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May
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1895
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Nature from nothing. as it seems, Put leavea upon the plaut. Art would upou one groan put sleeyea Witli a yard of clrith. aud can't Fieci Sclhinid will eoan lyuild a jioiisef adjoinihg ihis preemt residence. Aprii of this year is ahead oí April last ye&r, in pohit oí flowers. Jcscph T. Shaw has bought the Wast; and lot on Hiscock st., aï thO ÏCcJion estáte. He- or Bhe - who spends his - or her --Timo la idleness, reaps a harvest of ■wsnt and sorrow, if iiot of crime. F. W. Dembois, wiho lives two miles west oí the city ibas sold liis faa-m and wil! move to Detroit. K you wisli to raat a room' to or buard any of the May Festival visitors, seind in your namO to the School of Mu&ic. Ht? who causes a tree to grow v.L'de none had grown before is a lereíactor oí his race. Remember tliia and plant a tree on Axbor Day. 'Iho man who can look about our btreets and then vote against the purtaso of a stone crusber, Is not the iiLht sort oí a looker or reosoner, ■tljat's all. The question naturally suggests itpelf, "wculd the health officer do any more than hO does aow, even if his fcalary Bhonld be doubled ? What can he do more than he is doing ? The familiar faco of B. C. Randall o f Ann Arbor, ivas lscen upon our &1 reets ycsterday, ïor the first time sínce entering on duty as prosecuting attorney íot TVaslhtenaw county. - Dundee Reporter. And still the clouds pass over and no rain deseends. The trees are very politc aow-a!;ïys, aml say "by yoair leaf." .nthur II. Seymour '93 'Yarsity pitcher, is re&ding law with Kline & Lew is. The lectures on "Phüistia" wlll commf .ncc at the M. E. chureh nest. Sund&.v evenimg. Tiiese premature straw hats trotted ocí a tlay oí' so ago liave disappeareil for a 'time. ïèssie T. Powers of Ann Arbor,! wiTi preach in the XJniversalist church at llooreville, Suaday, May 5tli. TV'i! nnderstand that there have been &.'i1eii bicycle riders fined ior riding or the sidewalks within the iast few c!;.ys. Tho Bach Agency has sold "the I)ais place" on W. Huron st. to Mt.' I'ijd; ol üsaadilla, fatlier of W. F. Iiiid, of this city. Tht "sooner" lad who pulled off hls shoes and stuck his feet in the purl-. ing waters ol üiO placid Huron, remaiked : "too daurp cold yet." Il is, not e o mucli what a. man fiays that gives weight to his worde, as the Btajiding of thO man in thO cptimation of his fellow citizens. l-'red X. Henion, formerly collector, oí the Ann Arbor Savings bank, nowi ot Portland, Oregon, is soon to bö inurried to Miss ilyrta Morrill, oí that city. Frank Staffan has the foundation laul 'or a handsom monument on his lot in Mt. Olivet John Baumgardïer, of Aun Arbor, lias the contract. - Chelsea Herald. JiLstice GibS'OHi is authoi-ity for the statement tbat one young lady has been arrested and fined for riding her bicycle on the sidewalk, but the Justice, being a single man, and naturally modest, refused fco divulge the fair one's name. Sarah, wife of Benj. P. Crane, died Thursday at about 10 :30 at the home of her sister, Mrs. Caroline W. AValdron, at No. 93 S. State street, of.-,consumption. MrS. Crane was brousrht to this city some weeks since from her home in Minneapolis, Minn., where she and hor husband resided for a niimber of years. Mrs. Crane was 53 years of age. The Michigan Central has come to the front witb an original idea of railroading. This company beginning April 25, runs a fast freight between Chicago and Buffalo, making the run in nineteen and a half hours, only four hours slower than the fast American express. This will be agreat advantage for horse owners desiring to ship their stock from one city of the grand circuit to another. Iiudson T. Horton, bas coinpleteck plans for a fine new residenee on Church st., to be 62 Ftj. 6 ia. by S'J ït. 0 in., with a veranda ramning across the entire front, and the oost of the cdiïice will be about $4,000. Jusfc vhat "Hud"' waets of so lai-g-e at house at preseait, mo one can imagine Iiut he is ia man wiio knows his own business. You know it may be that it wili be a widow wiUh a faanily alrefcdy cm haad - yooi can 't teil- not always, about tliese tihtogs. In some cities tiie Bell Teleptoone Company is said ito be reducing rates by using a non-interfering system oí tvJephoining on ono line, thait is five or six or more liouses may have t-elephoneis on the same line without the bell ringing in every lioiise whien one of the number is called up. The bell will ring only at the house which "cfiitral" wishes to cali up. The limit to this system of telepfiones on one line is said to be the matter of service. One man. migtit be using Vnc, "phone wlien aoaother -wants it, oTherwise the service is as good. Khould the system be put in here, it H thouht the cornpaaiy oould estab'Isli stLch a rate that at least 500 niore 'phones would be ised than a lo now. The milis of the gods grind slowly. And they grind exceedingly amall; In democratie times, though They are lucky to grind at all. Tlit waters oí the Hurom river are btiiiíí sweetened with dead hoge and c'cad dos-. hgular annual meeting of the II 0barl Chiild will be held at Haorla Hall tm Thursday. at 8 o'clock p. m. The annual June Festival of the St. Thomas Society will be held at the opera house 011 the evening of June 7th. Tn Chicago Theolcngical Seminary cc.nferred tho degree of D'. D. tipon, Buv. J. "YV. Bradsibaw, and nofc the Chicago Cnnersityas originally statod Tho&e who subscritoed for the o.ntertalDjnent oí the legislature are receiving back 22 1-2 per cent. of -vhat they, gave. A clear gain for tliO subscriber. Tüü Bethlehem clinrch property at tho corner oí W. Wasliiington and S. FirsJ ete. is iiow for sale. Xt, -wold) make a good property ior some j i.facturing entea-prise. I'etcr Lelimain, deputy oounty ,treasvicr will build a liousO this spring r ( ar that of Georgo 'Grossmann on V. Liberty st. He expects to' make Ann Arbor h.i& future holmei. .iclin C. Walz, oí the State Savings bank is building a house for himself cxn W. Jefferson etreet. "Whether he inicnds to occupy it himself o-r not iïc aro not at liberty to state. j he weather obsei'vers say that the Ick oí rain iiow shows a docrease of abciut six inches of rala froan the aversgo rainfall of April up to date. Tliat ;s, tac water supply oí this section is plx-rt that much aqua pura. Which is not a plea.sa.nt fact. It conjunctlon with, the A. M. E. 1 lunch and the 2d Baptist chuirch of this city, a Fred Douglas memorial so rice will be held at the Uuitarian (iirich 011 Jionday csiening May 5. ( oloreü speakers from Detroit are exjifcted here to address the audience. The Maccabees of Michigan are to have a new paper. It will becalled the Maccabee Herald and will be issued monthly f rom an ofiice in Detroit. Joseph Loughead will have editorial charge and Mrs. Sarah J. LaTour is to edit a department for the Lady Maccabees. 1'. is rumored that the T. & A. A. ü net propose -to put on. the extra Surtlay moi-ning train, until June lst. Ii' ene can jiiclge by the inquiries about this train, it would pa y to put it on iiow. Tliere would be a g-ood manyi passengere even these dayS, if it was i unnlng. Tht Oak Grove Club whose house is a t Zuekey Lake - but tliere isn't aa (■uk tree within a, half milO or so, of it- will open lip tüie season May J 5th with a beefsteak supper, tha steak for willen is said to be already M aïoning. It is expected that nbout) irj people will enjoy the occasion. Willlfum Mason, who llvesd in the houw; east of St. Thoimas' cemetery, oa Chubb Road, flied Tlnirsday of jeui algia oí the stotnacn, aged 02 j cars. He Avas a natiie of England, !iü(! had lived in Northfleld 37 years,, ■u 't il t"iie years aga wlien he removed 1 0' this city. He leaies a wife and, niuu children, Been sons and two (la.i.'ghters. 'The remains -vill be takori to Northiield for interrnient. Funeral services -svill be held to-moiTOw, Puturday, forenooai at ten o'clock, i: om the residente. A farmer ivlio liv&s on the gravel loail from Ypsilanti to Saline, and avíjo is sometimos coasidered ecceniiic. alarmed the whole neighborliood ;i few nignt's ago by burning off a meadow of sixteen aerea For some r.-!iLOU or olher lie failed to have ihe gj asa cut last seasom, and there was quite a heavy erop on the ground, so he plowed a fun'ow or two around ihf: lot to prevent its spreading and fired it at night. Tlie sanoke that aiow was dense, and even people as far away as Ypsilanti came out of Ilxár houses to ascertain where the ijiu was. Koch Bros. being asked about building prospecta this year, replied that the outlook was never better. The finn has ten or twelve jobs already on hand, some of which are nearly completed, otliers well under way and others just started. Among the new ones is a $3,000 stone and frame residence on the Godfrey farm situated on the river road east of the city. This will be a fine residence, and equalled by few country houses about this vicinity. The finn has upward of thirty men at work at present on their various jobs about the city. Rev. C. M. Cobern will begin a new series of evening lectures Sunday evening, May 4, his new subject being "In the Land of Philistia." Five years ago Dr. Cobern spent 11 inonths in foreign Iands, and these lectures will contain personal reniiniscences of his travels in the desert, among the ruiued cities of Philistia, inïMoslem villages and in Bedouin camps. Philistia, although scarcely ever entered by the tourist, is part of that "Fifth Gospel," which so often assists] to a better understanding I of the Bible narrativo. Woman put her foot in it when The hloomer slie dld don, Forsooth was there another way To aet the blamed tlilng ou? Mi-s. Susan Da vis ilias sold her farm v.-psi of the city, throug-h the liach St Dutler ageney, and will move to 'hu city. latrick Malone, of Genoa, Livingston county, paid $4.70 coste in Just'ce Gibson's eourfc a. m. for 00 freely t,Tie day previous1. James C. Lewis, of Utica, has re- turnea to Arm Arbar to re.=ide, and en.7 loied imto partnership with Hou; (ha. H. Kline. Their office is over, Duif y 's store. The city lock-up met an accident last night. An enthusiastic young man was put in there, who in his enthusiasm smaslied all the windows and everything else breakable therein. .otwithstanding Chicago's great ral oil university, Illinois sends almost eleven per cent. of the students :,!i Michigan üniiensjtj-. Ohto furnhes a little over seven per cent. Accordlng to the animal liquor tax rtpcrt of flie county treasuirer last vear. the tax in this county amountei, to $36,900, of wliich Ajml Arbor paid $16,700. The tax was paid by S5 persons. - Argus. Ko-w is the time of year whea the itverage owner of a city lot figures on laying out ten dollars during thé summer on a garden, and raiaing crcpó to the value of $2.90. It Avas' ever t-hus. Tlw; legislature has passed a la"w piohibiting the keeping of bee hives ■-iilhin ninety feet of the public highway. The oiily articlo of sweetness to b allowed on a sbreet is a hand-, somt; igirl. Th.0 neighliors and f riends of Mr. and anti Mts. P. W. Demboise on the Elvi er Eoad, a couple of miles easti of the city, to about fifty or sixty, turned dut Fridajp niglit and gave them a iarewell partjT. THiey go to Detroit May lst. The Aam Arbor Concert Club were greeted with a good sized audience at their concert giveu at the Armoryl !rist evening. The concert was ond of the best given before a Dundee' Miakmce in somO time, and it is hop-' Gil that they may again appear at tlji.- place.- Dundee Reporter. At the earnest request of a friend, of the family, -we do not give the name, of tbc man who last night entered, the kitchen after da-rk, and feil over, a pall oí water which hal been left 11) ore In house-cleanuig fashion. But ii' you "meet a chap whose nose might bc improvea by likin grafting, we advist- you as a friend not to ask him. whether liLs wife lias been cleaningj house. Tlit Humane Society offers a reWflrtí of a liundred dollars for evi((neij that will eonvict the party or porttee who have been poisoning dogs in Ann Arbor. A good many of t iio most valua,ble dogs have been killet' by poison this spring and as this is the most cruel way oí killing dr gx the HumanO Society offers this ;t'a.rd in good faitih lo apprehend the brutes who kill brutee. Do you kuow tliat it is trua that ptC'Xlfi botli in town and country reac iln advertisements in tlieir home pa ptr vith as mnch carefulness as they reai! the news items ? If you are a (ïs.)er and haven't learned this fact it wjll be to your advamtage to study it. We have frequently heaird subf.cribefs state that they annually save many times tbr piiioe of the subscrip1;Oi oí the Courier by close is1c1j of lts advertisnig columns ant Dol icing where the ttnoist goods can De protured for the money. L,ive business men when they hn.ve barg'8im to offer the fact, and aijci the intelligent reader profits by f-uoh annonncemient. llu: proper way to sprinkle our rcbidence streets is to divide the city off into districte and aesess each reslt:-nce in eacli district the cost cí ïujining a street epirinkler. Tlien keep one cart at work all the time in each district. ThO cost woiild b fjif'ing for each o-esidence and the benefit received incalculable, not only Ui the housewffe and her furniture hut to the good health of the comniiuiity, for many times the dried sa-, "ii a oí diseased people who walk the sti f ets, is picked up "by the winds an( l-'owi into your face and noatirila b) athed into yoir lungH, and a fata (itcase contracted, ■vJiile evéry one wondere how it was possible for "such i tealthy looking person to be tak tn away bo eoon." Tlien, too, i v.-ouk: be a great help' to the many ma pies and other beautiful trees that shadc our streets. The sprinkling o: streets shonld aot bO considerec a hixtiry, but a tnecessity, and shoulc bu ordered by the Board of Health i-i the. interest of public health. Oth er have adopted this district Ij'an and it has worked successfully AVhy mot try it liere ? All that is Deeöed is an official to lead, to take 1lïï) initiative.

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