Mrs. Samuel Post left thls ■lüoruing for the Northern Península to visit the Xewberry Asyhim, that being one of the required duties of Mr. Post as a member of the asylam board, for which he receires simply hls traveling expenses. It is one of the state jobs that there is no emolumenta attaehed thereto and is sim]iy au award of inerit to the most faithful. Another case of "didn't know it was Ioaded" happened ' on the John K. Camp-bell farm in Augusta last evening. Two of hls hired men were discussing the merits of an "unloaded" revolver. One was discusslng the muzzle and the other the trigger when suddenly the gun was diseharged and the fellow who was mnking a plea on behalf of the muzzle got the ball in the right lung. The wound is not considered dangerous. In the case of lohn H. Wortley v?. Mfs. Rathfon, wheruln the plaintil'f sued for com -tüss'oh !n selling the house, corner nL Huroa aid Mihjgsu streets, the iurv awardt'd Mr. AVortlev $60. The .ïoatetttlm of plaintiff was that he had fonnd Judg; Green as a purchaser, although the defendant had flnally eïesed the deal for $4,000, whereas she had promised the plaintiff $100 for securing a $5,000 purchaser. He therefore sued for SSO and the jury made a 25 per cent. discount on bis claim. Mrs. Genevieve Ryan-Wafson is vis iting her father, Rev. E. W. ltyau. Miss Grace Wiard and Miss Cor Hay have gane to Cavanatigh Lak to spend a few days. Samuel W. Campbell, 016 Chicag ave., is suffdPtng with paralysis anc lus life is dispaired of. Mrs. Fraak Wilbur, who has bee visiting her pafents, Mr. and Mrs Ellis, returned to Charlotte today. Jay Worden, Fred Weinman and Y S. Carpenter left today i'or Portag Lake to spend three or four days li)i ing. The young lad, Hewitt, who jras ac cidently shot bj' his brother last weel is up and around the house anti feel 110 ineoim-uieiice from the bullet al lüough it ís still lodged in his head. Messrs. Smith iind Shipinan, of De troit, have been in the city the pad few days looking at the merits of the Mijtomatic Smoke Consumer, of wïiiel Mr. Seharf has the right to sell in Michigan. St. Luke's choir ehapter will give a lawn social at the residence of Geo. Aipsden, Saturday e-ening, Jul.v 17. Ice cream and wafers .10 cents. 1!' wie weather is unfavoraible the entertainment will be held in the church house. The Light Gunrds will give ni lee cream social Friday erening at S,i:nson's park. The boys are endeavoring to get new uuiforms and are raising .i fund for tuis purpose. They siiould be encouraged by a lange aStten&ance. Rev. L. P. Davis, who died at Kay View day bef ore yesterday, was a cousin of D. L. Davis. Guy Davis and Mrs. .1. N. Wallace, ot' this city. The deceased was the presiding eider of the Adrián district of the M. E. church. H. H. Scovill, of Dixon, 111., passed tlu'ough here yesterday at 1 p. in., on his bicyele. He started out fro'i; Dixon Sunday morning at 4 a. in., ana hls (lcsti)iation 'was Detroit. Dixon is 110 milos west of Chicago, making the distanee traveled 365 miles in 59 honrs if he did not sleep at all. "The Womar; in Black" is the reigning sensation of the E'Jfth ward. For tlie past six 'weeks a mysterious woman dressed in black tas been scarmg people by suddenly appearüig before them at ight. Her identity has aot been unveiled alüiough sevénal attempts have been made to fiad out who she is. She disappears as suddenly as she appears. and efforts 'd this directicn have been futile. Lewis, the Urbana forger, wlio was arrested in this city for a trifíliug misdemeanor like so.iking somebody for $2ö0,000, was sentenced yesterday for a term of eigüt years ín the peniteutiary on his plea of guilty. Let's see. Kight is iuto 25 three times and one over; eight is iuto 10 once and to over; eight is iuto 20 twice an'ï four over;" eight is into 40 üve limes and au naught is au naught. Thirtv-oae thousand, iwo lumdred and iifty dollars a year is pretty good wages. The Vietor (Colo.) Daily Record recently established a votiiig contest for the most popular lady in Vietor and the winner was to be sent to Salt Lak.' City to represent the city in the Utah Semi-Centenial and Pioneer Jubilee. People liere will be interested in knowiug that Miss Lizzie Walsh, who ieft l'psilanti 12 years ago, was the vietor receiving 15,S19 out of 31,340 votos. and nearly doubling her nearest eorupttitor. Miss Walsh is a niece of Miss Sarah Cosgrove, of this city. This city numbers among its 6.2CM) souls a musical prodigy in the person of Helen Cowell, the little 12-year-old flower girl. The child has sueli an accurate knowletlge, or rather ear, of music that she is on intímate calling terms with every note of the piauo. A test was recently given her arul with her eyes turned away f rom tlis instrument, wiiile a person sea tod at the piano struck seven notes in chord. she correctly told by name every noce struck. Xot only a single test vyas given her but several chords werc played and she identificd thom as easily as Robert Heniphill would D. L. Quirk's signature.