January 9, 2002
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
- The business of the local post office this season has broken all previous records and the force of employees was rushed night and day the week before Christmas. Ninety sacks of mail were sent out on that Monday with receipts totaling $143, all in small stamp sales. Incoming mail averaged 85 sacks a day.
- Miss Margaret Waldon and Miss Ella Swan were the victims of a cowardly act Saturday evening of some dastard who should be made to feel the arm of the law. Miss Waldon was the first to suffer when she was hurrying to supper from the millinery store of Miss Dohaney and fell on the walk near the W. T. Shaushall home on Bohemia Street. A short time later, Miss Swan fell in the same area. Both were rendered unconscious for a time. The cause of the trouble was that a wire had been stretched across the walk.
- Will A. Lafayette arrived from the Philippines Saturday afternoon where for the past three years he has been fighting Filipinos. He was in Company A, Third U. B. Infantry and has been with them until his discharge December 29 last. He has had enough of the Philippines and calls the islands "a bunch of trouble."
- Our correspondent at Mabel reports that all the camps are busy with logging. Grover Hammond is driving team for Mr. Weese, Ralph Worden is drawing logs to the siding and Ed Glendening is drawing logs to Williamsburg. Mr. Smith and Fred Landon were loading a car with excelsior wood all last week.
- William Higgins, driver for B. J. Morgan, has started the business of cleaning and repairing harnesses in the room over Angus McColl's blacksmith shop. He will buy and sell second hand harnesses and while repairing, will furnish his customers with a harness to use while their own is being cared for. Mr. Higgins will probably find this a very profitable business.
- The Portia Club held its annual banquet for the gentlemen Tuesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Sherman and the evening was one of the most enjoyable in the history of the club. A banquet was served first for which the men found their partners by matching Shakespearean characters. The last thing on the program was an impromptu entertainment by the gentlemen.
- E. F. Ferris has devoted the new addition to his implement warehouse to office purposes. The new part is finely furnished and equipped which indicates a very successful business with a brisk trade in all goods.
- George H. Schofield died Saturday last of hemorrhage at his residence on South Rose Street, aged 56 years. He leaves a wife and three children and several brothers. He was a painter by trade and at the time of his death was employed by the Williams Lumber Co.
- The masque ball given New Year's by the local band at Williamsburg was a fine social affair. All had a good time and the music furnished by the musicians was more than expected.
- Last week Will Darrow treed a fine wildcat in the swamp near Solon and thinking there might be a few left, a party consisting of Mr. Darrow, Dave Smith, Will Richards and Frank Irish went out with their dogs this week. They succeeded in treeing and killing two more cats.
- Little Laura Heck, the one and a half year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Heck of South Union Street, got a pin stuck in her throat last Friday and was in serious condition. Dr. Holliday was called and successfully removed the pin. It is thought no serious effects will follow.
- Advice on deportment. A man who is gentle, defers to others, listens respectfully to the aged, or to those who are inferior to him in position or intelligence, is liked by every one.
- Medical advice of a century ago. To treat the scurvy, pound into a pulp of Seville oranges, sliced, rind and all, and powdered sugar, equal quantities. Take a teaspoon three or four times a day.
- Best buy of the week. A few wool blankets sold at cost to close out and six first class fur coats for less than cost. John T. Beadle.