• A new steel lathe is being installed in the round house at the Pere Marquette yards which will add greatly to the already fine equipment. The machine is thirteen feet in length and with such a size ready for use, there will be but few temporary repairs which cannot be made in the city.
• Will Thirlby and party of this city went to Mabel Sunday in their auto. The machine put in a kick and they spent most of the day at that place.
• John Wiley, a farmer near Summit City, delivered the first potatoes to the market last week. Charles Jeffreys, a local buyer, purchased a full carload.
• Long Lake resident Mr. Updyke, has just returned from the southern part of the state bringing back a nice little driving team. These past evenings, he has been showing them off to his neighbors as he drives about the country roads.
• John G. Calhoun, who lives near Kingsley, died at his home this morning at the age of 79 years. He leaves a wife, two sons, a brother and a sister. He lived in Ionia county at the time of the Civil War, enlisted and served nine months after which he was honorably discharged on account of his health.
• The first centralized school in Grand Traverse county opened Monday in Whitewater township, districts one and four being consolidated. The consolidation will mean a saving to the taxpayers in each district of about $6 on the $1,000 valuation. Both districts will greatly benefit as a central school will be able to employ a higher grade of teachers.
• Joe White was arrested at Grawn for stealing a pair of pants from J. S. Marchen of that place Saturday. He was given a twenty-day jail sentence by Justice Aldrich this morning.
• A circular which was freely distributed about the city yesterday called upon "Mr. Taxpayer" to vote against the proposition to issue bonds for $12,000 to build a poor house on the county poor farm recently purchased by the board of supervisors. It states that such a farm needs a team, cows, pigs and chickens and asks where will they get feed and pasture for this stock on just twenty acres.
• The Rose Street Sunday school enjoyed a picnic at the grove on that street Thursday last. Over one hundred and fifty people were in attendance and all had a fine day's outing. At noon a picnic dinner was enjoyed.
• Miss Mabel Findlay and Eugene Loucks were united in marriage at the residence of the bride's parents on Bohemia Street Tuesday evening, the Rev. Hugh Kennedy performing the ceremony. The bride was handsomely dressed in a gown of cream brilliantine, all of the embroidery being hand work. Refreshments of cake and ice cream were served following the ceremony.
• Instead of having a teacher this year, the Webster school district has decided to send the children to the school at Williamsburg. A man has been hired to bring them in each morning and call for them after school with a bus.
• Lorin Goss has resigned his position with the American Drug Company and will go to the Ferris Institute in Big Rapids. He has enrolled to take a full course in pharmacy.
• The First National Bank today received ten sacks of new pennies, 1,000 in a sack, from the mint at Washington. Each package is sealed and the initials of several persons who have counted the coins stamped on it.
• Advice on deportment. A gentleman precedes a lady in walking down the aisle to attend church services, but when he reaches the pew, he should step a little aside and allow her to enter first.
• Medical advice of a century ago. The diet in the early stage of small pox should be light and unstimulating, consisting of rice, cornstarch, bread and milk or arrowroot.
• Best buy of the week. Boys' Knee Pants, 19 cents at The Globe Dept. Store