September 10, 2003
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
• Alderman Hamilton has been looking into the matter of paving for next year with his attention especially directed to bituminous macadam. He spent a half day in Kalamazoo studying that class of pavement and believes everything should be put in place here to begin such a project in 1904. Several streets in Manistee and Charlevoix will soon be covered with this material and Grand Rapids has also made a contract for a like project.
• A man came to police headquarters recently with the information that he had been "touched" for a wad of $100. The man had been in a saloon and the police believed he had lost his roll there. It wasn't long before two of his friends came to his aid and found the money safely tucked inside his sock where he, himself, had placed it for safe keeping.
• Six freight cars went off the M. & N. E. track last night near the freight house on the main line. No reason is known why they jumped the track. The damage was slight and although earlier traffic was delayed, the later train left on time.
• Clinton McRea and Miss Ella Gaza have gone to Big Rapids in quest of information they hope will assist them in finding their father whose name is Morehouse and went to Kansas about 24 years ago. Their mother had died two years previous and they were sent to Coldwater. Families near this city adopted them and changed their names. They have not heard from their father since the girl was four years old.
• Mr. Wager of the resort at Mabel is contemplating building quite extensively this fall. The addition will include a bowling alley and several cottages.
• Mrs. Maud Hodges lies critically ill at the Kelly house in Mayfield. Dr. Garner of this place was called to consult with Dr. Fenton on the case Monday. Mrs. Hodges is very popular and her illness has cast a gloom over that whole community.
• R. B. Garner left yesterday for Pontiac to attend the state fair. From there he will go to Detroit to attend the reunion of his brigade. He expects to return to his home here in a week or two.
• The big new 400 K. W. dynamo for the Boardman River Electric Light & Power Co. arrived last week and as soon as possible it will be installed in the power house at the dam. This machine will replace the five machines now in use and also do away with all the belting.
• James White, a resident at Interlochen, is laid up with some broken toes. A bolt was dropped on them while at work at the stave factory near that place. He is attempting to walk with a crutch, but the pain restricts the distance he can navigate.
• The new clothing and gents' furnishing goods firm of Kubeck & Hoyt will begin business in a new store on Union Street. The building is under the process of erection and will be rushed to completion so that business may begin in a few weeks. Both partners are well known here and it is certain that they will start with a good trade.
• Advice on deportment. A walking dress should be made for service; never so long that it will sweep the walk.
• Medical advice of a century ago. Water and garden cresses, mustard and juice of scurvy-grass, help in a cold scurvy.
• Best buy of the week. Mrs. Paul's Latest Improved Flat Irons, 90 cents per set at J. W. Slater.