• While calling at the home of Mrs. Samuel Iles on Seventh Street, Thursday afternoon, Mrs. John P. Lucas came nearly being shot and killed by a bullet from a 38-calibre revolver. Mrs. Lucas was washing her hands in the bathroom in the east wing of the house when she heard a report and the noise of falling glass and her hat was forced to the side of her head. It is not thought that the shot was fired intentionally but rather that some boy got careless.
• Rev. William Laufman of Hillsdale and a former Methodist pastor in this city, had his right leg amputated below the knee in the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago last month. For three years he had been a great sufferer from necrosis, a crumbling of the bone and the operation became necessary to save his life. He is now occupying his pulpit for the first time in several weeks.
• One of Turnbull & Cook's livery horses created considerable excitement on the market site Friday night. The horse was just being hitched to a buggy when he became freightened and started from the barn on a run. He collided with another rig in which people were seated but the only damage was a broken pair of thills on the runaway.
• A. Ferguson of Washington Street had the little finger and part of the next finger taken off in a machine at the basket factory yesterday. The fingers were not bruised but cut very cleanly.
• The visitors at Marion Island Sunday were Blanche and Lou Way, Ruth Merckle, Lucile Lucas, Alice Kyselka, Ruth Merrifield, Florence and Carrie Earl, Minnie Votruba and her brother, Willie. The steamer Onekama is doing a good business in the afternoon to the island, the people taking the Chequamegon back to town.
• Cherries are ready to pick and you couldn't see a nicer or larger crop of them. Next comes the apples with a large crop and the buyers will not have to hunt for them. Wherever there is an orchard, there is fruit.
• Platt Barnum is assisting Mr. Yates doing some work on the electric light wiring at Kingsley. A third wire has been run from the powerhouse at Mayfield to enable the street lights at Kingsley to be run independently of other parts of the system.
• Superintendent Charles T. Grawn of the Mt. Pleasant State Normal, passed through the city this morning on his way to Leland, were he will look after his summer home there. When speaking with a reporter from this office regarding the mistake about the appropriation for the institution, Mr. Grawn said that he thought the matter could be arranged without trouble and that there must be money to keep it going, probably from the general fund.
• An order appointing a guardian for Lewis Mack, a mentally incompetent, was made today. Mack is one of the first patients to have entered the local asylum, being held for some time until the building was ready for occupation. His home was at Kingsley where he has a small amount of real estate.
• While the train men were doing their switching at Provemont last week, a car loaded with staves was cut loose, the brake failed to work and it went over the end of the track, breaking the spikes off and letting the rear trucks into the lake. A special came in Saturday and worked most of the day before the car was raised.
• The Ladies' Aid at Matchett met with Mrs. John Taylor last Wednesday and sewed carpet rags. There were twelve present and they rejoiced in the addition of two names on their roll, the new members being Mrs. John Hulett and her daughter, Mrs. Ed Kruco.
• Advice on deportment. The dining room may be lighted with either white or colored candles or lamps at a dinner party. Many prefer to have a portion of the light fall from side brackets or from the wall.
• Medical advice of a century ago. In slight burns, a piece of antiseptic gauze moistened with salt solution ( 1 teaspoonful of salt to a pint of warm water) will relieve pain.
• Best buy of the week. McDonald's Cherry & Honey Compound for Chapped, Rough Skin, 25 cents at American Drug Store.