The Grand Old 4th Ward Will Have

two aldermen to elect this spring. The Wolverine Oyc'e club give a hop at their rooms New Year's riight. Revival meetings areto be inaugurated berore long at the M. E. church. The new map of the route of the Ann Arbor Raihvay, at Alma, has been approved by the state board . A Happy New Year ! May the coming twelve montlis be kinder to you 'by far than have the past twelve months. Two large bells for the new Bethlehem church have arrived and have been placed in t!he tower thereof, together with the old bell, the three forming a chime. Next Sunday morning at 9:30, love feast at the M. E. church. At 10:30 fhe sacramental service wlll be conducted by the presiding eider, Eev. L. P. Davis, D. D. James McKernan was united in inarriage on Ohrlstma-s Day, with Miss Kate Dolan, at Lansing, Rev. Fr. Slattery performin the ceremony. Tlie couple will reside here. Next Sunday evening there will be iuH ch'Oral service at St. Andrew 's Episcopal church, and Prof Kempf, the .chorister, will have a fine program of music arranged thereior. The children and tjrand-childi-en of Mis. Agnes Wahr surprised her on Ohristmas Iay by taking possession of the house whüe sho had gone to clnirch. They had a merry time. On this, New Year's Eve, Mr. Joseph Britton, oí Pittsburgh, Pa., and Miss Maud dnugnter of Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Van ICleek, will be united in marriage at the home of the bride's párente. The old and ever vexatious question of a city lock up is again agitating the minds o{ the city officials. It was thought that the question had been laid at rest for a few years, but it seems to have popped up again. Col. James N. Riley has purchased an interest in the clothing firm of Wadhams, Ryan & Eeule, at Battle Creek, and' leaves for that place today. The new firm will be Riley, Fischer & Co., Will Fischer, af this city behig also a member of the firm. Rev. Lawrence Coie performed the marriage ceremony last "Wednesday morning, that united the Iives of Miss Clara Ottley, of Geddes ave., and Dr. D. D. MeNaughton, Ut '87, of Argyle. The couple took an eastern bridal trip beiore going to their future home at Argyle. At the second winter meeting of the Michigan Academy of Sciences, held at Lansing last week, Wm. H. S'herzer, of Ypsilanti was chosen president ; Fred C. Newcombe of Ann Arbor vice president of the sanitary science section ; and Jacob B. Eeighard, of the zoology section. "Dark ! "Well I ehould say it was dark ! why, you couldn't see your hand before your face ! you touldn't teil the University dome from a stack of black cats ! it was darker ven, than the court house doek toner nights !" Tli at was the way a boy illuetrated hls point in a 'story he was telling the other day. Just liear this anotomical heresy from the Monroe Democrat : 'The efforts of the scientists over at the university, to cure a hair lip by grafting chicken flesh in the groove, proved disastrous. The flesh united quickly by "iirst intention" and all went well till the fellow undertook to raise a mustache, when one side of his nose grew hair and the other feathers." Capt. Granger is very anxious to have the war with Bngland postponed until affcer fhe midwinter circus, the boys are to giva here. It is understood that he haaasked Lord Sal'sbury to hold on to his breath a. month or two and not break the peace. In consideración therefor, he will have a -ompliinentary ticket for himself and lady for the entire show. No small inducement. So there will be no war until after the circus, i On New Years Day, January lst, 1896, the ladies composins the AVoman's Auxtliary of the Young Men's Christian Association will keep open house at the association rooms, for all the young gentlemen and their friends -ho deslre to cxchange the courtesies tf the day. A fine program will be given during the afternoon and evening, both, and thR day made a pleasant one for the boys. The latch string is out Go thou and pull it. A Chinaman recently started a laundry in Ann Arbor, whereupon the "MUican" and "Aflican"1 launders 6ounded the slogan of cut-rates and hoisted the dirty shirt. The throecornered war of races will "be watched with interest. The Mbngolian is calm and announce sthat he "don't give dlam." - Monroe Democrat. Coníound it. If that Monroe man does not quit attempting to saddle ofi Ypsilanli's dirty linen war on to this place, we'll send some of our medical students down in that section lor diseecting timber. There are now over 100,0')0 booka in the UnivfM-sit y library. A burn'ng ( hlnmey on E. "William t. called out the lire department Friday noon. The Lad'.es Charltable Union meet Tlhursday, at 3 o'clock p. m., in Harris Hall. The Adrián Prese is lníonned that the .mswer to tbs triplícate question Is a compcvsite yes. Ooldwater has seven students in the Univereity and ten in the Normal school at Ypsilanti. J. W. Beahan, of Ann Arbor, and Miss Francés J. "Wint, of Ypsilanti, were married in Wlndsor, Ont., recently. Ij. L. Van Slyke, Ut '79, has been promoted and gets a fine salary aa chemist at the New York Agricultura! Experiment station. i The Young Women's Christian AsBoclatian ■will be At Home to their friends on New Year's Day, in their rooms over the postoffice. The entertainment recently given by MiBS McMonegal's class, ''Christma.s in Fairyland" will be repeated soon for the benefit of the Y. W. C. A. Afarshal ■Peterson ferreted out the thief who stole the $40.60 from the c!oak that was hung in the high school and the money has been returned. In the Jackeon case of Whalin vs. the M. C. R. R., the jury rendered a verdict of $10,150 in favor of the plaintiif. The verdict was a surprise to almost everyone. A special meeting of the Woman's Christian Temperanee Union will be held Friday Jan. 3d at t hree o'clock in the P. O. bkck. Tlie presence of every member is desired. That oíd familiar friend(?) the grippe Ie on its grand rounds again this winter. Be bas started in in the iar east, and iis coming west with rapidtty. Have au eye outi for him. ïliss Olga Obeaiauer, of Ann Arbor a gradúate oí OHvet, has been elected to fill the posltion of preceptress of the high school. Miss Obenauer is very highly recommended.- Gratiot Journal. On New Year's Iay, which inaugurates leap year, there will be a party at Granger's from 3 to 6 p. m., to wtich the ladies will be charged 50 cents admiseion, and the gentlemen admitted free. Tfm. WaJsb has been appointed traveüng agent for the Deering Harvester Co., and wlH start out Jan. lst. Chris. Brenner is the local agent for the company. In our last week's item the agencies were revei-sed. The Farmers' Vigilante Horse Association of the townships oï Superior, Salem and Ann Arbor, will hold its annuaJ meeting at Dixboro on the lOth of January, 1896, at 1 o'clock p. m. AU fiirmers :n those townshiiis are cordially invited to be present. The funeral services of Mrs. John S. Nowland were held on TVednesday, Christmas Day, at the famüy residence Kot 69 E. Huron st., at 3:00 ö'clock. Eev. T. W. Young preached the sermón, which was very appropriate to bobh the day and occasion. And now the last leaf of the oíd calendar has floated into the waste paper basket, and a bright new one has taken its place, wlth 1896 pj-inted in illuminated colors, or perhaps in dead black, indicatlve oí the fate of manjr fond hopes and anticipations formed for the year to come. The next entertainment before the Mand League will be a Ladies' Eventng, on January 11. It will be under ïlie direct ion of Prof. Frederick H. Pease, of Ypsilanti, assisted by the Ladles' Quartette of Ypsilanti, and Miss Diokinson pianist, and Miss Chven violinist. Dr. James C. "Wood, for eight years professor in the U. of M. Homoeopathic eollege, has written a text ttook on Gynecology wtiich will be the standard work on that subject with the members of that ischool of medicine. It gives ma.ny illustrative cases which carne under hls treatment in Ann Arbor and Cleveland, besides those he saw white abroad. Tlie reviewers highly commend the work.