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Day
2
Month
March
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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Daniel Carroll, of this city, has been granted a pension. Collins & Amsden have once again dissolved partnership. The Knights Templar elect officers next Tuesday evening. The T., A. A. & N. M. Ry. Co. sell 500 mile tickets tor $10. Prof. Byron Cheever has returned from his trip to Arizona. Adelbert Collins is serving thirty days in jail for being a disorderly drunk. Cashier S. W. Clarkson rejoices over a little five days old daughter. Editor John IST. Bailey, of Midland, was in the city several days this week. Rev. R. C. Wylie lectured on temperance at dopsey's hall last evening. Jackson couuty gave about 200 majority for prohibition Weduesday on a light vote. Rev. Fr. Fierle will exchange pulpits with Rev. Fr. McManus, of Battle Creek next Sunday. The Presbyterian pulpit will be occupied next Sunday by Rev. W.B. Millard, of St. Clair. Christian Mack has been re-elected director of the Michigan Fire and Marine Insurance Company. A commission as postmaster of Salem has been received by P. H. Murray of Salem, who has filed his bond. Miss Jennie and Susie Herey attended Thos. Glenan's funeral last Thursday, which took place in Brighton. Mrs. Frances A. Hobart, a former resident of this city, died at Big Rapids last Sunday, aged sixty-six years. Mr. William Comion, who has been visiting his family here for the past two weeks, returued to Iloughton yesterday. The marriage of Miss Daisy Richardson to Hany Wyeth, a University student, is announced for March 7th. Charles Sweet who has been with Dean & Co. for four years, removed Wednesday, with his family to Jackson Mr. Charles M. Root and Mrs. Maggie Kennedy, of Monmouth, 111., were married theöth inst., by Rev. H. De Clark. The Ypsilantmn office was damaged $2,000 worth by fire Monday night, ia sured. The paper will be issued this week as usual. C. J. Reul, fo:meiïy editor of the Washtenaw Journal, left for Muskegon, Tuesday to take a position on the Muskegon News. Clara Louise Kellogg, who was to sin? at the opera house Monday evening, has cancelled her date here on account of illness. Congressman Allen wants to squander the peoples money through the Blair educational bill in order not to reduce national taxation. Justice Darwin C. Griffin, of Ypsilanti was married to Miss Alma E. Barlow, of that city, Wednesday, by Rev. T. W. Maclean. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bycraft, of Albridge, England, arrived in the city Sunday and are the a;uests of Edward H . Bycraft of north Main street. The Cbamber concert this evening will be held in the law lecture room instead of in Hobart Hall, as the regular Lenten service will be held in the hall. Mr. and Mrs. George Hamilton Douglas, of Detroit, will be in the city with Prof. and Mrs. Levi Wines, over Sunday. A young man by the name of Pate is in jail charged with stealing an overcoat from the Franklin House yesterday morning. Congressman Allen made nis maiden speech in Congress, on, Wednesday,. when he spoke in eulogy of tbe late Congressman Moffatt. John Burg is now receiving new pat;erns in carpets. Mis stocK will be arge, and mauy of the designs will be eonfined to his house only. J. A. Blythman, a cigarmaker in Charles Kaiser's, was married Wednesday evening to Miss Lizzie Roser, at he home of the bride's parents. H. C. Clark expects to be home f rom Tlorida about April lst. He says his crops are looking finely and thé pros)ects for a large yield are excellent. There were 147 more votes cast in he city of Ann Arbor, Monday, than were cast for governor in 18S6. This would indícate quite a growth in popuation. S. 8. Blitz is in Alpena startmg a branch store of Blitz & Langsdorf in nat city. The Tvvo Sams will soon bécome as familiar a name in Alpena as t is here. Mrs. Nathan Keith, of Dexter, died Wednesday morning of pneumania. She was the mother of Mrs. Eugene E. Beal and sister of Geo. H. and Miss Abbie Pond, of this city. Joe T. Jacobs & Co., are making extensive improvements in the interior of tueir store with a view of increasing the available space for the display of their immense stock of goods. Wesley J. Hamilton was sentenced by Justice Pond, Tuesday, for stealing a watch from Fred. J. Barton of Salem, to spend ninety days in the Ionia house of correction. Hamilton plead guilty to the charge of larceny. C. V. Slocum, of Detroit, and the Philharmonic Club will take part in the chamber concert this evening, in the law lecture room. The music will be selections from Beethoven, Hayden, Mendelssohn and Rubenstein. Philander Chandler died yesterday at his home in Pittsfield, of heart disease. He was at one time proprietor of the old Gregory house in this city. He was 56 yeas old. The funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon. Bronsons iloward's comedy the Henrietta was being piayed in the Union Square Theater, Ñ., Y. which burned Tuesday. It had been piayed 150 consecutive nights. The eostumes of the company were destroyed in the fire. There are 78 cases on the docket for the next term ot court. Only one of these is a criminal case and this is a liquor case against Wilcox. There are fifty issues of fact to be tried by jury four default cases and 23 chancery cases. Mrs. ü. B. Nye has donated a teapot fifty years old to the county pioueer society. Mr. Jacob Volland has also donated a harness of many years ago, showing a striking diflerence in harness between that of to-day and a half century ago. Miss Annie L. Andrews, grand daughter of Mr. Benj. Brown, of State street, died Wednesday of consumption. Slie was 16 years 3 months anc 17daysold. The funeral services wil be held at half past three this af ternoon f rom the house. Mrs. Carrie Hoyt. formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, spent Friday and Saturday with Mrs. A. E. Gregg and family Mrs. Hoyt is on her way home, now at Hartfort, Conn., after a ttvo month stay In Europe and an extended visi with friends in th9 east. Charles Nichols carne near losing two fingers of his right hand in the Agri cultural works on ïhursday of las week, by catching them between a thil which he was cutting and the iron par of the machinery. The flesh was taken off above thé second joint to the bone David Henning, of Chicago, ha given $10,000 to the ladies college, a Grand Haven and Bishop George ü Gillespie has given it $500. It is the intention to raise an endowment fund ol $100,000. A Minneapolis man has donated buildings and grounds worth $50. ooo. There are 173 more voters in this city than there was a year ago, which indícate a growth of some 500 in population. The registration last Thursday shows that 428 new voters registered aud 255 ñames were taken from the registratiou lists, showing a net increase of 173. A very pleasant social was given by the members of the U. C. W. at the Ladies Library last Friday evening. Ten couple were present and the evening was one of enjoyment for all. The leap year order of arran?ements was carried out, the company being chaperoned by Prof Pettee. George H. Williams, son of Michael Williams, of the third ward, died Sunday of quick consumption aged fourteen years ten months and twenty-six days. He had just recovered from an attack of diptheria which left him in an exhausted condition. The funeral services were held on Tuesday. One of the YOters in Ann Arbor town ship who wished to vote f or prohibición pnt in a ticket "tor the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors", after ref using a ticket of his own views. A minute or two after he had voted he examined the tickets again and discovering his mistake he offered the inspector a dollar to get his ticket out of the box. Of course this wasn't done.' Mrs. Manan A. Atchinson, of Northfield, has üled a bilí in the circuit court asking for a divorce from John Atchinson to whom she was married in this city, March 5, 1879. She charges him with extreme crnelty, which she says began three months after marriage and continued until January 20th, when she left him and re'turned to her fath'er's Eugene Galhgans The cruelty charged seems to have consisted in abusive language. A. L. Noble is enlarging his store to obtain more room for his goods. A thirty foot addition will be made to the rear by remodelins; a twenty-three foot shop iiow in the iear of the building, which will be devoted to the boys' and childrens' department and connecting t to the present store room by a seveu oot addition to be devoted to the hat and cap department. This will give Mr. Noble a ninety foot store. Henry Bliton has the contract to build the adlition. There carne near being a serious disturbance at tha second ward polis on Mouday afternoon which svas happily averted by cooler counsills. A few )lows were struck, but no serious inuries were sustained. The students who carne down in forcé, were proba)ly inislead as to the true condition of affairs. Certainly there has in 'the past been no quieter voting precinct in the city than in the second ward. The great majority of the crowd were merely sight seers, looking to see what was going on. The members of Welsh Post, G. A. R., of Ann Arbor, desire to expresa to their friends their hearty thanks for ;he generous assistance so cheerfully rendered, by which they have been enabled to furnish, and render attrac:ive their new hall, south-east córner of Main and Washington-sts., third floor. That their frieuds may see for themselves what has been done, and how comfortably the Post is now located, Welen post vrill have open doors and hold au informal reseptiou at the above uamed place over the store oí Joe. T. Jacobs & Co. on Friday, Alareh 2d, from2to5and froni 7 to9p. m. At which lime every one, ladies and gentlemen will be cordially welcome. Minnie Maddein, who plays at the opera house Tuesday evening is the youngest prominent stai in America.. She is the original exponent of an ait, heretofore never portrayed on the American stage. Her originality, great talent, and deserved success has never been disputed by any critic. She is not a tragedieune, comedienne, soubrette, nor an emotional artiste,yet it is true that she stands at the head of a line of dramatic art which has few followers. She is tire legitímate Ingenue, of America, presenting as she does girlish, youthful heroines, who are neither tragic, emotional nor soubrettish particularly, but jnst as they are in ordinary every day life. The Spring blocks in Dunlap Hats are out and Saturday, Maren 3d is "Opening Dav" A. L. Noble has the goods in stock. Wherever Dunlap &Ci. establish an Atjency these hats are extremely popular.