Local Brevities

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Local Brevities  

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Robert McCarty of Ann Arbor has sold a span of horses to Jacob Becks of this city. 

Rehfuss & Wallace recently sold five fine bred horses to T.G. Ames, of Leslie, for $1050. 

J. F. Schuh has the contract for the electric work for the large new house of M S. McNitt. 

A Sunday school convention will be held at the Roberts school house in Pittsfield, on April 12. 

Gottlieb Mann, who has leased Michael Staebler’s sawmill in Scio, has started up for the season.  

The case of Albert M. Reynolds vs. James W. Reid has been dismissed without costs to either party. 

Judge Kinne has denied the motion for a new trial in the case of Charles Finkbeiner vs. Christian Ernst .  

The Ladies Library will hold their regular meeting next Monday afternoon at the library, at 3 o’clock. 

There will be a meeting of the Superintendents Union at the Presbyterian social on next Thursday evening.  

A new hardwood floor is being laid in Maccabee hall over the postoffice. The hall will also be relighted.  

E. L. Smith, the dairyman, has excavated a cellar for the new house on Packard street west of Hill street.  

Prof. Coler has been obliged to give up his bible classes in connection with the Y. W. C. A. on account of ill health.  

The wind on Mondays was so powerful that a window in the city treasurer’s office was blown in and broken to pieces.  

zAt the commandery meeting Tuesday evening, Norman Gates, past eminent commander, was presented with a diamond ring by the commandery. 

Several cement crosswalks were broken by the new dynamo of the University power house being handed over to them. It weighed about 20 tons.  

Fred Braun of Ann Arbor town, is still confined to the house with lumbago. His physicians say he will have to stay there until he is entirely well.  

News has been received here that Mr and Mrs. W. Wallace are the happy parents of a son. Mr. Wallace was a former student here and is practicing law in Chicago.  

J. P. Drake has purchased the Prettyman property, 226 Twelfth street Mr. Drake and family will be at home to their friend in their new home after April 15. 

The music given in St. Andrew’s church at the 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. services on Easter Day will be repeated next Sunday at the morning and evening services.  

The meeting of the Ann Arbor Protected Home Circle, Tuesday night, was well attended. All had a good time and went home feeling that it “was good to have been there.”  

Mrs. D. M. Tyler was in Detroit yesterday attending the funeral services of Mrs. Palmer, wife of Dr. Erwin Palmer. The late Dr. Tyler and Dr. Palmer were college chums. 

L. W. Mulison is excavating the cellar for a new house at the southwest corner of S. State and Packard streets. He is going to use Fred Weinberg’s artificial stone in the foundation.  

A thank-offering meeting of the W. F. M. S. of the First M. E. church was held Wednesday afternoon in the church parlors. A large sum was realized for the cause of missions. 

The Gilt Edge pedro club were pleasantly entertained by Mrs. Frank Bigalke Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. E. Staebler won first prize and Mrs. Saxton carried off second. Refreshments were served.  

Mischievous boys broke a window in the room of two college girls last night by throwing stones. One of the girls caught the guilty urchin and administered a good spanking such as his mother should give him.  

Supper will again be served at the Y. W. C. A. rooms on Saturday evening. Miss Simms will be present during the supper hour and during the evening, to make the acquaintance of the members and their friends.  

The roll of honor for District No. 16, Fr. Ann Arbor, for the past month, is as follows: Manie Kern, Martha Kern, George Steeb, Joseph Steeb, who have been neither absent nor tardy during the past month. 

The Jackson & Suburban Traction company’s men are wiring another large car, No. 36 which is a fac-simile of car No. 45 now on the Grass Lake run. No. 36 will be ready for service in a few weeks. --Jackson Press. 

The case for breach of promise of marriage for Mrs. Mattie R. Newman vs. Charles F. Kayser, the cigar manufacturer, which promised to be sensational, has been settled. A stipulation of discontinuance has been filed.  

Mrs. Bilbie, wife of Prof. E. N. Bilbie of Pittsburg, is expected next week to visit her mother, Mrs. Colby of Portage Lake, who is ill. The professor will join her when the season is over, and they will spend the summer in this vicinity.  

The annual meeting of the First Baptist church will take place next Monday evening. Reports from all departments of church work will be read and officers of church and Bible school elected. The meeting will being promptly at 7:30. 

In the chancery case of John Lowry, complainant, vs. Durward C. Lowry, Eva Lowry and John D. Lowry, defendants, Herman M. Woods has been appointed receiver to take care of property, receive rents, etc., until the case is disposed of finally.  

On Saturday afternoon, the Northside Sunday School will take a religious census of the fifth ward. This will be done to ascertain the number of people who are church members, the number who attend Sunday school, and other important information.  

Prof. M. W. Jacobus, D. D., of Hartford Theological Seminary, Hartford, Conn., will speak at Newberry hall on Sunday afternoon at 4:15 on the subject of “The Authority of Jesus.” Dr. Jacobus is an especially good speaker. Ever one is invited to hear him.  

Ex-Sheriff Charles Dwyer: “There are many towns in the country that gravel the roads in their vicinity to induce the farmers to trade in their towns. Nothing can be done for Ann Arbor in this direction that will do as much good as to separate the grades.”  

One of the exhibits in the chancery case of the Great Hive of the Maccabees of the State of Michigan vs. The Supreme Hive of the World et. Al., now being heard in the circuit court, consists of eight letter heads, the letters being cut off.  

Mrs. Emily Schleyer, of S. Fifth street was Wednesday afternoon delightfully surprised by 20 of her lady friends. They occasion was her 51st birthday anniversary. Refreshments were served, among which was a large iced cake with the number 51 inscribed in candy in the icing.  

The members of Co I had a pleasant meeting Tuesday night. Seventeen new members were accepted, bringing up the number of the company to 82, within one of the limit. The company is having athletic apparatus put up in the armory. It is expected that the armory will shortly be open every evening for the use of members.  

Rev. Ernst Brenion and wife of Bremen, Ind., are the guests of Mrs. Brenion’s sister, Mrs. Herman Allmendinger, of W. Huron street. They left Tuesday for Bridgewater, with Mrs. Allmendinger to spend a few days with Jacob Luckard, the father of Mrs. Brenion, and Mrs. Allmendinger. Mrs. Allmendinger will join them Sunday. 

The house on the farm of Thomas S Sears on section 2 in Sylvan was destroyed by fire Wednesday noon. Cause unknown. The value of the house was $1,000, insured for $500. The personal property of the tenant was insured in the German Farmer’s Mutual Fire Ins. Co.  

In the case of James H. Lepper vs. Joseph E. Dow, Jerry N. Dow, Kate Dow, in the circuit court, Judge Kinne gave an opinion. He says: “I think that $459.13 should be paid to Kate Dow and that the complainant is entitled to a decree subject to the payment of this sum.” The matter in controversy is the foreclosure of a chattel mortgage.  

A new mission study class was organized Monday, the purpose of the class being to study women’s work for women in missions. The class is composed of S. C. A. girls of the University. Miss Lucia Lyons, who is chairman of the Missionary committee has charge of the class. It meets regularly Monday afternoons at 4 o’clock at Newberry hall. 

The regular meeting of the Washtenaw county Medical Society was held Monday evening in the Pathological laboratory. “The Morphology of Glands by the Reconstruction Method,” was the subject of a paper by Dr. Lydia M. DeWitt. Dr. Geo. Dock read a paper on “Carcinoma of the Signoid” and Dr. D. S. Green presented a paper on “Renal Insufficiency.”  

The meeting of the Michigan branch of the M. B. M. S., held the past week at Saginaw, was one of unusual interest, and showed that efficient work for the cause of foreign missions is still being done by the woman’s auxiliaries of the churches throughout the state, nearly $7,000 having been received during the past year. Mrs. W. E. Sperry of Oliver was elected as president emeritus on account of long and faithful service as president. Mrs. Robert Campbell was again re-elected as treasurer, being the 15th term in that capacity, and S. W. Clarkson as auditor. The officers and delegates were royally entertained by the good people of Saginaw.  

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The rail mills of the country are all behind in their orders are now rolling rails that should have been gotten out last year. For this reason J. D. Hawks of the Hawks-Angus electric railway syndicate says that is possible that their electric lines may not be extended beyond Coldwater in one direction and Lansing in another during the coming summer. --Jackson Press.  

The Mission Study class will meet at the home of Mrs. Woods, 402 S. Main street, on Friday evening at 8 o’clock, instead of on Sunday morning at Newberry hall. A good program will be given and a social evening spent. Each one of the fourteen members of the class is asked to bring one friend with them. The subject of this meeting will be Japan. Three Japanese students of the University will be present.  

Mrs. Margaret Gallagher of Corunna, Mrs. E. G. Scully of Toledo and Wm. F. Gallagher of Corunna have petitioned the probate court at Corunna for the appointment of special commissioners to partition the real estate in the estate of Patrick Gallagher, deceased, among the said petitioners who are the heirs-in-law of deceased. Hearing April 28. They are all well known in this county, having many relatives here. 

Thad Leland, son of E. E. Leland of Northfield, who has been teaching in Havana, Cuba, for the past 10 days, in at Citra, Fla., for his health. As soon as the weather becomes warm he will visit his father. The managers of the school gave him a year’s leave of absence. They positively refused to take his resignation, being so well satisfied with his work. Thad has many friends who will be glad to see him. His sisters, the Misses Anna and Gertrude Leland, are still in Havana teaching. 

Two pensions have been granted through W. K. Childs’ agency. They are Mrs. Mary Murphy of Ann Arbor has been received an original mother’s pension on account of the death of her son, Joseph B. Murphy of Troop L, Third U. S. cavalry, who died Oct. 28, ‘00, in the Philippine Islands. He is enlisted in Saginaw. The other one is that of Joel Kennedy of Ann Arbor, late chaplain of the Third Michigan cavalry, who secured an increase to $20 a month. In both claims Hon. Henry E. Smith rendered valuable assistance. 

Dr. W. B. Hinsdale has received a valuable addition to his private library, viz., several books and pamphlets appertaining to the archaeology and ethnology of Queensland. Some of them are entitled “Food; Its Search, Capture, and Preparation by the Aboriginals;” “String, and Other Forms of Strand, Basketry, Etc.;” Ethnological Studies Among the Northwest Central Queensland Aboriginals;” “The Structure of the Koko-Yimidir Language, Etc.” The publications are by the government and sent out by the Home office, Brisbane, Queensland. 

It would seem that if the butter makers of the land only new what valuable time congress is spending and the noble fight some of the congressmen are making to defeat the oleomargarine bill, that every woman would register a vow to make better butter. The kind of stuff that some people bring to the stores, and because they are good customers, palm it off onto the storekeeper and compel him to pay the highest market price for it, when he knows at the time that he can’t sell it for anything better than wagon grease, is too poor to be classed as the product of honest farmers. --Manchester Enterprise.  

The social and card party which was given by the ladies of the Altar society of St. Thomas’ church Wednesday evening in the Parish hall, was a great success both socially and financially. The first prizes were won by Miss Kate Caspary and Fritz Rentschler and the booby prizes by John Kress and Mrs. Shannon. A very enjoyable and sociable time was had by the large crowd that was present. Good refreshments were served.  

The entertainment given by the Phoenix Gesang Verein Monday evening, at the halls of the society, was one of the pleasantest ever given by the members. Included in the program were Fischer’s Guitar and Mandolin club. Their playing was so much appreciated that they had to respond to a number of encores. The society rendered a number of taking songs. One pleasing feature of the evening was the singing by a number of little girls. Everyone present had a good time. 

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