November 20, 2002
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
- Levi LaFontsee, commonly known as Captain, has resigned his job as night watchman for the Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co. He was first employed by that firm in about 1870, but just for short intervals, then after a lapse of a few years, he took a permanent position which he has held for nineteen years.
- While playing with Harold Hill, a next-door neighbor on West Ninth Street, Morris Finn fell from the porch and suffered a very bad fracture of the shoulder. The humerus was broken off entirely, right in the joint, making it a very difficult fracture to deal with. Although it was some time before a physician attended the boy, it is believed that he will not lose the use of the shoulder.
- Fred Zeigler took a dose of strychnine some time Sunday afternoon, evidently with suicidal intent. He became very ill in the evening, though his family did not know the nature of the illness. One of the children was sent to a neighbor's house a half a mile away and a physician was summoned by telephone. Mr. Zeigler will survive, but according to the doctor, it is a miracle.
- A large audience in the First M. E. church Friday evening listened to a very entertaining and instructive lecture on Scotland given by William Loudon who recently returned from the land of the heather and the plaid. The proceeds of the entertainment were about $60.
- Robert J. Fleming, the Front Street blacksmith, has received notice from Washington that he has been granted a patent on an instrument known as a veterinary speculum. The instrument is for the purpose of holding open the mouth of a horse while being treated for diseases of the mouth, throat or teeth.
- M. L. Vaughn, the milk dealer who lives south of the city, is carrying about a badly damaged face as a result of a peculiar accident. He was out cutting timber with a singe-bitted axe when in some way the axe caught on a limb, turned in his hand in such a way as to come down on his forehead. Fortunately, neither eye was injured.
- The firm of Rickerd & Bredhagen, marble, granite and stone workers and dealers in monuments and building stone, has been dissolved, Mr. Rickerd buying out his partner who has been in poor health in some time. The stock will be increased considerably and all lines of the business will be enlarged.
- The Silver Brothers will entertain Acmeites with their show next Thursday evening. Admission is 10 cents for children and 20 cents for adults. Residents of that place have looked forward to the entertainment and a large crowd is quite certain.
- G. W. Miller is the lucky man to secure the $75 bedroom suit given away by the Boston Store in connection with opening of the new furniture department. Unfortunately, there were two tickets of the same number, but it was clearly shown that the winner was Mr. Miller, although a clerical error was responsible for the ticket mix-up. Both stubs on Mr. Miller's ticket matched, while those on the second ticket did not.
- The annual Dutch suppers of Traverse City tent, No. 871, K. O. T. M. have become recognized as the occasions for the best time of the year. The event Friday evening last was fully up to the high standard of the past and in some respects, it went above other occasions. The waiters were all dressed in German costume.
- Probate Judge Loranger and A. B. Huellmantel have returned from the upper peninsula because they used up all their license tags and there was no use in continuing their stay. The men in Judge Loranger's party shot nine deer in four days after reaching the woods.
- Advice on deportment. There should not be many pictures in the guest chamber and those which are hung, should be chosen from simple subjects.
- Medical advice of a century ago. To treat a slow fever, use a cold bath for two or three weeks, daily.
- Best buy of the week. Women's felt and Beaver slippers, 50 cents - $1.00 at Alfred V. Friedrich.