March 17, 2004
Herald news ... 100 year ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
• J. J. Campbell has a flag about which clusters the memories of days gone by. It is worn with age and faded by time but on it can still be clearly read, "McClellan and Pendleton, 1864". Mr. Campbell at that time was but a boy, yet during Lincoln's presidency, he carried this little piece of bunting and shouted with youthful vigor for the man whose name was inscribed upon it. After McClellan's defeat, the flag was folded and laid away.
• A meeting of the Hannah camp was held Friday evening at the office of Amil Nerlinger at which committees were appointed for the military ball to be given April 8. J. V. McIntosh will head the reception committee Other committee heads are as follows: Martin Winnie, decoration committee; E. W. Austin, floor committee; R. E. Walter, ticket committee and George Tarbuck, check room committee.
• The village ticket was elected straight through at Kingsley last Tuesday. Michael McCarthy is president and Leroy Maxam is clerk. Trustees are Ralph Glafs, A. B. Stinson, Wesley Dunn and Lewis Manigold. George Fenton won the treasurer's post and Arthur Overhold the assessor's position.
• Friends in the city have received word from Monroe Amidore at Maple City that his little son was badly scalded last week. The little fellow was playing and a pot of boiling hot coffee was upset over him. The burns, however, are not considered serious.
• Edwin Black, president of the Grand Traverse Dairymen's Association opened the society's meeting here today at the courthouse. There are good prospects for a splendid series of lectures along with displays of many dairy products brought in for the exhibition. Cream separators are providing one of the most interesting showings including those made by De Laval, Empire• the National and the United States Separator.
• Alphonso Tyrer, Jr. shot a gray wolf near his farm at Odensburg recently. It is presumed that the animal came across the ice from the upper peninsula as it was in a nearly famished condition and was so weak and exhausted that it could hardly run.
• The board of health decided last Thursday to have samples of the city water examined by Prof. Vaughn, of Ann Arbor, the state analyst. Specimens will be taken from the intake pipe, the Boardman Avenue School, Elmwood Avenue School, Central School and the asylum creek. There are only ten cases of typhoid fever in the city at present, but the people have become alarmed and have called for the testing.
• Potatoes took a small drop on Monday and the tumble was caused largely by the heavy receipts in Chicago. One hundred cars were reported at that place in the morning and the tubers are bringing 90 cents while the price paid here was 65 and 70 cents for the choicest ones.
• Charles Leffler met with a bad accident while coming to the city Friday afternoon. He was driving a sled on which there were several cords of wood when one of the standards of the rack on which he was sitting broke and threw him down behind the horse. His head was caught by the sled runners and in this position he was dragged along. Although unable to cry out, he managed to retain the lines and stop the horses. Warren Snow witnessed the accident who backed the team to release the man's head and brought him to Dr. Garner's office where the injury was dressed.
• The family and friends are happy to report that Philip Host returned to his home at Acme the 15th from the Soldiers' Home at Grand Rapids where he has been in the hospital. J. Perryman returned with him and reports that Mr. Host is much improved in his disability and should be able to get back to his farming chores next month.
• At their Thursday afternoon meeting, the Ladies' Cemetery Improvement Association considered plans for a vault and chapel for the cemetery. W. W. Kelley presented plans for the structure to be built of brick and stone and would cost $1,700. As there would be no wood in the construction, it would be entirely fire proof.
• Advice on deportment. A lady should never canvass an absent acquaintance or repeat anything which has happened in another house where you have been received as a guest.
• Medical advice of a century ago. To treat the spitting of blood, eat a tablespoonful of fine common salt every morning fasting.
• Best buy of the week. Full size fringed White Lilly Bedspreads, 79 cents at The Boston Store.