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5
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February
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1896
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J. J. Goodyear has purchased a lesidence lot on Thompson st. for $1,000. A chimney fire called the department over to the Northside .Sunday even ing. Little Miss S te wart and Miss Stein will sing again at the coming May Festival. A large number oi' Elks atfcended the beneïit of that order at Detroit last Thursday. Campanari will be the bass soloist and WiÜlams the tenor ;soloisc ior the May Festical. The Foiey guild will hold a meeting in St. Thomas' School hall .iiurduy at 7:30 p. m. The .W. C. T. U. oonventiou of the second district will le hela iu Aun Arbor April 14, 15 and 16. The Chequamegons are to play ior the Masonic reception at Milan on St. Valentino' luy, Feb. 14. The real estáte dealers report that the epring market has opened about three weeks earller than usual. The ipupil's recital last Thursday evening at the School oí Music was a very successiul one in every way. Miss Grace Elizabeth Eaïfönsperger and Mr. Charles Arthur Caldwell are ■to be married Tuesday next, Feb. 11. Br. Georg has been elected president and Louis Liesemer orator lor the next Germán day to be celebratd here next Augist. The Bell Ringers that appear at the Presbyterian church Thursday evening February 13, have a carillon of 131 sweet toned bells. Prof. Dennison went over to Ann Arbor laet li'riday evening, to hear ■tíie lee ture by Eev. T. DeWitt Talïuage. - Dundee Eeporter. Poor man ! The interior oí Lindenschmidt & Apíel's stoi-e has been greatly lmproved with tinted walls, new shelving, and a iine carpeted apartment at the rear of the store for the children's department, with easy chalrs for their customers. Alexander McDowell, who is sald to be one of the greatest of American composers, has been engaged to give a piano recital at Frieze Hall, on Frlday evening, Feb. 21, over which Prof. Stanley is very much elated. Regular monthly meeting of the O. E. S. to-night. Mteses Ro.sa and Emma Roehm went to Freedom last Saturday lor a few days visit witli rèlatives. Mrs. Wm. Flyim, a íorrner resident of Pantiac st., died at St. ,Tosepli"s Eetreat, Dearborn, on ïuesday of last week. To-moi-row evening occurs the regular monthly tea social of the ladies of the M. E. church. Tea served at 6:30 p. m. The someivhat novel sight of au elcctrie light pole on lire was tseen at the corner oí Fuller and N. State st. Mouday evening. The time lor the paymeht oí taxea lias been extended to and including Feb. 29. There were $12,000 due on the first of the month. Prof. C. F. R. Bellows, of Ypsilanti, will be a candidate for superintendent of public instruction before the next republican convention. Poor Oommissioner Sipley veports fewer iamilies in destitution than there lias been lor eome time and thinks it au evidence oí better times. On Thursday last Mr. and Mrs. Louis Boes were pleasantly surprised by a lai-ge number of their friends dropping in upoii them ïor the evening. The S. C. A. will hold a meeting Feb. 16, at Newberry Hall', lor the purpooe of raiïing iunds for such of the Armenians as may le lelt ulive at that time. On Sunday next Rev. R. R. Claiborne of St. Luke's church, Kalamazoo, will lili the pulpit of St. Andrew's Episcopal church of this city, in exchauge with Rev. Henry Tatlock. The einging class under the directioai of Prof. Sage, of Ann Arbor, is progressing iinely, and much interest is manl.ested in them. - Easb Handy eor. of Fowlerville Observer. The Y. W. C. A. will join in the meeting at the M. E. church, held by Henry Ostrom, Feb. 9th. As this meeting is at 3 o'clock the Y. M. C. A. rooms will be closed Sunday p. m. The largo standard thermometer hung by Eberbach & Co's drug store, was stolen one evening last week. This mates the third one taken irom there. The second thief was run down ajid it cost him quite a little sum to get out of it. The instruments are worth $12 each. J. T. Jacobs having resigned the chairmanship of the committee on buildings and grounds on the school board, John R. Miner has been appointed to succeed him. Evart H. Scott takes Mr. Mimer's place as a member ot the eommlttee on teachers and text-books. Dr. M,ry Wood-Allen will speak to the Yomng Womana' Christian Association at their rooms, Thursday evening, Feb. 5th, at 8 o'clock. This is to toe one of the Parlor Talks given In the interest of the Physiology class and the smbject is given as "A Womaa's Safeguard." Members of the Associatiön and their friends are Invited. The claes of '95 will hold their banquet Mareh 13. A meeting of the Mutual Flre Insurance Companies of this state will be held in the court house, in the city of Ann Arbor, on Tuesday and Wedmosday, Feb. 11 and 12, at 10 o'clock a. m. Honorali, widow of the late Edward Burns, oí this city, died at her liome on Fountaiu et., Wedne day morning aged 78 years, 6 mos. Funeral services were held at St. Tilomas church Friday morning. While winter brings sport and pleasure to the prosperous, it has only suffering and misery lor the poor. This fact should be kept in constant ■remem.brance, and oharity lind a prompt response to the calis. The history club of the Y. W. 0. A. will meet for the first time Saturday, Feb. 8, at 3:30 p. m. They take up ''The Story of the Nations." Home ronding wiöh a monthly meeting to discuss the subjects read. No dues. Open only to members. The times have been bo hard, woik so scarce, money out of sight and the yormg men 6O ehy, that a young lady fhinks a charity bali might be a good suibstitute for a leap year party. Is there any reason in the world wliy a leap year party can not be a charity ball, or a charity ball a leap year party ? Tbe W. C. T. U. will give a social Friday evening next, in the Y. W. C. A. rooms over the postoffice, for the purpose of raising funds to meet the expenses of the Loyal Temperance Iegion. All friends oí temperance in the city are earnestly requested to attend. An admission lee oí ten cents will be charged. The Momoe Democrat doubts the truth of the recent fish story publi.shed in the Courier, and remarks : "In short we look upon the story of the watch in this 'case' as a lie on its 'face' " Just like that editor. Take a thing that can be sworn to - or at - and he disbelleves it. Take a Monroe fish tail and he 6wallows it. The Nashville, (Tenn.) Banner of Jan. 28, gives an account of the election of Will R. Payne, as secretary of the Board of Education of that city, without opposition. The new board appoars to have started in witb a lively (ight on its hands, caused by tbe expulsión of sonie boys who stole Borne examination questions, and prepared for that dreaded day in advance. The boys were proven guilty and expelled. The Song Journal íor February has a good portrait of Ann Arbor's famous pianist, Alberto Jonas, íor iis cover page. The red viólete are a little off color, other wise the page Is attractive. In the tablé of contents is an illustrated article by Henri Marteau. There is also a new piano Mazurka by Alberto Jonas, and a Story of a Neglected Tenor, iliustrated. Tliere is also a line portrait, accompanied by a sketch, of Varri Stefanski. lii' iainous American born pianist. An absent-minde d professor in the University at Ann Arbor was walking down town Imriiedly one day last week whem he rau against a cow. in the confusión oí the moment he is said to have raiised liis nat and exclaimed : "I beg pardon, madam." Discovering hU tnistake he rushed on and soon rau up against a lady in tbe street. Without looking up he yelled : "Is tliat you again, you brute." - Grand Rapids Democrat. In behalf of that professor it is but fair to state that the Democrat's story was a chestnut while he was yet a boy. Quite a few years ago. A The gradúate club will meet with Prof. D'Ooge, on Washtenaw ave., on Saturday at 7:30 p. in. It is said tlhat ex-County Clerk Brown of Ann Arbor, resembles to a marked degree tihe newly elected senator from Utah. Tlie Anu Arbor man is contemplating going to Washington pretty soon and ha ving a good time by passing himseli o'.i for the senator.- Chels-ea Standard. Our Brown can have as good a time as tie wants without resartlng to snch measunes. For instanee, he has been chairman oí the democratie eounty committee for two yeais, and when he wants a really good time, lie just sits down and looks over the result of his la.bors, as it has shown itself in the election returns. Very jolly. The Detroit Tribune states "oí the $50,000 needed for tlie woman'a gymnasium, $35,000 have been given by tfre Regente on conCiiion that $15,000 be raised by the womea." Tliis statement will créate a íalte impression. The $35,000 was not glven by the Regents, but by two members of the Board of liegen ts individually. Kegent Barbour gave $25,000, and Regent Hebard $10,000, so that this building will not be built at the exp ense of the tax-payers but will be a present to them. A fact that it eeems difficult to make the mass of the people comprehend. Thcy all appear to believe that it iá their money that is paying ior this. "After the ball is over," the "inside" and "outside" ïraternities oi tlie University, who have lately made ol themselves spectacles ior gods and men, by their quarrel over the management of the annual foot-shake, and whio now pass each other by with a stony glare of non-recognition, will recover their senses and probably ask as a favor to be taken out to a back lot and chained iu a recumbent posture in slght oí an unfettered male sheep, giiled with the maintenance oï tlie Monroe doctrine. - Monroe Dernocrat. It certainly seems as though this sensoless quurrel ehould have been ended long ago. It is such silly things that disgust the people of the tstate, a.nd hurts the cause of the University. On and arte? ih 15th of this month the M. C. E. 1'. i 1 charge three cents per mile betvvteu siations, giving up the even f ive und e i cent plan. It will make no material change, but will cause station agente to carry a lot more penuies in their tills. l'or instanee. the distance between Ann Arbor and Tevter is 9 fmi.es, and the tare will be 27 cents, instoad of 25 as now, wk la bot ween Anu .v rbor and Ypsilami it is but 8 mi.es, and the fare will be 2-1 cents . o ■ 1 o.' 25 as now. The fare from hyre to Chelsea will be 4S cents in-;oui ot' 00 cents ns now. The return ticket rate has has not been announced. The fare to Detroit will be $1.14 insteadof .$1.15 as now. Tlie fare to Jackson will be the same as to Detroit, $1.14.

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