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22
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September
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1897
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"W. B. Phillips has a telephone at his residence, No. 147 3 rings. A re-issue of pension has been granted to Dr. W. W. Nichols. L. A. Pratt, takes Mr. McAllastei's place in the Inland Press ofiice. The Ann Arbor Courier and the County Fair one year for only $1. Good investment. The Trinity Lutheran church has 124 communicant members, and it Is only four years old. Charlie Banfleld won a handsome $10 gold ring at the bicycle races at Plymouth last week. The main reason why there are not more good boys is because there are not more good fathers. All things come around to ihose who wait but the things will come quicker if you only meet them half way. The Ann Arbor Browns went down to Plymouth last week and won the base ball tournament. Over which they feel very happy. The lovers of good acting will be glad to learn that Walker Whiteside will appear at the Athens Theatre next Monday, Bept. 27. Under the spreading chestnnt tree, The village smithy BtandB ; But the smith has six assislants now And all are busy hands. His trade was gone in lormer years, But now he falrly reels, Beneath the load of coiü he's got From raending broken wheels. The school board )iave ordered a stone walk built In front oï Tappan school. Get your ticket to the eounty fair free by subscribing for the Ann Arbor Courier. If you want to cali up the Barker Bros., ask for No. 100 on the Bell Telephone. Frank Hess was awarded the position of Corporal of Company A, at the competitive examination last week. Meivin S. Trevelick, of Saginaw, llt '92, has gone to Chicago with the Chicago Shlp Building Co., as an electrical angineer. The educational committee of the Y. M. C. A., of which Prof D. W. Springer is chaircnan, has a good plan for the winter campaign. There will be a special meeting of the Eastera Star on Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock, at Masonic temple. Members will please remember. S. División street is now being graveled by the city. That is, gravel is being put on that part which has been covered with crushed stone. Dr. Sudworth has bought of J. S. Gillespie his residence on 8. Ingalls st., and the latter gentleman will return to his old home at Caro, "to live. After crediting the street fund with the $15,000 raised by, tax in July, yet that fund remains overdrawn. The expenditures do not cease, however. All of the special premiums offered by merchants and business men of Ann Arbor, are now on exhibition in in the Windows of the Pratt block on S. Main et. The November issue of Werner's Magazine has a very readable history of the Intercollegiate Oratorical Association, from the pen of Prof. T. C. Trueblood. A slight blaze in the old Bower homestead house on Miller ave., last Friday, caused a loss of some $30 or $vi0. It was caused by a detective ehiinney. The members of Lois llebekah Lodge I. O. O. F. last evening held services comniemorative of the 46th anniversary of the establishment of the Daughters of Rebekah. Herbert M. IUch, who acts this year as general eecretary for the S. C. A. has entered an appearance, and will have everything ready lor business wh en the University opens. The funeral of the late Chas. Long was held Thursday afternoon, from the house on N. First st., Iiev. John Neumann conductiug the services. Deceased was C4 years, t months old. A. M. Cloud who comes to the University from Lennox College, loiva, this year, is a first prize contestant in oratory, and will be a valuable aequisition to the oratorical force. The proprietors of the Michigan Alumnus announce that they will give a $75 scholarship to any young man or woman who will procure 175 subscribers to that periodical. The Ann Arbor 11. It. will do all possible to niake the coming county fair a success. It will run a (special train iroin Owosso, makiug the fare $1 for the round trip. And also one from Toledo. Ernie Lutz, who was recently appointed substitute mail carrier, has Deen obliged to resign the position becausc of ill-health, and Postmaster Beakes has uppointed John J. fUehmond to the place. At the ninth annual reunión of the Oth Army Corps in session at Lansing yosterday and to-day the Mlnnis ■JOth Mieh. Iieg't Vol. Inf'ty drum corps was preseut and played the old time mu'sic for the vets. "May 1 print a kiss on yonr clieek?" í asked, Shë nodded her swoet permlssion; Ho we went to press.and I rattier guess I prluted a large eciition. - Michigan Bulletin. Jack Frost has been gettinj? In hi.s deadly work for a few nights past. Arbor Tent K. O. T. M. wlll hold its regular meeting Prlday evenlng. John Schlee has commenced the erection of hls new house on E. Ann street. Phü Hall's carrier pigeons made the distance (rom Detroit here in 58 minutes last Saturday. Fred Rentsehler has bought a lot on E. Ann st.. of Arthur Brown, and will at once build a house thereon ior himself. The banks of the city have all agreed to reduce the rate of interest on deposits fromf 4 to 3 per cent., commencing Dec. lst. , Fred Martty, who was formerly with H. J. Brown, lost 1Ú3 little filx years oíd son, afc their home in Detroit, a few days, since. Nate Duffy goes to llillsdale to coach the football team of tliat college. The boys over there will find Nate a right sorfc of a coach. If you want to be entertained in a lively manner just ;et in company with a party of traveling men and bring up the subject of the new mileage book.- Chelsea Standard. A voluntary chorus choir is being organized for the Congregational church by Edward A. Willis, of Boston, Mass., who comes here to enter the medical department of the University The article In lasfc week's Courier about agents getting doublé eommissions from people renting rooms, did not refer to the State St. Agency, as they are doing good iionest work on business principies. , A couple of quails have been coming into the east part oí the city f or a few days, attracted no doubt by the grasshoppers abundant in the gardens. Of course some "sport" will have to ehoot the little fellows on. sight. Two or three of our business men were looking over the 2d ward a few days since, with a view of finding an empty house or portion of a house, but were unablei to find one. Prosperity has evidently etruck the Üd ward, all rigtit enough. A regular meeting of Welch Relief Corps, No. 218 will be held in G. A. ft. Hall, Sept. 28, '97, at 2:30 p. m. A full attendance is desired as a report of District, by Sara H. Van Slyke, convention Corps Secretary, will be given at this meeting. Mrs. Nancy DeGraff Toll, who.se husband was a delégate to the convention held in Ann Arbor in May 1835, which ratified the constitutión that brought Michigan into the ünion, is still living at Monroe, and celebrated her lOOth birthday last Saturday. Miss Lillie Mae Volland has been given a place in the public schools. There are so niany children in attendance upon the -d ward schools that the School Board has decided to opeu another room provided a suitable one can be o.btained in the ward for the purpose. Lyman Bloss who is to tspend the winter with Spencer Sweet, in this, city, is only 91 years of age, but he walked from Plymouth to Ann Arbor on Friday last, and cam in fresh as a race horse. Mr. Bloss ís one of the pioneera of Salem township, coming there in 1820. The constant jangle in the mediaal department has had lts effect, as will be eeen when tliat department opens for b usiness again in a couple of weeks. It is said that 91 student of that department have called for their credits, about three times as many as, ever before. The only way to succeed there or anywhere else, Is to work unitedly hand in hand. The real estáte and insurance firm of Bach & Butler has been dissolved by mutual consent, Mr. Bach retiring. Mr. Butler will carry on the business hereafter, and as he is a hustling hustler, he-will no doubt be able to swing it without trouble. Mr. Bach it has been stated will go to Detroit in the same line, in which he is certa inly a success. The Courier wishes both gentlemen a prosperous future. The Annunl Thank Offering meeting, of the Woniau's Foreign Missionary Society of the Congregational church, will be held on Friday afteruoon at 3 o'clock, at the residentie of Mrs. llobert Campbell, 67 South División st. Mrs. Aniet, late of China, will address the ladies. There will also be read an iuteresting letter from our president Mrs. Angelí, since her arrival in Constantinople. The niembers of the Auxilliary invite their friends to join us in our Thank Offering service. The honor conferred upon Mrs. Anna B. Bach by her elevation to the presidency of the Ann Arbor Board of Education, is one that is bringing her many letters of congratulation from all over the, state. As f ar as the writer knows, Mrs. Bach is the lirst lady to hold a similar position in the state, and she is one Whoi will honor it. She is not one of the new "women ,nor does hor elevation come from any of the equal suffrage or political rights clubs, but because of hor good sterling common sense, and dignltied and womaiily bearing. Mary limi :i little luinl), His flwce was wh t 8 suow. And lie u'ih wortb bilt fifty cents About a year :igo ; Thp tariffcame, thelamb's rurtfa In golden dollars thrne; 8uie evldeni e in Mi ry tlils. Of rich "prospf rlly," W. I!. Cady, Ut. '82, bod ol J. C. Cady oí the Fifth, ward, luis won n $50,000 case over the possession oí au lsland at Snuit SU: Marie, whlch had been sold to the government by a man who liad forged an old Indian deed. A "Current Topics Club" was formed last Friday nlght, the organizatlon being elfected at the office of KxMayor Darling. Just what "Current Topics" are to consist of is what Is bothering somc people who are afraid that the domain of politics may be encroaclied npon. Mrs. Henry G. Lodholz of the northside, was burned quite seriously last Friday morning. She was using wood alcohol for the cups to light the gasoline stove with, when the can exploded blowing out the bottom of the can and setting her clothes On iire. Mr. Lodholz. was severely burned in helping to put out the blaze. Every one in any way iuterested in The Tramp question is invited to attend a public meeting to be held .at the council room of the court house, Friday Sept. 24, at 8 p. m. The retiring ofllcers of the AntiTramp Society will teil what they have done daring the past Jrear and the whole matter of dealing with tramps will be open for general discussion. The person who eaused to be printed and circulated the statements regarding the Ann Arbor water supply ehould have been brave enough to have signed his name thereto. If the statements made are true, and he knows it, then it is his duty to get them before the public in a Way to give them force. If they are untiue, he should be too manly to let suspicion rest on innocent people. A more effective way to kill off Ann Arbor could not be devised. The people living in that section of the city would Hke to have an electric light at the corner of Maynard and E. Ann sts. Likewise at the corner of Thompson and E. Ann sts. As long as the people have got to imagine that those two streets run through this block, they would Hke some of the benefits thereoT. Not only that but some sort oí a landmark to go by. An electric light at each imaginary street corner might help out the imgaination of people who are confused by the new system of house numbering. Speaking of the desirability of adopting standard time, a young lady remarked : "If all the clocks and timepieces of the city could be changed at midnight eome night, fiom local to standard time, no one would ever know the difference. Then why do peoplei refuse to make the change and eo inconvenience themselves ?" The question was a poser. Surely no one is inconvenlenced by the present doublé system except the dear people. It makes no difference to the railroads what time any town adopts or anyone else cavries. They have their own time and their trains go on that time and if you and I travel thereon, we go on that time also. Wouldn't it be better if we all carrled the same time? And if not why not ? "Will some person give a reasonable reason ?

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