Local Brevities
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Jerome Freeman has rented the post office barber shop.
Fred Koder of Pittsfield, died last Sunday, aged 37 years.
Rev. Dr. Ramsay lectured in Detroit, Wednesday evening.
The auction sales this spring are reported as bringing fair prices.
Mr. Fred Schmid leaves tor New York City to-day to purchase goods.
Mrs. Dr. Carey, nee Lindley, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Sed James.
L. F. Zells has put up a carpentet shop on his place on South Fourth street.
Candidates for the office of register of deeds are springing up like mushrooms.
A new delivery wagon makes the rounds tor Edward Duffy's grocery store.
The agent for the Langguth or Reinhart's knife sharpener is canvassing the city.
The Robinson-Hoover company have played to good houses and pleased the people greatly.
Larry Kehoe has bought out the saloon known as the Detroit house on Detroit street.
The prohibitionists elect their delegates to the prohibition state convention, April 6th.
The republican caucus of Ann Arbor township will be held at 2 o'clock a week from tomorrow.
The Chequamegons play at the Knights Templar grand reception in Jackson, next month.
The funeral of the little two year old child of W.G. McClay, which died of dropsy, was held last Saturday.
An elegant parlor set is shown in Richmond & Treadwell's window, one of the finest ever seen in the city.
The Woman's Home Missionary society of the Congregational church meet this afternoon at three o'clock.
P. B. Hinckley has gone out of the flour and feed business on Washington street and has returned to Ypsilanti.
Isaac Greenman, of the fifth ward, has received a pension through O. L. Matthews agency and $1 ,200 back pension.
Prof. Harrington delivered his lecture on Honduras last evening before the Ladies Missonary Society of the M. Church.
Ann Arbor Lodge, No. 320, I. O. O F. have changed their hall from Stimson's on Ann Street to Cropsey's on Washington Street.
A miniature railroad is shown in Goodyear's window. The locomotive draws its train around the circular track at a lively rate.
Charles Stewart is serving twelve days in jail for assault and battery upon John Schaler. His term began on Thursday of last week.
Mrs. James B. Angell read a paper on the English Literature of the Elizabethan Period at the meeting of the Tuesday club this week.
W. J. Colgrove has just completed a new hot house for O. R. L. Crozier who is going into the business of raising plants and early vegetables.
The Democratic ticket in Ann Arbor township will be nominated at a caucus called tor March 24th in the treasurer's room at the court house.
Large numbers of people are taking advantage of the low excursion rates to Florida and the South being offered by the T. A. A. & N. M. R. R.
The prohibitionists propose to be in the field early. They have called their county convention for April 6, to elect delegates to their state convention.
A considerable amount of clothing was damaged by a water pipe in J. T. Jacobs store bursting last Monday night and partially flooding the room.
Walter Dancer, of Lima, drew an order Wednesday for supervisor's services in 1881, the amount due him for attendance upon the board of supervisors.
The candidates for the democratic nomination for recorder are V. W. Watts and J . E. Bach, and it is safe to say that one of these will be the next recorder.
The total receipt from the tax sales of 1887 in this county, was $196.46 of which $69.20, the amount due as state tax, was sent to the state treasurer yesterday.
Bach & Abel have put in a new floor and kalsomined their store. The store was open again yesterday morning much to the delight of ladies in search of bargains.
Several of the Knights Templar of the city have received invitations to the annual reception and ball given by the Jackson Commandery, Monday evening, April 2.
Among the names mentioned for mayor this spring, is that of Fred Rettich, Sr., who is a thorough-going economist and would see that the laws were strictly enforced.
Charles Pierce and Joseph Oakley tried the Texas experiment of taking a good suit of clothes from Mr. Haeselschwerdt of near Chelsea, and are now in jail awaiting trial.
The township board will submit to the electors of Ann Arbor township are the spring election the question of building a new bridge across the Huron River at Geddesburg.
The Tavernier Company and Ida Van Cortland at the opera house every evening next week to low prices. They have just finished nine evenings playing in Jackson to packed houses every night.
Mrs. Alvira B. Brown, of South Division street, died last Friday of diabetes aged fifty-five years. The funeral was held Monday afternoon from the house and the remains were taken to Ypsilanti.
Andrew John McMahon died of diptheria in the Hamilton block last Sunday, aged ten years. Mrs. McMahon, his widowed mother, has now been twice bereaved within a few weeks by diptheria.
The German Workingmen's Aid society of this city is in excellent financial condition, having a capital now of $23 per member, and by their rigid conservative management are careful to see that it does not decrease.
Krueger's gallery opens the middle of next week. One would never know the rooms, part of which were formerly occupied by the Argus, on the corner of Main and Huron, so well have they been fitted up for the gallery.
To-day Wm. Hayden will be tried before Justice Frueauff on the charge of assault and battery upon Rudolph Graf. The assault grew out of some labor trouble. It is understood that the defendant will plead not guilty.
Our Dexter readers and very many outside of Dexter will be pleased to learn that our correspondent, who has been writing such readable items from that place, will continue sending us items for the rest of the month.
Senator Palmer, last Monday, presented a memorial from James B. Angell, J. D. Baldwin, Emil Baur and thirty-four other residents of this city favoring the bill for the better protection of forests in the public domain.
Austin Pate wa on last Thursday sentenced to ninety days in the house of correction at Ionia, for stealing an overcoat belonging to Augustus Erdman who works at the Franklin House. The coat was taken at four o'clock in he morning. Pate plead not guilty; waived a jury trial and was convicted.
Mrs. Chatfield, of north Fifth street died Wednesday night from the effect of a paralytic stroke. She had been a resident of the city for many years. The funeral will be held at three o'clock this afternoon from the M. E. church.
The annual meeting of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union will be held in Hobart Hall, Wednesday, March 21st, at 3 o'clock, p. m. Lucy D. S. Parker, Secretary.
Maj. Gen. Soule, of this city, in command of this department of the encampment I. O. O. F., has issued a general order appointing chievalier, Charles H. Manly, assistant adjutant general with rank of lieutenant colonel.
A crazy tea will be given at the Baptist church this evening, although there will be nothing crazy about the bill of fare. The waiters will be in crazy dress, the tables set in crazy fashion. Tea served from 6:30 to nine o'clock for twenty-five cents.
Ann Arbor Encampment, No. 7, will hold a special meeting this evening to make arrangements for the forming a uniformed encampment. There is ample material for making one of the best drilled encampments in the state among the Odd Fellows of the city.
Last Saturday, Frank Tyler, a hack driver, was arrested under the city ordinance for an assault upon a passenger at the Michigan Central depot, which was due to some misunderstanding about some money. City attorney Joslyn appeared for the city. Tyler plead guilty and paid seven dollars fine and costs.
Mrs. Pratt has sold out her candy kitchen on Huron Street, to the Allmendinger Bros. who will hereafter conducted the business in a manner to merit a good patronage. The new firm is composed of Henry Allmendinger, who has been in the employ of Mrs. Pratt, and George Allmendinger, who has been with Cropsey's grocery.
Fred Krause, the auctioneer who officiates in so many auctions in these parts always carries the same hammer. He has carried it for twenty-one years and has knocked down hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property with it. He wouldn't feel at home in the auction box without it. Hence a fine new one with a good deal of boot money wouldn't tempt him to part with it.
The library committee of the Unitarian church has just printed a supplementary catalogue of books, about 300 in number, added to the library of the church within the past five years. The additions cover the whole range of liberal, religious scholarship, comparative religion, ethics, philanthropy, etc., and are exceedingly valuable. The library now contains about 1,700 volumes, and is practically free to the public.
A Unitarian convention is to be held in Toledo next Tuesday and Wednesday, March 20th and 21st. It is expected that quite a delegation from the Unitarian society here will go down. The convention will be under the auspices of the American Unitarian Association. The speakers are to be Rev. Robert Collyer, of New York, Rev. Charles G. Ames, Philadelphia, and Revs. Grindall Reynolds, Minot J. Savage and George Batchelor, of Boston.
Ex-Sheriff, Nelson B. Nye died last Friday at his home on South Second street from paralysis. He was one of the pioneers and had resided in this city over forty years. He was born in New Hampshire, January 20th, 1815, and was seventy-three years old at the time of his death. He was elected sheriff of Washtenaw county in 1852 on the democratic ticket. For many years he kept a livery stable until the increasing infirmities of age compelled him to restire from active employment.
Arthur Case, of Manchester township, died last Monday after a brief illness. He was a pioneer of the county, a prominent democrat and a good mason. He was born in New York, Nov. 13, 1817. He located on section 11 in Manchester township in 1834. For several years she had a hardware store in Manchester and held several village and township offices. The funeral was held on Wednesday under the auspices of the Adrian Commandary Knights Templar.
Mrs. Emeline Pryer, who died of pneumonia, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Bartlett in Superior township, March 8th, 1888, was born in Orange county, New York, January 6th 1815. She came to Michigan with her parents in 1828 and settled in Salem township. She united with the M. E. church when fifteen years old. In 1834 she was married to Benj. Pryer, who died in 1872. In 1848 she removed with her husband to Ann Arbor township.
The Michigan Central railroad will sell land excursion tickets at one fare for the round trip on March 20th, April 3rd and 24th, May 8th and 22nd, June 5th and 19th, 1983, to points in the States of Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas and New Mexico, tickets limited to 30 days from date of sale. Will also on March 26th, April 9th and 23rd, 1888, sell round trip tickets at one fare to a large number of points in the South, south of the Ohio river and Bowling Green, Ky., tickets limited to 30 days from date of sale.
Ida Van Cortland and the Tavernier company play a week's stand at this place commencing next Monday. In other cities, where we have seen this troupe, they have been exceedingly popular, playing to crowded houses every night, and their audiences have included those who aimed never to attend any but the best performances. Opera parties were popular during their stands, the cheapness of the tickets not indicating a second-class company. There is more money in crowded houses and week stands at cheap prices than there is in smaller audiences, higher prices and one night stands.
The managers of the county fair association at their meeting last Saturday, decided to adjourn until April, 20th, on which date the society, as noted in another column, will decide whether they can sell the present fair grounds to Mr. Israel Hall and invest the proceeds in twenty-two acres of ground about sixty rods south and east of the present grounds. Mr. Hall offers to make the trade and give them $5,000. This would leave the society in debt only for the amount necessary to move the fences, buildings, and make a track. The officers talk as if the trade might fall through unless adjoining property holders, with property to be benefitted should make up this amount to them.