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The lenten season's iiow at hand, When she'U all her sins confess, Then hasten home and spend the time mtln planning for au Easter dress. According to the división of the nio'nths, this is spring". Chas. 'H. Francisco of this city, has been granted an original pensión. It is probable that the next state fair will be held in Grand Rapids. The nsw part of the American House ils being wired for electric lights. Paint and painters are improving the interior oí Schairer & Millen's store. Services will be held at St. Thomas' church every Friday evening during Lent. Frank H. "Warren expects to build a new toouse on Lincoln avenue in the spi-ing. It must be spring, for the crocuses have popped their little heads out of the ground. Hereafteo1 prayer meetings will be held every Wednesday evening in Zion LUtlieraax church. Tlie Courier oifice received the contract this morning for publishing a 700-paige bok for Detroit porties. Will St Clair, who is with the Ann Arbor Electric Light Co-., has bought a house and lot of Ed. Bycraft, on Spring st. Among the democratie names mentkwied for mayor is that of Moses Seabolt, at least so says the Hausfreund a-nd Post. Ross A. Spence, with this term, resumes his work as secretoa-y of the School of Music, which he was obliged to' abandon last summer on iccount of typlioid fever. The dog pound ds catching many an unlicensed cur. If you leve your dog the most prctaical way to show that love is to procure a liceinse tag, or he may impoumded. There is isoime talk to the effect that the Iiight Infantry will produce "A Nigtot in Camp'" in Adrián. Good thioxg for A,dirian if tliey do. Hausfreund and Post : In the past year Kev. J. Neumann has bapbized forty-six children, c&nfirmed thirtyfive, mavriod itweaty-fomir counles and buvied twenty-eight persous. If you düii't want the prrip leeep your feet day. I you have the grrip don't neglect it. Some people eeem to tliijik tli at the grip is a joke;- but those people have never had it. - Clielsea He raid. Tlie denioüratic senatorial convention for this lOth district, to nominate a candidato to succeed the late Senator John W. "Watts, will meet in the eupervisor's room, in the court house of this city, on Tliursday, Mar. 7tli, at 11 o'cl!ck a. m., &hai"p. l.aiah C. Depuy, aged 76 years, died at his home in Ypsilanti, yesterday, of paralysis and pneumonia. Tlie deceased was an old pioneer, for many years a resident of Superior, where lie still owned a large farm. He leavés a widow and two daughters. H. Randall was rejoiiicing yesterday over a diispatch received by him to the effect that the Yale senior law class had voted unanimously to give his New Haven gallery thelr class pictures. This is thO flrst time In ten years this work has gonO outside of New York City. Some like aiitumn and some like spring, Wliilu others prefer the summers; lïiu winters like this are just the tliitiff For tough polar bearsand plumbers. -Kansas City Journal. J. E. Sage of this city, is to conduct a concert at the church in. South Handy, Livingston county, Thursday evening oí this week. The vote oí the comgregation of St. Andrew'ss church ou the f ree eeat question resulted iu about nine-tenths favorlmg tlie proposttion. Lrnick Brothers havO closed their planing mili for a short time, in order to place a new boiler ia the mili. It will be the largest ia the city. Mrs. Eliza R. Sunderland's subjects at the t'iiiitarian elmrch the next live Sunday evenings will be the Religious Thought of Goethe, Victor Hugo, Carlyle, Buckle, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold and Emerson. Two inew telephones have been added to the Ann Arbor switch board : No. 157 belonging to the Hammond Beeï Co., and No. 135 to D. Crainer, manager of the conibined grocery and market on Huron st. All the lovers of music in Michigan will rejoice when they learn that Mdme. Nórdica will be the soprano soloist in "Fausf for the May Festival. Prof; Stanley is to ba congratmlated ;n tliis bit o; rrood fortune. The New Washtenaw Post is celebratiing its first birtoday anniversary to-day. Editor llelbcr announces that he iis satifified, and certainly his subscriptio.n constitucncy ought to be. The New Post is a healthy growing yearliing. E. Everett Howe sends us an announcement of his new book "Tlie Clironicles of Break O'Day," containing' the criticisms of the Michigan press upan his work. Without exception tlvey are words of praise, over which the author has a right to be pt'Oiid. An Ann Arbor man hitcbed his horse to a freight car wliile he transacted some business at tlie depot. The train started up, and theequine broke tlie "Wasihtenaw county record for fast time. TliO man is now trying to sell the animal on the record it made.- Fenton Independent. Chris. T. Donnelly will no-t move into' the liouse which he bought of the "Wm. W. Sanndei's estáte, on E. Catbarine st., a sho.rt time ago, but will build a Jiew Siouse for himself cm tlie lot as soon ae the weather will peiTuit. Good for Chris. He is earnimg, by goO'd hard work, a lióme for h'imself. Here is a IHtle item showing what the Detroit pension agency lias done. For the year 1894, $7,033,343.72 was paid out. During tlie year 900 died wlio had formerly received pensions tliere. There were 2,058 additions, of which 1,228 were origináis, 378 restorations, and 52 transfers. The total loss was 1,751, and the inciease in value over the year before was $23,846. % Tlie democratie convention passed the following complimentary resolution on the administration of out efficiënt school commissioner : "'Resolved, TJhat we commend the efficiënt and painstaking administration of the great school interests of our county by Commiissioner M. J. Cavanaugh and assure liim of our continued confidem.ee and esteem." Tlie Fenton Independent eays that a man who loafs around in bar-rooms and other lounging places, generally has a good, energetic wife. Energetic enoug-h to hustle for a living, but not energetic enougli to kick the lazy cusses out. The average women will suffer more tluin she is cálled upon to do, in her relations with the plece of masculinity sho calis her husband. A lodge oí the Degree of Honor, tlie ladies branoh oí the A. O. U. W., was instituted in this city Tuesday ove. by Mrs. Ellen R. Delbridge,. af Saginaw, e. s., Grand Chiel of Honor, assisted b3' Mrs. Wm. C. Moore ;uid Mrs. ('arpenter, of Yps lunti. with I'S charter members. It will lic kUKwn as Anns lodge No. 55, I). of H. They will meet in the regularli all of the A. O. U. W., on the first and third Thursdays of eacn inonth. The city ordinance relative to iinpouEiding dogs oughit to be cüiaiigjecl ín oue respect. AVlien u, license has been iesued for a dog', a ml t:u' tag has been lost, no pound feos should, be eharged. There are soane rascáis about toffii who steal these tags oif dogs uniese they are rivited on, and put üiem oa the collars of their own camines. At least tilia is asserted to be so by people wiho have had the tags taken iroun the collars of their dogs. On Motiday evenirig John George Seybold died at his lióme on. the Dexter road, after o, brief illness with pneuimonia. TaO deceased was born in Wurteniburg, Germany, Oct. 6th, 1818 and had lived here 6in.ee 1846, osa the homestcad where he died. He leaves nine childiren and one adopted son. Funeral services will be held f rom the resideince on Tliursday at 1 P'. m., tlie services being conducted by Revs. Neumann and Tedrow. Interrment in the Germán cemetery. Microbes may be in kisses, As si-iciuists declare; Tint whal doyoutbs and missea. Who knowjDst what the bliss Ir, For bloomiug microbes cnr-? -Kansas City Journal. Mrs. C. L. Sigler, of this city has been vieitlng relatives and frlends at Plmckney for the past few dayer. Mrs. Anna. Maria Braun, widcw of Jofon Braun, of Ann Arbor town, lies in a very critical condition at her home. Mr. cuaú Mrs. Watsoai, of Fargo, N. Dakota, have beem guest.s of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Taber for tilO past few days. Jason Gillett, an old pioneer of the county, died yesterday, at the home of his son. Chas. M. Gillett, of Ypsilanti, aged 80 yenrs. The oase of Paul G. Suekey was on befare Jutxe Pond Friday a. m. and after miioh pleading by hls attomieys, was agafo adjourned until March 22. The ladies.' editiooi of Ann Arbor Courier was a bowling succes..- Chelsea, Standard. Soane of the ladies are puzzled to know just what a 'howiimg" euccess is. ïlie state entóampinent of the G. A. Pi. will bo held at Mt. Cleniens on the 20th, 27th and 28th of this montli. The railroiatls will give ome and onethïrd fare for the romnd trip. Tlie deficit of ex-Conuity Treaeurer P. G. Suekey has now been exactly deterinined and amo.unts to' $5,411.50, for -tt-liich his bondsmen "vill have to settle. - New "Washteioaw Post. "Wc-lcli Post G. A. R. have been invited by Kev. Fr. Kelly, to attead divine service at st. ilüiomas' churcli on the Sunday preceding Memorial Day, and the sanie has been accepted. The Dexter Leader, in its account of 1 the grand masonic ball held in tliat village recently, says : "Everyone was cliamned with the excellent music furnisihed by the ■Minnis' orchestra of Ana Arbor." Gra.nd Lecturer Ai-thur M. Clark, of the F. & A. M., -well luiown all over Michigan, presented with a beautiful signet ring, at Port Huron last Tucsday evening by Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. The presentation speech, was made by Noble E. E. Harris, of Detroit. On Friday evening next, Marclx 8, Rev. Dr. C. M. Cobern will deliver a lecture in the Epworth League course, having for his subject, "Afterternoons with Great Men," whicli will include personal rennlniscences of John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Weadell Holmes ajad "Wendell Phillips. It is witn deep regret that we have to amno'unce the death of Supervisor Daviid Edwards, of Ypsilanti, which occurred Thursday in that citj', at the Hawkins hous-e. Mr. Edwards was 80 years old, had been a resident of that city simoe 1838, and was one of the first aldermen when the village became a city. The funeral will be held Saturday. He had many friends all over Washtenaw county. It is somewhat astonishing that the expenditures for the poor for the past three months are orer $200 less than were the expenditures for the corresponding thi-ee months of last year. Supt. Sipley t-hinks that the building of the eewers last winter did not help the city poor very mucli, but rather made the expenditures greater. Tliis has been a harder winter than last winter was, and it would not have been surptrising had tliere been an.increase oif amount paiid out. Mr. Sipley says he made the best bargain this winter in buying wood tbat he ever made, getttog the year's supply at mucli less tham lias been pa.W hereto fora. Peter A. Dignan, wto fonmerly lived here, is eecretary and treasurer of the Citizen 's Loan Association in Jacksonville, Florida. As to the recent freeze in the isoutli he says : "I do not tiuink the damage as great as at first r-eported. All this year's erop was ruimed and the trees may be hart, set' as to 'giro us a rather short erop of oranges liext year, but it is too early to estímate the damage done to the orango trees. Out t'armers and truck growers are alreaily at work replantimg oaa-ly vegetables for tlie aiorfliern market, whk-h erop always brings good prices, and that will act to drive away the blues causad; by tin' irost. Meiroury to-day is 75 degrees in tlie shade." On Saturday ïnorning last, death carne to Mrs. Anna M. Braun, at the home of her daughter Mrs. Ivlichael Stéim, of Ann Arbor town. Mrs. Braun was SI years of a,ms and deatii was tlie result of a stroke of paralysis. The deceaeed came froni "Wuerteniberg, Germany, in 1837, uul "was married it-o the late John Braun in 1838, uid tliey lived in tiiis city and vicinity umtil their death. Her naaiden name was Anna M. Ebei'hardt. She leaves five sons, Fred B., Charles, Michael, Christian and Henry, and two danehtei-s, Mrs. Steia of Ann Arbor town, and Mrs. Fred Kirn, of this city. Funeral services are to be held Tuesday afternoon, at 12:30, at the residence of Micha-el Stein, where she died, and from Zion Lutheran diui-ch in this city at 2 p. tn. Interment'will be in Foa-est Hill Cemetery- She never slnes the olt!, ojd songs .Slie shrleked in rtayK of . vore; She never iliunips the keyboard now Untll her thumbs are uore. Alas! upon the tateM grand, sim never more wlllpliiy, Slie tïiiled with ihe liistailinents, and Tbey've taken ltaway. Next Saturday the executive board of the Washtemaw Co. Mutual Ins. Co. will meet at Sec'y Child's office ta adjust losses up to date. Compaiiy A is in need of a new flag lor its armory. The American flag is w'hat the boys fitght under, aaid tliey should not be without onc. There aire a few copies left of the Woman's edition of the Daily Couii-r, and anyoiie wanting copies to send away to tlieir friends can obtain the same already wrapped, at the Courier office for five cents per copy. There will be no general registratlon of voters tliis spring bccause of the change in the state constitution effectinif the qualificatioiis of voters. Attorney General Maynard deerns it advisable but not absolutely neoessary. Tliree etudents at tlio University in Ann Arbor, thus far, tliis year, have gone insane over excessive sstudy and woik. Xo bucIi resulte have occurred im the newspaper offices over there thought - Adrián Prese. No knowing what might have happened to the readers of one of tlie newspapers had Bro. Smitli remained here. The republicaa senatorial convention for tliis district, to nomínate a successor to the late John W. "Watts, was hfeld in Jackson Saturday. A. F. Freeimam, of Manchester was made ("hakman. Tlie Jackson delegation liaving previously agTeed in caucus to preaant the name of Charles H. Smith, he was nominated unanimously by tne conv&ntion. A series of resolutio-ns in respct to the memory of the late Senator Watts were adopted by a, rising voto.