Local Brevities
LOCAL BREVITIES
Chas. Klager has received a carload of barrels which are to be filled with apple pumice.
The new telephone company are busy stringing their wires in the western portion of the city.
The Memorial Christian church are having a new heating plant put in, Kenny & Quinlan doing the work.
The receipts of the postoffice for November were $4,155.47, an increase of about $200 over the same month last year.
Different selections from the "Prince of Pilsen" music wlll be used by the orchestras in the theatres in both Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, from now until the play is given.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Keebler entertained friends at cards Monday evening at their home on E. Liberty street. Prizes were given and a fine supper was served.
Thomas Morgan was sentenced to 65 days in the house of correction by Justice Doty yesterday for being drunk, the offense being his second one. He pleaded guilty.
Owing to the breaking of the big engine at the campus power house, it has been necessary to shut off the lights at the gymnasium in order that the hospital might be lighted.
The Salem Farmers' Phone exchange, which was started a month ago with twenty subscribers, now has forty. This increase is largely due to the efforts of President E. T. Walker.
The Ann Arbor railroad has just completed a fine new electric alarm at the Pontiac street crossing. As this is one of the most dangerous crossings in the city, the improvement will be much appreciated.
The Young Ladies' Sodality of St. Thomas Catholic church are making preparations for a Christmas sale to be given in the parish hall on Wednesday evening of next week. Everybody is cordially invited to attend.
A box is being packed at Mr. Horace Purfield's, 634 12th street, for the extremely poor Armenians in Intab, Turkey. Any clothing--for summer or winter--bedding, etc., will be gratefully received and forwarded.
Mrs. Margaret Mogk, of W. Liberty street, was surprised Saturday by a gathering of twenty ladies who carne to her home to celebrate her birthday. A very pleasant evening was passed with an exceedingly fine supper.
Some of the out of town guests and former members of St. Andrews parish who have been attending the seventy-fifth anniversary, are Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Herman of Battle Creek, Mrs. Robert Frazer, Mrs. M. C. Wells and Mrs. Rathbone of Detroit.
The Southern club will give their annual dance at Granger's academy next Monday night. It is to be a fancy dress ball as each lady will wear a ball of cotton and the men will wear the bar from the Confederacy flag, as a sash. This dance is almost one of the prettiest of the season and a great credit to the members of the Southern club.
George Weeks, the eighteen year old son of Geo. W. Weeks, of 1540 Broadway, has secured a position as traveling salesman for the McNany Shaker Paint Co., of Cleveland, Ohio, and left on his first trip last Saturday. His territory will be in southwestern Ohio. The young man has for some time been in the employ of Hoag's supply store and last year was with the Woolson Spice Co.
A party of friends called at the home of G. W. Hubbard, 1127 Broadway, Thanksgiving night and gave him a very pleasant surprise, the occasion being his birthday. The evening was spent in progressive pedro, Miss Mary Reilly and Mr. F. R. Markey winning first prizes and Mr. L. Collins the consolation. After the games a dainty lunch was served and all left declaring a good time and promised to come again next year.
Prof. Stanley will deliver his illustrated lecture upon "The Evolution of Musical Instruments" in the Museum lecture room next Monday afternoon at 4:15. The lecture will be of great interest to music lovers and will be illustrated by stereopticon views.
There is a project on foot to start a creamery at Worden, about twelve miles north of the city. Evarts & Boyd, a creamery supplies firm are back of the movement, and a number of the farmers of the community to be benefited are also interesting themselves in pushing it along. The estimated cost of the plant is $4,300.
At the business meting of the City Y. M. C. A. Tuesday, the five directors' vacancies were filled by the re-election of three of the old officers and the election of two new, E. G. Hoag and G. J. Buss. The directors met and elected the following officers for the society: President, E. S. Gilmore; vice president, E. G. Hoag; secretary, George L. Moore; treasurer, William Goodyear.
Dr. Wilfred Stedman Fisher died Monday of typhoid fever, aged 26 years. Dr. Fisher graduated at the University last year and has since been a member of the hospital staff. His parents were unable to come here during his illness because of an operation performed upon another son in a Boston hospital. The remains were taken to his home at West Brattleboro, Vt., tor burial.
The regular meeting of the Aged People's Home association was held at the home of Mrs. Bach Monday afternoon. The receipts were $18, mostly raised by Mrs. E. C. Moore, who raised some $30 during the summer, both within and outside the city. One of our leading merchants headed the list with $10 followed by others with lesser amounts. The next meeting will be held the last week in January.
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