Personals

Mrs. H. S. Dean returned home from Old MteBlon Frlday. George Jenkins was down from Owosso over Sunday. Miss Anna O'Brienhas returned from her in New Vork. Dr. .T. O. Wood and family are expected home on the 2.th. Frank Lefïg, who ha:s been ill for Mimt' time, is about once more. Mrs. Fivd ('. Brown went to Whitehall yeslerday, for a short stay. Kdward Duffy attended a meeting of the prison bonrd in Jackson Jlonday. Mrs. Victoria Morris bas been visiting friends in Tecuin.seh during the week Mias AlleO Staebler has returned home from a week'8 stay with friends in Toledo. MlBS Louisa D. Giles returned Satnrday evening froni a three week'8 tay in Detroit. Tinos. J. Keet'h and wife are entertaining- Mr. and Mrs. Frank Osborn, '04' Deland, Fla. Mre. Wm, Frank returned Monday fpom a vUit with her daughter in the upper península. Mrs. Mayhew, of Philadelphia, sister of SflfiB Hartshorn, has moved to Na. 11 Maynard st. Mrs. Mary Stark and children, who have heen vtsltlng relatives in Clinton, have returned home. Frank D. LSuer, of Toledo, spent Sunday in the city, the guest o! C. B. Davteon and family. Prof. E. D. Burton, of Chicago, has been visiting hia Bister, Mrs. W. W. Beaman, during the week. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene E. Beal leave ííaturday for a trip to Washington, D. C, and other east-ern citles. Mrs. W. S. Curtis, of Jonesville, has been the guest of Secretary and Mrs. J. H. Wade during the week. irhas. S. Millen takea in the G. A. R. excursión to Washington, Saturday, and will return via. New York. Mr. and Mrs. George Wolaver, who have been guesfcs of Spencer Sweet and wife, returned to Detroit yesterday. The Misses Mears, who have been in Ann Arbor Binc last June, returned to Catawissa, Pennsylvania, last evening. Chri.stia.n Mack and wife returned home Monday írom a visit with their ilaughter, Mrs. Hawley, at Denver, Colorado. Hon. John J. Robison was up from Sharon yesterday, looking as if he was ten years younger than when he left here. President Angelí returncil Saturday irom hte eastern trip. He looks quite ytrathful dow that he has adopted the McKinley ehave. Judge Babbitt attended to business in the probate court Monday ior the first time in several days. His absence being caused by sickness. B. G. Buell, formerly of Cass county, has moved into the residence on Washtenaw ave., wliich he recently purchased of Evart H. Scott. C. A. Oanover and eister, of Coldwater, were in town Monday. Mr. C. is the secretary and treasurer of the Michigan División, L. A. W. Harvey Freeman, of Coldwater, has lyeen in the city during the week, visiting hls cousin Jeromie A. Freeman, and other relatives in the city. Mrs. Dr. IngeLss and family, who have been visiting her m-other, Mrs. E. E. Baxter, on E. Jelferson st., ret-urned home to Detroit Saturday. Tlvos. Kearney, of Ann Arbor, was here Tuesday, Bhaking hands with old friends and building a little political fence - on the side.- Dexter News. Stephen Mills, and Mr3. F. E. Mills returaed a few diays ago from northern Michigan. They report fine crops in that section, both in cereals and truits. Pro:f. Sihxs R. Mills, the teacher of vocal muLsic in the University School of Mvusic, has arrived in the city and ni'oved with his faraily to No. 51 E. Liberty st. It 9 a sweet and tiny treasure, A torment and a tease; It's au autocrat an anarchist- Two awful thingá to please. It's a rest and peaee disturber, VVith it's little laughins ways; It's a wailing human niht alarm. And terror of your days. [The Baby.] Eugorne Oetfberlln is building a new hoii.se at the corner of Jaekson st. and Dexter ave. J. N. Mcliride, lit. '89, of Owosso, one of the lirijht studcnts the university ha graduated, is now professor af political wonoray in the Agriciiltural Collegae, Iaiusing. Fred Rau.str, of Ann Arbor town, died on Thurwday laist, affed 71 years, 7 months, and was buried .Saturday, from Salem Lutheran C'hurch, "Weinsberg. "The Press (X. Y.) Cyclopedia of Protction," containing facts, and figures, on every phase oí the tariff controversy, is one of the most complete and handy little publications extant. Everj' citizen ooight to have one. On Saturday evening W. G. Burchfield and James E. Harkins returned rom New Orleans, where they went to see the great prize fight. They aw thein all, and saw a great many ether thingw o' interest, also. Miss Iiia McTïurney, of Ann Arbor, wbo is tio take the position of preceptveaa in tbe public schools, arrived Thursday night. Miss McBurney is a atudent o-f the University of Michigan, fwlying Jor the degree of . E.- Petwetoey Daily Resorter. At au adjO'Ui-nod term of the circuit eourt, held Monday, Richard Carrall wais let off on suspended sentence, on a cíliarge of larceny, and providng he appears om the first Monday n Deoember and paya the eourt $25, ie will be permenantly discharged. The Matrquette people figure out a population of 12,150 on a school census oí 2,700 children, allowing four and one-halt' inhabitants to each child. At that ra te Ann Arbor, with her 8,068 school children, has a population of 13,829, which is undoubtedy nea.rly correct. The freshman clase of the high school numbevs 166, woile the total enrollment for the first week is about 575, ot nearly the same number as was reported at the end of the first mouth last year. nie arrangement oí hours of recitation so as to care for all the studients is puzzling the teachers. F röm the Petoskey Daily Itesorter: "Dr. R. B. Pope, of Ohio, formerly a prominent Methodist pastor oí "Michigan, left hls pleasant cottage "Bay Breeze," at Bay View, Tuursday last, tor his home. This is hls opinión of Bay View: "Allow me to congratúlate you upon the management oif the Resorter this season. I le-ave at the clase of the twelfth summer peut here, appreciating and loving Bay View and the región of Llttle Traverse Bay more than ever." An average waltz takes a dancer over alxmt three-quarters oí a mile. A squa-i-e. danee makes him cover lialf a mille. A girl with a well-íillel pncygraimme 'traveb tlius in an eveninjr: Twelve waltzes, nine miles; foiir at her diaoaces at a lialí-niile lapiece, whieh is hardly a fairly big {jstimate, two miles more; the intermiissrcm stroll and the trips to the dressing room to renovate her gown and complexión, half a mile; grand total, doven nnd a lialí miles. But just ast that girl to' wash the disñes some e--ninK, to relieve her poor, tired mort her, and sec what effect it wotild have upon her. Never, in the history of the city, have the pniblic schools been so filled to overflowing as this year. Ma ny of the rooms in the lst, 2d, 3d, 4th, and 6th ward buildings are so ed that it is impossible ior teachers to provide seats for theni, to say nothing atxmt desk room. As high as 70 children are crowded into one room in the 4th ward school. And this, notwithstanding the fact that ionO híw room has been itted up in the 4th ward 'building', and all the rooms in the fith ward occupied. The board is at a loss to know -vhat to do. More room must le found, some way. It is possible that the dwelling litfiise owned by the district in the lst ward may 1e fitted up for school purposes. This fact shows how tast the city is growiag.