Telegram-herald., 1890-07-21
TOWN TOPICS

Charles Fox Is preparing 10 build sew
eral cottages a. south Grand Rapids
tbs season.
H. C. Creque, OF l27 Lagrave-st., is
remodelling hIs home and liking things
Up generally.
Ellis Gray, OF IS Ctledonia.s
who mas been very III, is now better and
hopes are entertained for his recovery.
Rev. ". J. Russell, OF the Church OF
Christ, addressed the Gospel Temper
ance meeting at Good Templar's nall
yesterday.
F. A. Fowler and :. G. LOngshore, of
Rochester, y. y, and :. ". Graves. OF
knoxville, Tenn, large furniture manu-
fsctureTs, are IN the city.
Hartman's hall and lecture room has
been secured by the Masons for from
November 10 TO November Is TOR their
forthcoming Kermis.
Next Saturday the aspirants for a
cadetship at West Point Will have their
examination. The agony will be SUI
fered AZ the Morton House.
Whether ornot the SchubertClub will
discontinue its summer rehearsals and
hold some outside concerts, will be de-
clded al meeting tomorrow night.
Bids for the erection of the new NJ. f..
parsonage Will Ue received at once.
Architect Robinson has completed the
plans and they have been accepted.
Robt. keith, of Kansas City, one Of
the largest buyers of furniture ia the
country, arrived N the city yesterday,
accompanied by MS buyer, A. Jacoby.
Prof. Wilkenson's orchestra mas been
engaged by the Joyce Dramatic COM
pany's benefit for the Emerson Home
90 take place August 4 and at the
Wonderland.
The Hughart "Ten" of the Emmanuel
Presbyterian Church, Madison-ave.,
viii give a stereOptican entertainment
and bread and milk social 1T the church
tomorrow evening.
Furniture buyers, who have swarmed
here IN great numbers for some time
past, are growing beautifully less.
Telephones or other markets will now
take a whack at them.
Mrs. Sidney L. Lawrence, of East
Bridge-st.. Is engaged in the pursuit Of
serlculture. She now has upward of
ten thousand siIkwOrms to attend to.
and expects next season to have halt a
million.
The bank clearings for the week end :
ing July 10 were the largest IN the his
tory of the clearing house, reaching
$3.50, ,Sl7.3O. For the corresponding PERI
OF last year the clearIngs were but
S693, ,3O4.39.
Harry Hubbard, who was one of the
committee during the Georgia Wonder
engagement, remarked: "If all women
were born Ike Mrs. Abbott we would
have womsn's rights, without any cam
paign or hurrah about It either.
Mrs. A. w. Currier and daughter
Maggie, with son, Arthur. have gone to
Ottawa Beach TO speud part of Miss
McggIC's vacation, and there Join her
father, Leonard Snyder, and brother-in-
law, Dean Gould, who has handsome
cottage there.
The baggsgeToom at the Union depot
has been enriched with a new set Of
scales. The bagga ageman will thus be
enabled 20 Judge his own scale by the
new scales with greater accuracy. The
fact may even result ID making the
cOmpany's share larger.
The biggest crowd Of any day since
the Fourth, assembled at the Lake yes
terday, 70 listen o. Wurzburg's magnih-
cent band and enjoy toe harmless and
delightful pleasures that popular resort
affords IN such prO.usion. A noticeable
feature. and one seldom seen at SIM
liar places in the last and elsewhere
where crowds assemble, was their per-
feet orderlness and evident desire for
80 outing without beng bolsterous.