Local Brevities

A. B. Wines has his wrist badly cut with a chisel the other day and had it sewed up at the hospital. 

Invitations are out announcing the marriage of Miss Milla Taylor and Mr. Herbert Gore, on Tuesday, July 9.

Admirer of fine horses should see the one C. H. Major has just purchased. It is one of the finest in the city. 

Miss Flora Martin writes from Stag Island that everything; is favorable for a fine summer's outing and advises all her friends to go there. 

Railway Mail Clerk Bassett will return to Ann Arbor. He has rented a house on Thompson street and will move his family here in July. 

The third animal meeting of the Michigan State Federation of Colored Women will be held in Ann Arbor, July 21 and 22, at the A. M. E. church. 

President Angell will make a congratulatory address on the occasion of the celebration of the semi-centennial of Hillsdale college at Hillsdale, on July 4. 

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gwinner of Thompson street, Sunday morning, a ten-pound girl. This is good news for which Mr. and Mrs. Gwinner are to be congratulated. 

Dr. W. S. Mills, of this city, was elected treasurer of the new state osteopathic examining board at the meeting held in Lansing Monday for the purpose of organizing. 

The pavement on Liberty street is progressing very nicely. The sand is now being hauled in and it will only be a short time until the workmen will begin to place the blocks. 

Miss Olga Bisinger, 929 W. Liberty street, was given a surprise by a number of her friends Tuesday evening, on the eve of her departure for a two months stay at Denver, Col. 

Rev. Beckham, of Nashville, Tenn., field secretary of the National Baptist convention, will be in Ann Arbor next Sunday and will preach both morning and evening at the Second Baptist church. 

Anyone interested in making a collection of antique furniture should visit the rummage sale rooms, 109 So. Main street. There is an old bed and a mahogany table that are worthy of attention. 

Walter Hines of Walnut street, has secured a fine position with the Wabash Railroad company. Mr. Hines graduated in this year's engineering class and his many Ann Arbor friends will be pleased to learn of his success. 

The extension of the court house lawn on the Ann street side is badly in need of attention. The grounds are kept so well that the extension in contrast suffers. A little work of grading would add much to the appearance of the entire square. 

C. K. Perrine received the appointment. Monday, as secretary of the School of Music. He will take charge of the work August 1. Mr. Perrine was formerly of Jackson, but was a resident of this city before his appointment was considered. 

Charlie Clark, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. George Clark, of Spring St., died Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock of scarlet fever. The funeral, which was very private, was held Monday at 11 o'clock a. m. Rev. Young, of the Baptist church, conducted the services. The interment was made at Forest Hill. 

S. E. Higgins of Ann Arbor has just returned from Des Moines, Ia., where he has been studying Osteopathy and teaching chemistry in the Still College of Osteopathy during the past two years. He graduated at the recent commencement with the degree of Doctor of Osteopathy. He will in the near future open an office for practice here. Mr. Higgins is a graduate of the university literary department also, and has held prominent positions in the state as superintendent of city schools. The Argus wishes him success in his new profession. 

This is great weather for the farmers and they are jubilant over the fact that the hay crop is turning so well. If the weather continues fair even the wheat, about which the farmers were so anxious on account of the heavy rains, will come out all right.

Don't forget that the ladies and gentlemen of the Northfield parish extend a cordial invitation to everybody to come to Whitmore Lake Saturday and help them celebrate. Trains will leave Ann Arbor at 9 a.m. and 12:30 and 4:53 p.m. Returning trains will leave Whitmore at 7 p.m. and 7:57 p.m. Round trip 25 cents. 

A new departure will be introduced at the postoffice July 4. On that day the office will be closed all day except during the hour from 8 to 9 a.m. when the stamp and general delivery and registry department will be open. This change is made that the employees may enjoy the holiday. No delivery will be made by the carters on that day, but mail may be gotten from the windows. 

Adrian Times: — During the charge on Fort Gregg, near Petersburg, Va., P. H. Barnes, who was a member of the Second Michigan regiment, was wounded in the forehead, and since that time the wound has bothered him. He has had several operations performed and portions of the bone were removed. Wednesday morning he will go to the hospital at Ann Arbor to take X-ray treatment. 

In the case of Dean & Co. vs The Ann Arbor Railroad and the City of Ann Arbor which is set for trial July 7. Judge Kinne has asked Judge Harry A. Lockwood of Monroe to sit and he is understood to have consented. This is the suit in which Dean & Co. attack the validity of the city ordinance relative to grade separation claiming it was not passed in accordance with the provisions of the charter. 

Clarence Hull, a nine-year-old boy, who is here taking treatment for his eyes, was thrown from the lower step of one of the suburban cars out West Huron street at 9:15 Tuesday morning and was picked up unconscious. Mail Carrier Richmond carried him into C. M. Edmunds' house, where the boy is stopping. Medical attendance was summoned and it was found that he was not seriously injured. 

Emil Golz has received word of the death of both his father and mother at their home in West Prussia. Their deaths occurred about three months apart but the news of both was contained in the same letter from a niece who said that she had started to write of her grandmother's death but her grandfather had told her to wait a few days and she could tell of both their deaths in the same letter. Mr. Golz was 80 years old and his wife a few years younger. They celebrated their golden wedding two years ago, the entire village being decorated in their honor.