In And About The City
Jesse Buaun, of Salem, was In Uucity Wednesday. Mrs. H. C. Bates, of Lansiug. is visitng in Aun Aubor. M. gtaebler and wlfe spent Wednesflay at Port Hurón. F. .T. Dansingburg lias returaed trom a week'a trip timragh contra! Oliio. Miss Fanuie Kline aud Leaare LesJle, of Jackson, are visiting iii Aun Ar bar; Prof. de Pont expects to go to Canada in a few days for a sliort visir wil h friends. Titos Hutzel and Élugene Manu are sojourning at tlie Auu Ar'oor Sportiug dub, Zr.key Lake. .Miss Eilitli Sdileede has retorwed home after a three weeks' visit witii friends in Toledo. The pamchial school of the Bethlehem church opened las-t Monday vritíi a larger atteBöance. tira. I'dwíts, of iDexter, has taken the house al B. Jefferson street yi-1 will reside in Ana Aribor. Miss Chase, f Boston, Mass.. and Miss Plgott, oí 'Detroit, are visimg at riie home of J. H. Cutting. The Foros t HUI Oemetery Company is puttiüg a fine new iron! ftnce arouud part of the cemetery grounds. Hutzel & 'Co.'s contracta for the Liberty stret sewer werc signed Wednesday by the "board of public works. .lolm G. Cojie was up bef ore Judge Pond for drunkenr.ess Thunsday. He was given two days at the {all o v,i;icli to sober up. Officer has already sold ]4 tickets for the excursión oí tlie Modern Woodmen to Jaekson. This [g a record so f ar and the other felle ws will havo to hustle. Mré. Fred Barker and children, and Misses Olara and Bertha Feiner lt-ft early in the week for Independent Lake, noar Hamliurg, where they will csmp out for a few weeks. The Michigan Central is testing vanons kinds of bicycle-'holding dcviccs tor the purpose of deciding which one is best ailnpted for use as required by the recent law making bicyeles bagpage. George Y. Wisner, of Detroit who bas been appointed a meinber of the United States Water Way baard, is a gnactuaté of the Michigan University lit. elass of '65, takiug the degree of C. E. Prof. Pattison, of the Anm Arixir Art School, has been wándertng along tlie bauks of the Huron river reccntly aod liis geaius has lnsplred him to sketch a number of the river's most cliarming scènes. The following are the amounts taken in at the tax offlee during the third week that taxes Üave bjen received: Thursday, ?547.29; Frida; $479.41; Saturday, $408.93; Mo'uday, ÍS95.60; Tuesday, $1,003.99; Wednesday, $480.00. Miss .lessie R. Axtell, of tlie New England Conservatory of Music, and for the past three j'ears musical instructor of Oahu college, Honolulú, Ií. I.. arrived in Aim Arbor this week and will reside with her fathor on Forest avenue. Adrián Times: Prof. Andrew Ten Brook, of Arm Arbor, is the gnest of Mrs. R. H. Whituey for a few days. Ho carne to attend a reunión of the I.;vi family that takes place this af"ternoon at the home of Nelson B. Wilson, in M.'idison. At the meeting; of the board of public works Wcdncsday tho clevl; was orrdered to notlfy Rabert Hunter that his contract for furnishins the new aluininum num'bers for the houses would lic forfeited unless he had the numbens ready according to specifleatibns by Momday, Atignsi 9. 'l'lic ii'.my friends of Dr. A. C. Ro(berte, win. was a fonner resident of Ann AtLkh', will be pleased to learn that he received a handsome coni]ilimentary vote for govcnior of the state of Iowa, at the recent convenüon, Dr. Roberts has a wide acquaintance and his popularity is well t arned. Oourier: The persen who suid tliat tUci-c were no trampa about Ann Arln.r. (lid not know what !ie was talktag about. Full grown, aible-bodied tramps are plenty rhis summier and those w.lio give tíhem toaá are ,iisi as fooüsli as the tramp is lnzy. It is all wrong, it eacourages laiiiifc boys in out country cities and villajes to take ui tliis "indush-y"- tramping. 'l'lii' l'oüowiu.u' is sent us froni thé North idaliii star, Moscöw, Idaho: "-Mis. W. K. ('lcnu'iu saus in th choir oí the Ereöbyterian clmrch last Sunitay. ghe caxrled che oblijrnto to an anthem wüicü bad been prevlously gung iiy choir, fche beauties at v.-iiich. however, had never ben elearly toought out untii this occsipji. The HKlicn.H' weiv charmed with the rlc'hness of her voice and the art a ml expression used ia the Interpretatian ■of her part. The audieuce hope to ear of ten. . J Fred Himtoon shipped a érate of 2.: tamo rabbits to Koughton Wednesday. Tiioy will be tumed looae for the parpoee oí propagation. George Vandawarker, of Goodyear & Co.'s. is luid np with a Bare band. Blood poisouing set in from a sore aud the whole baad is in bad sliape. ühe youög men of the Bethlehem church are expeeting a flue tiras at the líuvn social glven by them August 13, at Fritz's grove, W. Liberty Street. l'iic Waslr-'iiaw Oounty l-'air Assciation will open an office at 4S S. Main Street over Wahr & Milkr's store, wuere the secretary eau be found ready to atteml to the business o? the coming fair. The excursionists who wemt te Putiii-Kay Wednesday got pretty well shaken up in erosslng Lake Brie. Those wlio were not used to rough v;iter snfferwl the evils of seasiekue3ji aud there were uiany who wereii't used to the water either. Dr. McElroy, of the Methodist chureh, has extended an invitation to tho Anu Arbor Light Inf.antry to attend services in a body next Siuiday rr.oriiing. The taxes of the William Wiiite estnte, amounting in al! to $GS5.5'J, werc iiaid Tlmrsday. This is the largesi est single amount that has been pald In so f ar. It is i-eportecl ou the streel;? th.ït the repairs ou the Michigan Central bridge were made necessary largely by the continued passing across tne brtdge of .folia B. Hulmán. Tlie third cvf a series of suits of Mrs. Service agaitist studeats, eame off iu .histice Pond's court Thursday :nd resulted iu the defeiHlaut. paylng táe aroount aocepted and tbe coses, and the su ir was dismissed. H. 'Stofflet and wife have gone Lo Brooklyn for a two weeks' visit. They have removed f rom rlieir former i-esidei.ee, 30 N. Fiflh street, and on their return will be found at the home of their pareuts, 6 Lawrence etreet. Detroit seeii's to be having a bad time with the sparrow sbooters. Tlie Free Prees luis the followiug to say in the matter: "Sparrow shootin.K is -becoming more serious, aiul if a stop is not put to the practiee 'uefore long the county's treasury is ïikely to feel the drain beyontl the point C fun. Yesterday morning the bags of the hunters brouglu to the city hall eneugto 'birds to make it cost the eounty nearly $50, and intlications are that the ainount will keop rlght on growing." Captain J. W. Rafferty lias placed the steamer, "Prudence Potts," ia commission on Zukejr and .idjacent lakes. The bars in the channel beiwirn Zukey and Strawbeny lakes and in the river have been removed and, iu additlon to plying between the various camping grounds and the station, the steamer will also make regular trips dowii the river to Base Lake, leaviug the railroad slation every day immediately alter the arrival of the morning train from Ann Aibor.
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