• A number of young folks had a very enjoyable time Monday evening at the home of N. Plamondon in Provemont. After husking all the corn, they spent the remainder of the evening dancing.
• Mrs. Owen Case left this morning for Peterboro, Canada and when she arrives there, a family reunion will take place. Mrs. Case will meet her father, Albert Bradshaw, whom she had not seen since she was a little girl. For the past twelve years, she thought that her father was dead, but for the past eight years, he has been searching for her.
• About 25 guests attending a pretty home wedding Tuesday night at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Thacker, 530 State Street, the contracting parties being Miss Frances Louise Blackburn, sister of Mrs. Thacker, and Harry M. Hinshaw. The ceremony took place in front of the bay window, the room being prettily decorated with smilax and pink and white chrysanthemums and ferns.
• Mrs. O. O. Maes' class of girls of the Oak Park Sunday school gave a spider web social at the home of Mrs. Louise Henderson 914 Washington Street Friday night. The evening was very pleasantly passed with a fine program of music and recitations. Nice refreshments were served afterward. This class of girls pledged to raise $20 toward the expense of the church and this was their first effort.
• John T. Beadle has leased the vacant store in his building, corner of Front and Cass Streets, to George J. Barney, of Charlotte, Michigan who will be here about January 1st to open a store for the sale of ladies furnishings exclusively. Mr. Barney has been in business in Charlotte for a long time and considers this a good opening in his line of trade.
• A fire broke out in the storeroom of the Piqua Handle Company factory at Thompsonville last Monday night, completely destroying the building and entailing a loss of about $5,000 on the building and stock which was stored in it. Prompt work by the company's firemen, assisted by the village hose company, saved an adjacent building from destruction. Insurance partially covers the building and as soon as the matter is adjusted, the company will rebuild.
• What was thought to be chicken pox in the town of Filer City, near Manistee, has now been diagnosed as smallpox by the health officer and Drs. Robinson, Ramsdell and Mulllen. The disease broke out in the schools and because many children may have been exposed, every precaution is being taken to prevent its spread.
• Cameron D. Maines, aged 45 years, a conductor on the Pere Marquette Railroad and residing at 848 Rose Street, dropped dead on his train as it was pulling into Edmore yesterday morning. Heart disease is given as the cause of death. The body was taken from the train at Edmore and later brought to this city, arriving at noon yesterday. The deceased had been in the employ of the company for the last four years and leaves an aged mother, three sisters and one brother.
• Who stole the screens? That is the question that is agitating tenants on the fourth floor of the State Bank building. They were not fire screens but the kind one hides behind when such actions are necessary. They belonged to a physician in the building and came up missing today. They were found in several of the other tenants' offices, but who first took them is not known. Judge A. F. Nerlinger saw them and others got a glimpse of one or two. A warrant will probably be issued for their arrest.
• The annual memorial service of the Traverse City Lodge of Elks in memory of departed brothers of the local lodge will be held in the Grand Opera House next Sunday afternoon. The service ceremonies are very interesting and impressive and the lodge has decided to have the service in public so that the people of the city may have an opportunity to witness it. The memorial address will be given by the Rev. G. E. Lockhart, pastor of the First Baptist church.
• P. C. Coyne, who has a fine residence on East Front Street, has purchased a farm a few miles from Temple and will move to it at once. Mrs. Coyne and her mother, Mrs. Nixon, are packing up their household effects preparatory to moving and the house will be rented. Mrs. Coyne has a business at Temple and will place it in the hands of a manager.
• Advice on deportment. In attending a church of a different denomination from your own, you should carefully observe the outward forms of worship.
• Medical advice of a century ago. Hot fomentations, or hot baths, sometimes afford partial relief from gallstones.
• Best buy of the week. Uneeda Biscuit, The most nutritious staple made from wheat, 5 cents. National Biscuit Company.