The City

Students are already beginning to trrive. Mr. V. Shankland is to be the new keeper of the county house. He takes poBeesion Oct. lst. The T. & A. A. track at the crossing of Miller-ave. was torn up Sunday and Monday for repair?. The Ann Arbor Art Club ie having elegant rooms fitted up in the Masonic B!ock, seeond floor. The Grand Rapids committee that iooked after the Maccabee convention at Grand Rapids has found itself 81,500 in tlie hole. An election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Captain Chas. E. Hiscock, has been ordered by the A. A. Light Infantry. City Clerk Miller went to Detroit Saturday and secured the deed from the M. C. R. R. Co. for the right of way of the main sewer under their property. The Charitable Union will resume its regalar monthly meetings at Harris Hall on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 5th at three o'clock. Mary W. D'Ooge. Sec. The committee on program for the Inland League Beries of entertainments this season have about completed the course. An excellent program is promised. It is reported that the number of persons poieoned by cheese in Adrián has now reached one huudred. This is the greatest cheese-producing county in the state. The improvements in the store of Goodyear and St. James makes their establishment compare very favorably with any other of our excellent drygoods housep. On Wednesday evening, Oct. 9, the Ann Arbor Light Infantry will eleet a new captain to take the place of Chas. E. H:scock whose many business duties compelled him to resign. The First M. E. church will have their pastor, Re?. Mr. Cobern back again for another three years much to the gratification of al! the members as well as all other good citizenp. Mayor Thompson made complaint before JusticePond against Fred Brown for keeping his saloon open on Sunday, Sept. 17. Brown waived examination and was bound ovar to the circuit court. The place of holding the next Methodist Conference came up at the Detroit meeting last Saturday. The contest was between Ann Arbor and the Soo, the latter winning by a vote of 80 to 100. John Baumgardner is rushing business at his marble works. He has just received three carloads of unfinished granite from Vermont which with his new machinery he will prepare for monamente. The Ann Arbor Organ Co. is branching out quite extensively. Monday the compsny shipped twoorgansto William Thompson, of Glasgow, Scotland. Mr. Thompson will act as the agent of the company in Scotland. John W. Woodmansee, of Geddes. ave., died last Monday night. The de - ceased was forty-seven years old. The funeral services will be held this afternoon at the residence. A widow and two daughters survive. The election of Mi&s Bower as great record keeper of the L. O. T. M. will give her all she can do in this work during her term of office. Mr. L. J. Leisemer will during the time take charge of The Dernocrat for Miss Bower. The Ladies' Society of the Bethlehem church will meet this afternoon at the residence of Mrs. John Krauee on S. Fifth-st. The Young Ladies' Society will meet this evening at the residence of Mrs. John Mayer, No. 16 S. Secoud st. Last Saturday morning the fire department was called out on account of an alarm of fire in Reimold's saloon on S. Main-st. The flre was caused by gas scaping from a broken pipe in the basement and catcbing fire. Ëlight damage was done. Miss Emma Bower has rented the officeB formerly occupied by A. W. Hamilton. She will make use of these quarters in performing her duties as Great Kecord Keeper for the L. Ü.T. M. Mr. Hamilton will move his office to rooms on the second floor. Walter Waldson, of Plymouth, and Emmett McMahon, of this city, are in jail in Flint, charged with the larceny of a $13 overcoat from Emil Sween, of Burton. The alleged theft occured at the fair grounds. The coat had been taken from Sween's buggy and covered with straw in an emply stall, where it was found by the sheriff. Dr. Charles Rominger returned Friday from his prospecting trip to Northwestern Arkansas. He says the country was justas dry there as in Michigan. The section he was in is sparsely settled and his meals often consisted of spoiled bacon and corn bread. The people have hardly enough to eat they are so poor and shiftlesB. The land is covered with I a heavy growth of timber.- Times. Mr. Geo. Speechly of South State-st., died at one o'clock Monday afternoon. Mr. Speechly was one of the oldest pioneers in Washtenaw County. He was just a little over eighty-eight years oíd, and has lived in Ann Arbor since 1828. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon. There 11 be preaching service at the Church of Christ nextSunday morning and eveniny; at the usual hours. It is not certa'n yet wlietherthe nastor or Kev. H. L. Wille t. of Chicago, who comes to Ann Aibor this week to begin work in the Biblical Seminary, will speak. . Last Fiiday Mr. Ö. S. Blitz and family left for iheir new home in Phoenix Atizona. Mr. Blitz has been a resident of Ann Arbor for several years and has made many worm friends. It is to be regretted that his health is such as to demand his removal to a different mate. . The Register acknowledges receipt of complimentary tickets to the Hillsdale Fair. The management declares that it ia "The Most Popular Pair on Earth." We have not yet decided whether to attend this fair or take in the little show now in progresa down at Chicago. An important meeting of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew will be held tbis evening at 8 o'clock at Harris Hall. At this meeting arrangements will be made for the entertainment of the state association of the Brotherhood which will hold its first meeting in Ann Arbor in November. The board of directora of the Washtenaw Mutual Fire InBurance Co. met last Friday in the office of the company and adjusted the loss of Edward King, of Ypsilanti, at 81,136.88. The fire was on Sept. 11, when two barns, two sheds and their content?, including a large amount of stacked hay.were destroyed. The Michigan Central made another change in its time table last Sunday. The two limited trains recently taken off have been put on again, while slight changes have been made in the time ofother trains. The correct time for all the trains may be found by referring to the time table on another page. ïiie Egeister is pleased to note the marriage last Thursday at Marshall, of Mr. Belmont Waplep, son of Judge RufiiB Waples of this city, to Mies Esther JiroD, of the above place. Mr. Waples is well known in Ann Arbor. The happy couple will reside in Ironwood, where Mr. Waples has a good law practice. the flrst of a series of sermons to be delivered by Rev. J. M. Gelston was given last Sunday evening in the Presbyterian church. The subject of these discourses will be "Christianity the Fulfilment of all Religions." Next Sunday evening his discourse will be on "A Prophecy of Jesus found in the ancient Vedas or the Hindoo ScriptureB." Engineer Key did not have things go iust as he would like in the sewer ness one day last week, and he empha6iz9d his disapproval by tbrowing up his job. A little later- when he bad cooled off, - he thought a job worth about $40 per week could not be picked up every day and soon peace was restored, and his voucher will be made out as usual. David L. Gates, of Superior, one of the pioneers of Washtenaw county, dieil last Saturday night at the age of eighty-one. His widow and four cb.ildren, Mrs.. W. W. Whitlark, Mrs George Ehodes, Norman D. Gates and Edwin Gates survive him. Mr. Gates was one of the veteran Republicans of the county, and a most highly respected citizen. Mr. John H. Shadford, bookkeper for the Street Railway Co., was just inconsidesate enough to have the date of his marriage with Miss Ethel Weatherwax set for Wednesday night, last week too late for that week's issue of TnE Register. We hope the next time he will be more considérate in such a matter. We, however, wish him and nis estimable bride any amount of joy. Mrs. Dick Johnson, of Ypsilanti, tells a strange story. Her maiden name also was Johnson. When she was 3 years old her mother eloped with a Mr. Dickinson, taking the child with her. She was always told that Dickinson was her father. A few days ago a man named Johnson came to Ypsilanti. He and Mrs. Johnson met, and by dintof recalling incidents and remembering a mark on Mra. Johnson's arm the stranger proved that he was her long-lost father. The elopement happened 45 years ago. -Ex. William Bird, a young fellow with negro blood in his veins, ran away with Dora O'Connor, the 14-year-old daughter of a farmer near Ypsilanti. They got a Iicen8e at Ann Arbor somehow or other and were married. After a honeymoon in Canada they quarreled and returned to Michigan, he settling on a farm, she going to her parents. But William , it seems, pined for his girlwife, so one day he and a party of friends took her away from her parental homstead. Papa then stepped in and had William arrested on a charge of enticing a young girl under the age o' 15 for the purpose of marriage, etc- Evening News.