• John Cruse, a well-known Honor merchant, has just purchased an eighteen-foot Grand Traverse knock-about from the Traverse City Motor Boat Company. The boat will be equipped with an Eclipse No. 3 special. Another recent sale made by this company is a twenty-two-footer to Mr. Arntz of Dayton, Ohio who will use the craft on Waloon Lake.
• Nicholas Kneiper of Acme, who was so severely injured a few days ago, is able to sit up today. His fever has left him and the chances for his recovery are excellent. While working on the farm of John Moran, helping move an ice house, the building split in two, half falling on Mr. Kneiper. Several ribs were broken and his heart was injured. It was thought that his injuries would prove fatal but it looks now as if he will recover entirely unless complications set in.
• Asa H. Hall, an aged and well-known resident of the city, passed away at his home on State Street last Tuesday afternoon after an illness of some weeks. He was the father of Frank and Charles of this city and for some time was a draughtsman, having an office in the Hannah & Lay Mercantile Company's building.
• The Free Methodists will hold quarterly meeting services in their church on East Fourteenth Street recently fitted for worship. Services 7:30 each evening Sunday 10:30 a.m. All are cordially invited. The Rev. C. H. Bartlett, pastor; the Rev. J. E. Sanders, D. E.
• An investigation of smoke, made by dancers returning home at 2 o'clock Saturday morning, showed the woodenware warehouse of Henry Richardi at Bellaire to be on fire and an alarm was turned in. The building had been used in part for storing potatoes during the winter and fire kept for that purpose probably caused the destruction of the building.
• Slipping on the ice in his door yard, Mike McGarry of Long Lake broke his right thigh bone last Wednesday. Mr. McGarry is 72 years old which makes his injury of a very serious nature.
• C. M. E. Seelig has purchased the Arthur Haynes farm of 100 acres at Northport. It contains 75 acres of timber, much of which is very valuable. The farm is particularly valuable for a sheep farm. The price paid was $5,000 and is one of the largest real estate deals that has taken place in that community for some time.
• Austin Overholt and family of this city went down to Kingsley Sunday and are spending a few days in that village while Austin is convalescing. He recently submitted to an operation which left him very weak.
• The Beitner Ladies Aid Society at Keystone sewed seven and one half pounds of rags, hemmed a tablecloth and nine napkins, made two aprons, six towels and one skirt for Mrs. Jamison one day last week. There were sixteen present and all had a very pleasant time.
• W. C. Ransom, secretary off the Old Mission Beach Resort Association, has announced that the annual meeting of the group has been scheduled for April 25 at 2 o'clock. Business to be transacted will be the election of trustees to serve during the ensuing year along with other issues which may be presented for consideration.
• The annual spring opening began at J. W. Miliken's Saturday with the store being very crowded by customers anxious to view the new merchandise and make purchases of the goods. Stewart's six-piece orchestra furnished the music. The decorations were very pretty, the color scheme being lavender and white with six sections of lattice work trimmed in lavender tulips and two lilac bushes placed on the stairs.
• Mrs. W. Golden of Old Mission is the possessor of a part of a board taken from the floor on which Abraham Lincoln made his speech as a lawyer. The old courthouse in Lincoln, Illinois was recently torn down and friends of Mrs. Golden secured the bit of board for her. A piece was cut off and presented to F. D. Marvin of the city. It is only a bit of pine flooring but many people would be willing to part with a good sum of money to own such a relic because of its associations.
• Advice on deportment. It is a breach of etiquette to remove one's gloves when making a formal call.
• Medical advice of a century ago. In severe cases of diphtheria, whiskey should be given to the patient every two or three hours in teaspoonful doses to sustain the vital forces.
• Best buy of the week. Stylish skirts, $3.00 to $30.00 at J. W. Milliken