• The prospectus for the Traverse City street railway and interurban line is now in the hands of the printers and will be issued in a few days. An active campaign will begin to raise the funds upon the bonds which is required by the franchise granted by the city. Citizens who have money laying idle will do well in not overlooking this enterprise.
• Frank Kelley and Jack Kaman arrived in the city Saturday evening with a new automobile to replace the one which burned earlier while on the way here. The car is the largest in the area, being a seven-passenger Harrison with a very long body. The motor is a forty-horse power gasoline machine and can pull the car sixty miles an hour.
• The son of William Baker met with a very painful accident while playing at school at recess last week. In running about, another boy fell on him, causing the Baker boy to strike the ground in such a manner that one of the fingers on his left hand was broken.
• H. M. Powell left this country fourteen years ago for Oklahoma where he afterwards started a general store. Later, he was attacked with typhoid fever which stayed with him two years. He returned to Omena to visit friends then went back to the south resolved to sell out and come back to this country. He is now purchased a piece of land about one-half mile from Omena where he intends to raise fruit.
• H. C. Blodgett has been selected to take charge of the chorus and solo work of the Baptist choir. Last Sunday, he sang an aria from "The Elijah” in the morning and another in the evening, both of which were highly appreciated by all present.
• Harry Johnson, who lives at Bowers harbor, gave a corn and marshmallow roast to the young people at that place Tuesday evening last. The event was well attended and the crowd enjoyed the gathering until late into the night.
• Mr. and Mrs. Medad Vinton returned last Monday from Northport where they were called by the serious illness of Miss Vella Spangle. The friends of Miss Spangle will be pleased to learn that she is recovering nicely after her operation and her condition shows great improvement.
• A force of men went to work this morning on the Pere Marquette roundhouse and it is expected the work will be completed before snow flies. The construction will be rushed as fast as possible as the great increase in business along the line makes the present arrangement very inconvenient.
• Herbert Young died very suddenly yesterday evening at the home of his mother at Mabel. He has been ill for several years but was not confined to his bed until within the past week. Hemorrhage of the bowels was the cause of death. Mr. Young was 40 years of age and in addition to his mother, leaves one sister and one brother.
• J. W. Slater found a twig in his orchard not over eight inches in length bearing fourteen apples in a cluster. He brought the specimen to this office to verify the oddity and showed it around the city to a number of surprised folks.
• Yesterday morning, the wife of Joseph Mossier, engineer on the steamer Leelanau, presented him with a pretty baby daughter and as he passed out cigars, he carried a broad and contented smile. This morning, his brother, Charles, who is captain of the boat, came down with twice as many cigars and twice as broad a smile, as his wife made him a present of two girl babies, both of them handsome. Three girls in two days are indeed sufficient cause for happiness.
• Isaac Stanton, late of Co. K. Thirteenth United States Infantry, is home on a visit with his parents at Interlochen. The young man has just completed a three year enlistment, two years of which were spent on the island of Luzon in the Phillippines. He has not yet decided whether he will re-enlist.
• Advice on deportment. To be late at church is bad manners.
• Medical advice of a century ago. When muscular cramps occur in one of the legs, take a strong cord, wind it around the leg where it is cramped and taking an end in each hand, give a sharp pull, strong enough to produce some pain.
• Best buy of the week. Fall Line of Girls' Caps, 25 cents, 35 cents, 45 cents at The Globe Dept. Store.