Local Brevities

LOCAL BREVITIES

The public schools will reopen next Monday.

The public schools will re-open on Monday next.

The board of regents will hold their next meeting on Sept. 10.

The teachers of St. Thomas school arrived in the city this week.

Warren Parson has taken charge of the grocery department at C. F. Pardon' s.

Dr. and Mrs. J. Markley have moved from 912 Forest avenue to 1320 S. University avenue.

Mrs. Mary Thomas, of Toledo, Ohio, has rented the Bradshaw house, 549 S. Division street.

Rev. Fr. E. D. Kelly delivers a lecture in St. Patrick's church, Brighton, Wednesday, Sept. 10.

Bernhardt Bauer, one of the old settler of Northfield, died Tuesday of jaundice, aged 70 years.

Miss Elizabeth Pond has accepted a position in the Owosso schools to teach kindergarten music.

Miss Mamie Frank and Matt. Fischer, of Fischer's hardware, will be married early next month.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sorg, 1144 W. Liberty street, Wednesday evening, a nine-pound girl.

Rev. Henry Robinson will begin his duties as assistant rector of St. Andrew's parish on next Sunday.

Will Conlon and family have removed from E. Kingsley street to the Galich house on Ingalls street.

The hearing of the case of John Shadford vs. the D., Y., A. A. & J. has been fixed for next Monday.

Miss Belle Louise Brewster sang a charming solo at the morning service at the First M. E. church on Sunday.

All the clerks employed by B. St. James were pleasantly entertained by him Sunday at his cottage at Whitmore Lake.

The Y. M. C. A. night school will open Monday, Sept. 29. The opening reception will be held the Friday preceding.

Henry Stettmer & Co., have begun suit in the circuit court against James H. Lepper. The amount claimed is under $500.

Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Kempf will meet their classes in vocal and instrumental music Sept. 8, at their studio, 312 S. Division street.

Lindenscnmitt & Apfel have greatly improved the appearance of their store by putting in three ten-foot, "silent salesman" cases.

R. H. Kempf announces that the regular rehearsals of St. Andrew's vested choir will be resumed Saturday evening, Sept. 6, at 7 o'clock, in Harris hall.

Otto A. Wahldrau, a tailor in the employ of Henry & Kyer, and. Miss Eliza Haviland, both of Ann Arbor, were married by Justice Doty Tuesday morning.

At the A. M. E. church Monday evening, Sept. 8, there will be a Fairy Wedding in Flowerland. Wedding supper served after the ceremony. Admission 10 cents.

Fred Schmid has begun the erection of another six-room cottage on Greenwood avenue. This is the third house Mr. Schmid has built on Greenwood avenue this summer.

J. C. Henderson, who recently purchased the Dwyer property on. E. Kingsley street, will have the house remodeled and repaired to some extent before removing thereto.

Miss Florence K. Wetmore started Monday for Albany, Texas, to assume the position of lady principal in a Presbyterian academy. She visits friends in Marshall and Chicago on the way.

Miss Mary Grube, who has been with the Michigan Telephone Co. longer than any other employee in the office in this city, resigned her position Saturday. She has accepted a position with E. F. Mills & Co., and will begin her new duties on Monday.

Hon. C. A. Ward's new brick house in Greenwood avenue, has been sold to Mrs. Webber. The house has been rented by Prof. Walter Dennison for five years.

E. G. Hoag and family, of Chelsea have removed to this city. Pending the time he can get into the store now occupied by Cutting, Reyer & Co., he has rented a store on State street.

The Phi Kappa Psi house is being greatly improved. A new addition is being put on the south side of the house and new windows will be put in and the entire interior will be re-decorated.

Miss Allie Tice will assist Mrs. Tyler as pianist at Granger's school of dancing this season. As was proven by the spring series of parties at the academy, Miss Tice is an excellent pianist.

Mrs.'George Cutler met with a painful accident Wednesday afternoon. In going down the cellar stairs she slipped and fell to the bottom, dislocating her shoulder and breaking the bone in her wrist.

Messrs. Donnelly, O'Kane 'and Blum of the post office force, have gone to Jackson to attend the races. They have taken quite a sum of postoffice money with them to put up on "Little Tommie."

Messrs. Lewis Markham and Fret Schaeberle, who played with the Ypsilanti band in Detroit, Labor Day, gave such satisfaction that they have been engaged to do the clarinet work permanently.

Orrin Edward, three months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wood, of 1042 Wall street, died Friday after noon. The funeral was held from St. Thomas church Monday morning at 9 o'clock.

The family of Mrs. Deering, of Alma, have arrived in the city, having come here to take advantage of the educational opportunities offered. They have rented the house at 327 E. Liberty street. 

Orville Moe, the popular State street barber, has been busy during the past week in preparing some apartments in the Unity Block for himself and his bride-elect, which they will occupy after Sept. 15.

The many friends of Mrs. Thomas Mattemoe, formerly Alice Reilly of this city, will be grieved to learn of the death of her seven years old son at their home in Toledo, Friday. The boy was sick only a short time.

John Tice, of the Goodyear Drug Co., has received a check for $25, which is a prize which he won from the Eastman Kodak Co., for the best show window of the Eastman goods. This check comes at a very opportune time.

Complaint is made by many of the patrons of disgraceful conduct of drunken men on the Ann Arbor road returning from Toledo Sunday night. The misconduct consisted principally in loud yelling, much to the annoyance of ladies.

Wilbur C. Farrington, of Ypsilanti, has sued Wm. Roe, of Ann Arbor town before Justice Gibson upon a note, claiming $24 due. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff for full amount and costs. Murray &, Storm represented the plaintiff.

Cards have been received in the city announcing the marriage of Miss Lena Storm, sister of Atty. Carl Storm, to William Emory Green, which will take place at Kirksville, O., Sept. 10. Miss Storm has many friends in the city who tender their congratulations.

Mr. A. A. Stuhlman expresses his sincere thanks to the neighbors and friends, to the choir and embers of Trinity Lutheran church, and the City Y. M. C. A., for the many expressions of sympathy and the many acts of Christian kindness shown to himself and family during the sickness, death and burial of his wife.

Congressional Candidate Townsend must be getting scared. The following is a portion of his list of spell binders he proposes to turn loose in this district: Ex-Senator John Patton, Congressman William Alden Smith, Congressman S. W. Smith, Congressman H. C. Smith, Congressman Hamilton, Congressman Gardner, Grant Fellows and W. W. Wedemeyer.

The funeral of Bernhardt Bauer, who died at his home in Northfield Tuesday, was held from his late residence, Rev. Mr. Fischer officiating. Interment will take place in St. John's cemetery, Northfield. The deceased leaves a widow and seven children-Mrs. Chas. Greiner, Ann Arbor, Mrs. Gust Ehnis, Ridgeville, Ind., Miss Rose Bauehr, Northfield, and Messrs. John Fred, Will and Albert Bauer.

Warren Lewis' prize standard bred yearling stallion colt, Warren Lewis No. 36097, took first premium in the yearling class against eight colts at the Essex horse fair. The handsome colt will be shown at the Washtenaw county and Pontiac state fairs, where he will undoubtedly take the blue ribbon. The colt was bred by H. P. Finley of Scio and sold last January to Warren Lewis, the live stock auctioneer, for $200, when six months old.

The O. E. S. held their annual election Wednesday night at Masonic Temple, and the following officers were elected: Worthy matron, Mrs. Cora Brown; worthy patron, John Bennett; associate matron, Mrs. Dora Vandawarker; conductress, Mrs. Mabel Blum; associate conductress, Mrs. Carolyn Lindenschimitt; secretary, Mrs. Ida Moore; treasurer, Mrs. Martha Bach. A public installation will be held Sept. 17, to which all friends of the O. E. S. are invited. The installation will be followed by a social.

A very pleasant family picnic was given on the lawn of the Herman Krapf home on Monday afternoon. Thirty-five members of the family were present and every one joined in the fun with great enthusiasm, making the afternoon one of unusual enjoyment. The guests from out of town were Miss May Warren, of Milford and Mr. and Mrs. John Wells, of Detroit.

Louisa, wife of Albert Stuhlman, died at the family residence, 529 S. Main street, Saturday morning, aged 31 years. The death is a particularly sad one as beside the bereaved husband she leaves three small children- the youngest but six weeks old - to mourn their loss. The funeral was held Monday afternoon, from the residence at 2 o'clock and from Trinity Lutheran church at 2:30.

The Arlington hotel will be reopened before the coming county fair and will be run as a $2 a day house on the European plan. A five-year lease of the hotel was made this morning, but the hotel man who is to open the hotel is not yet known. Decorators will be put at work tomorrow to renovate the premises and it is said that considerable work will be done upon the building within the next week.

Dr. Greorge Dinan Perkins, of 195 Canton avenue, Detroit, died Tuesday morning at his home, after a short illness, of kidney trouble. Dr. Perkins was graduated with the class of '97 from the medical department of the U. of M. He was a native of the Barbadoes and came to this country ten years ago. For the past two years he has been connected with Parke, Davis & Co. as bacteriologist and microscopist.

Homer P. Finley, of S. Ingalls street, has just been granted a patent on a harvester by the U. S. patent office. The patent is on a revolving grain deck for a harvester, to prevent grain clogging the work of the machine. Mr. Finley, who is a practical farmer, has long felt the need of such an invention and set his brains to work with such success that he mastered the difficulty caused by the clogging of the grain and found a way to prevent it.

The funeral of Mrs. Albert Stuhlman, who died Saturday, was held at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at the English Lutheran church, Rev. Mr. Tedrow officiating. It was very largely attended, the deceased having a very wide circle of friends. The church was decorated with handsome flowers and many beautiful floral offerings rested on the casket. The remains were taken to Detroit, the home of the deceased, for burial, interment being in Woodmere cemetery. Rev. Mr. Tedrow, the members of the church council and Enoch Dieterle accompanied the remains to their last resting place. Mrs. Stuhlman leaves a husband and three little children.