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Day
7
Month
June
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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Pi'.ching quoits is all the go. Fred Stitnson is having his store repaered. Monday was pension day for the old oldiers. Norman Dwight, Delhi, died June 4, aged 73 years. O. O. Sorg is doing a fine job calciminng the court house. Nelson Edmons, oL Third ward, died June 2, aged 75 years. Chris. Helber is building a heuse for bis mother on Liberty-st. Gibson phctographed tbe Dexter high chool and pupils yesterday. The broken steps on east side of the ourt house are being repaired. Abram Davis, Delhi, died Saturday, June 2, of' car.cer, aged about 54 years. The high school commencement will be held in University hall, Friday, June 22,at 10 a. m. Last Thursday evening 74 laws were dmitted to practice at tthe Washtenaw ounty bar. Gil. Bliss sold tickets to Prof. M. E. )ooley and a party of twelve [studente to Jleveland last week. The vote for the $5000 tax was pretty lose Monday, there being 148 for the tax nd 146 against it. The Glee club will siDg commeDcement week, and wi'l give the alumni some genuine college songs. Louis Anderson, who has been for some ime assistant cutter for Stafford, has gone o Detroit for good. The Ann Arbor dramatic club will play 'Robert Emmet" in Saline, June 13, and n Chelsea, June 16. The Ann Arbor lodge of A. O. U. W., No. 27, will give a picnic at Relief Park on the Fourth of July. IThe street commissioner is doing a good hing for our jnain streets, by putting on a good coating of graveL Mrs. Mary Benton, widow of the late Clijah Benton, of Lima township, died lo&day, aged about G5 years. t&iJustice Pond sent Morris Ware, of the i'ifth ward, to jail, Tuesday, for ten days, for being drunk and disorderly. Miss May HThedon returns from Somerville school, June 13, and will sing with the Amphiong commencement week. The Chancel society, of St. Andrew's church will hold a strawberry festival at Hobart hall next Wednesday at 7 p. m. The motion to dissolve injunction in the Oornwell-Swift case. will Joe argued before Judge Kinnie Monday mornmg, June 11. Supt. Keech, of Ferdon's lumber yard, saya larger quantities of lumber are going out among the farmers this spring than usnaL John R. Miner has resigned his position ag secretary of the Agricultural Society, and Geo. H. Pond has been elected in his stead. A. L. Noble has just purchased another fine horse from Tecumseh parties. He is four years old, and of Baron Rothschild stock. The Robert Emmet club will give an entertainment at the opera house, Friday, June 15, lor the benefit of St. Thomas school. Prof. A. W. Gould, of Olivet College, will occupy the Unitarian pulpit with Mr. Sunderland next Sunday morning, and will preach. Mrc Albert Guest, of Dexter, who, with her daughter, Ella, has been in California since last fall, died in San Francisco on Thursday last. The fourteenth annual meeting of the Michigan Pioneer and Historical societies, will be held in Representative hall, Lansing, June 12 and 13. The ubiquitous small boy has been taking free balhs in the river for the past three weeks. They say the water is a "little chilly, but not bad!" Wm. Burns, of Fosteis, was up before Justice Fruesuff, Saturday, for assault and battery on Benj. Bradley. He pleaded guilty. and was let off by paying costs. Chas. Baúles, a hack driver arrested Monday for violently abusing the clerk at the Cook house, plead guilty and paid coets, before Justice Frueauff, yesterday. Children's day in the M. E. church in Ihe forenoon next Sunday. It will be íd charge of the Sunday school. Rev. Mr. Ramsay will talk, and there will be extra music. The Cook house has again changed hands, and Asa W. Parker, of Brooklyn, N. Y., becomes owner. Consideration, $35,000. Mrs. Fletcher will continue in charge. Carpentere' Union will hold an open meeting tomorrow (Friday) evening, in their hall over Fred Stimson's store, and all interested in the labor question are invited to attend. Co. A. have received an invitation to be present at Lansing and Saginaw, July 4, but as the first regiment, M. S. T., wiil be at Lansing on that day, the company will no doubt be there also. Co. A were out Monday evening in ful] uniform, it being the regular monthly inspection. They made a fine appearance, and will be in good shape when they go to encatnpment in July. The Amphion club will do some substantial advertising for the School of Music, this summer, by giving a series o concerts at Bay View. Whatever helps the School of Music helps Ann Arbor. A tea meeting will be given by Mrs Neal, S. Thayer-st, this evening, to the Women's foreign missionsry society of the M. E. church. After supper a program o music, recitals, etc, will be indulged in. Krueger, the photograper, and a gang of men spent all of Monday afternoon tryng to get the trunk of a hollow oak tree up into hisgallery, by the block and tackle route. It will be used for a back ground. A. R Hammond has taken the contract or the erection of Sheehan's two stores', one for Baldwin, and one for Toop ; Wm. 3ggs has the contract for Judson's and and Warner's store, all on the site of the State-st fire. The June meeting of the Michigan State Horticultural society will be held at 3enton Harbor June 13-Í5. The Berrien county Horticultural society and West liichigan Fruit-growers' sociely will jiin n the meeting. Dr. N. D. Stebbins, father-in-law o tfrs. Martha F. Stebbins, of Ann Aroor, died in Dowagiac, Mich., June 1, at tti age of 86. The funeral services were held n Detroit, June 4, at the residence of Abram L. Stebbins. The following gentlemen were elected directors of the Farmers' and Mechanies' üank, Monday : Reuben Kempf, Wm. F. 3reakey, John Burg, Ambroge Kearney, Edward Duffy, D. -F. Sohairer, Wm. C. Stevens, J. E. Beal, and C. E. Green. The annual Jackson conference of the jadíes foreign missiocary society, of ihe üongregational church, met at the church on State-st, yesterday morning. Delectes were present from all points between ackson and Ypsilanti, and a very interesting meeting was held. The oíd gasoline lampa that were used ïere before our days of electrio light, were old to the city of Milan for $53.15, last tfarch. Aid. Herz wa9 examining the reasurer'8 books, Monday, to see if the )osts were paid tor, and found thev were ïot. They were valued at about $7. The following liquor licenses have been aken out since last Thursday : Henry B. Neat, Ypsilanti, $500; John Pfeffer, Milan, $275; M. G. Daily, Ypsilanti, 300; John Kehoe, $300; Polhemus & Sxton, $500; W. Fred Schlanderer, 1300; Emanuel Wagner, $500, Ann Arbor. On May 30, a resolution passed the general conference of the Methodist Episcoal church, which decides that ministers iow completing their third year in a charge cannot be appointed for a longer erm. To all others the change to a posible pastorate of five years will be aplicable. Last night South Lyon was visited by a disastrous fire, consuming the stores of Hessrs. Dwight and Thos. Dunlap, L. R. Hosier, G-eo. Alfred, Fireman's hall, and wo empty stores owned by Mr. Barnes. Phe loss is estimated at $15,000 with only 500 insurance. It was the work of an ncendiary. The Detroit Tribune of Tuesday, pays a very high compliment to the University Jlee Club, who gave a concert in Detroit opera-house Monday nigbt. After the concert, the club were given a reception jy Gen. and Mrs. Alger, at their elegant residence on Fort-st, which was much enoyed by the boys. Monday, a fellow who had been around town begging on the strength of a broken arm which he had carefully wrapped up, was arrested by Chief Sipley, and taken oefore Justice Frueauff, who sentenced lim to the Detroit house of correction for 90 days, as on examination by a physician, the arm was found to be in (jood ehape. Jacob Mayer an old citizen of Lodi, died Mondav mon.ing at the residence of ais son, at Dixboro, aged 71 years and 7 months. He was bom in Germany and came to this country in 1856. He leaves four children his wife having died about four years ago. He was the father-in-law ol Geo. Stauch of The Register composing room. Little Lillian Pond, daughter of Geo. H. Pond, died at her father's residence, Thursday laat, after an illness of some months. She was a bright, winsome child, and in his bereavement, Mr. Pond has the heartfelt symptithy of the community. The funeral services were held at the house Friday evening, and the remains were :aken to Fliot, where they were placed oeside those of her mother. Prof. Carhart, of the University, gives the second of his lectures on "The physioa! basis of nousic," before the pupila of the School of Music, on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be given in the prolessor's own lecture room, third floor University hall. It is to be illustrated by beautiful and interesting experimenta showing the relations and behaviour of sound waves in various media. Cïrpenters' Union, No. 85, of Ann Arbor, last Saturday, paid over to Mrs. Catharine Burns $100 on account of the death of her son, Jolin J. Barns, who was killed not long ago. W. J. Colgrove, the secretary of the Ann Arbor union, received the' money Saturday from the general secretary in Pbiladelphia. This is no charity business, but is one of the advantages of belonging to the Union, six months' member.hip entitling theheirs to $100, one year to $200, and 18 monthf, $250. The Union here now has 60 membera. A smooth longued fellow played a shaip game on some Chelsea parties, Tuesday, about as follows: He represented that he expected two car loada of horses there, which he was going to sell, and so interested deputy sheriff Tom Mac, to whom he was going to give a horse for helping him sell the horses, that Tom let him have five dollars as a friendly loan. He also interested Jake Staffan, the livery man, who prepared hay and sawdust bedding for 200 horses more or less, and alter getting small sums of money from various ones, left town. Henry D. Merithew, of Ann Arbor, sent a petition to Gov. Luce for the recall of the commission which was issued to Sidney W. Millard, as captain of Co. A. last March. At the tlection last January, Jacob F. Schub received 18 votes, and Sid. W. Millard received 22 votes. Five men who voted for the latter were enlisted and mustered mto the etate service in December, 1887, six days prior to the election, but whose muster rolls did not reach the adjutant general until Feb. 8. Because of this, it was claimed that the five men had not a right to vote, but the military authoritie8 decide that they had a right to vote as soon as they were mustered, and Mr. Millard's election will hold.

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