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29
Month
July
Year
1896
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Randall & Joues of tliis city, have purchased the Iarge law library formerly the property of the late Judge Luke S. Montagne, at Howell. A very moral editor on being requested to announce a raffle for a cow, evaded the law by advertising the affair jis a milk shake." Moral- never shake. There is a hustle for houses just now, and the desirable ones are being picked up rapidly. Tliose which are undesirable will no doubt remain uninjured by -wear and tear. The excursión to Detroit to-morrow, Thursday, is the only thiiijt talked about just non'. It completely outshines BuíFalo Bill and his wild west show. The fare 85 cents for the round trip, is what takes with the crowd. President Winter, of the Ann Arbor St. Kailway, met with the Board of Public Works recently, as requested to but positively declined to change the tracks from Detroit St. to Beakes St. He claims it wonld cost $3,000, which the company is in no shape to pay out -at present. Gen. George W allace Jones, the oMst ex-senator of the U. S., excej't Bradbury, of Maine, died atliis home in Dubuque, Iowa, last Thursday, ag O'J years. He was present at the celebration of Gov. Felch's 90th birthday by the bar of thjs i-ountry three years ago, and made some pleasant acquaintances. Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) personally participates in and supervises every exhibition sn-en of his Wild West and Congress of Rougli Riders of the World. During the last twelve years he haH missed just twelve exhibitions, and that was one week he was away while exhibiting in England six years ago. Isummered on the Jersoy ooast, And I Hm puzzled srill. As twlxt Ihe skeeiers nd holels, Wlilch has the longen blll. -I,oni.-.villeTruth. The Waslitenaw Mutual Fire Ins. Co. vill liave a board meeting at Sec'y Child's office next Montlay. Tlie liew pump for the Water Works Co's. W. Washington St. station, lias een tested and works ad .mably. John Baumgardner erected a fine loiiumeut on John Kinipton'a lot in lie cemetery at Dundee last week. W. J. Booth, gave a very interesting alk Monday evening it the M. E. hurch on his travels in the Holy Land. Thompson & Harriman as attorneys or Anna M. Parshall, have filed a bilí or divorce against Chas. T. Parshall, allegingdrnnkenness and abuse as a auee. The hundreds of Summer resorters at ukey and companion lakes enjoyed(?) he constant and continuous down-pourng of rain last Sunday, in a sort o'damp ine wav. Golden Rule lodge F. & A. M. will work the 3d degree on Friday night intead of Thursday, as tlie Y. M. C. A's great excursión to Detroit takes place on "hursday. F. William Rane, professor of Horticulture of the New Hampshire state college, accompanied by Mrs. Rane, is spendiug his vacation witli his parents at Whitmore Lake. Henry Meuth had a sail boat on Whitmore Lake until Sunday evening, when it broke from its moorings in the storm and he now has a sail boat somewhere in Whitmore Lake. On account of tlie Y. M. C. A. excursión which will be given Thnrsday, the Thursday night prayer meeting and jible study will be postponed till Friday night at the usual time. Wm. Walsh made a very handsome cash sale a few days ago, of a Nichols & Shepavd Vibrator Tliresher, to ChrisFritz, of Scio. Both gentlemen are very happy over their bargain. Attorney General Maynard bas decided that a woman who owns property in her own right, but which property is assessed in her husband's name, or in any other name, may vote at school elections and annual meetings on all subject. That the error in the assessmëut roll does not lawfully prevent them from exercising the right. A very few yenrs henee and it will be impossible to find the same or even similar na ateríais as those which now enable Col. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," to give iiis reproductions of pioneer life with such marvelons fidelity to truth. Real Indians, real cowboys, and other realities of border life are fast passing away into the realms of histqry. "Buft'alo Bill's"' Wild West will be here on Monday, xVug. 3d. The Aun Arbor & Ypsilanti Street Railway Co. have been granted a fraochise to use electric power by the Ypsilanti aud Pittsfield towu boards. This covers the line froni the city limits of Ypsilanti to the Ann Arbor city limits. The Ypsilanti Town Board will meet tomorrovv to grant a similar franchise from the eastern limits of the city to the Wuyne county line.- Ypsi. Commercial. James T. Hurst, of Wyandotte, who was elected as a district delégate to St. Louis at the republican convention in this city a few weeks ago, filed a trust deed to secure his cieditors last week Thursday. Claims amouut to over $500,000 being secured. His property amounts to overone million dollars, but the impossibility of realizing upon it is wliat forced him to this act. A. L. Nowlin, of Ypsilanti, and owner of the Cook House here, is a cnditor to the extent of $10,000. A large fruit grower of peaches in the lake shore fruit belt uses a reinedy for borers which he claims flnishes up the worms in quick order. He digs away the dirt at the foot of the trunk deep enongh to exposé the roots nearest the surface, aud with the dirt farms a basin several inches higher than the ground level. This basin he filis with boiling water, which kills every worm in the roots and lower portion of tlie truuk, and does not injure the tree. Miss Matilda Mutschel, sister of Eugene Mutsehei in this city, has been secured by the Detroit High School to take entire charge of the iustruction in mathematics, her duties to begin in the coming September. She has been teaching at Flint for sanie time past with great success, but the cali just received is to fi decidedly better position. She v.ill teach algebra alone. Her many warm personal friends in this city will be delighted to learn of her advancement. Sergt. Cooper in charge of the Light Infantry Rifle team, was a caller at The Times office this moming. He wishes us to say he is glad the Armbruster Gun Club feels disposed to meet the members of his team in a friendly shoot. He would be pleased to meet Mr. Armbruster and arrange details at the earliest possible date. He also asks us to say if there are any other shooting clubs in the city who would like to "mix" his team is open for engagements. Ypsilanti is not barred from sending a challenge. -Daily Times. Warn't much on readln' the papers- Raid tbey never bad any news; bere was bread to buy, an' they all come high, An' he dldn't have money to lose. Warn't ronch on readln' the papers- Heap rutner walk than ride; 'ut up once at a big hotel - Blowed out the gas an' died? Atlanta Constitntion. There is a very fine carbonette photo f Justice Pond in Randall'8 window. Ralph McAUaster has been the guest f friends in Dexter and Webster aince aturday. ïlios. Flowers, who lives a mile or so ortli of the city, is confined to his ïome by illness. The electric motor at the Inland Press ffice burned ont yesterday morning, mt water was at once turned on. A Y. M. C. A. brass band is now .leing agitated. The boys think they mve the wind to run itwith all right. The rain and electric storm Sunday ight and Monday niorningwasa wild ne. Tlie water came down in torrents, nd the lightning was incessant. W. B. Phillips, G. G. Stimson, J. E. 3enz and H. G. VanTuyl, chairman of he state committee of the Y. M. C. A., will go to Chelsea next Sunday to hold a number of meetings. The Ann Arbor Riflers at a meeting ast night decided to build a float repesenting the Goddess of Liberty to proeed the company in the parade on Germán day, Aug. 27. It will be well lone. Marshall Field has given Chicago $2,00,000 with wliich to build and equip he Marshall Field Museum, etc. As rield made his money in Chicago, he ery generously devotes a share of his ortune to the city that made him. A lint to citizens of other cities of lesser note. Night lighter than day is said to be a iteral fact at the evening performances of Buffalo Bill's Wild West. There are 20,000 seats for the spectators, each of which commands a clear, unobstructed view of every foot of the arena, and every feature of the marvelous performances. The barn on a farm belonging to Jas. L. Babcock, in the north-east corner of Superior, was struck by Hghtning Sunday night and burned up. Insured in the Washtenaw Mutual Fire Ins. Co. 'or $250. Wm. Duncan, wlio lives on ;he farm had $400 insurance in the same company on the contents. Which was a total loss. William T. Whedon, lit '81 son of W. W. Whedon, has blossomed out as a musical composer. It is a polka entilled "Leploe," and when played as a piccolo solo at a band concert last week in Norwood, Mass., all the people with musical ears rose up and called for more, off the same peice, that is they called for it with tlieir mouths and not their ears. The Sumnier Xormal opened last Mondiiy with about sixty students in attendance, a inuch larger number than last year. The instructora are ExSchool Commissioner M. J. Cavanugh, Prof. M. A. Cobb, of Ypsilanti, and Miss Cecelia Brennnn, of the Chicago schools, who luis charge of the Grammar topic, and also of Kindergarten work. Fred G. Schlelclier has sold nis house on Detroit st.. between Kingsley and División sts., to Dr. H. J. Pearaon, of West Mllton. Ohio. Dr. Pearson will take possession at once and enter upon the active practice of his profession. The doctor is a suceessful practitioner of many years' experience. The Times is glad to welcome Dr. Pearson to our city and hopos that his residenee among us may be pleasant and proütable. The transfer of realty was made through the ■ .Bach & Butler agency. - Daily Times. Here is news for Ann Arbor people. Bryan's only opponent for the noniination on the Populist ticket at St. Louis was au Ann Arbor boy. Seymour F. Norton, of Chicago, received 321 votes to Bryan's 1042. Norton lived with his parents over in the Fifth ward for several years early in the sixties and received his educa - tion in our public schools and in the University. In 1S67 he graduated from the law department of the University. lie has been a faithful and popular attorney in the Windy City for many years besides taking a prom inent position in his party's councils In the recent convention at St. Louis i it was only the f act that strenuous at tempts were made to cause a stam pede to Bryan that made Norton' vote so small. The finest building on the campus wlien it is completed, will be the fines gymnasium in the entire country, and i will have cost the tax-payers of Miehi gan not one cent. This building is magniflcent affair, and will furnish t the young women students as well a the young men, a thorough and com plete physical training, which many o them, especially the diligent students need so mucli. Takiug tliis buildin and the various gifts the university ha received in the way of books, scholar ships, art works, museum specimens etc., etc., and it figures up surprisingly to say nothing of the $75,000 in cas given at various times, and the land on which the university is located, bot the gift of the people of this city, th state has received almost as much as i has approprhiled.

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