• The Odd Fellows picnic Monday at Popular Point was a great success with about 300 members of Grand Traverse and Equality lodges and two lodges of Rebekahs being present. The day was devoted to a general good time, all bringing their baskets and in early afternoon, the the big party sat down under the trees and ate the fried chicken and other home cooked foods.
• The fire department was called to the P. M. Eating House Tuesday afternoon to put out a fire that had started from the range in the kitchen. The fire was under the floor and very hard to fight but a few holes were cut in the floor and the blaze extinguished.
• The case of the People vs. Joseph F. Holcroft is being heard before Justice George W. Curtis. It is alleged that on August 24, Holcroft brought a drive of logs down the Boardman River and they formed a jam just above what is known as the upper bridge. Holcroft knew that if he brought them down it would likely cause such a jam, but he proceeded with the drive regardless of the risk.
• The following is the report of the city library for August books given out €” Fiction 1100, Juvenile fiction 538, Religion 17, Sociology 40, Natural Science 191,Useful Arts 6, Fine Arts 41, Literature 33, History 18, Travel 36, Biography 16, Bound magazines 73. Patrons in the reading room were: Men 200, Women 157, Children 289.
• Camping has been the thing of the day the past two weeks at Mayfield. Several parties have spent a few days at Hogsback Lake. A crowd of five girls and Mrs. J. L. Gibbs and family have camped there as well.
• C. J. Barkman, who for the past seven and a half years has been the depot agent at Kingsley, has been transferred to Jennings, Missaukee County. Monday evening, a farewell reception was tendered him and his estimable wife, about forty being present.
• Several schools in the county have given reports of the commencement of classes and named the teachers assigned. Miss Ruth Young is at Mabel; Miss Florence Meiler at the Robinson School in Provemont; Miss Mable Cleland at Carlin; Miss Youngs at Monroe Center, E. S. Jones at Dell School; Miss Louise Hale at County Line; Mr. Masters at Summit City; Miss Bellla Hopkins at Blair and William Rick at Nickerson School.
• The $75 first prize on best fruit display at the West Michigan State Fair went to Mrs. W. Golden of Old Mission. Mrs. Golden had a very attractive display of pears and apples, although it was not as large or complete as she had intended making it owing to the lateness of the season.
• Harold Titus and Jay Smith, reporters for the Evening Record, have severed their connection with the paper and will go to Ann Arbor this week where they will enter the University of Michigan. Both men were excellent reporters and turned out very high grade work.
• V. A. Strong has received a telegram stating that his nephew, D. C. Gillespie, has been burned to death in Ritzville, Washington and that foul play is suspected. No further particulars were given and that is all that is known concerning the young man's death.
• The "old timers” sprung a surprise on the high school football team when they defeated them 7 to 5 last Friday night on the Twelfth Street grounds. The game was just a practice one and with the help of the alumni team, Coach Davis was able to get a line on the high school squad. LaFontse showed that he was still a live one when he broke away and ran the length of the field for a touch down. While the team will be light his year, they should be speedy and the rules favor a fast team.
• Private owners of timberlands in northern Michigan have lately reported that serious damage has been caused the hemlock forests in that section by porcupines and on one tract of 500 acres it is said that fully one half of the valuable tress have been destroyed by the little animals. Not much can be done to check the loss as there is an unwritten law in the woods against killing a porcupine, unless it is needed for food.
• Advice on deportment. In dancing quadrilles do not make any attempt to take steps. A quiet walk is all this is required.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To treat an occurrence of apoplexy, make the sufferer comfortable by laying him down gently and straightening his limbs raising or lowering his head.
• Best buy of the week. New Line of Dress Silks in Plaids and Stripes, 65 cents - $1.50 at The Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co.