September 11, 2002
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
- The school census taker, W. M. Smith, has completed his work and the result shows a gain of 128 students over last year in the city schools. The totals for each ward are as follows: First - 466; Second - 792; Third - 611; Fourth - 338; Fifth - 751.
- Miss Porter, daughter of A. E. Porter of the Inn at Old Mission, has been subjected to a surgical operation for appendicitis and is now progressing very satisfactorily. The surgery was necessitated when an emergency visit was made with her physician, revealing the inflamed organ.
- Nye Jordan has returned from the upper peninsula where he discovered a ledge of graphite 86 percent pure. He brought back a specimen which is almost perfect graphite and when pulverized, is worth $80 a ton. The discovery was made when Mr. Jordan was looking over timber lands.
- The severe wind and hail storm yesterday caused many of the late apples in the area's orchards to fall on the ground. There is no delay among the farmers in gathering them so the fruit can be marketed without any ill effects.
- The deal has just been concluded by which Joseph Morrow becomes owner of the Slater property at the corner of State and Cass Street. The consideration was $5,500 and includes the house with frontage of 132 feet on State and 70 feet on Cass.
- The excursionists that came to the city last Wednesday from the lake shore cities and other southern Michigan towns, resulted in every congested condition here. Park Place Hotel was so crowded that the management was forced to accommodate some of their guests in private houses.
- Our correspondent at Grant reports that groundhogs are doing great damage in the cornfields and are almost equal to the corn sheller. Traps are being set in all locations where they have been found.
- The young men of the high school held a meeting last Wednesday for those who are interested in athletics and organizing an athletic association. All young men of the school are eligible for membership and practically all of them will join. This will start the year with a substantial sum in the treasury and the association will stand back of all the various athletic teams.
- Farmers in all the surrounding area are concerned about the dry weather and its telling on the late potatoes, especially on sandy land. If rain does not come soon the crop will be greatly damaged. This appears to be the case in all the counties of the northern part of the state.
- As Mr. DeVol, a resident at Old Mission, was standing on a high ladder picking apples last week, the ladder fell in such a manner as to cut a large gash in his head. He was obliged to have some stitches taken, but is getting along nicely now.
- R. K.. Round & Son are at work on an order of 50 gas engines of large size recently ordered through Editor Slussar of Mancelona. The work of the former supplier in Detroit had been unsatisfactory, so the latest order was placed to the Round machine shop.
- Advice on deportment. Never bring a book or paper to the table to read.
- Medical advice of a century ago. To treat consumption, take no food but new buttermilk, churned in a bottle and white bread.
- Best buy of the week. Curtis Iron Beam Plow, $15 at The Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co.