Local Brevities

LOCAL BREVITIES

  Judge Kinne has granted a decree of divorce in the case of Eliza Johnson vs. Wm. B. Johnson.   

  Karl Bross has resigned his position with H. F. Miller, druggist, and accepted one with H. J. Brown.

   The Standard Bearers will meet at the home of Mrs. Arthur Mummery, 311 Fourteenth street, Saurday at 4 p. m.

   W. Z. Hutchinson, the state inspector of bees, was in the city Saturday inspecting the apiaries in and around Ann Arbor.

   A license to marry was granted Ernest E. Weber, of Chelsea, and Nellie May Casterline, of Sand Lake, by Clerk Blum Tuesday.

   There are 1,200 volumes in the Library of the Church of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Chelsea. The library reopens Oct. 4.

   A burned fuse put out the electric lights in Lutz's clothing store Saturday night and for about ten minutes the store was out of business.

   John Gorman, alias Frank Wilson, was arrested Tuesday night for being drunk. - Yesterday morning Justice Doty gave him ten days in jail.

   Warren W. Wadhams holds the champion belt as fisherman this year.  He caught a black bass in Base lake which weighed 6 pounds and 2 ounces.

   The Salem Farmers' club will meet next week Wednesday at the home of Webster Lane. Geo. H. Winans will be present and speak on the Society of Equity.

   At the expiration of the lease of Daley's lunch counter, on Huron street, Dec. 12, he will remove to Detroit and take up the same business opposite the Griswold house.

   Sam Baumgartner, of Detroit, formerly of this city, will return to Ann Arbor and occupy the bakery of Fred Gerstner, which has been remodeled and redecorated by Wines & Thews.

   According to the Toledo Bee, the Michigan & Ohio Traction Co., which applied for entrance into Ann Arbor, have begun the work of grading at the Toledo end with 30 teams at work.

   W. A. Hutzel, of Pittsfleld, has rather a good thing in potatoes this year. On one acre of ground he raised 325 bushels of the tubers, which at present prices would be worth about $150.

   E. A. Matteson, of Dixboro, had a barn raising at his farm Friday and Saturday. It took a hundred men two days, and Mr. Matteson says they had a good time and "much eat'" and  

   "Teenie" Adams, of Dexter, caught, last Friday at Base Lake, the largest black bass ever caught in Washtenaw county, welghing 6 pounds 2 ounces. W. Wadhams secured it and is having it mounted. 

    The engineer of the Ann Arbor road made a slight miscalculatlon on the Miller avenue bridge and as a result it has been found necessary to tear out the foundations for the iron supports to the bridge and rebuild them.

   The funeral of the infant daughter of Mr. and  Mrs. William Turner, of Spring street, took place Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home, Rev. Mr. Tedrow officiating. Interment was made at Forest Hill cemetery.

   Reuben Sanford, aged 64 years, residing, in Monroe county, having had one experience with married life, is willing to try a second, and procured a license, Wednesday, to wed Ellen Jane Sanford, of Milan, aged 55 years.

   The first meeting of the year of the Aged People's Association was held at the residence of Mrs. Koch. All present were interested in discussions and plus for work. Arangements were made for the annual meeting next month.

   Prof. Running, of the Mathematical department, who has recently come here from the University of Wisconsin, has moved into the house just vacated by Prof. Andre Beziat de Bordes, who has accepted a call to the University of West Virginia, where he will have a chair in French.

   Mrs. Catherine Brampton died very suddenly of heart failure at her home in Detroit Saturday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mclntyre and Miss Jennie McIntyre attended the funeral which was held in Detroit yesterday. Mrs. Brampton was well known in Ann Arbor.

   J. E. Beal has completed the purchase of the Polhemus block, north of the postoffice, and is making arrangements to give the building a thorough overhauling and renovating to put it in shape for renting. One of the improvements will be the putting in of steam heat.

   The funeral of Mrs. Henry Dodge, at Whitmore Lake, Wednesday, was very largely attended, the church not being capable of holding all who assembled to pay their tribute to the dead. The L. O. T. M. M. guards of this city attended and conducted the burial service of the order.

   The thirteenth annual reunion of Co. B, Third Michigan cavalry, will be held at Whitmore Lake Tuesday, Oct. C, and arrangements are complete for a good time. Comrades who are unable to be present are asked each to write a letter to be read, which may be sent to Captain T. V. Quackenbush, formerly the company's commander, at Plymouth, or to S. H.  Allilton, at Owosso.

   Nicholas Schneider and G. Knapp have gone into the apple and cider business. They have contracted for an apple orchard of 600 trees and as there is an unusually big apple harvest they expect to be able to reduce the price of cider to 6 cents a gallon and to ship apples to the Detroit and New York markets at $1.50 a barrel and make money. They have seven men at work.

   The following books hare just been received at the high school library: "Life of Charles Stewart," R. Barry O'Brien: "Court Life Under the Plantagenets," Herbert Hall; "Twenty Years in Congress," James Blaine; "Life and Times of Aaron Burr" and "Benjamin Franklin," by James Parton: "Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet," by John Sherman.

   Edwin Conde, of Krapf & Hayden laundry, fell from his wheel Wednesday aftemoon while turning the corner on Washington and Main streets, and was pretty badly shaken up when he was brought to the laundry. The street was wet, and in the speed of making a short turn Mr. Conde was thrown hard upon the pavement. He was badly bruised, but nothing more serious has been heard.

   The Chelsea Herald, published by T. W. Mingay, has enlarged to a six column quarto. Larger type is used which must be very restful to the eyes of its older readers, and Mr. Mingay has more needed room for his advertisers. Some of the readers who were young men when they first began reading the Herald must be comparatively well along in years now. Long may the Herald flourish.

   Miss Ellen B. Frink entertained eight of her girl friends Wednesday afternoon from 4 to 6, at her home on Washtenaw avenue, This small reception was given by Mrs. F. G. Frink in honor of Miss Ellen's 14th birthday. If it is true, as someone has said, that the main thing at a party is to have plenty to eat, this little company had the main thing - and they had a very pleasant time besides.

   Miss Ella B. Mills of this city, who graduated with the class of '95, has been teaching continually since then, and for the past five years, has held a responsible position as teacher and principal of the State Industrial Home for Girls, at Adrian. She has been granted a leave of absence for one year, which she will spend at the Normal, at Ypsilanti, in special studies and music and drawing.

   Jacob Lutz has filed a bill for a mandamus against George J. Buss, the secretary and manager of Cutting, Beyer & Co., asking that he show cause why Mr. Lutz be not permitted to inspect the books of the company et al reasonable times. Mr. Lutz is the owner of three-twentieths of the stock in the company and claims that the directors under whose directlon Mr. Buss is acting are hostile to him.   

   Frederick Stollsteimer, aged 43 years, died Saturday evening at his home in Scio. The deceased was a brother of Mrs. John Volz and Mrs. Charles Zuern, of this city. He leaves a widow and six small children. A short service was held at his late residence Tuesday afternoon at one o'clock and another at Dexter at 2 o'clock, Rev. Mr. Meister officiating. The interment was made at the Dexter cemetery.

   Walter W. Case, Michigan Central agent in this city, was married Wednesday to Miss Agnes M. Calhoun, at the residence of the bride, in Detroit,  The wedding was a quiet affair, only the immedlate relatives being present. After the ceremony the couple left for a trip to Salt Lake city and other western points, expecting to return in about ten days, when they will make their home in one of the Cornwell houses on E. Kingsley street.