• It has occurred to a number of Traverse City people that now is an excellent time to do holiday buying and already there has been quite a fair holiday trade. This should strike more in the same manner and as many as possible should do their Christmas buying right now. The majority of the stores are ready for the business and the stocks are new and fresh.
• Miss Barton's Sunday school class of the Congregational church was delightfully entertained Tuesday evening by the Misses Bertha and Anna Stepan and Jennie Klassen at the Stepan home on Randolph Street. The first part of the evening was devoted to a guessing contest in which Miss Dolly Wynkoop showed superior ability. This was followed by a banquet which was very much enjoyed.
• Mr. Brooks' cow fell through the floor in the old house on Mrs. Peck's farm southwest of Traverse City. She fell about six feet and did not break any bones, but is bruised some about the hips and is quite stiff. It is a wonder she got out alive. The hole was only about three feet square that she went through.
• Miss Ruth Forsythe broke a needle off in her cheek last Tuesday. Dr. Fenton was called and removed the needle without any difficulty and believes no infection will set in.
• The shredders in the Ogdensburg area have gone as far as they can until the cornstalks get dry and it doesn't look as though they will get dry the way it's been raining these past several days. Those who had their cornstalks in a barn were the lucky ones.
• The sixty days in which no consideration was to have been given to street railway franchise having expired, a special council meeting was held Tuesday evening for the purpose of acting on the extension. The committee to which the matter had been referred, reported in part, "We regard this franchise as a very important one that requires much study and we do not think it right that we should be unduly hurried in its preparation.”
• The Michigan Investor, in its latest issue, has the following item: "Ernest Haar of Traverse City, an employee of C. L. King & Co. of Holland has just completed a walk of 263 miles along the tracks of the Pere Marquette. Mr. Haar made the trip on foot from Traverse City to Holland, having for his object the finding of logs which had fallen from trains enroute to Holland.”
• Architect F. E. Moore of this city is preparing the plans for the three-story brick building to be erected on West Harris Street in Cadillac by W. H. Paris for the National Grocer Company. Mr. Moor and Amos S. Musselman, the president of the company, will confer with Mr. Paris tomorrow.
• City Clerk Gillis has brought up the matter of the payment for quarantine cases at the pest house at the recent city council meeting stating that the various townships and the city have cared for their own poor. Now the county had charge of all the poor and paid the bills, but the city has been paying the bills and the supervisors have been allowing them. The present bill of $56 has been held out by the committee on claims and accounts until a suitable agreement is made.
• The mains have all been laid for the Kingsley water works system and on December 1 everything was in readiness for the water to be turned into them. The village is to be complimented on all the public works projects having been undertaken and completed the past year.
• Much has been made of the labor shortage in the southern states with no sign of improvement, especially in the agricultural districts, both as to the high wages offered and the relative inefficiency of the labor available, owing to the scarcity of pickers. All crops are suffering more or less on a similar account. Grand Traverse county can be proud of its strong and efficient work force which effectively meets the area's supply and demand.
• Advice on deportment. It is especially bad taste for lovers to indulge in any affectionate demonstrations in any public places.
• Medical advice of a century ago. Body lice can be defeated by strict attention to cleanliness, frequent bathing and the application of mercurial ointment diluted with five times its bulk of lard.
• Best buy of the week. Ladies' Hats, $1.39 to $3.50 at J. W. Milliken