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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1908
Page
10
Miss Grace Barber a 19 year old Krakow township teacher led a double file evacuation as a fire swept her school. She kept the line intact guiding pupils to a plowed field and ensured every ember was extinguished on clothing. She stayed with the group all night then sent children home in groups. Several separate state briefs follow.
A would be incendiary miscalculated by a sixteenth of an inch saving John Scarlett and family in Ingham township. In his barn he found scattered hay, a kerosene odor and a cleverly devised device. Reports say feuds and underhand attempts have plagued northern Ingham and Wheatfield townships among farmers.
Judge Wiest of the Ingham Circuit Court denied Ar mour & Co. a injunction against the State pure food department. The department claimed cereals and water used in sausage are adulterants. The court ruled sausage means meat and cereals and water are adulterants added to cheat.
William E C Epple who was serving sixty days in St Johns county jail for violating the local option law escaped at dawn. He had come from Owosso in September and procured whisky at a local drug store then sold it to an habitual drunkard. He knocked bricks from the jail gable end and lowered himself to the ground using a rope made from his bed clothes.
A major Greenville blaze at 1 am wiped out C. H. Wells & Co grain and bean warehouse and Catlavo Broth ers lumber storage. Wells lost warehouse and 1000 bushels rye plus beans, insured for 1500. Dallava Brothers suffered warehouse and lumber damage, fully insured. Grand Trunk reported one car burned and two partially burned.
Midland's brick high school was totally destroyed by fire with losses estimated at 35 000 dollars and 22 000 dollars covered by insurance. Authorities say no furnace fire that afternoon and origin unknown, the blaze starting in the basement where kindling wood was kept. The 1808 building had undergone several additions over the years.
Workers at the Raisin Center celery farm located the body of Stephen Noble. Noble had wandered away over a month earlier, prompting searches by Palmer Furniture factory crews and the sheriff’s force in the Adrian area, but he remained missing until now.
U S Department of Agriculture Office of Public Roads experiments test slag combined with tar or asphalt to create dustproof road surfaces. Chicago and Birmingham sites lead the effort, with molasses and oil trials at Newton Massachusetts, and California oil road precedents cited to show potential cost savings and farm impact.
Farmers, merchants, and workers unite to demand passable roads in all seasons. The push stresses that better highways will boost crop marketing, raise rural prosperity, and ease hardships for farm families, especially women and daughters, by ending seasonal road problems.
The argument states Illinois farms pay little of the state tax while Cook County bears most. Proposes New York style bonds to fund $50 million in highways over ten years, with half funded by state and half by local bonds. Estimated farm tax would be about $4 yearly, $10 over ten years, and total farm bond interest about $100. Increased farm property value could be at least $10 per acre.
A Los Angeles Times report notes the nation may soon adopt roads built by a petrolythic process. A chauffeur quoted afterward praises the new surface, saying the sausage machine roller provides the best road he has traveled, reflecting public approval of the current paving effort.
Chester County commissioners received bills from the Pennsylvania State highway department for road improvements in Westtown, Schuylkill, Valley townships and Avondale borough. The State covers two thirds of the costs, while the county and each township pay one sixth.
Albany unions open tuberculosis pavilion. Ireland's linen industry employs about 70 000. In August 320 injured and 115 died in Canadian accidents. Lethbridge 1000 union members in a 4000 population city. Yorkshire Miners oppose non union workers. Boston Cigar Makers tax $5 for blue label publicity. Guelph delegates form provincial bricklayers and stonemasons union. New Zealand unions rise from 37 to 310, 45 63 total. Teamsters reject amalgamation. US boot and shoe workers fund over $100,000 in emergency fund. Walla Walla consortium seeks free text books. Australian maritime federation forming in Sydney. Stettin riveters end lockout after compromise. San Francisco Typographical Union scale up to $24 weekly. employers accept. Massachusetts engineers plan convention in Lowell on Dec 13. Samuel Ross honored by Intl Cotton Spinners Union. Typographical Union pensions payments begin Aug 29. ~450 applications. Millinery remains a major women’s occupation at 4 4 percent of US milliners being women. Oklahoma mining law enacted to safeguard life and property. Enforcement of New York child labor law shifts to State Department of Labor mercantile inspection.
Pharmacists of Minnesota seek a $100,000 state appropriation for a new pharmacy building at the State University. Prussian policy expands equal footing for girls in higher education with boys. Y M C A Philadelphia hires Walter M Wood to push supplemental education with night classes and aid for unpaid students. Supt Maxwell urges more public baths and playgrounds in New York. Charles Mix county launches compulsory education enforcement. Yankton Sioux Steve Blaine jailed briefly before agreeing to send his children to school.
The Weekly Review of Chicago Trade notes improved payments through banks and a lower commercial mortality versus 1907 and 1908. It records broader distribution of finished goods, favorable agricultural conditions, and heavy flour sales while wholesale footfall is lighter. Steel, rails, and rolling stock demand rise with abundant money though currency movement to crops slows. Bank clearings fall 6.5 percent from 1907, with failures count steady under $5,000 liabilities rising.
New York reports show weather and election factors tempering heavy buying while manufacturers grow more confident in raw material purchases. Wheat movement boosts Northwest distributive centers, drought hampers Ohio river traffic, coal, water supplies, and forest fires strain activity. Textile sectors offer encouragement, drought relief aids Chicago and west, iron and steel gains noted in Mastin basic ply. US business failures near 231 for week ending Oct 22, with Canada at 81 for week ending Oct 2.
Regional and city grain and livestock price ranges listed for Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York Toledo and other markets. Includes cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye hay butter eggs potatoes and clover seed with bid ranges often spanning from low to high figures.
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