• There is a movement on foot in Elk Rapids to secure better hours for the grocery clerks and employers. A plan is nearing completion to bring about the six o'clock closing hour and it is expected these arrangements will become operative by October 28.
• The Elmwood Avenue Mothers' Club held their regular monthly meeting yesterday afternoon and after the regular routine of business was gone though, a very pleasing program was given. First was James Nelson who gave a recitation, followed by several members giving papers, the most interesting being, "Should the Education of a Boy Differ From That of a Girl?”
• As an experiment, Henry Brodhagen and P. H. Brown will manufacture 500 chairs and if this is successful, the business will be engaged in on a large scale. Mr. Brown is thoroughly experienced and a practical man so that the experiment will undoubtedly be successful.
• The post office safe at South Boardman was blown early this morning and although the robbers escaped, all they secured was a registered letter. Bert Alton was returning to his boarding house when he heard the explosion and ran to the home of Dr. Robertson, the town marshal. About all the male population was awakened and hastily armed themselves before going to the site only to find it deserted.
• The Board of Supervisors Saturday granted Sheriff Johnson permission to secure a bloodhound whenever in the opinion of himself and the prosecutor, it was necessary to do so, the county to stand the expense. Mr. Johnson believes such an animal would greatly help in tracking runaway fugitives and missing persons.
• Mrs. G. A. Holliday, while assisting the ladies to serve meals at the Methodist church yesterday, had occasion to go to the parsonage and use the telephone. She opened a door as she supposed into the room that contained the telephone and fell headlong into the cellar, striking on her head and shoulders. Her back was hurt, her left shoulder dislocated and her head badly cut.
• The matter of Front Street headquarters for the police has been definitely settled at last. Some time ago, a motion was made that the room at 155 Front Street be rented for that purpose. The mayor declared it not carried and in the absence of the mayor at last night's meeting, the motion was again made and on advice of the city attorney, declared it carried.
• Fire broke out in the residence of Clarence Sherman, 441 Second Street, early Tuesday morning and before an alarm was sent in, the flames had gained such headway that the interior of the house was gutted. No explanation has been give as to how the fire started but Mr. Sherman believes that it started in some way from the heating stove. The insurance coverage was $500 which is much less than the $2,000 for the cost of building it.
• The suggestion of Mayor Freidrich that the G. R. & I. Railway Company when they build their new bridge over the Boardman River lower it to such an extent that the embankment may be cut down is an excellent one. If carried out it will add much to the beauty of Front Street since conditions which exist now, a view of the bay is shut off by the high embankment.
• Mrs. L. F. Grocesser left for Stockton, California with her three children on Tuesday to join her husband. Monday night a number of friends gathered to bid farewell and presented her with a beautiful berry spoon as a token remembrance.
• Double apples, three plums grown together and all that are thrown in the shade by a head of cabbage found on the Adams' farm on the peninsula by William Sheer. This head is really seven heads all grown together. The freak was found among a field of good cabbages.
• Advice on deportment. When shopping, never express your opinion about an article of merchandise another is purchasing, unless asked to do so.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To treat dysentery, a mild laxative in the beginning as epsom salts, three drachms, or castor oil and laudanum might be selected.
• Best buy of the week. Ladies' Heatherbloom Petticoats, $2.50 at Steinberg Bros.