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30
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May
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1894
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The military companles of the city wiill parade to-dáy. A $20,000 hotel is amiong the possibiilities at Zukey Lake. Aa nptown woman refers to her husbamd's bald head as his decollete bang. Tlie 8th Michigan Infantry will hold its amnual reunión at St. Johns, June 14th aml 15th. Compamy A has received orders to present itself at the state encampnient at Island Lake Aug. 14. John V. Sheehan's excellent example is soon to be followed by other old bachelors of Ann Arbor - so said. James Boyle and Mary C. Poland, all of tlie Northside, have had their banns publislied in St. Thomas church. Bev. Dr. Cobem will have for his subject next Sunday evening, "Skeptical Superstitiom or the Oedulity of UmbeMevers." The engagement is announced of E. C. Mattesom, of t.he tiirm of Bowdish & Mattesom, ito Miss Maria Uübert, of Haan il ton, O. The Woman's Auxillary of the Y. M. C. A. will mieet at th Christian Assoaiation roocms, Tliursday evening, over O. M. Martini's store. A memorial service in honor of the late Adelbert L. Noble, will be held on Wednesday evening of next week, June ötih, at tlie M. E. churcli. Tlie oold atniosphere Monday morniiig was acooimpanied by a frost in many places. Water in the hollows oï plank walks froze about the city. Ir. Leauider Kapp is now practicing medicine and running a drug store at Cripple Creek, Coló. If a name indica-tes anytliing be has struck a good town for his business. A meeting is to 'be held at the Y. M. C. A. rooms Tliursday " evening to miake preliminary arrangenteaits for tlie state meeting of the Y. M. C. A. to 1e held in Ann Arbor uext fall. A Youaig Wamam's Ghrtetian Union was organlzed at the resldence of Miss Hayley, oai Washington st., Monday evening, soime twenty joining. On Monday evening next tlie organizatton wáll be perfected by tlie election of officers. Tliey will meet with Mrs. W. S. Perry. 'Mong blossoms of spring that you gather aud bring For graves that, tboiigh lowly, are royal. Let the blue flower prevalí, tho' modest and pale, Siuee it speaks of tbe hue that is loyal. We publish this week, ior the benefit of out readers more especially, the lat-eral sewer ordinance. It wlll be i'oiuid on the 3d page. James E. Carr, of tlie Dundee Reporter, was a Sunday visitor to Ann Arbor. As this is the flrst time in about two years that Mr. Carr has visited his old home. he he can not be considered very neighborly. ïhere were ten candidates at the civil service examination iield at the high school last Saturday, of which two Mero ladies. Two of the caiididates were for e&rrier's positions aud eight for clerkships. The Sunday School orchestra of the M. E. Sunday School, and the i)rimary departmeut oí that Sunday School, will give a concert to morrow eveming in the lecture room of the 11. E. church. You are invited. The gutters Dn the north end of State st. ought to be paved. The ratas this spring have waslicd the Street out badly, amd it will cost mucli more to repair tbem than the paving .would have cost. There are other streets in the city similarly sitúate d. The W. H. M. 8. monthly meeting at the residence oí Mrs. Theodore McDonald,, 51 S. Univorsity ave., Friday. Social and supper at G:30. ïho imonthly meetings of the Self Dental and Thank Olfering and Mite Box Opening will be eonibined with this meeting also. John G. Jseithammer, a resident oí the 5 th ward, coimmitted suicide by hainging last AVednesday night. He luad got tired of life, aaid considered the uncertainty of the future preferable to the certaln troubles of this world which had hedged him about. He wais 04 years of age. A class of 218 eeaiior law students marched down to the court house last Saturday aftemoon and were admitted to the bar. It was a piretty fair lookimg class of young men, and they answered promptly the queutioms put to them by the committee of the bar having the exaimination in charge. The eighth grajid June Festival will be givee in the 'opera house on Thursday evening, June 7th, by St. Thoimas' Conservatory of Music. At the festival last year the opera house was packed fronn the orchestra to the back part of the Eeserved seats witnout extra charge at Watts' jewelery store. At a recent meeting of the Vestry of St. Andrew's church,, the followin- gentlemen were elected delegates from thie parish to atteed the 60th aaxnual convention of the Protestant Episcopal church, to be held in Detroit on Wednesday and Thursday of next week, in St. John's church : Edward Treadwell, Heoiry J. Brown, Geo. H. Poaxd. Alternates : Prof B. M. Thoimpsoin, Prof. C. S. De-nison, Prof Geo. "W. Patterson.. "How the leaves do keep falüing froiin the trees ! I wonder what causes them to f all bo ?" was au interrogatiioai overheard by ye ecribe a day or eo s'nce. He investigated and fomid out the reason. Every leaf that falte now, was injured by the recent haiiil fitrom, amd every leaf so injured will f all off. Soane of them ma.y elimg for several days or perhaps weeks, but they will come off prematurely. There is 'omly one paper in the state that could have thought up such au item as this. Of course that one is the Adriaai Press : "A scheme, broached pometime ago, has fruited at the Ann Arbor 'M. E. church, which now has a baby asyluni where infants are checked by the mothers and left ín care of a nurse, competent to know just what (the youngster requires duriing the maternal absence amd how to minister t-o it. The check entables the another to get back the saane baby Nhe left. Fraud is thus iimpossible and everything 'on the square.' " The wet weather has put a damper on the boys in their base ball and tennis playing. Rev. J. M. Gelston will have for his subject next Sunday evening, "An Infallible Bible." The only man who's glum at all - and this is not surprising- is he who ever since last fall, has done no advertising. Druggist Calkins on State street has ornamented one of his show windows with five beautiful young foxes. They were captured near Saline. Mr. Wooley, of Chicago, delivered as eloquent and powerful a teuiperauce lecture ever heard in this city, at Universitv Hall, last Sunday evening. A new time table went into effect on the M. C. R. R. last Sunday. The corrected schedule will be found in its accustomed place in this paper. From various sections of the state come notices of the May Festival, and it isuniversally pronounced the greatest musical success ever attempted in Michigan. Geo. IL. Vanrtawarker lias the cellar excavated tor his new residence on N. Iugalls st., just south of the corner of E. Gatharine st., and stone work eommenced. The 4th ward base ball club defeated the 5th ward mine last Saturday, by a score of 9 to 4. Tiras the 4th wa.rders jmareh on to glorlous victory. They're the stuff ! W. W. Watts has resigned his comïnjitsioii as lst Lieut. of Co. A, M. S. 'T. aaid it lias been accepted. An electiioai has been oalled for June 13 to fill the v&cancy. The Collegiate AlumniB will meet in this city next Saturday. The sessions will be held at the Unitarian church. Lunch will be served those attending by the Ladies of St. Andrew's Church, at Harris Hall. The democratie state convention to noniinate a state ticket, lias been called for June 28tli, to be held at Gram dRapids. The county of Washteoiaw will be entitled to 21 delegates ) tJierein. The frame for Ex-AM. Schairer'a mew house is up and being rapidly emclosed. There will be a business meeting of the Ladies' Society of the Baptist C'hurch, om Friday, at 3 o'clock p. in. with Mrs. Tucker, No. 23 E. Catharine et. Postmaster Beakes took possession of the post office this a. m., and can now be addressed by the above title. He wül make no changes in the office force at present. About the uniddle of June the Ann Arbor Banjo & Guitar Club, assisted by some of Ann Arbor's sweet singers, expect to give a concert at the opera house in Dexter; The fire hydrants throughout Khe city have been painted red. This will emable the ïiremen to lócate the liydrants quickly and accurately, and t.hus save preoious time. The Ann Arbor Deonocrat meanly sulvertfees its prosperity and arouses the emvy oí its contemporaries by ajiniouncing the discovery of a new $2 counterfeit. - Adrián Press. The democratie county coramittee is to meet in this city June 5, to make a cali for a county convention, and to fix npon the nuraber of delegates for each election precinct. There were about sixty members of the G-. A. E., twelve S. of V'si and both the mUitary companies with full ranks in attendance upon the Congregational church last öunday. The telegraph sakl yesterday that Gov. Ricli thought litrongly of appointimg Col. Henry S. Dean, of this ciity, to toe place on the Board of Regeints made vacant by the death of Hemry Howard. He will make no niiistake if he does. Dr. Tilomas "Wilkinson, of thO Northside, ome of the early residente of Ann Arbor, died Friday last, having just paesed his 95th birthday. Funeral services were held Moaiday from the faanily home on MUI Street, Ilev. Dr. Burtön officiating. He leaves a daughtor, Miss Caroline Wilkinson. I A surly dog attacked the little child of F. C. Brown, oí the Times, at Ana Arbor, Tuesday, biting it severely in the forehead. That one child's safety ought to have beeu of more consequence than the lives of all the curs in the city. - Ypsilanti Sentinel. The Sentinel states the case as a large majority of the people believe. The U. of M. base ball club was not successful in its eastern trip, losing every game played. The nine expect to retrieve their luck to-day at Detroit, by defeating the Chicago University nine. About 600 students and Aim Arboñtes have gone down to see thein do it and to cheer them on. The demoerats are talking about UiOtminating Mr. Frank Howard, of tliis city, tor state treasurer. It is too had tJiat sueh a good man as Mr. Howiard camnot be placed upoii a winning ticket, for he certainly is worthy of Oometliing more than the mere I or of a noniination. Morris Lucas, wiio at onO time carried on a barber rahop in the St. James blouk, but wio lias been a resident of Buttee, Montana, for several years, is visiting liis former home liere for a few days. He followed Horaoe Greeley's advlce, went west and accutmulated property. Ella May, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elias M. Thomas, of Hurón, S. Dak., is to be married June 6th, at the home of her sister Mrs. A. C. Voss, at Le Mars, Iowa, to Chas. Oliver Loring, of Owosso, where the couple will reside, and will be "at home" after June 20. The bride's mother was known in Ann Arbor some years ago as Miss Ruth Heuion. The entertainment at Harris Hall last Saturday evening, given by St. Andrew's Choir and fiieuds, was quite well atteuded, and was really deserving of a i crowded house. The soprano solo by i Master Gerald Browu, and the bass solo I by C. W. Mellor were each fine, while i the singing of the choir reflected great credit upon Mr. Houghton, the choir master. The theatrical part of the program was a pleasant feature the acting of Miss Belle Maxon and of Karl Harrinaan being especially deserving of praise. A representative of this paper has not been down tJiere to find out, but it is eaid that the people of Texas llave fouiid out a way to catch sparrows that beats the gun. They iscatter wfoeat eoaked in whisky, whieh makes the birds helplessly dronk and tliey are then pieked up and put in bag,s, juid mamifai-tured hito pul pies to pay for the orops they have put into tlieir crops. And it is truly asferted that the ílavor of bhe pul pie madt' O'í birds so ■auulu. would make a nativo Kentucklan omack hls lips. The Michigan Women's Press Association meets in Ann Arbor next week, their sessions commenfiing Tuesday and Wednesday evenings will be public, with a good program for each evening. Miss Bower will deliver an address of welcome on Tuesday evening in behalf of the Ann Arbor Press Club, and on Wednesday evening f rom 9 to 11 o'clock she will give a reception at her residence on N. Ingalls sti-eet, to the members of the association and the Ann Arbor Press Club. On Thursday evening the Alpha Phi fraternity will give a reception at their home No. 10 X. División street. Froin S to 9 o'clock Thuisday evening there will be a concert in honor of the visiting ladies, by the faculty of the University School of Music. The corner etone of the new Zioa ahurch was laid last Sunday, being witinessed by a very large number of interested people. lïev. Max Hein eondueted the services. The Btone canta iued a number of U. S. coins, a history of the cJiurcn and Sunday School, amd a list Df officers thereof, aaid copies of Ann Arbor papers. The new Zion church building is progressing finely. The basement ■valls are up ten feet in lieight, being seven ieet above the surface of the ground, all built of beautiful stone. It is a siglit to look at those stal wart men as they raise their 28 pound sledge hamuners and pound away at tfaose huge ffeld boulders until they burst open. and are worked up for the walls. Tlie twentieth annual meeting of the Mich%aai Pioneer and Historical oal Society, of which the venerable ex-Gov. Aliheus Felch, of this ctty, is president, wlll meet in the senate chaimber at Líinsmg, June 6 and 7. On the programime we notice that Gov. Feloli is down for a paper upon "Ceesiodis of Land in Mlciiigan by Jodian Treaties," and that Prof. A. Ten Brook will read a paper about "Tlie Early Germaai Settlers in and about Aiin Arbor." The society solí its doiiation.s oí book-, charts, maps, pamplileits, maawiscripts, diarles, portrnics, paimtlngs, statuary, files of newtpapers, documente, i-uriosities, aind Ín íaot relíiting to the pioneer days oí Micjxigan. Have you anytliing that "vill le of interest to thrm V If so sand tt to Geo. H. Greene, Laaisáng, seeretary, and it will be preserved. We knore how well they fought and died, How brave, how great, how prond, Their grave is the vale or green hillside, The starry flag their shroud.

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