The City

Vet Armstrong is decorating the parlors of the M. E. churoh. F. H. Belser has sold his house o n North Main-st. to Mrs. J. Frederich. The heavy showers Sunday forenoon and Sunday night wer entirely welcome. Burt Schumaeher has ordered a freight elevator put in his hardware store. Chas, H. Jones qas decided to gvie up his draying business and will run a bussline. There wos a slight cave-in on the Main-st. lateral sewer last Thursday. Fortunately no damage was done. There was a slight blaze in Cady's bakery on State-st. early last Saturday a. m. But slight damage was done. , Rev. Dr. Cobern, having returned from his vacation, will preach as usual in the Methodist Church next Sunday morning. John Eisele gave a chattel mortgage of $1,411.73 upon his grocery stock last Friday to Lee and Cady, wholesale grocers in Detroit. September 9 to 17 are the dates for the state fair which will be held at Grand Rapids. $4000 will be given in speed premiums. The Argus is authority for the rash assertion that a bloomer club is being formed in Ann Arbor and composed of the elite of the city. Corneliui Bonner, of Ann Arbor, hied himself away to Manchester last Wednesday and took into himself as a helpmate Miss Anna Cebulskea. Elabórate preparations have been made for the social to be held this evening at the St. Thomas School. A splendid time is promised to all who attend. Rev. William Collins will begin an other camp meeting today. This time it is to be in Camphell's grove on thg motor line three miles east of the city. Remember the ice cream social to be given this eve at the home of Prof. WS. Perry on E. Washington-st. by the Ladies Auxillary of the Y. M. C. A. There will be no proaching service at the Church of Christ during the next two Sundays. Regular services will be resumed the firat Sunday in September. The ex-captains of Ann Arbor's miltary company chartered Greenwood's private car "City of Ann Arbor" last öunday and spent the day at Island Lake. The veteran oak that stood at the corner of Hiseock and Spring-sts. gaveup the ghost this summer on account of the dry weather, and was cut down Tuesday. There is to be a new raillinery store in the rooms formerly occupied by The Democrat in the Jacobs building Mrs. Martindale, of Hillsdale, will be the proprietor. The First Natioual Bank has a fine new safe manufactured by the Detroit I Safe Co. It cost $1500 spot cash, but it will hold several hundred thousands of dollars perfectly safe. The Wolverine club will have a ten mile race in September. The following have been appointed on arrangements : Ed. Staebler, A. L. Smith, F. Muehlig, Harvey Stofflet and Henry Owen. The Ladies Auxillary of the Y. M. C. A. will jive an ice crcam social this evening upon Prof. Ferry's lawn at his residence on E. Washington, st. A cordial invitation is extended to all. Tadella Pens- They All Write. Racob Ganzhorn was called up before Justice PondMonday foi1 not remembering the city ordinance and burning a pile of rubbish within the city limits last Saturday. On Tuesday evening at the home of he bride No. 89 S. Main-st. Miss Elizbeth A. Cowan was married to Mr. idward E. Taylor, of Owosbo, Mich■lev. J. M. Gelston officiated. 1 The perpetual motion man is in town and is covincing men at a rapid rate that he has, with his little machine, solved the great problem. He is giving exhibitions at the Cook House. Frederick Hyde, of this city aged about 50 years was adjudged insane by Judge Babbitt yesterday. He will be taken to Pontiac as a private patiënt, his relatives guarantee the expense. The assessment on the Hill-st. lateral sewer is $36.18 per $1.000. That on the Huron is only $15.65 on each $1.000 assessment which is considerably less than one-half the rate of the Hill-st. lateral. Mrs. J. Q. A. Sessions, of Ann Arbor, and her son, Frank M. Sessions, lit. '88, University of Michigan, of Columbus, are visiting at vhe home of Miss Marie Schmermund, lit. '85.- Greenville (O.) Advocate. For the past thirteen years Jacob Miller has been an inmate of the county house. He succumbed to oíd age last Friday, he being 76 years old. The remains were deposited in the North side cemetery. Commissionar Wedemeyer begins this a. M. at the county court house an examination of candidates for teachers' certificates of all grades. The examination wih continue until tomorrow afternoon . The daily Courier of last Thursday run in a column or more of official reports of three meetings of the Board of Public Works held respectively on July 1, July 3, and July 5. These were all fresh news items. Fred Braun, of Ann Arbor Town came near losing some fine shropshire sheep one day last week. by dogs which were driven away just in time. Mr. Braun says the dogs belonged to X. Zachman, of this city. It is rumored that Prof. M. W. Harrington, late chief of the Weather Bureau, has been tendered the presidency of the state Uuiversity of Washington at a salary of $5000. It is not known that he will accept. W. G. Dieterle has moved his stock of furniture into the new three story doublé store just completed on E. Liberty-st. His brother, Simón, has become a partner in tne business. The stock will be largely increased. The 4th Michigan cavalry reunión will take place at Ypsilanti, today. Headquarters will be at the Occidental hotel wherethe annual will be held at 2 p. m. today. A banquet will be served this eveniug at the Presbyterian church parlors. The numerous small boy aDd not a few of the older ones are thoroughly alive to the fact that there is to be a circus in town a week f rom today. Judging from some of the press notices we have seen, the show is better than the usual one of the kind. S. J. Beardsley's horse was hitched on N. Main-st. last Thursday noon. Not approciating the looks of a street car it snapped its hitch strap and skipped out. After running aboutthe streets several blocks he was caught without having done any damage. Some thirty members of the I. O. O. F. helped Chas. H. Major celébrate his birthday last Thursday night. Mr. Major was the recipiënt of an elegant watch charm from his brother Odd Fellows and his wife received an easy rocker as mementoes of the occasion, Workingmen are rapidly pushing forward the work upon the livery barn of George Craig on Hill-st. Mr. Craig says that his place will be ready for business about Sept. flrst with a complete new outfit. An ice cream social for the benefit of the M. E. church, of Webster, will be held at the residence of Mr. C. M Starks, in the town of Webster, Thursday evening Aug. 22nd. All are cor - dially invited to attend. If reports are true the Argus office will make another change in the near future. It issaid that Mr. Hammmond will resign f rom the state board of education and accept a position with a large publishing house. This would necessitate his giving up his work upon the Argus. The Michigan Electric Co. which put in the lowest bid for lighting the city writes that it is ready to meet the proper representatives of the city council and prove to them that it is entirely responsible and that the company is prepared to carry out a contract based upon its bid. Some young Americas, who are not so bright as they think they are, upset the cube monument at Baumgardner's marble yard last Saturday night. The damage was about $30.00. Officer Collins discovered who the parpe trators were and they are now doing some tall hustling to raise money enough to pay the damage and save prosecution. Taxpayers in Ann Arbor should be, and as a rule are, deeply interested, these hard times, in what the city authorities who expend the city's money, are doing and how their money is being expended. The Register, which gives the offiieial reports of the pro ceedings of the common council should therefore be taken by every resident who helps support our city goverment and who is interested sufficiently in our city affairs in order to keep posted. The Young People's Society of Bethlehem Chnrch gives their second grand Excursión to Detroit on Wednesday. Aug. 21st. The fare for rounc trip will be 90 cents, children under 12 50 cents. Tickets may be had at the following places; Geo. Wahr's, L. Rohde, East Huron ; L. Gruner, South Main: Wm. lili, East Washington: J. M. Wagner's, Meat Market, South Main : Pred Shall at J. Koch's Furn. store, Wm. Lodholz, 5th. ward, and at Mich. Central Depot on the morning of departure. The Register is arranging with a wholesale book house in the east through which it will be able, in the near future, to secure for the subcribers of this paper, any book or magazine at actual cost. The plan is an educational one, it being believed that by so doing, the readers of this paper will be led to purchase many books and subcribe for magazines which otherwise they would feel unable to procure. Only those who are actually paid.up susbcribers to The Register will be given the benefit of this special rate. This rule will be strictly adhored to. Tadella Pens- They A.11 Write. Walter C. Mack is spending the week in New York and Boston making purehases for his full business. The trade will feel more than ever interested in his buying this fall as new departments will be added to "The Store" necesstating the purchasing of entire stocks for each department. Mr. John Koek who has been spending several weeks at an eastern resort joins him in New York.