Ypsilanti

There are still .f:4,500 of unpaid city taxes to Which the usual penalty is now attached. 'When Congrega st gets paved this improvement will look in conjunction with the cow sheds a'bout like a plug Iiat and a sack coat. Mrs. Mary Lammert died at her home tfour miles north of this city yesterday at the age of 72 years. She was a sister of Mrs. Geraghty, of Cross street, and .Mrs. Henry Otto of Sumpter. ■With 'Ben Joslyn, Clinton Eider, Arthirr Hoops, Nellie Gbam'berlain, Mrs. Effie Guise, Edward ltead"i Oriska Worden and Will Kranser on the professional stage, Ypsilanti has a good representation. It ís not generaUy understood that when oases of contagious diseases are reported to the health offleei' he lias the power, if he so desires. of inspecüng suoh cases at any Une during their continuance. Mr. Dawson's horsc gave an exhibition of Saibiath and cutter-breaking Sunday about noon by running away and doing sorae da.nage. It happened on the principal streets and the free show attracted quite a crowd. A half dozen Ypsilantians attended the Digby Bell performance at. Amn Arbor Saturday evening. The part wliich Arthur Hoops takes is a goot! one and he showecl hlmself to be au artist of which Ypsilanti can be justly proud. Editor Osband don't like Pingree's speech and he don't like electrie railroad to Detroit to go out Congress st. l'ingTee's speech went just the same and it looks as if tho railroad was going jusc wiere the company wants it to go. Ypsilanti is at the front in dogs as weli as horses. The Oocker spaniel. Buzz Silk, winner of the first prize at the Sacramento, California, dog show,, was Tjml by Warren Lewis, the noted fancier of this city, and sold to his present owner, C. Leonard of Stofkton, Cal., for $50, last October. The Normal ehoir concert will be given Februaiy 21, at which Mendelssohn's "Loreley" and Greig"s "Olaf will be rendered. Rehearsals vire held Tuesday and 'Thursday evenings anti persons who want to fainiliarize Uieiaselves with the ;nusic so as to better appreciate it are welcome to attend. Fr. Charles O'Reilly, of Adrián, and C. O'Brien Atkinson, oí Detroit, were in the city Frlday. Fr. Reilly is a gradúate of the Normal and was a personal friend of James G. Blaine. In fact during the latter"s campaign the priest swung aronnd the circle with the candidato for the presidency. Frank Glanfidd was ealled to Sheldons Friday at rhe requesl of the township Tjord to see if the Methodist church there was a sal'e structure find eondemned the building on the ground tnát the foundation was erumbling away. Tuis means thai the Methodists there will have to retniild or strengthen the foundation at a considerable expense. Al Stuck has just flnished what rcpresents j-ears o"f work on perfecting a violin sounding Ixard and hls discovery of the action of vibration and reflection of sound and how to nr.eet the conditious revolutionize the manufacture of these musical instraments. He has been showlng the inside structure of the board to his friends and will now put the parts together. The result will be waited with great interest Iby musicians. 'Wm. J. Quinlan, jr., who was for thirty years the cashier of the Chemii-al National bank in New York, lias resigned tiecause he loaned the now nctorious sharpers, George S. Silver and Francis C. G rabie the stini of $393,000 unknown to the president and directors of the bank. Mr. Quinlan irarried an Ypsilanti girl, she belng the daughter of Rev. G. Ij. Foster, a wcll knowa former pastor of this city. Quinlan claims he was nypnotized. Edwarcl Ies Pronce states that by ' the death of his uncle, Joseph Les Tronce who died at MonU'oa!, On-t, on ilonday of this week, he is heir to quite a sum of money. The will reads j that Edward Les Pronce and one o Hier nephew and a niece are eacli to receive $5,000. At the widow's death the grandson is to receive the balance. It is said that Ser.ator Gampbell replied to Gov. Pingree's speech Wednesday afternoon yhen some paper was being discussed and had to be called to order several times by Pres. McBride. One thing that Michigan oíficers af the L. A. W. point to with pride is the fact that only one state - Pennsylv;inia- has surpassed this state in the percentage of lacrease in memberslilp the past year. According to Chairruan Mott's report, sunnuarized in this issue, Pennsylvania had an increase o-f 122 per cent, and Michigan of 89 per cent. Another fact noticed in the report was that there was only one city in the country which has an L. A: W. membership equal to 1 per' cent. of its total population, and that is Ypsilanti, a fact that is due largely to the effort of D. P. SullivaJi and W. P. Bowen, of this city. Mts. Eva Woolsey spent Saturday and Sunday at Ann Arbor with her mother, who is dangerously il!. Young Mr. Martin, of Superior, who was injured by the falling of the icehouse at Whitinore Lake, has eettled with the company for the amount of his doctor's Wil, his wages up to date and $50 in cash. i A'bout 40 friends, including a number of Maecabees, surprised 3Lt. and Mrs. Bert Bunton at their home on E. Cougress street Tuesday, the occasiooj being the "woodeu" anniversary of their wedding. They were presented with two haudsome rocking ehairs. Judge Babbitt was allowed $100 by the common eouncil Monday foj his services in the suit of Virgie Comiskie vs. the City of Ypsilanti. Said a prominent Kepubliean yesterday: "There are three. candida tes for the office of postma.ster anci they are Ben Kief, Charles Stevens and Hiraxn Boutell." A very pleasant party was givt-n at the home of Mr. and lírs. Mereness one day last week to rejaind lli's. Mereness of U?r birthday. It was a complete surprise. Elegant refreshments wei-e served and all wout home feellag that a most happy evening liad heen enjoyed. A surprise party of about fifty called upon Jlr. and JIrs. Kellogg, of the motor line, Monday. Pedro was the order of the evening. Miss Carpenter and Richard Howe took the lady's and gentleman's prizes respectively. Herman Ryer took the booby prize which was a little laoib. Director A. H. Grifflth, of the Detroit Musemu of Art, wants Mrs. Babbitt to exhibit a hundTed of her old plates at Detroit. Mrs. Babbitt eventually hopes ti give her colleetion ta the Art museum at Ann Arbor if such a building is ever constructed, but she wants 3ö more plates to make a complete colleetion. lid. Dosrsam's horse was brought down here from Ann Arbor Friday to do a job of eleaning up on the flyers on Adams street. The horse raii away near Cross street and threw Mr. Westfall, the driver, out but he ily held on a nel stopped the auiinal. The race toet ween the horse and W. W. Worden's norse was quite spirited. Fred Coqiiillard has dug up froul somewhere two oíd newspapers of this city. The flrst is No. 14, Vol. 3 of "The Ypsilanti Herald," published Jan. 26, 1861, by S. B. MeCracken. Editor, and Lyman D. Norrls, Associnto Editor. The second is No. 10, Vol. 1 of "The True Democrat," issued May 13, 1864, by C. R. Pattlson, Bpitor and Proprietor. They malse interesting reading. "Paving?" said the Hon. Samuel Post. "Why, I wish the entirc bljsiness portion was improved in this way and I am greatly in favor of it. I own 88 feet frontage on Oongres street and 66 feet on Huron street, and I ana more than willing to. pay my share as soon as the others are ready. I stand for pu'blic improvements and they cannot come too iuick." A very attractive entertainment wlll given at the (Business college hall, on Friday evening. Maren 4. "Au A.f. ternoon Gessip," a pantomime by a mimber of little girls in old ladies' costóme, oceupies a place on the program. "Ladies of A'thens!' is another important number. Tlie scène is in the home of Xantippe, wife of Sócrates. The well kuown ladies of Atl, cus arrayed in beeoming eos turnes of various eolors, each cal! on XanrJppe. The Y. W. C. A. will be pleased to have you cali at the college that evening and see how she reëel ve them. W. M. Osband, of this city, in commoB with the rest of the eilitors of the county, was invited to attend tlie banquet to be given. by the Young Men's Republican club at Ann Arbor Februai-y 17th, but he refuses to sit down and eat with so unortiiodox a Repulblteau as Gov. Pingree, who is to be present. Osband declines in a sarcastic letter wliieli concluded: "I whall try and console mysalf by reading a second time G'ov. Plngree's Buf falo speech." it is ünderstood that tlie banquet will be held, liowever, notwithstanding this great handicap. Tlie committ.ee on supplies, to whom was referred the matter of retaining the Bell telephones in the city offices, have asked .Manager Gordon to write to the head office and see if the Michigan Bell Telephone company will giro the city the free rental for a stipulated term of years. The New State Telephone company gives the city fi-ee telephones for 30 years accerding to its franchise and unless the city clinches a contract at present with the Bell people, if sueh a thlng ever transpires that the New State company is crushed or Consolidated, the city wlll be charged for the telephon.es. The death of Mrs. Anna Teut'el occurred at her home on E. Congress street Monday afternoon. The cause of tbe demise was consumption. The deceased was 55 years of age. Seven nr.cnths ago her husband Christopher Teufel Lied. Three inonths ago a daughter died and nów the mother has passed away leaving a daughter, Bertha, the last of the family. ïhe funeral will take place Thursday at 2 p. m. The lecture given by Hon. J. M. B. Sill at the opera house last evening upon "Korea aud Koreans" was woll attended and the size of the erowd was quite a compliment to the distinguished gentleman. He spoke for nearly two liours uion the subject and the talk was very interestmg. It was illustrated with curiosities from that iaraway countTy. Mr. Sill was very enthusiastic over the climate of Korea, characterizing it as the finesr. in the world. Monday G. K. Johnson was in Aid. Gaudy's store and the former was advrcating the Congress srreet route for the Detroit Electric raihvay. "Wliy." said he, "suppose it is built on Cross srreet and a farmer is coming down the hill there by O. E. Thompson & Si lis with a load of hay. and an eloetric ear is coming up the hill- whera is the farmer going to go toV" "That depends on his past life," said Aid. Gaudy and the laugh that folio wed erded any furLher argument. Mr. R. Orist, of River street, was surprised Monday evening by iiout4O of his friends calling on him to remind liim that it was his 4Oth biithday anniversary. The evening wás spent with cards. progressive pedro being tlio prevailing feature. The first priz.es were carried oif Jliss Daly and Frank .Toslyn, and the consola tion prizes by Mis. J. Eaton and :Ir. J. W'halen. Mr. CrlBt's feUow workmen in the Ferrier foundi-y presented him with a handsoiae writiug desk before leaving. Aid. VanFossen went to Ann Arbor Monday and made a personal (■uivass amoug the business men of Main st. in regard to how they feit aboüt the electric line running in front of thelr places of business. He found that without, an exception they were not only pleased with the location of the railway, tout stated that if the company should tear up its tracks on Main st. and move to some other strest they would follow it up. -And Main st. is only 5S feet wide while Congress st. is 70 feet wide froiu curb to eurb.