March 20, 2002
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
- Several signs of spring have been reported to this office recently, one of which is from Will Kraichovil who found two live grasshoppers on a sunny hillside near Silver Lake last week. Mrs. H. C. Wheelock of Keystone, tells us she picked a bouquet of arbutus several days ago, the earliest it has ever been found in blossom in this region.
- W. H. Petherick and C. G. Strong have entered into a partnership in the painting business and have leased the large building at the corner of Boardman Avenue and Eighth Street for their trade. Mr. Strong will carry on the carriage painting business and has announced that cutters will be painted and stored till next winter, if desired. In addition to painting, the men will handle paperhanging, graining, and kalsomining.
- Willie Jackson, a popular member of the Carpenters' union of this city, passed away Friday morning of typhoid pneumonia, after a comparatively brief illness. Mr. Jackson was 36 years of age and leaves a wife, mother, two sisters, but no children. Local labor unions attended a prayer service at the house Sunday.
- Mrs. K. Hanna of Detroit, has arrived to take charge of the millinery department of the Boston Store. She is accompanied by Miss Hattie Sanlein who is an expert preparer. The department is expected to be in fine order shortly.
- Roy Goddard had the thumb and three fingers sawed off his right hand last week in the Stone City Shingle Mill at Grawn. He had been away part of the day and workers had changed his knot saw over from a right hand to a left but had neglected to inform him of it. The accident happened as he put the first shingle through the machine.
- The lecture given by G. R. Malone in the Methodist Church Sunday evening last at Kingsley was an inspiration to every worker for a purer government. Mr. Malone launched weighty arguments in favor of temperance reform and for cleaner living in regard to physical, mental and moral behavior.
- The many friends of Miss Carrie Barrows will regret to learn that she is so low with tuberculosis at Grace Hospital in Detroit that grave fears are entertained for her life. She has been a resident of that City since she left here about three years ago.
- Juliius B. Paige recently returned from Schenectady, N. Y. where he had been employed by the General Electrical Co. and has received his stock of goods, tools and general electrical appliances for his local business. He is located in the Tonnelier building under the store of A. W. Jahrans.
- The residents at Old Mission are hearing the whistle of the sawmill again. Ed Emory is sawing the logs which have been hauled in this winter and indications are that he will be busy for some time.
- Robert J. Mann, an engineer on the M. & . N. E. railroad and a resident of Manistee for several years, has removed from that place to Traverse City with his family where they will make their future home. The family is an estimable one and our town will benefit handsomely from their presence.
- The high school is taking steps to organize a track team and it is probable that a challenge will be extended to Manistee, Cadillac and Petoskey for a field day here in May. There is some excellent material from which to draw and such an event would be a great attraction.
- Advice on deportment. It is in bad taste for either men or women to add a postscript to letters written.
- Medical advice of a century ago. To treat ring worms, apply rotten apples or pounded garlic.
- Best buy of the week. Six-foot made to order curtains, 50 cents at City Book Store.