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Breezy Topics At Whitmore Lake

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
March
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
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BREEZY TOPICS AT WHITMORE LAKE

Whitmore Lake, March 16.- The farmers in this vicinity are very busy since the frost came out of the ground, fixing up fences (not political), putting a new hinge on the gates here and there, and now that the cold weather has gone some of them are putting boards and battens on their horse barns, which should have been done last fall for comfort to the animals.

The Rev. Horace Palmer had a very busy week. Within five days he officiated at two wedding and three funerals and yesterday he preached three sermons.

Our electric road committee on Saturday morning met one of the road builders at Ann Arbor and drove him over the proposed route to Whitmore Lake, where at the Clifton house parlors they had a long and very satisfactory conference, and we are happy to announce the road is now an assured fact.

Not in ten years has there been so much sickness in the community as the past two months. While there have not been many deaths. everybody is complaining and the doctors get but little rest.

Frank Dunlavey, Jas. E. Burke and Frank McCabe returned from Detroit on Saturday, where they disposed of a consignment of live stock. This week's shipments go to Buffalo.

On Wednesday morning last a very pretty wedding took place at Mr. and Mrs. Frank N. Barker's, the contracting parties being Miss Carrie Barker and Wirt Sweitzer. The Rev. Horace Palmer officiated. The bride, who has always lived here, by her sweet disposition and genial manners has endeared herself to all who knew her. Mr. Sweitzer, the groom, was brought up in Green Oak. attended the U. of M. and graduated as an electrical engineer and has a fine plant at Whitehall, Mich., for which place the happy couple left on Wednesday afternoon. A host of friends covered them with congratulations and rice.

On Wednesday at the M. E. parsonage, Rev. H. Palmer officiating, Mr. Chas. Knight and Miss Annie Tuthill were made man and wife. The young couple live within three miles of this place and are well known and highly respected. We wish them a long, smooth and happy matrimonial journey down the stream of time.

Mrs. Daniel Stollecker left Friday morning for North Branch to attend her brother, who is seriously sick.

Contractor J. G. Pray started his spring building last Tuesday and by Saturday night his large crew of carpenters had up three houses and a barn complete all but painting. Mr. Pray says the building here this season will eclipse all others and he says he is only afraid he will be hard pushed to get sufficient carpenters to do his work. For 25 years Whitmore Lake did not have a new dwelling house until 6 years ago, when J. G. Pray said: "I am going to build a city right here." How well he succeeded is evidenced by the innumerable new buildings everywhere you look. Since Mr. Pray's advent into the building business there have been added two new additions to our village, viz., the Pray addition and the Chas. L. Rane addition. These lots, by our wonderful expansion, are nearly all filled with up-to-date dwellings and the demand is not satisfied. The property of J. C. Carland, with the grove containing 15 acres, will now be platted and as this is the most desirable location in town, no doubt the lots will go off like hot cakes. This spring Mr. Pray will start a sash, door and blind factory. The building is ready now and some of the machinery is on the ground.

Wm. Lavender, who raises between 8,000 and 10,000 bushels of black seed onions every year, has on hand about 30 pounds of Michigan yellow globe black seed more than he wants for this season's crop and will sell for 90 cents per pound. Mr. Lavender is now loading a car of yellow globes for Detroit parties.

The new firm of Pray & McCormick are doing a tremendous business in all departments. Their goods are all new and crisp and are arriving daily. They only wish their building was twice as large.

Fred Stevens is home on a visit from the Agricultural college, which he has been attending for the past three years.

Mrs. Annie McCoy, of Columbus, O., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. B. Rane.

Messrs. Dodge and Lemon have returned from a three days' business trip to Detroit.

Whitmore Lake, March 17.- Twenty five of our citizens left on the morning train for Ann Arbor to participate in the St. Patrick's day banquet.

Martin Ryan's new residence is now under construction and Contractor Pray says it will be ready in ten days.

Saturday, March 28, the democrats will hold their caucus at Whitmore Lake.

Wm. Donegan announces his candidacy for supervisor and we can justly say that Northfield could go farther and fare a good deal worse. Mr. Donegan's election would be no lottery as he has been tested and found to be a man of intelligence, good sound judgment and, being possessed of a good slice of real estate, knows the importance of the office and has the honesty of conviction to administer it for the benefit of the whole township. Mr. Donegan has served two terms as township clerk and two terms as supervisor and he gave as clean and satisfactory service as any man ever elected in the township. He is a true blue, dyed-in-the-wool democrat, a gentleman of unimpeachable character, has hosts of friends in all parts of the town and the democrats will do themselves a favor by electing him.