Local

Christian 'Mack bought the store of John Pfisterer on mortgage sale Friday. The W. C. T. U. meets on Thursday ac Ö o'clock p. m., iiu the Y. "W. C. A. rooms. The Political Equaüty Club has elianged its meeting night irom Thursday to Tuesday evennigs. Miss Wesfhas been transferred from the 5tli to the lst ward school, and Miss 'May O'Hearn appointed to ïül her place. The first at home, or entertainment of the Womans' league this year, will be held at McMillan Hall on Ha.tr uiday, ifrom 3 to 6 pw m. At the services held in Cin-innati, Thursday in memory of the luis Judge Jackson, George P. Wanty, of Grand ilapids, öne oí Ann Arbor's famous boys, Kvas one of the speakers. The solos sang during the offertoiies at St. Andrew's church Sunday, by Mr. tf. N. Korück of Detroit, in the mcining, and "Walter Taylpr in the ■vening, were of an unusually high order. The Monroe Democrat man has had l)is tear to the ground and! arises to rpmark in regard to the Ann Arbor & Detroit Electric St. R. R. Oo., that "aa to its 'maintainers' it needa none on earth. It's an air line." Well that Is a sort of favorito -svith aewslaper men, after all. Op the Gth of November next, it ■will be just fifty years since Conrad Krapf and Charles Spoor, of this city, took the first degree in Odd Fellowship. Should they both be lüive and -vcll on' that day, it might not be a bad idea for the order, to have a sort 'of semi-sentennial in this city in their honor. On Baturday the wind turned into the north with a whew, and from the Alaskan glaciers and fastnesses it blew, until the average man it chilled completely through. Then a snow storm of moderate dimensions came on, and all day Sunday the llakes kept occasionally coming down on the dust of the streets and roofs oí the town, until quite a sheet ol "white wrapped the earth at night. Mouday morning the sun came out and smiled on the work of the Frost, oud all the green lea ves drooped! and feil to the earth. This was the first roal tard freeze this fall. Goodby, sweetflowers, Thronili hriglil slimmer hours You have filled our licurts with cheer; We shall you so, And yet you must go, For tliis is the fall of tlie yenr. Chas. Burkhardt ojjens a dancing school ín Dundec the first of November. Oías. Petrie was called to TJansiug last Wednesday by tlio death of his niotli er. Company A will elect a captain tonight to íill the vacancy caused by 1Iio rcsignation of Capt. John C. Fishei'. The üwelling on the lst ward school prounds is now converted into school rooms and filled full of children every t!ay in attendance thereon. Those ïvho cxpect to have ;ranl;erry sauce with their turkeys on Thanksgiving and Christmas, better lay in their stock now. Xhey are scarce this year. Just nine weeks írom tomorrow aiid Christmas will be here. Don't OUl Time scoot right along though ? "VVhy.it only seems a few weeks Blnce wecelebrated that holiday ! Ai. the state convention of the Baptist at Marquette last week, Prof. W. W, Beman of this city, was ieelected treasurer, and J. C. Gates oí Ypsilanti, vas made president. The Salvation Army has rented the stc-ie f Clay Greene, under the city offices on N. Fourth ave., and will mükr that their headquarters. Thiy piopose to get a foothold in Ann Arbor. , . W. Condón, a lake captain, and a former Ann Arbor boy, died in Buíïulo last Wednesday, and his rernains ere brought to this city lor interriiicnt last Friday, in St. Thomas' cpnietery. } Dr. B. B. Sudworth will cali and ret any books, periodicals or other gooO reading matter you may have t.i give away, if you will drop Mm a note. He wants it for the county house Inmates. On TV'ednesday morning last, Jacob Baessler, of No. 69 N. Main st., died o.t his home, of typhoid fever, iged 50 years. Funeral services vvere he'-d Thursday and rematns interred In the city cemetery on the northside. The street cars are to be vestibuleu, and Robert Hunter has the ;ob. This Is not only a nice thing for the motor men, but a humane thing, and in the state of Ohio, for instance, the law compels that to bei done. Bobert Phillips and Kobert Burns are and were both Scotch. Consequently when the former became possessed of a number of souvenirs of the latter, as he did recently, it was the cause of much happiness on his part. The fire department had two calis last Thursday noon, caused by the burning of the barn belonging to .Toe Clay. a colored drayman, who Uves on Linden st. It seems that there v ere a lew sparks left in the firsc attompt at squelching the blaze, and 1ho heavy wind soon fanned it into a ílame again. TUousands of dollars invested In tho printing business here in Ann Arbor, most of it paying taxes, and yet noc an office in the city capnble of getting up good enough stationery ior our county offices, or announcenents for some of the lecture courses giTen here. That does not speak well for Ann Arbor's estabhshments, does it? The great candle of Eberbach's, started during fair time, burned out last Thursday evening, and the best guesser was the one holding clcket Ko. 1,027, the guess belng 174) hour or 7 days 6 hours. The candle burned 173 hours, 56 minutes, or 7 days 5 hours and 56 minutes. Two others, Nos. 1,467 and 1,542 guessed the same, but the number mentioned v as the flrst to record that guess. Jas. R. Bach's irisurance Irasiness is in charge of John E. Alford. í' Thanksgiving gets around on lts usuai time, the turkeys will have only dvo weeks more to grow and get íat 11. The lecture course given by the Bóptist fijunday School, six evenings for 50 cents, is an excellent one, and weU -woi-th the price. The residence at No. 9 Geddes uve., O( cujMed by Jírs. St. John, was damagetí by fire on IMday nighfc !ast, to the extent of aboufc $300; worth. Fully insured. The city offices had a narro vv escape from destructlon Frlday aight. A Waze got nicely started in the room l:etween the clerk's and the enginer's oifices, and was discovered just in time to prevent a sad loss. The fire boys "put it out wlth Chemicals, as it was. That ímproved fast mail service, pi omised 'by the government for Michigan, -wiH be greatly weleomed by our business men. Some way the postal service for this state doesn't seem to 'have kept up to the standard sinee Hon. Don. M. Dickinson held the reir.s oí that department. The fire alarma now a-days come in pairs. The department has had three OouWe alarms in succession during the v; eek, but the boys proved themselves equal to the emergencies, and were ou 'time at each and every cali. The secret of our fire department'a great success, 'is its promptness. The remains oí Virgll C. Lozee, ivho dletl at lus home in Detroit last Thurse.py. arrived in the city Saturday p. m-, and were met by a number of the Masonic fratemity and escoited to Forest Hill cemetery, where inteirment took place. Tlie deceased was the husband of Celia A., daughter of the late Rev. George Taylor, for a number of years a resident of Ann Avbor. A nuinber one Ann Arbor travelinj; and business man, was heard to say one day the past week Ihat of aii the villages in Michigan, Pinckney was alioad in nearly everything - stiaight business men to deal with, up to date, and always bound to hold ,her ówn and advance. - Pinckney Dispatch. Of course he was a No. I tiaveling man, and knows, evidently, thai honey is more palatable than a'ces Begent Hackley has just donated to the Board of Education of Muskegon, $30,000 to be used in building a Normal Training School, to which he agrees to give $5,000 a year for salaries during his liie-time, and at his'death to endow it with $100,000. This ís in addition to somei $300,000 or '$400,000 already given to his own city, Muskegon, previously. Michigan would be glad to have a few more Hackley's. At a meeting of the Board of Managers of the WashtenawiCo. Agricultura! and Horticultural Society l'riday afternoon, the treasurer, i'red ïi. Be!ser, was directed to collect fifteen per cent. of the guaranty subsciiptions pledged by our v'.itizens. That amount will be needed to put the society on a firm foundation, and pay all liabilities incurred. The society has been well managed, and It ife no fault of its officials that such a course has become necessary, but ifc ha& been placed between two fires, and in that way crippled. "When a house is divided against itseU it can not stand. When two lactions ia the county carry thelr fight int o tljecounty fair, of course the fair suffers as has been effectually proven hci-etofore. Neither party lias stiength enough to carry the lair through successfully, but either can prevent it f rom becoming a success íiDancially. Under those circumstances would it not be best to drop the amiual exhibitions until all can unite in making it a success ? The exhibir is of no especial benefit! to Ann Aibor's business men, yet they of i'ouise 'have a pride in having it kept up and its debts pi-omptly paid. But tl;ey. do not feel like contributing. to an 'enterprise that fails to be self sustaining -through factional .juarrels tbat ehould not exist as far as the fair is concerned. The Courier has beard many of our business men, who have been firm supporters of the fair e.press that opinión. They eel that it would be best to discontinue the yearly exhibitions until all can unite i.i making it a success. 'Shc wore a high hat to the play, What diil the man behiuil her sar' Well. not what he onijht, If he'd siiid what ho thought, But he dldn't- he just went away." AVm Tliiensen, the taüor, bas rented a store of Clny Greene ,in the ArlÍ Dg ton block. Ou next Sunday morning Rev. Dr. Cobern lias for his subject: "Ai e Tbere few That be Saved ?" County C'lerk Dansingburg issued five marrlage üceuses Saturday. Quite a rush considering the hard time. It will cost fire cents to get in wbere the ladies and pies are, at the l'iesbyterian church to-morrow evening. Oii account of the death of Mrs. Gianger's mother, all classes at Grungii's Academy are omitted until Thursday evening. Th ere should be a good attendai:co at the social in the Xorthside chapel to-morrow evenin;. The fntiro world invited. Oii the 30th inst, Christian Jenter. formerly of this city, is to be inarr;ei! to Miss Louise Potter, at Geneva, N. Y., where he now resides. A pamphlet, haring for its object tii o 'interesting of peoplè in general In the work of the English Lutheran cburch Ihere, has been issued by Jiev. W. (L. Tedrow. 1 1 5a the intention of the Vdventists -vho have purcïased the Gierman M. E. church, at tüie corner of E. TJberty and S. División ste., to put a fine church edifice thereon bef ore a gr ent whlle. The Adrián Press believes iliat all clmnh bells should cease their uoie, ami that in future all people should KO to chureh by their own elocfcs. Tfois is another attempt to folsfc standard time on the people. Capt. Allen is spending two weeks ii Ohio making stump speeebes lor tl:e republicans. He is not very far üowr. in the state, henee come the t o ai se murniurings whlch can le boort' o' nights when the wind is in tlie south - Ypsilanti Commercial. The Y. TV. C. A. of this city will givt; a social at their rooms in the post office block on Thursday evenii.g. Oct. 24th. Tickets at 10 ets. Ciicii will be on sale at various places down town and aJeo by membersi of tho Association. Come everybody and bring your friends. l'armers are getting quite "flip" ever in "Washtenaw county. A Granper 's academy has opened in .Vnn Arl oí-, and a "Granger's school of Janclrj;" is advertised. "Wait till they Roi the bil! for the republican taxes Hui year and you will see dancing that comes without iustruction Adriai' Press. You mean democratie tiixes. The $700,000 and over that ■ as íeft as a legacy from the Winan's aaministration is probably what you refei to. Oi the evening of Oct. 8, while George S. Huil, who lives in Hamburg a lew miles north of Whitmore Lake, and lus family were at supper, a terriïfii- explision not only stunned the entire ïamily, but blew the rear end of the house pretty much to pieces. Au inspection of the premises disclosed the fact that some one had attempted to blow the house and its occupants Into eternity by means of dynamite. Suspicions were eutertained as to who the cowardly perpetrators of the dastardly deed were, Uut nothing definite could be obtained and the officers of Livingston county seemed 'loth to act. Finally interested parties came to Ann Arbor and secured the services of Chief of l'olice Peterson to ferret out the crimináis. He went out there and commenced work, and soon had another job put up by the guilty parties and such evldence secured as would convict. Upon the arrest of the two brotherg, Erastus and Dudson Webster, by the Livingston officials, the thumb screws were put to them, and they confessed to the whole business. The reason given for doing the deed was revenge íor a few real or fancied grievances, tone of which was the selliuii to them by Huil of a bushei of peaches which were tainted with the yellows. and which made their mother, who is an old lady, sick. It hardly seems as though for such trivial reasons men would do such awful deeds, but some people are :iueerly constructed. Tlie Websters are both .uiimarried, their mother seeplng kouse íor them. Tliey formerly iesltleu in Salem in this county, out ilid uot bear a very good name, it is aid:. Between the ferreting out of this crime, and tlic conviction of Cuyler Barton, the barn bunier, "Washtenaw county officials are entitlod to a g-reat Cea' of credit.