June 14, 2000

Herald news ... 100 years ago

By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
       - One of the big attractions during the celebration of the 4th of July will be Silver Brother's Great Novelty Show and Trained Animal Exhibition. Another addition of great merit, will be Professor Harry Howard's Trained Dog and Monkey Circus. Performing monkeys and dogs along with trained ponies and acrobatic features will make up a first class show.
      - The Northern Telephone Company has issued a new directory in book form. It shows 300 phones in Traverse City besides reaching through Leelanau county, in addition to several party lines connecting farmers in various portions of the county.
      - J. R. Williamson and Dr. Cook of Chicago and Deputy Warden Mark Craw have just returned from a trip which Mark declares no amount of money could buy. The party went to the forks of the Boardman and floated down, Mark in a canvas canoe and the other two on a raft.
      - Traverse City was horrified Saturday by the news of the terrible disaster that occurred that morning near Fife Lake. Alfred Cole and Melville Smith met an instant death when the boiler in the C. F. Read sawmill exploded and demolished the entire structure. Charles Cook is in serious condition and perhaps will also succumb to the grave injuries.
      - The following women were elected to offices at a recent meeting for Hannah Temple of the Rathbone Sisters: Mrs. Dell Compton, Mrs. Clara Dean, Mrs. Junia Heumann, Mrs. R. E. Knapp, Mrs. Maggie Probert, Mrs. Mary Morse, Mrs. Georgianna Gordon and Mrs. Amelia Read. Meetings will be held at K. of P. hall on Monday evening of each week.
      - The starch factory has been shut down until the fall crop of potatoes comes on the market. It may, however, make a run on corn starch in about a month using the same machinery as wheat starch. No potatoes will be purchased until fall.
      - Our correspondent at Interlochen reports that Frank Masters had his cow killed on the M. & N. E. R. R. last week. He had owned the cow barely two weeks.
      - While John Litchy was returning to his home in Acme following a trip to Traverse City Saturday, his horse became frightened and unmanageable. He was thrown out of the buggy and it ran over his shoulder. The horse then broke away from the buggy and badly damaged the harness.
      - Cards have been sent announcing the approaching marriage of Miss Elizabeth Loudon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Loudon, to Dr. Oscar E. Chase. The event will take place at the home of the bride June 27.
      - Two badly frightened and thoroughly distressed children alighted, weeping, from the Pere Marquette train Monday night. They held tickets for this city but were to have stopped at Grawn. They had forgotten to tell the conductor, however, and were asleep when the train stopped at that place. Landlord Shilson took them to the Shilson House and cared for them. They were taken to Grawn on the train next morning.
      - Gilbert Powlison of the peninsula is one of the first to bring ripe Grand Traverse strawberries into the city this season. They were prime beauties and sweet and juicy. The crop appears to be top notch.
      - Advice on deportment. Young girls do not look well in plush or velvet.
      - Medical advice of a century ago. Cold bathing is of great advantage to health; it prevents abundance of diseases.
      - Best buy of the week. 17 styles of Library Tables, from $4.25 up to $19.75 at J. W. Slater's House Furnishing Store.