December 31, 2003
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
• Fire in the show window of L. M. Bennett's jewelry store late Monday afternoon caused a loss that will reach well up to $100. Had the fire not been discovered early, the blaze would have been a much more serious one. Just what caused the fire is not known.
• Samuel Sully, who was kicked by a staid old horse on the farm of Sylvester Brown of Long Lake township Wednesday last, died early the next morning without recovering consciousness. The funeral services were held from the undertaking rooms of H. L. Carter Sunday morning.
• Mrs. Lucy Ghering, wife of J. Ghering of the peninsula, died Sunday at the age of 56 years. At the time of her death, she was staying with her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Jameson of Walnut Street, having come there about five weeks ago so as to be where she could receive better medical attention. Six children survive their mother.
• A. B. Cook, who recently resigned his position as bookkeeper for the J. E. Grelick Co., after many years with that firm, has purchased the site of the apple evaporator on West Front Street. The A. B. Cook Co. will open an agricultural implement store on the site.
• It took the jury in the case of Thomas Carlson less than an hour spent in consideration to decide that the defendant was not guilty of the charge of taking indecent liberties with a girl under 14 years of age. Mr. Carlson did not quite catch the full meaning of the verdict and asked what it meant which the court then explained that he was a free man.
• Ortie Howard was working for William Robertson at the time his house burned and lost his jacket, cap and mittens. He escaped barefooted, but carried his shoes with him and he was thankful that it was no worse.
• During the absence of Mrs. Susan Bates and son Friday, some one entered the house at East Bay by removing the glass from one of the windows. This only gave them entrance to the kitchen. The lock was broken on the door into the other part of the house, but the thieves did not succeed in getting in. Nothing was taken.
• The 22 x 50-foot shed adjoining Turnbull & Co.'s livery barn which they use for storing buggies and cutters, fell in Monday under the heavy weight of snow and ice that had gathered on the roof. Five new cutters, six buggies and a pair of sleighs were all crushed. Mr. Turnbull estimates his loss at over $500.
• Miss Mary C. Boyd, of Williamsburg, is sewing for Mrs. C. W. Hastings at Mabel. The fine work of Miss Boyd is well known in the area and she has many clients who employ her to work at their residences.
• A jolly sleigh ride was enjoyed late last week to the home of Walter Page at Long Lake. The young people were treated to a very fine supper. Those who went were Mervin Kenney, Irene Hickerson, Ed Page, Ina Kenney, Art Moran, Clara Hickerson, Herman Smith and Beulah Douglas.
• The annual Christmas entertainment at the First Methodist church was given by the Sunday School Christmas night. It was one of the finest and most beautiful programs ever attempted by the school, being illustrated by the finest lot of Christmas pictures ever shown on the screen by a stereopticon. The church was as full as it could get. A nominal charge for tickets paid the expense of the entertainment, but the songs and tableaus were well worth the cost.
• Advice on deportment. Calls in the evening are made from 8 to 9, and should be of an hour's duration.
• Medical advice of a century. To treat apoplexy which occurs after a meal, vomit and sweat.
• Best buy of the week. Men's Heavy Scotch Caps, black and gray. 10 cents at The Globe.