Ypsilanti

Street Commissioner 'Creech has been doing som e good iork scraping up Ballard street. Mrs. Maria O. Beach, widow of the late Walter P. Beach, has been grantf.d a wldow's pension. Frank Austin has returned from a five weeks' trip to Nebraska and Dakota in the interests of the Standard Oil Co. R. C. Hoyton has been conflned to his home this week with infla.n,nat;on of the bladder but expects to be out iu a íew days. The case of The City vs. Frank Wilson, diturbing the ieace, bas been adjourued until next Saturday at the request of the defendant. .loe Worden, who lias been in Cheboygan for the past six years, has returned to this city to work with his brotlier, Frank Worden. Mrs. Flossie (McBurney, oí 12 X. Ilaimlton street, is visitíng her pa.rents in Toronto, Canada. She expects to return in about two weeks. ■Dr. Wilcoxson reporta that Olive Xiies, the llttle girl who was shot at Willis Aug. 27, is now all right and walking around the same as ever. Work lias been commencod on straightening up the third and fourfh werd towers and 'soon all live of the eleetric light towers will bc in use. Prof. A. J. Murray, formerly superintendent of the state school at Coldwater and well known here, will engage in business' in Courtland, N. Y. Charles Chamberlain, who is now fimily installed in the shoe business in Marión, Ohio, spent Sunday in the city. He reporta his opening as very eneouraging. Mr. Holmes, whose stock of livery burned out recently at Ann Artor, was in the city today and purclased two fine hacks and a pair of horses irom C. L. Yost. James Davis has commenced suit against Mrs. Corey, elaiming a commission of the sale of her block to Huston & Dawsen. (He lias garnisheed the money to be paid. The Ypsilauti Cricketers wish to arrange a match game against the remainder of Washtenaw county. Thère ought to be enough cricket playera in Ann Aíbor to get up a strong eleven and a goo-d game could 'be played. Miss Carolyn Norton, of this city, has been appointed critic teacher of the eighth grade of the training school in place of Miss Montgomery, who ïvsigned to accept a position with a highor salary in Xew Jersey. The iron beams for the Lowell tnidge have arrived and the only delay now is in getting the stone which the farmers of Superior agreed to furnish. The farmers have besa busy with their crops which accounts for the delay. The greatest fake in complying with the bicycle bell ordinance was noticed today. Attached to the handle bars of a wheel by a string was a smail bell sueh as is used to trim the edge of a jHig dog blanket. The cyclist was complying witli the law 110 doubt. ■Married at the home of the Epissopal rector on Saturday evening, Sept. 11. James Hastings and Miss Myri.-i Lyons, Rev. Wjn. Gardam oöic-'uuir..,'. The groora is employed at Mï. Stoup's Wacksmith shop an-d the bride is ti'.e öaughter of 'Mr. and Mrs. Newton Lyons. Sometime ago J. W. Goddard & Son, oL Xcw York. otïered 100 in prizes for ■ the best written ads by retail dealers for Midnight fast black liniugs. Five ads from E. M. Comstcck & Co., of ih.is city, and three frora another fir.u were accepted as pnze winners and the $100 divided between the two. The Hlgh School now has as many pupils enrolled as there were tip to the end of the first month of last year. The school has entere4 on its seconci week's sessioh and there are alrea.dy 2OÍ students, exactly the saxne numtoer as there was up to üct. 1 last year. This poinls to a largo increase over last year. One of Ypsilanti's business men was out in the country the other day and saw a woman cleaning and preparing for cooking ten quail. He asked her ii' she did not knov it was against the law to shoot quail now. "Yes," she answered, "but my son e.-.n shoo. moro now than later on when all the hr.nters will be out after the birds." The second person to be haulcd tip on the violation of the bicycle ordinance was George Gunn, who was simply notified by Marshal Westfall to go and eonfer with Justice Chiids. His Honor took down his "Advice Form, Xo. GG," and struck off a ncat ccpy after which 'Mr. Gunn was allowed to depart. The Gunn was discliarged without any costs. The big water wheels for the new flume at the water works station were shipped from Springfield, Ohio, last Saturday and ought to be here tcday or tomorrow. The big flume wül be completed Wednesday and the wheels will be put into position. This will increase the power 50 per cent and inake it possible to run the purnping engine and the eleetric iights with .water power alone. Mrs. Jay Moore aud her father, S. H. Rogers, have returned froru New York state, where they have been ou an extensive visit. The .Misses Nettie and Llda í?lor,u have returned froin their se loo) s í'or a time on account of the iilaoss ef their niother, Mrs. Cundiff. F. N. Rice, fomei'ly conductor on the Lake Shore road and a resident oí this city a few years ago, is c".ying in Detroit of quick consumption. Mts. E. C. Jenness, of Forest avenue, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Harold Sayles, in Chicago for a week. Erom there s'he iutends going to Omaha, Neb., to risit her sister, Mrs. Yos,t. The marriage of Mrs. Grace Eaton and Mr. James Cosgrove took place Wednesday rit the home of the ride'a mother, Mrs. Merritt, corner of Adama aud Woodard streets, Rev. Fr. Kennedy officiating. Iior. Wn. 'Gardam is emtearorlng to organize a "Gentlemen'? Club" among the mernbers af nis cciisjvegation wlth the idea that the ciiurch house be used for meetings and reading room and social pnrposs. The University ambulance took Mrs. Kirby Corbeil to the Ann Arbor hospital yestefday. Mts. Oofbeil is a sUtsrin-law to Charles Corbeil aud she and her husband have been making Ypsilanti their home during the sjmmer. She is suffering froin an atoibas. The high schools are going to have a football team this year for the fltvrf time and the Hay & Todd Mfg. Co. have granted the boys the use of the grounds in front of their factory to praetice upon. Ben W.atters, of the Normáis, will coach the high school boys. Capt. Holley states that the rush line will average up ICO pouuds, which is as good as any high school can hope to have. Saturday morning thr&uening clouds overhung the city and it looked as ir' St. Luke's Sunday school picnic 'would be spoiled by rain, but fortunately nothing of this kind oecurred to mar the occasion. Sunday school scholars, teachers, officers and parishoneis to the number of i25 took the 11 :10 motor and went to CampbeU's grove and spent a very happy day. The weathei' was delightfully cool acd everybody er.joyed the day. Athletíc sports were given which aroused tüe enthusiastn of the boys to a considerable ex tent. The following additional teachers have returnfd to their school duties, the list being clipped from the Ypsilanüan: Kat.ncrine Campbell, South Bend, Ind.; Eloise Bradshaw, Wiln;ette, Chicago; Alice Babbitt, Hartford; Meda 'McDonald, iTV'oodmere; Elizabeth Milspaugh and Ruth Tutnam, Purdue Universitj', Lafaette, Ind.; Lettie Augustine, Rose ÈIII3 and Martina Rappleye, Evart; Minnie Pattison, Highiand Park; Nora Jacox. Wa.yne; Edna QB'amum, Nellie Hkwmer and Graee George, Jackson; Lynn Tuttle Thompson, Xan Towner, Roscomiöou; Lawrcnce T. Martin, Trenion. The season is closed on every kim'. of game at present and still if you tcke a ri'le out into the country almost any day you can hear the crack of the shotguns. There is so.nebody shooting quall in this vicinity and to speak in common vernacular "it is a dir.ty shame."' 'There are a lot oí' good, honest sportsmen wiio are waiting until the game ::avs grive them the privilege to go out .hunting üctober 1, and when they do go all the quail will be either shot or searcd away. There is a good chance for the deputy game warden to do sonii' werk in this vicinity, and a line of $25 tacked onto these law jumpers would tend to make them respect it more. The Normal Lecture course for 1S9708 will be oue of unusual interest, eirbracing a wide variety of eoteftainir.cnt from the best talent in this country and f ram abroad. The conrse will open Monday, Occober 18, aud consist of 10 entertainmonts, givon by Max: Bendix, violin virtuoso; George W. Cable, the dialect writer; Geovge I'. Serviss, stereopticon leccurer; Booker T. Washington, the colored orator; Dr. John H. Barrows, the ceiebrated authority on compaiMtive religions; Gertrude May Stein, contralto; Edwin D. Mead, student of municipal questions; Beatrice Hsrford, the Englisli impersonator; the renowned Swedish Male Quartette; and the ever popular Normal College choir. - Sintinel. Papers were signed today wheroby Oscar F. Westfall, wlio has been keeping a restaurant on Wasliingtou st., has becoine the tenant of the Ocaidental hotel, M. D. Richardson & Son retiring. Workmen were immediately set at work fixing up the vacant store just south of the Occidental hotel office and this will be fitted up as a diniog room and fumished and decorated in most modern style. As soon as this work is completed Mr. Westfall will remove to the Occidental. He is an old hotel man and thoroughly acquainted witü all details of the business and there is no reason whalevsr why he should not do well in his new venture.