Gleanings Of A Week

Sam Kinne is now a collector in th First National bank. Today is the first day set for th pa j ment of city taxes. The case agamst John Berger ha been adjourned until August i. Miss Pearl Moran and Bertha Rau of Jackson, are visiting Myrtie and Le ella Vogel. Stamp, stamp, stamp the boys ar marehing, is the way the Hauafreund Post puts it. The board of public works held a so cial session Wednesday. Practican no business was transacted. The Owosso American says there i no prettier scenery in Michigan thai between Ann Arbor and Detroit. An opera company from the Germán Theatre in Detroit will appear at me Gemianía Hall on Tuesday evening. The Michigan Central shows an increase of $92,000 over May, 1S97, the earnings of last May being $668,000. The case against Jenme Mason for keeping a bawdy house has been dismissed by the prosecuting attorney. Ranney C. Scott is arranging to build a residence on Oxford st., north of Dr. Lombard's house. - Pearson's Weckly. The bank officials have got together and agreed to close the banks at 3 p. m. every day from July IS until Sept. 10. Miss Ada Lyth has just returned from spending two weeks at Coldwater lake and one week at Quincy and Hillsdale. Paul C. Meyers and ramily went to Base Jake Monday to spend a week. They will occupy J. E. Harkius' cottage. Cari Braun, bookkeeper at the Ann Arbor Savings Bank, has gone to Chicago and Green Bay, Wis., to spend a two weeks' vacation with friends. It is said that in case Mijor Kirk does not return from the war, Justice Duffy will be prevailed upon to ir.ake the run for prosecuting attorney. The Congressional (Republiean) convention will be held next Wednesday in this city. Judson's Rough Rider will be very much in evidenee. Prof. J. KJingman has gone to Owosso for a short visit. Before returning he will visit Newborry, Traverse City, Pontiac and Kalamazoo. Evart Scott and family have gone to Cavanaugh lake for the sunmer. Tliis Is nat done so that Mr. Scott will be closer to Frank P. Glazier, of Chelsea, but simply for recreatdon. Mrs. Charles Kintner, of New York City, is spending the summer with her mother, Mrs. Pack, of North Ingalls st. Miss Lottie Ottley left Tuesday for Nebraska to visit friends. Frank Tucker, the well known theatrical manager, who has made several tours through Michigan, has arriveJ here to undergo an amputation of the left leg, which has withered. The Michigan Central cars ran over the Free Press bundie as it was thrown off at this point this morning-. Luckily the wheels did not strike Kenneth Herford's column and thus a catastrophe was avoided. The Presbyterian church has decided to offer the vacant lot on División st. ncw occupied by sheds, for sale. The pastor, Rev. J. M. Gelston, is taking a vacation, and consequently there will be no morning services during July. Managr 1 isemer will put to fine new business .fronts at the opera house block. The change will cost a good deal but will prove a benefit to the entire stieet. Mr. Lisemer's enterprise is being feit in many ways about our city - Courier. The street commissioner is so busy these times that the baard of public works has decided to put on a sidewaJk inspector, and G. C. Rhodes has been appointed to the position. Teil your troubles to him if you have pot t n for a neig-hbor. Addie M. Wheaton, of Ypsilanti, by her attorney, E. P. Allen, has recommenced a suit for a divoree against her husband, Amassa C. Wheaton, of Leslie, Mich., eharging him with desertion. The parties formerly lived in Stockbridge, Mich. Dr. Nancrede has been heard from. Wednesday Mrs. Nancrede received a telegram from her husband stating that he had arrrived at Oíd Point Comfort Va., and was well. The telegram does not state it, but it is probable that he returned with a large number of wounded soldiers. Dog. Pollowed ofe Norman Sweet. Owner said he had stolen him. Swore out warrant. . Sweet plead not guilty Prosecutor said he would let hirn off on paying costs. Sweet sai 3 this was blamed sigrht cheaper than paying a lawyer. Dished over $6.70 into Squire Duffy's hands. Sweet now ficrures that live sausage meat costs about 40 cents a pound. Farmers report that most of the wheat has been cut in this vicinity and that harvest is two weeks earlier than last year. The yleld is good while the erop of cherries and all other small fruits is something enormous. Bkw raspberries are at retail for flve cents a quart, the cheapest they have sold in years. Happily the baskets do not require an internal revenue stamp. Rev. J. Pollock Hutchinson will preach in the Presbyterian church Sunday morning at the usual hour. This will be the last sermón Mr. Hutchinson will preach in Milan, as hirnself and family g-o next week to Clinton, Ioua to reside, where hls daughter Bessie has located to carry on her prof, - dentistry. - Milan Leader. Rev. Hutchinson resides in Ann Arbor although he has been holding the Milan pastorate. Miss Hess has resigned her positicn as teacher in the public schools and Miss Alexandor has been appointed in her place at a salary of $300 per year. Tickets for Detroit over the Electric Road are very popular since the reduction of rates. Yesterday H. J. Brown sold $20 worth. Thds was the first day under the 50 cent rate. Prof. M. E. Cooley has written asking the regents to make Instructor Allen assistant professor in case the foriner is unable to be here at the opening of the University this fall. Mr. and Mrs. Hodson T. Morton, of Ann Arbor, have spent the last couplt of days here. Mrs. Morton lived here before her marriage, her name being Annie Fredlund. - Marquette Mining Journal. Register of Deeds Cook thinks the ptople must have united for, the repeal of the revenue stamp act before filing papers. Only two mortgages and one deed have been received in the üttice this week. ilichael Seery and Mrs. Kellogg have been appointed census enumerators for the school census, and the city wllJ öe divided into two districts. The renmueration for the school census will be two cents' per name. Dr. R. Schuyler, of Azalia, nas bought the century plant now nearly fifty years of age frcm the Tom's estate. Dr. Schuyler has loaned the plant to the University for thebotanical garden on the campus. - Register. The line of the sidewalk on the east side of Main st, between Washington and Liberty, is causing as much troubïe as the terms of peace between Spain and the United States. The height of the line above the paving is left to Chairman Hamilton, Frederick Schmid, Mr. Mcln'tyre and Éngineer Key. At Wednesday's session of the Educational Congress, at Washington, Dr. B. A. Hinsdale, of Michigan university, read an interesting paper on the cuestión, "Is it possible and desirable to form a federation of colleges and universities in the United . States similar to the National Federation of Medical Schools?" A prominent business man of Detroit was in the city today. Said he: "I see you are doing in Ann Arbor just what we used to do in Detroit - putting down pavement just after the streels have been torn up for gas or water mains. We learned a dear experience. Now we have an ordinance that does not permit any paving being done until a year after the streets are dug up for piping." The trouble with the paving broek that are about to be laid on Main st. is not only that they are brittle and crack easily, but they absorb water like a prohibition convention. A fair test was given one oí the average bricks. It was immersed in water for 24 liours. Previously it was weighed, and ader taking it out of the water it had taken up six ounces of water, showing that its absorbing power is 4 per cent. Good authority says that paving brick should not absorb over 2 per cent at the outside. Henry Loeffelhardt, the 5-years-uld cripple, whose feet were straightened at Ann Arbor, was brought before the council by Overseer of the Poor Kirk last evening, to let the aldermen see what had been done for the unfortunale little fellow. A year when the lad was taken to Ann Arbor to be operated upon, his feot were inverted, so that he is obliged to wear iron braees until his bones harden. Hls ankles will ahvays be stift. The boy's father is an inmate of the KaLimazoo insane asylum. - Adrián Times. Postmaster Pond has an orportunity to make an improvement that will raake every patrón of the postofflce rite up and cali Mm blessed, and, also, o-ne which has been overlooke-3 by all of ïis predecessors, an.d that is to put up some shades to the west Windows. On a hot afternoon the heat on the west side of the postcffice is almost unendurable, and yet, scores 'of people are obliged to stand there every day at the writing desk, and endure it. Our postofflce is most admirably conducted, but, by all mesns, let's have some window shades.