Leland and Northport Notes and Memorial Service
Herald correspondence from Leland and Northport lists local visits, social events, and town news. Many residents and visitors are named including Chas Nelson Herman Shultz Mrs Nelson Otto Barth Matt Keller and others with occasional notes on illnesses travel and a June 17 Alumni banquet. The piece also covers a railroad completion celebration in Northport with speeches and a gold spike driven by Mrs Kaufman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leland
Jane
Methodist Church
Roy. Bryan
Northport
Chas. Nelson
Herman Shultz
Good Harbor
W. H. Dewey
Omena
Kehl Bros
May McLean
Omens
D. H. Scott
Traverse City
A. Anderson
Scott
C. B. Kohl
Clinton Wilson
Anna Vanholt
M. Milliken
Rav. Rich
Rav. Bryan
Northport Department
Herald
Jane Wrisley
Mia
Frank Ranson
Ransomville
N. Y
John
Howell
Adalbert Joynt
Congregational Church
Nettie Paulus
Columbia
Prof. Williams
Carlton Center
Williams
Frank Hemilton
Wir. Hastings
J. W Milliken
D. W. Kaufman
O. L. White
John Kohl
Grace Parkins
Frank Hamilton
BR. Barnes
Kate Mook
Suttons Bay
B. E. Gill
Noah Stebbins
Elk Rapids
Lambert Chemilik
Gills Pier
D. W. Butler
Dayton
Ohio
QO. A. Ward
Town
Jeff
Mire Hastings
Tornado in Gainsville Causes Heavy Damage and Casualties
Debris clearing continues as authorities estimate up to 30 killed and 60 or more injured from the Gainsville tornado. Property losses may reach 600000 with many houses destroyed and cotton mill damage minimal. Bodies are hard to identify due to mangled condition while relief efforts mobilize to aid survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gainsville
Blackened Kansas City Amid Floods and Looting
Report from June 2 describes the Missouri River flooding at Topeka, with 64 dead at Topeka and 22 feared dead in Kansas City. J W Thomas notes 15,000 destitute in Kansas City and 500–600 seriously ill, with groceries exhausted, hotels closed, medicine scarce, and rampant looting as rescued people crowd churches and halls for aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Missouri
Topeka
J. W. Thomas
Wan
Cangas City
Kan
Eighth Grade Exercises Open Results and Graduating List
The eighth grade exercises at Steinberg's Grand Opera House marked the last school event of the year with 96 students graduating to the high school. Lincoln program featured solos, recitations, and speeches by many students, and diplomas were presented by Sept. J. B. Gilbert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steinberg
Grand Opera Sonse
Lincoln
T. P. Allom
Boardman Avenue
Rooitation
Old Bermuda Hundred
Olive Dobson
John Burns
Gettysburg
Minnie Larson
Louisa Male
Basay
Maud McMishael
Edith Smith
Josephine Davis
Wirst
Robert Walker
Jay Smith
Hiveman Copeland
Vera Wynkoop
Garland
Central School
Carrie L. Cox
Kay Dean
Claude Ford
Willie Gibbs
Nettie Lardie
Lettia McManus
Mando McMichael
Daisy E. Moore
Hilenbath Perry
Eunice Rosser
Omer Rossa
Hilsia May
Irene Pohornl
Ruby Rungell
Entha Reynolds
Ethel Smurthwaite
Jay F. Smith
Grace VanDervort
Beth Fowler
William Colvin
Ruby Shilson
Molen Thurtell
Elelen Walter
Don Bingham
Bart @. Ellis
Fred Hill
Floyd Johnson
Ben Thurtell
Donald Bennett
Julius Boers
John Ashton
Maurice Brinkman
George Chapman
Bertha Dall
Caoil Ellis
Charlotte Friedrich
Charile Harnden
Lola Lutman
Louisa Hala
Ethel Mulvoy
Lucius Patohin
Mabel Sassions
John Gilchrist
Mary Harley
Neta Wright
Gaidys Lanfillan
Ernest Miller
Mary
Unidentified Names List From OCR Fragments
OCR fragment shows a string of personal names including Carl Shorader Willard Get chell Harmer Nelson Clarence Lou don John Bauman John Bennett Irene Hickerson Ina Kenny and others plus an ungraded room Ray Highland Edith Smith Earnest Storrs Harry Writ Prank VacKaren indicating a damaged archival snippet with no clear event or context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ppinka
Carl Shorader
Willard Getchell
Harmer Nelson
Clarence Loudon
John Bauman
John Bennett
Irene Hickerson
Ina Kenny
Ray Highland
Edith Smith
Earnest Storrs
Harry Writ
Prank VacKaren
Kentucky Favors Roosevelt Renominaton in July Convention
Kentucky moves to back Roosevelt for renomination with Commissioner John W. Yerkes signaling the July Republican convention will endorse the President. In Utah, President Roosevelt visits Salt Lake City and addresses crowds before departing for Wyoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Roosevelt
Washington
Internal Revenue
John W. Yerkes
Utah
Salt Lake City
Rosevelt
Wyoming
Ogden
Tai Chis
United States
Tabernacle
Plant growth in Sault Ste Marie park baffling
Reports from Sault Ste Marie note luxuriant vegetation in the government park yet trees fail to propagate, blamed on winter frost depth that kills roots. Other items include Emma Woodruff of Sparta needing parental consent to remarry, a mineral water claim for liquor addiction, reformatory population at 897, and C H Hackley’s gifts to Muskegon libraries and schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sault Ste. Maris
Emma Woodruff
Sparta
Sault Ste. Marie
Michigan Reformatory
High Notch
C. H. Hackley
Muskegon
Hackley Library
Hackley School
Probate Court Grants Hearing in Snyder Land Contract Case
In Grand Traverse County Probate Court Judge John A. Loranger orders a hearing for June 28 1908 on the petition of William Snyder of Manistee County alleging John Black of East Bay Township executed a land contract in 1807 and died in 1800. The administrator is empowered to convey land to Snyder under the contract terms and notices must be published in the Grand Universe Herald three weeks prior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Grand Traverse
Traverse City
John A. Loranger
John Black
East Bay Township
Wiliam Snyder
Manistee County
William Snyder
Grand Universe Herald
Man Discharged After Destroying Wife's Furniture in Michigan
Maurice J. Cummings of Munising was discharged after being charged for smashing 3103 worth of his wife’s furniture, with authorities noting no Michigan law prohibits a husband from destroying his wife’s property. In other items, Bellevue Memorial Day observances included a ceremony and a veteran, Hamilton A. Brown, who collapsed with paralysis during a parade to Riverside cemetery. Local weather in Saginaw dropped to forty with frost injuring crops. Jacob Votter of Oakwood died after long illness. A 43-year-old married man named Yottyr died after a prolonged battle with rheumatism and suffocating pain. a possible separate local incident involved a man in Maritd’s Cadiliag area reported kicked in the stomach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
Paria
Marguerite Boyenyaal
Ferdinand de Gasso
Ilizabeth Pohlman
Alaska
Louisville
Grant W. Chamberlain
Arigoun
Michigan
Chamberlainting
West
Mitchell
Marineb
Ho Saya
Abraham Lingolu
Potter
Bliss
State of
Ibis
Commonwealth
A. A. Bliss
MattiCurikka
Ishpeming
British Columbia
Poutino
Henry Carter
Carter
Wigland
Curtis Currier
Almont Town
Maurice J. Cummings
Munising
Ballevue
Riverside Cemetery
Hamilton A. Brown
Jacob Votter
Oakwood
Yottyr
Jookodler
Jong
Also Mentioned on This Page
Grand Traverse Herald
Matt Keller
East Leland
Mrs. J. Schwarz
Richard Schomberg
W. OG. Nelson
Otto Barth
Misailian Hampson
Gill’s Pier
M. Warren
Eddie Esch
Harry Eamons
Emma DeLong
Suttons Lay
Frank Rosman
Grand Rapids
John Brooks
Will Roberts
Great Lakes
Aspt
St. Petera
North Manitou
Will Bennett
Travorno City
A. Dougherty
Emma Bequest
Chicago
L. Consnt
Round Top
Mr. Consat
Mrs. Carlson
Elmer
Herbert Chandler
Cedar
Rapida
A. Nomoskal
Port Oneida
Miguel Martha Wivehart
Adalia Jasrgaus
Peter Passing
John Ott
Albert
Mins Nottio Paulus
GH. Hinshaw
Wifo
Ethel
Arkansas
Nolsan
James Mason
Kate
Will Laird
Glen Arbor
G. W. Benjamin
Florence Laird
Georgia
Hattie Paulus
Gill's Pier
John Lederle
Romena
Osan Cordes
Hmil J. Lederle
E. Blackwood
Plating
Alaume Counturior
L. Mosier
Hall
J. Chenny & Co
Voledo
Adelies I. Cheney & CO
Tuledu
Tie
Hull
State News
John Robinson
Cincinnati
Katie
Connecticut
Nate W. Flnisig
Ameriga
Hoiwa
Ingtish
My. Vlaisig
Detroit
Amsterdam
Iagersfontein
A. Potter
Quincy
Liberty
Wansing Gaslight Company
Chand Street
Ranney
White Mountain Freezers
White Mountain
Boston
Steinberg’s Store
Bio Bargains
Gan
W. O. Ferguson Adjustment Co
Steinberg’s
Saginaw
Buchanan Ia
Maritd
Badiant
Roscoe
Front Street
Hamilton Clothing Co
Fou
Ata
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