September 26, 2001

Herald news ... 100 years ago

By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
       - The Boardman River Electric Co. has a force busy this week removing wires from the poles on Front Street preparatory to the removing of the poles from the street entirely. The crew has reported that all poles will be off the street in a few days, but for the present, poles will be left on the corners which are used to suspend the street arc lights.
      - J. W. Slater has been obliged, on account of increase in business, to add two new salesmen and an extra man in the shipping department. B. E. Odell of Bancroft, Michigan and Mr. F. W. Williams of Sioux City, Iowa are the new salesmen. Mr. Hobbs of this city is the new man in the shipping department.
      - The closing season of the Old Mission Resort is here and the time of inventory is on in hotel and cottage of packing and storing and boarding up. The farewells are apt to be a little informal being cut short by the genial Mr. Wait with the carriage. The hay fever suffers still linger and will keep up the hotel patronage for a bit longer.
      - While at work for John Barry, Saturday, George Gegner suffered a very severe injury that will lay him up for a considerable time. He was removing empty barrels from the loft of a barn when one of the rungs of the ladder on which he was working broke and he fell backward to the ground. Drs. Kneeland and Wilhelm tended to the patient.
      - This office is indebted to Dr. C. J. Kneeland for a basket of the delicious peaches raised on Gowrie Hill fruit farm and also to T. E. Carpenter of Williamsburg for white grapes of the Diamond and Empire State varieties which were remarkable for their sweetness and flavor.
      - Ralph Anderson left Sunday night for Lansing to attend a four days' school of embalming this week. The school is preparatory to an examination that will be held in that city Friday by the State Board of Health, granting licenses to undertakers to prepare and ship bodies dead of contagious diseases. Ralph is well-known and quite popular with the undertakers of Michigan and may win out.
      - The program committee for the next convention of the Traverse City Sunday school association has been appointed as follows: R.W. Rastall, Rev. W. T. Woodhouse, Rev. D. O. Ruth and Prof. E. H. Ryder.
      - John M. Akers, who maintains a farm southwest of the city, brought a load of muskmelons to the city Tuesday and among them was one weighing 16 pounds, a remarkable size for such fruit in this locality. His product is of fine variety and he has a good crop.
      - Father Bauer performed the ceremony that united Miss Anna Belle Lardie and Mr. George Swancy at St. Francis church yesterday before a very large number of the friends of the contracting parties. A delicious wedding breakfast and wedding dinner were served at the home of the bride's mother on East Tenth Street. A host of friends will join in the heartiest congratulations and good wishes.
      - Prospects are bright for another High School annual this year. The senior class has been considering the matter and it is altogether likely that it will be taken up and pushed in the near future. The class is an able one and doing fine work in the school so could handle the annual nicely.
      - Mrs. Fred Hendricks suffered a very painful and serious injury Saturday at her home on Eighth Street. She was leading a cow to water when the animal became unruly and started to run. Mrs. Hendrick's became tangled in the rope and fell in such a way as to break both bones of the lower left leg. Drs. Garner & Swanton were called to reduce the fracture.
      - Advice on deportment. Gentlemen may call on married ladies with the knowledge of their husbands.
      - Medical advice of a century ago. To treat salivation, a very violent and stubborn disorder, perpetually chew a little dry bread and swallow it with the spittle.
      - Best buy of the week. A good double washboard just 25 cents at J. W. Slater's House Furnishing Co.