March 10, 2004
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
• The proposed building of an armory in Traverse City should by all means get strong support. It would provide a permanent home for the veterans and the advantages that would come to the city are plainly visible. It would not cost much and would make the city a desirable place for conventions which connects to advertising and means money.
• Dr. D. E. Saunderson of Lansing, superintendent of the State Anti-Saloon League, addressed audiences in nearly all the churches in the city Sunday. His message to the people was that it was for them to wave the news on and to unite in the common cause against the greatest evil, the saloon.
• Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brook, residents of Osborn, Michigan, met with what might have been a very serious accident while returning home from a visit to Traverse City Saturday. Their team was hitched to a large load of furniture which upset and caused Mrs. Brooks and her child to be thrown under the load. Luckily both escaped without injury, but were seriously bruised.
• News has reached this office that the citizens in the vicinity of Cedar are longing for a good able bodied game warden to take charge of those who are violating fish laws. It is alleged that some people have been taking trout from the streams all winter notwithstanding that is the closed season.
• Fred Thirlby of Brodlands, England, arrived here last week for a visit with B. Thirlby and family. He brought along a copy of the paper printed on the steamship which uses the Marconi wireless telegraph system for reports and keeps the passengers in touch with the outside world in their long trip.
• In spite of the bad weather last week, the revival meetings at Interlochen were well attended. Our correspondent at that place also reports that the rag time dance had a good crowd.
• The matter of letting the contract for the building of the Carnegie library building was brought before the council on Monday by Alderman Bingham. Again, those opposed to the Sixth Street site blocked the proposition and the matter is no further along.
• News was received here yesterday of the sudden death of John McDonald at his home east of the city. Mr. McDonald had not been well for several months, but was seemingly no worse and ate dinner with his daughter, Mrs. Hope Phillips, apparently feeling quite well. Later, he was taken with a strangling fit and died in ten minutes. Mr. McDonald was an active and prominent citizen of the region and held a number of important offices. His death will be keenly felt by a wide circle of friends all through northern Michigan.
• Many people in the city remember Miss Anna Shepherd, who formerly owned a millinery store. She was the sister of Mrs. J. B. Martin and has many friends here. She went to Alaska some time ago where she was married. A letter received by relatives here last week states that her husband has died.
• Engine 173 with the snow plow on the Pere Marquette railroad jumped the track Saturday and went into a ditch almost out of sight. The engine was running at a high speed and it is supposed that the accident was caused by the ice on the track, throwing the plow off. The train crew was pitched into the scrap heap but escaped injury.
• C. L. Grelick, who has been the agent for the Cadillac automobile in this city, has transferred the agency to F. P. Boughey, the well-known implement dealer. The change was made because Mr. Grelick's other business prevented him giving the attention to automobiles that he desired.
• Advice on deportment. A young lady should frown down any young man who addresses her with that air of coarse familiarity.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To treat polyps in the nose, powder a lump of alum and snuff it up frequently, then dissolve powdered alum in brandy, dip lint therein and apply it at going to bed.
• Best buy of the week. Books by Standard Authors, 10 cents a copy at the City Book Store.