Local Brevities

Saline is making great preparations for Memorial day.  -- There were 19 births in Freedom during the past year. -- James Martin is building a new residence in Manchester. -- B. A. Morton has been granted a pension of $40 a month. -- Emmett Hadley is building a new house near North Lake. -- George Parker has sold his saloon in Dexter to Thomas Harris. --  Mr. and Mrs. Wm Clancy are the proud parents of a baby boy. -- The Birkett pulp mill at Hudson in this county, has been closed down.--  Six carloads of Manchester wool has been sold to an Albany, N. Y., firm. -- Mrs. Clara G. Plympton, of this city, has been granted a pension of $8 a month. --  Wm. Herman has purchased a lot on Second street and will erect a house upon it. -- The salary of the postmaster of Manchester has been increased from $1,400 to $1,500. -- Memorial services will be held next Sunday by the G. A. R. at the Trinity Lutheran church. -- Miss Lelia Farlin will give her graduating recital at the School of Music on June 5. -- Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thomas have moved to Chicago, where Mr. Thomas has secured a fine position. --  The Aged People's Home association will hold a business meeting on May 27 at the home of Mrs. Anna Bach. W. Jones, of Chelsea, will speak at the Y. M. C. A. meeting next Sunday afternoon at the meeting at 4 o'clock. -- Mrs. Lindsey, of Saline was brought by Martin's ambulance to the Homeopathic hospital for treatment Tuesday. -- Ex-Mayor Copeland has been elected a member of the board of control of the Michigan Homeopathic Medical society. --  The boys' branch of the Y. M. C. A. will have a picnic on Saturday afternoon. They will start from the rooms at 2:15 p. m. -- Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane, of Kalamazoo, will preach in the Unitarian church of this city Sunday morning, May 24, at 10:30 o'clock. -- The school board has petitioned the council for a sanitary sewer so that they can make the proper sanitary arrangements at the Philip Bach school. -- Miss Myrtal Palmer will act as organist at the Presbyterian church next year, taking the place of Miss Minnie Davis, who has tendered her resignation. -- The Girls' Branch of the Y. W. C. A. will give a picnic on Saturday afternoon. Everyone is asked to bring a lunch and come and have a good time. -- Mrs. Hastreiter, of S. Fourth avenue, will go to Saginaw and Bay City on Saturday. She will attend the May festival in Saginaw during her stay there. -- Ex-Mayor Luick has planted a large number of wall-eyed pike in Island Lake from the fish hatchery. They will in time find their way down the Huron river. -- Three of the teachers in the Saline schools will not accept reappointments, Miss Manly goes to Detroit, Miss Brookes to Kalamazoo, and Miss Gardner to Battle Creek. -- Invitations are out for the wedding of Miss Farr, daughter of Regent Farr, and Dan Zimmerman, which will occur on June 2. They will reside on Israel avenue in the E. B. Hall house. -- Miss Florence Rogers died at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Kingsley, 213 S. Thayer street, yesterday. The remains will be taken to Northville on Saturday morning for interment. -- Lloyd Diamond, arrested by the officers on the Whitmore Lake road at the time that Officer O'Mara was fired at, will have his examination today. He claims ignorance of the affair. -- Born, to Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Bock, a little daughter, on Monday evening. -- Mrs. Mary Sullivan died in Northfield Saturday. She came from Ireland to Northfield over 50 years ago. Her husband died some 25 years ago and she is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Hire, of Bay City.  -- Geo. Bischoff has purchased the old Miller property, adjoining the third ward school and will utilize the land connected with it for gardening purposes in connection with his greenhouse. -- Mrs. Wealthy Ann Williams, of Dixon, Illinois, sister of George W. Cropsey of this city, died Monday, May 18, aged 84 years. Mr. Cropsey is now the only surviving member of the family. --  Robert Howard has been granted a pension of $8 a month. He was in the U. S. cavalry service from 1850-55 and was in the Indian wars in New Mexico. The pension was secured through W. K. Childs. -- Professor Fred N. Scott of the University, has been engaged by the Chicago board of education to give a course of five lectures on the teaching of English composition, at the Chicago Normal School. --  David Sawyer, of Owosso, a brother of A. J. Sawyer of this city, has begun a $10,000 damage suit against the Michigan Central, the damage being sustained while he was trying to get off at a flag station. -- The fifth and last lecture for 1902-03 upon the Baldwin foundation will be delivered before Hobart Guild in St. Andrew's church next Sunday evening by the Rev. Dr. Wm. D. Maxon, rector of Christ church, Detroit . -- The Chelsea council at a special session unanimously passed a resolution instructing the village attorney and Cavanaugh & Wedemeyer to carry the tax case of the village vs. the Holmes Merchantile Co., up to the supreme court. -- Miss Dora Witter and Martin Weiler of Ionia were married Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at the home of Prof. and Mrs. A. McLaughlin. The newly wedded pair left immediately after the ceremony for their future home in Ionia. --  Mack & Co. have recently sold about 100,000 pounds of wool directly to eastern manufacturers and expect to secure in all, this season, about 200,000 pounds. They are paying stiff prices and have made Ann Arbor an attractive rnarket for the wool growers. -- Miss Agnes Lambourn, 624 Felch St., and Mr. Clarence Walker of the 21st Battery, Ft. Sheridan, Ill., were united in marriage Friday evening at 8:30 by Rev. T. W. Young, at the bride's home. The ceremony was witnessed by a few friends form Ypsilanti, Mr. Walker's home. -- Gov. Bliss has signed a bill raising the salaries of the probate judges throughout the state. The salary of Judge Watkins was raised from $l,800 to $2,100 a year. The bill for the protection of rabbits in Washtenaw and several other counties has passed the legislature. It is now unlawful to use ferrets in hunting rabbits. --  Miss Lena Neebling, of this city, and Charles Hipp, of Ypsilanti, were quietly united in marriage at the Zion Lutheran parsonage Monday night by Rev. Mr. Nicklas. Miss Christine Neebling and Fred Babcock, of Ypsilanti, were the only friends who witnessed the ceremony. The newly wedded pair will reside in Ypsilanti. -- Memorial Sunday will be observed with appropriate services at Trinity Lutheran church next Sunday. A sermon appropriate to the occasion will be preached in the morning at 10 o'clock by the pastor and in the evenIng at 7 o'clock an illustrated lecture on the Battle of Gettysburg will be delivered by W. M. McNair.  -- A burglar entered the home of C. C. Warner, on E. Ann street, Saturday evening during the absence of the family, but was frightened away before he had secured anything. Mr. Warner returned home about 9 o'clock and found the back door open and a window pried up. There were burnt matches on the floor and tracks through the asparagus bed, showing where someone had jumped over the back fence in getting away. Apparently Mr. Warner's return had caused the burglar to make a hasty exit. -- Mrs. Sarah Walker, wife of ex Mayor Warren E. Walker, died at her home Saturday, of dropsy. She had been ill for many months with heart trouble. Her malden name was Mc Divitt and her life had been spent h Ann Arbor where she had many warm friends. Her husband and three sisters survive her. The sisters are Miss McDivitt of the public schools, Mrs. Cook and Mrs. William Wheeler. The funeral will be held at the house a 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, Rev. Mr Tatlock officiating, and interment will be in Forest Hill cemetery.  -- Mrs. Christian Osiander died at her home 536 W. Third street, Wednesday of paralysis, after only three days' in# of paralysie, after only three days' illness. Mrs. Osiander was born in Germany in 1824 and came with her parents to this county when only nine years of age. She leaves four children - Miss Mary Osiander, Mrs. Lydia Betz, Wm. Osiander, of this city, and Edward Osiander of Detroit. She was highly respected by all who knew her. The funeral was held today at 1:30 from the house and at 2 o'clock from Bethlehem church.