• The Old Settlers' meeting this year will be held at Elk Rapids and promises to be the biggest gathering of the kind ever held in northern Michigan. The opera house has been secured for the meeting and is the best place in the city for such an assemblage being roomy, very light and pleasant.
• Oren, son of Arthur Armstrong of Williamsburg, was badly bitten by a dog belonging to Ray Shug last evening and fears of hydrophobia are entertained. The young man is employed on the Shug farm and was in the habit of playing with the dog. Last night, however, the animal suddenly turned and attacked, biting him in the head and tearing the scalp to the skull.
• The budget of the city for the coming year is $73,460 against $60,430 last year. The highest paid worker is the city clerk at $1,800. Four policemen who have served over one year will earn $660 and the health officer will receive $3 each for disinfecting certain contagious diseases.
• After the regular business session of the Elks Thursday night nearly one hundred members gathered around the banquet board in honor of Robert Caldwell and Alderman James Murchie, who are to leave next week on a trip to Scotland and other points in Europe. The occasion was a 1907 "smoker”, one of the old-fashioned things to eat, to do and of good times.
• Harry Campbell, aged 15 years, son of Dr. John Campbell, made the banner catch for a fish last night. He landed with hook and line at the mouth of Carter Creek a rainbow trout measuring twenty-seven inches and weighing eight pounds nine ounces.
• A petition signed by a large number of bicycle riders asked that the board of public works provide bicycle paths on the streets of the city as many of them were impassible for wheels. Mr. Shuter moved that the petition be referred to the board of public works with power to act. Mr. Moon stated that he thought that the wheelmen were imposed upon, but believed it would cost too much to build the paths and favored the repealing of the ordinance to carry lights on wheels.
• Nineteen pupils of Miss Louise Buck, music teacher, gave a recital at Stewart's Academy Monday night. Miss Buck being assisted by Mrs. A. S. Rowley who had two excellent vocal number on the program. Owing to the burning out of the transformer, no electric lights were available and a slight delay and much trouble ensued in securing lamps.
• The starch factory started work yesterday with about sixty men. The plant is only running days now and will continue do so until all the weak spots in the machinery are discovered. Superintendent Gratenburg has stated that there are plenty of orders ahead and the plant will be a busy place as soon as it gets the stiffness out of the joints.
• With heavy logs rending his engine into uselessness, piling themselves about the boiler, and even crushing into his cab, Engineer Phillip Bellinger of the city stayed on the seat, applied the air and stopped the G. R. & I. passenger train due to leave for the south at 3:35, just inside the yard limits at Boonville, Monday afternoon. By doing this, a disastrous wreck was averted. As it is, engine No. 4 is a wreck and traffic was delayed about seven hours.
• Great Commander N. S. Boynton of the Maccabees and Perry F. Powers of Cadillac will be in the city June 20 and the big meeting will be held at that time. The next day is Maccabee Day at Charlevoix and the Pere Marquette will run an excursion from Traverse City, making a low rate for the trip.
• Howard Dunn returned Thursday from Kalamazoo College, passing Sunday with his parents in Kingsley and leaving Tuesday for Chicago. He will enter Chicago University for the summer and return again in September.
• Advice on deportment. At a large dinner, a card bearing the name of the guest should be laid beside each plate.
• Medical advice of a century ago. Mild ointments give relief to ivy poisoning, especially oxide of zinc ointment containing ten grains of carbolic acid to the ounce.
• Best buy of the week. Hambleton Stallion, Six years old, terms $10 down, William Heim.