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1
Month
August
Year
1895
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Public Domain
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Additionai Local on Page Four. The State Teachers' Institute began Monday. _ Sheriff Judson was at Milan on official business Monday. The farmers' picnic at Whitmore on the 24th will draw a big orowd. Dieterle Brothers expect to occupy their large new store in a day or so. Goodyear and St James are having a great dissolution sale this month. Samuel Krause has sold his place on W. Third-st. Joseph Polhemus was the purchaser. A. Lentz, a tailor on E. Washington is improving his place by putting in a new front. The Y.M.C. A. will net about $130 out of lts excursión to Detroit last Thu rsd ay . A number of Ann Arbor cyclists attended the races at Tecumseh last Thursday. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mr?. Henry Bliton, of 85 Hill-st. Tuesday morning. The board of public works did a wise thing in raising the pay of teamsters to $3.25 per day. Tramps held up Mr. Allmendinger, of the North Side, one day last week but did not get anything. Miss Rena Stofflet won first prize in the ladies' handicap bicycle race at Jackson last Wednesday. Supt. E. L. Briggs of the Coldwater schools has charge of the teacher's institute in session this week. Mr. and Mrs. Laverne Bassett, of Detroit, have a little baby boy at their home. He arrived last Friday a. m. A. J. Mummery, the druggist, is building a new residence on Observatory-st. A. J. Kitson has the contract. Elmer Stofflet secured fifth place and Harvey Stofflet sixth place at the bicycle races at Tecumseh last Thursday. The Beethoven quartette has a new member, August Kooh, in place of Mr. St. James who has given up his position. Samuel Ancliff, of Brooklyn. Mich.. has decided to remove with his family to Ann Arbor and reside here permanently. .Lightning struck the Hoffstetter's house on W. Liberty-st. last Saturday morning. Only the chimney was in" ju red. The monthly meeting of the Woman's Auxüiary will be held on Monday afternoon Aug. 5th in the Y. M, C. A. rooms. James Goodhew has changed the location of his hothouses. He is now at the corner of Belser and Observatory etreeta. The proceedings had at a special meeting of the council held Tuestlay night will be found in another column. State Supt. Pattengill, of Lansinj. will deliver an address Friday before the State Teachers Institute being held here. The A. A. L. I. attend church ser vices on Aug. 4 in a body at the English Lutheran church and leave for camp on the sixth. The enrollment at the state teacher! institute started out Monday with a large attendance, there being over onebundred on hand. The real estáte men are conetantly reporting the arrival of new families who come here to take up a permanent residence. On the other hand we seldom licai1 oí a family leaving the city. The enrollment at the Stat e Teachsrs Institute has rnachel 135. This is the largest number ever enrolled in'Washtenaw eounty. Ex. Congressman Gorman employs eighteen men in his eigar factory at Chelsea. Reporta say that he is doing a thriving business. The Eberbach Hardware Co. have the contract for putting in the heating apparatus in Robert Campbell'a new residence on S. Division-st. Jas. Kobison had orders enough for horses at Island Lake to warrant him in shipping two carloads there for use dnring the encampmeDt. The American Express Co. lost one of its delivery horses Sunday. This makes two that th i company has lost here vvithin a few months. There were about 350 in attendance at the picnic given by the Young People's Society of Zion Lutheran church at Whitmore last Thursday. The two men who were caught in the sewer cave-in last week have about recovered from their injuries. Art. Sweet sustained two fractured ribs. The building committee of the Ann Arbor Organ Co., consists of Messrs. G. Luick, G. Stark, L.H. Clement, Fred Schmid and D. F. Allmendinger. León M. Jones, who has been in the employ of the Ann Arbor Organ Co. for the past year has gone west where he will go into business for himself. An Ypsilanti lady is authority for the statement that ground clovcs will annihilate carpet bugs. Thousands of housekeepers wiil be thankful if this is true. Miss Mary Sullivan was among the lucky ones in the recent revisión of salarios in the postal service. Her pay was increased from 8600 to $800 per year. Richard Zeebs, an Ypsilantian, has been brought her from Columbus, O. He is suspected as being the man who burglarized the Pittsfield station house on May 22. C. J. Conklin, of Sylvan, lost a barn and contents by fire eaused by lightning last Saturday. The Washtenaw Mutual had a policy on the barn and contents for f 600. C. H. Wilson's sawmill at Milan caught fire last Saturday morning frcm a stroke of lightning. The mili and contents were burned. Loss about $3.000. Xo insurance. Sinoe last Ml n lay the street car company has been obliged to transfer passengeri between Washington and Huron streets on Main on account of the sswer work. Frank Kópf attempted forcibly to collect 75 cents from James D. Smalley last Saturday. He paid $3.00 co.sts in Justice Gibson's court Monday morning for his sport. It is reported that the f ees paid by the students attending the Summer School amounts to over $4.000. A neat little "extra" for the professor who give the courses. John Ritz, of the north side accidentally shot himself last Friday with a target rifle. The ball stuck him over his right ear and glaneed off. Only a slight wound resaltad. The fifteen year oíd son of Mrs. Sims was up bef ore justice Pond last Saturday morning for his mother. He was sentenced to the Lansing school for boys for two years. Nothing has recently been heard in favor of a zoological garden as an adjunct to the Michigan University. The zealots who were urging the thing on now attend the meetings of the board of Public Works, of Ann Arbor,and are satisfied.- Adrián Press. Walter O'Biien, residing in Ann Arbor Town. died last Wednesday at the advanced age of 84 years and four months. Funeral was held in St. Thomas' chureh last Saturday at 10 a. m. McOmber and Carr will launch a new publication upon the public this week. It is to be called the "Real Estáte and Insurance Bulletin." 2000 copies wül be printed each issue. Subscription free. By an emphatic vote of citizens of Jonesville whomet andexpressed themselves concerning $20,000 water works. it was decided to give the $20,000to the doctors and build no water works. - Adrián Press. The hearing of Radkeand Huddy before the Justice of the Peace at Whitmore Lake last Paturday resulted in the former flned $20 and the latter $15. Each one also paid costs to the amount of $23.74. Mre. T. B. Hyde, a former resident of this city, died in Chicago last Friday at the advanced age of 86 years. The remains arrived here from Chicago on Monday and were laid beside her husband who died some thirty years ago. S. A. Moran, of The Register, is in Detroit, today, supposedly to attend the races. - Courier. Right you are. We were down on a race for some business the Courier was after. We carne back with the business. Mr. Monroe Cooper, of Grass Lake, Mich., who recently completed a course in Shorthand and Typhwriting at the Stenographic Institute of this city, is now permanently employed as stenographer by Barnard, Smith & Co., Jackson, Mich. The city has been testing the roadroller recently purchased. In the test the west side of Main-st. for two blocks north of Hurón, has been surfaced with crushed stone. A section of geniune macadam will also be put in before the test is completed. The rain last Saturday morning was a success in every sense of the word. It begun soon after midnight Friday night and came down in an almost constant pour until late Saturday morning. It has been many months since we have had such a thoroughly soaking rain. The street cars were more than crowded last Sunday evening. Hundreds of people who wished to ride were unable to do so. When the two additional open cars are received the company will find thatthey will not be sufficient to accommodate the people. The Y. M. C. A. team carne out vlotorious last Saturday in the contest with the printers' nine from the Reiüstek office. The score stood 5 to 20. As a number of the victorious nine spend a laro-e portion of their time practicing a different result could not be expected. Some green burglar, evidently local talent, gained an entrance to Mann Bros.' drug store lasf Wednesday night and broke open the cash register and secured about $4.00. The same night burglars atterapted to break into the store of Lindenschmid and Apfel but did not succeed. The Agrieultral College Experiment Station has just issued in pamplet forrn, an interesting paper on "Critnson Clover and other Topics" by A. A. Crozier, formerly of Ann Arbor, now a professor in that institution. The directors of the Electric Liffht company were in the city yesterday holding a meeting. They were evidently preparing bids to subrait for the city's lighting 'for the next five years. The bids must be in by noon today. Mr Franklin, the agent of the Pitts company which built the road roller purchased by the city, gave the members of the council, the mayor, the pressident of the council and several newspaper men a dinner at the Cook House yesterday. Oeditors closed up the restaurant of John Carmellaon E. Huron-st. Monday. The business is in the hands of the otïicers. A hearing will be had tomorrow as to whether a certain chattel mortgage will told or whether those who have levied on tlfe stock have the best claim. The Studebaker 'wagon and carriage m xkers, one of the largest firms of the kind in the world, will begin the manufacture of bicycles this winter. It is said that they ■ will turn out a wheel as good as any on the market and retail it at $35.00, This means that at lest five wheels will be used where one is now told. The 'sixth annual convention of the Epworth League for this district will be held in Chelsea Aug. 13 'and 14. Among those who will read papers are the íollowing f rom Ann Arbor: Miss Sara Whedon on "The optimistic League worker," Miss Hattie Crippen on "Our responsibilitiestoour juniors," J. H. VanTassel on "The brains of the League, what are they doing?"

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