May 11, 2005
Herald news ...
100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
- The G. A. R. Decoration Day services will be held in Asbury church this year with Rev. Hugh Kennedy delivering the sermon. Harvey A. Langworthy has been appointed to secure funds to defray the expenses and comrades Roberts, Cleveland and Newhouse are to secure music for the day.
- While driving home Saturday evening, E. S. Pratt was thrown out of his buggy and badly stunned for a short time, being taken up unconscious. As the buggy approached the Beaardsley shop on Front Street, a man dropped his bicycle suddenly which startled the horse. A physician was called but aside from a bad bruise on his head, he suffered no serious trouble.
- Fifteen hundred pounds of fish were shipped over the G. R. & I. last week consigned from John Peterson and Schroeder & Son of Northport to Maas Bros., Grand Rapids. This is the first large shipment which has gone south this season.
- The case of David Plemond, which was tried in Justice Curtis' court last Tuesday, resulted in an acquittal. He was charged with the petty larceny of a cook stove, valued at $5, the property of Frank Grubb of the peninsula. The jury was out five minutes.
- John Kennedy made a record with a drag saw recently. He was cutting beech and maple for Charles Canute and in six hours cut seventy cords. The wood was split and piled in that time and fully sixty people watched the performance. The previous high record was considered to be fifty to sixty cords in ten hours' work.
- About June 5 a post office will be established at Fouch and Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Herbert of this city will be the postmasters. Although Fouch is a great fishing resort in the summer it is practically deserted in winter but the office will be open all year.
- James Ennest's store was entered last night, the safe blown, the cash register robbed and a gum machine opened. The burglars only secured about $10 for their work. No clues.
- Wayne Manigold, a resident of Kingsley, is suffering from an injury by a cant hook. The wound is quite painful and has not healed.
- Work on the new building of Straub Brothers and Amiotte on West Front Street is progressing nicely. Contractor Monroe has the pile driver in place and will drive piles for a retaining wall in front.
- The shingle mill west of Fife Lake, owned by F.T. Kenaston, burned to the ground Monday night. He had finished his shingle cut and was rigging up a sawmill. The loss is about three thousand dollars.
- The amateur theatrical troupe from the high school gave their play, "The Garroters", in Kingsley Friday night to a highly pleased audience. About twenty of the pupils and friends of the players accompanied the party to Kingsley
- Advice on deportment. A choice of good companions should be made early.
- Medical advice of a century ago. People who eat two apples a day have less anxiety, fewer headaches and colds, clearer skin, not as troubled arthritis and more mental stability when it comes to stressful situations.
- Best buy of the week. Duchess trousers, $5.00 a pair at E. Wilhelm.