• The third alleged forged check came into possession of a local bank Saturday for $15, signed by Dan O. Pratt in favor of Wallace Brown, having been cashed by Mr. Cruse of Honor. The check was repudiated when it was received at the National Bank. The City book store was victimized by an alleged forged check the same day and the Lautner shoe store cashed one a while ago. All three checks show every similarity as from the same party.
• A meeting of the officers of the Grand Traverse Humane Society was held Monday evening at the residence of Mrs. F. E. Travis. The field of work was discussed and the consensus of opinion was that the society as a whole was being felt in the city. A number of warnings had been sounded to the owners of unblanketed horses and it was conceded that it was a successful campaign.
• Dr. A. E. Winship of Boston, editor of the New England Journal of Education, has been secured to deliver the commencement address in this city. Dr. Winship's subject will be "The Boy as a Liability" and concerning this lecture, a news review says, "Sentences sparkle like pine knots in an open fireplace — practical as the multiplication table." It surely will be a treat in a Traverse City audience to listen to such a speaker.
• Floyd Gilbert, the 18-month-old son of Floyd Fox of Williamsburg, died last Thursday after a brief illness, death resulting from a severe convulsion which attacked the babe as a result of teething. On February 27 the mother died and Mr. Fox feels the double blow of the loss of both wife and child severely.
• William Force of Acme was brought to this city yesterday by Sheriff Johnson, who held a warrant issued upon the complaint of Mrs. Rosamond Densteadt, also of Acme, who charges the respondent with selling "fermented beverages." The case involves the complete intoxication of Mrs. Densteadt's son, a lad abut 16 years old, who purchased a gallon of the cider and carried it to a place near the Silver farm where he and three other boys consumed the drink. One of the boys was so intoxicated that he was in a state of paralysis.
• Miss Flossie Fox and brother, Oswald, returned this morning from a visit with their grandmother, Mrs. J. J. Franklin of Old Mission with whom they spent several days. While at Old Mission, they were entertained by several neighbors of Mrs. Franklin and went for a carriage ride to the lighthouse.
• The ceremony of laying the cornerstone of the Fourteenth Street M. E. church will take place Friday afternoon. The services will be in charge of Rev. A. T. Ferguson, presiding elder of Grand Traverse district. It is expected that the mayor and also the pastors of the city will be present. An offering for the benefit of the building fund will be taken.
• The telephone repair gang are doing some work about Acme, putting on new subscribers and changing other ones. Theodore Whiteford will be connected on number 216 and Mr. Champney will be changed to 289, while John Hoxsie and the Acme dock will have a new number.
• The Lady Maccabees of Bowers Harbor and members of Tent 788 at Old Mission will have a good time next Monday evening at their new hall. A program is being prepared and refreshments will be served during the evening.
• Dr. Fred Munson, son of Dr. J. D. Munson, superintendent of the Northern Michigan Asylum, has been appointed pathologist to the Craig Colony for Epileptics at Sonyea, New York, one of the largest institutions of the kind in the country, at a high salary. His appointment reflects favorably, not only upon his own ability, but upon the work of the University of Michigan, from which he graduated, as it is seldom that a western man is chosen to fill so important a position in the east.
• The George Moir livery and feed barn at 120 West State Street has been purchased by Dr. J. B. Martin who will take possession in a few days. The barn will be under the supervision of Claude Purvis. Mr. Moir will leave the city about May 1 and make his home in Canada, his birthplace.
• Advice on deportment. Unless a funeral is of a prominent person and numbers go to the church for that person, when the home isn't large enough, the casket is never opened at the church.
• Medical advice of a century ago. Yarrow is useful in blood spitting and dysentery.
• Best buy of the week. Best work shirts, 50 cents — $1.00 at Sherman and Hunter.