Personals

D. O. Douglas is home f rom Florida. Klmer Allen of Ypsilanti was in the city Thursday. Miss Gertrude Wade has been vislting friends at Ypsilanti. Miss Jennie Daniels of Gregory, is visiting relatives in the citj Mrs. A. H. Beal and Mrs. M. S. Sill of Dexter were here last week Friday. Miss Minnie Gidley, of Detroit, is visiting lier father, at No. 35 S. Iugalls st. MonroeConoverof Muskegon bas been in town a few diys with bis mother on Fifth avenue. Dr. W. B. Sraith started for the east tliis morning, on bis way to Egypt, to be gone all suminer. Carroll Rvmick U vi;ry ill at Seattle, Washington. HU brolhcr John expccts to go to bim at once. Mr?. Mary Uoyce, aecompanied by her daughter, Mrs. I,. C. Haight, of Ypsilantihave gone to the southern part of the state to spend a few weeks. Airs. Francés H. Wood, wife of Prof. DeVolson Wood, a former Professor in the University, has publlshed an Ameri, can Historical novel of the 19tii century, of which she is joint authoress with Eva Paine Kltchell. Tiie title is " Warp and Woof," published at Boonton, N. Y. Prof. T. J. Wrampelmeier and wife of San Diego, Cal., visited friends here last week. He is in the real estáte business and conslderably Interested in canal irrigation in Arizonla where thousands of acres of desert lands have been recl.iimed. They built a canal 40 miles in length, costing $300,000. The land is being taken up at $1.25 per acre, and by paying $8.00 per acre water rights are obtained which renders the soil so fertile as to give returns on a basis of $t00 per acre.