The editor on a visit to Stanton on Monday visited the jail in company with Sheriff Briggs who designated for us the $415.48 improvements. There is some improvement, but the jail is yet far from being a desirable place in which to take up permanent lodgings, and more money is to be invested in the iron doors to ensure seclusion to the prisoners. The prisoners are shut up in dark rooms resembling much a bank vault with an iron grating in the door. Except through the grated door, light and air have no entrance. For three or four cells light and air are nearly excluded by the stairs at the south end o
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MAUREEN BURNS: Something new and different?
I got to thinking the other day about what people do in retirement. Patrick Foley said, “Retirement is a blank sheet of paper. It’s a chance to redesign your life into something new and different.”
AMISH COOK: A day at the Amish Teachers Institute
Whew, what a day. Hundreds of faces I did not know, along with many I did.
MIKE TAYLOR: Summertime bondage with William
I whine about “kids these days” a lot in this column. Oh, I know kids are no worse now than when I was in third grade. But griping about kids is what old men do. Consider the famous quote, often misattributed to Socrates, “Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
SANDY MAIN: Once Upon a Daily
150 years ago “Spelling tournaments” — The spelling mania has not died away. Oakfield has a class of spellers who propose to have tournaments this winter. After they have had a tilt with Grattan they will throw down the glove to Greenville. “Henderson’s Test Words” will be the book in use, probably for sale at the book stores.
MAUREEN BURNS: Let it be with love
I have a friend, Kim Sorrelle, from Grand Rapids. Kathy Jo Vanderlaan and she have been friends forever. Kim is a down home kind of gal, obviously bright, fun, friendly, caring, faith filled – all the things I like in a human. Kathy Jo got us together because we are both authors.
AMISH COOK: Birthdays, memories and meatloaf
Birthdays are a big thing at our house, and with six children, they keep rolling around and around. For me, birthdays have their own way of bringing back memories of bygone years.
MIKE TAYLOR: AI is now personal
As a working musician … No, wait, I won’t start this column with a lie. I am a musician, but “working?” Not so much. Yes, my weekend band plays a lot of gigs, but only those who’ve never laid bricks or delivered pizza for a living would call it work. Let’s be real; I play music for appreciative listeners for a few hours, drink free martinis, flirt with waitresses younger than my oldest granddaughter, and then at the end of the evening, I receive a paycheck for my troubles.
SANDY MAIN: Once Upon a Daily
150 years ago “Railroad work progressing” — Work on the Chicago, Saginaw & Canada Railroad is progressing favorably. Work on the twelve miles intervening between the end of the grade and Lakeview is well under way and about four miles of it completed. The piles are all driven for Flat River bridge and a portion of the timbers already framed, while two or three smaller bridges are about completed. A sink-hole a mile west of Riverdale has caused the engineers much trouble. It is only seventy feet across, but appears to be bottomless. The track across it has been repeatedly taken up on account of settling. Upwards of 600 carloads of clay have been dumped into it and it is apparently all right now.
MAUREEN BURNS: Rock, wow, protein, library, stupid
So, my friends, Deb and Roger Christensen, showed me their “Weather Rock” the other day. It’s very large and sits proudly in their backyard. If you want to know the weather without checking your phone, this may be for you. It’s really quite amazing.
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