Ann Arbor Locals

Dr. Nancrede, or rather Maj. Nancrede, returned from Old Point Comfort Tuesday. Marriage Hcense issued: John Ableson, of Ypsilanti, and Ella Pilbean, of Milan. Mrs. O. F. Webster, of Owosso, who has been in the city for the past month, has returned, Jay Johnson, a boiler maker in the ear shops of the Ann Arbor road at Q-roae, gpent Sunday in the city. O. E. Butterfield will place the name Jt W. W. Wedemeyer before the conjressional convention tffmorrow. Miss Mary Walker, of Schallor's book etore, will spend her vacation at Niagra Falls and Buffalo with fviends. Mrs. Hago Schneider arid Miss Aggle Zinser, from Grand Rapids, are the guests of Mrs. M. Weinmann and famuy. The Supreme court has adjourned uutil September without deciding the Bryant Walker vs. the City of Ann Arbor case. George Felber and Charles Cari were given ten and five days respectively in the county jail for being drunk by Justice Duffy. Peter Lowe, of the Commercial Savings baak. is out on his summer vacation, ard expects to visit Monroe and Ann Arbor.- Adrián Telegram. Pref!. Smith, of the board of public works, has returned from the east with a McKinley shave, making quite a change in his personal appeaxance. The monthly meeting of the Ladies' Home Missiunary society of the Presbyterian church will be held Friday aftërnoon at 3 o'clock in the church parlor. The case against Billy Taylor for acsault to do great bodily harm upon John Behan has been dismissed, the complaining witness not desiring to continue it. The city council Monday piasseda resolution to have the dray stands moved to the city rr.arket, directly back of the opera houe. Persons seeking drays in the streets should remeniber this. Assesor O'Hearn left Tuesday afternoon for Howell to attend the funeral of his brother, Neil O'Hearn, who was weil known in this city. He was county clerk and register of deeds of Livington county. At the meeting of the League of American Municipalities to be held In Detroit Aug. 1-4, beer will be served f ree to the visiting solons. Ann Arbor's common council last night decided to attend in a body. However, these two facts have nothing to do with each other. It is predicted that the Ann Arbor road excursión reeeipts will this year exceed those of '37. So far requests for excursions have come in so rapidly that the road has been taxed Lo ils utmost to meet the iemand. Frankfort and Toledo seem to be the two most popular points. The death of Virgil M. Ward occurred at his home on Valley st„ Sixth ward, Monday, the cause of the demise being diabetes and heart disease. The deceased was 71 years of age. The funeral will be held tomorrow at 3 o'clock from the Methodist church. He leaves a wldow and five children. A citizen says the city is rr.ïking a big mistake in ordering the fllling in of the joints between the paving brick to be made of tar. He says that Germán cement is the only material to do this kind of a job, and time wiil prove it. If it is not too late the matter ought to be thoroughly invesügated. The Teachers' Institute now being held in the High School under the supervisión of School Commissioner Lester, has 93 teachers enrolled. The instructors are: Prof. W. J. McCone, of Mason; Miss Harriett Plunkett, of the State Normal, and Prof. W. H. Hawks, of the Ann Arbor High School. It is the opinión of many that the employés of a number of railroads may have to wait a. week or ten days for their pay this month, as those lines wlïich have been in the habit of paying by checks will probably go back to the oíd pay car system to avoid the new stamp tax. The railroads always have a way of eluding taxes. The luneral ot Mrs. Uhris. Arntz, which occurred Sunday afternoon, was very largely attended. Rev. C. lï. Heidenriche, of the Germán Lutheran church offlciated. These from out of town who attended were Mr. and Mrs. Paul Walz, of Grand Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. John Goetz, sr., of Ana Arbor, and Mra. John Goetz, Jr., of Ann Arbor. - Marshall Chronicle. In lts list of sinecures, to which Gen. Spalding has appointed members of his family and various relatives the Ann Arbor Register made one very important omission. His orother, we are informed, holds down the very snug little position of postmaster at Petersburgh, and how many more have held out their "aumous dish," in the language of Auld Scotia, deponent saith not. The Supreme eourt yesterday reversed the verdict of the Circuit' eourt wbleh gave Hattie M. Bond a verliet of $1,600 against the Lake Shore railroad A couple of years ago the plaintiff was driving across the track near Pittsfielc junction when a train came along anc ran into her buggy, throwing l.er out and injuring her somewhat. The jurj awarded her .$1,500, but this has been reversed and a new trial granted. Ed Dunn, tailor on State st., and two young ladies were driving to Ypsilant Monday evening when he jumped out to gatner some nowers. The motor came along about that time and the horse backed up on the track. The motor was coming down hill and could not be stopped, and wrecked the bug-gy. The two young ladies jumped out and were uninjured. The rig belonged to Holmes' iivery. A good story is told of the lae Prof. Olney, of this city, which is worth repeating for the benefit of all authors of mathematics. Some young lady students were trying to study out their arithmetic lesson one time and ftnnlly became so overwroug'ht over the vexing problems they stopped in the midst of their rage and wrote to the learned gentleman that they wished h had died before he ever got up "Olney' Arithmetic." He immediately replie that if he had it would have been money in his pocket. Wm. H. and Nellie Salyer, by thei attorney, M. J. Cavanaugh, ha-ve file an answer to the bill of the Huron Val ley Savings association asking the Cir cuit court to give possession to said as sociation of ctrtain premises now hel and occupied by the defendants. A the case involves the constitutionalit of fines imposed by a loan associaiio it promises to be an important one. Th answer of ihe defendant sets up Iha he purchased the premises in questio for the sum of $3,600 on the 4th day o March. 1898, and that he has since tha date paid installments and interest or the same to the amount of $116, anc that the fines which according to th claims of the company now make th total indebtedness $3,859.30 are unrea sonable and extortionate. Mrs. W. W. Douglass is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Howard Bement, in Lansing. Mrs. Flora Morton has returned from Chickamauga and ís now at the American house. Miss Lizzie Spalding, of Detroit, is spending the week with Miss Matie Moore, of Miller ave. Mrs. M. Sheen, of Jaokson, has been called to Ann Arbor by the illness of her mother, Mrs. F. C. Marken. The Thirty-first Michigan, which includes Cos. A and G, will undoubtedly be sent to Porto Rico, where they will see some lively action. A petition is being oirculated fot hitching posts on Main st. by the business men. They claim, they want a business street and not a boulevard. Mrs. Jay C. Taylor has just returned from the east and intends spending a few weeks at Whitmore Lake before returning to her home on the rorth side. Miss Bessie Dunster, who has maintained a studio in Toledo, Ohio, for some time past, has returned to her home in this city to pursue her work. C. A. Sauer was the lowest bidder for the addition to the Bach school. As soon as there is a special of the school board the contract will be let. W. H. Butler reports real estáte prospects as very good. "Not in six years," said he, "has there been so many mquiries from people out of town for vacant houses." Marriage license issued: Arthur J. Wykes, of Grand Rapids, and Celina A. Charbonneau, of Ypsilanti. The young lady has been a teacher in the Ishpeming schools for some time past. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union adjourned last Thursday to meet again the second Thursday in September. Any ad interim business was left in the hands of the executive committee. Mrs. Walker, of N. Ingalls st., who is well known as one of the old residents of Ann Arbor, has put her home on the market as she intends to go wHh her son Henry to the far west to reside. John Feiner, the builder and contractor, has been awarded the contract to put in four new fronts in the opera house block. Mr. Feiner has beautined the fronts of a number of stores in this city. John H. Kellogg, receiver for the Health Benefit, association of Calhoun county, has transferred part of lots 7 and 8, block 4, south of Huron st., to the Michigan Sanitarium and Benevolent association of Battle Creek. Conideration, $5,500. Workmen are busy putting in irou poles for the electric line on Main st. This morning while in the act of raising a pole it came in contact with a live wire and threa men got inoculated with electricity in a. manner that mada them wiggie like angle worms. The board of pardons have refused to berate Robert Vicary, who was senenced from this county Sept. 1, 1897, to ighteen months at Ionia. Vicary's rime was the larceny of $69 from Oron Beettian, treasurer of the Lyndon chool district. Vicary was in the emloy of Beeraan and during the absence f the family made a swipe on the money. Hon. Wm. Ball, of Hamburg, Mich.. alled on his friend, D. Cramer, of this ity, as usual, Saturday afternoon, and made the remarkable statement that tiere had never been an acre mowed n his extensive farm that he had not mowed himself. No wonder Mr. Ball s he continuous president of the State Agricultural society. He is about 70 ears of age. Says Col. Mapes, formerly of Ypsianti, in regard to the proposed Laning, Dexter & Ann Arbor railway: Our contract with the construction ompany calis for the eompletion of the ntire line to Ann Arbor by July 1, S99, and Mr. Wilmont, of Detroit, the ontractor, is pushing us every day on he survey and I believe he intends to ommence work as soon as that is comMeted, which will be in about two weeks." The flrst of the Ashley-Burt-Ann Arjor railway cases, which has been on rial in the United States court before udge Hammond and a jury for the )ast four weeks, resulted in a verdict n favor of the Ashley estáte for $24,35.38 at Toledo yesterday. During the jrogress of the trial, bonds to the amount of $19,000 were retuined by Mr. Burt. Other suits involving $60,000 are pending. NotieO of appeal was given at once. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Whiting have returned from a week's outing at Union City, visiting Mr. Whiting's nephews, also his cousins, the children of Col. Thomas Moseley, who with his family resided here as early as 1836, engaged in the dry goods business. The colonel had the proud distinction of making out the original plat ground of our beautiful and world renowned city. Union City is undergoing a big om at the present time, $600,000 now being invested in the cement works. the waterial being procured from. Turtle ake, three miles distant. Prof. B. M. Thompson, of the U. of tf., was in town today wearing a yaehtng cap and looking like a scorcher. He is a veteran .i the civil war and has pronounced views o the Cuban strugïle. Some time a h wrote an artiele showing that the "itaited States shoulü not invade Cuba. "They didn't take my advice," be says, "and they missen it, too. Now they've got the fever, and the folly of the invasión is evident. The war is hurting the law department of the summer school, but if it ends before fall it will help us, for lots of young fellows who went have lort their jobs and will naturally turn toward the University." - News. Private Don Stark. of Ann Arbor, who had his right arm shot off and hip wounded in the Aguadores fight, is able tr limp around the streets here, ciad in a suit of pajamas borrowed from an officer at the fort (nearly all the boys arrived here almost naked). He is easily the hero of the hour. Ladies flock around him and beg leave to take snap shots with cameras, while the men all want to buy him drinks. Stark's gun which was badly twisted by a shell, is also the object of considerable interest. Stark says he was standing in line with Seabright, Wilson and Frank Lawson. of Ijawton, when the shell exploded right in front of them. killing Seabright and Wilson and maiming the other two. - Portress Monroe dispatch in the Tribune. Wiiliam Matchett, of División st., was the subject of a big write vip from the Kansas City papers recently. A week ag-o tonight he was attending a dance and while enjoying the amusement with a prominent young society lady she suddenly dropped dead. Mr. Mat is a senior medie, and he, examinlng her, pronounced that life was already extinct. In the meantime some prominent physicians were called in and they roughly brushed him aside and said he was nothing but a boy - that the young lady had slmply fainted and ordered her removed to the hospital. They tried all means of recuscitation, of course without avail, and a post mortem examination held revealed the faet that she had been dead for some time. All the Kansas City papers puffed the young medical student for knowing the real condition of the young lady and rather roasted the doctors. A forcé of workmen is engaged in graveling N. División st. The ateani roller was put on this morning. Rev. W. M. Forrest and his father, Mr. A. J. Forrtst, of Baltimore, left this week for Mackinac to be gone a few weeks. Miss Mabel Donovan, of Lansing, and Miss May O'Neill, of Howell, are visiting at the home of P. Donovan, on the North Side. Mr. and Mrs' E. P. Van Kleek and daughter, Lucile, and itiss Florence Saunders leave today for a ccuple of weeks' stay at Whitmore Ltike. Persons who draw books at the high school library should remember thai the library is only open, vacation, on Wednesday afternoon of each week frcm 3 to 6 p. m. Miss Sperry, of Ann Arbor, is the guest of Miss Corbua. Miss Sperry will be remembered as the popular Latir, teacher in our high school three years ago. - Adrián Telegram. Miss Bullock, U. of M. lit. '92, and who has been teaching in the Tacumseh hig-h school for the past two years, has returned to Ann Arbor to take up the studies for a master's degree in the University. Red hat-bands fcr gentlemen are the very latest. To one of quiet taetes il does not seem as thougrh a man would care to mix up red in his personal attire, but if he insists upon the custom it is better for him to wear red in his hat-band than in his nose. Ladies who wear white dresses will flnd that it will add rather more than an additional revenue stamp to their laundry bilis if they frequent the walks along N. Main st. these days, The dirt is not pleasant but it will have to be endured until the paving is finished. Mrs. .1. II. Swíft will leave on Friday morning for London, Can., to visit her mother, Mrs. Steiner, who is now 89 years old. Mrs. Steiner was formerly a resident of Ann Arbor, and. her niany friends will regret to hear that she is fast failing and that she has been conflned to her bed for the past year. The Daily American, of Owosso, issued its Tuesday paper in red, white and blue in honor of the victory of Santiago. Nothing has come to hand in the way of printer's ink that has aroused in us such a depth of sublimity since the Ann Arbor Courier bequeathed to posterity its "Woman's Edition." Mrs. A. Tucker, of N. State st., will leave tomorrow afternoon for Saratoga and other points in New York state to visit friends. Her daughte.r, Jlis.Monna Tucker, and son Walter are making the trip on their wheels, and expect to arrive in time to meet their mother at the station and also to surprise their friends. Mr. Crittenden. chairmiin of the building committee of the neiv Prpsbyterian church of Saline, was in the city looking after the intereses of his minee ana aiso aueiimug me cvnv cution. Mr. Crittenden is a lover and strong advocate of good government, and believes it every man's duty to attend the caucus. A lady living in the Sixth ward tokl her five-year-old son that he had been very disobedient and must go into nis bedroom and pray for forgiveness, judge of the fond mother's consternation to hear the following: "Dear Lord, forgive all my signs, and if you will send me a Dewey suit I'll never ask another favor of you as long as I live."' He got it. The house lately occupied by Miss Osborn, at the corner of N. State and Catherine sts. is being moved to a lot farther down on Catherine st. The trustees of the Methodist church ha e decided not to sell any of the land of the "parsonagé lot" and consequently there probably will not be any new house built on this corner. All of which is very agreeable news. The meeting at the Y. M. C. A. Sunday, July 24th, 2:45 p. m., will be in charge of McClellan M. Mogk. Very interesting messages from our boys at Chickamauga park will be read at the meeting. There is a probabiliiy that Capt. Granger and Lieut. Pack will also send short messages. Good music. Solo and duet by the Misses Louise and Helen Allmendinger. All men are cordially invited to attend. Ice cool lemonade free. A boy was seen at the corner of Ann and División st. this afternoon to roll up some newspapers in a loóse bunch set them on flre and then to throw them into the street to burn. Fortunately there was no wind at the time but people who are so careless as to throw burning paper into the middle of the street should rememiber (hat somebody's horse is liable to be frightened by such a thing and do a vast amount oí damage. The Michigan Press asoseiatton 3 holding its annual meeting at Muskegon ihis week. The Repuolican ciigressi&nal convention of the Second district attracted a good many editors that otherwise would have neen litending to their professional duties and iiiscussing the all-important cuestión of how to make ink go farther in Cuba. Rather unwise management, that oí navii.g a congressional convention and a prees association the same week. The laying of the corner stone of the new Presbyterian church of Saline, will take place on Sunday, July Sist, at 3:30 p. m. Rev. R. K. Whorton and Hon. E. P. Allen, of Ypsilanti, will each give brief addresses. Appropriate muhic will be furnished. The Masonic fraternity of Saline, assisted by the members of neighboring lodges. will lay the corner stone in accordance with the Masonic ritual llvery effort is being made to make the ceremony interesting and a cordial invitation is extended to all to attend.