June 6, 2001
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
- The first baseball game of the season occurred at Popular Point Sunday afternoon and was witnessed by a good crowd. The Invincibles went against the new Queen City team and beat them by a score of 11 to 8. Ferguson and Snifky were batteries for the Invincibles while Perry, Reynolds and Brayton were batteries for the Queen City men.
- W.L. Frink, a farmer near Milton Center, owns a registered Durham bull, 2 years old and weighing 1700 pounds. He purchased the animal at the state fair when a small calf. He challenges anyone in northern Michigan who can beat this to speak out. He will be glad to hear from you.
- Our correspondent at Ogdensburg writes that several folks in that area have been sick. Mrs. Chandler has a cold and cough and Mr. and Mrs. Minton Willoby are recovering from a bad case of distemper. Neighbors have been helping out with both the farm and house chores at each place.
- Fred Light and Lawrence Day have just finished a well 242 feet deep for Robert Barney two miles west of the city. The well furnishes an abundance of water which is piped to different parts of the house and barn. Power is furnished by a ten foot "Star" windmill.
- Farmers in the area are concerned about crops due to the cold, backward weather. While oats and peas are the only crops that have held their own with the cold weather, the hay crop will not be above the average. Corn is backward, but with warm weather soon, will be all right.
- Traverse City will probably not have a state normal school this year. Governor Bliss vetoed the bill yesterday, giving as his reason "that the time has not yet come for the establishment of a new normal in Michigan". He cited comparative figures as to the number of schools, students enrolled and appropriations of other states.
- A very worthwhile meeting of the M. C. A. was held Sunday afternoon in Montague hall. Under the leadership of Robert Walter, an address was offered on the immortality of the soul. The audience remarked that it was very interesting and inspiring.
- Mrs. Mary E. Brownell died early Saturday morning after an illness of three months from paralysis. Mrs. Brownell had devoted most of her time to foreign missionary work and for many years was the president of the Women's Foreign Missionary union.
- Sanford Tuller, one of the prominent farmers of the region, raised a large barn on his farm west of the city on Tuesday. It will be provided with all modern conveniences for caring for cattle and the storage of grain and farm implements.
- The city council finally disposed of the matter of the street fair at its Monday night meeting. It proved a pretty knotty proposition, but assurances have been given that the shows were clean, that no gambling will be allowed and there would be nothing that a man would be ashamed to take his wife and children to attend.
- Promotion exercises were held in all the grades of the city schools Friday. In almost every case the teacher planned some pleasant surprise for the students in the way of ice cream or something equally as pleasant.
- Advice on deportment. Ushers at a wedding, of whom there are four, are selected from among the most intimate friends either of the groom or the bride.
- Medical advice of a century ago. To treat a bruise, apply a plaster of chopped parsley with butter.
- Best buy of the week. Tea Dust, 75 cents for three pounds at the Enterprise grocery.