Local Brevities

Noble Eddy has accepted a position in Fulde's tailor shop. --  George P. Staffan will build a house on Lincoln street in Chelsea. -- M. Smith has removed with his family, from Wayne to this city. -- The Chelsea telephone company intends to rebuild its exchange. --  A new iron fence is to be built in front of the cemetery in Dexter. --  Mack & Co. shipped a carload of wool to Malone, N. Y., Tuesday. --  W. J. Holmes and Wm. Face will build new residences in Manchester. --  Mrs. John Burg is having the interior of her house beautifully redecorated. -- Mahlon R. Griffith will build a new house on S. Main street in Chelsea this season. -- The bonds of six saloon keepers have been accepted by the Chelsea council. --  Conrad Lehman will build a residence on Garfield street in Chelsea this summer. --  E. B. Hall will build a new residence on the corner of Lincoln and Israel avenues. -- Washtenaw had 53 deaths in March and the death rate here was lower than the rest of the state.  -- The long bridge on the River  Raisin in Bridgewater has been pronounced unsafe by the town board. --  R. H. Alexander is building a new house on the corner of W. Summit and Garfield street in Chelsea. -- Mr. Kleinfeld, president of the S. C. A. will lead the evening service at the First Union church next Sunday. --  Cards are out announcing the marriage, May 7, of Samuel Andres, of this city, to Miss Minnie Barth, of Lima.  -- B. Ludwig, of Bay City, has accepted a position with the Michigan Furniture Co. and has removed here. --  Mrs. Chas. McCotter will remove soon to Indianapolis, where Mr. McCotter has his headquarters at present.  --  C. L. Thurber has been appointed highway commissioner of Webster, in place of Fred Bird, who did not qualify.  --  Smallpox was reported as present in 169 places in Michigan during the month of March and diphtheria in 62 places. --  Enoch Dieterle is having a very fine ambulance built by Walker Bros. It will be the finest in the city when completed. --  A. Kearus and family have moved from the north side. Mr. Kearns has accepted a position at the Western Brewery.  -- A county convention of the Young People's societies of the German Lutheran church with be held in this city on May 10.  --  Ann Arbor had 13 deaths in March and Ypsilanti 12. The death rate in March was a third lower than the death rate In the whole state. --  While Michigan had only 2 deaths from smallpox in March, Indiana had 50. Both the deaths from smallpox in this state were in Presque Isle. --  H. F. Frost, who for many years has been in business as funeral director in Durand, has moved to this city and  has accepted a position with Knoch Dieterle. --  The bishop of San Francisco will lecture at the M. H. Church next Sunday evening. He is a brilliant  speaker and everyone should make an effort to hear him. --  Wm. Haley, who underwent a slight operation upon his foot last week, has so far recovered that he was able to be removed from the hospital Sunday to his mother's home. --  Eugene A. Warner died in El Paso, Texas. He was born in Ann Arbor 55 years ago, and was a brother of Mis. William Dansingburg. He was engineer on the Sante Fe and Mexican Central Railroads and went to Texas In 1857. --  Died, at Roosevelt hospital, New York city, April 24, Henry H. Finley, brevet major of volunteers, U. S. A.,  brother of Dr. David M. Finley and  Homer P. Finley, of this city. --   Ed. Krapf and E. Hayden have purchased the Conde laundry. The office will remain on William street, where Mr. Krapf has conducted the Myers laundry agency for some time.  -- Rev. Samuel Linderman of Amherst, O., will preach at the Bethlehem Evangelical church on next Sunday. He has many acquaintances in this city, having lived here when a young boy. --  Rev. Florence Kollock Crooker left yesterday for Boston, where she will preach in one of the large churches on Sunday. Dr. Crooker leaves on Monday and they will sail on Tuesday for Europe. --  The local union of Lathers, No. 181, held a meeting April 28, and set the scale of wages at 2 1/2 cents a yard or 30 cents an hour for 9 hours' work. All contractors have agreed to accept these rates.  --  The old home of the Misses Ladd, on Catherine street, is being moved to a lot near the corner of Catherine and Fourteenth street. The Misses Ladd win erect a modern residence on their lot. --  The Northfield items in a neighboring paper say that Supervisor John Munn is around with the assessment roll. If Supervisor Munn, of Salem, is carrying his assessment roll around in Northfield, he is not the Munn we take him for.  --    Mrs. Elizabeth Jacobs died on Saturday, after a short illness of pneumonia at home, 1001 S. Fourth avenue. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the A. M. E. church. --   W. W. Hives has been promoted from his position as cashier of the American Express Co. in this city to the agency at Petoskey. Fred Rice, of Saginaw, has been appointed in his place at this office. --  The Young People's Religion Union of the Unitarian church will give an amateur theatrical performance a week from this evening in the parlors of the church. The play to be produced is W. D. Howells' "The Elevator". --   William B. Everest has sold through the real estate agency of Emmet Coon, his fine lots on S. Division street to Jacob Instz, the clothier, who will build a beautiful residence there this summer. Mr. Everest's family have owned this property about 60 years.  --  The colored girl who was confined in the Ypsilanti pest house wi smallpox with her sister as nurse, who escaped Friday, probably exposed many people. She came to Ann Arbor on the electric line and from here went to Milan on the Ann Arbor railroad.  --   The Ann Arbor Branch of Collegiate Alumnae offered to the members of the high school class in American history, two honor prizes of $1 each for the best essays on Civil Service Reform. The winners of these prizes were Lois Banfield and Ralph Chubb. --  The funeral of the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Neff was held Tuesday afternoon from the house. The little girl died after brightening the home of her parents only a few hours. Mr. and Mrs. Neff have the sympathy of their friends in their sad bereavement .  -- The new pastor of the Baptist church in Saline is Rev. Mr.. A. McConnell. Rev. Mr. McConnell bad been pastor of the Baptist church in Quincy for three years, when he accepted a cali to the Saline church. He preached his farewell sermon in Quincy yesterday. -- Dr. Croker will preach his last sermon at the Unitarian church for this year, next Sunday morning. Dr. Sunderland will preach on two Sundays during June. The pulpit will be supplied by various ministers during May. The church will be closed for the summer about the middle of June. -- "Wick'' Maynard returned Monday to visit old friends in this city after an absence of over three years. He enlisted in a regiment in the west and was ordered to the Philippines, where he saw much active service. After his enlistment ended he went to China and fought in the Boxer war and has now come back to visit the home of his childhood. He is being made much of a hero by his admiring friends. -- Burdock Blood Bitters gives a man a clear head, an active brain, a strong vigorous body- makes him fit for the battle of life. Chelsea has a crack baseball team the average age of the players being 16 years. They are called the Junior Stars. Saturday they played an openIng game on their home grounds with an Ann Arbor team and defeated the Ann Arbor team by a score of 21 to 3. The batteries were: Chelsea, Rogers and Begole; Ann Arbor, Schiappacasse and Saunders. There were 300 people in attendance and Rogers was presented with a fine bouquet.  -- A short time ago the question was asked how this town come to be named Manchester. Mrs. Sarah Weir of YpsiIanti saw the item in the Enterprise and gives this explanation. The old Inhabitants claim that on account of the excellent water power here- three dams with a combined fall of nearly 36 feet- they hoped the place might become a great manufacturing city like Manchester, England, so the named it Manchester.- Manchester Enterprise. -- The Ann Arbor and Lodi plank road which has been abandoned by the company, and is now cared for by the townships through which it passes, is reported in rather bad condition because of the old planks, which have been covered up by earth and gravel. decaying.  The road in former times under the superintendence of the late Nelson Sutherland, F. E. Mills and Henry Depew, was always kept in fine condition. The road districts should take pride in keeping up its old reputation.  -- Mr. Samuel Weiennett, south of Saline, Is no boaster of great deeds, but he has during the past year kept a record of his milk and butter business in which he finds a snug little profit. From April 1, 1902, to April 1, 1903, he milked four cows which gave a total of 24,905 pounds of milk which brought him an average price of 23 cents or a total of $240.52. The average milk per cow in pounds being 6226 1/2 average credit per cow $61.63. Average test 4.3. This is only another complete  demonstration that Washtenaw county dairying can be made to pay.- Saline Observer.