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TI ere ivill be a meeting of Fratwulty Lodge Frlday evening at S o 'lockw Ti Degree of Honor wiíl glve a social in A. O. U. W. hall Tliursday evening. C. 0. Willis of Elizabeth st. pas-.'d lis 8 Mh Urthday yesterday, and ,lias 'livei hero 35 years. John Geo. Gross, aged 38 years 9 months, died Monday of consumption, at his home on 2d st. Ifuneral seriee.s this p. 111., conducted by Eev. John Neumann and burial in Xortliside cometery. Hughie McGuire is probably one oí 1lo fleetest youngsters on loot in the city, lie came out ahead 14 1-2 minute.i on a 100 yard race this uiorning viltt the famous sprinter darence S-neet, so lie says. A Bib'-e reading club has been foimetl at the M. E. ehurch, 300 people picdging themsel.ee to eomnience Witli the first ehapter of Genesis, and reaü one chapter each day until ihey eonipleted the entlre Bibe. Bve ybody is Invited to join the dub. Every mfcmber o: the mo:her mpi eme louncil of the world, Ancieut and Accepted Seo t sh Eite Frea Mato ry, 27 in numter, were in thelr tats oi Oe.. il. when the ..ou ;cil was cale 1 to oider in Washington I. C. Several ïnioitant qu-vstions w ere decided. and Mrs. Hi A. 8weet, of tlils dij', goto South Bend, Iud., (o morrow, to altend the funeral of Mis. iüeet's sister, L,Tonia M., wie of ü'Lomas . Taylor _of the postoffice (icpartment, who died at Washington, li. C, on Sunday last. ThO deceased had been a resident oï 1he national capital for 22 years. Thf: ladies composing the Aid Society of St. Andrew's parish, !iave in coiitemplation a rery line series of eiiiertalnments tor December 6, 7, . and 10. It will be cailed the "Fesriva! of the Holidays," and they wlll {Ilústrate in a very pleasant aianner lliankggiviag, Christmas, New Years Sc. Valentine's Day, Independence Day .lid perhaps G. A. R. Memorial Day. ïlio festivals will be given at Han is Hall and the ladies will bring out something well worth seeing and iist o n ing to. The second lecture in the Unity Clül. course was given Monday cvenlug, by the Kev. J. B. "Whitford, upon Dante." Mr. Whitford is the Methcdisi clergyman, located at Caro, Michigan. He is a natural liorn O'ator and his 'e 'ture was veryj inteiesting and instructive from' heginning to end. He is a profound stndent. of Dante, and of the condition o; thought and society in Italy at the c'.os-e of the Middle Ages when Dante U-v ed. It was a great theme, handled eloquontly and well. It was inlly up to the high standard of entertainments glven by Unity Club. ' Oii Sunday evening last Mrs. C. Eobüson, the moïher oí A. V. Eobibol' of this city, died at the home of her son, of oíd age, having reached S7 jeais. Mrs. Robison was a native of New Yot-k, where she was üorn June 23. 1SDS, was marrieiï in 1S26 to James I. Robison, with whoi she carne to Michigan in 1844. One son A. V. Robison, and two daughters, Mis?. Della I'ack of Ann Arbor, and another üving in Manchester, survive her. Brief services were conducted at. the residence last evening by Rev. Di. C'obern, and the remains '.ver tuten to Manchester this morning fir burial. Mrs. Catliarine Hangsterfer, who died on Sunday morning, after a somewhat extended illness, was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, April 10 1825. Bhe eame to this country in 1833 with the family, seUling In Pennsyivania. In 1848 she was warried to Jacob Hangsterfer, and tbey carne to Ann Arbor to reside in 1SC4, where they carried on a confectioneiy store with ice cream par lors and prospered so rapidly ,hat aftef a few years they ereoted the Dlocl now occupied by Wadhams, au & Eeule, at the corner of S. Main and Washington sts., and which Uer ir.any years was the finpst in the city and contalned llie only public hall ei jirominence in the town. Mr. Hangsterfer died in 1873, after which Mrs. Hangsterfer carried on the business alone for several years. The children surviving are J. ïïm., of Detroit, Edward V., Miss Uzzie, Mrs. Granger and Mrs. Limpert, of Ann Arbor, Mrs. Luyckx and Mrs. Stevens of Detroit. The funeral was held yesterday from the house, Eev. Mr. Beach, of St. Andrew's Episcopal church conducting the services. The Uonorary bearers were Moses Sealiolt, P. Bach, "W. T. Harriman, 1. Gruner, C. H. Worden, J. T. Jacobs. The active bearers were the tsons and sons-in-law. And tlrus passes away ]■] obably one of the most widly known v. omen of thls city. Shë was a gf.oc! business ivoman, and 'aas alvays been held in the highest respect by our citizens in general.
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