Ypsilanti

Forty-eight students c-xine to ïpsianti from Ann Arbor Friday evening. Theycame in f=leigh loa'ds and had au oyster snpper at the Occidental. Osear Gareissen has now fully deided to lócate in Chicago next fall and besides teaching music w-Hl make ■a specialty of concert and recital TTOTk. A letter received in this city -status that W. .1. Stone is busy at work ossing 30 Japanese laborers. The gang of workmeu are clearing up some offee lands for him in the Sandwich lelands. The Ypsilantian is still "dictatiBg" where the Detroit, Ypsilanti and Anii Ar'boT raihvay should be bufflt ín this ity. JBditor Osband, who lives out side the city, would like the road 10 un up near his property and spurters away and ácolds because he is afraid 1t is iroing down Congress strect. W. P. Oüeott, agent for the Mieïüjran Mutual Protective Association, 4ias received notice that the Ypsilanti collector, C. W. Rogers, has orders l pay tlio following claims: Myroi' Babcoek, $11.42 for injury by cara fcacking lu on him; F. C. Armsiroiig. 518 for iujured foot caused by a load f gravel ruiming ovor it; Charles Barlow, $33.40 for a fall froin a bieycle, which Tendered him miconscions for fourteen hours. Mrs. Marshall Peasp, thfi popular 5otroit contralto, who is now iu New Vork, has been assurecT by Frauk Dainrosch, for whom she sang a d:iy ♦r two ago, that she will take the foremost place among oratorio coutraltos of the east if she -vvill lócate in New York. Mts. Pease has been ffered a fine position bjr the Castle Square Opera coiupany, now slnglng ín New York, and shc is being soTight for a church position. She wlll pro-bably lócate in New York another sèasoa.- Detroit Tribune. The Michigan Kei] Telephorie eoinpany and the New Sta'to Telephoive oinpany are still havlng it hoi au;! . heavy. The Bell people have notified the New State peaple that the laitier ïemoved same of their wirc befcween kere and Belleville, and uuiess the New State pul them back where they rigiually were that they ftlie Bell ompany) would come out with a gang f men and proceed to do it tneaiselves and this would necessarily dist ui b ome Now State wiires. If the two gaiigs met there is lo be a snall war. Mrs. Vinning's house was burned last Thursday. On Saturday the ad.luster. Mr. Armstrong, of Detitit, ame here and settled.up the loss with a $500 check. Pretty quiek work. 'Mrs. JeiinU; Pack, Miss Gertrude Ferrier, Miss Stev"ns, Miss Boone, 'Miss Shermau. Mr. and Mrs. Frfd Showerman, C. W. Rogers and several others attended the perforinanci' f "üuder the Red RoTe," at Ann Arfoor Saturday evening. Mrs. Jeanette Towner, 303 lluron Street, had the misfortune to step on slippery walk Saturday evening and the fall resulted in a conip-ound fracture of the left foreami. Less tli.ui a year ago Mts. Towner feil Ond fra;1üred the same arm just below where toe present break oceurred. The Corey building which was purhased by Huston & Dawson is rapidï.t undergoing changos. When coinpleted it will be possible for a team to drive through the west side of the building, unload or load sueh things 8 are wanted and then pass op. to the rear yard and turning araund go out ♦n the street again. The pardon board has denied apjiliation for pardon froru Charles BisMop, the actor who some time ago got ■p an entertainment in this city. Gharles Bishop, sent from Lenawee, Feb. 8, 18!)7, to Jacksou for tlirea years for abductioa. Bishop is the actor who induced a youug girl to leave her home at Adrián. In lïis interview with the board Bishop insisted that he wedded the girl by the placing of a ring. and that lie loves lier still. The Misses James, of Forest avenue, ntertalned a couplè of sieigh loads of pfrople from Aun Arbor Ejjaturday even'mg. Waahington's Rirthday will be celefrrated in tliis city by dancing. The Light Guard band gives a masquerade d February 22 and the Tuesday club will give a dance Febi-iary 21. Bchremser's orchestra of Detroit wil! inrnish the music. Jack Hammond, of Detroit, has been matehed to flght Alonzo Beckwith, Ypsilanti's pugilist, before the Cleveland A'thletic Club on Feb. 15. It is a ten round go. George Parry, of Standish, Mich., is attending the Dairymen"s cpnvention. He lives 28 miles north of Bay City iand on account of the snow blockades was two days in getting to ïpsilanti. Miss Xell Cross, who has for a uuniber of years been employed is stenographer at the Hay & Todd Mfg. conipany's mil!, has resigned her poslion and accepted a Hke onc a.t the Hineral Bath House. Mr. E. Grosvenor, of Mouroe, une of Ccncral Spaldlng's Heutenants, was in the city attending the Dairyinen's convention. He announces that tte general is out for a third ter;u lor eongress and aeknowledges that (very county in the district will have at least one candidate in opposition büt thinks that Mr. Spalding will sucsoed himself. Sergt. Frank Morton and wife and daughter, of Fort Brady (Sauit Ste. Marie), are visiting Mrs. Morton s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Frick. Sergt. Morton has been in continuous service in the United States ürmy for twenty years or ratLer he will have been at the expiration of t'ie six months' furlough wliich he is now enjoying. He says that iie wil retnlist. At the Dairymen's eonvenricn Tuesday Hou. E. P. Allen, on behalT of the city, welcomed them. The speaker caiight bis audience with a statement that in the absence of the city ruler ïiotliing could be more appropriate than to cali on an attorney to hand over the city keys to the dalrymen, as both made their living by milking. ïhen, in a more serious vein, lie alluded to the benefieent resnlts obtained by associations of this diameter; they were the means of bringing memfbers to a better understanding of business and detail, and had also been the means of' benefiting the state by causing the passage of wise legislation. The experiment of talking fro:n this city to Omaha, Neb., Tuesdiy evening over the long distance telephone was i gi-eat success. The party in this city consisted of Fred Coe, C. W. Kogers, Cari Coe (10 ycars old) and DilllaD Coe (5 ycars old) white Henry Coe was at the phone at the otiier end oí the line. Conncction with Omaha had to be made throuirh MaiHnee, M'ich., and Cleveland, Ohio., making the roundabout distance over 1,000 miles. Mr. öoe could be heard as plainly as if he was at some gotxi working 'phone in this city. The conversation lasied a'bout twenty miiiutes. Mr. Kogers, whose acuteness of hearing is aot very marked, had no difficulty in engaging in au animaled discussion on the subject of whist. The direetors of the Opera House ' ■ nipnny held a meeting: Friday. It seetns that the expenses of running the liouse have been so large that there has been no profit in it whatever and it is he policy to curta;! every corner of expenses possible. The diröctors will thevefore run the opera house themselvcs, thus doing away with commissions that hae gone to the management heretofore. The directors hope to find a tenant for the liouse before uext season opens. The date for the yisit of Ypsilanti Aíerhodists to Ano Arbor has been ciumged to February 10 astead of February 3. Saturday evening six couples took a sleigh ride party to the home ai Mr. Edwards, two miles east of Wayne. Dancing was indulged in tmtil midnight. In the Digby Bell Co., whieh plav.s at Ann Arbor Saturday night, there is Arthur Hoops whose father was once station agent in this city and he himself lived here for some time.