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Day
29
Month
October
Year
1896
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Public Domain
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The funeral of the late James Hatto iras held Tuesday. Wm. Hatto, a gardner. living on Forrest ave. died last Sunday. The annual meeting of the Ann Arbor Press Club is to occur in February, Hundreds of students will go home to vote this fall while a few will vote here. The date of the Y.M.C. A. Hallowe'en iocial has beenchang-ed to Friday night Oct. 30, The city has taken charge of the Williams street sewer and the work is all done. The infant son of Mrs. Benjamin Schneider, of Northfleld, died Tuesday morning. ___ Yete next Ihiesday for sound money and protection, Such o vote is a vote for proeperity. TUe Y. W. C. A. elocution class opend Monday night. Miss McMonagle is the instructor. James Shirley who suicide last week recently took out an insurance policy for $1000. Mrs. Mary Duncun, of Whitmore Lake. died last Saturday. Deceased was 74 vears old. The electric light company has let the contract for a new smoke stack. It ts to be 140 feet high. Manager Sawyer has on the books a norse show for the opera houae Saturday afternoon and eyening. The colored people's rally last Friday night was one of the most enthusiastic that has been held here this year. The court room was not one-quarter largo enough to accommodate those who desired to hear Senator Hale, of Mnine. Dexter has wearied of striking matches to find the street lights, and will purchase new lamps. - Adrián Press. Don't forget the Hollowe'en social at the Y. M. C. A. rooms tomorrow night. A cordial invitation is extended to all. The social given by the iirst section of the Epworth League was held at the residence of Mrs. P. L. Bodmer last Priday night. Rev. Newnan, of the Central Chriatian ehurch, of Detroit, will exchange pulpits withRev. Mr. Forrest next Sunday morning. J. J. Goodyear & Co., druggists, have secured the .contract to furnish the University hospital with supplies for the coming year. Wm. Goodyear and C. W. Wagner were at Saline last week investigating the prospects for starting a branch Y. M. C. A. there. Don. M. Dickinson will take as his subject Saturday night "Attack upon our Constitution as Embodied in the Chicago Platform." While the supervisors were in the salary cutting business last week the rame warden 's salary was cut f rom $2. OU to 50c per day. The Board of Supervisors refused to allow the bill of the city for sewers along the court house square. 'The amount of the bill was $900. A vote for th Repubkcan county ticket next Tuesday means a saving of lliousttnoBs qr dodars to the tax-yayers of this couivty during the coming two years. Last Saturday deputy Cunfíeld anc detective O'Brien, of Toledo, capturad tbe negro, John Kelly, who is wanted a Clinton OD a charge of rape. A vote for the Bepublkan county ticke next Tuesday means a saving of thou sands of dollars to the tax-payers of this county during the anning two years. The bondsmen of Messrs. Sharpe and Shulte have been notified by the city that the contract of the above men has not been completed as per agreement, Rev. Graham Taylor, of Chicago, wili deliver an addreis on „University Sttlements" in University Hall next Sun day night under the auspices of the S. C. A. C. Zuern, who carried on a meat market on Washington-st. collected his bilis Monday and left the city, it is believed, for good. Family trouble, it is supposed, was the cause. Miss Kittie Shattuck, of La Grange Ind., who recently completed a course in Shorthand and Typewriting at the School of Shorthand, has just obtained a good position at Goshen, Ind. Hon. Don Al. Dickinson will deliver a sound money speech in the opera ïouse Saturday night. John C. Tominson, of N. Y. City, will also be here at that time and will probably speak. The notorious Jimmie Blitheman robbed the safe of Doty & Feiner's shoe store last Friday for which he was odged in jail. Since then he hal attempted to break jail and came near succeeding. The foreman of the Inland Press Co. does not take kindly to the article in The Courier relativo to the printers' strike at the Courier office and replies n vigorous Anglo-Saxon in a recent issue of The Times. Mr. and Mrs. & D. Hlcks, af Gedte Ave., celebrated the fortieth anniversary of their wedding Tuesdy evening. Mrs. Geo. W. Weeks, of the North Side, was the only one present who was at the wedding 40 years ago. A novel entertainment will be given n the parlors of the Presbyterian church on Friday evening of this week n the form of a Chating Dish Social. lef reshments will be served f rom there by the Junior Endeavor society, The court room was packed to its utmost capacity last Saturday night by citizens anxious to hear Senator Hale, of Maine, on the political issues of the day. The address was a plain, common sense one, filled wlth just such argu ment8 as make votes. Burglars broke into the office of the Ferdon Lumber Co. last Thursday night and succeeded in findin; about 4o cents iu 'change and some postage stamps. From there they went to the office of the Kyer Milling Co. where hey dia a few cents better. Mrs. N. L. Bailey, of 32 E. Huron-st over Salyer's Grocery) invites all adios who desire to watch the returns on the night of election, to come to her parlors fromthe windows of which the reports on The Register Bulletin may be plainly seen. Eugene Emerick, of Ypsilanti, while excavatinp mnder a house, dug up a mahaarK from about three feet under the surface. He thinks it belonged to an Indian, but it is probably the same that was buried at the close of the late educational war, in the town.- Adrián Press. W. R. Fulde, the enterprising Williams' street tailpr, has secured the services of W. A. Fulmer, a first-class cutter from Philadelphta. Mr. Fulde ias gradually built up a large tailoring msiness so that he now occupies the two stores facing on Williams-st. near State-st. The Supervisors were in a salary cuting mood last week. As a result the ollowing changos were made: Clerk, $1200 to $1000; Register of Probate, 1300 to $600; Pros. Atty., $1200 to 1000; Commissioner of School, $1500 $1200; School Examiners, $4.00 to $3.00 per day. A. M. Clark and Leonard Bassett have formed a eo-partnership and will ro into the coal business. They will ïanlde the popular Pocahont as smoke ess coal. It is said to be a very economical fuel. These gentlemen will ïave an office with Jacob Schub, 23 E Washington street. 80 m u toe jou rtUxtiap Candidato for Judge of Probate, Mr Tom Kearney, was bílled to speak upon the 'political ísíus of the day at the Tromy gchoolhouse in Scio a week ago last night. A splendid audience o eight was preient. What could have been the matter with free silver in tha section of the county. The attention o( the council committee on lightlng ig respectfully called to the need of a Street light on E. Univ. ave. aear the juncture of that and Tappan-gt. A walk down E. Univ. ave. at 9 or 10 p. m. would ghow any mmbr of the conmittee th need of a ligot in that vicinity. Readers of The Register .should remember that f uil election returns, beginning at 8 p. m. on the night of election, will be displayed by a stereoptican, the reports being thrown upon a oanvass stretched io front of The Register office, 30 E. Huron-st. These reports will be free to everybody. Dr. M. H. Kujruond. of Graas Lake, died last Wednesday afternoon. Dr. Raymond wa born and raised in Sharon, this eounty, and graduated from the medical department of the U. of M. in 1859. He has practiced in Grass Lake ever since ezcept during )he war when he was in the service. In the haste of going to press last week, we forget to give proper credit to Pros. Atty. S. C. Randall, and deputy treasurer P. J. Lehman, who compiled the figures in the article in last week's Register showing how much the two years of Republican administration had saved to the county. It has been decided to make a test case of students voting in Ann Arbor. To do this complaint will be made against two students who vote next Tuesday and the matter carried to the Supreo Covt to eertein Just what the law is. It is generally believed that studente will be allowed to vote if such a test is made. Mre. A. E. VanValkenburg, who for the past three years has been "Supt. of Press Work" of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, has resigned her position on account of the pressure of previously assumed duties. Her resignation was accepted with regret, as this department is considered one of the most important, and most difflcult to fill. A general mlxup has been made in the placing of the different tickets upon the ballot for the election next Tuesday. It was at first decided to place the Union Silver ticket last on the list, but a decisión of the Supreme Court changed part of the arrangement and a new one was adopted and the ticket printed. The Silver men made such a howl at this that to make peace, the tickets were destroyed and a new lot ordered printed. Edward Lewis, the young Russian whose heart is twice the natural size, and who makes a living by exhibiting himself at medical cliuics, is in the city again tQday. He says that his heart is still growing in size but afforde him little inconvenience. He goes to Toledo today and expects to return to Ann Arbor in Maren. As was related in The Times last April, Mr. Lewis has a peculiar history. He has written a lecture entitled "The Czar and His Subjects, or the Land of Slavery," which is largely a record of his own life. This he expeots to begin deliverinsr next summer, if the condition of

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