October 22, 2003
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
• The East Head Lumber Company is making great improvements in their mill. They are putting in new boilers and band saw and also a dynamo to light their mill and yards by electricity. They have built on to the mill and painted both it and the barn.
• The Kelly House at Mayfield has changed hands. It is reported to have been purchased by Arch Gibbs and leased for the coming season by Leonard Holliday.
• There was sunshine without and sunshine within when Alta M. Lyon and Morden A. Lindsey were married at the residence of the bride's parents at Williamsburg Saturday last. Following the reception, they left on the evening train for this city and thence to Coldwater to visit relatives of the bride.
• Owing to the delay in the completion of the new building of the Campbell Bros. grocery on Union Street, it will not open until the end of the month. There were a number of unavoidable problems which has caused the later opening.
• Beet sugar experiments in this area have proven successful, but whether the sugar beet will supplant the potato is a remote contingency. With potatoes at 40 cents a bushel and prospects of double that price occasionally, it would be difficult to improve on that with the sugar beets.
• Larse Hanson, a young man employed at the Wylie Cooperage Co.'s stave and heading factory at Interlochen, met a very sudden death last Saturday by being drowned in Cedar Hedge Lake. He and a friend, Joe Alberts, were out hunting when the accident happened.
• Rev. Fr. Emperor stated to this office Saturday that the building of the new West Side Catholic church will commence next spring. There are already two loads of stone on the lot, corner of Division and Randolph Streets, with more to be hauled by farmers this winter. He expects to do considerable work this winter now that his hands are not as full with the work at five missions.
• The directors of the We-que-tong club have changed their plans with reference to keeping open the clubhouse during the year, having decided to close the building at once. Plans are already in place for 1904 and it is expected that the club will have the best season in its history.
• Thomas Carlson will have to appear before the January term of the circuit court to answer to the charge of taking indecent liberties with a female child under the age of 14 years. His examination took place Monday before Justice Brown.
• William Grelick left this week for Los Angeles, partly on account of his extensive olive interests and also on account of his health. He will remain for some weeks and on his return expects to bring a carload of olives. He is being accompanied by Louis Grelick.
• John Lamson has nicely fitted up a room on East Eighth Street for a gymnasium and reading room. Some men of the city will greatly appreciate such a facility. A small fee is connected with it, but the boys have the benefit of dumbbells, Indian clubs, punching bags, boxing gloves, pulling machine and other like gymnastic appliances. Card tables are supplied in the reading room, but no gambling is allowed.
• Mrs. W. F. Strangways has returned from Newberry, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Roy Forman, who is recovering from a severe attack of typhoid fever. It is hoped that she will be able to return to her home following a several weeks of rest.
• Advice on deportment. Should you have scruples about taking wine at the dinner table, it is not necessary to enter into an explanation of them. Merely decline it in a quiet and respectful manner.
• Medical advice of a century ago. Any sore is healed by a plaster of mutton suet, even though it fester or breed proud flesh.
• Best buy of the week. Comfortable comforters, Heavy and warm. $1.50 • $3.00 each at The Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co.