• Lee Lanway, aged 30, an employee of the city on the Eighth Street paving job, was struck by Fred Longnecker's automobile Saturday evening and suffered a fracture of the clavicle, a fracture of the left shoulder blade and bruises. He was in considerable pain that night and although suffering still, is now quite improved.
• Mrs. Alvina Young was adjudged insane today and admitted to the asylum here, her examination taking place before Probate Judge Walker. On Thursday, Mr. Young came home to supper to find his wife gone and got no trace of her until Saturday when he received word that she had gone to Williamsburg. Her mania is that she is married to another man and she is looking for him.
• A terrible electrical storm swept over the city about 3:30 Monday morning and the roar of the thunder was so continuous that it drove away sleep for the majority of citizens for some time. So far as could be learned, the damage done in the city amounted to practically nothing.
• The mystery as to the whereabouts of Nelson Kuhn seems no nearer a solution than it was yesterday. The young man has been missing over a week and his friends are much alarmed. The fact that he was not known to have any money has a bearing on the case as he was not the kind of a young man that would steal a ride on a train and was in such a condition that he could not have walked any distance.
• Ira Chase, a veteran of the Civil War, has been robbed of $300 which he patiently saved out of the pension allotted him by the government. His entire house was ransacked but so far as has been learned, the money was the only thing taken. Mr. Chase did not believe in banks so he constructed one of his own, building a secretary and in one of the drawers he placed a false bottom.
• It is quite noticeable on several streets in the city that the foliage on the shade trees is becoming shriveled and the leaves rapidly dying. It was the opinion of J. F. Gillespie that this is caused from lack of water which appears reasonable from the fact that the condition mentioned exists chiefly on paved streets. Mr. Gillespie suggests that these trees may be preserved by a proper process of watering and urges prompt attention by residents whose property is beautified by the shade trees.
• Albert Petzlass was the cause of Sheriff Johnson and Deputy Sheriff Taylor taking a run about seven miles yesterday afternoon and doing the sprint through potato fields, corn fields and woodland in record time. It seems that Petzlass badly frightened a number of people in the vicinity of the Stricker farm by going up to houses and shouting at women. They summoned the sheriff telling him that a crazy man was loose.
• The first meeting of the Oak Park Mothers Club was an excellent one and is a good start for a profitable year for its members. The topic of the meeting, "When Should a Child Enter School” was presented by Miss Cora Pierson, one of the kindergarten teachers at the building. She emphasized that children should not enter school before 5 or preferably 6 years of age and that the fist year should be more like the home than a formal school.
• The Rev. Earl Hicks drew a large audience at the City Opera House Saturday evening at his lecture given under the auspices of the class of 1900. In his lecture, Mr. Hicks made the startling assertion that in years to come, the energy stored up in a storm cloud would turn the wheels of the world, that the great dynamic forces now going to waste and causing death and destruction would do man's work.
• E. A Weston, agent of the Northern Michigan Transportation Co., proved Monday that he was a lightning conductor. He was busy that afternoon engaged in writing, not even having time to stop and watch the storm. Suddenly there came a terrible flash of lightning and the "juice” leaped right through the window striking the pen in his fingers, running up his arm, down his left side and into the floor. A careful invoice showed no injuries.
• Ed DeYounge, who held a position for a number of years at J. W. Slater's furniture store, but who left about two years ago to take a position in Lansing returned to this city and his old position last Monday. He says that there is no place like Traverse City for him. His wife and family returned yesterday and they will reside at 617 W. Front Street.
• Advice on deportment. Furniture and other room decor for a dinner party should be arranged in such a manner that it will not interfere with the guests' view of one another.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To treat a person who has suffered an epileptic fit, lay the victim flat and guard him against injuring himself.
• Best buy of the week. High Cut Shoes for Fall and Winter, $2.00 up to $6.00, A. V. Friedrich.