April 28, 2004

Herald news ... 100 years ago

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      By Emma Jane Muir
      Special to the Herald
      - Captain Charles Webb will go to Charlevoix this week to get the Columbia in shape for the coming season. The boat will be started as soon as she can get into the bay. Her schedule will be changed this year as instead of starting from Northport, she will leave here in the morning and run opposite the trains.
      - Mrs. Ralph White gave a party for a number of friends last Tuesday evening at her home in Williamsburg. The time was passed in playing progressive double flinch and other games. Warm sugar and other refreshments were served and a most pleasant time was enjoyed by all.
      - Mrs. A. Harris, who lives just south of the city, had a narrow escape from serious injury, if not death while driving on Front Street Saturday during the electrical storm. Mr. Harris was out of the rig and Mrs. Harris was driving and holding her little baby in her arms. Suddenly there was a blinding flash of lightning which struck the heavy iron transformer on a light pole in front of Gunton's meat market. The transformer was broken into pieces and a part fell directly into the rig. Mrs. Harris managed to keep the animals controlled and neither she nor the baby were injured.
      - George Southard, through his attorneys Pratt & Davis, has begun suit in circuit court by summons against James J. Dunn for alienation of his wife's affections. This suit is the culmination of a divorce suit begun by Mrs. Southard. The complainant alleges extreme and repeated cruelty: that the defendant was guilty of a statutory offense and that he had often accused her of improper conduct with men whose names are given in the petition.
      - Prof. I. B. Gilbert, superintendent of the schools, received notice on Tuesday of his appointment as conductor of the state teachers' institute which will be held in Grand Rapids in August. This is quite an honor and as it came without solicitation, it reflects all the more highly on his ability and the place he holds among the leading educators of the state.
      - John Miller has sold ten Jersey cows for $45 each and one Jersey registered bull for $100, also four spring calves, a separator, cream can, churn and butter worker. Mr. O. Lapham of Cedar Run was the purchaser.
      - M. G. Welton, an old soldier who lives on Lake Avenue, while trimming trees in an orchard near Bingham station, fell from the tree he was in and broke his right collarbone on Tuesday. He was brought to the city on the Northport train and taken to Dr. Garner's office where the fracture was reduced.
      - Mrs. P. Kildee of Wexford has been for some time at the home of her son, Ed Kildee of this city, receiving medical treatment. Her condition is such that the doctors have given her up and her desire to pass her last days at her old home among friends and relatives was so strong that she was taken there Saturday. Though she has been at the point of death several times, she was strong enough to make the journey nicely.
      - One day last week Octave Domine and George A. Forton of East Bay sawed and dropped nine cords of block wood in five hours. They think this is the limit and challenge any one in Northern Michigan to beat it at $100 a side.
      - F. M. Jewett of Maple Grove fruit farm brought to this office Monday morning two baskets of fine apples. The fruits were a part of the product of his orchards last year and were in a perfect state of preservation.
      - Mrs. J. R. Johnson died Tuesday after an illness that lasted for some time but which was not considered serious until recently. The cause of death was diabetes. Deceased was a member of the Presbyterian church and was loved for her character and sweet disposition and especially by the young people she often entertained at her home.
      - Advice on deportment. The mistress of the house should shake hands with her invited guests, or with a gentleman who is presented to her by an intimate friend.
      - Medical advice of a century ago. If the patient is very sick, absolute quiet is very essential.
      - Best buy of the week. Iron bed with spring and mattress, $5.75 at The Boston Store.