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Day
14
Month
August
Year
1890
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Public Domain
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Seventy-eight loilgers at the eounty house. The work of cutting down north Fifth-ave is progressiny. The democratie eounty convention will be held in this city on Friday, September 4. __ The amount due the state deaf and dumb school from Washtenaw eounty 18 $105.04. ___ Atkinson, the allpged horsethief, has been bound over to the next term of the circuit court. Members of Chatham Lodge Order Sons of St. George will picnic at Whitmore Lake to-day. The hill on Fuller-st is being cut down, preparatory to building a sidewalk on the south side. The commencement exercises of the a.'ricultural college begin to-day and last till Tuesday evening next. The sparrow orders given by the eounty treasurer ior the week ending last Saturday amounted to $91.50. Frank Ticknor, of Pittsfield, has just purchased twenty full-blooded Shropshires of Valentine Bros., of Dexter. The A. P. Ferguson company has just lurned out delivery wagons for O'Hara, Boyle & Co. and A. Fruhauf. Union services will be held in the Methodist charch next Sunday evening, Rev. Mr. Studley occupying the pulpit. John Schalar was sent to jail, Monday morning, on a charge of disorderiy conduct. He will remain there ten days. Carda are out, announcing the marriage, en August 26, of Louis C. Hill, of Detroit, and Miss Gertrude B. Rose, of this city. _ The Ann Arbor bicycle club went to Saline last Sunday. Next Sunday about twenty-five of them will wheel into Detroit and back. Little Oscar and Elsie Eberbach have been quite sick with diphtheria at their home on south Fourth-ave. They are now out of dangpr. The death of the little child of Mrs. Lee Ward, fortnerly Miss Ninette Burleigh, of this city, occurred, the other day, at New York city. Eugene K. Frueauff has sninteresting letter in the last issue of the Columbia (Pa.) Courant, on the subject of Ann Arbor and the university. The Ferguson nine was defeated last Friday by the M. A. A. The score was 0 to 1. The batteries were Laughna and McClure, Mahany and Seymour. A. L. Noble has decided to put in an entirely new store front. The doors will be set back farther and larger plate-glass windows will be placed in front. Eugene Gilmore, of the Michigan Central freight office, has accepted a position as cashier at the T. & A. A. depot. Charles Green fakes his place with the Michigan Central. The midsummer games of the Detroit Athletic club will take place on August 16. Gola medals will be awarded to winners in open events and silver medals to those who are second best. Dr. W. C. Dabney has declined the poeition on the medical faculty recently offered him by the board of regents. He iBsuffering from ill-health and fears that he could not stand the climate of Michigan. Frank Ingalls, while working on the aduition to H. G. Prettyman's house, last Monday, feil through the flooi joists down into the cellar below. He was rendered unconscious for a few minutes, but suffered no serious injury. A sneak thief broke into the cellar of Wm. Wagner's house, last Friday night, and helped himself liberally to the eatables which were stored there. He used one of the T. & A. A. brake lanterns for illumination and left behind his card in the shape of a dirtv shirt. Roy, the ten-year-old son of Mrs. Sarah Thompson, was kicked to death by a horse at his home in Oregon City, recently. Mrs. Thompson and children spent last summer with her mother, Mrs. Chas. Allmendinger, of L"di, and the lad is remembered as a brigbt active boy. The Register office has just printed, for the Colorado College Scientific Society, a pamphlet containing the papers read at different meetings ofthat organization during the present year. The Register print is becoming very familiar to many people throughout the United States. Mary Roper, wife of Win. H. Roper, of Northñeld, 3ued for a divorce, the other day, on the ground of extreme cruelty. She has been married only seven months, and has lived with her husband only two months. She also asks for an injunction, whioh has been granted, restraining Mr. Roper from selling hia farm property. The Register calis attention to a needed improvement in Ann Arbor - the putting up of street signs. The writer knows how it is himself, for although tolerably well acquainted with the city, we found it difficult to lócate parties, recently, after consulting the directory, as street names were not to be found. - Ypsilanti Sentinel. Telegrapl.ic' inlurtnation from Montreal toClevelaud iert8 the accidental drowning of Dr. William Mason Payne, of Cleveland, in the recent accident which occurred in the G. A. R. sion steainer Bohemia, at Cedar Rápida. Dr. Payne is a gradúate of the University of Michigan and well known in the city of Add Arbor. He was unmarried and had been in the practice of medicine but a short time. For the third time the firefiend lias made an ineffectual attack upon the old Weil building on Huron-st. The liremen were called out at about one o'olock Sunday morning and gucceeded in saving the old structure, much to the chagrín of many people who wer anxious to see it go. Broken window sashes and boules were found on the second floor, which indicated that possibly the fire was of incendiary origin. The Methodist ladies give a social and tea at 6:30 this evening. John P. St. John and Mary T. Lathrop will address the prohibitionists on September 5. Mra. Mattie Wetmore will build a new house on W. Huron-st, to cost from $4,000 to $5,000. The proliibition county nominating convention will be held in the court house, September 5, at 11 a. m. An old-fashioned sheet and pillowcase party will be given at the house of Mr. Miner, to morrow evening. Elcy J. Lane, of Ypsilanti, asks for a divorce from her husband, Henry C. Lane, on the ground of lack of support. Religious services at Cropsey's hall next Sunday at 3 p. m. Mr. Crozier will speak on "The Gospel of the Kingdom." The choir of the Bethlehem church will go to Manchester, next Sunday, to sing in the mission service at that place. Steps have been t:iken to establish a Washtenaw County Teachers' Association. About HO teachers have airead)' handed in their names to Mr. Cavanaugh as members. A flowing well was drilled on J. F. Lawrence's farm neat Pittfield, the other day. Water wan discovered at a depth of flfteen feet which spouted five feet above thesurface. The Ferguson nine will play at Tiffin, Ohio, August 25 and 2(i; at Fremont, August 27; and Clyde, August 28 They will meet nines at Grand Rapids and Jackson some time during the month of September. __ The new Sager block, on State-st, marks a new departure in the architecture of Ann Arbor. It is three stories high, and about forty feet wide, containing two store-rooms on the first floor. Large arches extend from the ground up through the second story. No part of the building has as yet been rented. A serious break in the water pipe running under the Detroit-st bridge occurred on Tuesday last. Inasmuch as the pipe is about twenty feet below the roadway at this point, the water company bas been obliged to change its location, and a new pipe will be laid furtlit-r to the east at an expense of $300. A party of thirtv-three young people drove out to Wbitmore Lake on Tuesday afternoon. Some of them took the '"bus," which was decorated with the University colors, while others preferred to ride on hayracks. They took their supper in the grove at Whitmore Lake, and after a very pleasant dance returned to Ann Arbor about 2 a. m. The Catholic picnic held yesterday at Whitmore Lake was a great success. Over 1,500 people, from Northfield, Ann Arbor and other placen, were present. Harkins and St. James gave several vocal selections, Miss Andrews, of Dexter, and Miss Walsh, of Detroit, furnithed instrumental music. The young people danced quadrilles during the afternoon. In the course of the day, speeches were made by Rev. Fr. Kelley, of Dexter, and Rev. Fr. Goldrick, of Northfield. The Iron Mountain Water company has tiled articles of association with the county clerk. The capital stock is $75,000, held by the following Ypsilanti parties : D. L. Quirk, F. A. Todd, D. C. Batchelder, C. King, R. W. Hemphill, H. P. Slover and H. C. Swift. The c.mpany holds a franchise for thirty years from the city of Iron Mountain, Menominee Co., and will receive $9,000 annually for 156 hydrants, with $50 for every extra one required. The Patriarchs Militant returned on Saturday night from Chicago, where, according to reports, they had a glorious time. The Ann Arbor cantón won the third prize in class D, amounting to $300, which wasawarded for proficiency in drilling, and Captain Manly won an additional prize of $40 which was given to him as commanding officer. When it is remembered that the judges who oversaw the drilling were regular army officers, it will be seen that Ann Arbor has made a good showing. John Krone, the suspected horsethief, was given another hearing on Monday raorning. He produced no witnesses in bis own behalf and attempted no defence. The only important testimony on the other side was that given by Charles Palmer, of Samter, Wayne Co., who identifled Krone as the man whom he had Been with Mr. McCormick's horse, on the Monday morning after the robbery, between seven and eight o'clock. Krone was bound over to the circuit court and ín default of bail, committed to the county jail. There are probably some young people in this eommunity wlio possess more or less talent for drawing, and who only need the opportunity of cultivating their talent to make an artistic and financial success.and achieve fame and fortune by their work. For the benefit of such aspiring artists the Detroit Museum of Art was founded, and it is now fully equipped for the work of thorough instruction in drawing, painting, modeling, architecture and decorative design. The next term opens on September 15. Whilb M. M. Steffey and L. M. Stevens were driving home from Whitmore Lake, the other evening, the former spied an animal by the side of the road which he took to be a rabbit. With a true sportsman's zeal, he immediately jumped out of the carriageand pursued hig game. As he got nearer he was convinced that he had tracked a coon, and was becoming highly elated over bis good luck, but when he had fairly cor nered the animal, his fair dream vanished in the fumes of an intolerable stench and he was forced to beat a hasty retreat. He has buried his clothes anc promises to teil no more stories about his prowess as a hunler. "Steamboat" Johnson, well-known to Ann Arbor citizens.was givena baptism lust Monday night, which he did not in the least relish. He had, during the day, taken possession of the old build ing on the corner of Broadway an( Wall -t, niuch to the displeasure o someof the residente of the fifth ward About ten o'clock in the evening, a gang of rowdies collected around the newly acquired domicile and placed a barrel, containing straw, on the fide walk in front. This they ignited ; then aising a cry of fire, they turned on the ity water. Incidentally, so to speak, hey wet down the inside of the buildng, thoroughly drenching the occuants and breaking all the windows. 'he " Rev." JohnEon is highly indignant at the work of the rowdies and ïas bronght the matter before the auhorities. The weddirg of E. V. Hangsterfer nd Miss Ada Herbert took place on 'uesday evening at the home of the bride's'parents. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. Studley. J. E. larkins was the groom's best man and Miss Lottie Andrews, of Dexter, acted as brideamaid. The newly married couple took their departure on the nine o'clock T. & A. A. train for parts untnown. They will return about August 25 and after that time will be at home o their friends at their residence on north Main-st. Among those from out of town, who attended the wedding, were J. W. Hangsterfer, wife and daughter, W. J. Luyck, wife and son, tfrs. J. C. Stevens and daughter, all 'rom Detroit. The building occupied by the Farmers and Mechanics Bank is undergoing considerable improvement. On Monday evening the bank furniture was moved into the vacant store formerly occupied by Stevens' barber shop, where )usiness will be transacted until the tank is ready for occupancy. The ceiling of the bank will be raised nearly two feet, a tile floor wil! be laid and the walls will be neatly painted. The inain entranoe will be placed on the corner instead of on the sides as at jresent. Th3 private office will be nade larger and more cozy. New furïiture will be placed throughout the bank All of theee improvements, it is expected, will have been completed by September lOth or 15th.

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