• The principal portion of the meeting of the board of education Tuesday night was devoted to discussion of various matters, prominent among them being the two weeks of school added last year and the high school manual training. Mr. Montague stated that a number of people had given statements to him that in their opinion the two weeks were of no value to the student and that nothing was accomplished.
• Old Mr. Olier, who lives north of Mayfield, was taken sick with hemorrhage of the bladder while visiting in Kingsley and had to remain there most of last week. He came home Sunday. On Monday Dr. Brownson was called to attend him again.
• All who heard it, were greatly grieved and shocked Thursday evening when a telephone message came stating that Mrs. John Seely was badly hurt and little Josephine Seely had been killed in a runaway. Investigation proved that the little one was the daughter of Mr. Seely's sister who had come from Toledo, Ohio to care for her invalid mother at Hodge. The sympathy of the entire community has been with the afflicted family.
• The police took Morton Fox, a young Grand Rapids boy, from a northbound Pere Marquette passenger train Monday, detained him in the city and sent him back the next morning. The boy says that he and his mother were to leave for Petoskey and he was told to get into the smoker while the woman did an errand. As she did not follow on the next train, he was sent back.
• Mrs. Finley Hammond entertained Monday afternoon at her pleasant home just south of the city in honor of her little daughter, Miss Mildred, the occasion being her eleventh birthday. About thirty little folks were present and the time was spent in games and music with a lunch served in the shade of the old apple tree.
• An odd accident occurred today at a schoolhouse about seven miles west of the city. Miss Lulu Britton, teacher of the school, was starting on her way home and gathering up the reins leaned over the dashboard to touch the horse with the whip when everything became a blank to her. It is supposed that the horse kicked her making her unconscious. When she recovered her senses, she was lying over the dashboard and the horse was cropping grass by the roadside.
• Joseph Michel has purchased the Perry Anderson farm at Hannah. Mr. Anderson will remain at that place until Fall when he expects to move to Cass county where he expects to purchase another farm.
• Tuesday, the cancer specialist successfully removed the cancer from the nose of John Dickerson, a resident of East Bay. Mr. Dickerson was fortunate as the specialist told him that in six months more, the cancer would have affected his entire face and it would have been a difficult matter to cure it.
• Stella, the 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Moore, died at the family residence on Webster Street this morning. She leaves her parents and four brothers. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the residence, the Rev. Kennedy officiating.
• Miss Gertrude and Miss Lois Lane of this city left this noon for Petoskey where Miss Scott will read a paper before the W. C. T. U. meeting. Miss Lane goes as a delegate.
• Heedless of his own danger, George Tillson, a brakeman on the G. R. & I. freight No. 98 which runs between this city and Cadillac, sprang between two moving boxcars and dragged the unconscious form of his fellow worker, A. R. Yager, to safety. The man had fallen between the cars and received injuries which may yet prove fatal. The accident happened Tuesday night.
• Mrs. Prescott, children and maids, of Chicago arrived at Old Mission this week to occupy the "Pines” for the summer. Mr. Prescott plans to join the family in two weeks.
• Advice on deportment. In the evening or whenever safety may require, a gentleman should give a lady his arm when walking along the street.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To treat a case of intoxication, give an emetic of a tablespoonful of mustard in a tumbler of warm water.
• Best buy of the week. Summer Muslin Underwear, 25 cents and up at J. W. Milliken.