Social Doings

The week of the opening of the Uni versity isalways a dull one in Ann Arbor society, and this year it has proved no exception to the rule. Professors are busy with examinations, new students are arriving and old friends returning, and the good towns people are bidding them a hearty welcome, for, though the average citizen issometiraes relieved when he sees the boys go, he isalways more glad to see them get back. IIERE AND TUERE. H. C. Clark was in Detroit last Friday. C. S. Millen was in Chicago last week. Charles H. Kline was in Detroit, Saturday. Superintendent Fall is about once more. Mrs. A. B. Stevens is ill with malarial fever. James N. Rilev is visiting friends in Howell. Stafford Nickels is in Jackson for a few days. Dr. Nancrede returned from Europe on Saturday. Miss Mollie Wortley has returned from Charlevoix. Dr. Heneage Gibbes was at the St. Clair Flats last week. Mrs. John Kapp and daughter have returned from New York. Prof. C. E. Greene and family have returned from a trip to Boston. Mrs. M. E. Davis, of south Thayer-st, has moved to Houston, Texas. Miss JennieMcIntyre Í3 visiting Miss M. Lynch, John R-st, Detroit, Regent C. R. Whitman and family are getting settled in their new home. Mrs. Henry Matthews, of west Huron-st, bas returned from Lansing. Miss Mattio T. Young, sister of Rev. C. A. Young, has arrived in the city. Rev. M. W. Steffey, of South Bend, Ind., is visiting bis son, M. M. Steffey. Miss Amanda Aprill, of Scio, is visiting Mrs. George Henne,West Liberty-st. Mrs I. Leason, of Manchester, visited Mrs. H. M. Pack last Saturday and Sunday. Major and Mrs. George G. Winans, of Lansing, were visiting in the city, Monday. The Good Templara tave a sociable Monday evening in their hall on Mainstreet. Thomas Holmes and wife, of Manchester, were visiting in Ann Arbor, Sunday. Modjeska will give a performance at the opera house on the first of February next. Architect Allen B. Pond, of Chicago, visited bis father, Judge E. B. Pond, last week. Miss May Jacobs, of Chicago, has been visitiiig Mrs. Margaret Storms, of Broadway. Mrs. Amelia Johnston, of Strathroy, Ont., has taken up her residence in Ann Arbor. Mrs. Win. Case, of South Lyon, is visiting her sister, Miss Nettie Case Williams-st. Miss Nellie Balcom left Monday for Chicago, to enter St. Luke's training school for nurses. George H. Snow, editor of The Register, isenjoying a vacationathis home, in Winona, Mimi. The Ladies Charitable Union held a meeting in Harris Hall, Monday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. Mrs. Fred Stein and her mother, Mrs. Heinrich, left Tuesday for a visit in Breckenridge, Colo. Edward Powell, of Lansing, is visiting at the residence of bis brother-inlaw, C. A. Maynard. Miss EmmaStanger left yesterday for South Bend, where she conducts a private school in Germán. Mrs. Paisley, of Windsor, Canada, is a guest at the residence of Mrs. P. Irwin, on north Main-st. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Fowler, of Detroit, were the puests of Mr. and. Mrs' A. D. Seyler last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Overbeck, of Toledo are the guests of their son, Christian Overbeck, of West Liberty-st. A reception will be tendered Rev. Camden M. Coburn this evening, at 7 p. m., in the parlors of the Methodist church. Theodore Linsenmann went to Pontiac, Tuesday, to meet his parents, who were on their way to Berne Junction, Huron county. Louis Boes, of the parochial school of Zion's church, was pleasantly surprised, Saturday evening, by a visit from the church choir, the occasion being the celebration of his birthday. Myron Neal left Friday evening for Port Huron to bid adieu to his cousion MissEinma McMorran,a former student in the Ann Arbor high school, who left Tuesday for a year of study and travel in Europe. The Ladies' Aid Society of the Congregational church will hold their first social of the season at the church parlors on Thursday, October 8. This will be made a special occasion for greeting strangers as well as old friends who have been separated during the summer. The Sewing Circle will meet at '■', i. m. with work for all. Supper will be served at 6:30. Robert Downing, the brilliant young American tragedian, will appear at the Grand opera House on next Saturday evening, when he will be seen in his far fiuned impersonatinn of "The Gladiator." The company in support of this talented young actor is said to be the finest acting and best costumed company in America, and is led by thai beautiful woman and charming aetress Eugenie Blair, a great favorite in Ann Arbor. This accomplished aetress anc author is a southern maid and a greai society favorite. That sha is an aetress of rare culture and finish must be ac cepted. Her stage gowns are gems o Paris style and delight the fair sex o the audience.