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October
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1894
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Prof. George Hinch and family are bow residing on S. Monroe st. Rev. J. M. Gelston filled Rev. Barkley's pulpit in Detroit last Sunday. Prof. George Hempel and family have removed, ft o No. 95 E. University ave. The Ann Arbor Light Infantry will give their next party in the armory Oct. 17tli. Prof. Francis W. Kelsey has moved into his new residence in the White addition. The board of supervisors Üo not convene in animal session until Monday next, Oct. 8th. The auditorium of the new Zion church is plastered and is now ready for the carpenters. A new boot and shoe store is to occupy ïhe new store of clay Greene's under the city offices. Justice Pond genteneed John Schu; macher -to jail 15 days, yesterday, on ehanjye of drunUenness. Prof. Andrew C. McLaughlin and family have removed to the eorner of Church and S. Monroe st. After Oct. lst,. the Ladies' Library ■will be open from 2 to Í p. m., instad of from 3 to 5 p. m. Charles Jacobs will be at home, at Jacobs & Allmand's shoe store, in the Washington block, after Oct. 1. A regular meeting of the Ann Arbor Arbeiter Verein will be held next Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The "ïoung Peoples' Society of Zions ohurch, will meet this evening at the resldenee of Mtrs. F. Schmid, on S. Fourth ave. Rev. J. M. Barkley, of Forest ave. church, Detroit, gave a po werf ül dis■oourse at the Presbyterdan church last Sunday morning. John Baumgardner is engaged ín laying the stone walk on W. Liberty st., between Mack & Schmid's store and S. Ashley st. The Tuesday Club held an informal meeting in the Ladies' Library, yesteiday at three o'clock p. m., to arrange for the coming year's work. The wife of E. A. Gartee, of this city, died at the home of her mother in St. Louis, Mich., last Thursday, of dropsy. She had been UI some time. Capt. James J. ParohaU of Ann Arbor town reporta that his apple erop tiiis year is unusually good. His peach erop was pooi-, hardly being half a erop. A gentleman by the name of Parks, formerly of Menominee, Wis., is erecting a new $2,500 residence on N. State st., second lot (rom the corner of E. Catharine st. There are two old soldiers on the repúblicas county ticket, Seth C. Randall, of Ann Arbor, ior pi-osecuting attoraey, and Jerome Allen, of Ypsilanti, for surveyor. The annual reunión of the 16th Michigan Infantry Is to be held in this city on Oct. 8. The banquet for the. occasion will be furnished by the Woman' sllelief Corps. Miss Sadie Storms of this city, made the best guess on the number of seeds in the .pumpkin, and secured the $20 gasoline stove at Eberbach's. She can be couuted a good guesser. Walter II. Bancer, of lima, lias been no-minated by the demócrata of this representative district for the legislature. If he shoud be elected he wiil be a mighty good dancer. Washtenaw county Christian Endeavorors will meet in convention in the First Presbyteria.n church, Ypellanti, Frklay Oct. 5th. Sessions at 9:30 a. m., 1:30 p. m., and 7:15' p. m. , Eev. E. M. Duf f, curator oL Harris Hall, a.nd assistant to the rector of St. Andrew's church, has received a cali to St. Paui's parish at Grand Rapids, which he will probably accept. The auditorium of the M. E. ehurch will be re-opened eitlier next Sunday or one week from t-hat date., Next Sunday quarterly meeting services will be held. Ir. Davis is expected to be present. The couneil jdid a very graceful thing in naming the new public park formed out oï the old cemetery, Alpheus Felch park. It was done in compliment to the grand old man's 90th birthday. ïhere will be a meeting of the prohdbitioa club on Monday night of each week, at the I. O. j. T. hall on state street. Prohibitionists both men and women are cordially invited to attend. The Saline Observer remarks : "The J. T. Jacobs Co., of A nu Arbor, have deckled to open a branch store here, selëcthig the "Wat son building for a. location. They expect to open up next week with a full stock of clothiiig." Sklney Payne Budgett and Miss Francés Blizabeth Janes, both formcrly of t-his city, were married at Portland, Oregon,' recently, at St. Matthew's Episcopal ehurch, Rev. B. E. Habersham performing the ceremony. At the animal meeting of Zions ehurch, held Monday evening, Christian Mack was elected eider and Frederick Sclimid trustee. The meeting was well attended. Tlie finalices of the ehurch are in fin excellent condition. The annual meeting and social of the Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. ehurch, will be held in the parlors of the ehurch on Thursday evening, October 4th. Ttea served at half jiasi six. A cordial invitation is extended to all. Prof. Stanley will meet those who wish to siaig in the Methodist chorus this year, on Friday from .1:30 to 5:30 at the School of Muaic office. The first rehersal will be held in the ehurch next Saturday evening at 7 o'clock. Uev. Wm. Collins was translerred from Fort AVayne, Indiana, to the Afrdcan M. E. cliurch, of this city, by the annual conference recently held at Lansing. The tonner pastor here goes to South Bend, Ind. Evening services wlll he resumed at the TJnitarian church next Sunday evening, and wlll continue regularly thereafter. At the rlose of the moming service, 12 noon, the student's Bable class for the yeaT wi:l be organized. The ohoir of Si. Thomas church -ïvill sing next Sunday for the first time, after a vacation of three months. A full choir wil sing each followtng Sunday at 10:30 a. m., and 7:30 t. m. Fnusually fine music may be expected. TeeïePday Officer Schall nrresterl Rlilnehardt Molkenthien, 'a 13 ypnr old boy, 'for the burglary of .Tohn fioetz & Son's saloon Sunday. Af, ter Onding a marked Oanadlan quarter i.n his possession, he confessed what hp had done. Daniel Kierstead, of Xo. 85 N. Fifth ;iv".. (1-i o f 1 rai Monday of nstlima, aged SO vpars, 8 montlis ond 17 clnvs. The funeral servdcea ■were held ihis aft-prnoon fit his lato residence, Bèv. M. R. Btirton oíflcrating. Tlie intermTit took pdace in Forest Hüj. cemetery. Tlie prize offpred 'by the Eberbacjh Drug and Clicmicnl Co. ivas won by Mre. Ralph Rice, of Tpsilanti, she' liaving gueseed that thpre were 10,599 gra.ins of sponpes in tlie Klole exMbited at the county fair. Tlie sponges weighed 10,600 iïrains. i The Oood Templare ivill hold a social and oyster supper in tlieir hall on State st., Friday evening of tliis week, for the purpose of getting'acquainted with the student members of the order. All members and friends in the city and L'niversity, in-v-ited. Dr. C. M. Cobern has been granted a volume on Ezekiel o.nd Daniel in the new Commentaries to be issued. One-half volume had been originally assigned him. Tliis is on account of the many recent discoveries on Assyrian records confirming Bible narrath"es. The rally of Wie Y. M. 0. A. at tïie Presbyterian church, last Sunday evening, was a grand miccess. It had an audience of 1,400 people and Rev. I. M. Barkley, of Forest ave. church, Detroit, gave an eloquent and instructive lecture to the young men of our city. Howell Republican : "Among those f rom Howell and yicinity who expect to attend the University this year are: George W. Peavy, Clnude Brayton, Miss Nina "Wilbov. Miss Edith j Bullock, Eugene LaEowe, l'iank SMelös, Bd. Shields, Boy Parsöüs,. Brnest Brown, Stephen MUler." An exchange says ; Tlie man who gets the fewest letters complaina most of the management of the post office ; tlie man who complains of the preachers, pays thein the least; the man who complains' most of his nedghbore is the meanest neighbor, and t.he man "who has the least sense is tlie most conceited. The remains of Miss ('ora B. Yol! land, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Volland of No. 37 Tliompson sti-eet, were brought t o the city this morjnlng ïrom Ractae, Wis., where she died of consumption. Miss Volland had a most lovable disposition, and aivery large circle of friends, who wiU deeply sympatliize with the bereaved famtly. Rev. Dr. R. B. Pope lias been ca lied to the Stenbenville, O., M. E. church. Oí hifi pastoirate at Cochoctoe. O., Tlie Age says : ''The resulte of his great work here will ever stand as a more eloquent tribute to his efforts tha.il mere words can teil, and ! the grateful ackno-wledgements of e i benefited community will follow hiin to li is new field of duty." Miss Alice Cramer, wlio is at Ishpeming this winter, will teach vocal classes in Marquette one day each week, and will be sure of success because of lier excellent voice and the good training she lias liad with Profe Marshall Pease, Jay Taylor and others. Her diligent work in the M. E. church chair here, gave her a fine musical reputation while her stability of character will make her friends everywhere. While Henry Braun, who li%'es about thre miles north of the city in Ann Arbor town, was attending the fair last Thursday with family, some one entered his liouse and stole all the silver ware, amounting to some $300 worth. No clue so far. Once before Mr. Bra.un had lost some silverware, the thief gaining entrance to the house through the same window. The Young Men 's Club of the Congregatioiial church of Ann Arbor, was organized Monday evening in their church parlors, with twenty-five charter members. The lollowing officers were elected : Pres., John E. Travis ; vece pres., Prof. R. Kempf ; sec, "VV. M. S-turgeo.ii; treas., H. A. Williams. All young men not klentified with other churches, are imvited to join tliis club, and wlll be made welcome. Tlie Owosso American in its Jast issue hadt hls item : A meeting was held Tueeday everiing at the Baptist church, to organize a University Extensión Center, and was attended by about forty interested people. It resulted in the organization of a center with thirty memlers, and the following officers : President, S. E. Parhkill ; Tice pres., J. TV. Simmons ; sec, Mrs. L. E. Gould ; treas: G: T,: Taylor. A ways and means committee was appointed of Avhic-h W. F. Bradley was chairman. "The Ann Arbor Water Co. ;s meeting with excellent succeee in its search for water," said Dr. Hale Monday, tn the Courier reporter. "A new vein of water lias been struck, a few f eet lower, and evidently much more abundant than in the other wells. I think there is no doubt but that we shall find on our own grounds an abundant supply of pure spring water. At any rate we are continuing our investigations, and shall know to a certainty in a short time. What seems peculiar is that there should le two distinct and separate veins of water within two hundred feet of each other. In the old wells the water oiüy raises within a foot or two of the surface, in the new wells, whiieh are deeper, the water flows some thTee or four feet above the Burface." This news will be gladly received by the public.

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