Mr. Glen V. Mills Has Began A

ful canvas of tho city for his 1897 Directory of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. Mr. G. B. Mills and Frank Cole are taking the data in this city. Kightor ten laborerson the Ann Arbor road were discharged last week when they had finished a job of grading upon which they had boen working soutli of towfl. As pay ,day does not come until the ]6tb, several of them were left penniless and appealod to Sheriff Judson for help. It is a poorly managed corporation tliat does not pay off laborers when they aro discharged. Tho report has gained general currency that the late W. VV. Phillips, wliose body had been placed in the vault at Highland cemetery, had only been in a trance and that the body had turned over in tho coffln. IIow the report started is not known, as there was no foundation whatever for the story. The deceased was dead beyond the shadow of a doubt shortly after he dropped to the floor on the day of the demise and the body was afterwards embalmed whieh latter fact would preclude any possibility of the truth of the story.- Ypsilanti Cor., Times. JMow that the Ann Arbor Street railway has Consolidated with the motor line company and the whole line is soon to bc equipped with olectricity, the transfer at the junction will be disponsed with. Thia wiü do away with the necessity of an electrio light at that point, This light is needed at the junction of Tappin and Oakland-sts., and E. Univ. Ave. For half a mile on E. Univeraity Ave., south of the campus there is no light and, except on moonlight nighte, people going along these streets have to go by ffuesa. Sixty-two ye&ra ago today Hon. Smnucl Post came int.) this world and first learned the beneficial qualities of a good soap in the Pifth ward of this city shortly after hi.3 arrival. For over 28 yeara he has been going to and from Detroit every day, excepting Sundays, to attend to his manufacturing interests, which would make his total mileage covered in the space of time equal to about 20 times around the world. He has always believed ina sound dollar - one wprth 100 cents - and has been able to retain quite a few of those that came his way.