North Lake

Buckwheat is about one-hali killed by frost here. Mr. Geo. Reid cut a good erop of self-sown rye this harvest. Campers are very scarce here now. The cool nights make it endurable ín the city. Mr. Sam Mapes has returned to his home in Hanfield, after a month's ,stay at the lake. Mrs. Rha Johnson and daughter vjsited in the old home neighborhood this week. Miss Tirza Twamley is visiting friends and relatives in Jackson county for a week or two. Prof. Wood has gone back to Chicago, after a two weeks' stay with his brothers here. Potatoes are ready to dig, as they will only get soggy and worthless by being leit in the ground. If the drouth continue another week, there will be more hog corn than any other kind this fall. E. L. Glenn was at the old home Saturday and said it was wetter in Unadilla than at North Lake. Is there anv demand for rye straw at the pulp milis? Owners please answer and give prices for same. The fall and w'nter fruit erop will be light, except the fall on the ground, which is heavy and still continúes. Mrs. Wm. Wood is quite sick, but there are hopes of speedy recovery under the treatment of Dr. Palmer. Threshing is nearly all done around here. Oats and wheat yield about two-thirds of an average erop. Wm. Wood is making an addition to his evaporating house. He will put in another evaporator this fall. Dry, dry, dry. You prohibitionists will have to let go your hold on moisture or the country -will be ruined sure. Rye is being sown among the corn for fall and spring. Pasture after that will yield from 20 to 35 bushels grain. Mr. John Watts had his hand badly cut while ieeding Mr. Reason's separator one day last week, but is doing finely now. Marshes considered nearly worthless a tew yeats ago are the best paying lands for gardening when properly drained and the soil subdued. Women about here go in for protection, yet quite a few are protecting themselves as yet; whether from choice or no, can't say. While camping here, Mrs. Rathburn made a very fine picture of the grove and cottages, besides many other sketches worthy of the best frames and mountings. News reaches here that Mr. Coffin, of Detroit, has struck it rich by his years of study, coming out with a very valuable soldering device. His friends will rejoice with him in fiis success. Saturday, when returning home to Leslie from a week's visit with her sister here, Mrs. Wilson and litile daughter were thrown from their carriage by the colt they drove turning suddenly into the ditch. The occupants were badly used up and the carriage vras quite badly broken.' Ann Arbor ladies seem to know how to enjoy themselves out camping, and seem to enjoy rural life in taking lessons in farming and becoming so proficient as to ride the solid comfort plow and drive the team. They do as good work as a man of forty years of experience in plowing. Young larmers, think of these things when buying a plow and getting out a license.