Ypsilanti

Ten saloonists put in their llquor bonds to do business for the coming r ar and the eouneil accepted them. Slatt Roser wlll have his tent show Jn readiness to give an exhibition in this city the forepart of next month. Ben Bush ie trying to inject a little !ife into the defunct Ypsilanti Gun club and a contest vvith the Universlty Gun ■lub may be a feature in the near future. The next professional attraction at the opera house is "Darkest Araerica," which wlll play here May 9. The show created a most favorable ímpression here last year. William Isaac Walton Cox has atirred up all the loc-al fishermen again by in-inging in ritteen black bass from Frayne's lake. The largest one weighed over six pounds. J II Taylor has commenced to fortlfy himself for the Klondike. He has ordered of Mr. Burbank a heavy fur overeoat that will be worn over an ordinary he ulster. It may not be generally known, but persons anxlous for war news later Lhan th. morning papers glve, can keep posteo1 ai Evarta & ('o. 's brokerage office in the Savings bank building. Walter Cass Newberry has applied to be allowed to purchase the Mary Ann Starkweather property in Chicago at Sts appralsed value, the option being given him under the terms of the will. Trainer Torn Cox and the head coaches of the baseball team of the Universlty are taking a course of baths at the Mineral feath house to determine if they valuable for training purposes, i The Ypsilanti wheelmen have pelitioned the comraon council to pass an ordinance to protect the bicycle path from people who will carelessly drive ..ver il. obstruct it ór maliciously throw glass upon it. Cal. Davis, who has been his ■ uta says he has a scheme on foot to bring together all the oíd perlormers of the Euterpian Minstrels. whlch was a favorite in this neighborhood 20 .. ars ag . ana glve a performance durpg the streei fair. Fred Webb has applied for enlistment with the Detroit Naval Reserves but has received word that the organizatlon has now its f uil quota of men and no more can now be taken. You can now show your patrlotlsm by applytng witliout any danger. Al;l. Woiclen succeeded in gettfng through the eommon eouncil last night a í-esolution authorizing the board of public wOrks to procure and cause to be set out 100 trees in .the Fourth ward park. The Fourth ward park is distanc%lg Lamb park. It is to be trusted that the eommon council of 1898-99 will net actemr.t tu have tho.--e beautiful monuments of municipal ijrogress - the cow-sheds of Congress street- removed, but rather leave them for future ages to point to as an . everlasting' wltness of the wisdom to i the now-dyins eouneil of 1897-98. Wuzz Slik, bred and formerly owned I by Warren LewlS, in the San José, Cal., bent-h show took tirst in the limit olass, tirt in the winner's class and special for the best cocker spaniel dog in the show. C. Leonard, the present owner, has placed a price of $250 on the dog nor.-. l"or the office of Street v.ii r the names of Bernard Kirk and Williarn Kniseley are mentioned. It is said that M. T. VViiodruff eould have thü city clerkship if the aídermen could be assured that he would devote his entire time during the day to the dutles of the office. Mrs. J. H. Clark, of Ellis street, wno has been quite ill, we are pleased to hear is regaining her health. She and Mr. Clark had been contemplating a visit ti) their daughter in Chicago, Mrs. .1. J. Gibson, wife of Photographer Gibson, of World's Fair fame, when she suddenly taken sick. Jos. MUler has been laid up for the pa-st feV aays by a peculiar accident. Last Thursday he was fondling his baby son when the little fellow suddenly stuck a tinger into his eye, lacerating the eyeball. At first it was feared that he would lose the siprht of the eye but he is now past that danger point. The Ypsilantlan Is setting so badly rattled over roasting Pingtee and thnming boquetsat Editor Moran that in its last issue under chuVch noticeE it ran a "píate" article on "Eleven Poker Hands- Which were beaten aithough they ought not to have been." For a good Methodist paJSer Uils is quite a diversión. The retnains of Curtís Em-arick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Emerick, of 40 Huron street. arrived here from Charlotte Saturday and were interred in Highland eémetery today. The deceased was found dead beside some flpod wood on the river bank at Charlotte and it is thought that apoplexy was the cause of the demlse. He was S2 years of age and leaves a wife and familv. Says Vlce-President Angus of the "Boyal Blue" line: "If the ccuncll does not delay us about the Congress street bridge we wil) be running elactric 'ars between Ann Arbor and Detroit by May 5. We will have cars out as far as Wayne thls week while the track is already laid as Car as Sheldons." This raèans that in. alwut three weeks the will be eompleted. The sommon counc.il last nighL passed a d.jg ordinance which provides that on and after May 10 every dog in the city must be registered each y ear with the city clerk. or the owner must stand the consequenees. The registration or ícense fee of $1 for male dogs and $2 I'or female dogs is in addition to the regular state tax which has been heretofore paid. The ordinance is modeled after the Ann Arbor ordinancs where it works to perïection. There is nuw a göod opening for a dog-catcher in ïpsilanti. it is pleasant to see exchange of courtesies between the different churohes. This was lioticeable in the " " S ; i n sier club" entertainment, and this :. the Congregational ladies will 1' ted in their pantomime, "Mistletoe Bough," by friends from each of the sister ehurcUes. Mr. Qulrk has kindly consented to rehearse with the dancei'3 of the "Minuet"' which appears in Scène 1. At the opera house Friday evening. Tickets. :'.." cents. Reserved seats at Rogers' without extra charge. Boards open at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, April 20th. St. Thomas' Dramatic society will stage "Robert Emmet" at the opera house on Wednesday evening, April 27. It is a drama of remarkable power and Will be given with strlct attention to all the details of the profession. A curtain-raiser entitled "Paddy Miles, the Limerick Boy." will be given before the regular drama. The society will be assisted by Freddie Daley, the boy soprano, and Miss Francés Caspary, of St. ThorniiS Conservatory of Muaic, on'e of the leading sopranos of Ann Arbor. They will come down for rehearsal on Wednesday afternoon. The production will be given exactlj as it ■vas in Ann Arbor on March 17th. with it twenty members in the rast. Admission will be 2. and 50 cents. Work on up the power house with the machinery for the new electric road is progressing rapidly. It is said that there are two Democratie aldermen who have leanings toward P. W. Carpenter for city clerk. The Easter colleetion at St. John's church amounted to 106.50. Frora the St. Patrick's day banquet over ?30i) was cleared. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Emerick wish to extend thanks to nuemrou Ciisnd3 .ho assisted at the funeral oL their son, the late Curtís Bmerick. Ben Bush, the well known trapshooter, will proceed to fix up the traps and it is probable that the defunct Ypsilanti Gun club will be revived to such an extent as to enjoy an afternoon's sport some day this week. City Engineer Woodard has been so busy that it is impossible for him to prepare plans and specificatinns for paving Congress street before the next council meeting, which will be two weeks from last night. Such a thing as paving while the eleetrie road is tearing up Congress street is now an imppssibility. Died, at his home on South street, Friday, April the 15th, George P. Stevens, aged 4G, after a illn(.s3 of thirteen months. He leaves a wife and one daughter, Lizzie, to mourn his loss. The funeral in charge of the Maccabees, was held on Sunday at 3 p. m. at the Episcopal church after a short service at the house. Ez. Norris came into Justice Childs' office this mornln and gave notice that a suit would be started against the Ypsilanti Mineral Bath Company by a colored, whom he alleges was refused admission for treatment at the bath house for rheumatism. He says an Aun Arbor attorney would be retained, as he thought that no Ypsilanti attorney would wish to start the proceedings. W. S. Osler, the Elkhart wrestler, has completed arrangements to meet Charles Sweenie, of Ypsilanti, before the Kalamazoo Athletic club at that city April 27. It will be a catch-ascatch-can match, two points down, nothing barred, for the championship of Michigan and a purse of $200.- Detroit Free Press. "Jake" Martin, who ought to know if anybody, was seen in regard to the above item and he says he knows of no Charles Sweenie and thinks it is somebody who is running himself in as a "ringer." The prospects of war glve rise to a good deal of "joshing;." A job was put up on one of the colored portere oL a barber shop of the city yesterday. A tall stranger came in and stated to l him that he was empowered to get a list of names of persons subject to a draft. The height, weight and age of uie subject oí tne joKe was taken. After he went out, the pr.cprietor told the porter that there was only one way to escape goi.ng to Cuba and thn.t was to get mairied. The young man hastened down to see his girl and try and have her save him f rom cruel war. She said it was too sudden, of course, but he is in hopes to change her mind before the fatal draft comes. The Normal chorus will sing the anthem, "Pilgrims," at commeneement. This is one of Prof. Pease's late?t compositions and of it James R. Murray of the "Musical Visitor" says: "Your second proof of 'PilgTims' just at hand. Ailow me to say that in all my experierce in the examination and publishiug department of our house, I do not remember to have been so touched and delighted with a composition of the '.naraeter as I have been with yours. íi cannot fail to be useful. You have kept it in a good grade and though usiner simple harmonies have accomplished what more pretentious pieces fail to do and given us a piece whieh will appeal to a'nd touch the hearts of all who sing or hear it."