VOLUME XXXV.—NO. 50. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 22; 1897. WHOLE NUMBER, 200?. Blacknian, nf Muscatine, Iowa, and they have four children, Paul, who is now on ASTAND TO WESTIPASSEQ TO HIS REWARD. the Dalton Trail in Alaska, on the road to th(> Klondike, (and who could not have learned of his father's illness),; FOR THIRTY YEARS MESSRS. RIN- BY LIGHTNING WE'LL GO, AND DEATH OF PROFESSOR WALTER S. Ernest B., who is superintendent of the SEY & SEABOLT HAVE SERVED PERRY—A BRIEF SKETCH OF TRAVEL BY TROLLEY O'ER Industrial works at Bay City; and the THEIR CUSTOMERS THE LAND TO AND THE MAN AND HIS two younger children Walter and Mabel, FAITHFULLY. FRO. LIFE'S WORK. at home. CHRISTMAS SELLING Prof. Perry's life work is a proud WASHINGTON ST. PIONEERS. DETROIT via A. A. TO LANSING. ACTION 0F~THE ALUMNI. monument. He is dead, and yet heThe lives in the minds and hearts of thous- Grandest A Strong Combination that has Met The Road to Detroit will be Running Resolutions Passed by the Humane ands, and there is scarcely a state in •With a Merited Success — by May, and the one to Lansing Society—Movement Made for a this broad Union in which there will Collection Interprise and Libe ality is Fast Assuming Definite Perry Fellowship. not be moistened eyes when the notice Ever a Prominent Feature Shape—A Grand Thing of his death is read. Pure and spotless Therein. in his private life, always sympathizing Shown for the University Alike are life and death, City. Wheu life in death survives. with the unfortunate, he stood ready to In And the uninterrupted breath MORE THAN There are lew firms, especially la Inspires a thousand lives. lend his influence in any cause that had the uplifting of his fellow man for anAnn the bakery and grocery line, tha.t can The time is not far distant when a Thus wrote the poet Longfellosr of object. As a good citizen, he was a peer ONE-HALF boast oif thirty years successful busi- person will be able to board an electric Charles Sumner, and the thought so Arbor. of the best; as a Christian, he practiced ness. But Rinsey & Sea bolt, at E.car in Detroit, and by remaining in thefinely expressed in rythmic words, is SALE COMMENCES THOUSAND what Christ taught, and loved his neigh- •Washington St., can do that very same for three hours be landed in thapplicable e to the grand life that has just Bhtag. There were few business build, State Capitol in Lansing, and on thegone out in our midst. Although the bor as himself; as a man, he stood JACKETS I CAPES ings on fthlat street) When this firm journey be given a sight of the State spirit of Walter S. Perry has passed out proudly in the front ranks, with the Thursday Morning, coimmenced there in 1867. In fact Normal in Ypsilauti, and the State Uni- of it's earthly tabernacle, yet it lives on best of his fellow men. His epitaph! Who will write it? DECEMBER 16. bought at 50 cents and the firm they bought out, Goodale versity, in Ann Arbor. in the hundreds and thousands of lives 33 1-3 cents off the dollar & Henley, were pioneers for Washing, There is little doubt but that by next that it has come into such familiar con- May not these familiar words be appro- make possible the follow- ton st. May the electric cars will be running tact with, and which it has helped to priate: "Well done, good and faithful ing prices in High Class through from Ann Arbor to Detroit. start out in the paths of correct thinking servant; enter thou into the joy of the The coimbilaatioa b! the abilities Lord." Winter Wraps. a: these two mem, David Rinsey anil The company which has taken up theand right living. enterprise is pushing the work with It was not a shock to the community Or these from Whittier: Moses Seabolt made a happy one for "Such was our frieud. Formed on the good business. Previous to entering- into vigor, fully realizing that the sooner the when it was announced, on Thursday old plan, cars are running the sooner the capital A true, and brave and downright honest man. t'l,ispirt>n?rship Mr. Kin ey had clerk. last, that Prof. Perry had succumbed laid out will be returning an income. to the reaper Death on the evening pre- ******* A_t $6.89 •ed a number oi years, for L. R. Sialw. His daily prayer, fur better understood The cars are already in motion on thevious, Dec. 15, at half past 8 o'clock, In acts than words, was always doing good sfow, whio at one time carried on the So calm, so constant was his rectitude, east end of the line from Detroit to Stan. d passed to his reward. He had been That by his loss alone we know its worth. cl#ei' grocery of the city in the build- Joseph's Retreat, this side of Dearborn, failing for a long time, and nothing but And feel how true a man has walked with u. Jackets Reduced Prom ing opposite the Cook House, where on earth." and the next attempt will be to get them his indomitable will had retained the O.ispax Rinsey now holds forth. Mr. For Ladies and Men into Wayne. That will make just half breath of life in his human frame. He SERVICES AT THE CHURCH. in Gold and Silver Seabott bad been with Wm. Sinclair the distance between Detroit and Annwas first attacked by the disease that The remains of Prof. Perry laid $10.00, $11.25, $12.50, $13.50 in tJifi Peninsular Mills, Soar fourteen Arbor completed, while the electric road finally resulted in his death, nearly one'htate at the Congregational church Sat- Trimmed Handles, years, and botli were well known in from here to Ypsilauti, which will no year ago. His health failed him, aud urday, from 10 a. m. to 1 o'clock p. m., Artistic Designs, at the cfty. Mr. Rinsey! possessed the doubt be consolidated with the newin company with Mrs. Perry he went to and were viewed by hundreds who had 98c, $1.35, $1.50, $2. faculty Bind disposition to attend to company, will leave only about 12 or 15a resort on the Gulf of Mexico, where known and honored the man in life. AJ, $9.85 tlie books, and keep the accounts col- miles to be built in order to finish the 100 Misses' and rest, and quiet, and balm}' air, gradually During which time appropriate music Boy's Umbrellas at lected up, and alsd to sse to theentire line. Of course it will take some helped rebuild his physical powers so was played on the organ. stock. Mr. Seabolt, with his time to get the cars running on a defi- that he came home after a few weeks, The decorations were very tasty, be- 49c each. Jackets Reduced From genial disposition and kind-hearted- nite schedule, and the road ballasted and partially resumed his duties toward ing the work of the teachers. The ness brought custom and retained if, and in smooth working order. the end of the year. After the close oi school children furnished a great mass and so they have gome on never miss, The distance by this line will be forty school his summer was passed in theof flowers with which the casket was ing a year that did not add to their miles, and the fare between this city pure and bracing atmosphere of Lesadorned. The school board and teach- $14.25, $15.00, $16.50, $18.50 income. Starting o'u.t with no. help and Detroit, either way, will probably Chenaux Islands at the north extremity ers sent a floral blanket, the school but a baker, they now employ seven be fifty cents. Though the company of Lake Huron. children a bank of hyacinths. Every men to luelp carry on the business, will sell 1,000 mile books, transferable, He felt so strong that when the school class and organization of the high school, but tllie oversight aiwL attention to for $10, practically reducing the fare to year opened last fall, he was in hisand every department of every school of At $13.95 tdue details has never been surrender. forty cents each way, or one cent per place again, performing his duties. But the city, including the parochial school ed tio other hands. T'liait they giVe mile. This will be cheap traveling— the constant strain and nerve-destroying of St. Thomas Church, was represented tsbeir personal attention to. cheap enough for any one. labors of upwards of a third of a century in the floral offerings. A GLANCE AT THE FUTURE. needed more time and longer rest in The funeral services were conducted A charming collection of Jackets Reduced From Thie buiddkig in which they origi- We are informed that the company which to repair the ravages upon his by Rev. J. W. Bradshaw, commencing pretty French creations. $20 00, $22.50, $23.50, $25.00 nally started became tao small for will put on a fast morning through ex- system. After a little he fell ill again at 2:30 p.m. The honorary pall bear- Nurses, Maids, Sewing, tlr«T use i:i 1870, eq it was torn press for the benefit of this city and and continued to grow worse until the ers were the members of the school and Tea Aprons.