January 10, 2001
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
- Court Traverse No. 853, I. O. F. and Companion Court No. 6 held a joint installation in Foresters' hall Monday night. This was followed by a splendid social time in which more than 500 participated. Later, a banquet was served by the ladies and the attendance was so large than many had to wait for the second table.
- Several members of the logging camp southwest of the city are telling a pretty hard tale of their treatment and 60 men ceased work Saturday morning last. An effort was made to serve the men the flesh of a deceased ox in lieu of proper beef to which the men objected since the animal may have died from old age or disease. The men have since returned to work with their demands acceded to.
- City Engineer Watson has completed plans for the sewer system for the eastern part of the city and it will be ready for submission to the council Monday night. The main sewer at its opening at the river will be 24 inches in diameter.
- Frank Jannow of West Tenth Street, about 14 years of age, met with a serious accident yesterday while coasting on Boughey hill south of the city. He was on a pair of bobs with several companions when they hit a telephone pole. Drs. Minor and Martin reduced the boy's fractured femur.
- Ralph Connable, Jr., formerly manger of the City Bookstore, has received a desirable promotion in the employment of Seibert, Good & Co. of Chicago. He will move to that place this week to assume his new duties.
- "The Uses of Ugliness" was the title of the lecture delivered in the City Opera House Monday evening by J. Dewitt Miller. Many in the audience had attended a lecture previously by Mr. Miller and knew they would have an intellectual treat with his eloquence and combination of humor and pathos.
- A new clothing firm will open for business in about two weeks in the Beadle block. The firm is composed of Archibald A. and George W. Miller. Both of these men are well known and are men of experience in the clothing business. A large line of spring goods has been ordered for delivery the middle of next month.
- George Fish will be laid up for a long time from an accident he incurred Tuesday morning at Mitchell & Mahan's mill at East Bay. The load of logs he was driving to the mill overturned and he fell in such a manner that his right foot was crushed beneath him.
- Hon. J. H. Monroe has filed a petition in the office of Probate Judge Loranger to be appointed guardian of Peter Sorensen who has fallen heir to $1,200 in Denmark. Sorensen is an old man and one of the eldest patients in the asylum.
- Mrs. Elmira Coutourier, wife of Noel Coutourier, died at her home on Sunday at the age of 61. She and her husband were among the early pioneers of the area. She was the mother of 15 children of whom ten are still living.
- The recommendation of the committee on finance, ways and means of the board of supervisors, that the judge of probate be required to give a bond of $10,000, the prosecutor $1,000 and the treasurer's bond be raised from $30,000 to $50,000 did not meet with unqualified approval. The report has now been referred back for further consideration.
- Advice on deportment. A young man who tries to appear much older than he is in his life experiences, will certainly disenchant, rather than attract.
- Medical advice of a century ago. To prevent the ill effects of cold, the moment a person gets into the house with his hands and feet quite chilled, let him put them into a vessel of water, as cold as can be got, and hold them there till they begin to glow.
- Best buy of the week. A Fully Guaranteed Sewing Machine, $13.50 at Julius Campbell, 417 Union Street.