November 26, 2003
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
• While walking the M. & N. E. track Sunday morning, Frank Bayles, aged 22, was struck by the morning excursion train to Manistee and very seriously injured. Bayles' hearing is defective and he did not hear the train. The train crew tried to stop the train, but it was too late.
• The chicken pie social given by the high school athletic association Saturday evening was a great success. The association will now have $42 to apply on the debt. The tables were prettily decorated with cut flowers and at least 250 people enjoyed the supper.
• William Goff of Fife Lake, who died from an accidental gunshot wound, was buried from the M. E. church yesterday. The large church barely accommodated the many friends who wished to pay their last tribute of respect for the deceased. William was 28 years old and unmarried.
• Rev. Mr. Jackson of Detroit is holding his meetings at Barker Creek in the hall for a few evenings. Owing to the stormy weather, the attendance has not been very large so far.
• Traverse City will not play Mt. Pleasant nor Big Rapids Thanksgiving day. Yesterday afternoon word was received from the former place that the game was off. Then Big Rapids was called up, but while they had been anxious for a game a day or two ago, the message from Traverse City came a day too late as Big Rapids had closed the date for a game elsewhere.
• While in the upper peninsula, Will Murrel visited R. J. H. Cole, formerly a physician in this city, but now is a resident of Manistique. Dr. Cole is in an enterprise currently that promises to net him a good sized bunch of money. He had joined a syndicate of men from that place who have purchased the entire holdings of the Fuller & Friant Lumber Co. at Thompson which involved the transfer of a sawmill plant, a number of buildings, 8,000 acres of land, several million feet of timber, 28 miles of railroad and equipment and logging camps.
• C. C. Rogers has rented the building in Kingsley owned by William Wurzburg and formerly occupied by J. Calhoun. He will open a general repair shop and expects to be ready for business next week.
• Rev. VanAuken of Vanderbilt preached in the Congregational church at Old Mission last Sunday morning. He also gave a very good talk in the evening at the C. E. on the topic, "How May We Help Abolish the Saloon?"
• Word was received that a carload of apples sent from here November 10th to the Dakotas was frosted in the severe storm they have experienced. There are many barrels of apples awaiting cars now to be shipped from here.
• Mrs. Emmalene Fairbanks of this city returned home Saturday after visiting in the Mabel neighborhood for the past five weeks. Mrs. Fairbanks was a resident of that place for several years and has continued her friendship with many of her former neighbors.
• Plans are all completed for the flag raising of Company M this afternoon. The handsome flag is here and the ceremony of raising it over the new Traverse City State Bank building will commence at 3:30 o'clock. The Hon. Perry Hannah will have the honor of hoisting old glory to the top of the pole.
• Advice on deportment. It is ridiculous to besprinkle your sentences with words from other tongues, and the chances are many that you cannot give them their correct pronunciation, and you gain a reputation for being pedantic.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To treat small pox, take care to have a free, pure and cool air.
• Best buy of the week. Colored Taffeta, All Silk, 29 cents a yard at The Boston Store.