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Ypsilanti

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Day
18
Month
February
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Lapeer Mercantile Company has filed a vchattel mortgage for $7,500 in favor of the first National bank of Lapeer. Dan Q and 20 Simmicolon colts were shipped last Friday to New York and will be entered in the horse sale which starts today. C. W. Rogers reports lots of Valentines as having been sold this year, and there seems to be no abatement in the old custom. Republican aldermen at Niles are fighting Mayor Richter and refuse to attend council meetings, leaving that body without a quorum. J. W. Bisher, of the Delphos (Ohio) Herald, is ;it the Mineral Bath house for treatment. In a late edition of his paper he devotes nearly a column to "Beautiful Ypsilanti." J. H. Miller will start to olose out his entire stock of dry goods and boots and shoes on Friday. There was about .$1,200 worth damaged by but the entire stock will go at a sacriflce. On Saturday evening the Normal collége Athletic association will give an athletic entertainment. There will be two basket-ball games between the seniors and juniors. It will be ladies vs. ladies and men vs. men. Says Thomas McAndrew concerning paving Congress street: "We are not anxious one way o the othsr, but if the city is going to pave we re in favor of doing it as far as Hamilton street. A. L. Nowlin, James Davis and George Ament are the latest additions to the list of property owners on Congress street, who want the street paved at the same time the street car trask is put down. Flash-lights for photographing seem to have a particular grudge against drug clerks. Fred Weinmann and Geo. Howard have recently suffered some very severe burns about the hands, caused by the sudden explosions. Complaint was made before Justice Childs Tuesday by a 17-yearlold giii charging a man with using obsene language to her but this morning, af ter the arrest had been made, she decided to drop the case and avGid publicity. Mr. and Mrs. Mort Crane entertained a number of friends at progressive pedro Friday evening. Mrs. Carpenter and Mrs. Stowell won first prizes and Mrs. Owen and Mr. Campbell the booby prizes. Mrs. Owen and Mrs. Fletcher but upon deciding by lot Fate willed the prize to Mrs. Owen. Charles Mattice and Hattie Fyr were married at Kalamazoo last November while Mattice's former wife had a suit pending for divorce in California. The divorce was not granted until in December and Mattice's marriage to Miss Fyr was therefore illegal and so they were married over again Tuesday. Monday the Detroit, Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor Railway company purchased the old creamery property next to John Lang's shop. The Lang property has a frontage of 75 feet and now is added 56 feet more. The compary will put up a fine structure. All the brick for the building has been bought. The Democrats are not letting the Republicans monopolize all the good timber for the mayorality nomination this spring. Thus far the names of Jas. E. McGregor, D. L. Davis, Henry R. Scovill, J. B. Colvan and M. B. Shaffer have been mentioned Mayor Harding is of course out of the race on account of his removel to Detroit. There only remains four veeks now before the conventions will be held to nominale candidates for the city ofhces. The terms of Aids. Shaefer, Gaudy, Lamb, Shaffer and Davis expire. The council now stands a tie politically. The Democrats will only have t.o elect two aldermen to keep it so and if they can succeed in landing an extra one they will control the council. The stockholders in the Iron Mountain Water Co., of which there are a number in this city, are having some trouble over their legal rights. The ground under the city is being mined out so as to leave the water mains in a dangerous condition. Judge Babbitt, as attorney for the company, left for Iron Mountain today and Wm. H. Hay goes tonight. Mrs. William Dickerson died at the home of her sister, Mrs. George McElcheran, this morning at 10:30 o'clock of paralysis. She was 61 years of age. The deceased has been a resident of Detroit for 40 years. Funeral services will be held at the home of Mr. McElcheran, Monday morning at 10:30. o'clock, and the remains will be taken to Detroit Wednesday morning on the 9 o'clock train. Miss Hattie A. L. Crippen, president of the Ann Arbor Y. W. C. A., wrltes: "The entertainment to be given at Cleary's Business college, under dir2ction of Miss MacMonagle of Ann Arbor, will be well worth attending. Miss McMonagle's reputation for success in the management of entertainments is well established at Ann Arbor and is always sure to bring a large audience." A letter from AV. J. Stone vho is in the Sandwich Islands, states that he has a half interest in 40 acres of coffee land, which he is busy clearing up. Just now is the rainy season and they have from 6 to 10 heavy Hhowers a day. He says money is not lying around loose there, but there are good prospects for making it and he is glad he went there. He says he does not expect to be back for two or three years and will then'only come on a visit. Sheriff Judson and Judge Newkirk were in the city Tuesday. On political business? Why, certainly! What else could they be down here for especially when coming in the company of each other? The nature of it? Can't say, but would surmise that there is going to be a hot time in the Republican Club meeting tomorrow afternoon when "Secretary Already" Moran tries to vote the proxies Homer Cady gathered up for him in this city last Saturday. The first fight in the convention will be on the use of proxies. There have been a great many stóries circulated about the purchase' of the John Lang property and the old creamery for a power house site for the new railway company. The Lang property was purchased conditionally upon the company being granted Congress street, and yesterday Mr. Lang received his $3,500 therefor. Today Mr Ainsworth received $1,800 for the creamery, making the total cost of the site $5,300, whereas the company in its original estímate thought it could get a suitable site for about $600. Robert Downing has always been known for two things, the perfection of detail which characterizes ail his productions, and the nèver-failing excellence of his company, which is always selected with the nicest discrimination. This season it is said that in both of these particulars the tragedian has well nigh eclipsed his former efforts, and his coming appearance at the Ypsilanti Opera House is being looked forward to with a great deal of pleasure, especially by the Knights of Pythias, under whose auspices he appears. The teachers of the city schools were very delightfully entertained Saturday evening bv Prof. and Mrs. Austin George at their home on Normal street. Those present were Misses Carrie Reed, Alice Ball, Allie Reinl, Lillian Eadus, Maude Frazer, Mina Bcrdine, Estelle Baker, Myrtelle Wortley, Lilian Schlee, Carrie Havens, Belle Kennedy, Maggie Gilbert, Florence Bassett, Hattie Culver, Angeline Wilson, Helen Brie, Anna Chalmers, Anna McDougall, "Emma Holbrook, Lutie Densmore, Mr. and Mrs. De Forest Ross and Mr. A. R. Crittenden. Homer Cady, of Ann Arbor, was in the city Saturday getting proxies for S. A. Moran for field secretary of the Young Men's Republican Club. Mr. Cady is the owner of the block occupied by Harris Bros. & Co. Said he in regard to paving Congress st. "I am ready any time to pave. AlthouKh I live in Ann Arbor I want to see Ypsilanti improved and especially my property. I do not think the property owners should be obliged to stand all the expense of paving the business streets. Paving is a benefit to everybody that j uses the streets. In Ann Arbor we I have im ordinance framed which provides that the city shall stand onethird of the entire expense and the property owners two-thirds. The space j between the crossing?; is counted in the total' and the property owners on the block to be paved have to stand twothirds of this paving."

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