• The annual New Year's social session of the Elks lodge will be held December 31st as heretofore. The committees have been appointed and preparations are in progress for an elaborate ladies' social session. These events are always looked forward to with great interest and this year the occasion will be fully up to past standards.
• One of the best entertainments ever given in Summit City was by the Hodge Dramatic Company at Grange Hall last Saturday night. There was a good attendance and an enjoyable evening was had by all who came.
• About $130 was made by the Ladies' Aid of the First M. E. church at their bazaar and supper in Guild Hall last week. The hall was a pretty sight with its brightly decorated booths and four long tables which each had a vase of chrysanthemum and roses in the center and sprays of ground pine added for artistic effect.
• Mrs. Maria Trimble, wife of L. E. Trimble, the baker, committed suicide Friday night by swallowing an eighth of an ounce of strychnine while making a call upon her sister, Mrs. Ed Lardie. Since the death of her son, who accidentally shot himself while hunting, Mrs. Trimble had been steadily failing both in health and in mind.
• Thompsonville is to have a new industry that will give employment to about 60 men and will result in the re-opening of a plant that has been closed for some time, H. B. Lucas of Escanaba having purchased the old butter dish factory there. A force of men are working time and a quarter to get the new plant in operation by January 1, if possible.
• The subject for discussion under the head of "Conversation” proved so absorbing at the Woman's Club Friday that the reciprocity papers were omitted. Preceding the discussion, items of business were taken up, the principal one being the decision upon a piano for the club.
• Jerome Wilhelm, formerly of this city, but now doing engineering work in the south, is certainly meeting with success. He is in charge of a big job for the Southern Pacific. Concerning this, a reporter with the New Orleans Times-Democrat newspaper wrote an impressive feature noting that the project is considered a triumph in bridge engineering.
• The Aunt Janet club met at the home of Miss Josephine Carver Thursday afternoon, Miss Eldred being their guest. A potluck supper was enjoyed after which a musical program was given. The evening closed with each one repeating a Bible verse.
• W. N. Moot and family of Thompsonville, returned home this morning after spending a few days visiting his sister, Mrs. Yokers, who is a patient at the Traverse City Hospital. Mr. Moot says his sister will be able to leave the hospital in one week.
• Late yesterday in Circuit Court, the case of John Seegmiller vs. Emma Seegmiller divorce, the court ordered the plaintiff to pay the defendant $2.50 per week temporary alimony. It was also ordered that he pay $25 on the hearing of the case by solicitor A. F. Nerlinger.
• The residents of Washington Street between Railroad Avenue and Barlow Street who petitioned for tar macadam paving last year, have changed their minds and now want brick. At the last city council meeting, on Mr. Rickerd's motion, it was referred to the streets and walks committee
• Health Officer Holiday reported that there had been 12 cases of smallpox, the cases being confined to four families, six cases being in one family, four in another and in two other families, one each. The cases were people who had not only been exposed, but had continually rubbed up against the disease. This week, the last home will be fumigated and released from quarantine.
• Advice on deportment. While traveling, the escort must see to everything at a hotel, rooms, etc.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To treat boils, poultice it with flaxseed or bread and milk, containing laudanum to ease the pain.
• Best buy of the week. Steinway Grand Pianos, $1,000 to $1,500 at Grinnell Bros., Michigan's Leading Music House.