The City
The Ypsilanti P. O. has a new chief elerk in Miss Ruth Carpenter. O. M. Martin attended to 146 funerals last year, noarly three a wook. Miss May Fischer gave a party new year's eve to some forty of her friends. E. E. Calkins is having his new residenoo on Hill-st. whod for elcetric lights. Roy McClure brands as false the rumor that his father wants to dispose of the Cook House. The Grand llapids Herald of Dec. 31 ïontained a page of euts and write up of the Univorsity city. The Light Tnfantry eleotion resulted in the choice of the satne directors and officers that held last year. The annual meeting of the Washtenaw Mutual Pire Ins. Co. was held in the court house yesterday. The Ladies' Aid Society of St Andrew's church will give a tea and social in Harris Hall this evening. O. M. Martin eondueted the funerals for nineteen people last year, each of ■niiom was over 80 years old. There were 323 raarriage licenses is4Bued in Washtenaw county in 1894, and yet people will talk of hard times. The Ann Arbor Light Infantry have decided to give their first annual military ball on the evening of Jan. 23. John R. Miner aeted as deputy county clerk during the adjourned session of the board of supervisors last week. How many peopla can say that they have not written 1894 since the first of Jaauarj? Now don't all speak at onee. The mail carriers will af ter this make a collection f rom the mail boxes about the city at 8 a. m. Sunday mornIng. The next Faculty concert will oocur Thuraday evening, Jan. 17, at 8 o'clock in Frieza Memorial Hall, School of Musie. An eloction of members of the board of trustees of the Unitarian church was held Monday evening in the church jHtflora. Henry Marsh is filling the position on the pólice forcé made vacant by the appointment of Win. Kldert as deputy sheriff. The Young People 's Society of 'Aoa's church celobrated their third anniversary at the church last Sundaj evening. The commander conferrjd the Hed Cross degree Tuesday night, and Golden Rule loige gives the lst degree this evening. Geothe Commandery, No. 28, United JVie ïds of Michigan, will hold the inetallation of their officers this evening in their hall. A. J. Sawyer has liled an atlidavit for a new trial in Sackett-Dancer case. Jn this ho makes the grave charge that the jury was tampored with. The second number in the Choral Union series will be given tomorrow evening in University hall. It will be a piano recital by Prof. Alberto Jonas. The time ot the evening window deHvery at the postoftice has been changed. Mail will now be delivered from 7:15to":3.) p. m. instead of from 7 to 7 :30. Mrs. Sarah Johnson, an aged colored lady, while slightly dementod last Thursday morning, wandered from her homo and was found late that evening itting by the river nearly frozen. Hor timely discovery imdonbtedly wved hr life. Not a few people measured theirlength on the s de walk while on their way lo and fi o u ofcu -eh last Suniay morning Dhose who took to the streets fared jetter Wm. E. Stocking, of this city, has een appointed by Speaker Gordon as one of the House janüors. Gordon seems to know a good Stocking when he seeB it. The new aeputy eounty clerk, Mr. b'red. J. Dansingburg, began his official duties last Monday morning. He seems built on the right order to make a popular deputy. Thou8ands of people have been having great enjoyment during the past ten days or two weeks skating upon the mili pond. The ice has been in good shape for the sport. Electricity will be the power thai will move the presses in the Ar,, office hereafter. An electric motor ha been put in place of the water motor they have uaed heretofore. Miss Marguret Burns died last Friday at lier home, 19 W. iSummit-st., of consumption, at the age of 62 years. The funeral was held Monday morning at 9 o'clock in St. Thomas' church. The time for the installation of officers of Welch Post, G. A. R. and Wonian's Kelief Corps Tas changod f rom Jan. 8 to last night. The regular meeting of the post was held on Tuesday evening. The W. C. T. U. of this city seot añ offering of English violets, carnations and hyacinths, whieh were among the baautiful floral designs at the funeral of Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop in .Tackson, Monday. Mr. Edward I. Taylor, mailing clerk at the postoffice, was last Wednesday night married to Miss Genevieve Kittrodge at the home of the bride's mother, 10 Thompson-st. Kev. J. M. Gelston omciated. Chris Weinmann aecidentally slipped and feil in front of Staebler's grocei-y store last Monday evening and threw his elbow out of joint. Dr. E. A. Clark attended to the case and the patiënt is reco vering. The membership of the Washtenaw Masonic Mutual Benefit association is growing rapidly. Forty members were taken in at the meeting last Monday night. There are now about 70 members in the association. The annual social, supper, and reunion of the Unitarian churoh will be held Monday evening, January 14. Supper at 6:00. Af ter supper there will be short addresses, toasts, brief reports of work, music, etc. A rumor comes froin Lausing tliat C. H. KiMipi' has a cinch on the appointment tor Trustee of the Eastern Michigan Insane Asylum, and that Geo. Kempf will be appointed a member of the Governor's staff. On account of the continued illness of Mrs. .T. W. Knignt, Prof. and Mrs.Pred C. Clark, w ho are in Germany, will return home on the steamer Lahn, which sails f rom Bremen Jan. 15. Mrs. Clark is a daughter of Mrs. Knight. Mrs. Caroline Bucholz died at her residence on W. Huron-st. last Thursday morning. The deceased had beensuffering from consumption for a long time. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon, theRev. Max Hein officiating. The society of the first Congregation al church held its annual meeting last. Wednesday night. J. T. Jocobs was elected a deacon for the next four years. Judge Rufus Waples was elected clerk, and Robert Campbell, treas. The Y. M. C. A. Anniversary will be held on Jan. 20th, instead of thel3th, as has been announced. This change has been mvrásitated by the inability of Rev. Mi. Davis, of Detroit, who is to deliver the annual address, to be here on the 13th. A Christmas drunk costs three days in jail at Ann Arbor. The regular, every day Ann Arbor, balancing act, gets three times as much. Justice is not blind over in the University town, by any means. But it occasionally has one eye closed.- Adrián Press. Pros. Atty. Randall and Frank Jones, who have rented the rooms in the opera house block formerly occupied by Lawrence and Butterfield hare had the rooms nicely painted and papered and carpeted throughout. They now have as eosy offices as can be found in the city. The annual meeting of the First M. E. churoh was held last Monday night in the church parlors. The result of the election was as follows: Major Stevens, trustee, in the place of A. L. Noble. Dr. W. F. Breakey, Dr. W. W. Nichols and Dr. P. B. Rose, i-eelected. From this on Mr. F. C. Brown of the Times will spend the largor part of his time in Chicago, though he will still maintain the supervisión of the Times, espocially of the editorial department'. Mr. Mingay will have the immediate management f the paper in Mr. Brown's absence. The bilis for small pox in ManchesI ter, allowcd by the board of supervisors amountedto $1,462.02- Argus. And yet when an Ann Arbor or Ypsilanti paper mentioned that there was small pox in Manchester The Enterprise ! jumped onto us with both feet. ' The next regular meeting of th Woman's Christian Temperance Union will be held in the parlor3 of McMillan Hall, this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Each of the W. C. ï. U. feels that thoy have sustained a personal loss inthedeath of their beloved State President, Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop, of Jackson. The Argus has got the idea that the increased sale of stamps at the P. O. during the past Democratie year is an iudication of better times coming. May be if the amount that has been used up in buying stamps to send out extra statements and bilis were deducted there would not be an inerease. The proposed improvements in the Cook House will be a deuided addition to S. Fourth-ave. The gap on the west side, between Huron and Washingtonsts., will be filled up with three stores, the upper parts will be used for sloeping appartments Other changes in the interior arrangement will be made. The new manager of the Star Clothing House has been making a number of changes in the interior arrangements of the store. All the shelves on the north side have been taken out and tables put in their place. This plan gives more room and makes it look more like a modern clothing house. At the meeting of the board of public works last Wedneáday night it was decided that the snow plows need not be used on the pavemonts unless the fall of snow was at least 2i inches deep. If snow should fall to the depth of only 2f inches and then drift on the walkto the depth of two feet in places - well people could go around. J. V, Sheehan does not intend that anymore burglars shall get into his book store, at least by cutting their way in with a pocket knife. He has had a eavy plank door with an iron facing put in the rear and heavy iron bars over each rear window. Jack thinks that he can now sloep easy nights, at least so far as the fear of burglars is coneerned. At the annual meeting of the stbokholders of the Ann Arbor Agrieultural Co. Tuesday forenoon, the following were elected directors : Moses Seabolt, Fred Sohmid, Evart H. Scott, Eli W. Moore, Chas. S.Denison, JuniusE. Boal, John Finnegan. Evart H. Scott was elected president, John Finnegan, secretary and treasurer, Eli W. Moore general superintendent. Miss Gussie Paul of 72 W. Huron St., died last Tuesday morning of consumption. She had been sick for nearly a year. She was a sister of Alfred Paul, j manager of the Hausfreund-Post. The funeral takes place today at 1 :30 p. m. f rom the house. Services will be held in the Bothlehem church at 2 o'clock by Rev. John lieumann. The deceased was 20 years and seven months old. Mr. J. R. Trajanowski has opened up his new tonsorial parlors and bath rooms on S. State-st. He occupies two floors, the lower being used for a barber shop and gentlemen's bath rooms and the upper for ladies hair dressing and ladies' baths. Every thing is fitted up with the latist appliances. It would be difficult to find a better appointed establishment of the kind in the state outside of Detroit. The first hotel built in Ann Arbor was the "Washtenaw Cofifee House," built in 1824. It was nothing to brag of, and in that respect it could hold its own with those that have since been erected. - Adrián Press. You must have stopped at some of our $2.00 boarding houses whon visiting the hubof Washtenaw. 'Must have been looking for one of these when you ran up against that old oak in front of Judge Kinne's. liev. J. T. Sunderlrnd has found it necessary to retire from the position of editor of The Unitarian. This ehange has been necessitated by his constantly increasing duties as pastor of the Unitarian church in Ann Arbor. Mr. Sunderland was the founder of The Unitarian, and for the past ten years has been its editor-in-chief and has made it the leading Unitarian publication in America today. The caso of Mm H. C. Walker against the city of Ann Arbor was given to the jury last Thursday afternoon. After being out four hours it rendered a ver. dict of no causo of aetion. The suit was brought to recover damages for a broken hip incurred by falling caused by a jog ia the sidewalk on Geddos avenue. The postoffice department at Washington is determine 1 that no more claims shall be sent in by mail-carriers for overtime. Carriers must not put in over eigbt hours per day even if they aro obliged to take back some of their mail undelivered. So do not expect the carrier to stop and gossip with you. If he does, soroebody near the end of nis route may have to wait over until next day for his mail. You would not want to do that yourself.
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