- A still alarm Friday morning called the fire department to the apple evaporator of N. M. Turner, next to the canning factory. The blaze had caught on the drying floor above the furnace, but had not gotten a good start before the department arrived and quickly had it under control. The loss will not exceed $150.
- W. N. Bingham had a very narrow escape from death on Saturday by an overhead weight which weighed 30 pounds. It broke loose, falling and striking Mr. Bingham's head over the temple. Fortunately, it was a glancing blow or he would probably have sustained serious injury.
- The fruit exhibit for the world's fair from Grand Traverse county is nearly completed by E. O. Ladd on the peninsula. The exhibit is the largest ever sent from northern Michigan and includes fruit from the orchards of B. J. Morgan, C. J. Kneeland, A. K. Montague, E. O. Ladd and A. F. Gray. There will be 13 standard varieties of apples in the collection.
- Milton Smurthwaite has gone to Ann Arbor to attend a meeting of his fraternity in which the initiation of candidates and a banquet will take place. He will also see the Michigan-Wisconsin football game. Ben Montague left yesterday to attend the game, as well.
- C. M. Parker, B. Bristol and Sam Isles left this afternoon for Manistique on a deer hunting trip. Mr. Waterman and a cook have a camp established already to which this party will go.
- Arthur Hill and family have left Old Mission and gone to St. Johns for the winter. In the spring will go to Wisconsin where they expect to make their home for the future.
- J. R. Burton has returned to his home at Mabel after a trip to Ann Arbor where he had been taking treatment for stomach trouble. Mr. Burton is feeling much better and hopes to be return to his farm work shortly.
- Our correspondent at Rice's Corners reports that little Vere Davidson, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Davidson, died Saturday and Etta, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren died Sunday at the early age of eight years and nine days. Two little lives, pure and simple, taken suddenly from the world to dwell in that beautiful home where naught shall ever mar their happiness.
- William Simpson started for his home several miles south of the city last Wednesday afternoon with his team, but when he arrived was without them and had no idea of what he had done with the horses. He spent time hunting for them until Sunday when Alex Bersford went to his father's farm on the outskirts of the city and found the team there, stripped of their harnesses.
- Fred Buell, a resident at Interlochen, had a very narrow escape from losing his whole hand last Saturday. As it was, he lost all the fingers except a part of the little finger. The hand was caught in one of the saws while oiling a part of the machinery at the Wylie Cooperage Stave and Heading factory where Mr. Buell has been employed for several years.
- The new dynamo of the Boardman River Electric Light & Power Co., was installed Sunday morning without a hitch. The new machine will take the place of all five of the machines heretofore in use. All belting is also done away with except the main belt from the wheel to the machine.
- Advice on deportment. Do not stand a dripping cup on the tablecloth.
- Medical advice of a century ago. To treat ague, sup at six or seven o'clock, eating the lightest of food and go to bed early.
- Best buy of the week. Women's Beaver Lined Shoes, Leather soles and heels, 87 cents at Alfred V. Friedrich.