February 26, 2004

Herald news ... 100 years ago

By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald

       - The scholars of Room No. 1, Traverse City schools, have taken a collection and bought a stove for a family that was needy and to whom the cold was a terrible thing. The city had furnished the family wood but it could hardly be burned on account of the condition in which the stove was. The father has been too ill to work, being afflicted with that terrible disease, cancer of the stomach.

- John H. Hollingsworth of Long Lake, Joseph E. Turcott of Elk Rapids and Fred Avery of this city, enlisted in the regular army this morning. The first named will be in the infantry but the other two will be in the cavalry branch. The local office which is in charge of Sgt. Arnold, has made quite a number of enlistments recently.

- F. C. Desmond and family left for California on an early train Monday. They will go to Santa Barbara where Mrs. Desmond and children will remain for the rest of the winter. Mr. Desmond will return to this place after a short visit.

- J. M. Huellmantel has sold his merchant tailoring establishment to Julius Kramer of Bay City. Coming here twenty years ago, Mr. Huellmantel is one of the business pioneers of Traverse City. In that score of years, he has had but one vacation.

- A load of school children from Cedar Run came to the city today to visit the asylum. They were given a tour of several buildings after which they were seated in one of the dining rooms for a luncheon buffet.

- Our correspondent at Barker Creek reports that the zero weather is making itself felt in quite a number of cellars and it is feared that potatoes buried in pits in that locality have also suffered considerably. Apparently, this problem is widespread in northwestern Michigan, considering like reports sent from other areas.

- J. Q. Adams met with a terrible painful accident Friday, his left ear being almost entirely torn off. Mr. Adams was loading logs west of the city when a block hook slipped and struck him in the head. In spite of the injury, the man came on to this city and walked to Dr. Evans' office where the wounds were dressed.

- Mrs. Andrus of Barker Creek brought her baby to Williamsburg last week to have Dr. Clark adjust the bones in its elbow which had been out of joint for about three weeks. The parents had not known what was the matter.

- The fire department was called to the residence of James Staple, corner Webster and Garfield, early Saturday morning. The fire is believe to have caught from the chimney and followed a mattress back from the chimney. The upper part of the home was quite badly burned with plaster falling off one room down stairs and the furniture damaged. Only one take of the chemical was required to put out the flames.

- The first suicide at the asylum for several years occurred late Saturday afternoon when Elvira H. Knapp got hold of some carbolic acid and took it, death resulting with a few minutes. Miss Knapp had been a patient for a half year, was in the infirmary ward and in some way succeeded in getting the key to the operating room from the key ring on the belt of an attendant. The loss was noted almost instantly and though all possible haste was made, she had time to get the bottle and swallow its contents.

- Mr. Arthur Rosenthal, proprietor of the Globe Store, has purchased the bankrupt stock of dry goods, millinery, ladies' and gents' furnishings, formerly owned by Knut Malmgren, located in the Eckstrom block. Mr. Rosenthal intends to move the goods into his store to give his patrons the benefit of his business transaction.

- Advice on deportment. A lady can take the liberty to invite another lady to accompany her in calling; a gentleman never should do so.

- Medical advice of a century ago. To treat the vomiting of bile, boil a chicken an hour in two gallons of water and drink off this till the vomiting ceases.

- Best buy of the week. All suits one half off and all coats one half off at J. W. Milliken.