• Mrs. G. N. Beck was called to Big Rapids last week by a telegram stating that her brother, William Mong, was dying in Mercy Hospital. The brother, who has been a sufferer for the past year with cancer of the stomach, was taken to the hospital where doctors had made an incision but it was found that an operation would only hasten the end.
• Robert E. Walter, county clerk, was unable to attend to his duties today owing to an attack of lumbago. Mr. Walter has suffered from time to time with this affliction but it is expected that he will return to work in another day or two.
• Miss Gertrude Goodwin Miller, reader with the Favorite Concert Company of Chicago, spent last Wednesday in this city with her uncles F. O. and M. C. Miller. Miss Miller left on the Pere Marquette this noon for Grand Rapids where she will join the concert company this evening.
• Several Grawn people left last Monday for the northern peninsula where they will locate permanently. Mr. and Mrs. George Green and family, who lived in that village will locate at Sault Ste. Marie and Arthur Canfield, who has resided on a farm near Grawn for many years, will go to a lumber camp near that city.
• The first load of produce to appear on the market site this week came early today and consisted of apples. They had been frozen and were unsaleable so were thrown onto the dump at the railroad trash site.
• Empire has no dance hall now and because of this, the young people who enjoy the pleasures of the light fantastic, either have to refrain or go to Glen Arbor, eight miles away. The Maccabee building which was the village dance hall, has been sold to the village for school purposes but it is the intention of that organization to erect a building in the spring.
• Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Williams entertained with a dinner party yesterday at the Hotel Whiting in honor of the Rev. and Mrs. H. H. Holly of Kalamazoo who have been their guest for the past two weeks. The table was tastily arranged and the decorations were of red and white carnations. After the dinner, the guests repaired to the parlors and spent the remainder of the afternoon in a social way.
• The grain market remains steady with no changes quoted today. Many farmers are holding on to their hay but with the price of $18 per ton if looks like good money to bring it to the market with the prevailing price. A good number of farmers are too busy with their potato crop to pay much attention to hay these days, however, if the price drops, they will wish they had taken advantage of the current price.
• The New England supper served Saturday night by St. Elizabeth's Guild of Grace church at the handsome new guild hall in the Montague Block was a success in every way. The vianda were cooked by the young ladies themselves and it is safe to say that no group of ladies in the city could surpass their cookery.
• The school in district No. 2, Long Lake, gave a very successful program and box social at the town hall last Thursday evening. Net proceeds were $25.10, the money to be used to purchase curtains and an organ for the school. Lizzie Dunn is the teacher.
• Mr. and Mrs. H. Montague left last week on a journey that will occupy their attention until May 1. They will be making stops in Cadillac, Grand Rapids, Chicago and Watertown, Wisconsin then continue on to Kansas City, Missouri until they reach California. The return journey will be the way of Salt Lake City and Aften, Colorado.
• After an illness of but a few hours, Mrs. Antonia Mirhovich died at her home on Vine Street Sunday afternoon with a stroke of paralysis having attacked her when she was down town with her husband in the forenoon. She had been apparently as well as usual up to the time she was stricken.
• Advice on deportment. In visiting a store for the purpose of examining the goods or making purchases, conduct yourself with courtesy and amiability.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To treat bronchitis, a foot bath along with a dose of Dover's powder and a full dose of quinine will be quite effective.
• Best buy of the week. Pure Olive Oil — Antonini's: 70 cents a pint; Giovianni's: 50 cents a pint.