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In And About The City

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Day
16
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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John V. Sheehan lias returned frora Zukey Lake. Eugene B. Beal and wife left for Detroit rhis moriiing. Sid W. Millarcl will Ieave for Chicago tomorrow for x few days' stay. liss Hattie Laing lias gone for a two weeks' visit witli Her pareuts in Saline. Charles Kllne lias a $1,200 position iu Detroit under Corporación Coirasei Flowers. Miss Freddie Gillett retumed last crenlng Erom Chicago, aí'ter a two weeks' visit there. cims. Kiag is expected borne íroni .TacksonviUc. Flonda. in a day or two ittead camp witli Co. A. lr. S. A. Jones and fanrily Ieave tl;is eveniag for a week's sojouru :)t the "Dew Drop Inn' at Strawberry Lake. Miss Mamie IíwU lias returned ïrorn Chelsea on her wheel, where slie has bren l'riencls for the lasi few wei'K-, The Aun Arbor Light Infantry drlllr,i on üie court house square las-i night. There was a laxge crowd oí oülookers. A large uumber of local sports expeet to take iu the "fight" at Ypsilahti tonlght. "Sports" is a very inclusive term. , Harold .T. Montgomery has gone to Chattanooga as a delégate to tho Baptist Yoiuig People's Tinion, whlcn n, eet s there in couveution. Go. Cook and hls ï'amily leave icr their home iu Chicago today after a very plasaut vislt wlth his father. James Cook, oí the St. James Hotel. This week will ftnd thc blcyole pata completed and ex-Mayor Walkt"", wlio has been superintendtag the -woi-k, will leave whh Uts wlfe for Zukey Lake. The order lssued by the mayor in regard to muBzling do.crs lias been suspended. Al! doga without a lioense will continue to be taken up by the dog-catcher Trof. M. E. Cooley's oldest son, Hollis. left Thursday morning for Fairport, X. Y., where he will remain for ihe glimmer with his gmud-parettts, Mr. and Mrs. L. P. ilorley. 'I lie committee on advcvtising for the Washtenaw Coimty Fair Annual is out hustltng ior "ads.". The rtice ir. uk is to be put in good sliape and some good enfries are promised. Nicholas Glasor, a niomber of the National Proteetive Society of Bay City, receiyed a check for .Y1-3 Jnly 14, tlii'ough Harry C. Benham, agent, in settlement an accident received July 0. Xorth Lake has beoonie quite popular again this year. Sojne oí ouí friends are out Hiere already and several more xpect to go there tlirongh the summer. Mrs. Xancrede and family go out at the end of this week to spcnd sojne ti:ne in the cool of llrs. Glenn'a beautiful grove. E. .T. Hale, professor of mathematica and bookkeeping in the Detroit High School, is spending a few days in this city wlth his brother-in-law, L. D. Wines. Mr. líale carne from Detroit by wheel and was accompaniod by hls little ilaughter. He reports tlie roads in gooü shapeofter one is sev;n milos out ot' Detroit. The renumbering of the houses in Aun Arbor will begin early in tlie coming week, and it is expected that the operation will take aibout six weeks. Engrneer Key says that thero are about 3,000 housea to miraber and that the average number of figures to each will bc tliree, making nearly 10.000 figures ta be jnit up. The figures will be of nluminum. !7 per cent pure, and are to be attached with headed nails. As has been stated the riiilailelpliia plan of 300 nurubers to tho block will be used. The class of '96 decided to present the Universlty with casts of the figures i'ouiKl oñ the famous "AtcIi of Trojan," at Benevento, Italy. Thy were ordered and prepared under the direction of the American School at liiinio. They arrived in Ann Arbor toDight and are in excellent conditiin. No casts of these figures have been brought to America uefore, and the Tnivei'sity is considered fortúnate in si' uring them. It is not known where the collection will be placed, as the 'Varsity has no vacant room large ei'.ough to hold it. The convention of the American College RepubHcan League was held yesterday in the ordinary of the Russell House. Detroit. For the past three years Michigan has been after the presidency of the league and it has ttually been landed, the honor falling on Araold h. Davis, '97 L. Jas. H. Mays presented lus name to the conm nrion, somtone moved to make it unanhnons and everybedy s:iid "Ayo." Ir is said that the committee fro-n the IT. of M. feit a little disappointed as tbey hare a good campaign oriuiaüon aml nothing to test it. Twentytliree colli-ges wore representad and Jas. D. Murfin, of Michigan, oecnpied the ehair. E. B. Hall luis left for nu onitttg at Gav-anaugh Lake. Mr. and Mts. Simon II. stukey have gone to Chicago, where they will reside hc-reafter. Mts. Mary C. Clark has contraeted wirh J. F. Schuh for mantels for her nuv house ou Tlvayer st. FYed Englehard is assistant bonkkeeper at the Ailiugton, cue of the l&rgest hotels in IVtoskoy. Mark Reynolds, o? Wadhams. Ryaa & Eeule, lias left for his vacation. He expects to go arouud the lakes. Jas. II. Prentise left this mornlng wlth L. C. Pratt for Traverse City, vfhere he will visit Mr. I'ratt for aoine timo. Trof. Frederic D. Sherman, 'S7 lit. lias been selected to take the chiir of liltychology in the stata normal college al Oshkosh, Wlsconsim. Ward Howlett, '97 dent, has rented au office at Jackson, and will conimeace the practlce of hls professioa there within a few weeks. Miss Jenale M. Mingny. of Besemer, who has been visiting her cousin. Jliss Nellie Mlngay, for the past week, le'f yesterday for Detroit, on her way to Toronto, Out. Lew Gbodrich will go out on a tour of instnu-tion, visiting the varicius Masonic chapters iu the upper peninsula. W. W. Watts, assistant master, will accompany hiin. Prof. and Mrs. Deinmon after tlie close oí th-e sumnier school, will po by boat to Dulutn, f rom therc to Yellowstone Park. and tlience liane via Colorado Sprlngs, wbere Uieir 'laufilitci', .Mrs. Ninde lives. The Ladies' Library Associatlon will give a moonllgtat lawn party witü music cm Mrs. Beol's lawu Friday. July 1(. Ice croara, ices, cake and lernonade will be served. Everyone will be coTdially weleoraed. Asluir A. 'ferry, who for many years was a proinineut business man of Ann Arbor, but who left tliu city a year or s. ago to live with bis sister at Clinton Junctiou, Wis., is in the city for a few days' greeting old fnenils. A youug boy, wbo gires liis name as Zimmernian, and says tnat lie Uves ia Tilma, Obio, was brouglit to thejail last night. He liad fallen in witli a party of trampa who sent Mm around begging. The boy was found near the depot. Courier: "Some of our boardiag bouses are still running to accommodate the summer school." Frani wbat we have heard now and then it -,vonld srciu that ihe boarding houses were walking instoad of ï'unning. At a Dülghty slow walk. too. Alfred ,T. Mayer, of Detroit, wbo has been spending his vacation in tliis city, has retumed home. Mr. Mayer is enipkiyed as bookbinder in lüchmond, Baekus & Co.'s in Detroit. The Anii Arbor Brawns receatly flefeated the Atlantïs team in this city and a little over & week ago the Imiii.l hoys turned the tatole on tliem ly scoring a vietory at Whitmore Lake. The suggestion has been made thiit thoy play three more games for the chainpiouslnp of the county, but ueitlier team seenia anxious for the contest. Maybe they had better let the ehanipionship go to Cherry Hill by default. The funeral of Fred Valentine, one of 'Manchesters oldest and most respected citizens, occurred at his resictenoe in tliat village yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock wlth Masonlc honors. He was or.e of the earliest settlers in that loeality, having lived on a farm for many years. He was cousidered one of the wealthiest reen in tbat Ticlnity. Ho died from the effects of a tfall, which broke his hip. His age was 87 years. I'ive oars were wreeked on the Ann Abor road naar Alma this morniug at 2 o'clock. The recent heavy rains trad bo soaked the new 12-foot grade that it was unable to bear up under the weiglit of the inoving train. ïhe brakemen were on the cattle cars, which passed the spot before the slide oaime. The derailed cars were loaded wlth lumber and flour. No lives ivore lost, although the six tratnps on top of tbe lumber car were thrown promiscuously 15 or 20 feet.

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