Local Brevities

A little daughter arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Meyer Monday.

Halleker & Meyer, of the St. James, have given up possession of the house and gone to Manchester.

The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Klager, of Hill Street, died last Monday evening of pneumonía.

Mr Gibney, a farmer living in Northfield, had a horse struck by lightning and killed, onSaturday night.

Chaplain J. F. Orwick, of the Jackson state prison, is expected here next Sunday to speak at the Y. M. C. A.

C. A. Sauer & Co. have adopted the nine-hour day schedule for their men, who are now putting in nine-hour days.

Another petition is being circulated among the residents of Liberty street, asking the council to pave Liberty st.

Goodspeed Bros., have removed from State street to their store at 115 S. Main street, which has been remodeled.

The store occupied by the Goodyear Drug Co. is receiving a new coat of paint, which makes a great improvement. 

The Huron Valley Building and Savings association has sold the house at 814 Brooks street to Edward W. Jones for $900. 

The Y. M. C. A. building fund has now reached $22,000. To complete the amount required for the new building $8,000 more is needed. 

George H. Whittington, of Lima Centre, has accepted a position with the D., Y., A. A. & J. railroad at their power house at that place. 

Ascension Day memorial service will be held at Forest Hill cemetery next Sunday afternoon by Ann Arbor Commandery, Knights Templar. 

R. W. Benz went to Jackson yesterday to deliver a fine family horse which he had sold to George Brady, the contractor, of that city. 

The infant daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Karl Marquardt died Wednesday. The funeral will be from the residence, 134 Philip street, Friday afternoon. 

The Treble Clef club will sing at the morning service at the Presbyterian church on May 11, instead of at the evening service as was announced previously. 

Sunday was conflrmailon day at the Lutheran church Ín Scio and, as usual, the services were largely attended. Eleven persons received their first communion. 

R. J. Barrett and M. L. Gelston have been Invited to speak before the students of Adrian college at the Presbyterlan church next Sunday on general religious work. 

The building material to be furnished for the new Perry school building by C. A. Sauer & Co., arrived Tuesday and no place on the grounds seems to have been provided for it. 

The vestry of Zion Lutheran church held their regular meeting at the home of Fred Fiegel on the territorial road Tuesday evening. After the regular meeting, supper was served. 

Mrs. William Briggs will lead the vesper service at the Y. W. C. A. rooms Sunday afternoon at 4:30. The subject will be "Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself." Everyone is invited. 

E. L. Schneider has moved his plumbing shop to the new store on the corner of S. Fifth avenue and Washington street, which has been occupied íor a short time by Heusel Bros. 

A new cement sidewalk is being laid by George Mann in front of his house on Packard street. Another cement walk is being laid at the residence of Mrs. Otis, at Benjamin and Mary streets.

 J. W. Bonner, administrator of the Downing estate. Saturday sold the farm belonging to the estáte, situated In Lodi township, consisting of 80 acres, to Christopher Tessmer, of Ann Arbor town, for $2,360. 

The anual meeting anú eïectlon of officers of the Baptist Young People's union will be held at the church Saturday evening May 10, at 7:30, instead of on Friday evening as announced. A social time will follow the business meeting. 

The Modern Woodmen have received an invitation from the Dexter lodge to initiate five candidates at the latter place next Wednesday evening. The invitation has been accepted. 

The friends of Miss Rominger, who visited her art display last fall, will be pleased to learn that she contemplates giving another much larger exhibition during the entire May Festival week, at Newberry hall. 

John M. Trible, who has just completed a course In shorthand and typewriting at Mr. Moran's school, has gone to Detroit where he has secured a position as stenographer with a prominent attorney in that city. 

J. A. Brown is enlarging his grocery store on Washington st. More shelf, wall and counter space has been needed a long time and when the improvements are completed the store will be very commodious and convenient.

A party of about thirty young people gathered at the home of Mrs. Alber, on W. Washington street, Tuesday evening in honor of Miss Lydia Feurbacher's birthday. After playing various games an elaborate supper was served. 

E. C. Knapp goes to Inkster Saturday to give two addresses before the Sunday school convention which will be held there. Sunday he speaks at the Trumbull Avenue Presbyterian church on the subject of "Normal Work." 

In the case of Phelps Publishing Co. vs. Thos. J. Rice before' Justice Doty Monday, a continuance was taken, pending the taking of depositions of the plaintiff. Murray & Storm represent the plaintiff and E. B. Norris the defendant. 

At a recent meeting of the Young People's Religious Union of the Unitarian church, the following officers were elected: President, Roy M. Overpack; first vice president, Miss Kellogg; secretary, Alfred Finney; treasurer, R. L. Swift. 

About thirty friends surprised Miss Tema Rentschler, on E. Madison street, with a tin shower, last evening, and a very enjoyable time was had. Miss Rentschler leaves for Saline today to spend a few weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rentsehler. 

The address upon "Mormonism" given by the Rev. T. W. Young, of the Baptist church, before the Woman’s Auxiliary of St. Andrew’s church in Harris hall, Wednesday, was very interesting and instructive. The spread of Mormonism in this country is alarming. 

The residence of Jacob Bissinger, 929 W. Liberty Street, was struck by lightning, Saturday night, during the severe electrical storm which passed over the city about midnight. The fluid struck a chimney, destroying it and tearing some of the shingles off the roof, but no other damage was done exceptlng to the nerves of the inmates. 

Fred Lowe, a lad aged 14 ½ years, was convicted of simple larceny in Justice Doty's court Saturday. Upon the recommendation of W. K. Childs, agent for the board of corrections and charities, the lad was returned to Beulah Land farm, at Leoil, Mich., from where he came to this city, and sentence was suspended during good behavior. 

James R. Hayes, proprietor of the Wayne hotel, of Detroit, and who will have charge of the Royal Frontenac, the grand new hotel just being completed at Frankfort, has just notified Mr. Moran, of the School of Shorthand, that he may appoint Miss Charlotte Hill, one of Mr. Moran's students, as stenographer at Frankfort during the coming season.

Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock, Emory Keppler, of this city, and Miss Mary Lutz, of Pittsfield, were united in marriage at Zion's Lutheran parsonage, Rev. A. L. Nicklas officiating. The attendants were Willianm Keppler, brother of the groom, and Miss Tillie Lutz, sister of the bride. Mr. and Mrs. Keppler have gone to housekeeping at No. 544 Second avenue. 

At the regular meeting of the Ladies' Library board, yesterday, six new books were ordered, three of which have been received: "The Hound of the Baskervilles," A. Cnona Doyle; "The Flood Tide," Sarah P. McL. Greene; “The Heroïne of the Strait." Mary Catherine Crowley.. The other books are "The Octopus,” “The Life of Clara Morris," autobiography, and "If I Were King." 

Mrs. Tedrow and Mrs. Gruner Tuesday evening received a telegram from Springfleld, Ohio, announcing the death of their uncle, Rev. J. M. Ruthrauff, president of Wittenberg College. Last week when Mr. Tedrow was in Springfield he was entertained In the home of Mr. Ruthrauff and on Friday morning when he left, the president of the college was as well as ever in his llfe and was greatly enjoying the dedication services of Hamma Divinity hall. He died Tuesday afternoon. 

The private pupils of Mrs. Emma Fischer-Cross gave a private musical recital last Friday afternoon at the School of Music. A large number of parents and friends of the pupils were present. Mrs. Cross gave a very interesting talk on Leschetizky, the teacher under whom she studied when in Vienna and showed a number of photographs of the teacher and his studio and a number of thep rominent buildings in Vienna. The program, which was rendered by the pupils, was a very enjoyable one and they all showed the effects of correct musical training which they had received. The following pupils took part in the program: Ruth Houston, Eleanor Ryan, Emily Marshke, Nell Beach, Jennie Rhodes, Gladys Van Patten, Josephine Brlggs, Rose Coffey, Ferne Hatton, Bernice Harris, Mrs. J. Lasater, Mrs. M. McAlpine, Julius Gauss. 

At the 10:30 service Sunday morning the members of St. Thomas' choir rendered Poniatowskl's mass in a very pleasing manner, the work of the soloists being particularly good. At the offertory that beautiful anthem "Oh Savior, when night involves the Skies" by Mendelssohn. was sung very effectively with out organ accompaniment. The boys’ vested choir, which was organized recently and is doing excellent work, sang "Nearer my God to thee," at the close of the services. 

Horace G. Parker, a former resident of this city, died in Battle Creek, Saturday night last. He was a native of Alabama, N. Y. He came to Ann Arbor when 19 years of age and engaged in business and was subsequently in business in Jackson, Albion, South Bend, Kalamazoo, Three Rivers, Galesburg and Battle Creek. Later he was landlord of the Potter house, Battle Creek, and afterward of the Frazier house, in Bay City. For the past 20 years he has been located in Battle Creek. He was an expert fur buyer 

Over sixty members of the Young People's society of the Bethlehem church went to Jackison Sunday to attend the fifteenth anniversary and convention of the Young People's society of Rev. Mr. Alber's church of that place. Delegates were also present from this county from Chelsea, Manchester, Rogers' Corners and Sharon. A union was formed. The annual address was maúe by Rev. Albert Schoen, of Chelsea. Rev. John Nennann, of this city was elected vice president, Víctor Wurster, of this city, secretary, and Miss Julia Schoettle, of Manchester, treasurer. In the evening Rev. Mr. Neumann, of this city, and Rev. Mr. Meister, of Dexter, were among the speakers. 

The little village of Hamburg, on the Ann Arbor road, just over the county line, was swept by fire during the heavy thunder storm of Saturday night and three of the four stores of the village were burned with a loss of $11,000, insured for $6,000. Lightning struck the grocery store of L. A. Saunders, and in a few moments that and the general store of W. A. Shaffer and the hardware and post office of J. L. Kisby were ablaze and soon burned to the ground. There is no fire protection in the voltage and the men did what they could to fight the fire with pails of water, but with little effect. Ruby, son of Postmaster Kisby, climbed upon the roof of his father's store in order better to fight the flames. In some way he slipped and fell to the ground, breaking his arm and hip.