April 25, 2001
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
- Ed Darrow launched his new sailing craft on the bay Wednesday last. The boat is called the "Snipe" and is said to be one of the finest and trimmest sailers on those waters. Tom Stanton was the builder and Victor Montague made the designs. The latter also furnished the rigging and canvas.
- Dr. B. D. Ashton is showing a curiosity in the shape of a musical instrument made from a battered, copper-bottomed tin teakettle. The sounding board was whittled from a fruit basket cover. It is a violin with an exceptionally good tone and local musical experts pronounce it to make first class music.
- Judge Lorin Roberts received the good news this week that he has been granted an additional pension of $8 a month. These additional funds will assist him nicely with living expenses.
- A pretty double wedding was performed by Rev. W. L. Laufman Tuesday afternoon at the First Methodist parsonage. The brides were Misses Edith and Ethel Johnson, both of Acme, and the grooms were Wallace M. Gibson and Morris Claypool, both of Bates.
- Our correspondent at Old Mission reports that Spring has brought on a number of new home decorating projects. Ed Franklin of this place has been doing some very good jobs of papering in that area recently and has more jobs waiting to be done.
- Notable improvements to enlarge are already underway at Ne-ah-ta-wanta resort and hotel in time for the rush of summer guests to that delightful retreat. The three-story addition will enlarge the dining room and add several very desirable rooms. Col. S. A. Smith will return as manager and take his old place as a genial and popular fixture.
- The family of William Crisp at Williamsburg lost their house in a fire last Sunday. Although the dwelling was entirely destroyed, nearly all the furniture was saved. Several articles of value and all of the best clothing of Mrs. Crisp were consumed by the blaze. The shock has been so great that Mrs. Crisp is now lying ill from it.
- All of the passenger coaches on the M. & N. E. are being given a new coat of paint and varnish inside and out which greatly improves their appearances. These improvements will add nicely to the pleasure of its passengers.
- Farmers in the Green Lake area are hard at work getting their fields ready for spring crops. Ivan Craig is plowing for Mr. Bortz and Wilburt Tuller is plowing his farm, expecting to seed down some of the acreage.
- Mrs. James A. Moore has received a check for $2,000 from Traverse Bay Lodge No. 136, K. O. T. M. from the life insurance on her late husband. This was the quickest settlement ever made which was just seven days from the date of the claim.
- Uncle Sam has sent an official notice to the clerks of the local post office announcing that their salaries have been raised. Claud Pulver will receive $600 a year instead of $500. Maud M. Taylor and Charles M. Lancaster get advances from $600 to $700.
- Advice on deportment. No girl should make her debut while she is attending school. It is impossible for her to do justice to herself, with a divided heart.
- Medical advice of a century ago. To treat flux and vomiting of bile, boil a chicken in two gallons of water and drink off this till the vomiting ceases.
- Best buy of the week. Men's Birdseye Worsted Suits, $6.50 at S. Benda & Co.