• With the wind howling out of the northwest, the house occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Andrews at the corner of Eighth and Cass, caught fire from an exploding lamp early last Monday morning. Their escape was cut off from the lower part of the building by flames and smoke which forced them to crawl to a shed roof at the rear of the house and then jump to the ground. The rapid work and effective work of the fire department left little damage aside from the two places where it was necessary to cut through the boards to get at the blaze.
• Alexander Mathews of Paradise township had a narrow escape from being killed by a Winchester shot gun recently. A young man, working in a shingle crew, had been handling the gun and supposed the gun was unloaded and when he went to hang it up, the gun discharged, the load missing Mathews about ten inches. A number of witnesses nearby were scared badly, but fortunately none were injured.
• The Williamsburg Embroidery Club, at the expiration of their first year of clubhood, have elected new officers. They are: Mrs. U. B. Hobbs, Mrs. Charles Eaton, Mrs. R. D. White and Mrs. Ed Hansley.
• The Traverse City excursionists who went to Chicago as guests of the Northern Michigan Transportation Company are loud in their praises of the company and their treatment but in regard to riding in a strong northwest wind, they have not so much to say. The majority of the party got sick and abandoned the steamer at Manistee and came back to this city over the M. & N. E. last evening.
• Frank J. Hughes, the submarine diver who made the inspection of the intake pipe of the city water works yesterday, stated to this office, after the examination, that he found that the pipe was all right with the exception of one leak in a depth of about twenty-four feet of water. This has been repaired.
• The rooms of the Woman's Club in the City library building, never looked prettier than they did Friday night and never was a pleasanter evening spent by the club, the occasion being the annual gentlemen's guest evening. A banquet was tendered to the club members and their guests with the club colors, yellow and white decorating the rooms with a most artistic fall theme. An orchestra furnished music and a program of vocal solos and recitations made the evening pass in the pleasantest possible manner.
• W. S. Tucker, state factory inspector, has reported to this office that every factory in the Traverse City is in fine shape. He said the number of laboring people in the city was 2,262 which shows an increase of about 30 per cent over last year's report and indicates substantial growth.
• The matter of janitor for the Oak park School building was settled by the Board of Education last Tuesday evening by the employment of A. A. McCoy at a salary of $55 a month. There were six applicants in all, four more having been added that evening.
• Thirty neighbors and friends of Mrs. C. Germaine surprised her at her home on Sixth Street Saturday evening. They took baskets full of good things to eat with them and had a very pleasant time.
• Jerome Carrothers, a farmer south of the city, has brought to this office a sample of a beet weighing 10 and 1/4 pounds and four potatoes weighing 6 and 1/2 pounds. These root vegetable specimens are a testament to the excellent soil and growing conditions for such crops in the area.
• Buckley continues to be the biggest new town yet. The boom is still on and new building, potato warehouses and stores are still springing up. There are a number of the older towns that could copy after the energy and aggressiveness of the town which a few short years ago was nothing but a big woods.
• Advice on deportment. Do not neglect little things if they can affect the comfort of others.
• Medical advice of a century ago. Baths, daily or two or three times a week, are of great value to women and should be encouraged.
• Best buy of the week. Girls' Cloaks, made of fancy cloaking, neatly trimmed, fancy stitching and fancy buttons, $2.48 at The Globe.