August 3, 2005
Herald news ...
100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
- Peter Dugal, formerly of this city, son of Mrs. Ellen Dugal of West Second Street, was instantly killed at Silver Beach, St. Joseph, last week by leaping into shallow water from a spring board, his neck being broken. Mr. Dugal was well known in this city having at one time played first base on the old Invincible baseball team. The accident was witnessed by his fianc‚ who is prostrated by the terrible affair.
- John Schultz, an employee in the Pitcher lath and shingle mill at East Bay, was struck by a flying board Thursday last. The board struck him in the face and it took nine stitches to close the wound.
- Reports indicate that the potato crop this year will be below the average. This should not occasion any worry however, as it is the natural reaction following a great crop and low prices.
- The north cottage, which has just been completed at the asylum, was opened last week with twenty-five patients. It is large and substantial and is the first female cottage, though a male cottage has been kept on the grounds for some time.
- Eleven Suttons Bay and Pshabatown Indians passed through the city Friday morning on their way to Jennings where they will saw wood for Cobb & Mitchell. This is the second crew to go there as ten left from the Leelanau peninsula a week ago bound for the same place.
- Grandma Durga, a resident of Williamsburg, who has been poorly for a long time, is now confined to her bed. Her son, William, from Pennsylvania, arrived last Monday to make his parents a short visit.
- A runaway of a team drawing a covered wagon containing eight people occurred on Wellington Street Sunday afternoon which resulted in the injury of James Moody and wife and Lillian Inlow. The rest of the party were painfully bruised. The accident was caused when a bolt which holds the near whiffletree to the evener broke and the whiffletree dropped on one of the horse's heels frightening him and the other horse in the team.
- A very enjoyable dinner party was given last Friday by Mr. and Mrs. William Selkirk at their charming home near Bates in honor of Mrs. William Johnston of Park Place, Oregon. Twenty-eight people were present who enjoyed a sumptuous dinner, after which music and various other forms of amusement served to pass the afternoon.
- Henry Seal of Benton Harbor passed through this place Saturday on his way home after spending several days in the vicinity of Old Mission buying Duchess apples. The orchards of E. O. Ladd, W. Golden, Orsen Parker, John Holmes, S. B. Tompkins, W. G. Tompkins and James Lardie were purchased at $1.40 per barrel on the packing table. This means that the farmers pick the apples while the buyer packs them into his own barrels and hauls them to the shipping point.
- E. E. Miller, wife and daughter enjoyed a trip to Omena recently which was filled with old associations dating back forty years. During Mr. Miller's early boyhood days, his father was United States interpreter stationed at the Dougherty mission at Omena. His life was spent with the Indians who called him Sha-Wan-e-we-shic (Southern Day) and they have always looked upon him with great love and veneration.
- At the recent commencement exercises of the Chicago Musical College held at the auditorium in the presence of more than 4,000, Frank Stepan, Jr., of this city, received a teacher's certificate for violin. Mr. Stepan has taken a thorough course at the college and is now well qualified to give instruction on that instrument.
- Advice on deportment. Pallbearers are to wear black gloves and crape for the arm when attending an elderly deceased person, but wear white for a young person.
- Medical advice of a century ago. To treat a cough, take a spoonful of spirit of horehound morning and evening.
- Best buy of the week. Lawn Swing Chair, $3.75 at J. W. Slater