May 24, 2000
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
- Many flowers will be wanted on Memorial Day. Those having flowers to donate are requested to leave them at Grange hall or P. Kyselka's store on Monday or Tuesday, May 28 and 29, and they will be thankfully received.
- Yesterday, Sam Benda received the gold watch that had been carried during his life by his father, who died a short while ago. The watch had been in the family for 110 years and still keeps excellent time. Mr. Benda also has the watch carried by his mother which has been in the family for 160 years.
- Another electric automobile made its appearance in the city this week which was the center of much interest. The vehicle came from Petoskey over the G. R. & I. and is a unique advertisement for the firm of Swift &. Co. to help the business of C. F. Cornwell & Co. through the influence of Mr. Griffith, manager for this district. It will carry six passengers, its cost was $2,250 and will travel 25 miles with a single charge.
- Lucy J. Hunter, wife of Charles H. Hunter of Garfield Avenue, passed away early Monday morning. She had been lying at the point of death from dropsy for some time and her demise, though expected, was greatly mourned by a host of friends. Besides her husband she leaves three sons and two daughters.
- D. W. Stevenson met with an unfortunate accident and a very painful injury earlier this week at Beitner's chair factory. While attempting to pull out a stick carried into the sprocket of the sawdust carrier, his left had was drawn under the wheel where the chain tore the flesh away from the bone. It will be some time before Mr. Stevenson will be able to work.
- The golf season will formally open on Memorial Day when it is probable that a series of interesting contests will take place on the course. Members of the club have set up the markers and prepared the grounds for active work. The prospect for the season is very bright with increasing interest in the sport and the members are looking forward to many exciting contests.
- Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Ashton will give a delightful ice social at their home Friday evening for the benefit of the Baptist church. Everyone is invited to attend.
- The Oval Wood Dish Co. is loading a car of butter dishes for Cape Town, South Africa, which will be shipped by way of New York. This is the first large foreign order ever sent out by the company.
- Dr. C. J. Kneeland declares that Grand Traverse can discount California and the south as a fruit growing region. He has apricot trees loaded with well developed fruit with prospects of picking by the first of July. His cherries are half grown and prospects for all kinds of fruit were never better.
- Mike Oberlin has been made the victim of outlawry that would doubtless be punished with great severity if the criminals could be brought to justice. His large quantity of logs, piled in readiness for shipping, were fired in three separate places with the savings and kindling wood used by the outlaws plainly visible.
- The program is complete for the commencement exercises of the class of 1900, the sixteenth class to graduate from the high school. The class is a large one, numbering 30 members. The class colors are pink and Nile green and the motto is "Ad astra, per aspera." Baccalaureate services will be May 27 and the commencement proper will be May 30, both of them at the City Opera House.
- Advice on deportment. There is no more ludicrous spectacle than a man vainly struggling with what he thinks is "small talk" in the company of ladies.
- Medical advice of a century ago. To make milk agree with the stomach, put a little salt in it, if it curdles, add sugar.
- Best buy of the week. Feather Pillows. $2.00 to $4.50 per pair at J. W. Slater's House Furnishing Store.