Good Words For An Ann Arbor Boy

The Tiraberman, published in Chicago, gives a very complimentary notice of John W. Ferdon, formerly of Ann Arbor, now with the Yawkey Lumber Co., of Hazelhurst, Wis. It says: "Ferdon was bom 28 years ago in New Jersey, but escaped to the United States at an early age. His youth was spent in Ann Arbor, Mich., where he graduated in 1885 from the law school of the state university. His father was in the lumber business and, it is said, persuaded John that the legal profession was a poor one. So, after a year spent in St. Paul, young Ferdon began his lumber training in Chicago with the then-time firm of Fick & Oliver. After that he shoved lumber in Chase, Mich., for a while, and in 1889, when the Yawkey & Lee Lumber Co. was organized at Hazelhurst, Wis., went with that i cern and has been there ever since. He began as yard foreman, and advanced until he is in charge of the sales department and has as general supervisión over everything as is possible under that prince of managers and detail man, Cy. C. Yawkey. His friends, from whom we gained the above brief outline of his life, expect great things of him and for him." Mr. Thomas W. Keene will be the next attraction at the Grand Opera House next Tuesday evening, appearing in bis greal rendition of Othelloand supported liy a Buperb company. Mr, Keene is the last of the great American tragic actora now b fore the public, Barrett, McCullough and Bootb ba ving passed over to the great majority. Mr. Keene is now the only representativo on tliis side of the water whose portrayals of "Richelieu," "Hamlet," "Louis XI.," "Shylock," "Richard III.," and "Macbeth," have met with popular appro val.