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Day
28
Month
February
Year
1889
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Public Domain
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The Aga?s:E associat:on now has twelve tüembers. Miss Amelie Stolsey entertained a few friends Feb. 22. The A. O. H. gave a pleasant party at their rooms last evenine. Golden Rule lodtce, F. & A. M., meets tonight to confer the third degtee. A. J. Sawyer is now proprietor of the cigar store in the opera house biock. Tonight the Snouflke dancing club wtll hold anotherclub party at thearmory. W. D. Adauis contémplales moving his bazaar to tbe store now occupied by S. C. Andrews. . An excellent orayon portrait of the late James Clancy is exhibited in A. L. Nofcle's wiudow. Miss Gertrude Wade entertained about forty of her friends at a pedro party on Mondny evening. Wm. Caspary, of this city, has rented a bakery at Cbelsea, and will go into business in that village. The series of Washington Irving articleB now running in The Register are very interesting reariing. The last party to be given by the Knights Templar before lent, will be given on Tuesday evening. The Bethlehem church choir serenaded August Hutzel, Monday evening, the occasion being bis 82nd birthday. D. F. Allmendinger celebrated his 41 st birthday Monday evening, and was serenaded by the Allmendicger organ works band. F nancially the ma-querade given by Company A, last Friday night, was a great success, $125 beiug added to the company exohequer. The annuhl meeting of the Woman's Charitable Union will be held next Thursday afïernoon, March 7, at 3 o'clock, in the parlors of Hobart Hall. Next Sundny evening Rev. Mr. Sunderand will give his iast 'Robert Elsetnere" lecture ; subjfet, " The New Brotherhood of Christ as a Prophfey. The Chpqueamegons play next Monday evening for the Ypsilanti Light Guard hop, the last of a pleasant series of parties given by that orgnnizition. The party given by Ann Arbor cotnmandery, K. T., last Friday evening was the most suacessful one of' the series, the large rooms being crowded. If satisfactory arraDgements can be mide Schairer & Millen will remove their dry goods establishment to the store cow occupied by Haneeterfer & Co. Next Monday evening at the Unity Club. Mr. Zíwet well read a paper on the University of Moscow, after which Mr. F. N. Scott well read on original story While Herbert French was cóasting on "Foley" hill last Friday, his sled ran into a norse, throwing the horse down, and the boy falling in under, received serious injuries. Rev. Howard Duffield will deliver the next lecture in the Tappan training course, at the Presbyterian church, on Sunday eveijing. His subject will be " The English Bible." At the ret idence of Dr. W. F. Breakey, on Huron-st„ Mis May Breakey entertained a party of nearly fifty couples Tuesday evening. I Dancing was the special feature. A band of traveling musicians played on the streets Tuesday in the midst of a severe snow storm and tried to convince our citizens that spring had come, but it wouldn't work. Mrp. Jane E. Freer, wife of the late Wm. Freer, died. Fctburary 21, aged 53 years and 7 months, at the home of het daughter, Mrs. C. J. Mowerson, in the township of Ann Arbor. The Germán workingmen's association recived an invitation to visit Manchester today and assist in dedioating the new hall of the local ussociation, and a large delegation leaves this afternoon for that place. Tuesday evening the Bricklayers and Piasters union met and adopted the scale of wages for the coming season. They decided upon $2 60 to $3 00 per day, and that nine hours labor should constitute a day's work. A letter has been received by a gentleman of this city from David Henning, who went to San Diego, Cal., in search of his health. Mr. Henning states that the climate there is delightful, and that he has improved greatlv. Edward Vogel has been admitted to membership in the dry goods firm of H. S. Holmes & Co., of Cheifea. For severaj years "BJdie" was in the employ of Mack & Sohmid and has many friends here who will rejoice in his good luok. The regular examinations for teachers will be held by the board of school examiners at the court house, on the first Thursday of March and August. Special examinations will be held at Ypsilanti March 29ih ; Chelsea, April 26th ; Saline' August 30th; Ypsilanti, SepL 27th. Blitz & Langsdorf, the clothiers, made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors today, of all their property, to E H. Scott. Assets nearly $35,000. Liabilities, including chattel mortgages amounting to nearly $16,000, will amount to about $21,000. Poor collections and too krge a stock purchased for the winter season were the causes. There is one mischievoos youngster that it would not be safe to allow one of our high-toned students to reach. The student attended the matinee at the opera house Friday afternoon, with a young lady. He wore a haudsome light colored cape overcoat on the back of which was displayed a large red ticket marked "taken," as the eouple returned from the matinee. They walked up Main-st. totally unaware of the reason that made the people stare at them, but when they reached the lady's house and discovered that tag words could not express the teelings of either of them. He will take a survey of his coat hereafter beiöre putting it on. Benj. Brown, of Ann Arbnr, and Francis P. Bogardus and Alorizo H. Goldsmith of Ypsilanti, were appointed by Judge Babbitt as Fpecial commissioners to hear the claim for taxes of the city of Ann Arbor against the estale of Luther Jaiaes. The commifsion sits today to hear the city's side of the case. At the annual meeling of the stockholders of the J. T. Jacobs clothing company held thia morninjr, the following directors were eleeted: J. T. Jacobs, ü. C. ÏV1, W. W. Wadham, J. J. Ryan and J. H. Cutting. At a subsequent meeting ol the directors, J. T. Jacobs wns chosen presidet and trensurer ; D. C. Fall vicepresident, and W. W. Wadham secretary. The Wesliyan Gmld give a Freneh exening, Monday, Maich 4th, to which the members of the guild and their friends are invited. Reception in the parlors at eight, after which literary program W:ll be lurnished. A paper will be read by Prof. Walters upon ' Víctor Ilüo 38 a rjoveljst," a Ffench song by a quar'ette from the Amphion Club and other musical attraction?. Everything will be Fiench except the consevation. The Ievee by the ladies of the Mt. Vernon association at Hobait hall, : last Friday evening, was both a social and önancial suecess. Fully two hundred and Bfty were present. The ladies representing "the ladies of ye olden time" wore costumes of a century ago and recerved the guests with the'stately dignity lor which our grand-dames were noted. The minuet dance by four couples who had been tiained by Prof. de Pont, was a succesa. The entertainment netted about $50 for the funds of the association. In the 'Vugar frand" oases this week, the writs of habeas corpus asked for by Siwyer & Knowlton for their clients were denied by Judge Kinne on Monday. As the case closed, Attorney Knowlton surprii-ed the opposition by producing an order from the Governor comm&nding the sheriff not to turn the prisoners over to the detectives from New York, as he bad decided to give the case a rehearing. Tr.e case is to be argued on Monday before Gov. Luce at Lausinj, the prisoners still being confiüed in the coanty jul awaiting his decisión. The Shakespeare club completes its study upon the " Tragedy of King Lear " at the next; regular meeting. Akhough the play has not been as popular with the members as the " Merchant of Venice," yet the interest has been fairly well sustained, and the work quite eatisfactory. The essays upon the various characters in the play were carefully prepared and iudicated thorough study and anal) sis. "Much Ado About nothing " will be studied after the comptetion of " King Lear." The club meets as utual at the residence of Mr. J. Taylor. The authoritie8 have commenced a war upon the class of senaational newspaptrs with which our city is flooded on every Saturday. Last Saturday 21 newsboys were marched into Justice Pond's oitice and notiüed that they must not sell these papers, those they had Uien being confiscated. Warrants were then issued for the arrest of Francia Stofflet and Stan. Crawford, agents for the Sunday World and Saturday Telegram, 'respeclively. They were taken before Justice Pond, plead not guilty, and their trial set down for March 2nd and 8th. While the day express on the Michigan Centrl was standing at Ypsilanti taktng water, last Monday morning, a freight train came down on the same track. The engineer of the passenger train tried to back away from the approaching freigbt but could not get .starled quick enough. The two enginea came together but with little damage. A Mrs. Basom, of Bay City, jumped from the train and sprained her aukle. This was the only injury, but the passengere received a goód f care. The accident was caused by the neglect of a switchman to close the switch. A large shw case standing outside of Blitz & Langgdprfs store got on a rampage Friday afternooh and caused considerable damage. The case stood on castors on the smooth stone walk, and the wind striking it broadside it started down Main-st. at a gait that would be a credit to some of our fast horses. But the case didn't go far. Striking an obstruction it tipped and crashed through one of the large plate glass wiudows of C. Bliss & Son's. The case was damaged but slightly but it will coet in the neigb'borhood of $100 to replace the glass in the store front. On Monday evening as a party was coasting on ff. State-st., the sled was not turned quick -enoueh at the top of the short bill leading to the Michigan Central depot. It 8truck one of the row of posts at the foot of State-st. with terrific force, breaking it off lik a twig. Stuárt Patterson, son of Judge Patterson of Oakland county, and. a student of the senior cIess in the high school, had his foot caught between the sleigh and the post and.it was smashed. He was taken to Dr. McLachlan's office and the pieoes of the crushed bone were taken out, The accident will leave the foot stiff. Patterson left for his home at Holly, Tuesday morning. A number of accidenta have occurred at this place and the authorities should prohibit coasting there.

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