This Is The Earliest

John Chrtetian Sclimid says : "The ■old iuiliabi'tant wbo stated in last week's Oouriier Miat tho spring of 1S31 -was even earlier thau this, is mistaken. I carne to Ann Arbor rorj Gei-many that spring, landing bere ábout tlie last of Aprü, that's why I remember abcwt it. Tlie montli of April had been -warm and pleasant tmt on the first of May it turned very colü and remained so for several dayi?, freezing everything solid. It must have toeen some otlier year tSiat had such am early epring. Thijs s the earliest one I remember of, Kind I nave lived here Bince that date." These are not esactly Mr. Schmid's woèds, but practically what he liad ta say.