October 16, 2002
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
- No better ticket was ever put up in Grand Traverse county than the one the Republicans have named this year. The candidates are well known for their exceptional leadership and have made innumerable friends on every side.
- John A. Hargraves, who was found guilty of the murder of his wife earlier this month, was sentenced yesterday by Judge Mayne to 15 years at hard labor in the state prison. When Hargraves was called up for sentence, he expressed an appreciation for the many blessings he had enjoyed in life and was most thankful for the consciousness of his innocence of the crime charged.
- Some time ago, City Clerk Beers, at the direction of the board of public works, ordered a horse street sweeper of modern design for use in cleaning the newer paved streets. It was shipped from Milwaukee on the 9th of this month and is expected to be here in a few days. The cost was $300.
- Frank Corbett, Glen Morgan and Eliott Asherman have been missing from their houses ever since Saturday morning and there is every reason to believe that the bodies of all three are at the bottom of the bay which is always loath to give up its victims. The youth had started out to Edgewood on a hunting expedition and with a view also of trying a new sail that Corbett had just finished for his boat.
- The rain of the past week-end has interfered with potato digging in the area but has been good for wheat and grass. Pastures have been so short that some farmers had to feed their stock.
- Mrs. Holiday, a resident of Mayfield, is having her house reshingled, having had a new cellar and stone wall completed in the summer. The workmen have done a fine job to make it one of the most handsome dwellings at that place.
- T. W. Ritchey, agent for the Illyinpits Monroe Nursery, went to Slight last week to take orders for fruit trees. Mr. Ritchey conducted a very successful business during his time in that locale and states that many farmers are making plans to increase the size of their orchards.
- The Woodmen's Lodge of Traverse City has received correspondence from Cadillac stating that the new lodge in that city is prospering and has about fifty members. This is good news for the local men who were instrumental in offering their assistance for organizing the lodge.
- Mrs. William Buzzard has brought samples of White Duchess potatoes to this office which are free from blight and are very large. The tubers run from 9 to 10 in a hill.
- There was a chicken pie social at the Pulcipher's farm north of Acme last Thursday evening that brought out a large crowd of friends and families. All enjoyed themselves, as they always do, at such festive get-togethers.
- Autumn foliage is at its best now. Our correspondent at Mayfield reports it to be the most brilliant and well preserved ever seen and that the scenery around Hogback Lake is unusually beautiful.
- Advice on deportment. If you chance to call when a lady is just going out, make your stay brief and say that you will call on another time.
- Medical advice of a century ago. To treat a chronic headache, order a teakettle of cold water to be pour on your head every morning in a slender stream.
- Best buy of the week. Solid oak dresser with large plate glass mirror. $8.75 at J. W. Slater's House Furnishing Store.