May 7, 2003
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
• The new savings department of the Traverse City State Bank opened successfully Monday, about $2,000 being paid in to Mr. Maynard up to 3 o'clock. The first depositor was Julius Beers and his bunch was followed by others from Williard Friedrich, Warren Ott and Raymond Ott. The department is fully equipped and the bank will give it special attention.
• William Daisell has received notice that he will get a father's pension of $10 a month. His son, Cloyd, was a member of Company M. Thirty-fourth Michigan volunteers and died from the effects of the Cuban campaign.
• Charles Emerson, a resident at East Garfield, had the well drivers, C. Moe and L. Day, driving his well deeper this week. They put it down 39 feet and the water filled the pipe within six feet of the top. They believed that with just going a few feet farther, they would have struck an artesian well.
• The poverty or rag time dance given last Friday night by the Modern Woodsmen at Interlochen was largely attended and greatly enjoyed. The attire worn by the merrymakers brought on much conversation and laughter.
• A pitiful sight was observed Saturday evening when seven orphan children arrived in the city after traveling all alone from Seattle, Washington. They have come here to stay with a relative, R. M. Edgecomb of the Peninsula. The orphans were the children of Mr. and Mrs. Will Johnson who had lived on the Peninsula several years ago but had gone to Washington where Mr. Johnson had located a homestead. The father died about two years ago and the mother died last September.
• Fred Pitcher met with a terrible accident yesterday while at work at the basket factory of the Wells-Higman Co., as a result of which his right arm was ground to pieces to the shoulder. He was brought by the city ambulance to one of the physicians in town and later taken to his home on State Street where an amputation of the remainder of the arm took place. It is now reported that Pitcher rallied well and is doing nicely.
• Among the appointments made at the first meeting of the new city council Monday night were: Night Police - Allen Grayson, G.C. Thompson and Frank Harley; Special Police (without salary at Insane Asylum) - E.C. Kent, E.T. Evans, G.E. White; City Scavenger - James C. Avery; Director of Poor - Fletcher D. Marvin; City Weighmaster - S.C. Depres; Poundmaster - James C. Avery.
• Mrs. Clara Wurzburg, wife of City Treasurer Peter Wurzburg, died last Thursday morning of paralysis, resulting from cerebral hemorrhage. Deceased was well known in this city having lived here all her life and was very prominent in social circles. All the medical skills known was done, but when it was learned that it was not a mental ailment, all hopes were given up.
• A.V. Friedrich, president of the board of trade, has received a telegram from J.E. Coffin of Machias, Maine, stating that he has secured the pine barrens located in eastern Grand Traverse and western Kalkaska counties from the state for the blueberry industry that he has been planning to carry on. His men will begin the work of preparing the land at once and a factory will be erected here next year.
• Mr. Van Dyke, a resident of Long Lake, has his new barn painted up in nice style. It is a neat little barn which will keep his livestock and provide for some hay storage as well. It has also been noticed that Mr. Van Dyke has recently purchased a low, two-seated carriage for his family.
• Our correspondent from Mayfield reports that there was no school the first of May as nearly all the children were fishing. Since the catch was favorable, they returned to their lessons the following day.
• Advice on deportment. A lady does not wear pearls or diamonds in the morning.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To prevent the return of gout in the stomach, dissolve half and ounce of gum guaiacum in two ounces of sal volatile. Take a teaspoon every morning in a glass of spring water.
• Best buy of the week. Ladies' Suits, $48.40 at E. Wilhelm.