Ypsilanti News Items

The Ballard and Ellla s:. sewejs are nbout completed. Tlu' imviT system otf eiectric lightIng is once again in f uil torce. J. J. Fletcher lias leased h's farm ín Augusta, and wKl remove -, i city. Ttev. ('. T. Allen Wil] niine inUi 'Ju. M. E. paraonage tihia week wltb hls family. Mrs. Catharine Sherman has sold her re.side.nce C05 Hamilton st., to ffm. Jolmsoii. ïhere were about 50 eoiiple present at the I.ght Guaxd dance last FrMay evenlng. Ella Springer, formerly oí this city, was man-led to Abraham Hooker, at Milan, Sept. 1."). Pflóf. C. F. E. BölLows i at Battle Creek edi'tïng twó papers published by tiho Ellls Pub. Co. D. L. Quirk has added 40 acres to nis farm near BellevMle, purchased ol .Mis. Kate Dalrj-mple. Mre. M. T. "Woodruif i-.s ontertaiüüng her párente, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bowlby, ai Ovkl, foi- a tiine. Mayor Harding is organlzing a party to attend the Nashville Exposltioo, to start Oct. C, ïare $11. Frank Smith was gïven a very pleasant party Thursday evening prevloue to hi.s departure for Chicago. Thiere is talk of an eiectric line trom tluis city through DansviUe to .LausLiig. But so it is all talk. Mrs. Elizabeth Goodman died at her home on Second avenue last Wudnesday night, of dropsy, aged 53 years. Mre. John S. Newberry and Mrs. Ia Due, of Detroit, were wifch Mre. Starkweathev during the last days of her illness. Compaoy & received in aill $730.17 for their services at camp this year, -which Capt. Kirk will distribute at drill to-nigh.t. Senator Andrew Campbell has been In NashviUe ,Temn., as a good road delégate to a national convention there for the week. The chilly days of September, when they struck, brought several Ypsilantians back home, among them Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Carpenter ,from St. Glair. The many friends of Gearge C. Smithie in this city and county, wlll be glad to learn that li'.s applLcation for a pension lias been granted. He now resides at LaJislng. Tlie Aiui Arbor & Ypsiiantii st. railway propases to renew iits conneetjon with the Michigan Central lcpot by equliijpilng the Cross et. extensJon, so long idle. for eiectric ears.- Sent 'mei. The Royal Arch Masona Had a fine time last Prlday when Granel Lecturer Lewjfl C. Goodricli visited tino chapter in an official capaclty, and sbowed the boys how work sluould be done. The Normals feel very much elated ow tlieir first foot ball game of the seaeosi, played wlth a pieked team froon Ann Arbor om Saturday, the score standing -'4 to (X in their favor. The AtTa.n't.iis base ball club came home vKtors f rom Brlghiton Saturday, defeatiiig them by a sco,re of 9 to 8. It was ít close a.nd oxcitlcg ga-me, witaeesed by iully 000 peo-ple. Tliis necessitates another game. Deputy Game Warden Waik'.ns, of Hancliester, was in the cL'iy a few days shice, loolküig up evidence against tlie people who have been been sliowtlng quaüts out of season. It is hopeiul that he wi-11 find the evidence. F. Newton Rice, a forme? vesc(le.ni of iii'-N city, where he was eniployed as a coinductor on the Debrolt, Hiïlsdale and Indiana Railroad (now the Lake Bhore), d'd at Detroit Tuesday mon'jiing, i consumptlon, aged 52 years. - Seaittoel. Edward Robbina was seaitenced on Thursday, to pay a fine oí $10 and $28 costs, or stay in the county jail 30 days. He boughfc a wheel for $10, ]a UI ,-?.") and then sold it and pocketed the proceeds. "Wlücü matee a costly wheel foir Robbíms. He ehould wheel aroaind and take a Btraigíiter path to avold such diísastrous eollisions witli t lic law in the futuro. Eev. Gecvrge L. Pearsoii preaohed very jnteresting sermons which everytody seemed to appreciíate at the Methodist church last Sumday. He and hls family will soon leare for Hom'dlulu, where Mr. Pearson w2U liave charge of the Methodist vork. - YpeiSaoitinn. Heaury Samson entertaiaied. about eighteen friends Tuesday cvening in honor of 'the Haydn TrLo. lrank iSmlith, wha fa ona ,of the trio, wïU oom leave for Chrxago to efcudy under Max Bend'.x, and the entertaimmeint was in thé nature oí a farewell to Man.- Commercial. JerOuip Schermerhorn the coiored man who d'.da't succeeJ in. securing tlie Mo'Llie Bennett estáte, and -vlio was sent to1 jail by Justice Duffy at Ann Arbor for a few days to isober up, came down here and repeated his celebratio'n and Justice Childs fined him $5.65 o ten days in jail. Jenotne is in hard lines just now. ;One evening last week, the shade on a lamp in George Amsden's home caught fire and burned, entirely up while no one -wad in the room, and the ashes were found sometime later when an attempt was made to find the shade- of departed ashes. As tliere was luckily nothing on the table for the blaze to set fire to, a serious conflagration was averted. The delay in commenctog the bicycle patin to Ann Arbor is caused by (EifiKulty in securlng the right of way. Several property owners on the proposed route will nofc consent to ha ving the path built in front of tbeiir property, and the township board wïl not permiit .it to be built uailess the consent O'ï all property oweere is oibtaüned. - Commercial. Ti.tre must be son queer 80rt of people liAiug on that road. The The path would Blmply .be a, benei'itt co every farm door ït passed. There was quite oa exciting time on IlnnvL'i' st., Sunday morning' at ■about 2 o'clock. George lirown, who lived at 303, in go ing down stalre, ieil and the lamp smashed and oil ignited. There was but one stairwa.y, and he called to his wiie and daughter to coane to the front window and co'me down a ladder he had secured. The ladder was lio.rt and had to be held, and Mre. Bvowu feil while attempting the deecent, and was badly injured. Tlie contents "n-ere destroiyed, but the house itself was saved iin good part by t3ie fire departmeait. the city's benefactress gonb. Tlie following account of the death of Mrs. Starkweatber, the lady who luis done so mach [for Ypsihinti, is taken Erom the Daily Times of sopt. 24 : The death of Mre. Mary :Ann Starkweather occurred tiiis morning, a few minutes before 10 o'clock. The deceased was boni Sept. 22, 1819, thus naking her 7S years and - days of age at the time of lier death. In 1839 she was married in Detroit to John starkweather and shortly after move ;o this vicinity aml about 20 years ago noved into this city. Aboat 13 or 14 years ao Mr. Starkweather (Hed. No children have ever heen bom to the mion. The deceased came from the well knovn Newberry fauiily of De,roit, and the Americanism is so naarked in the genaotogy that Mrs. Stark vreather was eligible to membership nul was a member of the descendants of ;he Mayflower, the Daughters of Governors. ín the latter society she was eligible in three distinct lines. "Mrs. Starkweather was á noble eximple of a generoua women. It s viiown that many of the generous 1ií:il;s she lias done for the city lunches and Normal she has included n her will, but the exigeucies of occasions allovved her and mude it more welcome to the recepients to be beneited at the time she bestowed her gifts. The Starkweather fountain, ,he Ladies' Library building, the Starkweather Memorial Chapel at lighland Cemetery, the Baptist church )rf?an, the Student's Christian Associaion building at the Normal, and the Soldiers' Monument are all lasting monuments of lier pnblic spiritedness nd her generosity. Beside these pubic gifts she was to a very large exent a benefactor of tiie poor of ho city and a largo number of ,his class will miss her. It is estinated by those iu a position to know , that lier cliarity daring the winter seiison amonj the poor amounted to $100 a weck in money and tliis tho outside world knew nothing about. Her deinise . is .1 p ■!■- mal loss to i dent of Ypsilanti who wil! always revere lier as oio of the noblest cliaracters of tlie city." At a recent meeting of the Business Assuciatinü of Ypsilanti, the following action as taken: Whereas, Mitry Aim Starkweathei has beun taken from us by the hand of dearti and Whereas, A befitting expression of Borrow for her deniise seems timely and proper, therefore be it Resolved, That it is the sense of tliis meeting that a generous and kindly spirit has gone from us whose memory will be revived for her goodifess of spirit and for her mauy public and private benefactions ; that tlie pooi have lost a helper and the public their best frieud. Resolved, That the busines? house be closed on Monday, Sept. 27, duriDg the hours of the funeral, 3 p. m. till 4 p. in.