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Kev. V. C. Huil will preach at tho Church of Christ next Sunday morning. IliS' subject will be "Transitorine.' Services begin at 10:45. John Walz, of tho State Savings Bank is away on a vacation. It is rumoi-ed that he will tako unto himsclf a wifo beforo hè returns to work. John Winter, president of the strect railway has been in the city for a few days in the interests of the road. He will petition the council for a franchise on Broadway and also for a loop line along Kingsley and State streets. The board of review are not accept" ing assessor OHearn's estimates in all cases. At least they are raising the asscssmcDts on raany pieces of real estáte. If you have a kick to make you must attend to the matter at once or it will be too late. B. J. Conrad was in Detroit ycsterday at tho Semi-Aunnal of the board of directors of the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Co. and reporte ths business for the first half of 1S()." far exeeeds that of 1894 and the death losses were $37,000 less. Mr. Andrcw Hughes is making a number of ltnprovements in thu Carey place on Detroit-st. He will, in a day so. open up a ftpgt class restaurant fíe will also koep a stock of oigars and fino candios in cohnection with his lunch counter. He is also prepared to take boarden by tho week. Miss Florence Dunston who has corapleted a course in Short hand and Typewriting at the Stenographio Instituto of this city is now kecping books and doing stenographie work tor Jacobs & Allmand. This school of lato has been unableto supply thedemand made upon it tor (irst-elass stenographrrs. It is said that the great Studebaker lirm of South Bend. Ind., is preparing to go into the manufacture of bicyclos on the most extensivo scalo. It is also said that they intend to put on the markot a whool oqual to the best and sell it for $30. In France, good, if not tho bost, wheols, sell for $15 each.- Ex. The postal authorities at Washington will not countenancc loafing or drinking among tho mail carriers. Spotters of late have eaught many guilty of this otTense in several of the large cities, and a large number of hcads have fallen into the basket as a result. There is no danger of any of our Ann Arbor carriers bcing eaught on such charges, Workmen of the Chelsoa Stove Works, in course of an excavation. iincovered a stonc tomb, twelvo f eet long, six deop and tive thick. It contaioed a skeleton, of human rosemblance. The Chelsea papers touch the subject gingerly, and thcre is a suspicion that tho skeleton is that of an editorial room boro. - Adrián Press. The Y. M. C. A. excursión to Detroit last Thursday wasasueeoss in evcry respeet. There were between 800 and 900 tickets sold, and everythlng passed off without a mishap. One eharactcristic feature of tho return was that verv few carricd bundies, l'conle have found out that the Ann Arbor merchants oan sell just as chcaply and furnish just as good goods as may bo found in Duti oit lt s a remarkable fact that Ann Arbor haa no public drtnking fountains on any of her business streets. - Ann Arbor Democrat Why. how can yon say SO? There certainly if one on Hurón Btreet, just íornist the court house. -Adrián Press. AndSmith knows,forit issaid he used U ()ueni-li his thirst at that fountain when he happened out late aighta after tho saloons were closed. Dr. A. K'. Halo, who carne to Ann Alborto act as roceiver of the Water Company has deoided to begin the practice of his profession here. 5o la fitting up elegant offices in the Hainilton Block and will soon be ready for business. The doctor had inany years oí sucoessful practice at his oíd home at Adams, N. V. He will un. doubtelly soon build up a litio practine. An Ann Arbor paper exploits Justice ÍJibson as giving a prisoner '"some fatherly advice." Tho Press is vvillinsi to farthor the statement that Justico Gibsoa is nobody's father, but a single young justice, of virtue, probity and a high forchead extending bai:k to the erown. - Adrián Press. Kvidently the Cleary Business College is badly in need of students as the Principal of the Shorthand department was in the city the othcr day soliciting people to attend that institution. Why go to Ypsilanti for instruction in Shorthand when there is a iirst-clabs school right here in Ann A.rbor. It is said that victims of the liquor habit should eat tomatoes, sprinkled with salt, eonsuming as mueh each day as possible. Let the eating of tomatoes and salt to excess be continued for several days, and tho tomato eater wil! flnd liquor offensive, undrinkable, or il drank, ungrateful to the stomach, so much so that it will be thrown up. Thla is the oheapest gold cure yct heard of, and it i.s said to be effective, -Ex. Prof. Perry has just completad a quarter of a century as superintendent of the Ann Arbor public schools. The professor is a man of nerve, brains and education. He started in lifc barefooted and without a cent in his pocket. That was on the day of his birth howevcr. He is now one of the foremost educators of the state and though he is past middle life, it is a quick winged insect that can alight on him - Adrián Press. "With breezy over-conlidence the Salvation Anny says that it will attaek Ann Arbor, Aug. lst. The defenses there aro very formidable and the devil is too sharp to be lured beyond his intrenchments. It ia, moi-eovcr, extremely diffieult to conduct a successful war airainst the emeny in his ovvn country, if he is thoroughly equipped and has the sympatliy of mhabitants. - Adrain Press. Come, now, Smith, if you will just step over to Ann Arbor and sec hovv thinjrs have been going since the Republican landslide last f all, and you quietly gathered up your knapsack and walked out of town.. you would be willing' to admit that even the salva tion army may hope for suceess.
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