Ypsilanti

Horace Stevenson has returned to Reading, Pa., via Chicago. Frank Glenn will spend the summer on beautiful Mackinac island. Margaret Van Cleve is expected back from the West in a few days. Mrs. W. J. Hyzer is visiting in Plymouth with her sister, Mrs. V. E. McKindsey. Wallace Brooks has gone to Chattanooga. for a visit, and a:so to Camp Thomas. Superintendent Robert Hemphill, who has been sick for several days, is convalescent. Mrs. Ruth Carpe nter-Uathrop lelt yesterday on a two weeks' vacation with friends in Detroit and Adrián. Mrs F. B. Crippen, Mrs. Minnie Wyckoff and Gage Wyckoff. of Hudson, are guests of Mrs. Celeste Gage, 11 W. Oak st. Dr Jeamans, of Detroit, is in the city today getting extra subscrlptions for the new Ypsilanti Sanitariam, now the Occidental. The Detroit, Ypsilanti & Ann Arborj Ry has a hot thing. There are 'live red-headed men on as coaductors and motor men. Theodore Szepanek, who has been in the employ of Densmore & Feil, left for his home in Lansing today wheie he has accepted a position. Said a business man from Detroit yesterday: "They all have these signs under these sheds and you can't see any of them until right under them. Mrs Ira S. Younglove and Miss Besaie Younglove, of Chicago, are visiting at the residence of D. S. Quirk. They are on the way to the Catskill mountams. Howard Pratt was here yesterday to visit his father, Dr. Pratt. He belonKS to an Ililnois regiment and was sent to Charlotte, Mich., with a dead soldier. The Arbeiter Unterstuetzungs Verein pays a sick benefit of $4 per week to any injured soldier. The Arbeiter Bund also pays $5 insurance if a soldier dies. Dr. Batwell reports the eondition of Major J. P. Kirk as mu",h better and says that he will probably be in shape to go back to his command before his Yesterday Louis Knisley and Mrs. Effle Whitmire were made one upon tne Queen's soil. Both of the contractir.g parties are well known here and will be at home at 504 Hamilton st. . Monday a 12 years old boy named Kline of Detroit, who is visiting on the Moorman farm was run over by a heavy wagon and seriously injured in the breast and had his arm broken. 20 days leave of absense expires. The squirrel ordinance v. hich Aid. Van Fossen introduced last ntgttt should be passed as soon as possible. The ordinance is to protest the wild birds and squirrels in the city, excepting the little red squirrel. Will Carpenter fiew his pigeons from Ridgeway yesterday and two returned to Ypsilanti in an hour and forty-five minutes. The other bird is still missing, and Aid. Meanwell's bird also returned but was over time. Mike Welsh, farmer, tried to cross the track while the car was coming this morning, but he hardly got on to the track before there was a colusión and Welsh was somewhat bruised in the arms and legs. The wagon was smashed. Frank Glanfield was the lowest bidder for the building of the new Presbyterian church. There were several contractors from Detroit who figured, but the lowest was about $500 above Glanfield's. His bid was $8,362.60, and he will begin work at once. Friday the pumping station was busy until late at night to keep water in the pipes, so much was used. The number of gallons used was 1,110,000, an average of 1,000 gallons per tap and 200 gallons for each man, woman and child in the city. Where does all the water go to? The Ypsilanti representative pleads not giiilty. Marshal Hixson carne n;ar haVlng a case of defacing public property Saturday night. George Fuller was intoxicated and began to abuse his wife when she entreated him to go home, and the marshal insisted that he obey her. A lively scuffle ensued, in which the offlcer got pretty rough treatment. He was finally arrested and lodged in jail. This morning he paid $5.95 fine and costs to Justice Childs for being disorderly. Aid. Van Fossen won -a big victory Monday in the council when they passed his resolution that the city clerk order such sidewalks built or repaired as the report of the street commissioner showed. There are 27 sidewalks in the Second ward to be built new, and 63 to be repaired. At first the alderman wanted an ordinance, but when he found he could not get that he tried this way and succeeded. Let the other aldermen folio w suit and Ypsilanti may some day have good sidewalks and not such as are advantageous to the shoemaker only. Claude Murdock, son of our popular barber, who has been with the Thirtythird regiment since its organization at Camp Eaton, has had quite a time getting to Santiago with the boys. After he was safe on board the Yale, which took the troops to the front, he v.'f. spied by General Duffleld, who had him placed back on board the City of Washington. Two days later he appeared on the deck of the Yale, but kept out of sight of the general. He with two Detroit lads are mascots of the regiment and all succeeded in making theirway to Santiago.- Belle vill 2 Enterprise. Harry Penny and Minnie Hurd, of ypsilanti, went over to Windsor and were married last week. So we've heard. Now that they are one, is each a half-penny? Why go over to the Engllsh dominion, young man, to be married? Didn't you know that you wert under the crown? Did you realize that the queen of England is the sovereign ruler over there? Bet a shilling you thought you were identified with the English gold Standard nomenclatura but they are on the sense plan of Uncle bam. Well, here are our hearty congratulations. In after life, remember Poor Richard's saying: "Take care of the Pennys, the pounds will take care of themselves."- Adrián Press. m'ÍS Lizzie stevens had a most delightful party Monday afternoon celebrating her ninth birthday. Lizzie is art ïnvahd and for the first time in her short hf e she has been well enough to enjoy seeingr so many of her young friends at one time. Time fairly fiew and the most exciting feature of the entertainment was hunting for peanuts, Lizzie and little Phillip Pease winning wVTw T1i? s(venirs at the tabl! were dainty button-hole bouquets of a Efnn SWSet ?eaS' fastened with O.fhin fl deS1ên of the American and flrpn nf ft81 The seIfishness of chllm hl Present generation is often loe Za r, UP"' but t0 have seen the ÏÏLt fdeVOtlOn paid t0 at happy other to'rnfú euh Íne vlein with the otner to make it a happy time for T W ?íLW0Tld dtaPel thoutftts of that na! w h WaS simP1y beautiful watehing those pretty children in their han Piness, and Lizzie will never forgèt it J. H. Taylor has g-one to Ann Arbor. Miss Ada Lyttle is visiting in Toledo for a short time. Charlotta Banks is visiting her sister I at Homer, Mich. Henry Snow is a guest at the residence of F. H. Barnum. Miss Emma and Ethel Hand ha"e gone to Ridgeway on a visit. Miss Marguerite Benedict is spending the summer at Michllind, Mich. Mrs. Marguerite Van Cleve is expected to arrive frcm the West today. Miss Jennie Stamp, of Cleveland, O., is visiting with Miss Laura Scovill. Austin George, Jr., has accepted a position in Densmore's clothing store. J. P. Snow and Miss Rose Snow are guests at the residence of A. C. Fingerle. R. S. Greenwood was in Ypsilanti yesterday on business for theWabash railroad. C. S. Wortley and wife are registered at the New Mackinac hotel on Mackinac island. Barnum will sell the remainder of nis stock in Ann Arbor next week at auction. Harry Benham, of Ann Arbor, is doing some work for Showerman, the jeweler. Wednesday burglars broke into Samson's place of business and stole two mandolins and a bicycle. Miss Florence Curtis is visiting the Misses Bowman and Sheldon at Kalamazoo. She will spend several weeks. All strangers in the city who are members of the Order of the Kastern Star are invited to attend a special meeting Monday evening, July 25. Mrs. Charles Coryell and children, of Toronto, and Frank Srnith and family, of Lansing, are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith. There will be a special council meeting Monday night to act on the invitation of the Asosciation of Americai. Municipalities, which will convene in Detroit Aug. 4. The board of public works met Wednesday and opened the bids for the Emmet and Ballard st. sewer. They decided that all were too high and ordered the clerk to advertise for now bids.