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Day
17
Month
August
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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I love to Bteal awhileaway Fmm every cumberiDg care. And takea Pullman sleeper for Cliicago and the Fair. And wben Tve spent a week or two Aud seen the sighte to great. 1 love to steal achance to ride Home on an empty freight. Spencer Lennon last week sold a lot on Broadway Hi'l to James Boyle. Miss Fannie Gundert of First-st is building an adddition to her reeidence. The sewer connection with the Waterman gymnasium is about completed. Tuesday morning a new arrival gladdened the home of David Rinsey. Boy. The Early Rivera peach raifed by Mr. Munimery is a most excellent variety. There will be no preaching services at the Church of Christ for several week?. Mr. Cutting, of the J. T. Jacobs Co., is in the east making purchases for the fall trade. , Mr. T. A. Bogle deüvered an address at St. Mary's church picnic at North Lake Tuesday. The Ann Arbor road sold over 300 tickets to Whitmore and other lake points on Sunday. The rain last Friday night was worth thousands of dollars to the farmers of Washtenaw county. Judge N. W. Cheever has an able article in this week's Register on the present financial situation. Prof. Clarence Taylor will build a store on fi. Washington-st, near the one being built by Fred. Hoelzle. D. A. Bennett of Saline will represent the Maccabees at their annual meeting in Grand Rapids in September. East Huron and Thirteenth-sts.which lead to the hospitals are being graded and will soon be in good condition. Frank Allmand, who is camping at Portage Lake, lost his bay horse last week. It strayed away at night and eannot be found. Joseph Clark, superintendent of the hospitals, bas gone east. He will combine pleasure with inspection of hospital management. Harry Stearns, a gradúate of the university and son of ex Postmaster Stearns, has been appointed assistant postmaster at Adrián. S. A. Moran of The Register has been confined to the house most of the time for the past few days by neuraleia and an ulcerated tooth. A serious runaway occurred by the Whitmore Lake bridge laBt Sunday in which Mr. Polheruus was injured by being thrown out violently. Geo. Clancy and some friends camping at Portage Lake had their tent rifled of a watch and two guns and some other valuables one day Ia6t week. it is estimated that about 600 Ann Arborites have thus far visited the Columbian Exposition and the average amount spent by each is ptoced at $40. People who have visited the World's Fair almost invariably report that it is the hardest sort of work to see the sighte. It is a poor pUce to take a vacation. McDonald and Hall.attorneys at law, of Bay City, have been retained as counsel by the Great Tent of Maccabees in the case brought againat the order by Mra. Fillmore. Ann Arbor's soldiers at Island JLake entertained their Ann Arbor visitors right royally last Sunday. Our boys know how to do a thing of this sort in first-class style. Walter B. O'Neill, law class of '91, U. of M., a prominent young man of Detroit, died of typhoid fever in Washington, D. C, recently. He occupied a responsible position in the AttorneyGeneral's Officp. G. A. Hoffstetter met with a painful accident on Detroit street last Saturday He was accidently thrown from his buggy, which resulted in the breaking of bis collar bone, beaides a number of painful bruises. Wednesday, August 23, Lake Tent N o 45, K. O. T. M., of Grass Lake will hold a basket picnic at Wolf Lake. A good programme has been prepared. Miss Emma Bower, of the Democrat, will deliver an address. Bev. Dr. Tedrow will preach at the union services at the Congregational church next Sunday evening at 8:00 o'clock,the usual time of service, and the Young People's meeting will be held at the same place at 630o'clock. The house and barn on the Stevens farm near Dexter, occupied by Jacob Beiner,were totally destroyed by fire Saturday morning. How the fire originated is a mystery. It is eaid that there was no insuranceon the buildings and contents. Clement R. Stickney, A. B., '89, who took electives in mechanical and electrical engineering the last two years of his course and then one year specia ) studies in the same line, was, on Sat urday.the 12th, admitted tothe practice of law in Detroit and will make cases in eleccrical engineering a speciality. The Register is in receipt of the annual premium list of the third annual fair of the Dundee Agricultural Association. Their fair is to be held September 19-22 inclusive, and the Dundee people know how to get up a flrst class fair. There was a change of time on the M. C'. B. R. last Sanday. Notir.e the corrections in the M. C. R. R. time table on auother page. This road seems to be unable of late to settle upon a schedulejudgingfromthe number of changes recently. Lyman Brown, of Salem, who is charged with assult and battery on a ten-year-old girl, appeared before justice Bennett on Munday. The case was adjourned until Monday next. Brown was unable to furuish bail and was comrnitted tojaih Prof. Georae N. Carman, formerly of Ann Arbor and for the past thrte years Principal of the Sr. Paul, Minn.. high school, has been elected associate Professor at Chicago University, having charge of the preparatory branch at Morgan Park. News has been received of the deaths of Winthrop E. Gastman, aged 25 years, class of '90, U. of M., at Pueblo, Col., and of Floyd A. Gastman, aged 19 years, class of '96, U. of M., at Decatur, Iil. The former died July 24, and the latter August 8. The school board held a meeting Tuesday evening. Bills to the amount of 8517.28 were allowed. Issac D. Smead & Co., of Toledo, presented a bilí for $700. One thousaud dollars was appropriated for ventilating the High School building. A social will be held in the old Catholic church on Kingsley-st., this eveniüg. It will be the last gathering in the old church which has done good service for neariy half a century. A good program has been prepared for the occasion. Michael Brennan, of Devil's Lake, Dakota, a former resident of Ann Arbor, will give some reminiscences of old St. Thomas parish. Louis Maximilian Knapp died at the county house Thursday evening. His friends are rmking arrangemeats for the funeral. Mr. Knapp carne to Ann Arbor about the year 1850, and forsome years was in the saloon business. He was an expert carver and painter. He caineofvery gooJ family in Wurtetnberg, and was a nephew of the well known minister of finance of that name. - Times. Ann Arbor has been honored of late by visits ofanumberof noted European educationalistp. The latest was Prof. Engels of the Roy&l Saxon High School of Technology who stopped off to see ourgreatUniversity. He was thoroughly impressed with the enormous scale upon which everything in America was done. lie left Friday for Detroit, where he expected to investígate our methods of lake survey. Jessie Cunningham, aged eleven years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cunningham, of Alpena, Mich., and a grand daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Giles Waterp.of Lodi, was accidently drowned in Long Lake a week ago last Thursday. Jessie was well known to a large number of Washtenaw county people, who will mourn her untimely death. The Alpena Evening Echo speaks yery touchingly of the sad accident. The Fire Department was called out 1 wice Sunday. Oae cali was on account of the burning of abarn on WestHuron street belonging to Mrs. M. E. Godfrey. Tramp8 or boys with cigarettes were probably the cause. The second cali was on account of a pile of cedar telegraph polea near the Toledo bridge having caught fire from the sparks of a passing engine. But little damage was done in either case. The water pressure was excellent, enabling the department to readily extinguish both fires. Lucian H. Smith, special agent of the United States Department of Labor, paid our city a visit on Friday to investígate, as far as possible, the business of the loan associations of this place. The government intends to inform itself thoroughly of the amount of business these associations are doing and bow they are doing it. The reporter of the Register and Mr. Smith visited the various points of interest and places of natural scenery in and about Ann Arbor. Our guest was greatly astonished to find such a lovely spot in Michigan, and such delightful university grounds and beautiful buildings. "And the shade trees!" he continued. " Why the streets are literally lined with them, Everything reminds me of a huge park, a great garden. What an ideal place in which to live I"

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