The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-06-23
WyandOtte in
Years Gone By
40 YEARS AGO

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Social customs have changed in four
decades. In June, 1899, the city Coun-
Gil adopted unanimously a motion ask
ing the WyandOtte 4 Detroit River
hallway (stTeet car linC) 10 prGyiGe
accommodations for smokers in their
new cars Today, smoker enjoy them
selves Oh the buses without let Oh him
drance
WyandOtte banks had been paying
customers per cent interest on depOs-
its. On July /, 1899, the rate was 10 be
lowered u per cent.
Fourteen teachers comprising the
entire corps Of the WyandOtte schools,
were hired al annual salaries ranging
from $3.50 10 $500. Only rhe principal
of the high school was 10 get the $500
Grade teachers were rewa rded for ten
months Of hard work with $3.50 Sti-
pend.
Mrs. X. w. Hopkins, wife If a local
manufacturer, died at the age of Is.
Nothing like this could happen low.
A citizen in the lobby at a Council
meeting got 80 bored that he fell
asleep. Not only that, he snored so
loudly as To Interrupt the proceedings.
The Michigan Alkali Company was
developing stone quarry at Bellevue,
Eaton county.
WyandOtte lodge If the Ancient Or
der of Hnernians, ii flouriShins or
ganiMtiOn 40 years ago, elected these
officers: President. William J. Cor
man; vke president, Edward Purcell !;
financial secretary, Jeremiah Dren-
nan; recording secretary, William
Goodman: sergeant-at-arms, James
Watson; sentinel. John Welch.
A movement was launched TO eStab-
lish an emergency hospital in the
Schubert building on Front street. At
the meeting when this action was TAX
en-, DR. George u. MacNichol presided
as chairman, with DIR. w. &. Lambert
as secretary. Ii was decided To form
general staff 10 include DIR. {. ). Reid,
house physician, and DIS. Lambert,
Langlois, MacNichOl. Mclaughlin,
McColl, Reig. Drouillard and DIR. Hold
EN- of Trenton. The plan was TO have
factory wOr-kmen contribute 10 cents
per month 10 a hospital fund. In case
of accident. this would entitle ire work
or to treatment. a bed IN the hospital,
and the services Of a trained nurse
free. But he would have To pay his
family physician and cOnsultants for
their services.
August LOeffler. leading dry goods
and clothing merchant, announced that
Re would inaugurate an early closing
movement by closing his establishment
every Friday night, except pay days,
at q O'clock.
Miss Edith May Franklin and
Claude L. Lewis were married on
June IA, 1899.
A class of IL members graduated
from the Wyandotte high school on
June 20, 1893. Professor F. A. Bar
bOur of the state Normal college de-
nvered the address.
The Dealers Vehicle Company OF
Detroit submitted proposition to 10
cate a plant in WyandOtte 10 employ
70 men. There was 10 be the usual
bonus of the years which ended the
nineteenth century. The Council ac-
copied the offer. but nothing came ot
it.
DIR. O. s. Croft opened a dental of
flee i'm the First Commercial and Saw
ings hank building.
"R. +. Odds. the Lansing engine man
ufacturer. was in the city Oh Wednes-
day and paid The Herald call. The
Herald of June 23. 1899. Years ago,
this office wore out two Of the Oid~
engines. long before X. +. went into
the business of making automobiles.