The Ann Arbor Register. VOL. XXV. NO. 32 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7.1899. WHOLE NO. ONLY 66 WON OUT. CASH INSTEAD OF BEER. ON ROLL OF HONOR. j TILL TAPPED IH OFFICE OF ANN ARBOR FORTY-OHE WOULD-BE TEACHERS FAIL TO ;' flOW IS THE TIME TO BUY BREWIHG CO. PROFESSOR SLAUSON'S REPORT SHOWS A FASS. 9 LONG LIST. Job Done While Bight Watchman was in thi Senseless Questions Largely Responsible for Cellar- Burglars Got $47.50 It was a Bold so Many Failures-Many Questions Asked but Successful Job. Two Have Hot Been Absent or Tardy for Thinning Out WALL PAPER 'i Would Puzzle a Philosopher. A rather mysterious burglary was Three Years-Twenty-four Have a Record ..'.I 'J of Two Years-A Lone List on the One Year The last teacher's examination is committed at the Ann Arbor Brewing ..... ... AT ... I v said to have been the most ditlicult Co. last Saturday night. It was mys Roll. ever given in this county. Out of theterious in the matter of just how the From the report of Supt. Slauson is Their Wash- (•; one hundred and seven applicants only bur/rlars secured an entrance into the gathered the fact that the following W. W, WETMORE'S, have been perfect in attendance at the 61 were able to pass. This was, it is building. The company employs a 8 believed, largely due to the many puz-night watchman and it Is his duty to chools: 106 S. Main Street, zling, and in frequent cases, senseless clean up about the place during the FOR THREE YEARS. Dress Goods. questions asked. night. The burglars evidently watched Elisha Jones school—Hazel Dell. Here is the list of the successful him from the outside and, when he High school—Louise Emily Georg. ... Low aspirants: went into the basement to clean up, Renfew JGinghams, Toilo du SECOND GRADE CERTIFICATES. the thieves immediately entered the FOR TWO YEARS. Nord Ginghams, Fancy Madras, Nellie Brokaw, Salem; Mattie Car- office and broke into the cash drawer, W. S. Perry school—Ralph Doty, Fancy Duclc worth 12* to 15c all Decorating of all kinds done on the rick, Milan; Mable L. Cross, Ypsilanti; from which they secured $47.50 and Francis Hamilton, Andrew Madsen. to close ,, Alice M. Devine, Dexter; Lillian Glr- made their escape. Everything was Third ward school—Gertrude Beck, Most .Reasonable Terms. ard, Chelsea; Maud Goodell, Manches- done so quietly that the night watch- Davis Fields, Nellie Fields, Reggie ter; Lillian Ilillman, Ann Arbor; Robt. man did not hear what was going on Fields, Jean Snyder, Hazel Warren, A. Krafts, Manchester; Dora Leddy, above him. The job was probably Henriette Wurster. Ypsilanti; Anna M. Leland, Emery; E. done by local talent. Elisha Jones school—Ellery Schmidt, School Books^ D. Mizner, Dexter; Clara McGuiness, atherine Steeb. White Dress Goods Dextar; Louise M. Payne, Manchester; Fifth ward school—Ernest Kern. Edith A. Quackenbush, Dixboro; Wirt A FAKE HOLD-UP. Tappan school—Thomas Bogle, 1000 yards Fancy White Dress NEW AND SECOND-HAND I. Savery, Salem; Belvia M. Waters, Mabel Hall, Gertrude Marsh, Howard Goods, suitable for Waists, Ap- ..*.; Manchester. FIVE YOUHG MEH FRETEHD TO HOLD UP Martin, Edward Taylor. rons and Children's Dresses, AT THE LOWEST PRICES. EDWARD SMITH. wjr th c—all at THIRD GRADE CERTIFICATES. Eighth grade—Leola Fletcher, Lillie Hogan, Emma L. Martin. Fannie Furnett, Salem; Nettie Crit- They Try the Scheme Last Thursday Bight— High school—Elma Bailey, George tenden, Rawsonville; Elvira Clark, 6c. Smith is Had and May Make the Fellows W. Keedle, Clara Amelia Martin. Chelsea; Mary Fitzsimons, Dexter; Trouble. Maud Goodrich, Dexter; Frederica FOR ONE YEAR. MARTIN SCHAZZER Klingman, Ann Arbor; Mabel Kyte, Last Thursday night as Edward W. S. Perry school—Arthur Brooks, 20 and 25c Dimities Saline; Blanche Mills, Macon; Eliza- Smith and two young ladies were driv- Marry Cole, Owen Fletcher, Oscar beth Minard, Rawsonville; Edna E. ng home north of the city they were oetz, Albert Herman, Dana Hiscock, All selected styles: a big lot surprised by five young men springing Flora Mason, Oswald Mayer, Kate Reade, Chelsea; Jessie Ryder, Salem; 3 let go at Hattie Tucker, Saline; Mary Wend- rom the readside at the top of Frey's helps, Sara Phelps, Waldo Schleede, hausen, Dexter; Bertha Wilkinson, Hill. Two of the men grabbed the Julius Schoettle, May Seight, Charles 24 Sheets of Good Paper Emery; Lettie Wytie, Anderson; Hat-reins and the other pretended to de- Wahr, Freddie Wahr. 8c. tie Walker, Saline; Leila Beardsley, mand Smith to hold up his hands. Thea Third ward school—Walter Dieterle, 24 Square Envelopes to Ypsilanti; Lillio Bross, Dexter; Cora atter, however, was driving a spirited Harold Fields, Nellie Hentz, Oscar Deavereaux, Pinckney; Mary Gorman, horse which he struck with the whip Priescorn, Myrtie Eoblnson, Eugene Chelsea; Roy Hoover, Ypsilanti; Paul- causing it to break away from the men Schlanderer, Luella Schmid, Hannah 12 l-2c Percales. Match put up in a nice who had hold of it and start off at a Schumacher, Jacob Wolpert. ine Klaeger, Ann Arbor; Gertrude Mil- Yard wide, good styles at ler, Saline; Elizabeth McGuiness, Dex- rapid rate, leaving the men behind. Elisha Jones school—Roland Mast, ter; Simon Meyer, Manchester; Tena The men fired several shots but no one Jerold Meyer, George Moe, Lavina box tor io Cents a Box. L. Packrrd, Salem; Mary Sheffold, Ann was hit. Molter, Bernice Rooney, Howard Sny- 6c. Arbor; Lulu M. Sutton, Ann Arbor; Later it turned out that the mender, Olive Stabler, Emma Steeb, Paul Aileen Seers, Saline; Clara K. Sturm, were in fun and were on their way to Suekey, Amanda Walter. Saline; Olney S. Butler, Milan; Matil- serenade a nowly married couple. Fifth Ward school—Orville Dreyer, 350 Untrained Hats. MARTIN SCHALLER, 216 S. flain St. Smith dftt not appreciate the joke and da A. Blaess, Saline; Elizabeth Done- Louise Greiner. Worth up to $1.00, selling at gan, Ann Arbor; Frances FullingtoD, makes all sorts of dire threats. It cer- Tappan school—Ray Anderson, Wai- Ypsilanti; Fannie Frils, Saline; Kath- tainly was a cruel kind of a joke and ,er Emmons, Raymond Herbst,-Linda arine R. George, Ann Arbor; Emelie might have had serious results. Kinyon, Carl Rogers, Julius Sorg, IQC. Wanted For Milling, Graf, Ann Arbor; Matilda G. Hutzel, lara Trueblood, Edith Taylor, Rose Ann Arbor; Nina M. Howlett, Ann Ar- rVilliams. >••••€! bor; Bertha Kuhl, Manchester; Sophie COLLINS WAS ON HAND. Eighth Grade—Albert Hall, Venea Wheat, Rye, Buckwheat. Klaeger, Ann Arbor; Grace M.Luxton, larmon, Louise Kapp, Nellie Looker, Milan; Zada Quackenbush, Dixboro; Walter F. Scoett. OLD DEXTER LANDMARK GONE. REVEHTED A HOLD-UP OS ASHLEY STREET Ellen A. Ryan, Dexter; Maud E. Rush- High School—KatherineBoeardman, FOR OUR SHIPPING DEPARTMENT LAST THURSDAY WIGHT. ton, Manchester; Lydia Stollateimer, •ialph Coempton, Richard Dobbs, Effie Old Barn Built in 1828 Now Being Demolished Ann Arbor; Emma Schaible, Manches- Godfrey, Harry Emmonds Hammeoad, at Dexter—Timbers Found in Good Condition Barley, Beans, ter; Ella Throop, Milan; EvaM. Wood, C. A. Rhodes of Saline the Intended Victim- Cdwin C. Kempf, Warren Kendrick, After Being in Use Seventy-One Years. Ann Arbor; Willard Warby, Salem; Was Knocked Down by Three Men—"Doc" Sophie Klaeger, James D. K. Lyman, One by one the old landmarks are Walter Weeks, Ann Arbor. Collins, Patrolman, Happened to be Hear Mabelle Elizabeth McDonald, Effie disappearing. The latest to go is the Corn, Clover Seed, Oats and Saved Rhodes. Jay Niles, Bertha Schaffer, Don Search big farm barn on the Vinkle home- WAS BURNED TO DEATH. Very luckily for C. A. Rhodes, of Stevens, Jennie Twichell, Edward J. stead, now owned by Zera Burr, which and off Grades of Wheat ialine, Patrolman "Doc" Collins hap- Wagner, Charlotte Pauline Walker. is being torn down and rebuilt in another place. The barn was built in ARTHUR SEIXICK BURNED TO DEATH ITT >ened to be very near the corner of ALLMENDINGER & SCHNEIDER. JACKS01? MOHDAY. luron and Ashley 6ts. last Thursday 1828—71 years ogo. Although the roof aight about 10 minutes to 1 o'clock, ANOTHER FIRM and sills were badly rotted. Mr. Burr when three men set upon him, evident- says that most of the timbers in theWESTPHALIA BRAND Formerly Lived in Ann Arbor—Was a Bright WHITE ROSE BRAND and Highly Respected Boy—Lived Here y for the purpose of robbery. ON THE SIDEWALK. barn frame are as sound as the day it SUGAR CURED 'Help, help—murder!" ho yelled at was built.—Dexter Leader. HAMS. PURE LEAF with His Sister for Several Tears. LARD. he top of his voice, and the policeman A Jackson dispatch on Monday says: an as fast as he could to the scene. AKE ADVANTAGE OF LEGAL HOLIDAY TO "Fire at the residence of George F. The men heard him coming and AVOID INJUNCTION. SENTER MAKES A FORTUNE. IF Myers, a Michigan Central brakeman, kipped. at 2:45 Tuesday morning, fatally burned Rhodes is a man 61 years of age and his is the Second Firm Whose Store Front IT'S DOLD'S, IT'S THE Arthur Sellick and practically de- was going to the barn, where his horse Projects Over the Sidewalk—City Attorney WELL-KNOWN U. OF M. MAN DEALS IN stroyed the interior of the house. The Will Not Take Steps to Force a Change Un- was being kept. MAHOGANY. fire is supposed to have caught from When he had reached a dark spot on less Council so Orders. BEST. the explosion of of a lamp which had Ashley St., between Huron and Wash- For some days past the front of the BUFFALO BRAND CANNED been left burning.