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CITY (SAULT) BREVITIES

The Soo News
February 15, 1896, Page 9


Chas E. McDonald and Miss E. Jennie Graham of Rosedale, were united in marriage this week.

The American House, recently damaged by fire, will be re-opened next Monday evening, by P. Brady, its former proprietor.

Mrs. W. S. Royce arrived from Chicago Wednesday to visit relatives.  Her brother, Postmaster J.R. Ryan, met her at Gladstone.

While at Corinne this week Thomas Blain, the popular traveling man, was painfully injured by a fall through an open trap door into a cellar.

A social was given at the residence of Capt. and Mrs. Fred Trempe by the Junior Endeavorers of the Presbyterian church Friday afternoon of last week.

The seats for the Joseph Hart company, which will appear in the opera house next Monday night, were placed on sale at Price's Thursday.  The went like hot cakes.

The ladies of St. Mary's church gave an excellent supper Wednesday evening in the Newton block.  There was a large attendance and the affair was a success in every way.

B. Desenberg and son, Lawrie, expect to depart next Tuesday for the eastern markets to purchase spring and summer goods for Prensisner (?) Bros.  They will be gone a month or so.

The Cigar Makers union of this city is making arrangements to give a ball for the benefit of George Tacey, a former member of the union, who is dying of consumption at Brockville, Ont.

John Buck, who has been an inmate of the insane asylum at Traverse City, and more recently of the asylum of Newberry, has recovered his mental balance, and has returned to his home in Bruce township.

Dr. Alex McDonald will occupy rooms on the second floor of the new Comb clock, on Ashmun street, and not in the Cracknell block, as stated elsewhere in this issue.  His residence telephone is 206.

Mrs. E.W. Kibby, while descending a stairway from the second floor of the Sobraro cottage, Thursday night, missed her footing and fell to the bottom, striking on her head.  Fortunately, she was only slightly injured.

In another column appears the advertisement of E.L. Graham's shorthand and typewriting school, room 9, Soo National bank block.  Mr. Graham has a large number of pupils and appears to be giving good satisfaction.