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The City

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
October
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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The council will meet next Monday night. B. F. Sehumaeher has a new telephone. Work on Prof. A. C. MeLaughlin's new house has been begun. Wm. Arnold is now the owner of the Brehm property on W. Liberty-st. Marshall Peterson hasdetailed one of the patrolmen for afternoon service. The Bach agency has sold the Cutting house on Monroe-st. to 8. B. Sheldon. The City Engi neer says that it will be six weeks before the sewers will be completed. The High School debating societies are both in running order thus soon in the season. Williain Uehfuss, county treasurer, has decid ed to remove f rom Manchester to this city. Mr, and Mrs. Theodore Wedemeyer, of Lima.are the happy parents of a ten pound boy. There is a bright little girl at the home of B. C'. Thayer, a printer at the ('mirior office. Some shivering tramp stole an $18.00 overcoat from C. H. St Clair last Snnday afternoon. Airs. H. Pomeroy, who has removed here from Adrain has rented the Dewey house on Forest ave. The directora of the Ann ArboJ Saving"s Bank declared a 5 per cent dividend Monday night. George Hazelwood has rented the Sager block on E. Liberty street and will use itas a billiard hall. The much needed cross walks at the north-east corner of .the -court house square are beimr put down. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Smith, of Webster,lost their threemonthold son from cholera infantum last Sunday. The Y. W. C. A. will, from now on, keep its rooms open Thursday afternoonsof eaoh week from 2 until 4. The Street Car Company had twelve cars In service during the fair last week and gave very acceptable service. The regular monthly meeting oí the Charitable Union will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at Harris Hall. City Clerk, Glen V. Mills, has just received for his directory library, a copy of the new Chicago city directory. O. M. Martin bas begun work upon his new building on S. Fourth ave. It will be a two story brick 110 f eet deop. The number of elegant new store fronts whieh have been put in on Main-, st. this sumraei1 i larger than ever be fore. Deputy sheriff Ball recovered the horso and buggy stolen from H. Phelps barn last Friday, at Lansing on Tuesday. The Michigan Electric Company has wgneJ the lighting contract for lichting the city for five years begining Jan 1 '96. Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Rose Demmon to Mr. D. B. NMnde, of Port Wayne, I ndiana. The Sunday school of the Presbvterian church had a nutting party in Markham's grove in the second vvurd Just Saturday. The Ann Arbor High School iootball team defeaterl Howell last Saturday. The score stood ltj to 0 in favor of the A. A. H. S. team. C EORU E K. KKLLY SELLS VVOOD. The meeting of the Anti-Tramp so ciety was not well attended last Friday night so the meeting was adjournd un til tomorrow night. Mr. and Mrs. Christian Baur, o Bridge water, lost a five months' old ohild last Saturday. The funeral was held Monday morning. -Mr. Edward Waples, local editor o The Democrat, has disposed of his church publicationB in Detroit to J. S St John and E. Hadley. Everybody was pleased with the music fnrnished by the News boys Band of Detroit at the fair. The boys were a very orderly set of fellows. Albert J. Valentine, of Webster, diéd at his home last Monday at the age oí 35 years. Funeral services were held at the home yesterday afternoon. S. R. Billings, State Railroad Commissioner, will be here tomorrow to tospeet the Fuller street crossing on the Michigan Central railroad just east of the depot. Marshal Peterson has given warning to a number of street walkers to leave town or have an application of the law made to them. Tliey have all ttown s it is reported. The hardware men are the people who are rushed just at present. Just about every householder in the city wants a stove put up or a'furnance fixeil or both, right way! County Clerk, Dansingburg issued 81 marriage. licenses during July, August and September. Hard times has not affected this line of buisness to any appreciable extent. Herman ArmbruBter won the Detroit Free Press prize at Detroit Monday foimaking the greutest number of red nags at me shooting tourney of the Detroit Schuetzenbund. Not a few of our business men are of the opinión that the brictc crossings which aro being put in aeross Ann-st and North Pourth ave. will prove the best cross walks in the city. Hai-vey Stofflet returnedlrom Hasting last Friday, where he won a first secondand third prize. The prizes were a gold watch, $50; opera glasses, Í17.o0: and a gold locket and chain 15. There are a number of new students in tb e city who are not a ware that there is an ordinance against riding bicycles on the sidewalk3. Some of them may have a nnetopayiftheydonot post up. The supreme court handed down its decisión last Friday on the Merchant H. Goodrich will. The will is sustained and tha decisión of the lower court sustained with slight modiiications as to oosts. Mr. E . NTiilbie leaveBio7 Europe on the mnth to take some special work in Oermany in muslo He will be gone oniy threo raonths instead of three years as previously announcod bv mistake. - _____ A week ago Sunday the very earth ! and the air around it seemed to be one l""laCe: Last Sunday peo,,,,:: ere shivennsr in their „lster8 and buudingbigfiresintheirfurnacesat The lectures given at the Bible In stitute to begin „ext Sunday nighi shouk and doubtless will be wel! aï tended. Sea full particulars in anotht column ln regard to the, ectures to bé ÜTduohte, of Mr and Mrt. Daniel Seyler of T ü djed 1 Sunday afternoon from iñnÜ ofthebowes. Funeral services were Surch " afternOona" Andrews eorge R. Kelly sella WoQd. Mr. Franklin Mayar, of Ann Arbor Tovvn, and Mrs. Sophia Hepler, of this city, were niarried last Wednesday night at the home of the bride on S. University ave. Rev. W. L. Tedrow officiated. Mr. B. A. Finney, of the University Library, read a paper on "Local Bibliographies and the Iudexing of Local Newspapers" at the meeting of the State Library Association held in Kalamazoo last week. Word was received last week of the very sudden death. at Muskegon, of Miss Alice Moe, sister of the late Orville Moe. Miss Moe 's many friends in this city will be pained to learn of her sudden death. The regular social of the Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. church will be held in the parlors of the ohurch this evening. Tea at 6.30. It will be the annual meeting of the society and a large attendance is desired. Dr. Kapp, of Manchester, has sued a farmer living near that village for services in attending seven cases of small pox in the family. He put in a bilí of 83.00 per visit and the farmer thfnks the charge unreasonable. A boy was arrested Sunday evening at the M. E. church for smoking in the halls of the church during the services. He was given an interview by Marshall Peterson Monday, and upon his promise to do better was let go. At the Church of Christ next Sunday morning Prof. G. P. Coler will preach. Subject: A Plea for Bible Study. There will be no evening service on account of the opening session of the Bible Institute at Newberry Hall. All persons bilis against the Washtenaw County Agricultural and Horticultural Society are requested to )resent them at once to the secretary, F. E. Mills. The committee will meet this afternoon and audit the same. A Salem man by the name of Fadden attempted to ride a treacherous horse around the track at the fair grounds ast Friday. The horse bolted and atempted to .ump the fence. The rider vas thrown off and his shoulder disloated. Washtenaw county's share of the tate taxes this year is $81,940.77. This is nearly doublé what it was last year, wnen ït was $46,;ö9.j:S. It looks very much as if there had baen a mistake, oras if somebody had it in for this county. Geo. Moorman, one of the oldest pioneers in this county died last Sunday night at the home of nis son-in-law, Ditmus Harris, two miles east of Ypsilanti. Mr. Moorman carne to Michigan in 1830 and was highly respected by all who knew Mm. , There were nearly 100 young men present last Monday night at the Y. M. C. A. rooms. After an enjoyable social time, the various instructors who will give cours3s in the Y. M. C. A. outlined the work which each expects to do. The prospects for a large attendance are very good. Litjle Hhea, the three year old daughter of Glen V. Mills, met with a very painful accident yesterday morning. She feil frotn a rocking chair hile she was holding a button hook in ïer mouth forcing the hook througb into the nasal passage just over the palate. Dr. E. A. Clark removed the hook. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Blies, of 35 S. Fifth ave., celebrated their tiOtli wedding anniversary on Tuesday of Jast week. A large number of guests were present This wel] preserved old couple have spont their entire married life here in Ann Arbor. Their numous friends wish them many returns of their wedding day. An attorney from Detroit was in the city last week, as the representative of one of ourswell f rat societies, trying to effect a settlement with a number of business men of the debts made last year by the fraternity. The attorney was ottering 50 cents on the dollar. Here is a case where the charter of the fraternity should be taken from it instanter and their property, if they have any, be taken to pay their debts.

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Ann Arbor Register