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Day
26
Month
November
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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'iiles Lee is sick in bed. Mr.. James Godden wants adivorce from ber husband. The winter term of the high school wlli commence next Monday. The newly organized Ladies' Ilive o the Maccabees wil) meet this evening. Win. (ïoodyear ttarted a new house, Friday, on north DiviMon-st. It wil] cost $2,000 Mrs.Therefa Vinkh'.of tlie first warii, died on Thursday last at the age of thirty-one. Mrs. Dr. Phillipp, nee Whedon, of Milwankee, sang a solo, Sunday morning, in tte Methodist church. Two new cars will soon be added to the equipment of the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Eailway Compary. Cora Murray, niece of Marshal Murray, while coasting down Broadway last week, broke her leg in two places. Mrs. Olivia li.Hall has rented her new honse on the corner of Geddeö and Waslitenaw aves to a Mrs. Babcock, of Bay City. Little Ecklin, the eiglit-year-old son of Bernard Norton, was buried on Thursday last. The cause of his death was qninsy. At the college day reception, gi ven by Rev. C. M. Cobern, Friduy evening, to the Epworth League, about 100 candidates were voted in. A kerosene e mp exploded, Saturday evening, in the residence of W. W. Donglaes. A curtain was barned and othersligbt damage was done. The remaiiis of M. J. Reilly, a íormer resident of this city, were brought here from Nebraska, Monday night, and interred in Forest Hill Ceinetery. Harriet L. Perry, motlier of Geo. D. Perry, who waí killed in the late war, has received an original pension. Airs. Perry formerly lived in the fifth ward. Chas. D. J I ai nes, the elcquent and energetic projector of the Ann Arbor & Ypsilanti street railway, is building a similar road between Owosso and Corunna. The YpBilanti Electric Company lias filed articles of association. The ncorporators are Brainerd Rorison, A. C. Rorison, M. V. Rorison and Tracy L. Towner. L. P. Jocelyn, teacher in the high school, will be ordained to the Episcopal diaconate on Saturday morning next. The ceremony will be performed in St. Paui's church, Detroit. The annual meeting of the Washtenaw Horticultural Society wiil be held December 4, at 2 o'clock p. m., in the court house. There will be reports of committeer, and exhibits of fruits and vegetables. Evart H. Scott has received an invitation to attend the wedding of Fred E. Farnsworth, of Detroit, and Miss Henrietta Bloomfie'd, of Jackson. Mr. Farnsworth is the well known pecretnry of the Michigan ciub. The National Piano and Organ Manufacturera Lave adopted a regalar pitch for all instrumenta used. Hereafter, there will be 435 doublé vibrations for A. The Ann Arbor Organ Company has already ordered a tuning fork. The remains of Mrs. VVm. Walker, who died in Logansport, Ind., onThursday last, were brought to this city Saturday and interred in Forest Hill cemetery. Mrs. Walker was eighty-two years old and formerly lived in Ann Arbor. George Sperry, of South Bend, lud., appeared before Justice Butts, Monday, charged with vagrancy. As this was the third time Mr. Sperry had been arrested in Ann Arbor, he was given a sixty-five-day term in the Detroit Honee of Correction. At a meeting of the board of directora of the Ann Arbor Thomson-llouston Electric Light Company, held in Detroit, Wednesday last.it was decided to put in another G50 alternating dynamo to meet the increaeing demand for incandescent lighting in this city. The high school seniors yesterday elected the following members of the Omega board : Managing editor, David E. Carman; business manager, R. W. Hamilton; associate editors - Misses Be6sie Finch, Joanna Neumann, Minnie Boylan, Florence Janes; Mesáis. Edson Sunderland, James Baird, George Hendry and L. Codd. At the annual meeting of the Tappan Association, held Tuesday, the old officers were re-elected. They are: Hev. Dr. Wallace Eadcliffe, president; Dr. W. J. Herdman, secretary; J. H. Wade, treasurer. The new hall will e opened during the early part of December. The library, comprlsing some -i.OOO volumes, is being catalogued and placed on thé shelves. Col. Sylvester Lamed, of Detroit, wül lecture before the Unity Club next Monday evening on "Personal Reminiscences of Washington in the Days of Clay, Calhoun and Webster." On the following iáaturday evening Mre. Mary A. Li vermore, of Boston, will lecture on "Columbus and the Discovery of America." There are now seventeen lectures in the couree yet to be delivered. Prosecuting Attorney Lehman lost $100 in money on Monday last. The new oil tanks of the Standard Oil Company have been completed. Jacob Frohr, of I.ima, was adjadged insane Tuesday and sent to Pontiac. Fraternily and Golden R'ile lodgcs F. & A. M. wil! elect officers next week. Jolm Fislier, a wandever from I' 5 City, went to jn.il Monday. lic wm drunk. The managers of the fair association are leveling down the race track on the fair grounde. Seward Cramer will report the Michigan-Cleveland football game for the De troit Tribune. There is a movement on foot to organize a Young Men's Christian Asaoeiation in this city. The ladies of the Second Baptie4 church will serve a Thanksgiving dinDar this afternoon. The Young Ladies' society of Zion's church will celébrate its first anniversary, on December 13. Three tramps were arrepted Monday night for breaking into a Michigan Central car. They were sent to jail for a day apiece. Prof. R.H. Kempf and the Congregational choir furnished music at the services in University Hall, Sunday night. The Koyal Arch degree of masonry will be exeruphfíed next Monday evening by the Excelsior Chapter R. A. M., of Ypsilanti. A burglar tried to enter the house of Rev. Max? Hein, Monday morning, bat stumbled over a bicycle and was frightened away. A special term of the circuit court was held Monday. Besides the Schoonhoven case, severa! minor mutters were dispose.i of. The Gesang verein Lyra, assisted by the Ann Arbor Banjo and Guitar dab, will give a concert this eveningat.A. O. TJ. W. haU. Lmma Murray and liert Wright, two c-hildren who had been attending the Coldwater school, have been returned to this county as imbecile6. A skeleton of a Dakota squaw, holding a papoose in lier arme, adorns the window of the Two Sams. It was discovered in a case during the year 1885. An English Lutheran Sunday school wasorganized at the Disciples' church Sunday afternoon. Thirty-two personB were present and Dr. F. H. Brown was elocted superintendent. The üood Templara will give a character and pound social at their hall on Monday evening, December 8, The young ladies present will be weighed and sold for half a cent a ponnd. HenryGlatzel and George Frohn got into an altercation at the masquerade given Thursday evening at the rink. Frohn was badly pummeled, and Glatzel paid $5.75 in costs (o Jnstice lïuttp. The new chancel window in St. Andrew's church was eeen fortbe first time Sunday morning. Tlie design represents the resurrection of Christ. It is both impressive and beautiful. The glass was made in London, Eogland. At its meeting last Fiiday evening the Arena society of the high school elected the following officers: Grant White, president; Miss Charlotte Pickett, vice president; Miss Minnie Caldwell, secretary; Miss Bessie Finch, critic; L. C. Todd, marsbal. Next Sunday morning, Rev. J. T. Sunderland will preachaKing'sDaughters sermón upon the subject, "The Door of New Opportunity Open to Women." A short paper upon the origin and growth of the organizaron of King's Daughters, also reading and recitation, will be made appropriate to the occasion. " Mate " Schaefer, the proprietress of a disreputable house in the fifth ward was arrested Thursday afternoon and brought before Justice Pond. Her examination was postponed till Monday morning, in the hope that 6he woulti leave town in the meanwhile. On Saturday the last load of furnitnre was sent away, billed for Jackson. Two Btudents, Messrs Barnett and Doyle, who room on the corner of Maynard and William-sts, lost $57 in raoney and two gold watches as a result of a theft which was committed at two o'clock Thursday morning. The burglars reached through a broken pane of glaps and thus secured their booty. Bth of the boys had cashed drafts during the aflernoon previous. Frederick Schmid, member of the Insane Asylum board, visited Traverse City, last week. He found there a much larger and finer institution than he had expecled to see. It has at the present time 799 intnates. There are 950 at Poutiac and 1,050 at Kalamazoo, making a total of L,799 under the care of the state. All three asylums are filled to overflowing. While he was north, Mr. Schmid experienced a severe snow storm, snow falling to the depth of sereral inches.

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