Actress Mabel Eaton
Grand Haven, Mich. February, 1894
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Watch for the ground hog tomorrow.
There were a number of sleigh ride parties out last night.
The postal note will cease existence on and after July 1, 1894.
It was 28 years ago yesterday that General Lee was made general in chief of the Confederate armies.
Enos Stone had his four in hand out last night with a sleighing party about the city. That capable driver “Ern” Smith had charge of the party.
The secretary of the Y. M. C. Association has received a letter form D. P. Clark, architect of Bay City, inquiring into the project of the new building.
Everyone is a better citizen if they own a home. The worst enemies society has are those who own nothing, for they are always finding fault with those who have accumulated a little by their industry and economy. Own a home and then you will feel more interest in maintaining the peace and harmony of your town.—EX.
Rev. B. Christiansen arrived in the city with his family yesterday. Rev. Christiansen comes from Waterloo, Waterloo county, Ontario, and will take charge of the German Lutheran church in the township. He will preach his first sermon next Sunday and a cordial invitation is extended to all Germans to be present.
A sleighing party left for the Miller farm on Ferry St. last evening. A fine time was had, Mr. Sam King acting as host in a capable manner. The only thing to mar the pleasure of the evening was a collapse on the way to the farm, in which Fiddler Collins was nearly crushed to death, James Young narrowly escaped hanging and Frank Buxton’s dancing slippers were promiscuously mixed up with the lunch.
The new Court House was paid its first visit by a court house building committee yesterday, when the building committee of Ludington were here to inspect the new structure. The Ludington gentlemen were very much impressed with our Court House and could not find a fault in its construction. They were here to get pointers on the interior workmanship. Mason county’s new court house was started in May and is not yet plastered. Although started before, it will not be completed until long after ours. It is stated that the people of Ludington are not altogether satisfied with their building, and cost and everything compared it is far inferior to ours.
Death of Mrs. Geo. Hancock.
Mrs. Geo. Hancock died at her residence on Washington street at 6:45 last evening, aged 78 years and 7 months.
Mrs. Hancock was a native of England, where she married Mr. George Hancock in 1846, removing soon after to Corning, N. Y., later settling at Spring Lake, Mich., where they resided until about twelve years ago, since which time they have been honored residents of this city.
Her remains will be buried in Lake Forest cemetery tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock.
A kindlier heart than Mrs. Hancock’s never beat in human breast. What a precious memory it is that her life was filled with sweet souled piety and with such rare and tender filial affection. She leaves a husband, daughter and son to mourn her loss. Her life is ended, but we are all the better—the world is better—because she lived.
If the old saw is correct we will have six weeks more of winter as the ground hog saw his shadow today.
Sales of real estate in this county last month aggregated $88,000 and in this city $6,000. There is a loss of $29,000 in the sales in the county as compared with last year, and a gain of $4,000 in the city over last year.
The two sleighing parties which left for Muskegon yesterday afternoon report a pleasant time. Rev. J. J. VanZanten’s home corner of Amity and Spring streets, Muskegon, was the objective point, and was reached at about 6:30. Rev. and Mrs. VanZanten were taken by surprise while at supper. The evening was spent in an enjoyable manner and the party returned early this morning.
Mr. A. L. Jackson has taken the agency for the White Laundry of this city and will place a delivery wagon on the Spring Lake-Ferrysburg route for the benefit of customers in those towns. He is an accommodating young man and the public can rest assured if they place laundry orders in his charge they will be attended to. Mr. O. W. Meesinger will take orders in Spring Lake.
The Wilson tariff bill and the income tax bill passed in the House of Representatives yesterday.
Mrs. Harriet E. Friant is on the steamer Fuerst Bismarck on her way to the Mediterranean
On December 19 last the American Mirror and Glass Beveling Company of this city obtained a judgment for $570 against the Michigan Cabinet Company of Grand Rapids. A writ of fleri facias was issued and returned unsatisfied. Now the complainants asks that the individual stockholders be brought into court and examined under oath. They also ask for judgment against all who have subscribed for and fully paid for their stock.
A Jail Breaker.
John Stanton has chances of spending a term in Jackson prison. He was arrested about a week ago for drunkenness. At the jail he was searched and to the surprise of the officers no less than eighteen dangerous looking saws were found on his person. The saws were about eight inches long and were concealed underneath his underclothing. His term for drunkenness being up today, Stanton was at once re-arrested and taken before Justice Pagelson, on the charge of bringing tools of escape into a jail. He was bound over to circuit court and bail was fixed at $600.
Stanton has been arrested several times this winter on charges of drunkenness and served short terms in jail. He is a stranger here, presumably a tramp.
If present indications are true the fellow is in a bad fix. The tools he brought into the jail were probably to be the means of escape of some prisoner. Stanton in order to be arrested feigned drunkenness. His plans were frustrated by a careful search of prisoners, always made at the jail. With the saws he had upon him, Stanton of any other prisoner could have gained an opening to the outside of the jail in a very short time. It is a very fortunate thing that the saws were discovered as wholesale delivery of prisoners might have occurred ere this time, if he could have smuggled his tools inside.
If convicted, the extreme sentence which can be given Stanton is seventeen years in the penitentiary. It will be seen by this that it is no laughing matter which Stanton has got himself into.
Robt. Redeke is the owner of a valuable Gordon setter with a pedigree of blue blood.
It is understood that Mrs. David Hawkins who was shot by her husband in Robinson a week ago today has gone to Chicago with her brother Wm. Kefgen. Abe Ellsworth it is said will move back to his former home in Lake View, Montcalm Co., shortly.
The bicycle has other claims upon women than the mere pleasure it affords. Physicians are beginning to recommend it as the best kind of medicine for nervous troubles. Massage and other treatments are being regulated to the background, and bicycle riding is coming to the front as the best cure, says the New York Morning Journal.
Roosien Bros., are going out of business and for the next few days will be selling their stock at cost. Remember the place, corner 7th & Fulton Sts.
February 2, 1848, forty-six years ago yesterday the United States acquired California and other territory from Mexico, at total area of 614,489 square miles, and when New Mexico and Arizona are admitted the whole area will be under state governments.
There is a great difference of appearance of the stores in this city as compared with those in other towns. Here, most of the stores have two or three steps from the streets; while it is common for stores in nearly every town to be on level with the sidewalk.
Postmaster Baar, being asked if it was true that he proposed having a new post office outfit replied: “Yes. I desire to accommodate the patrons of this office in the best manner possible and have decided to give the people a new, modern, more convenient and enlarged equipment. A postmaster’s salary is adjusted according to the revenue of his office. The revenue is derived from the sale of stamps and the rental boxes. I believe with improved adequate facilities for transacting the business the postal money order business will increase and the box rates will be very materially increased. This change, I hope, will add to soon make ours a second instead of third-class office, besides having a post office fully becoming our city.
Mr. N. B. Glazier will celebrate his 84th birthday next Tuesday. He is one of Grand Haven’s oldest citizens and has led a life of many interesting episodes. A Green Mountain boy, he was born in the year 1810 in the town of Ferrisburg, Addison county, Vermont. The town which is located between Lake Chaplain and the Green Mountains is in one of the most picturesque regions of America; add also a region populated with patriots and Americans to the core. Mr. Glazier’s grandfather served in the war of the Revolution and was one of the participants, who in disguise of Indians boarded an English vessel in Boston harbor and emptied its cargo of tea into Boston Bay. It was one of the first hostile acts against Great Britain. All through the Revolution Mr. Glazier’s grandfather served and took part in the Battle of Lexington, where “the shot was heard around the world.” The father of Mr. Glazier served in the Seminole war of Florida and also a brother. When the Civil war broke out, Mr. Glazier joined the 17th New York Volunteers and also served in an engineering corps during the Rebellion. For twenty-five years he lived in New York City, engaging in the building of bridges and mills. Mr. Glazier is a in very good health and arises has done for years, at five every morning.
[A poem titled “The Edge of Doom” by Alice Cary is not included here, but can be seen in this issue on microfilm at the Loutit Library.]
This has been a very unfavorable winter to the average man who does not patronize the barbers in town and one cause why the barbers all seem to be doing so well. Last winter was a bad one for the barber. “See!” I’ll tell you why. In real cold weather these people who seldom patronize a barber shop wet their hair and go outdoors and let it freeze and break it off to the owner’s taste. “Economy is wealth.”
The Catholics will have a sleighing party this evening.
This cold snap has greatly strengthened chances of a good ice crop.
Akeley college has a gymnasium in connection, which is steadily being supplied with all the necessary apparatus. The “gym” is 34 feet wide, 44 feet long and 16 feet high.
An oil war between the Standard and Schofield companies at Zeeland has rendered the price of kerosene to 2 cents a gallon and farmers are coming twenty miles to secure a big supply.
Mr. D. A. Lane has handed the TRIBUNE a copy of the Grand Haven News of July 25, 1866. Among the business men of the city at that time as noted by the advertisements were: F. Kent & Co., tailors; S. Juistema, shoe dealer; C. B. Albee, shoe dealer; I. H. Sanford & Co., tailors; H. Brouwer & Bro., dry goods; Sheldon & Slayton, general store; A. Stegeman & Bro., general store; Frank H. White, groceries; S. Gale & Co. , drugs and groceries; Fred Becktal, meats; G. D. Sanford, stationary; Isaac Hunting, life insurance; H. Griffin & Co., drugs; A. VanderVeen, physician; Wm. Wallace, grocer; Ferry & Son, lumber; Hubbard & Miller, hardware; B. Vanderhoef was sheriff; Hermanus Doesberg, clerk and register; Geo. Flemming, county treasurer; Geo. Parks, probate judge and R. W. Duncan, prosecuting attorney at the time. On the first page of the paper is a speech by T. W. Ferry, then a member of Congress, made before the house on the lumber tariff.
Holland was lighted by electricity for the first time Saturday evening. Gasoline had previously been used.
Grand Haven factories employ a large number of Ferrysburg and Spring Lake residents.
The first motto of Michigan was, “The sprout at length becomes a tree.” Its fitness was striking. This cannot be better illustrated than by the standing of Michigan in the census at various decades. In 1840 we were the twenty-third; in 1850, the twentieth; in 1860, the sixteenth; in 1870, the thirteenth; in 1880, the ninth, which position we hold at present under the census of 1890.
Capt. John Lysaght, of the Grand Haven Live Saving crew, was in the city last week a guest of Capt. Woods. Lysaght has been in the life saving service for many years, and among other places has been stationed at Point Sable, Racine and Grand Haven. It was his crew at Racine that saved the large iron ore vessel, Howland, with three men on board. They took her to South Chicago keeping her up for 70 hours with hand pumps.—Muskegon News.
John Dillon played the leading role in “A Model Husband” at the Opera House last Saturday night. All in attendance were kept in convulsions of laughter over the predicaments the “model husband” and the rest of the cast entangled themselves. Of course everything ended well as it generally does in a play, and all were happy. The play was deserving of a better attendance as it is one of the best that has held the boards here this season.
Real estate men report that from present indications they will have plenty of sales in the spring.
The local political pot is not yet boiling but in another month it undoubtedly will be. Candidates for marshal are about the only ones making themselves heard. Our present marshal John Klaver and Wm. L. Andres and Andrew VanHoef are said to be candidates for the office.
Remarkable Coincidence.
While attending the Grand Lodge of masons at Saginaw a few weeks ago to which he was a delegate from the local lodge, Capt. Robert Finch chanced to meet at the lodge sessions, a Mr. Chas. Finch of Saginaw. Strangely enough Mr. Chas. Finch had only one eye. Still more strange, Mr. Chas. Finch lost his left eye at the same battle that Capt. Robert Finch of this city lost his right eye. It was the battle of North Anna River in Virginia in June 1864. Capt. Robert of this city was serving in the 1st Michigan sharpshooters and the Saginaw Mr. Finch was in the 93rd New York Regiment. They never knew each other’s existence till this meeting. It was a remarkable coincidence.
Two of the same name, fighting in the same battle and both losing an eye in the engagement. It is needless to say that the two exchanged notes and will undoubtedly keep track of each other.
Great as the D., G. H. & M. Ry. now is, it was started with a capital of only $1,200.
John McSherry formerly of Gus. Hubert’s shop and Henry Boyink will open a blacksmith shop on Fulton St.
The Sunday Grand Rapids Democrat has a facsimile of a 12½ cent note of wildcat denomination issued in Grand Haven in 1838.
The Grand Haven window in the state building at the World’s Fair will probably be framed and hung up in the council chambers a s a souvenir of the Columbian Exposition.
Sunday was the coldest day this winter. The mercury went down to six above zero in the early morning and it continued bitter cold all day, despite the fact that the sun shown brightly.
An exchange says that the men who founded the towns and cities of this country should have used more commonly the many beautiful Indian words in naming them. Of the states very few are of Indian derivations, Illinois, Iowa, Dakota and Ohio being about the only ones. Rivers have shared more fortunately. This is especially true of those in the eastern part of the country. The rivers emptying themselves into Chesapeake Bay from Maryland and Virginia commonly have Indian names with a peculiarly sharp, metallic ring to their syllables as Choptank, Pocomoke, Rappahannock, Plankstank, Nauticoke. The rivers flowing westward in Virginia and West Virginia, however, have softly musical names, as Kanawha, Ohio, Monongahela, Youghiogheny. The most musically named of all rivers, however, the Shenandoah, belongs to the Atlantic coast system as a tributary of the Potomac Our own county is named after one of the great tribes of American Indians and with the exception of Pottawatomie Bayou, named after a no less famous tribe, is about the only thing geographically, that we have of Indian derivation.
Wm. Thieleman has been cutting ice.
The court house carpeting and curtain contract has not yet been let.
John Ackley formerly of this city is now operating a saw mill near Cairo, Ill.
Wm. Thieleman is cutting ice for the Schlitz storage building on Water St.
Every evening there are more or less sleighing parties about the city or to neighboring towns.
The Evanston life saving crew had a narrow escape from drowning while at work on the Chicago water works intake pipes yesterday.
The steamer L. S. Payne sank in 10 feet of water in the harbor at St. Joseph Friday night. The ice cut a hole in her hull.
A new blacksmith shop, a hardware store and another grocery, it is said will be located in Grand Haven in the near future.
The clerk and porter of the Cutler House indulged in a three round set this morning; the clerk winning and taking the purse.
Indications point to warmer weather again. This makes the ice men dubious as the crop will be ruined by two days of spring like weather.
A citizen wants to know why it is that every two or three years the text books of the High School are changed for some other series; to the great additional expense to the students.
Since the supreme court’s recent decisions the tax title shark is happy. He is also buying up tax titles to choice bits of property. People who have permitted their taxes go by default had better watch out for him.—EX.
One of our Second ward aldermen neglects cleaning his sidewalk, and the neighbors and especially ladies are bitterly complaining. Why don’t you accommodate the public Mr. Alderman and keep your walk clean.
X.
The contract for the gas and electric fixtures for lighting the new court house has been let to the firm of White Mnfg. Co. of Chicago. Mr. Chas. Barron, who represented that firm, is the son of Mr. Chas. L. Barron, Sr., of the Grand Trunk R. R.
“Johnny” Verhoeks was released from jail late yesterday afternoon, bail having been furnished him. The bail, which amounted to $1500, was furnished by Solomon Verhoeks, father of the prisoner, and Wm. Thieleman. Henry Sickman is still in jail. His bail is also fixed at $1500. Both have been in jail since the 18th of December, on the early morning o which day they were arrested for burglarizing Roossien’s grocery store.
This warm weather is breaking up the sleighing, and wheels are beginning to take the place of runners.
There is some talk that Postmaster Baar would locate the postoffice, when he takes charge, in the store now occupied by Geo. W. Miller as a hardware establishment. Mr. Baar will probably not move the post office from its present location if the owners of the building make certain improvements.
The court house building committee finished their deliberations for this session today. Fred Engle of Muskegon was given the contract for supplying the new building with mantles. His bid was $689. The White Manufacturing Co. of Chicago were given the contact to put in the new light fixtures. Their bid was $1100.
EDITOR TRIBUNE: The short item in your valuable paper Saturday last, that many of the School Board in the state were adopting a more simple and practical way of teaching Arithmetic. This move is certainly in the right direction as many a parent in the city can bear witness. Many of us have been called on to help our young hopefuls out in their problems and answered oh yes we will help you, but when we come to look farther and investigate we find the examples puzzlers the like in a business career of forty years we have never been called on to solve and the children after us in their business life will never see the likes of again, and the wonder is to me is why our School Board have not long since discarded the Arithmetics in our schools and secured something that will be more useful and practical in a child’s after life. I surely rejoice that the light is dawning, and the day is coming, when my children will give me an example to do, to help them along that they are a help to them and not a downright injury. I have discovered some other things that will benefit our schools and will later call your attention to them. I shall however find no fault with our School Board or our teachers, as I fully believe they are all trying to do their duty faithfully.
Respectfully,
ONE WHO HAS BEEN PUZZLED.
Postmaster Baar will retain his real estate office.
Fred Pryal, a drunk, was sent to jail for ten days by Judge Pagelson this morning.
The court house flag staff needs a handsome new flag.
The poles have arrived for the new electric lights to be paced on the corner of Second and Columbus Sts., and on Wallace St. one block south of Pennoyer Ave.
A big field of ice lay off the harbor this morning, having been brought up here from off Michigan City by the prevailing southerly wind of the past few days. The Roanoke was detained for some time by the floe while making the harbor.
Our young townsman and attorney Peter J. Danhof, has, it is said, a strong chance of receiving the appointment of assistant district attorney.
John Kooiman and Peter Ball went rabbit hunting yesterday, taking along a ferret. The ferret bit Peter in the hand and that gentleman is now in great fear of blood poisoning setting in.
A few weeks ago a number of young people gathered together and formed a club which they call “The Ladies Literary Club.” The following officers were elected: President, Mrs. McComb; Vice President, Pearl Holmes; Secretary, Birdie Holmes; Treasurer, Blanche Doddington. They meet tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 at Mrs. McComb’s.
Early this morning a burglar or burglars attempted to enter the residence of John Kooiman on Fulton street. Mr. Kooiman awakened about one o’clock this morning and hearing a mysterious noise proceeded to investigate. The intruder was frightened away, as Mr. Kooiman looking out of the window, saw a man running and jump over the fence. Had Mr. Kooiman not awakened a burglary would probably have to be recorded today. The foot steps of the burglar were noticeably all around the house this morning.
Marshal Klaver during his tow years term of office has not had a single day off.
There were more tramps in town yesterday than at any other time since last summer. In all, the offices counted thirteen of the gentry.
What we want to do, as citizens of today, is, to bring the public into a keen realization of new rod laws. “Good Roads.”
Cook Indigo was knocked off a box car in the D., G. H. & M. yard yesterday and sprained his ankle badly. He was jumping on to trains at the time, and it is very fortunate that he was not more severely injured.
Postmaster Jacob Baar took charge of Grand Haven post office this afternoon, and will attend to that important position for the next four years, at least. Mr. Baar stated today that he has decided not to remove the office from the present location, but a number of changes will be made. The new post office outfit will not be here for a week or ten days yet, and the old outfit will be used until its arrival. Postmaster Baar has purchased Mr. Parish’s burglar proof safe which has been in the office for a number of years. Assistant Postmaster Chas. N. Dickenson will be retained by Mr. Baar for the present. The duties of the postmaster are by no means light, and besides being arduous; the postmaster is held responsible for every little short coming. As for instance parties expecting a letter or mail matter and not receiving it, generally blame the man in charge of the office for it. But it is safe to say that Mr. Baar will attend to the office to the best of his ability, and give the people a good administration.
Customs’ Report.
Through the kindness of deputy Customs Collector G. B. Parks, we publish the following annual report for Grand Haven customs district.
[This report can be seen on the Tribune microfilm at the Loutit Library.]
Recess in the forenoon has been abolished in most of the schools.
Other telephone companies are now springing up and starting to rival lines to the Bell system.
One of the possibilities of the near future is a new base ball nine with Capt. McCambridge at its head.
The court house committee had to consider the bids of sixteen firms for supplying the new building with mantels.
Speaking of the contract to supply mantels to the Ottawa county court houses the Muskegon News says: “Fred Engle, of this city, was one of the bidders and was the successful one. The contract price is private. The mantels will be of oak and of a very high finish. Mr. Engle says the court house is much smaller than the court house in this city but that the interior finish costs more than that of the court house here."
Perhaps it is not generally known but Harry Oaks is by far the best base ball player in this city. It is said that he once made a tour of England in one of Her Majesty’s the Queen’s star ball clubs.
A church in Fowlerville is lighted and smoked by twenty oil lamps, but when the agent of the village electric lighting company offered to put in a wire and give the church an arc light for the cost of the oil now used it would necessitate the running of the machinery on Sunday evening, and that was wicked.
The Y. M. C. A.
The Y. M. C. A. at its meeting Monday night selected the following committees:
Membership—C. N. Addison, H. Meyer, A. Juistema.
Reception—T. Knight, Peter Van Woerkom, E. Reynolds, C. Addison.
Religious—S. M. Wright, J. B. Estabrook, T. Knight, J. Luman, Al. Jackson.
Visiting—J. D. Duuresema, C. Addison, Wm. McKim, Josh Lehman, C. Dickinson.
The board of directors named the following committees:
Executive—Fred Albers, J. B. Estabrook, S. M. Wright, Mr. Peter Klaver.
Finance—J. Vaupell, N. I. Beaudry, R. Bouwer, J. Juistema, J. D. Duuresema.
Educational—J. B. Estabrook, E. Reynolds, C. N. Dickinson.
Auditing—N. I. Beaudry, P. Klaver, H. Albers, J. Vaupell.
Vacancies—H. Dornbos, H. Van Woerkom, A. Balgooyan.
A woman’s auxiliary was named as follows: Mrs. Orr, Mrs. A. Barden, Miss Kate Pellegrom, Miss Alice Bolt, Mrs. R. Finch, Mrs. McMillan, Miss Maggie Young, Mrs. S. M. Wright, Mrs. Haines, Miss J. Van Zanten, Miss Etta Groendal, Miss Maggie Van DenBosch, Miss Johanna Van DenBosch, Mrs Dr. Hofma, Mrs. Rev. DeBruyn, Miss Mabel Beaudry.
Ice, seven inches thick is being harvested at St. Joe.
The town clock has fallen into the habit of stopping lately.
In twenty years Canada has had but 116 divorces, while Kent County has had twice that amount in a single year.
The names of Mayor Bloecker, Sherman H. Boyce and Joseph Koeltz are mentioned as possible candidates for mayor this spring.
Dr. Philander Palmer well known as a practitioner in this city, but of late years a resident of southern Allegan county, will once more resume practice here.
Some of the fishermen and others are taking advantage of the little ice crop we have at present.
C. VanZylen has closed his feed store on Washington St., and it is reported will go out of business.
The display of cards in the store windows is an indication that St. Valentine’s Day is not far off.
The Grand Trunk ice houses here and at Eladen, Nichols and Fort Gratiot will be supplied with ice from Vicksburg.
Like all cities, Grand Haven has its districts known by local names, as for instance Beech Tree, Piety Hill, Dutchtown, the Swamp and the Sawdust.
As spring approaches there is every indication of a revival of business in this city. All ready a number of new places have opened up here and there will undoubtedly be a number more. Grand Haven’s prospects for 1894 are bright.
The proprietors of the Bee Hive Grocery, Messrs. Boer & Bolt, have secured a lease of the lot owned by S. Verhoeks, on Washington St., just west of Capt. Tremper’s home and nearly opposite their store. They will erect a building on the lot which will be used as a feed store and also a place for farmers to shelter their teams. In fact it will be a farmer’s emporium and the work of building it will soon commence. The proprietors of the Bee Hive are hustlers and are setting a good example.
The annual customs report as published yesterday shows that 375 vessels entered and 386 took clearance papers from here last year. The tonnage arriving amounted to 306,225 tons and clearing 307,288 tons. These figures do not include the Goodrich boats, the iron ore boats, or the vessels that obtain brick near Fruitport. The record of those vessels is kept at the original clearance port. If their tonnage was figured in, Grand Haven would undoubtedly be far ahead of any port in the district. As it is Manistee and Montague were the only ports that exceeded her last year.
Indoor base ball is becoming popular in this city and a number of games are played at a certain place in town every night. The devotees of the sport did not go by their “nom de plumes” they cannot be mistaken; as for instance ‘Tom,’ ‘Ham,’ and Arry.’ The theory of the game is that the man having the lowest score shall settle with the crowd in a manner laid down by the book of rules. The following were scores made in a scrub game last evening: Ball 6, Case 12, Tom 2, Ham 3, Red 20, J. K. 10. Scores will be provided the TRIBUNE through a private source every day.
A new quartette has been organized in the city composed of M. Sprick, S. VanZanten, G. Van Neitoven and Tony Bottje. They will soon be able to render some of their vocal music to the public. F. V. H.
The customs report shows that sailboats still do a large business at the ports of Manistee, Muskegon, Montague, Ludington, Frankfort, Charlevoix and Cheboygan.
The graduates from Akeley college this year will be, Edith M. Bunyes, Alice E. Ford. Lotta Hull, Edith L. Powers, Lillian W. Sanford and Katherine D. Wheaton.
The business men in the west down town blocks are pleased over the fact that Postmaster Baar will not move the post office from its present location. Such a move thy figure, would keep much trade from them, especially in the evenings.
The first presidential election in which Ottawa county voted was the election of 1840; Harrison, whig candidate versus VanBuren, democrat. VanBuren received 88 votes in this county and Harrison 81. In 1844 the county gave 42 to Clay and 116 to Polk. In 1848, 143 to Taylor, 269 to Case and 53 to VanBuren. In 1852, 363 to Scott, 756 to Pierce and 59 to Hale. In 1856, 1892 to Fremont and 998 to Buchanan. We gave Lincoln 1414 votes in 1860 and Steven Douglas, 1217. In 1864, General McClellan had a plurality in this county, receiving 1536 to Lincoln’s 1345 votes. Since that date the county’s vote has gone to the Republican candidates for president.
Freight on the D., G. H. & M. continues light.
The officers report lots of tramps around town the past few days.
The glass factory has shut down for a few days on account of a lack of glass.
Marshal Klaver last night arrested Wm. Shepherd a d. d. Shepherd was sent to jail for ten days by Judge Pagelson this morning.
Beginning next Sunday not a train will leave or arrive in the great city of Muskegon on Sundays. Consequently the Sawdust town papers are lamenting.
Alderman Joseph Koeltz wishes it stated that he will not be a candidate for Mayor, or for any other office.
Newspaper offices in Chicago are now connected by pneumatic tubes with telegraph offices and many messenger boys are dispensed with.
Chas. VanZanten will be assistant under Postmaster Jacob Baar, and is now dealing out mail in Grand Haven postoffice.
The old U. s. ship Kearsarge, which sunk the rebel gun boat Alabama, was wrecked February 3rd off the coast of Central America.
Work will probably commence today on the mantels Fred Engle is to furnish for the Ottawa County court house. They are to be manufactured in Chicago and will be shipped direct to Grand Haven. Twelve of them are to be set up and in working order in 60 days.
The question is asked why text books are changed every year or two or three years in the High School? There is a state law which provides that a text book adopted by a School Board shall not be changed within the period of five years except by a vote of the school district. Miss Smith, high school principal for 16 years, says she does not know of any case of the violation of this law. Text books are the teacher’s tools in the work of educating the pupil and those tools improve as do the mechanic’s tools; and hence it is best to change them from time to time, though in all cases it is done for the benefit of the pupil and best terms are secured, from the publisher making the change.
The county officers have purchased a new flag, in size 11 by 20 feet, for the court house flag staff. Clerk Turner sent for the flag Wednesday.
The Detroit News says: “The Diamond Match Co. controls three factories in Detroit. Its clear profits last year were $1,359,577, on and alleged capital of $9,000,000. It runs the match business the same way John D. Rockefeller conducted the Standard Oil Co. Its officers would deny the charge, but it is nevertheless true that whenever competition starts up the big company starts in to crush it. The monopoly’s agents ascertain the financial strength of the opposition as clearly as possible, estimate the force and weight of its capital, experience and business push and locate its field of operation.”
MR. EDITOR:—I see you mention candidates for all the wards but the 4th, the most important ward in the city. Now there are candidates for office up there as well as in other wards, but we propose to keep it to ourselves, but when the proper time comes we intend to nominate and elect a man for alderman that will stand on his own two feet and he has big ones too. Keep your eye on the 4th ward. She’s in it. THE IV.
Grand Haven has not had a fire in two months.
Nearly one-third of the people of the United States live in cities, according to the census of 1990.
Members of the South Haven life saving crew are building cottages for their families near the vicinity of the station.
A. Ellsworth the Robinson man, who was the principal cause of the tragedy in that town two weeks ago has moved back to Lake View.
Many applications are received for the position of Court House janitor.
Frank Hill, a tramp, was sent to jail for ten days by Justice Pagelson this morning.
The fish tug built for northern Lake Michigan parties by the Grand Haven Ship building Co. was launched this week.
The Chicago Tribune published Geo. McBride’s article, “My recollections of Shiloh” which appeared in January’s Blue and Gray.
Various theories are advanced as to the cause of the town clock stopping so often. Among them one theorist says it is because the clock tower shaking in windy weather.
The senior class of Grand Haven High School this year is composed as follows: Ethel Smead, Louise Pagelson, Frances Findley, Marian Stickney, Ada Blair, Geo. Stroebe, Marvin Turner, Stephen Brouwer, T. Kiel, Lawrence VandenBerg, Miner Leland and Herbert Cummings.
For several days a box of beautiful White Cochin roosters has been in the American Express office waiting for the owner to call for them. “Billy” Andres is sincerely praying that the party to whom they are addressed will soon call for the birds as his slumbers are broken about twenty times a night by vociferous “cockadoodeldoos.”
When the roller skating craze swept over the country with a wild furor a few years ago, Grand Haven with every city in the country was affected by the craze. The toboggan craze which also took the northern states by storm left its impress here. Neither of the baubles lasted long in Grand Haven. Tobogganing is no longer mentioned here and roller skating is in a state of desuetude.
I understand that somebody said that it would be a disgrace for the city to make a school house out of the old court house. It is no more a disgrace in doing that than it is for people to be getting older every year. In regard to being too low it has for a good many years been high enough for full grown people that wear plug hats and now its too low for children. That I don’t understand. It may be that people at that time were not so proud or big feeling. Now days there are a good many that put on more style than they are able to pay for and feel pleased about other people’s poverty. Is there any sense in that? Why no, the cheapest and easiest way is the best. One question I would like to ask, when people are talking through this paper they all the time stand behind the door. Why don’t they come out so anyone may know who is talking? Is it on account they are ashamed or what?
M. JOHNSON.
Speaking of Capt. Webb’s steamer Columbia, which was built here, the Grand Traverse Herald say: “The Columbia won a great reputation as an excursion boat last summer, and her work will be planned with a special reference to this the coming season, so that she can be obtained for excursions at any time.
A new splint machine has been placed in the match factory.
Such an eastern blizzard as we had today has not been experienced in a long time.
A skeleton found on the beach near St. Joseph, Mich., is supposed to be that of the captain or cook of the Havana, wrecked in 1887.
The money in circulation per capita in the United States is $25.66.
Jacob VanderVeen lost his hat in the gale last Friday night and has been unable to find it.
A hanging occurred in Pineville, Kentucky, last Friday. This is the same town where a number of Grand Haven capitalists have invested in lumber and coal.
The Roanoke left Milwaukee at eleven o’clock last night for this port but has not arrived yet this afternoon. It is thought that she turned back to Milwaukee and is safe out of the gale, which is terrific on the lake. At Chicago the wind velocity last night reached 60 miles. The Roanoke had as passengers a show troop that were to take the D., G. H. & M. train east.
Grand Haven does not fare as bad as Muskegon does on Sundays. The D., G. H. & M. Ry. have a train arriving and departing from here on that day while the Sawdust town does not get a train over its three roads.
The Y. M. C. A. of this city will send Tony Baker, John VandenBosch, Prof. J. B. Estabrook and J. J. Bolt as delegates to the Y. M. C. A. convention of Grand Rapids the latter end of this week.
There is a much smaller quantity of ice in Lake Michigan than is normal at this season of the year, and the present outlook is that there will be nothing to prevent an early opening of navigation unless it be a lack of business.
The Zeeland Expositor says of our candidates for marshal: “W. L. R. Andres and the present marshal, John Klaver, have already been named as candidates for marshal of the city. Andres is the noted wrestler, and Klaver, the distinguished horseman.”
It is said that one of the young boys who has been in attendance at our city schools was in December suspended from school for three months. If there is a rule that allows such suspension in our city school it should be annulled at once.
X.
This morning was one of the coldest of the winter.
Solomon Verhoeks is having his ice house filled today. The ice is seven inches thick.
Robert Johnston will go to Hotel de Keppel for six days and Peter Moore for seven days by order of Judge Pagelson.
“Red Kirby” has taken the contract to furnish Herman Luhm’s ice house with good seven inch ice. The ice is cut in the channel near the old Dutch wind mill.
The Bell telephone monopoly for fourteen years has earned 20 per cent annually and declared over 14 per cent in dividends. In other words, in fourteen years it has made nearly five times in profits the amount of the original capitalization.
Mr. Ed. Reehders who was injured some time ago at the Corn Planter works while loading refrigerators on a wagon, speaks in the highest terms of that company in the way they have treated him, paying his doctor bill and other expenses. Ed. Says he didn’t expect the company to be so generous with him, having only worked for them a short time.
Roanoke in the Blizzard.
All day yesterday the good ship Roanoke battled with the gale and the sea on Lake Michigan. For twenty-four hours she struggled manfully against a 70 mile wind and awful breakers. When she arrived in port safe last night at 11 o’clock she presented the appearance of some icy monster from the Arctic regions.
It was a weird sight this morning, the bright sun shining of the icy sides of the staunch vessel. She glistened and sparkled like the stalactites in the Mammoth Cave. The vessel’s side had a coating of ice several inches thick. Her deck was like the top of an iceberg and the wonder is, how her crew managed to get around outside of the cabins. Spray and great masses of sea in pouring over her decks had formed an icy covering two inches thick. Like a coat of mail her cabins were covered with ice. The pilot house windows were covered with the congealed spray and there must have been tons of it on the whole boat. Every rope that the spray could reach had a thickness of ice encircling it, twice its circumference. While the storm was in its fury yesterday it was precarious to step outside of the cabins.
The Roanoke left Milwaukee Sunday night at 11 o’clock for this port. She would have left three hours earlier but had an engagement to bring a theatrical troupe across the lake to make connections with the D., G. H. & M. train. The northeast gale sprang up and for almost twenty-four hours prevented the steamer from making any progress. If she had left Milwaukee at her regular time Sunday night she would have reached here safely enough. As it was, she was due about nine yesterday morning but it was not until nearly midnight last night that she reached here with a very thankful crew and a large number of badly frightened and very sea sick passengers. It was the first winter gale of any consequence that a D., G. H. & M. steamer had been out in this winter. Nearly all of the time, the Roanoke was in the middle of the lake keeping her nose to the hurricane.
Leonzo Bros.’ Grand New York Dramatic Co. were passengers on the Roanoke. They lauded Capt. Martin, the crew and the boat to the very skies, as some of them admitted that they never expected to see terra firms again.
One of the actors said: “It was and awful storm. Fact is, I have never seen anything in the line of a storm approach its fury; and I have traveled all over the country and across the sea. We left Milwaukee at 11 Sunday night. Last week we held the boards at the Standard Theatre in Milwaukee and having a week’s engagement at Kalamazoo, the management of the D., G. H. & M. Line had been urging us to come across the lake by his line. Arrangements were made and after the show Sunday night we took the Roanoke for Grand Haven. The next twenty hours are indescribable. We pitched, roiled, tossed, and often times we thought that the seas were pounding the boat in. We dared not stir from our cabin and had great difficulty in obtaining anything as it was hazardous to move around. The ladies of the company were very sick and it was a very gloomy crowd we were yesterday. I told my brother after two or three lurches, more heavy than ordinary, ‘we’re going John and nothing can prevent it.’ I honestly believed we were. The captain and crew proved themselves to be gentlemen and treated us with much consideration. As it is, we lost one night of our Kalamazoo engagement but will open tonight. Never will I forget this trip, no sir.”
A woman and little girl from Joliet, Ill., were passengers on their way east. Many times yesterday the little girl could be heard questioning her mother: “mamma do you think God will carry us to Grand Haven all right.”
One of the sources of anxiety on the boat was the fact that her coal supply was rapidly dwindling. If the storm had continued many more hours and the coal supply given out, the Roanoke would have undoubtedly been lost.
The Roanoke’s cargo of 700 tons was not injured in the least.
Some of the morning papers had double-headed articles expressing fear that the steamer Roanoke had gone down.
At times yesterday the screw wheel of the Roanoke was out of the water and the peculiar “Whirr whirr” added to the general pandemonium.
Last Saturday Julius Ott, my brother, who lives in Grand Haven township, came to this city. He purchased a few groceries and then spent the day until 10 o’clock at night drinking and playing in Chas. Hass’ saloon, known as the Farmer’s Home. When he started for home Saturday night he was so drunk that he did not know what he was doing, and left the team to find its way home as best it could. On Sunday morning he reached his home on foot and asked his wife if the team had not got there yet. She replied no. Then my brother left the house and all day Sunday, with his neighbors, searched for his team. He was so drunk the night before that he did not know where he had left is horses, or whether he had fallen off the wagon. All was blank to him. All Sunday night they searched and all day yesterday up to late in the afternoon, when the team was found in an oak grubs in Peach Plains. The faithful animals were nearly dead from exposure and the groceries still lay in the wagon untouched. For two days the animals had been out and part of the time the worst storm of the winter. Now who was to blame for all this? Suspicion points to the bartender or bartenders of the Farmer’s Home, who had filled my brother with their whiskey and at ten o’clock left the saloon and let his horses guide him. Supposing it had been very cold Saturday night, beyond doubt he and his team would have been frozen to death. Who would have been to blame for it, but the saloon keepers? Why is it that that they keep these farmers until every cent is drawn from them and then permit them to find their way home as best they can. The saloon keeper who will do that, is an unprincipled wretch.
HERMAN OTT.
Ice men are taking advantage of the present harvest.
A number of tramps were given lodging by the officers last night.
Carl Rhodes is again training the Grand Haven City Band.
The Wisconsin arrived this morning with a cargo of about 600 tons.
Alderman Gerst returned from Grand Haven yesterday where he saw the steamer Roanoke which was supposed to have been lost with all on board. He says it was the grandest sight of its kind he ever saw, the boat being covered with ice from stem to stern.—Muskegon News.
The committee having it in charge would like to see Grand Haven citizens present at the good roads meeting at Chas. Clark’s school house on Saturday.
An attempt was made to burglarize VanLopik & Co.’s grocery store last night or early this morning. When the store was opened this morning, evidences of an attempt to enter the store were discovered. Some one had started to cut a lower panel in the back door but for some reason had not completed the job. Evidently the thief was frightened away as it would have been no hard matter to effect an entrance and could have been done with a little more work. The job was similar to the one when P. VerDuin’s store was burglarized some weeks ago.
Joe Neusmer the Spring Lake man who was charged with being implicated with Mrs. Cooper of Muskegon in eloping last fall has just popped up in a new light. He has confessed to breaking a number of windows in a residence section of Muskegon and will be arrested.
MR. EDITOR:—In regard to the article your paper of the 12th inst. stated about the incident of Julius Ott and the loss of his team, I here wish to give a reply which is as follows: Mr. Julius Ott came to town to buy some provisions which was his business in town Saturday. He called in at my place sometimes during the afternoon, enjoyed himself and drank a few glasses of beer, the most of which were four, through the part of the day that he stayed, and was a sober man when he left my place which was about 5 p.m. This was the last I seen of him till sometime between 6 and 7 p m., when he came in and inquired if I did not hear where his team was. I told him “no” and then he left, did not ask for anything to drink, and was sober at that time. This was the last I seen of him Saturday evening. To what I have said thus far I have witness in the person of August Kraatz, concerning his calling for his team between 6 and 7 p.m. and his being a sober man then. Now, Mr. Editor, Ott stated that I filled is brother with whiskey and kept him there until 10 p.m. This is a dirty mean lie that Mr. Ott has stated. To prove that Julius Ott was not in my place after 7 p.m. at the latest, I have the following witness: Mr. Herman Doege, Mr. Joe Friese and Mr. Fred Klugas. Mr. Ott’s team was seen at the Holland depot at about 9 o’clock p.m. by Mr. August Kraatz. If Mr. Herman Ott is any kind of man at all, he would talk facts and truths, and not talk from his imaginations. Any man who will make up such a set of dirty lies, simply to try and hurt a man’s business, is, as most people call him, a hypocritical wretch who most people care not to recognize. Now, Mr. Herman Ott asks, who is to blame for all this? In the first place he says, that the bartender of bartenders of (The Farmer’s Home) filled him up with their whiskey which is a dirty lie, as Mr. J. Ott touched not one drop of whiskey at my place. It is true, I heard that the left town at 10 p.m. dead drunk, but am I or any place to blame for that? Any person who can prove that that which I have stated thus far, is not true, I shall give him a reward of $100.
CHARLES HASS,
Prop. Of Farmer’s Home.
MR. EDITOR:—in regard to the article in yesterday’s TRIBUNE pertaining to Julius Ott, I would like to ask how many farmers there are in Grand Haven township who oft times get in the same condition as Julius Ott was last Saturday. Also how many gallons of whiskey and beer they have carried home in the past ten years.
OBSERVER.
Actress Mabel
Eaton
An attraction par excellence will be seen at the Opera House on Saturday, Feb. 17th, in the appearance of Miss Mabel Eaton, heading a powerful company in that romantic drama, La Belle Russe. Miss Eaton comes from Detroit, where she filled a very successful engagement. Miss Eaton is best known through her connection with the leading stock companies of New York City, and was last season with Rose Coghlan’s Diplomacy Company. Miss Eaton is the talented young actress who played in the splendid out-of-door performances of “As You like It” at the World’s Fair last summer and won national fame. The story of Miss Belle Russe is replete with thrilling incidents. A large audience should greet this attraction. A neat two-colored souvenir program will be given to the ladies of the performance.
A horse cannot breathe through its mouth.
The snow brought out a number of sleighs today.
D. Vyn is getting out over a thousand cords of wood at the sag.
The state fish car left 6,000 brook trout to be planted at Holland.
A gang of fifty or more men are cutting ice at the pier.
The tug launched last week at the G. H. Ship Building Co., for northern parties has not yet been named.
Two rival feed stores signs glare at each other just across the C. & W. M. track on Washington St.
Miss Mabel Eaton
It is whispered about town that Mabel Eaton will present the ladies with an elegant souvenir program during her engagement here, and it is said to be a very artistic design in two colors, and contains a beautiful picture of this talented young lady.
Although Miss Mabel Eaton is very modest in her pretence as an actress, it is said very few show the ability and talent of the beautiful young lady.
Stereopticon
H. H. Ragan with his wonderful stereopticon at the Congregational church tonight.
Celebrate “Grand Haven Day” at the Columbia Exposition tonight at the Congregational church.
Take all of your family to the Columbia exposition at the Congregational church tonight. The children of the schools only require 25 cents to see the fair.
The two text books that were changed in the High School this year, astronomy and general history, had been in use for sixteen years.
In an article which appeared in the TRIBUNE a few days ago, the writer mentions the fact that a boy was suspended from the city schools for a term of three months. The writer further stated that if there is a rule suspending children it should be abolished. The TRIBUNE is informed that the lad referred to was suspended on good grounds and after much time he had been given to reform. In justice to the superintendent it should be stated that he did his duty in the case.
The ground hog prophecy looks as though it is coming true this year.
H. Potts returned from a trip to Hart–Shelby region this morning. Those towns are enjoying prosperity and plenty of business. What with peaches and potatoes the region promises to become one of the richest in Michigan. One potato raiser in Shelby has shipped eighty-three carloads this season.
I. H. Wise requests that the party who picked up a cane near the pier steps just before Christmas return it to him as he suffers from inflammatory rheumatism and needs it. The cane had a snake and dog head at handle and leather and lead ring at bottom.
George Hancock, the veteran fruit and celery grower of Grand Haven was in the city today, and for Hancock & Son contracted with A. Wisrengo, the wholesale grocer, to deliver at a price not stated, 1,000 cases of canned tomatoes, each case containing 24 cans, to be shipped here late September or early October. There will be two grades of 500 cases each. Mr. Hancock raised 18 acres of tomatoes last year on his Grand Haven farm, canned 42,000 cans at his canning factory there, and set out last year 800,000 celery plants. Mr. Hancock was the first to raise celery there for the general market, and sends large quantities to Texas, selling all of it readily in competition with the best sent from Kalamazoo. Mr. Hancock lost his wife by death about two weeks ago, mentioned at the time in The Chronicle and ahs the sympathy of numerous friends here and elsewhere in this sad bereavement.—Muskegon Chronicle.
Every small boy in the city is afflicted with stamp fever. All kinds of stamps are sought after and the seeker generally has a million stamps in view and also a mythical reward is that number is obtained.
The Cutler House ice houses are being filled.
Much ice is being cut on Spring Lake.
This cold weather gives a large amount of men employment in the ice business.
Lumber has arrived for the office which will be built in the electric plant building.
A Mr. Andre is now landlord of the Washington House, Mr. Langemseifen having gone to Chicago.
Chas. Haggerty, a vag, and Patrick Ryan, a d. d., were sent to jail for six and eight days respectively, by Judge Pagelson this morning.
A splint machine capable of turning out one hundred cases of splints a day, has been built at Henry Bloecker & Co.’s under the supervision of Edward Stokes for the Globe Match Co. The machine is well built and a great credit to the shop where it was turned out, it being the first machine of the kind they built.
When the police of Grand Rapids are baffled (which is nearly every crime that is committed there) they turn on the complaining witness and make a scape goat out of him.
A beautiful new flag was flown in the breeze from the new Court House tower this morning. The flag was purchased by the county officers and is 11 by 20 feet in size. “Old Glory” will float from the tower every favorable day.
Postmaster Baar knows the value of printer’s ink and is now, through the medium of the TRIBUNE, advertising all letters which remain unclaimed at the Postoffice. Of the letters advertised this week five have already been called for.
□ Did you attend the lecture by H. H. Ragan at the Congregational church last evening? If not you should have done so as it was one of the most pleasing entertainments given in this city in some time. The lecturer had the closest attention and the superb illustrations on the canvas, thrown from the stereopticon were described by Mr. Ragan in an eloquent and entertaining manner. The lecture began with the departure of Columbus and his three little caravels from Palos harbor, and closed with the grandest of views of the Columbia Exposition. All the great halls of art, manufacture, agriculture and electricity were thrown on the canvas. Beautiful views from the lagoons, the peristile, court of honor and the Ferris wheel were shown. Many of these were colored and tinted and grand beyond description, especially the night scenes in the World’s Fair grounds. It was and instructive lecture and will serve to bring back to the memory the real World’s Fair and lessons learned there in science, art and humanity.
…item in last night’s paper wherein appears the following: “The writer further stated if there is a rule suspending children it should be abolished.” I did not say anything of the kind, but did say that if there was any rule that gave the superintendent power to suspend for three months it ought to be annulled and so it had, but do not think any such rule exists. If it does exist as you say Mr. Editor please publish that rule for the benefit of your readers. This suspension is a down right outrage coming at the time that it did and the action of the superintendent ought to be rescinded at once. I know the boy and very well too. He is now fourteen years old and up until the last year has been a good boy and a bright one at that; but poor fellow, he has no mother to care and look after him now and the want of what your children and mine have, a faithful loving mother, is no doubt one of the reasons of his not walking close up to the school rules, and another is his father, who is one of our best citizens, is a sailor and in the summer time away from home most of the time. This winter he has been at home and has been trying to make the boy do what is right, for surly he, like the rest of us, wants his child to mind his teacher. After hard work he has just succeeded in getting the boy about straightened up. Personally I asked the boy and others to go after evergreens to trim our church, and surly had I thought I was doing him an unkindness would not have thought of it for one moment. The boy tells me for these two half days being out of school, he was sent to the superintendent’s office and when he told the superintendent why he was out, was told that that was no good reason and there and then suspended him from school for three months. His father went to the superintendent’s office and stated his case but got no satisfaction from him. Just at this time when his father was at home and could see to the boy and make him mind and was willing to help the superintendent and the teacher out, it does seem to me like a contemptible outrage to suspend this boy for three months, and if this boy’s future life is wrecked it will be traceable to this unreasonable punishment.
GEO. D. SANFORD.
Mabel Eaton, who appears here on Saturday evening in “La Belle Russe” is the fascinating young lady who appeared as Rosalind at the World’s Fair and the fan that Miss Eaton carries was presented to her at the reception of Miss Potter Palmer by the Princess Eulalia of Spain, who created such a stir in society at the World’s Fair city the past summer.
A big Holland colony will be settled in Newaygo county.
A carrier pigeon, almost exhausted, was picked up at Ottawa beach this week.
Wm. Thieleman’s horse narrowly escaped going through the ice at the pier yesterday.
In 1884 the Muskegon Booming Co. delivered 615,000,000 feet of logs. Only 112 million feet were handed last year.
Constable VanderMeiden of the Fourth ward is authority for the statement that spring is near at hand as black birds are putting in their appearance.
Ludington ordered the leveling of a sand hill to furnish work for the destitute and the street commissioner set his own team at work with his son as driver.
The Kirby tugs are idle temporarily and all the nets have been brought in. Hardly any of the fish tug fleet are doing any business.
Wm. Estes the auctioneer of this city seems to be in great demand and has recently conducted auctions as far away as Indiana.
At Rest.
At the home of her daughter Mrs. Geo. D. Sanford, Mrs. Jacob Stoner, age 79, passed to her final rest this morning. Death whom ever it takes or whomever it approaches is a sad visitant. When it is for vigorous youth we are shocked, and the visions of what might-have-been, rises before us, with ineffable sadness.
But when the call is for an old person, whose long years of life have been well spent, and who is ready and willing to go, we are not shocked; there is no what-might-have-been, to taunt us, and our senses of the fitness of things is not so much disturbed.
Thus, it was with Mrs. Stoner, she had long lived a long, noble Christian life, and seemed to have but one ambition,—the welfare of her children, whom she loved so dearly, and who all mourn her loss so sincerely.
Mrs. Stoner was the mother of ten children, only five of whom are now living, vis:—Mrs. Geo. D. Sanford of this city, Mrs. W. S. Gebhart of Mears; Mr. Isaac Stoner, Butte, Mon; Fred Stoner, Saginaw, and Dr. John J. Stoner, Marion, Ind.
Funeral Tuesday, 2 o’clock at the residence of Geo. D. Sanford.
M. GEO. D. SANFORD.
Dear Sir—I notice by last night’s TRIBUNE that your righteous indignation is stirred in behalf of whom you believe to be unjustly treated. But what the Editor can do for you I am unable to see.
You give to understand that your own action was the cause which led to the suspension of the boy. May I ask why then you interest enough to speak with the superintendent about the matter, but drag the boy and his misdemeanors before the public through the city newspaper?
You state in your letter that after the suspension, “his father went top the superintendent’s office but got no satisfaction.” In this you have been misled as the father, who has not spoken with me in regard to the matter since that time, will tell you.
The boy was persistent truant, besides giving continual trouble in the school room.
By the rules of the school the boy might and possibly ought to have been expelled from the school, and that, long before he was suspended for a limited time. His entrance at the expiration of that time will depend upon his conduct up to that date.
I will say to you that no five boys of the school have caused more trouble or consumed more of the time of the superintendent during the school year than this one.
I contend further that when any citizen makes the public effort which is made in this case to cast discredit on the management of the schools without the least private effort with the authorities of the school, he lays himself open to the charge of unfriendliness to an institution which ought to have the hardiest support of every citizen.
I have office hours from 8 to 9 o’clock a.m., at which time or any other time by appointment, I should be glad to explain to you or any citizen or patron of the school, the rules or workings of any of the school system. Yours cordially,
J. B. ESTABROOK.
"Class of Ninety-Four."
Grand Haven contains a High School,
"Tis known the whole state o'er,
The one thing that disgraces it
Is the "Class of Ninety-four."
There are a dozen members,
You would think there were forty more,
From the way they talk and chatter,
Such parrots you've never seen before.
They all are very learned indeed,
To judge by their conversation,
You'd think each one of them was to be
A great power in the nation.
Their records are the lowest of any,
They never come up to us.
And then they have published that
Their record is ninety-six plus.
They all were so very much grieved
To find the text books changed,
To publish all such grievances
They've with the printers arranged.
To give you a slight idea
Of what they aspire to be,
We'll give the names of some of them,
And the aims of two or three.
Among them you will find Squib, Pete,
Frank, Si Pekins, Kiel, Dolly,
They do not use their given names,
For those are far too holy.
Their names show well their characters,
But this fact needs no mention,
They've other qualities to which
We wish to call attention.
One is a "born politician"
And proud of his title, too,
And now that he has an office,
He'll scarcely talk to you.
One of its feminine members,
Alas! we are sorry to say,
Has pugilistic tendencies
And practices every day.
One boy would fain be a farmer,
For he is fond of cows,
He always wears one when at school,
That’s why he smiles and bows.
We have not space to describe them,
Yet we would have you know,
That when they leave the High School,
We'll be glad to have them go.
JR.
Miss Mabel Eaton and her company arrived this morning.
Shooting of Col.
Ellsworth
At one time while Chauncey Davis, the first mayor of Muskegon, was running a general store in that town, he had in his employ a young man who was detected in a serious irregularity. Mr. Davis did not turn the young men over to the law, but discharged him, bought him a good suit of clothes and gave him some kindly advice. The young man was surprised and promised to follow the good counsel. Later on the young man was heard from and his name became famous in history and story, for he lost his life at Alexandria, in the early days of the rebellion, in pulling down the bars of the Confederacy from a hotel and hoisting in their stead the stars and striped of the Union. He was none other than Colonel Ellsworth.
Farmers are warned to beware of strangers who go about painting patent medicine signs on barns and buildings. They ask the farmers to sign a certificate that the work has been properly done, and in a short time the “certificate” turns up at some bank as a promissory note.
According to the rules of the Grand Haven public school the superintendent has the power for sufficient cause to suspend a pupil at any time, but, when possible, the parent or guardian shall have received due warning. Pupils can be suspended for:
Persistent disobedience.
Insolence or violence to teachers.
Profanity.
Obscenity.
Bringing on the school grounds: Firearms, explosive materials, strong drinks, smoking materials, immoral books or prints.
Fighting.
Forging of parent’s or guardians name.
Truancy.
Enos Stone, The livery man, has three of his teams at work hauling ice.
Mabel Eaton was to have appeared at Muskegon tonight, but the engagement was cancelled.
Reports from the large cities show that the dread disease, small pox, is slowly spreading and it will be well for any community to take precautions against the malady.
An attempt is supposed to have been made to enter Mrs. Gerow’s store on Washington St. Saturday by unknown men for the purpose of burglary.