April 21, 2004
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
• Grawn now has a better chance to grow as Mrs. Faust, who bought the H. C. Burt farm, has platted a row of lots along the east side of the place north of the schoolhouse. For a number of years the amount of property that is for sale in that place has been very limited, making it hard for this little village to grow.
• Charles P. Buck, vice president of the Potato Implement Company, lost four fingers of his left hand on Saturday. He was working at one of the presses and it is thought that his hand became tired and he was not quick enough to remove it. Dr. Kneeland performed the amputation.
• M. Hamburger, a resident of Kingsley, has purchased the house formerly owned by F. N. Glass and is having some alterations made. Frank Halladay and Charles Stansell are doing the work.
• Last Saturday, Rev. Hugh Kennedy, assisted by Rev. J. L. Mershon, united Samuel Ward and Lorinda Allyn in marriage at the home of Mrs. H. B. Pratt in the presence of the immediate relatives and a few friends. A wedding dinner was served immediately after the ceremony.
• James Kilbright, Jr. met with an accident Friday in which the cap of his right ankle was broken while at work loading logs for Tracy Gillis at Seegmiller's siding, just beyond Kingsley. Mr. Kilbright was trying to unfasten a wire toggle when a log on the car became loosened and rolled off striking a glancing blow on the shoulder. He was brought to this city and a physician was summoned who reduced the fracture.
• D. E. Wynkoop has purchased the Boughey hotel at Carp Lake, the deal having been made Monday. Mr. Wynkoop is planning a number of repairs to make it a modern and up to the minute summer hotel. He will run it this summer and make it as attractive as possible.
• Frank Stevens, aged fourteen, was in Judge Lorin Roberts' court Wednesday on the charge of larceny, he having stolen a bicycle from Richard Herkner. Sentence was suspended by the court as long as the boy behaves. The boy makes his home with the widow of Lewis Crain and she has done all in her power to make the lad tread the path he should, but he persisted in associating with evil companions and the inevitable happened.
• A pitiful sight occurred at the Pere Marquette depot Wednesday when a man brought his wife to the city to be placed in the asylum. In order to get her here he had to bring his three little children with him, the oldest being about three years and the smallest, only a baby. He returned to his home this morning with his three little babies.
• A party of seven, consisting of A. J. White, A. Monte White, William Good, Jr., Mary Good, William McQueen, Frank Courtade and Albert Lautner, left Wednesday for Laird, California. They will be gone for several weeks and plan to do some sightseeing and visit friends who moved to that place from Traverse City.
• The two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William of Garfield township died on Tuesday of whooping cough. The funeral was Thursday morning from the Rennie schoolhouse. Elder Miller officiated and Undertaker Anderson had charge of the funeral.
• R. E. Lee, a Pere Marquette brakeman, had his scalp badly lacerated and his shoulder bruised considerably on the Kalkaska division near Mahan's siding Monday night. The train had slowed down and he stepped from the caboose while it was still in motion with the result that he received his injuries.
• Advice on deportment. At a dinner party, the host must be ever on the alert to assist the hostess.
• Medical advice of a century ago. In summer, if it be possible, let the sickroom be on the north side of the house; in winter, upon the south.
• Best buy of the week. Velour Upholstered Couch, 5 rows of tufts, golden oak frame, claw feet. Spring Special $5.95 at The Boston Store.