August 13, 2003
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
• Many of the fruit growers on the peninsula are realizing the disadvantages of lack of quick transportation facilities and believe it is plain that a railroad would mean much in dollars and cents to them. At least one extensive grower had an immense crop which he was unable to send to market and gave carte blanche to anyone to go into his fields and help themselves.
• Rowland Boughton, who was graduated this spring from the United States Military academy at West Point, has received his appointment and will leave next month to join his company at Fort Wayne, Detroit. He will be second lieutenant of Co. E., First Regiment, U. S. infantry.
• A peculiar phenomenon was seen in the sky Friday night by a number of local citizens which many of them thought was a comet. The time that it was seen was about five minutes and was later identified as a meteor.
• A breach was narrowly averted in the ranks of the councilmen Monday over the appointment of Mrs. E. B. Misor to the library board. Mayor Santo was on his feet quickly to state her qualifications and that she is a great lover of books. Alderman Lardie then jumped up to state that he still advocated the Cass Street site and objected to the appointment of anyone who did not agree. The heated discussion ended when Mr. Lardie said he would agree when the first payment from Mr. Carnegie arrived.
• Several houses were entered and burglarized during the circus parade Wednesday afternoon. The home of W. Cary Hull on State Street was entered by thieves and a pair of trousers and a revolver taken. The family was not out of the house more than 10 minutes.
• A new state law will go into effect September 17 which limits the degree of consanguinity within which marriages may not take place by including first cousins in the list. The law already includes first and second degree blood relatives as well as a man's step-mother, wife's mother, wife's grandmother, brother's wife or a woman's step-father, daughter's husband, husband's father, husband's grandfather, granddaughter's husband, father's brother or mother's brother.
• The clerks and employees of J. W. Milliken's store were treated to an outing Friday afternoon. As soon as the store closed at noon, buses were waiting which took them directly to a resort for dinner. Bathing and rowing were interspersed with strolls through the beautiful groves until supper. Races and gymnastic exercises among the men afforded extra amusement for the ladies. A corn roast, marshmallow roast and a watermelon feast ended the festivities.
• The young Burns boy, playing on the shore of the bay and throwing sticks into the water for his dog to retrieve, was suddenly attacked by the big dog of E. J. Hans without any warning. One of the dog's fangs entered the boy's throat, very near causing death. Dr. Swanson states that he has had to care for several patients recently who have been bitten by dogs and is very strongly of the opinion that these animals should be muzzled when they are outdoors and unleashed.
• Mr. Roy Victor Foreman and Miss Gladys Strangways left the city on the Pere Marquette railroad last week on their way to Newberry where it is supposed they were married and will reside. It is understood that the parents of the young lady desired that the marriage be postponed for two years and that Miss Strangways might take a short course in college and that the young man might become thoroughly established in his photographic business.
• With the trial of Mrs. Mary McKnight postponed to the next term of court, interest in her case will die out for the time being. Her confinement in the jail is telling on her decidedly, both in mental and physical suffering, as her appearance is far different from what it was at the time of her hearing.
• Advice on deportment. Little women should affect small figures, delicate spotted linen, etc. Large ones cannot wear coquettish little bonnets and doll-like hats.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To treat sickness in the morning, eat nothing after six in the evening.
• Best buy of the week. Ice chest. $5.75 at J. W. Slater.