July 20, 2005
Herald news ...
100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
- The fruit buyers of the city are receiving cherries in considerable quantities, a full carload being shipped out last Saturday afternoon by George W. Lardie. The price paid was 80 cents a crate which is considered a good price for early sour cherries.
- The social event of the season was the dancing parity given by the girls of Old Mission on Wednesday evening. The finest dancing hall in the place was engaged for the occasion and was beautifully decorated with American beauty roses and ferns. The real beauty of the affair, however, was the girls who, with their happy young faces and pretty gowns made the occasion one that will be long remembered.
- When J. A. Jackson lifted his pond nets in East Bay last Sunday, he found that he had captured a large sturgeon. The fish measured five feet in length and the circumference of its body was over two feet. The fish tipped the scales to an even sixty pounds.
- Mrs. Frances Smith, aged 49 years, of Garfield township passed away Sunday afternoon after a third attack of paralysis. Mr. Smith, from whom she had been separated ten years, suddenly returned to the residence at that tine without her consent and objected to being unwelcome. He was removed from the house by Sheriffs Johnson and Taylor and brought to the county house on Boardman Avenue then sent to Grand Rapids.
- The Bay View camp meeting closed July 17 with Rev. and Mrs. Hugh Kennedy, Rev. and Mrs. M. D. Carrel and Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Cox in attendance. Mrs. Kennedy read a paper on "Parsonage Products", the minister's children. Rev. Carrel is secretary of the association and also a member of the board of trustees.
- Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Sheldon left here for Bay City Saturday to spend a few days and on arriving home, Mr. Sheldon found that his sister, Ethel, was ill with pleurisy, the doctor stating that an operation was necessary. On Monday morning she was operated on and died during the operation. A large attendance of relatives and friends attended the funeral services desiring to pay a last tribute to a young lady who was very popular and loved in life.
- C. M. Prall was thrown from his carriage Monday morning while driving on Ninth Street and sustained a very painful injury to his back. The injuries, wrenching and bruising of the back, are not thought to be serious. The carriage was but slightly damaged and the horse received a few scratches.
- During the severe storm last week, the mammoth canopy of the main tent of Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show was lifted into the air and deposited in a heap making for a moment of a spectacular stunt. At the same time, the tent leading to the main entrance blew down and one of the poles struck a woman, slightly injuring her.
- The case of George W. Parker vs. James Filkins, both of Paradise township, which was caused over a disputed grocery bill was sent up to the jury at the courthouse yesterday afternoon. The jurors stood firm on their votes and did not render a verdict and were consequently discharged.
- Captain George Waters, family, sister and mother arrived in the city last week on the captain's steam launch, Arrow. The Arrow is a beautiful little craft fifty-four feet over all with a ten-foot beam and was built by Captain Waters himself in the wintertime over the past five years. They will leave today for Duluth.
- The families of Dr. A. J. Snyder of this city and Messrs. Case and Crotser, of Kingsley, returned last night from a week's camping trip to Rainy Lake and report a most delightful time. The campers agreed that the weather was most pleasant and the abundance of fish provided several tasty suppers for the crowd.
- Advice on deportment. Concealing debts from a husband by a young housewife is often the first step toward lack of confidence
- Medical advice of a century ago. To treat a histeric cholic, take 15 or 20 drops of balsam of Peru on fine sugar, twice or thrice a day.
- Best buy of the week. Dainty slippers for children, 50 cents to $1.50 at Alfred V. Friedrich.