• William F. Smith's gasoline fishing launch was totally destroyed by fire last night. The loss is about $700 with insurance of $350. While the origin of the fire is not known, it is thought that it started from a spark from a stove which had been used to dry nets in the afternoon.
• Mrs. Hughes' class of girls in the Baptist Sunday school have organized under the name of the Farther Lights Circle Auxiliary to the national organization. Will Carleton, Michigan's poet, whose wife was a Baptist missionary, was very much interested in the beginning of this work and gave to them their motto, "The light that shines brightest, shines farthest from home.”
• The annual bazaar and supper of Grace church guild, held Tuesday evening was a success in every way, the ladies clearing a neat sum by their efforts. The hall looked very pretty with its artistically decorated booths displaying useful articles. Those in charge were kept constantly busy attending to the customers.
• William Days, aged 54, died this afternoon from the effects of an attack of blood poisoning suffered last spring. Mr. Days came to Summit City 34 years ago and during his long residence has made a large number of friends. He leaves a wife and five children.
• The pretty residence of C. G. Sherwood on Union Street was the scene of a unique social function Friday when Mesdames Sherwood and Abbott honored Miss Myrtle Gardner with a china shower. The guests were received in the library and then invited to the parlor where stood the charming bride to be to receive her shower. Each gift was accompanied with a bit of advice on "How to make a model husband”.
• Mrs. Amanda Leece left Saturday for Custer, Michigan where she will meet with the trustees of Dunkard's church in regard to resolving the issue with property in which the church and Mrs. Leece are interested. Her husband, John Leece, died about a year ago and he willed their home with 40 acres of land to the Dunkard church, the church to pay the debts. Mrs. Leece was to have the use of the farm and house during her lifetime.
• Car Ferry Manistique No. 1 left Sunday for South Chicago where she will go into dry dock and receive a general overhauling before starting on her winter's work. It will probably be a week before she will resume her run.
• W. C. Hull, F. H. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. C. Germaine, Mrs. C. M. Beers and Mrs. Samuel Garland, who have been attending the auto show in Chicago, are all home now, having enjoyed the exhibition very much. Mr. Smith has placed an order for a 1908 six-cylinder Peerless touring car, the engine showing 75-horse power and all the appointments being of the finest and best.
• A report has been published in the Cadillac Evening News regarding the arrest of Fred C. Kucks, who is charged with raising $1 bills to $10 by very crude means of hand printing. A man answering this description and undoubtedly the same one, was in this city a week or more ago.
• Mrs. E. E. Miller went to Detroit Saturday morning, called there by a message stating that her daughter, Florence, who is teaching music in that city, was very ill. Miss Miller has a large number of friends here who hope for an early and complete recovery.
• Every Raymond Wilkins, the 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Wilkins of West Twelfth Street, died Tuesday evening after only a few hours' illness. The child was taken with spasms in the morning and all efforts to revive him proved fatal. The child was the youngest in the family of eight children.
• Charlie Cotton, a resident at South Grant, had the misfortune last week while sawing wood with his machine to slip and fall and crushing his right foot. Doctors fear that amputation will be necessary. This machine will be the peer of any now in the city and will be delivered April 1.
• Advice on deportment. While shopping, never let the door of a shop slam in the face of any person, nor permit a stranger to hold it open without any acknowledgment of courtesy.
• Medical advice of a century ago. The most successful treatment of gastric ulcer is perfect rest in bed and nourishment entirely by nutritive injections.
• Best buy of the week. Silk Handkerchiefs, 25 cents and 50 cents at S. E. Wait & Sons.