• After spending two hours in the jury room Saturday afternoon, the return was made with a verdict of guilty and the Acme egging case was closed. This morning Justice Nerlinger sentenced the two men, Herman Densteadt and James Livingston, to pay a fine of $5 with a codicil attachment of $35 a piece for expenses.
• The rain the area got the past two days was just what was wanted most and it helped everything. If nothing happens, this will be the banner year for fruit as the crop is looking fine.
• Lalla Brazington, of Sixteenth Street, was injured on Friday in the American Butter Dish plant, the injury consisting of the loss of her second and third finger of her right hand. Medical assistance was immediately called and the injury dressed. Miss Brazington was then sent home in a hack by Supt. Search.
• At the regular meeting of the ladies of the W. R. C. McPherson Corps, all preliminary arrangements were completed for the decoration Day exercises. With the honored dead lying in Oakwood numbering over a hundred, it was decided that willow baskets filled with bouquets of flowers will be set at each gravesite.
• James Herbert of Old Mission, who fell some time ago and fractured two ribs, has been seriously ill , so much that his daughter, Lillie, has been at his bedside. A son, Charles, residing in Ohio, arrived in the city Sunday and finding no way to reach Old Mission, found a bike and made a quick trip there.
• The Nellie Johnson from St. James, Beaver Island, arrived in port Friday with full load of shingles and lath for the Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co. It was delivered at the company's dock Saturday morning.
• There were 170 votes cast for the proposition to bond the city for $15,000 to pay for the street intersections yesterday. The question was submitted to the taxpaying citizens at a special election Monday. Only nineteen voted against it.
• A general all around change has taken place in the baggage department of the M. & N. E. Mr. E. M. Sibley of this city, who has been in charge of the local baggage department leaving for Lemon Lake, while the baggage man there, Mr. Britain, goes to Nessen City. Mr. Sibley's position here has been filled by Benjamin Schaub, formerly helper at Provement.
• Dale Champion, of South Grant, had an operation performed on his right hand last week to straighten three fingers that had been drawn up ever since he was burned several years ago. He has suffered a good deal but his hand is doing nicely.
• Robert Agosa, the Northport Indian tailor, has opened a tailoring shop on East Front Street and will make this city his home permanently. Mr. Agosa is a graduate of Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas where he took a five-year course in tailoring. Later he became an instructor over a class of forty boys and sixteen girls.
• At the regular meeting of the Woman's club held last Friday afternoon in the Carnegie Library, the following were elected to offices: Mrs. G. G. Covell, Mrs. D. F. Wilson, Mrs. E. J. Hammond, Mrs. D. E. Wynkoop, Mrs. R. Rice, Mrs. A. B. Cook, Mrs. Q. E. Boughey and Mrs. S. C. Despres. A program on Charles Brockden Brown, his life and a review of his work was given by Mrs. H. C. Davis.
• Advice on deportment. Keep your business strictly to yourself and do not allow your social habits to entrench upon your hours of business.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To cure bleeding of the stomach, take a pill of white pine turpentine very day to heal the vessels that leak.
• Best buy of the week. Minnow Pails, 85 cents - $1.25 at The Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co.