Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-01-17
City News in Brief.

hO s'tos w
ciety will hold its annual meeting at 3
D. N. today in Sweets hotel. Five
directors and the ususl officers will be
elected. Some of the directors CHANGED
in at Treasurer Dikeman's store ON
Canal street yesterday afternoon. The
conversation turned on fair matters
and the directors laughed at the idea
of not holding fair next fall.
Saturday night the Eddy tent. X. O..
t. NJ, OF Lowell presented County
Clerk Eddy with y beautiful gold
headed cane. His name and his lodge
Office are engraved upon the head.
Mr.. Eddy is past sir knight commander
of the tent, which Was named IN honor
of him.
Superintendent Chalmers has re-
ceived an invitation from the superin-
tendent of schools of Philadelphia TO
speak before the national convention
of superlntendents on the subject,
''How to Improve tho Corps of City
Teachers. the meeting will be held
in Boston February q. Mr.. Chalmers
will 60.
c. w. Tufts is preparing to erect a
six-story apartment house on the
property where the Woman's Home and
Hospital was formerly located on Full
ton street, near Jefferson avenue. 1t
will contain twenty modern living
compartments with stores on the
ground floor.
Stow & Davis filed their annual state
ment yesterday, showing the capital
stock to be 500, 900, OF which S43, 900 Is
paid IN The real estate IS worth SD,
$3.50, the personal property is worth
$50, 502.0l. The debts are SIS, 76S.5l,
and the credits are worth ss,4il.ll.
The Folding Chair and Table COM
pany filed an annual statement, show.
ing the capital stock of $50, 900, all paid
in. The real estate IS worth so, $50,
the personal property is worth Sl4,-
600.52. The debts are S2l ,096.ll and
the credits are sl4 .34i.01.
Professor FuIcomer's second lecture
on social science will be delivered tins
evening at Chapel hail. Western Mich
igan college. TINS lecture will deal
with the educational features of the
ubjecs.
Major Long OF the Soldiers Home
yesterday received q commission as
aide-de-csmp to Department Comman-
der Dean of the Michigan G.. A. Il.
The appointments was entirely sur
prise.
Yesterday the contract was awarded
Berkey Il Gay for furnishing the
Hsmpden hotel in Chicago. Ii is a
l 900 room house, and is built excIu-
syely for the worlds fair trade
All members Of the board of trade
and OF the city council are requested to
be present at the meeting in the board
rooms tonight TO discuss ways and
means for river Improvement.
The Y. NJ. c. A. congress meets
Thursday evening 10 further perfect
its organisation. The Grand river I'M
provement question will be the first to
be discussed.
Last night after the regular weekly
drill. about thirty members of the
Grand Rapids Guards and their friends
played pedro in the parlors of the
srmory.
Clay II. HoiIistsr aud wife will en-
terrain the board of directors aud \.
NJ. c. A. standing committees at their
home on Eat Fulton street tnis even
ing.
The Grand Rapids Bicycle clubs
dancing party Will 81 held IN The club
hall, rhursdsy evening. Mrs. Wee
den's orchestra Will furnish music.
Noigt, Herpolshsiunsr 4 CO. employees
viii have . sieisn ride Co Cascade
springs toFaorrow night through the
Kindness q Mr.. iIerpoishesmer.
Bursting steam pipes mayed havoc
for q TINS yesterday morning ia ths
Basement of The y. ". G. A. bniiding.
flameeTs repaired the pipes
George shsckleton 81 Traverse Cltv
has been vsstlne his rsfsnts, AF sat
Mrs.. Ndhsm sAsekletan Of Iufaef
stfsst dnfsna tke psss sses,
A small bsszs ~ so yesterday