June 26, 2002
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
- Everything is now ready for active work of preparation for the big Fourth of July celebration. The men on the committees are representative citizens from all lines of business and working men and they are men who will exact every effort to make this the grandest demonstration ever witnessed in this locality.
- The Rathbone sisters celebrated their birthday Monday evening with a dance and banquet. Each member and each of the Kinghts of Pythias was required to give a cent for each year of their lives and some reverted to their second childhood at once. The entire evening was a very pleasant one.
- G. A. Brigham, of Grawn, went to Mt. Clemens early in the week where he will spend a few days taking hot baths. He will attend the state Republican convention before he returns.
- It is reported that number of small boys on the south side and other parts of the city have been killing robins and other songbirds and robbing nests. It might be well for these boys and their parents' pocketbooks if they knew there was a state law which lays them liable to a heavy fine.
- A company of about twenty girls left Monday on the 9:40 train for Fouch's crossing where they will be met by William Hetaforth, their employer, who will conduct them to his farm where they will remain till he thrashes his strawberries. A fine crop has been reported so it is expected that the girls will be away for several days.
- One of the prettiest schools in Grand Traverse county stands three miles from the city on the peninsula central road, W. A. Dean being the architect. The school is named in honor of William McKinley with interior furnishings of oak and a main room which will seat fifty.
- While Mrs. Dora Hamilin and her son were riding on Seventh Street yesterday, a stone thrown by children playing in the road, struck her in the face, breaking her glasses and making an ugly bruise. The doctor who was called said that without her glasses, the eye may have been destroyed.
- Earnest Fairchild is nursing a very lame finger today. He had a pistol which shoots blank cartridges, however, when he put a stone in it to add interest to his target practice and pulled the trigger, it nearly blew off his forefinger.
- June roses formed a very appropriate setting for pretty wedding Tuesday evening on the occasion of the marriage of Miss Etta Mae O'Neal and Mr. Edmund Whittier Wait. The ceremony was solemnized at the residence on Washington Street, purchased by Mr. Wait in anticipation of the event and which was all ready for them to commence housekeeping at once.
- Congressman A. B. Darragh has announced that rural free delivery will be established on the peninsula by August 1st. The improvement has been sought for a long time by a large number of people who live on the peninsula, but was stopped by property residents at the northern end of the township.
- There is a good prospect of a big fruit crop in northern Michigan this year. While in some localities frost did a little damage, there are few instances where any serious damage was done in this area. The average for apples is estimated at 80 per cent of a crop, 69 for pears, 74 for cherries and 86 for strawberries.
- Advice on deportment. Do not watch the dishes as they are uncovered at the table or talk with your mouth full.
- Medical advice of a century ago. To treat St. Anthony's fire, let your diet be only water gruel or barley broth, with roasted apples.
- Best buy of the week. New lamps with Royal Burners, 75 cents to $4.60 at The Racket Store.