Local Brevities

Epp Mattison, jr., of Dixboro, was thrown from a mower while cutting hay, Tuesday, and severely injured.

Miss Maude Parker, of this city, will be one of the instructors at a teacher's institute to be held at Adrian beginning July 27.

The Parisian laundry moved Tuesday from the corner of Maynard and Williams streets to occupy what was Fox's Art store on William.

The friends of Rev. Dr. Charles O'Reilly, of Adrian, will be pleased to learn that he has so far recovered as to be able to take carriage rides.

The barbers on State street, finding that 6 o'clock closing was not satisfactory for all concerned, have decided to remain open until 8 p.m. as heretofore.

John Bauer, an old and respected resident of Freedom township, died at his home yesterday morning. Time of the funeral will be announced later.

Miss Sadie Speer, daughter of the day telegraph operator at Chelsea, has been appointed day operator for the Michigan Central company at South Haven.

The ladies of Trinity Lutheran church will give a lawn social at the Ainsworth hotel on next Saturday evening. Ice cream and cake will be served.

The many friends of Miss Minnie Steinbach will be pleased to learn that after a year's absence she has returned to Ann Arbor to take possession of the Utopia millinery parlors.

Announcement is made from Washington that rural delivery service will begin at Willis, August 1, with one carrier. An additional route will also be added at Milan on that date.

Miss Elvira Sumner, of Thompson street, died yesterday morning. The funeral will be held from the home Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Rev. C. S. Patton will officiate.

Saline is arranging to have a gala day August 20 and has formed an organization to have charge of it. A. M. Humphrey is president; G. R. Lutz, secretary, and A. J. Warren, treasurer.

W. H. Hope, of Derby, England, who had just completed a course of shorthand in Mr. Moran's school, has secured a fine position in a lumber camp at Cadillac at a salary of $1,000 a year.

A new heating plant is being put in for Prof. B. M. Thompson's new block on the corner of State and North University avenue. The apparatus will be put under the new building but will heat the three.

Miss Maud Woodmansee can be found every afternoon from 2 to 5:30 at the Y. W. C. A. rooms over the post office. Anyone wishing information concerning the Y. W. C. A. outing should see her.

The Y. P. society of Rethlehem church will give an ice cream social July 23, at the home of Emmanuel Schneider, 420 W. Liberty street. This will be a lawn social and the price thereof is 10 cents.

Mrs. Eliza Jackson, of York, died Saturday afternoon at her home. Mrs. Jackson was eighty-six years of age, being an old resident of York. The funeral was held Monday afternoon from her late home.

Mr. Henry Kuehn and Miss Frances Clark were married at the home of Rev. A. L. Nicklas Saturday evening. They were attended by Julius Weinmann and Miss Lizzie Mawhorter. Mr. and Mrs. Keuhn will reside on Spring street.

Jacob Hetchler died Sunday at the home of his son, Leeland J. Hetchler, S. University avenue. Mr. Hetchler was 86 years of age, but has lived in Ann Arbor for only a short time. The remains will be taken to Detroit Wednesday for interment.

James S. Handy, of Chicago, is spending a few days in the city visiting old friends. He graduated from the literary and law departments of the University and has since been practicing in Chicago, having an office in the Marquette building.

Rev. Father Edward Taylor, who celebrated his first high mass at St. Thomas church here last Sunday and is a native of Northfield, will celebrate high mass at the Northfield church next Sunday, and Rev. Father McNamara will preach.

Wm. Seyfried, an employee of L.C. Weinmann, started last Sunday for Montana to seek his fortune. Monday he returned. He expected, when he left to be gone four years, but instead he was gone four and twenty hours. His friends consider they have a horse on him.

Before the next year in the University opens a list of sanitary boarding and rooming houses will probably be published by the local board of health. Houses without, or with inadequate, sewer connections will not be listed, and roomers will be advised to keep away from them.

S. W. Millard's cottage at Whitmore Lake is completed and the family are preparing to move in. It was formerly the property of John King. Mr. Pray has been at work upon it but a week, and it is now a cottage with all the modern improvements and summer accommodations.

The will of Harriet R. Mead was allowed Wednesday by Judge Watkins. About $8,000 worth of property is in the estate. Frank Jones appeared for Wm. Mead, one of the heirs, and Murray & Storm for Lewis R. Mead. Attorney Carl Storm was appointed administrator with will annexed.

The summer school for shorthand teachers will open in the high school building next Monday morning and will continue for two weeks. This school is conducted under the auspices of the National Shorthand Teacher's association. There will be ten of the best shorthand teachers in the county give instruction.

Emil Golz, corresponding secretary of the Ann Arbor Arbeiter Verein, received a check Tuesday in payment of the $500 death benefit held by the late Geo. Spathelf, sr. This is very prompt payment, indeed, as only five days elapsed between the mailing of the certificate of death and the receipt of the check.

The record in the celebrated tax case of the village of Chelsea against the Holmes Mercantile company is being prepared and is nearly ready for the printer. This is the case recently before the circuit court of Washtenaw in which Judge Kinne ordered a verdict for the defendant on the ground that Treasurer Jacob Hummell did not do his full duty.

John Gorman was arrested and brought before Justice Doty Tuesday on a warrant charging him with being drunk on the streets. He claimed he was in Ann Arbor to have his eyes treated as he was blind. Justice Doty suspended judgment on condition that he would have his eyes cared for and get out of town by 1 o'clock that afternoon. He agreed.

Dr. C. Golder, of Cincinnati, assistant editor of the Christliche Apologete, preached at the Salem M. E. church in Toledo Sunday. Dr. Golder is well known to Ann Arbor people, having been pastor of the German M. E. church in this city for some years, and marrying his wife here, Miss Ida Schlotterbeck, sister of Prof. Julius Schlotterbeck of the Michigan University.

Emma O. Wilkinson has filed a bill of complaint against Chas. L. Hutzel and Matilda A. Hutzel and Wm. Copeland, claiming that the defendants in building a house on Thompson street, have taken possession of a driveway in which complainant has an easement. On this claim the court issued an injunction restraining defendants from proceeding with the building. A motion will be made to dissolve the injunction. The bill was filed Monday.