October 29, 2003
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
• Farmers are now crying for apple barrels and some of them cannot get them at any price. Early in the season, when the coopers had their warehouses full and wanted to get rid of them at low figures, some of the farmers refused to take them. Now they would be glad to get them at almost any price.
• The Women's Foreign Missionary society of the Friends church elected officers Tuesday. Among the officers elected were: President, Mrs. Charles Jeffries, vice president, Mrs. J.M. Thomas; secretary, Miss Carrie Wood; treasurer, Mrs. Hattie Franklin.
• C. A. Edgecomb has returned from his visit to Lima, Ohio, his old home, and says that this part of the earth is paradise compared to Lima. While Lima is a city of 50,000 inhabitants, it is far more poorly kept than the worst of Traverse City.
• Prof. M. L. Dean, professor of horticulture at the Agricultural college, arrived here yesterday and immediately went out on the peninsula in search of exhibits for the St. Louis fair. Prof. Dean is several weeks late in arriving in this area and it is thought that he will not obtain as good exhibits if he had come three weeks earlier.
• Our correspondent at Acme reports that several of the residents at that place have returned from visits made to other parts of the state. Among them are Ernie Thomas who had been in the north and has gone to work for C. C. Stites and Mrs. Deusted who came back from Detroit where she had made several visits among relatives in that area.
• "Jerry" the near horse on the hook and ladder truck, had to be killed yesterday on account of a broken leg sustained while the team was being exercised. The horse had stepped on a small stone and fell, breaking his left hind leg above the ankle joint. The horse was one of the best in the department and valued at $25.
• John Curtis, the infant son of Gerald W. Curtis, died last week on Wednesday of general exhaustion at the age of 1 year, 4 months and 7 days. Funeral services were conducted at the family residence on West Ninth Street followed by the internment under the direction of L. D. Curtis.
• Two islands in Fife Lake are to be disposed of December 12, 1903, by the United States government. Sales will be conducted on a "first come, first served" basis. The successful bidder will be required to make immediate payment in lawful currency; checks and drafts are not acceptable.
• The residence of Mrs. Julia Manigold, just outside the village of Kingsley, burned to the ground yesterday afternoon with nearly all its contents. Mrs. Manigold opened a closet door and the flames burst out in her face, spreading so rapidly that the family were only able to save a stove and a little bedding. The cause of the fire is not known.
• Mrs. Ruth Miner, known throughout the region as "Aunt Ruth", a widow of the late Charles Miner, a pioneer of this region, died Sunday at her home near Monroe Center of old age, 77 years. Mr. and Mrs. Miner came to this region in 1866 and had cleared up one of the finest farms in the region.
• Advice on deportment. Names of persons should be correctly pronounced. The pride is easily hurt if liberties are taken with one's name.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To treat an accidental sickness or pain in the stomach, vomit with a quart of warm water.
• Best buy of the week. Footstools, 29 cents at J. W. Milliken.