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In cffcrt April ltth, 1891. I.eave Ypsilanti at 7:30, 10:00, a. m., aud 12 :45, 2 :45, 4 :45 p. m. I-iOave Anu Arbor, f rom Court House, at 8:10, 10 :46, a. m., and 1 :25, 3 :25, 5 :25 p. m. SUNDAY TIME. Leave Ypsilanti, at 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:20 p. m. Leave Ann Arbor, from Court IIouso, at 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 10:00 p. m. Week day night trains suspended temporaril y until "further notice. ('ars run on local time. One ten cent ticket ?ntitles passenger to a continuous trip over both roads. J. E. BEAL, Pres. FORTUNE SMILES. Dame Fortune frequcntlv is shy, And oft denominated íu'kU' ; But now sbe smiles, for we can buy A pound of sugar for a nickel. Remeniber the Kirmess Friday evening, at the Opera House. The city needs a new flag. The o!d one looks as if it went through the bittle of Bunker Hill. There were 70,919 bushels of wheat marketed in this county during March, and 432,547 bushels since August lst. The figures mentioned for Martin Haller's new house should have read 42,500 instead of -$5,000 as given in last ■week's paper. The early gardner is the busiest man in the country just now. The weeds atíII get in their work all right in a couple of weeks. The condition of live1 stock, according to the April erop report, in this county 5s as follows : Horses, 97 per cent., cattle 94, sheep 95, swine 94. Mayor Doty has been inspecting the various departments of the city with reference to necessary recommendations in bis inaugural message. According to the April erop report the ■condition of wheat in this county is 101 per cent., as compared with average jyears, and clover meadows 97 per cent. Hon. John J. Robison had a sudden and severe attack of the grippe last Friday, but was too plucky to let it floor him very long. He was out again Monlay. At a regular meeting of the K. O. T. M'b last Friday evening, Joseph Polhemus resigned the office of commander of that lodge, and Nelson J. Kyer was chosen in his place. On Thursday eveniuü last the dwolling house of the Misses Fletcher, on S. Fifth ave., was somewhat injured by fire. A prompt response of the fire ■department saved it. The furniture workers of thia city, and they are quite a number, protest, unanimously and emphatically against the state's establishing a furniture factory at the Ionia prisou. . pv that house cleaning time haa commenced, every housewiie should have a bottle of that indispensable article, Hayley's furniture polish. It is the best and most complete article in its line in existence to-day. Mere is the way the taxos of a certain resident of this city have increased for the past, three years, without any change in valuation. In 1888, $18.08; in 1889, $21.03; in 1890, $24.05. Gradually the figures grow largor and largor. Snmmer resorts are "slicking up" and preparing for a fine run of custom this summer. And people in town aio already commencing to lay their plans for their summer vacatiou. It is a little premature, yet howevcr. Just wait until the "cold, wet May" gets in its work. It wouldpay the city to purchase the lot at the corner of S. Ashley ave. and Williams st., near the Toledo & Ann Arbor station, for the great quantity of fine gravel there is in it. And besides it ought to be leveled off. The street leading to the station is in a dangerous iondition. llenry Deugler, who learned telegraphy in W. U. office, ia this city, has gone to Detroit to work ior that company. ïhc iiolils are green once inoro, and il is n glorious sight to see. April lias been very khnl to residente of this section so far. The board f registratioa of the 4th ward will meet at Fireman's Hall to-day to register any new voters who may desire to vote for alderman next Monday. Mrs. E, B. Hall entertained a number of ladies last Wednesday afternoon very delightfully. The company was given in honor of her mother's, Mis. Tourtellotte birthday. A resident of Rochester, X. Y., in looking through our flre department tlie other day complimented it very highly, pronouneing it as fine as any he had seen so far as it went. A certain newspaper man in this city, while passing a saloon on Main street, carne near being hit by a snake that feil off from the roof, directly in front of him. It is pretty early for snakes, and where this one came from is still a mystery, for it did not run out of his boots. The assertion is made that the South Lyon people are talking up a motor line to run from that place on the oíd T. & A. A. roadbed to Leiand, and from there to Ann Arbor, over the track of the same railroad, thus giving connection at Ann Arbor with the niotorline for Ypsilanti. Agood scheme. This item, going the rounds, must be a mistake : "Just as soon as the thrifty housewife gets over the cold she will yank up all the carpets, kick the stoves out doors, pry up the windows and begin house cleaning. It is the right time for husbands to be out of town a week or more on urgent business, hut when he returns he.;isj,likely to find his accounts at the stores largely increased through the purchase of carpets, curtains, furniture, etc. It was ever thus." The last weather report issued by the state department fails entirely to note the cold wave that swept over this state on the 6th inst., entirely freezing up the democratie aspirations for the two years to come. The erop of tares sowed by the present legislature is already being harvested by the party, and by November, 1892, will be such a erop as no party ever before reaped. The weather service can not save them, though the precipitation be great and the temperature high. President Ashley woald consider it a favor to have some of the offending engineers and brakesinen who so ofteu block up the street crossings on the Toledo & Ann Arbor road, arrested and fined for their conduct. He thinks it would break up the practice, and thus save not only the people great annoyance, but the railroad oflk-ials as well. Wonder how it would work for the company to discharge one or two offenders of that kind? "Wouldn't that have a wholesome effect? The paymeut of the $2,000 insurance held by the late Herbert M. Frost, in the Maccabees, wül permit of some remarks about the organization. It is a fraternal beneficial order, having a state organization. Ko one admitted to the Michigan order unless he lives in Michigan, aud no payments for deatha unless they belong in Michigan. It pays on the death of a member, within ten days, $1,000 or $2,000, also pays on permanent disability or oíd age, one-tenth a year from their benefit. It has had 325 deaths and 37 assessnients in ten years. The two assessments this year has paid 45 deaths and 20 disability claims. Surely this is a good and cheap order to belong to. Monthly meeting of AVashtenaw Horticultural Society, 2d of .May at 2 p. m. sliarp, at the court house. Topics : Written reports by committees on collections from fruit shippers, sale of fruit througli one agent, diseases of the peach tree, washiug prevented from hill sides, paper by W. F. Bird. Shippers of fruit are especially invited as arrangementa have to be made early for transportation of fruit by express and freight, as from present indications, the erop of small fruit and of all larger classes will be very large. Exhibit of flowers, planta, apples, dried and can" ned fruit, fruit packages, the road question by E. Baur. Horticulturalists from neighboring counties are cordially invited. Rev. Stephen Klingmann, whose serious illness was noted last week, died last Friday afternoon of iuflammation of the lungs. He was 58 years oí age, and was known all over the country, being a man of much abilitv. lic was bom in Schoenangellock, Baden, (iormany, in 1833. He attended, when a young tnan, the Mission instituto in Basle, Switzerland, and graduated there in 1860.' He then came to America, accepting as his first charge the pastoral duties of the Lutheran church in Adrián, where he remained flye years. He then moved to Monroe, where the uext two years of his life were spent. The large Germán settlemeni near Sedo in this county held out suificient inducements for him to come there, where he resided for a sreat length of time. He was president of the Michigan Lutheran synod for several years, and the great interest which he took in tliat church made him the foremostman of that denomination in Michigan. Kot ouly is his reputation not confined to this state, but wherever there is a Lutheran church in the CJnited States his name is by no means unfamiliar. He leaves a widow and six children. Rev. Dr. Breed of Chicago, will preach in University Hall next SundayjevenIng. ZNFn j . Millardjs very much elated over the location of the aunual state encampnient at Whitmoro Lake. Mack cV Schmid had a crowdin'front of their store Saturday by the live display of fast black lioso in their show window. The Toledo & Aun Arbor road should put on a nioter train this sunimer, especially during the encampment. It woulil pay big money. Tliree separate and distinct runaways, originating ou Liberty St., near Main St , made things liyely at about six o'clock Monday evening in that locality. Kev. Dr. Radcliffe of Fort st. churcli Detroit, will give the next lecture in the Tappan Traiuing Cour.se next Sunday mui uing. Subject : The New England Primmer. A unión temperance service was liekl at the Methodist cliurch last Sunday evening, Revs. Gelston and Carinan being the speakers. It is proposed to hold these meetings once every month. There is to be a social at the residence of Mr. T. J. DeForest near Geddes, on Friday evening, April 24th, for the benefit of the Geddes Mission Sunday school. Everybody is invited to attend. The Ann Arbor Sporting Club gave a farewell bauquet to Adjutant Walker of the Soldiers Home at (irand Rapids, last Monday evening. Ed. has beeu one of the honored membera of this club since its organization. A meeting of the Congregational ministers and dplrgates for the Jackson district is now in session at Dexter, commencing yesterday. The Woman's Home Missionary Society for the same district also meets with them. There is a very full attendance. Three women were before Justice Pond Saturday, for conduct unbecouiing their sex. Nancy Fisher, on the third offence for disorderly conduct was bound over to the circuit court. Sadie Loninger was given 90 days in the Detroit House of Correction, aa a disorderly, and Katy Katruff was sent to jail two days for being drunk. The state military board has decided that the coming state encampment will be held at Whitmore Lake, the farm of Frank Barker being selected for the purpose. Thia decisión will greatly rejoice many of the people of this section, and especially the Whitmore Lakeans. The action of the boys duriiig encampment may have something to do with the feèling aftenvards. On Friday evening, May Ist, occurs the contest of the Xorthern Oratorical League, to be held in University hall. The speakers will be Theodore Kronsage of the University of Wisconsin, at Madison ; Fred. "W. Gurney, of Oberlin ; John P. Adama, of the Northwestern, of Evanston, 111. ; and A. C. Gormley, of the U. of M. Music will be furnished by the Chequamegon orchestra, and reserved seats can be obtained at Moore&Taber's, the boards being opened next Tuesday. This contest is the initial one of this league, and is being looked forward to with great interest by the public. On Monday, at Chelsea, occurred one of the largest funerala ever held from St. Mary's church in that place. It was that of Andrew Greening, of Lyndon township, who died on the Thursday previous, of paralysis, having been stricken with the disease while in Chelsea. Mr. Greening was 73 years old, and one of the most respected of Washtenaw's pioneers. His five sons and a son-in-law were the active pall-bearers. Geo. B. Greening, of Alpena, who graduated in the law class of '89, and who is quite well known here, is a son of the deceased. Several attended the services from this city. A colusión occurred on the Lake ShOre R. R. near Nonvalk, O. on Saturday evening b}r which two engineers and six postal clerks lost their lives. The train is the one on which "Dick" Kearns of this city, ran while acting as postal clerk and he feels very happy that kind fortune took him out of the service before the accident. We also Iearn that Frank Greening, of Lyndon, was on that run. and his life was saved by being called home to attend the funeral of his father, Andrew Greening, for the man who was serving as his snbstitute was among those killed. The following item relative to one of our former townspeople, taken from the Los Angeles Herald of April 13th, will interest some of our readers: "Mr. D. Henning, of Chicago, is at the "Westminster. Mr. Henning has been for many years a wholesale fruit merchantin Chicago, making applea a specialty, and controlling the trade in that line, handüng the fruit from Michigan and otlier middle states. Ile owns a large ranch at Pomona, and last spring set out sixly acres to navel oranges. He is now placing twenty-four acres more, and next spring will add sixteen acres, making one hundred acres of navel oranges, from which lio will in a ïew years receive a handsome profit.