• An art exhibit was held at the Boardman Avenue School last week, the exhibit being for the purpose of buying pictures for the school. The display was from the Horace K. Turner Co. of Boston. A ten cents admission was charged for the children and 15 cents for adults. The showing was well worth witnessing and have been held in the city previously, hence well known.
• Little Charlie Woodrow, son of Bill Woodrow, was knocked down and stepped on by a horse last week. The horse was hitched to a rig which was being loaded with peaches when a basket dropped. This scared the animal so that it jumped sidewise and knocked the boy down. One bone was broken and a big gash was cut in his leg.
• Prof. A. H. Clark has organized a chorus of high school pupils and others interested at Kingsley. He recently held the first meeting and plans to hold them every Monday night and will, without a doubt, be a source of profit and pleasure.
• The company who was putting the logs in the water on the Montague farm at Ogdensburg has jumped the job and taken their tents and gone home leaving it for someone else to finish. It is believed that the orchard is sold and that the new owner can do the fall work.
• A reception for Rev. and Mrs. Dutton was held at the First Methodist church last Wednesday evening, the affair being in honor of his being returned to that pulpit. There were about 150 present and the parlors were very prettily decorated with flowers of various kinds. An address of welcome was delivered by Prof. R. L. Nye and the pastor responded in a very fitting manner. Refreshments of ice cream and cake were served, the whole affair being very enjoyable.
• The special train of G. A. Celler, superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company, came through the city this morning on its way north. The G. R. & I. railroad telegraph system is to be taken over by the former company with all changes in the system being completed here. Telegraph supplies, signs and advertising matter have been distributed along the line.
• A few days ago, Will J. Greene, a printer in the employ of the Herald and Record Company, purchased a work shirt from a local clothier. When he removed the price tag, he found written on the back, "Miss Mabel Brooking, Penargyl, Pa.” If the addressee was a young lady of a romantic turn of mind and thought that she would discover here "affinity” through the humble medium of a work shirt, she is greatly mistaken as the purchaser is a married man and was recently the father of a twelve-pound boy.
• Many people are of the opinion that September was the wettest the region has ever known. This is not the fact, but it rained the most number of days in the past twenty-six years although the rainfall was not so heavy. Government Observer, S. E. Wait, has compiled the figures from 1882 and to date they show that the rainfall was only 4.29 inches. The wettest September was in 1886 when 7.61 inches fell.
• Mr. Mathews, a resident of Matchett, had the misfortune to step into a bear trap two weeks ago. The trap was completely concealed and had it not been that his brother was with him, he might have suffered a long time without anyone being the wiser. It took them forty-five minutes to extricate the foot. No bones were broken but there were some bad bruises.
• At the annual meeting of the Congregational Aid Society at Old Mission the following officers were elected. Mrs. A Miner, President; Mrs. Edith Leighton, Secretary; Mrs. Wm. Bushane, treasurer. They will begin their respective duties November 1st.
• Traveling salesmen Armstrong, for the R. W. Johnson Candy Co., and Loomis from the Kalamazoo Corset Co., were in town one day last week. Both men make regular visits to Traverse City and report a high volume of orders each time.
• Advice on deportment. While shopping, never look over goods without any intention of buying them.
• Medical advice of a century ago. The amount of food taken into the system during the early period of pregnancy should be less and of a more easily digested quality than at ordinary times.
• Best buy of the week. Men's Fall Suits, $7.50 - $22 at Sherman and Hunter.