Didn't Dine

On Wednesday evening of last week, the business men 's assooiation of Cadillac gave a banquet in honor of the completion of the T. A. A. & N. M. R. R., and some Ann Arbor genllemen started at 7 a. m. that morning to enjoy it. A brass band waa on bcard of the special traim and large delegations from other places, as well as Gruesel of the Free Press and Stocking of the Tribune. At Alma they were detained till night by a derailed coach just anead, and when the train proceeded, it stuck iu a snosv drift near Clare, already too late for the great " spread " in Cadillac, and with no earthly prospect of getting there that night. J. M. Ashley is described by the Free Press as making herculean efforts to get the large excursión party througb, but three or four engines couldn't budge the train. Of our Ann Arbor party, W. W. Wines thought discretion the better part of valor, and a warm bed at Alma much better than snow drifts, and so refused to go farther. The remainder, Col. Dean, T. J. Keech, A. L. Ntble, Eli W. Moore, and Fred Schmid, went forward, allured by hopes of reaching famous Cadillac. When fast in the snow-drift, however, they hired a farmer to take them back eight miles to Mt. Pleasant, and they made the journey when they ought to have been absorbing good thing8 and exhibiting Ann Arbor culture and wit in the banquet halls of Cadillac. They had plenty ot fun, however, and exercised their wit on Mr. Wines, when they met him on the return journey to Ann Arbor, because of bis desertion. Mr. Wlne8 claims that he was too much for them, and knew all the time that they didn't reach Cadillac.