July 23, 2003
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
• The board of public works has approved the plan of Architect F. E. Moore for the $20,000 Carnegie library which they propose to erect on Sixth Street. The plans call for a classic Greek structure with repressed brick and Berea sandstone. The main part of the building will be 38 x 70 feet with a semi-circular stack room built on a 25-foot radius. The building is to be exceptionally well lighted.
• James H. Miller, of Long Lake, entered a complaint against 15-year-old Mary Jones last Saturday after which she was brought to the city by Sheriff D. G. Chandler and taken before Justice S. M. Brown who sentenced her to the Industrial school at Adrian until she is 21 years of age. In the complaint, she was charged with larceny and disorderly conduct. She is hard to manage and her foster parents were unable to do anything with her as she was very contrary and stubborn. The Miller family believed she had become dangerous to have around.
• T. A. Wilhelm, who has graduated from the dental school of the University of Michigan, has taken offices in the City Opera House block and will begin practice Saturday. He has a large waiting room and a good sized operation room which is being fitted up with a fine chair and with Clark's fountain cuspidor and an instrument cabinet that has no equal in this city .
• The cold weather of the last week did not spare the Grand Traverse resorts and for a few days roasting fires were the rule. This turn in the weather gave a temporary setback to the rush of resorters which has been stimulated again this week by a return of warm weather and many novel social pleasures are being enjoyed once again.
• Secretary Harry Kneeland of the Traverse City Canning Co. packed up a few sample cans of cherries last week and sent them to a Chicago fruit commission firm. The firm did not wait to write, but at once sent a telegraph order for 500 cases and ordered 200 more cases the following morning. This shows that the company is putting up a superior quality of goods.
• Mrs. Frances Thompson and son, Percy, drove from her home at Mayfield to Hodge Thursday to visit her father, Robert Pierce who has been stricken with paralysis. Upon her return, she was surprised to meet a cousin and family from Wisconsin she had not seen since childhood.
• Lucy Morris died at the asylum Friday of suffocation during epileptic convulsions at the age of 27 years. She was found in her bed that morning and relatives were contacted at Ferris in Montcalm county. The body was shipped to that place which was her old home for burial this week.
• Robert Miller was unanimously acquitted of the charge of taking a horse and using it on the evening of July 5 without the owner's permission. Dave Turnbull was sworn and corroborated previous testimony and Miss Gayhart, a dining room girl at the Columbia Hotel, testified on behalf of the defendant stating that she had heard Mr. Miller order the rig and after waiting a while, had walked off.
• Mrs. Charles Cole, who has been an invalid for 15 years, is so wonderfully improved with the osteopathic treatment of Drs. J. O. and M. J. Trueblood, that she wishes her friends to know of their treatment success in her case. For all these past years she could not step up on anything without the utmost difficulty and now can get around as well as anyone.
• Around the area, while out of doors, the men are busy in haying and the women indoors are busy canning up raspberries and cherries. There isn't much time for social activities or trips into the city, but they know that these chores will be finished in a few weeks and then they will go about with shopping and visiting.
• Miss Ella Cooper, who has been learning the dressmaker's trade in this city, has finished her time and accepted a position with Mrs. Dennis on Franklin Street.
• Advice on deportment. Beauty is to a woman what strength is to man. Cultivation of the mind and body should go hand in hand.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To treat constipation, take daily two hours before dinner, a small tea cupful of stewed prunes.
• Best buy of the week. Camp stove. 27 cents at The Boston Store.