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Day
20
Month
June
Year
1902
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LOCAL BREVITIES

The engagement of Miss May Breitenbach, of Chelsea, and Dr. J. L. Limikans, of Chicago, Ill.., is announced.

George Van Hutton, who lives near Saline, has been sentenced to 10 days in jail by Justice Gibson on the charge of drunkenness.

The public school library in the High School building, will be open during the vacation on Mondays and Thursdays from 3 to 6 p. m.

Mesdames Kellogg and Blake report a very pleasant trip to Marquette and return and are well satisfied with the convention work all through.

Mrs. Carson, of Indianapolis, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Dowdigan, of Kingsley street, has gone, to Ludington to spend the summer.

John Koch will go to Grand Rapids on Sunday to attend the furniture exposition to be held in that city next week. He will also add to his furniture stock.

A new train to New York has been added to the service on the M. C. R. R. The train will leave Ann Arbor at 3:20 p. m., arriving in New York at 10 o'clock the next morning.

The Trinity Lutheran church has changed the time for its Sunday morning services, to begin next Sunday- preaching services from 10 to 11, Sunday school from 11 to 12.

Oscar Eberbach was in Morenci on Saturday last installing a wireless telegraph of the Marconi system in the Morenci high school. It is to be used for experimental purposes.

Dr. C. M. Cobern, a former pastor of the M. E. church of this city, has returned to Chicago after a short visit with old friends here. He delivered a baccalaureate address at Lansing Sunday evening.

Cards are out announcing the marriage of Miss Emma Fohey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fohey, of Northfield, to Daniel Prochnow, which will take place at the home of the bride on June 25.

At the Children's Day exercises to be held at the Northside church next Sunday evening, the decorations and background of the platform will be composed of bouquets to be brought to the church on Sunday afternoon by the children of the school.

"Reddy" Smith, the iron peddler, who was arrested last Saturday on the charge of breaking the window of John O'Hara, the saloon keeper on Broadway, has been discharged by Justice Gibson on paying for the broken window and the costs in the case.

Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance company has commenced suit against Wiley B. Lambkin, one of its policy holders for $500 alleged to be due because of an assessment made by the company when it went into receivership and which it is alleged the defendant has not paid.

Carl Schaefer, of Lodi, and Christ Mast, of this city, were arrested Saturday night on the charge of drunkenness. Schaefer was sentenced to five days in the county jail Monday by Justice Doty because he has been offender on the same charge before, while Mast was fined the costs.

W. R. Smith, a resident of Saline almost 75 years old, was struck by a freight train near the Ann Arbor R. R. depot Tuesday night and quite severely shocked, although not badly injured. He was taken to the county jail. His sister, Mrs. Griswold, of Saline, has been notified.

The little son of Mr. E. A. Ransom, of the North Side, met with a peculiar accident while fishing Tuesday afternoon. His brother was casting in a line when the hook caught in the child's lower lip. It was so deeply imbedded that the aid of a physician was necessary for its removal.

Invitations are out for the wedding of Miss Emma L. Fohey and David C Prochnow, a cousin of Mr. Theodore Prochnow, a member of the firm of Prochnow & Schaible, the well known dairy lunch proprietors of Huron street. The wedding will take place on Wednesday afternoon, June 25.

Prof. H. E. King, who taught in the University of Pekin until the time of the Boxer uprising, will give an address at the Y. M. C. A. next Sunday on "The Future Outlook for China." His experience and intimate knowledge of the country, its politics and its people, will make his address of special interest and value.

The supreme count has handed down its decision in the case of Fred J. Shoemaker, the horse thief, denying him a new trial. He was convicted here last October and sentenced to ten years in the state prison at Jackson. This is quite a victory for Prosecuting Attorney John Duffy, who represented the people at the Shoemaker trial.

The wedding of Dr. Roy Alvord, '02 dent, and Miss Edith Carolyn Vosburg, of Morris, Ill., will take place on June 25. Mr. Alvord has filled the position of tenor in the choir of the First Baptist church here for the past two years. He has many friends in the city who tender their heartiest congratulations on the coming happy event.

Misa Wilhelmina Kuebler and Fred Roehm were quietly married at the Zion's parsonage by Rev. Mr. Nicklas Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. The bride was attended by Miss Clara Scheefler, of Pleasant Lake, and Jonathan Roehm, of the same place was best man. The newly married pair will reside at 1103 W. Huron street.

Saturday the Y. M. C. A. Juniors will play baseball with the Y. M. C. A. Juniors of Detroit, on Belle Isle. Rates of 75 cents for adults and 50 cents for children can be had by accompanying the Juniors in their special car which leaves Ann Arbor at 6:45, local time, Saturday morning. Persons wishing to go should leave their names at the Y. M. C. A. at once.

The concert and comic opera to be given by the Harugari society in Gerrnania hall on June 26, promises to be most entertaining. The young men who have charge of the concert are making a great effort to make it a great success and should be encouraged by a large number of people attending the entertainment. After the program a social and dance will follow. Admission 25 cents.

Miss Emma Alexander gave a charming reception to the teachers of the Elisha Jones school on Monday evening in honor of Miss Annette Ailes, wiho has been principal of that school for many years. The parlors were beautifully decorated with roses and palms, presenting a most attractive appearance. It was a most informal affair and the guests spent a very pleasant evening in social conversation.

Germania lodge, No. 476. D. O. H., will give a summer evening concert at its hall, corner William and Second streets, on Thursday, June 26, at 8 o'clock. Besides an interesting program of vocal and instrumental selections, the rollicking comic operetta "The Jolly Prison" will be given by local talent. A social dance will complete the entertainment and a first class evening's divertation will be guaranteed to all.

A stock company has been formed and is about to commence the erection of a creamery at Dixboro. It is the íntention to rush the work to completion at the earliest possible moment. The building committee got bids on the lumber from Ypsilanti, Plymouth and Ann Arbor lumber yards and decided to give the contract to C. A. Sauer & Co., of Ann Arbor, considering their bid, including quality of stock and all points, the most favorable.

Articles of association were filed in the county clerk's office Wednesday by the "Rettich Building" company. The purpose of the association is to buy "certain lands commencing southeast corner of lot 6 block 1." The capital stock of the company is $18,000, divided into 180 shares. Those who have shares are John Lawrence 60, Ambrose Kearney 40, F. H. Belser 20, John Gillen 20, George J. Mann 10, Dr. John Kapp 10, James R. Bach 10 and Herbert J. Burke 10.

The announcement of the approaching marriage of Miss Nina Wilbur and Prof. Jas. Bird, has been made. The wedding will take place June 25 at 8 o'clock at the First Baptist church. The bride and groom are both graduates from the U. of M., and are both well and favorably known here. Prof. Bird is the son of Wm. F. Bird, of Jackson avenue. He has held a professorship in the Jackson university at Jackson, Tenn., for the past five years. Miss Wilbur has been teaching in the Idaho State university at Moscow, Idaho, for the past two years. Prof. Bird has a two years' leave of absence and will spend next winter in Germany and the following year intends to take his master's degree at the tlnlversky of Michigan.

Mr. F. Stofflet, the well known newsdealer, writes the Argus as follows: "George W. Johnson, a former Ann Arbor boy, has made a call here upon his numerous friends and acquaintanees during the present week. Mr. Johnson is now located at Cleveland, Ohio, where he is making a reputation for himself as instructor in physical culture. Prof. Johnson is a gentleman of grit and courage. When a mere boy of 12 or 14 years, it was my pleasure to have him in my employ as newsboy. He always proved a good sales-boy and whatever was intrusted to his care was 'attended to with promptness and unflinching integrity. We bespeak for him a useful and profitable career in his present enterprise. Well built, and of strong muscular form, Prof. Johnson is particularly fitted for his profession."

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