By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
• The Fourth of July was the kind of day that brought delight to the heart of everyone here and elsewhere. Sportsmen especially enjoyed the most favorable weather that has been offered for a long time. The city was crowded with visitors and all programs offered received a large audience. In the evening an excellent display of fireworks lit up the sky and thrilled the onlookers.
• Traverse City has been cleaned up and now presents a very excellent appearance but there are still a number of weeds that should be cut at the edges. It is a duty for every good citizen to cut these weeds before they seed and scatter still farther .
• N. B. Chapin has purchased the carpet cleaning works of George Lackey. O. E. Chase, upholsterer, will be retained and the firm will continue to do upholstering, carpet cleaning and feather renovating.
• While unloading hay at the Morgan livery barn Friday, Pat Jameson had the end of his left thumb torn off. The team used in the unloading started suddenly, drawing the thumb into the pulley and inflicting the painful injury.
• The Park Place is being "spruced up" considerably. A tennis court and croquet grounds were laid out this morning, new electric light fixtures installed in the lobby and the painting of the house begun. These additions and renovations, together with the new veranda, for many afternoons will make this popular house more popular than ever.
• As people were coming home from the lodge at South Grant last Thursday night, Harold Champion and A. Ramsey ran horses and they met Emery Clark's rig that got by Mr. Ramsey's team all right, but collided with H. Champion's rig. His horse jumped in the back of Mr. Clark's buggy and upset and tore the buggy all to pieces. Fortunately no one was hurt much. The next morning Mr. Champion and Mr. Ramsey went over and settled the damage with Mr. Clark and they will not run horses again after dark.
• A pleasant surprise party was given Monday at the home of Mrs. John Danford in honor of Flora Stewart's twelfth birthday and Dodra Danford's eleventh birthday. Twenty-six little friends called on them yesterday afternoon, bring many remembrances of the birthdays.
• Eighteen out of the forty who wrote on the county teachers' examinations and passed have received their certificates. Seventeen were for third grade certificates and one was for second.
• The report of the city librarians show that during the month of June, there were forty-five new patrons added while the total number of books given out was an average of 274 a day. Adult fiction had the greatest number with 1,219 and juvenile fiction was second with 1,027.
• Mr. Charles Lannin was buried from the Ogdensburg church yesterday and was laid to rest by the side of his wife who died eleven years ago. Mr. Lannin was a pioneer of the Peninsula and was a quiet, unassuming man who was a good neighbor to all. The 80 acres of land he still owned had been cleared all by himself also 80 at Alden and another 80 in Canada.
• The highway commissioner, Henry E. Carlisle at East Bay, had a large gang of men and teams for a few days last week working on the Black Road appropriation. The farmers are so rushed with work it's a hard matter to get men and teams to do this work.
• Advice on deportment. When calling on another gentleman at a hotel, send up your card, and wait for an invitation to the room.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To treat scurvy, take three spoonfuls of nettle juice every morning.
• Best buy of the week. Straw Hat Sale, 60 cents - $2.75 at The Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co.