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Local Brevities

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
January
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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Cougressman Allen called on JPresient Cleveland, Monday. The great topic of discussion for the eek has been local option. Y ou can buy a 1,000 mile ticket on the Michigan Central now for $20. Company A. gives their annual Masquerade party, February 22nd. The fine merschaum pipe, Yale mokes, is a present trom a New York firm . . W. W. Douglas is still selling his stock at lower prices than ever quoted 'in Ann Arbor. The M. E. Sunday-school had an attendanceof 461 last Sunday. lt starts Off the year well. The city band w 11 probably have new instrumenta when the gentle spritigtirae cotneth TneKnighis of Pythias hold an inBtallation, of officers a week from next Wednesday night. A fine line of all suits of every kind an be found at VV. W. Douglas,and at marvelously low prices. The sale of the Two Sams has been exceedingly successful. They have gold a laige amount of goods. Mrs. Phoebe C, mother of Harvey G. Weed, of Ann Arbor, was granted a United States pension, Tuesday. Congressman Alian h.is announced hiB intentiou of not introducing many bilis or making many speeches in Congress. . The city seems to have g tten along jast as well with one patrolman and a marshal as in the old days, when lt had a numbar. The Mem.ms of thd Devil will be ïe'ated at the e itertaiument at the opera house, Saturday Evening, February 4th. On our second page .1 . T. Jacobs & Uo. teil our readers of some aslonishing sales. They have cut their prices gurprisingly.low. Everybody knows of Thatcher, l'rimrose & Wests' ministréis, and everybody will want to hear tliem next "Weduesday evenuig. The Grand Army meets for inspection thia evening. _ The Beekhoven church choir enjoyed i pleasant sleigh ride last Friday evenng. Nellie, little daughter of Thomas Kay died Monday aged three mouths and Qve dtiys. Prof. Roger's lectureSon Christianity tt the M. E. Church, next Hunday,after the morning service. John Danner, of Nortlilield, lost his pocket book laat Friday night, on ti is way home from the city. It coutained about $15. The Yoang l'eople's Missionary Socioty of the Methodist Church give a ■social at W. W. Whedon', Saturday Qight. So much interest was Uken in the ocal option case here thi3 week that the Chicago papera telegraphed for Specials. Judge Bailinger, of Galveston, Texas, whose son, T. J..Ballinger, was in the Jniveraity last year, died on Thursday Oi: last week. John Connelly was sent to the county ail Monday by Justice Pond for thirty daya. He willbe out in time to vote on local option. One hundred and thirty-two citizens of this Congressional district have peitioned Congress to have prohibition n the District of Columbia. Mra. Levi Winea anu Miss Jennie Wines were thrown from a sled while coa?ting down the State street hill, Fnday, and eonaiderably injured. The friends of H. Atkinson are anxiously watshing the list of (marriage censes in Eaton county. He went up there a week ago and haa not retuined y et. The Southern Michigan Short-Uorn Breeders Association met! in Jackson yesterday. VV. E. Boyden, of Delhi Mills was the president of the association. Itwaa Oliver Cushman, of Sylvan, whose wife is seekiug a divorce and not Elmer Cushman as soroe may have been led to believe by a typographical error. A. R. Schmidt wishes us to announce that there is a vast difference between Schmidt and Smith, so that his was not the name signed to the local option petition. Dr. II. C. Adama will deliver an address entitledr'Our National Surplus," before the Pohtical Science Association in room 24, ou fnday, January 27th, at P. M. The incorporators of the AnnArbor Mutual Fire ■Insurance Company will meet at the oflice of 3ohn J. Robison, 10 East Hurón street, to-night at 7:30, to elect offlcers. The binding of the books for the school library, for the next two years, has beenawaiM'il tMr, F. J. Schleede, who has been doing the work for the past tour years. A Washington dispatch announces that Mrs. E. P. Alien was expected in Washington tliis week, but the Congressman and his wife will not keep house this winter. James Browms is languishing in jail. His offense was being drunk on the street and his sentence was received at the hands of Justice Frueauft, Friday. It was thirty days. The funeral of -Mis. Eli Mauly was held Sunday afternoon, Rev. Dr. Ryder preaching the funeral sermón. The Odd Fellows and. Grand Anuy attended tbt funeral ir. a body. Rev. John L. Jackson, D. I)., o Bloomington, 111., will address the Young People's Society, of the Baptis church next Sunday evening, Januan 29. He will also preach in the morn irg. The announcement in one of the papers, of course not the Akgus, tha the hearing .of the local option cas was to be last Monday, brought a num ber in from the country, some driving soroe miles. The frieirJs of Mis. Elizabeth Hnd son, of the Cook House, in this city may now congratúlate her upon he marriage,Wednesday evening,to Edgar D. Fletcher, of Milwauk. Tlie happy coupie left on the night train tobe abent a week. The signatures to the local option petition in Livingston county footed up 2.300, witii all the petitions not in. As there were only 2,017 votes against the prohibition amendment last f all, it looks as if our neighbor Livingston would carry prohibition without much trouble. Rev. J. T. Sunderland will exchange pulpits next Sunday „ with Kev. Dr. Rexford, of Deiroit. Dr. Rexford's subject in the evening will be that which Mr. Sunderland has advertised in his series of discourses on Religions l'roblems, viz. "In what sense is Jesus aSaviour, Lieutenant Salsbury, the democratie candidato for congress last fall, is credited with securing the scalp ol John M. Baker, superintendent of the ninth división of the railway mail service, who is filling a $2,500. position, riiis leaves a good opening for a Michigan man. Mr. tí.'H. Wild, the nevr merchaiit tailor, wlio ouens up next VVednesday at No 2 Washington Street, has an advertisement in this issue, announcing lie fact. ile learned the eutters trade iü New York City and, before setting up íor himsflf, worked at that part ol (.he business tor a long time. Vorige Woche am Donnerstag ist der "Argus"54 Jahre alt geworden. Ei ist eine der altesteu englischen Zeitungen m Michigan. Die jetzigen Eiifenthuiner, Beakes & Morton, sind junge Manner, unter denen das Blatt eiuen gioszen Aufschwung genominen. Wir wtinschen ferueren Erfulg. - D.e Washtenaw Post. The Detroit Free Press saysof MrF. Noble, who gives reading ext wttk fnr the benefit of the Lsdiew' Libran , that her eloculion is of theflret clas, fluished in the smallest detail. The Boston Post savs her reudmgs weextremeiy natural. The MinneapoUs Tiibiine aays they were a rare treat uul she makes her audience laugh or weep at ileasure. The silver wedding, last Fnday, of'v Mr. and Mrs. James Walsh, of Northtield, drew togHther a large nutnber of neighborhood friends. Amonsr others in attendance werp Mrs. O'Brien and son, Michal, of Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. J. O'Conner, and Mr. M. Howe, of Cheisea There were nutnerous and costly presents. It was also the birthday of the two youngest sona. Mrs. Fred Krause will sell at auction Feb. 8 commencing at 9 a. m. thise horses, four colts, tliree steers, seven ows, besides heifers and yearlings, iiester white hogs, binder, buggv, wagns fauning mili, sleighs, cultivators &e. BnsidfsthHse household furniture. 50 turkeys and chickeus, hay, oats, om, &c, will be sold. The sale ocurs on what is known as the Heden arm on the gravel road four and a half miles from-Ann Arbor. Monthly meeting of Washtenaw Pomoloirical society, February 4th, at 2 p. m. in basement of the court house. Topics: "Some Climatic Resul ts of Removing Forests" by Prof. M. W. Harington. Fiuitexchangeopenedby Pres. 3aldwin. Forestry is receiving general ttention and all the friends of our beautiful state axe invited to partlcpate in th is most important and most neglected subject. To fruit growers, he topic "Fruit Exchange," will be an ssential quesiion. Exhibit of fruitt green, preserved and dried, also flowers.

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