February 8, 2006
Herald news ...
100 years ago
By Emma Jane Muir
Special to the Herald
- The loss at the Michigan Starch Company's plant caused by the recent fire was adjusted Friday by C. A. Barkman of Detroit and John R. Santo of this city. The work of grinding will begin Monday and everything is being gotten into shape to again start the plant. As the company had a large number of orders ahead and there is always a big sale for the produce of the plant, Superintendent Pohoral and his men will have to hustle for some time in order to catch up.
- Emmet Roush, aged 16, son of Albert Roush, was operated on Tuesday at the Grand Traverse Hospital for appendicitis and is now resting well. The case was a week old when the operation was performed, the appendix being found filled with pus.
- Mrs. Elinor Hatfield, who came to Mayfield in September to visit her daughter, Mrs. Anna Chase, passed away yesterday afternoon, aged 66 years, 2 months and 17 days, of anemia and inflammation of the stomach. After over 48 years of joys and sorrows, her husband passed away last April, since which time she has been with her children and other relatives.
- The Rev. J. D. Deets of Northport, who was in the city Monday in the interest of the Indian camp meeting, has stated that he expects to send out 20,000 folders upon imitation birch bark paper with illustrations of the campgrounds and speakers. One of the speakers will be Francis C. Merse, president of Shaw University, North Carolina, the former head of Haskell University at Lawrence, Kansas, one of the western Indian government schools.
- Miss Lucy Conant, who lives at Bates, is the victim of another coasting accident, the result being a badly sprained ankle. Her limb was caught between the sled and a tree and so badly injured she will be unable to walk for several days.
- Bridge Pierce, of Elk Rapids, reported to the authorities Monday that a horse and buggy had disappeared from his premises, the general opinion being that they had been stolen. He was informed this morning through the Morgan barns by phone that the rig was at the home of Mr. Odell from whom the horse was purchased a short time ago. It seems the horse had simply returned to his former owner.
- An entertainment was given at the residence of G. D. Hammond for the benefit of the Catholic church at Barker Creek Saturday evening and attended by a large number. Following the social time and refreshments, a collection was taken which contributed handsomely to the church treasury.
- Tuesday morning the butter dish and wire-end machines of the Oval Wood Dish Co. started with a full force. Heretofore only eighteen out of the thirty machines have been running. Putting on of the full force means employing eighteen or twenty girls, ten boys and about the same number of men in addition to those at work at present.
- Married at the tender age of 15 and after five years of matrimonial storms during which time two little sons were born, Mrs. Kyle Hills of Garfield Avenue began suit today in Circuit court for a divorce from Asaph Hills whom she charges with cruelty. Mrs. Hills claims that her husband some time ago assaulted her and again a week ago inflicted bodily injury upon her, knocking her down. Mr. Hills for a time, preached as a local preacher in and around his former home at Mayfield.
- J. W. Slater is erecting on his stock farm two Baker windmills. One of them is at the corner of four 26-acre pasture lots with a hydraulic regulator that will throw the mill out of the wind automatically when the tanks are filled. The other one is erected at the house with a force pump that carries the water through the pipes to the different barns and also to the lawns.
- While working on the rollway last Thursday at the Dewey log camp near Cedar, John Miller had the misfortune to have his left leg broken below the knee. On the same day, a young man working on the rollway at Pearl Lake fell about twenty feet, but sustained no injuries.
- Advice on deportment. In most churches, a baby is christened when it is about a month old.
- Medical advice of a century ago. To make a salve for a burn, take wild lavender, the green of elder bark, chamomile and parsley and stew them in fresh butter.
- Best buy of the week. Music Cabinets, Up from $1.25, J. W. Slater.