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Wheelmen To Be In Ann Arbor

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
July
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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The National Meet oï the 1-. A. W., ■u-h sir.nls lor League of American Vlir.'lni'-m tnkes in Detroit, on he L6th, 17th and I.sth of July. The lome cl;ii ol bieycltetB have arramgeid or ■■! prevloua meeting ol wheelmen i; Ano Arbor on the 14-tli, whlch vill be an aílalr ol considerable Interst. The Hniit tourlsts, ahoul 100 n nmnber, on thelr way to the anm,al meet, wlll arrlve here on that lay, and tiiey wlll foe jolned by about 90 wheelmen irom Oliio and cl- here, aailng 1."0 guesta ín all. DuTing the mornlng the visitors will shown about the anlversity campus, the boulevard, and other pleaaani Irives aTound the city. At 8 o'clook, p. n. thei-e wlll be a en mile race. out on the Saline gravel ■oad. id the ilve mile post and return. t 5'0'clook, p. ;n. the.re ■vill lio a liill climbing conte.st. the route being up the 5th ward hill. on Broadway, onei.ilf mile. In each event, three prizes lire oifered, the two first bi'ins; gold urdáis and the thlrd, ají I... A. W. pin. In the evening tingre wlll be a banquet tendered the visitors at the A. O. U. AV. hall, wlth appropriate toasts, i.nd all the iia.raphcrnalia of an occ;ision of the kind. On the mornlng of the 15th. the pnire ccnnipiaiiy, toffether wlth about 20 Ann Arbor -wheelmen, will make the trip to Detroit. The cavalcade wlll na.ke a protty sight, and we trust the visitors will be pleased with the University, its streets nnd its people. The snort name of a city is lairgely due to the general good hcalth of its inhabitants. Aun Arbor lias ahvnys leen a healthy city, hut cannot long remnin so if cese-poois and drains be ivlowed to poison the soil undrrncath is. A sea.son of warm, dam]) weather wi'l surely brins upoii our people some tearfuü epidemie, and in a short time wipe out the good hnpresslon whlch pn-ynils all over the country in respect !o Aun Arbor as a rcsidenee city. an mpr'ssion whlch her citizens have Btrtven so hard and for so ïnany years to Bcatter broadcast. The remedy Huw es at our own dnors, and in our iwn hands. By building a ystem of gewere to carry off the fi'lth of the city, her fond health and good name wlll continue to remain where it is now, at the Ihond. The senatorial gevrymanier adoptfd by" the lcaislnture. Is one of the most abominabli' plecea of political chicanery, gaü, and indecency ever forced upon a commonwnlth. Can it be possible thnt the people of Michigan will let such r;mk dislionesty pass without administeri-nfr a rebuke that wi'l te lek by that party for yeara to come? A prreat feeüns of relief has dropped off the shouMers of the citizens oí this átate. The legislature has aetually adjourned. In Sweden the Insurance companies li.ivc unitiMl and refuse to ta.ke visks on any bnildiiiff or the conttmts of any building in wbieh a saloon is kept.

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Ann Arbor Courier