• W. D. C. Germaine has purchased Mrs. Elsie Hannah's Franklin touring car, this handsome automobile being of the best and fastest in the city. Mrs. Hannah has placed her order with Mr. Sanders, representing Adams & Hart of Grand Rapids for a seven-passenger, six cylinder Franklin touring car which is especially fine and handsomely finished. Delivery will be April 1st.
• Northport society ladies took advantage of the high price paid by fruit growers for apple pickers and formed apple picking parties going out to the orchards and receiving $2 and $1.50 per day for their services. The apple crop was unusually heavy this year and help was scarce, even children being employed by some of the farmers. The best grade of fruit brought as high as $3.50 per barrel.
• W. F. Bowen, O. P. Carver and F. W. Carver left on the early Pere Marquette train last week on a two weeks' hunting trip. They planned to pitch their tent in the wilds of Benzie county and expected to bag a nice lot of birds.
• H. Brown and J. Van Dam have purchased the Queen City Bakery from N. C. Nichols and are completely overhauling the same. A new bake oven was installed and a fine confectionery department has been added. The have also put in a wagon to deliver to the retail and wholesale trade of the city twice each day. Both are very congenial personages and will make quality and merit the business motto of the place.
• Roy Scott, Arthur Spencer and Clarence Sheffer entertained Friday evening at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Spencer, corner of Randolph and Monroe. The house was very prettily decorated with mountain ash berries and oak leaves. On entering, the guests went upstairs where games and other pastimes took up the evening. Refreshments of coffee, pumpkin pie, doughnuts and popcorn were served.
• The police of the city were busy during the month of October in rounding up law breakers, gathering in 29 offenders during that time. Of these, the majority of them have been drunks who sobered up in the city lockup and four were lodgers who had no other place to sleep. Two were arrested on a charge of burglary.
• Mrs. Charles Irish and other delegates have returned from Kalkaska where they attended the district meeting of the W. C. T. U. They brought back the prize banner which Willard Union won, having the largest membership of any in the district. There are 36 paid members on the roll which is one better than that of Mancelona.
• Charles W. Parker, although 57 years old, is still an enthusiastic deer hunter. He began this sport when but 13 years of age and during the years since has gone hunting every fall with the exception of three. This is a record that but few can boast of. He took out a license today and will be among the first to start out when the season opens.
• George Newberry, who is in the employ of Smith & Hull in their lumbering operation on one of the Manitous, is in the city looking for men. Smith & Hull are paying $10 a month for men to work in their camps on the island and Mr. Newberry was authorized to secure 25 men, steady work at the wages named. The wages are the highest paid in this section of the state for men to work at lumbering, in a great many years.
• At noon yesterday Mrs. Cynthia Kratser, wife of Solomon Kratser, was relieved of her sufferings. For the last four months she was ill with complication of diseases but about three weeks ago she was so much better that she could be around the house and got to her meals unassisted. She was taken worse again with pneumonia and had been failing ever since.
• T. G. Carter, who has spent 10 years in the Klondike, left this morning on the G. R. & I. for a visit with friends in Canada. Mr. Carter has been visiting D. T. Ashelby at his summer home in Northport who is a partner in the mining interests in the Klondike. Mr. Carter is enjoying his vacation from the strenuous life of the frozen north but will return to that area in the spring. He is very much interested in Alaska and believes that it has a great future.
• Advice on deportment. When traveling, if a person crushes or crowds you and apologizes, accept the apology with a cold bow.
• Medical advice of a century ago. It is not necessary or right for a child to have scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria, etc., as so many people think.
• Best buy of the week. Walk-Over Shoes, $3.00 - $4.00 at A. V. Friedrich, You Can't Help But Notice the Difference.