County News

Editor Coe and family spent Sunday in Brighton. Miss Fannie Grey returned horae to Grosse Isle, Wednesday. A party of young folks visited Whitmore Lake, Wednesday. Our city fathers have decided not to use electricity for street lightiog. Miss Anna Cutcheon, of Detroit, is visiting her sister, Misa Harriet CutcheoD, of this city. Morris, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Hall, died Tuesday sftemoon, of typhoid pneumonía. Conway Frost and Miss Albiight, of Detroit, have been here on a sketching tour this week. Mr. Steve and Miss Rena Bowling started for Columbas, Ohio, on a visit, last Friday evening. Geo. Thurn ran the risk of keeping bis saloon open on Sunday and had to pay a fine in consequence. Ye Tang, the founder of the Hing Lee laundry, is back from a nine months visit to his family in China. Many Ypsilantians are getting the California fever. Michigan weather being the cause of the disease. The Baptist and Presbyterian choirs will furnish singing at the baccalaureate address Sunday evening. The M. E. young people held a fine lawn social at the pleasant residence of J. H. McKinstry, Tuesday evening. Miss Ency Coleman, an ex-member of the Normal faculty, was married last week to Mr. Charles Caryl of Kalamazoo. Mr. Frank Lodeman, son of Prof. Lodeman of the Normal, is home on a vacation from school work at Lansing, lowa. Mr. B. E. Tibbala has disposed of his household goods at auction and will start for California with his family, the first week in July. Chs. E. Sampson and family will hie themselves to their cottage at Devil's Lake next week, and remain in seclusion for the summer. Walter Hawkins is getting better ; his son ÍJorval, from E asi Saginaw has been home for the past week taking charge of the hotel business. Mr. A. D. Corey has dieposed of his pump factory and residence and will remove his family to California. They will start the 5th of July. Prof. Vroman is up in the northern part of the state looking after the interests of a mine in which he has a share, while his thrifty wife superintends their neat farm near this city. Mr. Rodger Eussell of Jackson, who was drowned at the burniDg of the Champlain near Charlevoix last Friday night, was traveling salesman for the Ypsilanti Dress Stay factory. Mr. H. G. Van Tuyle late with. Root, Strong & Co., of Detroit, was in the city Tuesday in the interest of his new work as state agent for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance company. A frightened woman's screams scared all the horses on Congress-st, Monday forenoon, and caused one horse to light cut with such velocity that it overturned several buggies and made matters uncommonly lively for a short time. Normal exercises will begin next Friday, which is Junior class-day. Sunday evening, Prof. Sill will deliver the baccalaureate address in the Baptist church. Monday will be class-day and Tuesday commencement. About 100 stndents will gradúate. The new custom of sending upon the stage parasol?, dresse?, gloves etc, as presents to gradúate?, is meeting with sharp criticism from many, who, though not objecting to such presents being given in private, question tte propiiïty of making public exhibition of such things. A young "widow" was in onr city the ether day collectmg money for her burned family. She had raked in about iorty dollars when Marshal Cremer gently remonstrated with her on account of a telegram from Michigan City which said she wasn't a widow at all but a big fraud. She paid back her Ypsilanti meney and took a train for new fields of labor.