November 10, 2004
Herald news ... 100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
- The people of the nation have spoken and in no uncertain terms, President Roosevelt was elected by an overwhelming vote in the election this week. He has received a splendid endorsement at the hands of the people which gives the most magnificent tribute a people can pay to its foremost citizen.
- Election day was very peaceful in the city and its reputation was not marred in the slightest. In the evening, the small boys amused themselves by tooting on fish horns until 9 p. m. and then they were gently told to desist, which they did. A liberal shower of confetti caused more exercise than usual for the sidewalk sweepers.
- A jack-o-lantern came very near causing a serious fire at the home of Claire Curtis last week. His little son had a candle in a pumpkin and desiring to see how it would look in the dark, shoved it under the couch. The fringe caught and the fire quickly spread to the curtains and carpets. For a few minutes, things looked threatening, but by prompt use of water, the danger was averted. The $25 loss was fully covered by insurance.
- Emory Daling killed a half grown wild cat on the railroad right of way near Williamsburg recently. He jumped off the moving handcar and kicked the animal in the head too swiftly for it to make an outcry to summon help from the old one which was but a short distance ahead in the brush. The boys are now all hunting wild cats at that place.
- Death entered the home of another pioneer family of Traverse City last Saturday and bore away S. Couillard Despres. While he had been gradually failing for four years, the end did not seem near and only with the lapsing of strength, little by little, until life was spent did his family realize that he was to be taken away. He came to Traverse City from Quebec, Canada in 1866.
- Carrol Hale, collector of the First National Bank, and Miss Leila Shields, kindergarten teacher in the Central School, were quietly married last evening at the Methodist parsonage by Rev. Thomas Cox. Mr. Hale is a popular young man and Miss Shields also has many friends. The wedding came as a complete surprise as the young people confided their intentions to no one.
- L. G. Buell brings this office an interesting farm specimen in the shape of a carrot weighing over three and one-half pounds and consisting of ten large roots. These are all growing from a single central stalk.
- Mrs. Emmeline Fairbanks of this place and her sister, Mrs. Marletta Thomas, have moved into the tenant house on Mrs. Fairbanks' farm at Mabel. They intend to make it their home for the winter.
- That northern methods are a success in southern farming was proved this week by Lon Brinkman, formerly an Old Mission boy, who has a large truck farm near Mobile, Alabama. Mr. Brinkman sent home a barrel of sweet potatoes which are exceptionally large and show that potato growing can be a success anywhere if the right man takes hold of it.
- Floyd Theobold was found guilty of stealing various harness rings in Justice Verly's court yesterday. He was sentenced to ninety days in the Detroit House of Correction.
- County Agent William Smith, who was here Wednesday with the two boys, Forest Hartwell and Andrew Artlip, who were sentenced by Judge Mayne to the Industrial school at Lansing, returned Thursday with four little children from the state school at Coldwater. They have found kind homes in the Grand Traverse region.
- The residence of Mrs. E. H. Pierce on East Ninth Street, caught fire Saturday morning and was almost a total wreck before it could be extinguished. Miss Addie Pierce, an invalid daughter was carried out and placed in the care of a neighbor. The home is valued at $1,200 with an insurance of $700 on the house and $300 on the furniture.
- Advice on deportment. A gentleman cannot consider himself privileged to call upon a lady upon the strength of an introduction alone.
- Medical advice of a century ago. To treat a bee or wasp sting, apply baking soda to the area of the sting with a damp cloth.
- Best buy of the week. Ladies' Heavy Ribbed Underwear, Gray or Ecru, All sizes, 25 cents at Steinberg Brothers.