• J. W. Cliffe and wife returned Sunday from Detroit where they spent the week in attendance of the annual meeting of the heads of Grinnell Bros. fifteen branch houses. Mr. Cliffe also looked into the new automatic machines. The meeting was very successful and every house reported an excellent business for the year.
• Sheriff Martin Brown of Leelanau County went to Lansing Monday where he will secure extradition papers for Frank Yankee who is wanted on the charge of selling mortgaged property. Yankee had purchased a team from Leo Solomon, giving a chattel mortgage of $400 on them. Later, he is alleged to have sold the team to Homer Bailey of Beulah for $200.
• Fire from a defective chimney Monday put Alchose's barber shop and pool room and Edward Streil's saloon out of business, seriously damaging both buildings. The loss is $1,000.
• Zelma Chase, the 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Chase of this city, who was sent to Ann Arbor totally blind two months ago, is improving rapidly and can now distinguish color and large objects. The father was unable to send his child away for treatment but a subscription paper raised a fund large enough to keep her there until her sight is fully recovered.
• Mrs. Chandler, a resident of Ogdensburg, is very sick and fears are that she will not recover. If she was younger there might be some chance for her. She is now the oldest person on the peninsula and if she lives till next May, she will be 91 years old. Up to the present, her mind has been as bright as it was at 20 and although her eyesight is poor, she said she could read the Herald because the print was so good.
• Carl Oleson was surprised last Thursday evening by twenty-one of his schoolmates and associates, arriving at his house and calling a surprise for Carl and presenting him with a fine black scarf, as it was his sixteenth birthday. The young people passed the evening with music, singing, games and plays after which they were treated with popcorn and candy.
• H. O. Joynt of this city has secured the lighting franchise for Elk Rapids and by the first of June will have an up-to-date plant in operation in that village. Mr. Joynt is not ready as yet to discuss his plans and has not decided whether he will use water or steam power.
• Grandma Gibbs had a distressing fall Saturday night at her home in Mayfield. She fell in the woodshed and was badly frightened and jarred by the fall. Her thumb and hand were sprained and the other hand was torn in several places. She is better now.
• Early Thursday morning as Art Graham and Octave Domine were on their way, each with a load of logs for the McClure mill, it seemed to them that the house occupied by H. F. Blouch at East Bay was on fire, but upon closer inspection it was found that it was the chimney that was on fire. The flames came out like a young volcano. Mr. Blouch was at work and when his wife was informed what had happened, she said she had not noticed anything out of the way. If the roof had been dry, the house would have been destroyed.
• James Purvis, of this city, was called to Grand Rapids Friday by a telegram announcing the death of his mother. Concerning the sad affair, the Grand Rapids Herald today stated: "While under the influence of an anesthetic taken to relieve her from the pain of having teeth extracted, Mrs. Julia Devendorf died at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Everything possible was done to restore the patient with hypodermics and artificial respiration.”
• Caught on a hook and hanging dead from the end of a line, one of the little ducks that come into the river below the Union Street bridge every winter was found yesterday. Someone had evidently taken the hood with a minnow and then caught the duck. The fowl must have died a slow, cruel death and whoever was guilty should be severely punished.
• Advice on deportment. Calls should be paid within a week after the receipt of invitations to a dinner party.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To treat nettle rash, dust with finely-powdered oxide of zinc and starch with rye flour.
• Best buy of the week. Good Chase Leather Couch, $9.75 at J. W. Slater.