• Secretary Wilson, of the Northern Michigan Poultry Association has announced that between 800 and 1,000 birds are on exhibit for the big show which opened Tuesday in this city. Entries have come from Grand Rapids, Big Rapids, Reed City, Ludington, Middleville, Adrian, Manistee, Central Lake, Bellaire, Kingsley and other points in this section of the state.
• Guy Scoville, a passenger brakeman on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, has been granted a three months' vacation and will leave in a week for Canyna, Panama where he has a large piece of land. He will remain there permanently if conditions suit him.
• The next number on the K. H. S. lecture and music course at Kingsley is an illustrated lecture by the Rev. Dr. Johnstone, of Cadillac. Dr. Johnstone is a platform favorite, having appeared before audiences all over the north central states and the privilege of hearing him affords a rare treat. The date of his appearance in that village is February 11th.
• A big meeting was held Saturday evening by the Long Lake A. S. of E. and the Ladies' Aid society of No. 4 at the town hall. The meeting was opened with a song by the quartet. Music by the string band and some songs and speaking were enjoyed by the audience. Later, the house was turned over to the Ladies' Aid Society for their supper and fishpond social. Part of the proceeds went to the minister and the other part to the Society's treasury.
• Delmont Saunders, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Saunders, died yesterday morning. Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at the home, a mile and a half south of Grawn. There are four children left with the parents, this being the first death in the family of little ones.
• One of the prominent farmers near Holmes Siding was in Kingsley one day last week and to pass away the time until the train came, he played checkers with some of the business men. He voted the editor of one of our nearby papers the best player he had met in many a day.
• The ladies of the Grange at Ogdensburg will have a woman's meeting in which all the women of the Grange are invited. All are requested to bring all the good things to eat which the good housewives know how to prepare.
• Mrs. William Rushmore, a resident of Old Mission, has gone to Kingsley to visit relatives for a week. Among other residents of that village who have been visiting out of town are Mrs. Reese in Traverse City and George Mlajak in Chicago.
• Eugene Fisher, who lives in Glen Arbor, sighted a car going up the lake Friday afternoon with a heavy west wind. She seemed to be laboring very hard against the heavy seas, nearly opposite South Manitou, when she turned and went back, probably making for Northport.
• Warren Taylor, who has been a great and patient sufferer for the past two months from a complication of diseases died Monday at his home in Matchett. He leaves a wife, one adopted daughter, three brothers, one sister and a mother besides a host of friends to mourn his loss. He was laid to rest in the Blackman cemetery Wednesday, the Rev. Mr. Hall preaching the funeral sermon. Many beautiful flowers were sent in token of the love and esteem in which he was held by his friends and neighbors.
• The question for the debate last Friday at Holmes Siding was, Resolved, That winter affords more pleasure than summer. We think that summer is victorious for if it were not for the bad storm last Friday, the debate (which was not held) would have been enjoyed by a large crowd, but the weather prevented the people from attending.
• Advice on deportment. In attending a church of a different denomination from your own, you should carefully observed the outward forms of worship.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To treat tonsillitis, gargles of borax, ten grains to the ounce, or salt and hot water are very serviceable.
• Best buy of the week. German Knitting Yarn, 19 cents per skein at Steinberg Bros.