Frank Metcalf Located

Frank Metcalf, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Metcalf of this city, went north hunting last November, and after parting with the young man who went with him on Dec. 14, nothing was heard from him until last week. Frank had always been in the habit of writing his mother once a week and his long silence caused his parents and friends grave uneasiness. A number of telegrams were sent north trying to locate him, but without avall. His letter to his mother states that he is stationed at a lumber camp near Germfask, in Schoolcraft county, that he is 17 miles from a railroad station and had not attempted to get out on account of the depth of snow.

The snow is three to four feet in depth in that section, the mercury has been registering from 15 to 35 degrees below zero, and the only way he could get out was to walk the entire 17 miles on snow shoes. Frank had been working at the barber trade in Portland for some time back and was a member of the Masonic fraternity there, who had the machinery all set in motion to comb the upper peninsula in search of him when his letter to his mother arrived. His long silence had given rise to the belief that he had either perished in the snow or been shot.

Frank is an ardent sportsman and a gerat lover of the out of doors, but we believe he will get out of the woods earlier next time he goes north hunting.