• Superintendent of the Poor, F. D. Marvin, went to Interlochen Tuesday to look after a case of poverty that has been supported by charity there for some time. The man's name is Jewell and Mr. Marvin found him in bed. He has a wife and four children to support and is apparently sick. They are destitute and would have had nothing to eat had not Interlochen people rendered them assistance.
• Miss Lillian Parr entertained about twenty of her friends at her home on West Eighth Street Tuesday evening in a pleasant manner, the affair being in honor of her birthday. Miss Parr was the recipient of a number of very pretty gifts and the evening was very pleasantly spent in games. Refreshments of ice cream and cake were served.
• With snow piled to some places seven feet deep about the cars, logging train No. 87 was stalled between Henry and Thompsonville on the Pere Marquette until 2:30 last Thursday morning. Before evening the snowplows were out and running, one from this city and one from Kalkaska.
• With indications pointing toward suicide, Charles Snow was found dead in bed at the Shilson House Tuesday afternoon. He retired at 9 o'clock Monday night after purchasing an ounce of laudanum. An autopsy was held last evening and the contents of the stomach are being analyzed today which will be followed by an inquest later tonight.
• Billie Saxton, a resident at Holmes Siding, met with a bad accident last Thursday. While he was loading logs, one of them rolled on his left foot smashing the toes so that the large toe had to be removed. At the present, he is resting as comfortably as is expected.
• Our correspondent at East Acme reports that Will Aleire, a resident at that place, has bought Mr. Warneck's livery business in Elk Rapids, taking possession last Monday. He has stated that he will move his family to that village in about two weeks. Their friends in East Acme will greatly miss them because they have been such good neighbors
• Mrs. B. A. Cook, aged 56 of 927 East Ninth Street, passed away Tuesday afternoon after having been confined to her bed since December 26. With her at the time of her death were her three daughters of this city and her sister of Salem, Missouri. The funeral will be held from the home tomorrow afternoon, the Rev. G. E. Lockhart officiating.
• An electrical blizzard, said to be due to sun spots, came just after midnight March 5 in New York City and amid loud cracks of thunder, vivid flashes of lightning, there was a dense snowfall and a forty-eight mile wind. An hour previous to the storm, the air was balmy. The blizzard was predicted by Prof. John A. Brascar, the noted astronomer.
• Mrs. A. D. Hewitt was called to Mt. Pleasant last week by the serious condition of her daughter, Fanny who received injuries from a fall. Miss Hewitt graduated from the local high school last June and had been in attendance at the Normal in Mt. Pleasant this year. Thursday she slipped and fell in the building, lying unconscious for five days in a hospital. The news was kept from her parents for a time when, under her improved condition, they were notified by mail.
• The South Side Lumber Company of this city has purchased one of the finest remaining tracts of pine in Grand Traverse county, the tract being located near Walton. The tract is now being cut and the logs will be shipped to their mill in the city.
• Smallpox has again broken out in Interlochen. Dr. Holliday discovered it at the home of E. McLeoud, Mrs. Mc Leoud being the one afflicted. Measures have been taken to quarantine the house and confine the patient to bed rest.
• Advice on deportment. Ten or fifteen minutes is the usual length of a formal call, half an hour is the "extreme” limit.
• Medical advice of a century ago. Treating whooping cough with inhalation by means of a steam atomizer or croup kettle, of medicated steam often affords relief to the coughing. Carbolic acid, advantageously combined with an alkali is recommended.
• Best buy of the week. One-fourth off on the entire line of lace fabrics at Steinberg Bros.