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1 ALBION
INSPECTORS ARE NAMED
BY NASHVILLE COUNCIL
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Thia Month.
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Two member* of tht» Albion chiip-
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of Uie TfinpeMjxxartrrs Cenlur>'
rlub «lil celrbrmle their 90U\ birthiIats
In Mmrh.
Fight others are in
their eighties and four are between
f5 and 80.
Mrs. Mary Ann Nlckolson of
Parma and George D. Warner of
Eckford. route two, will be 90 years
of age on the 25th and 2«th respectively.
The other March birthdays
Include: Melville Stiles, 116 North
Huron. 80. March 1; William H.
Schultz. 106 East Mulberry. 81.
March 2; William B. Ford. Marshall.
route one, M, March 11;
~ Harvey W. Sweet, 104H South Superior.
81. March 12; Miss EUa M.
Steele, 502 East Porter, 76. March
16
«5p#vhrt to tho Ba*u!rtt'N«ws>
Nashville. Mar. 2 —Tlie board ol
election inspectors for the annual
villa** election to be held Monday.
March K
was named by the villagre
council at Its meeting Monday
rwninc.
These on ths board are
Kdward C. Kraft. H. D. Wotring,
Max Miller, J. C. McDerby and H.
M Perkins,
The council also named three
members of the election commission.
It will have charge of the
ballot printing.
They are Clarence
O. Mason, chairman; Edward C.
Kraft and Earl Olmstead.
MARSHALL
TWO POULTRY SCHOOLS
TO BE HELD IN CALHOUN
All-Day Classes Wffl Bs Given at
Albion Friday and 1b Battle
Creek ftatwrday.
SOCIETY PLANS'
«TO OFFER PLIiy
A. A. Milne Production to Bo
Given at Washington Gardner
School March 16.
(Enqaircr and New® Albion Bureau)
Members of the Albion collegc
chapter of Theta Alpha Phi, national
honorary drsmatlc society,
will present the first mystery play
here in four years at the Washington
Gardner high school auditorium
at 8 o'clock the evening of March
THE MAKSHALL OFriC* OF THX
KNQUIRER AND NEWS
The Marahall office of tho Enqalrer
and News is located st West Michigan
arenue and North Eagle street-
Easiness
such aa news, subscriptions and
classified sdvartlslng may bs transacted
In the same' manner aa at the
home office snd tbe Marshall office
will remain open during business
hours.
Tbe office telephone number
is 433.
Two all-day poultry schools for
Calhoun county poultry men will be
held Friday and Saturday of this
week.
The Friday meeting will be
held at the Albion hatchery and
the Saturdsy gathering
will Take
place at the Blake hatchery, 391
North Kendall, Battle Creek. These
meetings have been
arranged by
Ralph L. Helm, county agricultural
agent.
O. E. Shear, extension poultryman
from Michigan State college,
will be present at both meetings
and will discuss all subjects of Interest
to poultry raisers.
Edwin A. Meade. 305 South Clin- '
ton. 81. March 18; Charles H. Brox- 1 The play was written by A. A.
holm. 1227 Bums. 75, March 18; Milne, an Englishman, and scored
MTa. Mary E. Ackley, Homer, route j several successes in London where
three. 76, March 19; Frank A. Markle,
119 Vi South Superior, 76, March
24; Mrs. Lucretia Burns. Albion
route two. 87, March 25; Mrs. J. P.
Murray, 204 West Elm. 82. March
26; Oeorge H. Nethercott, 207 South
Clinton, 80, March 27.
Dr. H; O, Hendrlckson and Prof.
If. J. Weiss of Albion college will
Judge a state high school leagrue debate
between Grand Rapids and
Coldwater high schools at Coldwater
this evening. Prof. Hance will
judge a local high school oratorical
contest at Marshall Friday morning.
Professor Weiss and Professor
Hance will judge another high
school debate at Paw Paw Friday
afternoon between Grand Rapids
Christian and Paw Paw high
schools.
A team of Afeton college girl debaters.
Including Marlon Lake of
Coldwater, Elspeth Graff of Marshall
and OeraMlne Pinch of Eaton
Rapids, win meet a trio from
Wheaton College, m., at the
Methodist church at
Addison this
evening.
Albion debaters will take
tha negative aide of tha war debt
question.
FIRST BITOT PISTOB
PIIESENTS RESIGNATION
pr. Robert H. Byler to Leave
Albion Pastorate In May;
t
Plans Not Announced.
fBtasolr er' snd News Albion Barean>
Dr. Robert H. Byler, pastor of the
First Baptist church since December,
1930, has presented his resignation.
effective^ In May.
He has
no plans as to a future pastorate,
he said, and gave no reason for his
resignation.
He came here from
Sycamore, Cl.. to succeed the late
Dr. William P. Pearce, whose death
occurred In Paris, France, in the
summer of 1930. Officials of the
church said Tuesday they had not
considered a successor to Dr. Byler.
it was produced under the original
tiUe, The Fourth Wall.
When it
was brought to New York the title
was changed to The Perfect Alibi
and the Americanized version will
be used in the Albion presentation.
The play is directed by Miss
Beaulah Champ, instructor in
dramatics and public speaking. The
cast Includes: Nick Plasterer, La-
Grange, Ind., as Jimmy Ludgrove;
Doris Cutler, Muskegon, as Susan
Cunningham; Carl Snelling, Pontiac,
as Edward Laverlck; Robert
Ray, Riley, Ind., as Major Fothergil;
Dorothy Strophlet, Toledo, O.,
as Jane West; Ellne Welsenberg,
Owosso, as Mrs. Fulverton-Pane;
Laurence Van Horn. Gladstone, as
Arthur Ludgrove; Homer Yinger,
South Haven, as Adams; Dwight
Large, Lansing, as "Sergeant" Mallet.
A tenth character called P. C.
Mallet will be chosen within the
next few days.
Patients at Sheldon Memorial
hospital include: J. C. Bedient, 407
Broadway place; Mrs. C. A. Markham.
route three. Homer; George
Howard, 512 South superior.
A regular meeting of the Albion
board of education will be held at
the Washington Gardner high
school this afternoon at 5 o'clock.
Both the republican and democratic
parties will hold their city
conventions on Monday evening,
March 14. The republicans will
meet at * the town hall and the
democrats at the city library. H.
H. Harrison is chairman of the republican
convention and William
Holt (of the democrats.
Candidates
for mayor and justice of the peace
will be nominated and a chairman
elected for the ensuing year. Mayor
C. H. Clute has announced that he
will accept the office again if -he is
nominated, but so far as is known
no one has been selected to run for
mayor on the repulgfean ticket although
several name* have been
mentioned, but those named refused
to take the nomination.
The four
ward caucuses will be held on next
Monday and Tuesday evening.
The
democrats will hold their caucus
Monday evening and the republicans
the following evening. At each
ward caucus a supervisor and alderman
and a constable will be nominated.
The terms of four supervisors,
Theodore Bull, Thomas
Johnson, Marie Fahey, and Sam
Orn expire at this time. The terms
of five of the eight aldermen also
expire. T. R. Bamingham, first
ward, H. C. Albaugh. and R. W.
Goodrow from the second. H. E.
Wilson from the third and C. M.
Wallace from the fourth are the
aldermen whose terms expire.
The
reason that the terms of the two
aldermen from the second ward
expire at the same time is that R.
W. Goodrow was appointed recently
to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of H. H. Harrison.
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EXTRA MONEY!
You can use it, can't you?
Sell
some of those things you no longer
have use for. You can do it with
an ad in the—
CLASSIFIED
In This Community
When
People Say "Clasnfied"
They Mean Enquirer-New*
CAUCUSES TO BE HELD
WITH NEW PLAN IN FALL
Baltimore had a farmer's weekly
in 1835.
FRANKD. WALK
Me at My E
> AUCTIONEER
135 W. Green St*
Marshall, Mich.
Terms—1
Small Sal^s—$10.00
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own officials who are empowered to
call a caucus and elect their own
delegates to the county convention.
"The act would indicate that
there should be provided in each
precinct or township an elected
management consisting of a chairman,
secretary and three electors,
and to constitute the political organization
of that unit, while the
two elective officers are and shall
be a part of the county organization
of their political party."
City Meet April 5
In other words the act would
make each neighborhood of the city,
and each township of Calhoun
county, a small political community.
The intention of it is to give Mr.
Average Voter a better voice in the
gatherings.
The Battle Creek city convention
of republicans will be held April 5
at the city hall to elect delegates to
the county convention, and they, in
turn, will help to choose state convention
delegates. And finally
delegates to the national republican
convention In Chicago in June,
will be chosen.
In the fall the state ticket will
be elected, and it Is for that election
that the proceeding is due to
be changed.
An answer waa filed by the defendant
In the county clerk's office
Wednesday morning in the divorce
case of Delia K. Cooper vs. Charles
A. Cooper of Battle Creek. The
defendant denies the charges in the
bill of complaint.
In the event of
a decree being granted, the defendant
asks that the plaintiff be
allowed only the amount of money
she has invested In their home.
Thirty members of the Rotary
club went to Camp Custer Tuesday
evening where they were entertained
at the American Legion hospital.
Dinner was served at 6:30
o'clock, followed by a program.
Each of the five physicians on the
hospital staff gave interesting talks.
Before returning the visitors were
taken through the hospital.
Daily Market Report
LIVERPOOL REPORTS
BOOST WHEAT PRICES
Built for Ages — That's Nichols
Home, with 115 Nails in a Board
Notable Old Gaoital Ave N. stables - -tiarmon nas naa
iNOiamc um i^apiiui ^ e this myth. - There is
E. House Resists W recking 1
Grew with Haphazard
Building Plan—Shrub
4 'in
House" Transplanted.
It's taking longer to tear down
one old house than it would to build
a couple more modern ones.
The
old Edwin C. Nichols place on Capital
Ave. N. E.. at Fremont, is resisting
to the last the efforts of a
wrecking crew.
Three men have
been at work about three months
now and it may be another month
before the job is finished.
About 60 years ago the best of
materials and workmanship went
into the building of the Nichols
home and the result was the finest
house in Battle Creek," a showplace
to be pointed out to visitors.
Now
the materials are being salvaged to
be used in several modern bungalows.
Joseph W. Harmon, a contractor
who purchased the house
from its last owner, the Old-Merchants
National Bank & Trust Co..
reckoned at the start there might
be enough well preserved wood in it
to provide rough material for the
construction of about five bungalows.
He surveyed his salvage Tuesday
afternoon and guessed that
there might be even more than he
estimated at first.
The construction
of the old house was so peculiar
-that much of the material was hidden.
At the outset Mr. Harmon didn't
know he would And double partitions
and double lathing throughout
the first two floors of the
three-story house.
He didn't suspect,
either, that he would discover
multiple studding at the
comers of all the rooms.
Neither
had he counted on double floors.
All these things, into which went
extra materials, were hidden until
the razing started.
The Nichols house could have
been built and built well according
to present day standards with
half the materials, says Mr. Harmon.
The double partitions, with
double lathing and plaster, Mr.
Harmon hazards, may have been
built because Mr. Nichols wished
to have the house as nearly soundproof
as possible. The windows
on the first two fioors all were of
plate glass a good quarter of an
inch thick.
Some of the windows
were of leaded glass, some beautifully
stained and
others beveUed
and set in bronze.
It's hard to guess just what kind
of noises Mr. Nichols wished to
keep out. There were no automobiles
in those days and horses
plodded by drawing the street cars
along the maple lined avenue.
Mr. Harmon is of the opinion
that Mr. Nichols was his own architect
and built the house with day
labor.
There Is evidence here and
there that the house was not expertly
planned, that the builder
went so far and then figured out
what he would do next.
This haphazard
method may account for the
many studding at some of the
comers.
In come places there are
as many as 18 and 20 two-by-fours
within a place 18 inches square.
The wreckers get a chuckle now
and then out of the vast number of
nails used in the house. There
must have been a ton or more of
them, nearly all of the old cut tmHI
variety long since discarded in
favor of the round nails with flat
heads.
More recent kinds of nails
were found In
rooms which Mr.
Nichols added to the house in later
years, but in the original part there
was a prodigious number In every
board.
One hundred and fifteen
were counted in one
five-quarter
board 12 feet long and six Inches
wide.
Woods now too expensive to be
used for houses went into the
Nichols home.
The siding, for Instance,
was all white pine. Modem
homes are built of southern yellow
pine. Joists were 2x12 and studding
were 26 feet long. These are being
lowered with ropes so that they will
not be broken.
Not much of the house win be
wasted. Scraps of wood will be sold
for kindling.
Even the foundation
stones will be used ov-r again.
Several older residents passing the
place have stopped to ask Mr. Harmon
If he found the underground
passage way which was supposed to
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Mrs. W. S. Nelson. 720 West Hanover,
reported to the sheriff's department
Tuesday evening that
boys were throwing stones at her
house. Night Officer Purcell investigated
but there were no boys
in the vicinity when he arrived.
Mr. Harmon has had to
a
passageway but it extends only a
few feet to a hole in the driveway
into which Mr. Nichols had his coal
dumped.
Another cause of
curiosity has
been the
disappearance from the
front yard of the rhododendron
shrub for which Mr. Nichols cared
so tenderly. Mr. Nichols had a
portable house made for it and
every fall he would pack it and enclose
It for the winter. He did this
faithfully every fall, although those
who understand rhododendrons say
it was quite unnecessary. The shrub
has been transplanted to the home
of P. W. Sullivan, father of R. A.
Sullivan of 211 Bmmett, near
Augusta.
SUPREME COURT RULES
ON PUBLIC BANK FUNDS
Holds That Deposits Do Not Have
Preference Over Trust Revenue
When Bnslnesa Falls.
P. A. Mumaw, chairman of the
Marshall district of boy scouts, and
30 other scout leaders attended the
school of instruction held at the
boy scout building in Battle Creek
Tuesday evening.
Claims were allowed in the estate
of Charles H. Kreeger, deceased, in
probate court Wednesday morning.
The first annual account in the case
of Ada Rae, incompetent, was given.
Mrs. R. A. Hecht. alimony clerk
in the office of the county clerk,
was absent from her duties Wednesday
by illness.
A new light has been shed on the
baffling problem of
man's origin.
The discovery of the Peking man
suggests the possibility that the con-
• tinent of Africa was the first home
LQf Utt human race.
Deputy Sheriff Harley Reek and
Mrs. Reek returned Tuesday night
from a two-weeks trip to Cuba.
They motored to Florida.
Stephen J. Riley. 83, was removed
to Oaklawn hospital for treatment
Wednesday.
Mrs. Ralph Mohrhardt and children,
615 West Prospect, are recovering
from an attack of Influenza.
Negro population is increasing in
i Pacific state*
Lansing, Mar. 2.—(^P)—The state
supreme court today held that when
public funds are legally deposited
in banks which subsequently fall,
they do not constitute trust funds
or have preference over those deposits.
The ruling was made in the
case of Rudolph E. Relchert, state
banking commissioner, against the
Berkeley State bank and the American
State bank of Femdale.
In
these cases, township funds
were deposited and the required depository
bond was furnished. Later
the banks cancelled the depository
bonds.
The court held it was the
duty of township treasurers to
transfer the funds to other depositories
when the bonds were cancelled.
The township board had ordered
such a transfer, but the
treasurer failed to comply.
In a recent opinion, the court
held that when public funds are
deposited without the bonds required
by la- •, they become trust
funds.
An Investigation into the receiverships
of banks and trust companies
was ordered today by Governor
Brucker.
A petition for such
an inquiry was filed recently by E.
A. Nowack, Lansing publisher, who
charged that dual receiverships for
the Metropolitan and Fidelity
Trust companies of Detroit constituted
an unnecessary drain upon
resources
of Investors.
prices advanced early todaj. Influenced
by
Liverpool reports of
prospective better European, continental
demand for wheat.
Expected
donations of 40,000,000
bushels of farm board wheat for
relief purposes was also construed
as bullish.
Opening unchanged to
% up, wheat afterward advanced
all around. Com started unchanged
to H higher, and continued firm.
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK
Chicago, Mar. 2.—(JP)—Hogs 18.000.
Including
3,00(1 direct; actlTe, strong
to 10c higher; 170-210 lbs. $4^25^4^;
top $4.40; 230-250 lbs. $4.(»e4.25; 200-
330 lbs. $3.90^4.10; 140-160 lbs. 33.00®
4.15; pigs $^3.50; packing sows $3,45
3.60.
Cattle 6,000: calves 2,000; mediums
snd
heavy weights steers fairly active
on shipper account at strong to slightly
higher prices; yesrllngs and light
steers slow about stesdy; yearling
heifers strong; cows steady to strong;
vealers strong; bulls unchanged, top
weighty steers $8.65.
Sheep 8,000; market
not established,
getting steady to strong with Tuesday's
best prices: choice lambs scarce;
held sharply higher; best esrly bids
SO>5; lambs 90 lbs. down Rood and
choice (€.25((|T; medium $5.50@6.25; 91-
100 lbs. medium to choice S5.25@6.S5;
all weights common $4.u0