-- Last Thursday two dogs entered the chicken house in which Miss Nettie C. Gray had a flock of White Plymouth Rock chickens and slaughtered 16, leaving them bleeding and mangled on the floor of the coop. The animals then went to the chicken house of Miss Jennie Anderson and killed several of this flock. Chief of Police Ashton was notified and he started out in quest of the dogs. No word had been received telling of their capture.
-- The entertainment given by the school at Old Mission last week was one of the best ever presented. The drills were very fine indeed and the whole program showed a great deal of time had been devoted in preparing for it. The teachers had reason to be proud of their pupils.
-- Clinton, the 1-year-old son of Oliver Breithaupt, was seriously injured Saturday afternoon in the Hannah & Lay Mercantile store by falling against a screw in the wall. The mother, who was doing some shopping, had left the child in its cab near the front entrance. The child stood up and losing his balance fell forward. In falling, the child's face struck the screw catching the flesh of the cheek near the nose and tearing a jagged rent to his lip. The mother is almost prostrated over the accident, blaming herself for it.
-- There will be no woman on the board of education this year despite the efforts that have been put forth to have a mother on the board, the city charter standing in the way not only of women voting but also of a woman becoming the member of the board. Every effort is being made to have the charter amended so that the defect will be remedied as soon as possible.
-- The J. C. D. ladies' society are making great preparations for their twelfth annual ball and supper and no doubt the ladies will meet with their usual success. The menu is: roast veal, potato salad, beef tongue, sour kraut, boiled ham, pickles, backed beans, kolache, cakes and coffee. Admission is $1.00 a couple.
-- Our correspondent at Mabel reports that Grover Hammond has rented Tom Pray's farm for the next season. Tom and Clint Pray expect to play ball at Mancelona next summer.
-- While hunting not long ago, Peter Olson of Fife Lake saw a black fox which his dog scared up, but owing to the high wind, he did not hear the dog barking until the fox was well away from him. However, he aimed a shot and it picked off some of the hair. Black fox pelts are worth from $400 to $700 each and had he secured this one it would have been a prize pelt.
-- Moses Bowerman, a very highly respected and prosperous farmer near Summit City, died last Thursday after an illness dating from last June. Mr. Bowerman had been able to be up and around and has some hopes of recovering but Wednesday he was taken suddenly worse, dying the next morning.
-- The Knights of the Macabees at Kingsley were surprised last Saturday evening by having the ladies walk in to the lodge room with baskets full of good things to eat. The evening was very pleasantly spent.
-- Some unknown miscreants broke into the Grelickville school Saturday night, demolished the kindergarten chairs and did other damage. The only clue left was the sentence on the blackboard, "Beware of the Mystic Ten." Who that might be is not known but the school board will willingly pay a $25 reward for information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of the guilty person or persons.
-- Mrs. Minnie Rose, a resident of Thompsonville, charged with allowing her child to starve to death is on trial at that place before Justice Northrup. The woman has been a housekeeper for Avery Nostrandt for the last three months and being divorced since last January. She has another child, a boy aged 7.
-- Advice on deportment. Remember that, valuable as is the gift of speech, silence is often more valuable.
-- Medical advice of a century ago. To treat blood poisoning, surgically remove all infection then administer quinine, strychnine and stimulants.
-- Best buy of the week. New Spring Suits, $8.50 - $8.75 at J. W. Milliken.
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