July 2, 2003
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
• A good many American citizens and a good many newspapers are deploring the practice of a Fourth of July given up to noise and sports and a conspicuous disregard to the events which gave rise to the holiday. To a certain extent, this sentiment is found in the area, but this city has been recognized as one of the most intense patriotic spirit whenever occasion has been presented for a demonstration. It is suggested that the community in general will make suitable decorations of residences and places of business.
• Clare and Glen Whitney, two of the five boys who were arrested on a charge of stealing fruit from E. L. Ransom's farm last Sunday, and were acquitted of the charge, were again up against it this week. They were not arrested, but some very good, wholesome advice was given to them and their mother by Chief Rennie today. It is said that the boys used their dog to chase Mr. Stearns' cow which was thrown by the animal.
• In the five days that the Traverse City Canning factory has been in operation, nearly 1,000 crates of cherries have been handled. A force of 75 girls, along with a small force of men are employed at the plant. To demonstrate the efficiency of the operation, 150 bushels were put up just in the forenoon last Tuesday.
• Two narrow escapes from lightning occurred in Fernwood yesterday morning. Mrs. E. Crain of East Fourteenth Street was partially paralyzed by a bolt when she grasped the handle of a pump outside the back door to fill a pail of water. The James Fogarty house, about a block away from the Crain residence, was also struck, but fortunately, the family was not in the sitting room when the bolt entered through the telephone wire beside a window in that room.
• Little two-year-old Luther Wikle, who lives with his mother over the Chinese laundry on East Front Street, had both bones in his left leg broken and was badly bruised about the face by a runaway rig Monday. Joseph Hickey, on the west side of the street, was also caught by the same rig and had a big gash cut in the back of his head. It is not known to whom the wagon belongs but it is supposed that a lady who delivers vegetables is the owner.
• Of the three hundred shares of stock in the New Weguetong Club which were issued under the reorganization, only six are left of the original 300. Believing it is a sound investment, the club is confident that the remaining shares will not go begging for takers.
• The fire department made an exhibition run and coupling last week and they had water on the imaginary fire in such quick time that no blaze could have got much of a start from the time the alarm was sounded in the engine house to the time the water was turned on. The hitch in the engine house was perfect, the horses coming out of the stalls as though shot from a gun and hardly pausing for the harnesses to be snapped on.
• Miss Martha E. Millar became the bride of Mr. Lee Hornsby in a pleasant wedding ceremony performed Thursday by Rev. D. Cohlin at the bride's parents' home on Garfield Avenue. The rooms were beautifully decorated and flowers were daintily arranged in the dining room where a bountiful wedding dinner was served The couple are both graduates of the high school and are well known in social circles.
• Orson J. Parker, who has the stage line from this city to Old Mission, is out with a fine new rig for the first time today. He has told his patrons that his job will be much easier now and their deliveries more dependable.
• The paving of Sixth Street will begin after the Fourth and will probably be all finished within 60 days. "Foxy Grandpa" will put on a full force of men and keep them on, pushing the work until it is completed. A. P. Hunter has the contract for all the cement curbing.
• Ed Chapin, Ben Gray and Will Griffin are victims of smallpox at the home of George Gray on East Eighth Street. Gray was the first to take it coming down with the disease two weeks ago. It is a very mild form and at first was not thought to be smallpox.
• Advice on deportment. Do not say limb for leg or retire for go to bed.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To treat heartburn, drink slowly a decoction of chamomile flowers.
• Best buy of the week. Solid Oak Parlor Stand, $1.25 at The Boston Store.