Local Brevities

William Ryan has accepted a position with the firm of Kenny & Quinlan.

The Hawks-Angus people are building a loop in their electric line at Chelsea.

Homer P. Finley, of this city, has taken out a patent on a grain harvester.

The tiling is being placed on the roof of the new St. Thomas parochial residence.

The Ann Arbor base ball team will play the Whitmore Lake team at the lake on Sunday.

The Knights Templar band are rehearsing some fine music for the Labor Day celebration.

The Y. W. C. A. rooms, which have been closed during this month, will be opened next week.

Chas. Schroen, who has been seriously ill for the past few weeks, is again able to be about town.

Fred Clark, manager of King's shoe store, has removed from 513 N. Division street to 611 E. Ann street.

Fred Beck and son, of Saginaw are visiting the former's mother, Mrs. Martha Beck, of Third street.

Edward Popkins, of Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, is spending his vacation on his father's farm near Dixboro.

Chauncey Staffan, who has been ill at his home in Chelsea, has returned home again suffering from a relapse.

Lewis Markham, Fred Schaeberle and G. L. Gordon will play in Detroit on Labor Day with the Ypsilanti band.

Mr. and Mrs. Chester Dunn, of Broadway, are rejoicing over the birth of a little daughter Wednesday night.

Christian Seyfried, who was seriously injured last week by falling onto the tines of a pitchfork, is slowly improving.

There will be a meeting of the Order of the Eastern Star Sept. 3, at which time the election of officers will take place.

The Business Boys' club of the Y. M. C. A. will hold a ping pong party at the association rooms next Wednesday night.

Miss Amy Jenks, of Frankfort, and Clyde Elliott, of the post office force, will be married at Frankfort on September 24.

Oluf Peterson, son of Peter Peterson, of Miller avenue, is seriously ill with typhoid fever at a hospital in Milwaukee.

The corner store of the new Groves building on State street will be occupied by Martin Schaller as a branch store, Sept. 3.

J. J. Goodyear has begun the erection of a very handsome residence on Hill street between S. Thayer and Tappan street.

William Boyle and sisters, of Catherine street, who recently purchased the house at 513 N. Division street, are removing thereto.

Mrs. Albert Sorg, who came here to attend the wedding of her sister-in-law, Miss Julia Sorg, has returned to her home in Grand Rapids.

James Taylor was brought before Justice Doty yesterday accused of being drunk on Ann street last night, and sent to jail for ten days.

Dr. and Mrs. McDonald, of Hancock, are the proud parents of a little daughter. Mrs. McDonald was formerly Miss Nellie Ames, of this city.

Miss Emma Kapp and George Geisendofer will be married in about a week. They will go to housekeeping in a new home on Summit street.

P. Purtle, who for the past few years has conducted a grocery store on Gott street, will open another store on Fourth avenue on Monday morning.

The Superior Manufacturing Co. are having the offices in their new building redecorated and remodeled and will move from the Main street offices in a few days.

Mrs. Mary P. Davidson will celebrate her 95th birthday next Saturday, Aug. 30, and will be pleased to see any of her friends who may wish to call upon her.

The five years old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Sutherland, of Pittsfield, died Wednesday morning of diphtheria. The little one was buried Wednesday afternoon.

The funeral of Mrs. Lydia Calhoun, Lodi, was held Saturday morning from the home of her daughter, at 11 o'clock. The internment took place in the Dixboro cemetery.

Joe Eisele, who has been at the University hospital the past two months, where he was operated upon for appendicitis, has been removed to his home on N. Fifth avenue.

Dorothy, the little daughter of Prof. L. D. Wines, who has been very ill with typhoid fever at Les Cheneaux Islands, where the family are spending the summer, is convalescing.

The Jackson delegation which was here Wednesday said that Townsend could not carry Jackson county for congress this year and Durand would have a heavy majority there.

Attorney W. W. Wedemeyer gave a brilliant address Tuesday at the picnic of St. Patrick's church at Carleton. Mr. Wedemeyer advocated the election of senators by the people solely.

Miss Edna Kittle is making arrangements to remove her business headquarters from S. Main street to rooms over Brown’s drug store. She will be in her new headquarters Sept. 1.

Ex-sheriff Charles Dwyer has sold his residence on East Kingsley street to J. C. Henderson, manager of the Ann Arbor Organ Co. Mr. Henderson will take possession of the house Sept. 1st.

Marriage licenses were issued Monday to John P. Trojanowski, 30 Ann Arbor, and Miss Julia May Sorg, 26, Ann Arbor; and William Egeler, 27, Ann Arbor, and Hannah Schneider, 21, Ann Arbor.

The first ward school building, which has been purchased by the University, to be used this year, is undergoing several improvements. New seats and electric light fixtures will be the chief changes made.

An electric light has been placed on Elizabeth street in front of the St. Thomas parish hall and the residents feel grateful, as it is an improvement that is necessary and one that has been wanted a long time.

Mrs. Wilder, of Chicago, who recently purchased the Palmer residence, corner of Ingalls and Kingsley streets, moved thereto last week. Mr. Palmer is making arrangements to go to Chicago to reside with his son.

Rev. B. F. McWilliams and wife leave on Sept. 3 for Cincinnati, where they will spend two or three weeks with their parents, after which they go to Richmond, Va., where they will begin their new work Sept. 23.

Gottlieb Peterson, formerly connected with the Goodyear Drug Co. and now with Williams, Davis & Brooks, of Detroit, has accepted a fine position in Phoenix, Ariz., in the chemical department of a wholesale drug house.

The eighth family reunion of the Moore family will be held this year in Pontiac, the family meeting with Chas. Moore, Wednesday, Sept. 27. At the last reunion, which was held in Ann Arbor, about 100 relatives sat down to dinner.

Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Campbell, of Dixboro, are the happy grandparents of a little son which arrived last week at the home of their son, Geo. Campbell, of Hill street. The little one has been named Harlam Benjamin, after its great grandfather.

The laundry firm of Ovenshire & Condy will soon be installed in their new place of business at 115 S. Main street. Great improvements are being made on the interior of the building and some of the machinery has already been moved in.

The many friends of Harry Nichols in the city will be pleased to learn that he has accepted a fine position as assistant manager of the Joseph L. Ryerson Steel Co., of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols will soon remove to Chicago from Pittsburg.

Those entitled to Spanish-American war medals ought to apply at once to A. C. Pack at Herbert Randall's photograph gallery. The second installment of the medals will be presented at Detroit during President Roosevelt visit to that city.

The common council will receive bids from the several banks for interest on the city funds on deposit for the ensuing year, also rate of interest charged on overdrafts. Bids should be submitted at the office of the city clerk by Monday, Sept. 25, at 5 o'clock p. m.

The Second Baptist church will hold special services Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, at which time the retiring pastor will preach his last sermon to the church. In the morning and evening Rev. Mr. Hill, of Adrian, a candidate for the pastorate of the church, will preach.

An Adrian dispatch to the Detroit Journal says that Congressman Henry C. Smith, of this district, would make an ideal candidate for United States senator to succeed Senator McMillan and that prominent Adrianites applaud the idea, while the Congressman is non-committal.

The $500 Girls cordially invite everyone to attend their social which will be given Saturday evening on the south side of the Court House lawn. Ice cream and cake and probably sandwiches and coffee will be served. The proceeds will go for the benefit of the church fund. As these young ladies are anxious to make this social a success it will help out a great deal if cakes are donated. Any one desiring to give cakes can apply to the chairman of the social committee, Miss Mildred Ware.

When asked about the prospects in regard to the attendance at the University this year, Secretary Wade said yesterday: "There is no reason to fear any letting down. I rather think there will be a substantial increase. There is a great demand for catalogues."

Karl Jahnke, one of the employees of the Luick Lumber firm, met with a very painful accident in the factory Friday morning. A piece of heavy timber fell on his middle finger and severely mangled it. The wound is very painful, but the finger will not have to be amputated.

Among the recent visitors to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Allmand was a young lady who bears such a close resemblance to Mr. Allmand that it is said she is the dead image of him. She tipped the scales at 8 pounds when her father weighed her shortly after her arrival.

The Misses Eva and Grace Jenkins. of Flint, nieces of B. F. Watts, won the first prize, $20 in gold, at the flower parade during the recent 'Elks' carnival held in that city. They drove an elaborately decorated phaeton. The decorating was done by Mrs. B. F. Watts and Mrs. Jenkins.

The twenty-fourth annual farmers' picnic will be held at Whitmore Lake Saturday. There promises to good attendance of farmers from all ever the county. A good program of speeches has been provided. Hon. Geo. H. Durand, Hon. Chas. E. Townsend and Hon. Sam H. Smith will all make rousing speeches on the most interesting topics of the day.

The display in the Fine Arts Building at the County Fair this year promises to be a fine one. Two new booths have been put in in addition to the large number which were added last year and every inch of space has been taken by the merchants of the city and more could be disposed of if they were available. The merchants are already planning exhibitions which they will make and they are sure to be very attractive and original.

The Board of Public Works have received the following bids for putting in bridges to take place of the culverts destroyed by the flood of last June. The bids are from the National Bridge Co., of Indianapolis. They are, bridge on Miller avenue, $1,501.50; Broadway, $1,496; Seventh street, between Liberty and Jefferson streets, $1,092; and Seventh street between Liberty and Washington streets, $1,181.25. The bids were accepted and recommended to the common council.

People are annoyed as well as delighted over the frisky pet squirrels around the city. In some instances they are an abominable nuisance. If you happen to have a pear tree, and it bears the pears the seeds of which they like, you can rest assured you won't reap much of the crop yourself. If you have walnut or butternut trees you will not only be fleeced of all the nuts, but you will have to contend with cracked shells on your lawn and damage to your lawn mower.

Miss Luella M. Swift has accepted a position to teach the coming year at Chesaning, near Saginaw. Miss Swift graduated from the Annn Arbor High school with the class of '99, and was a student in the literary department of the U. of M. in 1900. During her attendance at the Teachers' Institute recently held here, Miss Swift did not fail to favorably impress her instructors. In consequence of her good work she was chosen for the position out of several applicants. She will teach the seventh and eighth grades.

Secretary of State Warner is sending to sheriffs of the various counties notice of the fall election. The notification embodies the submission to the people of proposed amendments to the constitution abolishing the provision allowing $15 to each newspaper publishing the general laws enacted at any session of the legislature, and providing for indeterminate sentences for convicts. The newspapers publish only the laws enacted at a special session when the cost of such publication is merely nominal. In the aggregate this publication costs the state nearly $10,000.

The "$500 Girls' have associated themselves together in an active society and have elected the following officers: President, Sarah Felch; vice president, Ida Crippen; secretary, Cora Mincks; treasurer, N. P. McGay: The young ladies are making arrangements to give a social Saturday evening, Sept. 6. on the court house lawn, for the benefit of the First Union church. It will be the first time that the grounds have been used for such a purpose. The chairman of the social committee is Miss Mildred Ware. Anyone desiring to donate a cake, etc., may apply to her.