February 26, 2003
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
- It has been learned that the restaurant men of the city are preparing a remonstrance to the city council asking that the saloon men here be restrained from giving free lunches in their places of business. This, it is alleged, does much harm to the restaurant business and should not be allowed. Restaurant keepers hold that if saloons are permitted to give free lunches, the restaurants ought to be allowed to give free drink with their lunches. The authorities will not permit this, however.
- For some time past, the Traverse City State Bank has considered the establishment of a savings department in connection with its other banking features. Arrangements have now been completed and the new department will be opened in about thirty days.
- C. H. Friday of South Union Street has received very welcome news from the east in which his wife has won a lawsuit in a city in Rhode Island for injuries she received while walking over a defective place in the sidewalk. The suit has been in litigation for two years.
- Through the agency of the Anti-Saloon League, the city has been covered by a canvass with a petition to the legislature, asking for the enactment of a law to submit to the people, an amendment to the constitution for the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors and wines. This petition has been numerously signed throughout the city, having been presented at the churches and by personal canvass also.
- Albert Skeels, who has been spending the past two weeks with friends in Mayfield and vicinity, left Saturday. He is going to the upper peninsula to cook in a logging camp where George Lutman is foreman.
- The residents of Ogdensburg were sorry to learn of the death of old Mrs. Franklin last week. She will be brought down from her home and laid beside her husband in Hillside cemetery.
- The divorce case of James F. Powers vs. Amy Elizabeth Powers has occupied the attention of the circuit court most of the time today. Anonymous letters were presented in evidence, Mrs. Powers claiming that they were sent by Mr. Powers and he holding that she had written them herself. A bottle of poison which Mrs. Powers claimed was sent her and claims of assaults, robberies, quarrels were mentioned in the case.
- The year 1903 promises to be, for Traverse City, one of the busiest, in the construction of new and expensive buildings of any previous year. Among those noted were: the proposed State Bank building, several new cottages on the asylum grounds, a post office building, the new Munson block, the Tonnelier building and the Carnegie library.
- What was probably the largest tree on the peninsula was cut and sold recently to the Wells-Higman Co. Six twelve-foot body logs, scaling 7,651 feet and 4 logs from the top, scaling 704 feet or a total of 8,305 feet were cut from this one elm tree. $113.55 was netted by the seller, Mr. Holman.
- County treasurer, George W. Steward, is making a fine showing in the way of the collection of delinquent taxes. The biggest catch yet was the securing of the payment of $633.86 all in one lump last Saturday. The location of the land is not given, but the owner had persistently refused to make payment and it is said that some of the timber had been sold and was being taken off the land.
- Last fall, while the outside weather prophets predicted a mild winter, our correspondent at Barker Creek predicted we would have an old fashioned Grand Traverse winter. It is quite apparent that he didn't miss the mark by much.
- Advice on deportment. When a funeral is held at home, the family do not view the remains after the people have begun to assemble.
- Medical advice of a century ago. To treat a rupture in children, keep its bowels open with rhubarb and apply a soft band.
- Best buy of the week. Trimmed Curtains. Just 75 cents at The Boston Store.