Charlevoix county herald., 1917-03-02
Briefs Of the Week

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week on business.
Ralph Kile returned home from
Detroit last week.
A. Danto left Monday for Chicago
to purchase spring stock.
Mrs. VIM. Boswell returned home
from business trip at Detroit, Tuesday.
Word was received here recently of
the marriage of Clyde Danforth at
Flint
No Winnie Maddaugh is substituting
for Mr.. Osborne at the West Side school
this week
II. Rosenthal left Monday for Chicago
and other cities to purchase his summer
merchandise.
Frank f. Osborne, principal OF the
West Side school, Is confined to his
home by illness.
VII Ellison returned home Wednes-
day from business trip to Escanaba
and other points.
Frank Heinzelman left Monday for
his home at Gaylord, where he will run
a roller rink there.
Mrs c. IL. Pray returned home from
Manceiona, Tuesday, where she has
been visiting her parents.
Mrs f. Smatts will GO to Central
Lake this Saturday to visit her daugh-
ter, Mrs. X. Burr, who is quite i'll.
The Presbyterian Missionary Society
will meet at the home Of Mrs. w. l..
Peck next Friday afternoon, March 9th.
Glenn White, Arthur Shay, Walter
Brinkman, Harold Atkinson and Versol
Hengy were Boyne City visitors, Sun
day
Mrs. w. p. Porter returned home
Tuesday from Oberlin, where she has
been visiting her daughter, Miss
Esther
Elders Elvin Ellis and Wesley Al
drich, who have been holding meetings
at the l.. ID. S. Church, left Tuesday
for Traverse City.
Henry Ribble started on his mail
route No. 3, Thursday morning, after
being confined to his home by illness
for over two months.
Charles Dennis received word, We'd
nesday, that his grandmother, Mrs.
O'Dell had passed away at Rapid City.
Fune/ kbrServices were held Friday.
Deca.e was formerly an East Jordan
resident.
Adam Martin of near Atwood, rented
seven and one-half acres of his valu-
able SO-acre farm last year for IS per
acre. The renters, after paying the
$37 so, made a clear profit of slightly
over s6O0.-Charlevoix CouCier.
Another carload of machinery taken
out of the old furnace was shipped from
here last week, billed to Newberry.
The machinery that had been taken out
in the dismantling has been distributed
among the various plants of the COM
pany in the upper peninsula and Wis
consin.-Elk Rapids Progress.
A. G. Urquhart, prominent attorney
and public spirited citizen of Boyne
City for the past twelve years, is pre-
pairing to close his law, insurance and
rentals agency offices in this city with
in the next thirty days. Mr. Urquhart,
upon completing the routine of closing
up his affairs here, will leave immedi-
ately for Detroit where he will enter a
field dissimilar, yet allied, to the voca-
ton followed during his residence OF
Boyne City.-Boyne Citizen.
Mrs. Glenn c. Townsend passed
away at her home in Ellsworth last
SardrdY together with an infant child.
Mrs. Iwnsend was formerly Miss
Hazel Holiday Of this city. She leaves
her mother, Mrs. j. @. Holiday, broth
ers, Supt. LIP, Earl, Glenn, and sister,
Mrs. Ed. Bradford, all OF this city, and
Miss Beulah Holiday of Traverse City.
The remains were taken to Traverse
City for lnterment.
A warning has been sent out by
Professor c.. w. Waid, Of the NJ. A. C.,
to the farmers of Michigan, cautioning
them against selling their seed potato
stock. He predicts general seed
shortage. The high prices which have
prevailed almost since the crop was
harvested has had a tendency to cause
the farmers to sell themselves short OF
seed stock. The seed shortage will
s1ely decrease the acreage planted.
fIWwill be especially true In this
region, for at the prevailing prices the
seed alone will cost t25 per acre. II the
farmer puts this much money into seed
for one acre. Il means that he must