• Potatoes are moving along briskly on the local market and will average about thirty loads a day for this week. The price is ranging from 27 to 30 cents. The lack of cars for shipping purposes is piling the stock up in the warehouses as it has done for the past two or three years.
• Archie Gillett had an experience with his launch yesterday which nearly cost him a cold dunking. The boat was lying in the river near the We-que-tong Club and Mr. Gillett wanted to take it across the bay where there is a good anchorage. He had crossed the bar in the channel and attempted to swing around and head for the west shore but the waves and strong winds made this impossible. Before making a successful exit, the boat struck the bar several times, but kept right side up.
• The Ladies' Aid at Blackman were very pleasantly entertained at the home of Miss Anna Martin last Thursday. After tying a comforter, Miss Anna served the ladies peanuts, apples and homemade candies which were greatly enjoyed by those present.
• Sometime in the near future, the high school chorus will put on a religious cantata. The chorus now numbers about eighty voices and is under the direction of Miss Hooker, who had such fine success with the young singers last year. Rehearsals are now being held on an arrangement of "Praise Ye the Father” by C. B. Rich and "Gloria” from Mozart's Twelfth Mass arranged by Gaezle.
• There is a rumor afloat that the new building being erected on the property of Thomas Smith, north of Mayfield, is to be a saloon. That town has never had such a place of business in the forty or more years of its existence and the residents hope that this rumor is false.
• Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoeflin, who left their home in Kingsley some time in September for southern California, returned Monday. They stated that they like the country, but that labor conditions are such that Charles, who is a mason, could not obtain employment unless he was a union man, and not being one, they would not allow him to sign a contract.
• There never was a time in the history of Traverse City when laboring men were as scarce as they are at this time. There has been a great demand for laboring men for many weeks. Hundreds of laborers are being sought from lumbering camps at good wages, but the city has no surplus and indeed, not enough to supply the local demand.
• Between five and six hundred people were present Tuesday night at the farewell reception at the Church of Christ in honor of the Rev. T. P. Ullom, who leaves for the evangelistic field after six years of remarkably successful work in this city. Mr. Ullom responded to all the good wishes in his usual sincere manner and spoke of the work he had done and what he intends to accomplish in the future. Refreshments were served in the lower rooms to conclude the reception.
• John Grady's team of colts, which was hitched in front of the store at Williamsburg this morning, became frightened at something and broke away and ran home. They left the buggy on a tree near Vic Scofield's but did no very serious damage.
• Miss Ethel Stiles and Ralph Monroe were married Monday afternoon at the home of the bride's uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Stiles, the Rev. Demas Cochlin officiating. The bride was becomingly attired in navy blue silk and the maid of honor, Miss Flora Dair, in white. After the wedding dinner, the couple left for Everett, Washington where they will remain for a short time, their ultimate destination being Everson, Washington where they will make their home if surroundings prove congenial.
• Public school teachers of Michigan are bitterly opposed to the amount of space given to physiologies and books of hygiene to alcohol and tobacco. Yesterday these feelings of disgust with the system broke out spontaneously in the state teachers' convention at Battle Creek.
• Advice on deportment. A gentleman accompanying a lady to the theater, opera or a concert is not bound to give up his seat to another lady. His duty is to the lady he accompanies.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To treat St. Vitus' Dance, good diet, salt bathing and systematic gymnastic exercise will suffice for mild cases.
• Best buy of the week. Hand-colored Photographs, 25 cents - 50 cents each at The Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co.