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Mrs. J. P. Parshall, of Wayn?, is , nsi'ting with her mother, Mrs. S. G. , üenham. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Belser ; ;ained Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Pratt, f Detroit. Mrs. A. C. Bliss is entertaiuing Mrs. F. W. Hawkins and daughters Df Hinsdale, 111. Paul Snauble, manager of the Michigan furniture company, is in Detroit on business today. W. J. Bullis, of the Union Shade Pull company, is in Detroit today in the interest of the company. Julius Seyler came over from Detroit and spent Sunday with his parsnts, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Seyler. A. Gaylord Slocun, L. L. D., president of the Kalamazoo college, was the guest of the Germania hotel Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Parker, of Scio town, went up north last week to make their home with a brother near Carson city, Mich. Jacob Weil, formerly a resident t of this city, now of New York, was in the city on business. He is still in the tanning business. i Miss Henriette Sessions, of 1 umbus, Ohio, is visiting friends in the city, she is a cousin of Miss ( Mary C. Sessions, of No. 2]4 S. j Fifth avenue. , Walter Greene, son of Professor I Greene, was home from Ashtabula, ' ühio, on a visit last. Walter was a , student in the medical department j three years ago. W. B. Hallett, of the Kalamazoo Daily News, brother of E. E. Hallet, of this city, was elected Financial Secretary of Typographical Union, No. 122. Also chairnian of the Executive committee. ■Capt. Tau, of New York, manager of the Henry R. Worthington Steam Pump Co., of that city, one of the largest in the world, was the guest of Prof. M. E. Cooley, of the engineering department of the University, Friday last. Prof. J. B. Clayberg. left for Detroit last evening, with one of his clients from Montana on business connected with an important mining case. His lectures on mining law are proving of great interest to the students. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hirth, of Grand Rapids, Mr. and Mrs. George Hirth, of Detroit, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Hirth, of Lodi, and Mrs. Hirth, of Toledo, Henry Krause, of Boston, Mass., and Miss Goedecke, of Burlington, Ia., are in the city to attend the funeral of Mrs. Henry Krause. - Washtenaw Times. HaroldH. Ham, of Waseon, ühio, the 17 year-old son of Judge Thomas F. Ham, of that city, boarded a freight train at Delta on his way home, and slipped and feil between the cars and lost his right foot. Judge Ham's family are well known to some of our citi.ens as the judge at one time attended the University. Ducks and íisli are abundant at Ottawa Lake. In 18t7, the ice in the lake froze to the grotind and lishing with axes was the order. The process consisted merely in cleaving blocks of ice, turning the'm over and picking up the ice-preserved "iinnys." Tons of' elegant bass and pickerel were carried away in sleighs.- Adrián Press. Yes, we remember that year very well and the great nuniberof ducks on Ottawa Lake during the duck season. One day while ye editor and a friend were gunning there for ducks, there carne up a strong wind and blew the ducks off the lake into a sort of bay at one side. We crept up witliin distance and flred into theni as they were hiuldled together in the pond. At the report of our guns every duck rose up and we thought we luid not killed a single one, but when they got up where they could spread out, soine of the ducks began to fall and we went out in boats and picked up enough ducks to fill twenty-seven and a half barrels. Yes, it was a great season for ducks as well as for fish.