October 26, 2005
Herald news ...
100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
- Fitch, McCoy & Co. is the name of a new firm which has just been organized to do business in Traverse City and the Grand Traverse region. The firm will handle potatoes, hay, grain and feed. The business will be located in the old Keeney & Son warehouse just west of the G. R. & I. depot.
- Mrs. Sarah Hudson, wife of Rev. Hudson, a former Friends minister, and was well known here, fell from a chair at her home in Lynn, Indiana last week and sustained injuries that may prove fatal. Mrs. Hudson is an aged lady and was leaning over lacing her shoe when she became overbalanced. The tissues in her lungs were torn.
- Next week the large display rooms of Barney Anderson will ring with the new shipment of bells and chimes. A fine new stock of blankets, robes and harnesses is on the way. Mr. Anderson is proud to announce that he has just opened up a new department of hardware and cooking utensils.
- A stranger giving the name of Harry Wilds got $16 from D. B. Nichols, the Eighth Street grocer, on a forged check Friday. The man said he was a Pere Marquette fireman and told the story that he had got his check for wages cashed at the Boston Store. It is reported that Wilds has gone north.
- Two small boys, Forest Hartwell and Alden Arlip were before Judge Lorin Roberts on Monday on the serious charge of burglary. The boys are aged 14 and 10 respectively. The story told to the court is that the boys entered Morgan's warehouse, B. Jennings' pawn shop and the Grand Rapids Furniture Company store taking goods from each place.
- The home of George Armstrong and a house owned by C. M. Coulter on Union Street were entirely destroyed by fire which broke out in the Armstrong house Monday afternoon. There is some mystery as to the origin of the fire, it being thought that it caught from a gasoline stove but in what manner is not known. The chemical arrived just in time to prevent other houses from going up in flames.
- Beginning Monday, the Columbia will bring shingles to the Hannah & Lay Mercantile Company from Norwood and Torch Lake. While the season has been dull this year, the owners of the boat line feel well satisfied over their business receipts.
- Herman Kirchner has moved to this city from Interlochen. Mr. Kirchner is an accomplished cornetist and will play in Stewart and Steffens' orchestra which will add nicely to the fine music presented by that group.
- Miss Cora Cady and Mrs. Crittenden, both artists of Grand Rapids, arrived in town this afternoon enroute for Neah-ta-wanta. They will spend two weeks at that place sketching the autumn foliage and beautiful colorings so perfect in this northern region.
- Bert Smith of Chicago arrived in Mayfield Sunday to visit his father-in-law, John Hobbs. Mrs. Smith has been spending some time with her parents. They will return to their Chicago home at the end of next week.
- All the ladies in the city who want to know what the new creations in fall hats are like can step into the Wood Sisters' parlors and examine the large display. There are hats from the plainest and severest, street type to the rich and heavily draped dress hats in all styles to suit all faces. Burnt orange, brown, mahogany and evening shades are especially popular this season.
- A block of iron weighing 432 pounds has just been turned out of the foundry of Round & Son. The block is to be used as a base for the heavy smokestack of the new federal building.
- Advice on deportment. Coughing or breathing into your neighbor's face at the table is instinctively offensive.
- Medical advice of a century ago. To treat sciatica, bruise leaves of nettles, bind them on the head and give three spoonsful of the juice, warm, every morning.
- Best buy of the week. The Best Cotton Caps for Young Men, All Sizes, 50 cents to $1.50 at Sherman & Hunter.