The Unionville Crescent from Unionville, Michigan • 1

i 17 The Unionvtt jr Crescent )q I MEMBER MICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS UNIONVILLE AND VICINITY VOL XXXVIII UNIONVILLE MICHIGAN FRIDAY MAY 24 1929 No 7 DETROIT PEOPLE INJURED WHEN COMING TO TUNERAL I INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS FROM AROUND THE STATE THE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER BANOUET Had Larne Attendance and a Most Enjoyable Time FOR CALIFORNIA After a Short But Enjoyable Visit With Relatives and Friends 1 i Etc atisfa 5c h' 95 MEMORIAL DAY TO BE OBSERVED MAY30 Committees Appointed Who Will Carry Out the Program of the Day The following Is the program of anangements as made out by the Village committee for Decoration Day It is expected a large attendance of former Unionville people will be here for the day Friends will be prepared to entertain for luncheon All exercises will be completed by eleven-thirty Marshall of the Ernest Luth-er Decorating Committee Ach-enbach Frank Jones Frank Cur rey Raymond Babcock Harold Achenbach and Franklin Kolb Propram Mr and Mrs A Nesman Miss Fawn Mr Killian Miss Hensel Mrs Hahn Miss Carson Miss Hundey and Mr Cluver Kemp Committee for Gathering Flowers Junior Class of High School Committee for Arranging Bouquets Mesdames Pregitzer Will Brady Kemp Kirk Patrick and Bertha Hofmeister Committee for Decorating Graves Jesse Trieber Allen Strieter Herbert Strieter Frank Jones Harry Cartwright and Orra Luth-er Committee for Unknown Grave John Zeigler Committee for Placing Wreath on Leon Brady and Arth ur Brady assisted by Boy Scouts Rev Paul Nicholas Raising of Flag in Park by Boy Scouts 9:30 Assembling of School Chil dren at School House March to Moravian Cemetery from Memorial Park Decorating Graves and Unknown Grave by School Chil dren Strewing Flowers on Water at the Bridge in memory of those who died at Sea Senior High School Girls directed by Miss Fawn March to Memorial Park for Decorating Memorial Fountain March to School Auditorium for Program by School Children Music furnished by High School Orchestra Address Rev Nicholas Spangled Rev Weisenberg FUNERAL OF DAY HAS LARGE ATTENDANCE 0 923 7 irjtf vlll 1 ai 'Elk ei 3 3 111 1- it i it I- II 9 Mrs Babcock and daughter Genevieve and Miss Pearl Day were in Flint Sunday afternoon at Hurley Hospital to see their cousins Mr Hoobler Mr Hoobler Mrs Koobler and their daughter-in-law Mrs Bart Hoobler who were seriously injured last week Thursday near Frankenmuth when enroute from Detroit to Unionville to attend tho funeral of Mr Day It appears the car door opened and a high wind was blowing In bracing himself for pulling the door shut Mr Hoobler must have pressed on the accelerator as the car shot into the ditch and was wrecked Mr Hoobler and young Mrs Hoobler were thrown through the top of the car the daughter-in-law about twenty feet Little hope was held for Mr Hoobler nor young Mrs Hoobler when they visited them Sunday School Notes Forty seventh grade pupils and 29 eighth grade pupils wrote their county examinations at the Unionville High School May 16th and 17th This was a slight increase over the number who wrote here in 1928 The annual Junior Banquet will be held in the School Auditorium Tuesday evening May 28th There will be a baseball game at the high school field Thursday afternoon May 30th Fairgove High School will be our opponents This should be a good game and a large crowd is expected to attend the game All school children are asked to come to the school Thursday morning by 9:30 to take part in the Mem orial Day services This is a service in which all school children should honor our dead war heroes and it is desired that everyone be present if possible Although complete returns from the State Scholastic Contest at Mt Pleasant May 17th have not been received it is understood that 3 out of students entered won places (1st 2nd or 3rd) In the contests The Senior Class has decided to present their play Hapepned in again at the School Auditorium Thursday evening May 30th Many people who were unable to see it on May 7th have requested that the play be given again The proceeds of the play will be used to buy furniture for the stage at-the auditorium I our students got perfect mark in the Zoology spelling test of 100 words May 15th Eileen Bitzer Leona Sut-kay Mildred Neal and Helen Dodrasky were the 100 per cent spelling in this test which included some quite difficult scientific words in Zoology Coming Dates: Friday May Baseball at Gage-town Tuesday May Junior Banquet Thursday May 30 Memorial Services in forenoon Baseball Fairgrove High School here in the afternoon Second Presentation of Senior play Happened in Friday June County Field Day at Caro Sunday June Baccalaureate Ser- vices Tuesday June 11 Eighth Grade Commencement Thursday June 13 High School Commencement Friday June 14 High School Enrollment for next year Dismissal of school for summer vacation Friday June Alumni Banquet in evening at Auditorium Grandchildren Christened at Wm Sunday Mr and Mrs Donald Brady and infant daughter Bonnie Ann came Saturday from Detroit Sunday the christening ceremony for their baby and for the Infant daughter Delores Jean of Mr and Mrs Leon Brady was held at the home of the parents Mr and Mrs William Brady at 3:00 The service was conducted by Rev Wlsenberg A dinner at 1:00 at the home of Mr and Mrs Leon Brady preceded the ceremony Beside the immediate Brady families the guests were: Mrs Donald parents Mr and Mrs Neilson her brother Mr A Jensen wife and son of Sandusky and her sister Miss Truda Jensen of Detroit Mrs Malissa Thomas Mr and Mrs Roy Thomas tnd daughter of Bay City Mrs Mabel King and daughter Geraldine and Mr and Mrs Wm Brady and daughter Doris At six Mr and Mrs Brady entertained the same party for supper and also Rev and Mrs Wtsen-berg and three children The valedictorian and saluta-torian of the Hart High School this year are twin sisters They are Ruth and Ruby Van Sickle daughters of Mr and Mrs Fred Van Sickle who own a farm near here The girls are 18 Umpiring a baseball game proved disastrous for Emil Renter 32 years old Renfer was called upon to make a close decision at home plate The base runner catcher and umpire went down In a cloud of duBt When the air had cleared It was found that leg was broken Mt Quiet cows give more milk and music keeps them quiet bo the cows at the Detroit Creamery farms on Gratiot road near here are getting radio concerts daily The huge barns of the company have been fitted with loud speakers and the radio Is turned on at milking time and the songs and music are kept going while the animals are being groomed Jackson Formation of the International Aircraft Company of Jack-son and plans to build an airplane factory In this city within six months were announced here The company has completed arrangements to purchase the assets of the International Aircraft Corporation of Cincinnati It will build two planes a three-place open-cock-plt biplane and a aix-place cabin biplane Roy Wing 13 years old is In the Memorial Hospital suffering from a bullet wound in his stomach received when a revolver he was carrying In his belt was discharged The boy had attended a motion picture theater and on the way home became excited In talking over the picture with his chum He gesticulated too wildly and the revolver was fired Despite his wound he walked a mile to his home He Is expected to recover East Flint Central High School won the band championship of Michigan by a third of a point from Grand Rapids South High School at the State music Contest held here recently under auspices of the Michigan State College it is announced by Ada Bicklng assistant superintendent of public instruction and director of music education The orchestra championship was won by Ilamtramck with Grand Rapids Union second Traverse City Fifty business men who leased Ransom field six years ago and three yearn ago bought It to hold until the city should take it over as a municipal airport may decide to lease the property to the city for interest and taxes until a municipal airport can be constructed on another site An airport commission appointed by Mayor George Bardie virtually has decided that the 80-acre field should he abandoned In favor of a more expensive project Sault Ste Marie One of the most successful bird banders hails from the Soo He Is Magee who during 1928 banded 1985 Individual birds Included in this number were 1283 purple finches a bird rarely seen down here Since 1921 when Mr Magee first started banding operations he has handled over 11000 birds From this work 941 bands have been returned to Washington that were recovered from birds banded by him that bad been killed or found dead- Monroe Elmer Waring 36 years old Cleveland bus driver and Godfrey Frovarp 32 years old Detroit driver of the truck into which a loaded bus crashed killing five persons and Injuring 17 were arraigned on charges of negligent homicide and their examinations were set for June 13 Bull for each was fixed at $2000 Waring was driver of a Detroit and Cleveland Greyhound bua which crashed into the rear of the truck which was parked on Telegraph road six miles south of here Jackson Sylvester Nowakowlki Detroit prison Inmate who worked nine months to perfect an escape from Michigan state prison only to be captured by a Detroit policeman less than 24 hours after hla get-away was ordered to serve from three to six years in addition to hts regular sentence by Circuit Judge Benjamin Williams The prisoner was sent to Marquette from Detroit on August 14 1925 to serve from 10 to 25 years for robbery armed but was transferred to Jackson a year ago Lowell A 13-year struggle against disease will have been won at least lu part next month when Miss Frances Lee 22 years old who has been operated on 11 times during that period receives her high school diploma Miss Lee a daughter of Mr and Mrs Rufus Lee was stricken with osteomyelitis a bone Inflammation when 9 years oltLaftdtoflbegn under jhq knife repeatedly since that time Her actual time spent iu high school according to Supt Gumser Is about two years her course having been Interrupted six times by operations Lansing Gov Fred Green recently vetoed Senator bill to increase the financial aid to rural agricultuu1 schools on the grounds that the Legislature failed to provide the fundi to carry out the provisions of the bin The bill sought to increase from $400 to $600 a year the sum paid by the state for each vehicle used for the transportation of pupils to and from the schools and would have Increased from $1000 to $1500 a year the lump sum paid such schools by tbs State Mackinac The state has been offered one mile of the shore line of the Straits of Mackinac lying adjacent to Wilderness Park in Emmet County for $15000 The proposition will be accepted provided a lease grante 1 the County Road Commissioners for a right-of-way along the beach Is abrogated This addition would give the State almost complete control of the shoreline for 10 miles west of Macld- nao City to the headquarters building Id- the park It Is anticipated by tho fish division of the Conservation Department that some of the 5000 trout which were tagged and released la year will be taken during the comlrg season Sportsmen will materially assist the department if they will sen 1 all tags taken from Buch fish to 1 Metzelar University of Museum Ann Arbor The length of the fish In Inches and the location taken should be given when sending in tags Tbeco tags will be returned If desired Lansing Construction work on the new Grand Trunk railroad right cf way between Birmingham and Royal Oak will he renewed within the next three weeks Kit Clardy assistant attorney general predicted here 'Activities ceased early last fall because of several Injunctions Clardy said the decree In the litigation recent! decided by the supreme court will be ready within two weeks Under thia decision all owners of lots in the subdivisions through which the railroad now passes are entitled to damages Lansing most forehanded cigarette dealer appeared in tire person of Butler who runs a general store at Marine City He sent $5 to the secretary of state asking that he be supplied with that amount in the cigarette package revenue stamps provided for under the new law The law will not be in effect until August 27 so Butler will have hla stamps in plenty of time even though they can not be sent to him until arrangements are made to have them printed which will be sometime in July Flint Fifty years ago the marriage of Mr and Mrs Frank Baldy took place Recently they were buried side by side at Centerville Mich Mr Baldy 76 years old despondent 1) cause of the death of hts wife 69 i-n the eve of their golden wedding anniversary took poison and died a few hours later In the Hurlejr Hospital Hla last minutes of consciousness were devoted to epeaktng with regret of the fate that marred what was to have been a happy anniversary They bad lived In Flint 16 years coming here from Manistee County The total vote In the recent State bird contest held by the Michigan Audubon Society is as follows: Robin 45541 chickadee 3 7- 155 bluebird 17024 goldfinch 13- 866 cardinal 12288 quail 8792 Baltimore oriole 6355 house wreu 5433 meadow lark 4978 red wing blackbird 4255 song sparrow 3071 downy woodpecker 2941 morning dove 2390 whippoorwill 2268 bobolink 1920 kingbird 18 tO cedar waxwing 1320 brown thrasher 1039 rose breasted grosbeak 1598 put is martin 997 and catbird 675 Grand total 184209 including 2860 votes for 69 other birds Henry Billow 64 icars old a farmer was found dead In field on hts farm In Whlteford township He had been sowing outs nnj was stricken with heart disease a body was found by hts son when is man failed to respond to the dinner bell Coroner Edward Rupp and Sheri It Sidney Eaton investigated and decided no inquest was necessnr Buchanan Despite late frost southwestern Michigan will have 1 bumper apple yield In 1929 in the opinion of Alfred Hall Buchanan orcharding Immem Dry Dock The largest dry deck in the world Is at Soullm iiiplnn England This structure is t'GO feet lung und no fvni wide Mr and Mrs Robert Allen and their grand-son-in-law and grand-1 daughter Mr and Mrs Vaughn Torrence of Rodonda Beach Calif who were guests for ten days of Mrs sister Mrs Cassie Cartwright left the forepart of this week for other points where they will visit a few days before beginning the return trip to their home on the Pacific coast Mr Allen met quite a number of old time friends and acquaintances during the few days he was in town Mr and Mrs Allen were married i'n 1871 fifty-eight years ago and came to Unionville the next year in 1872 from Pontiac Mr Allen worked for the late Simeon Streeter in getting out square timber which was shipped to Montreal and Quebec for ship construction in Canadian and British shipyards He next worked for Durkee and John Coy by whom he was employed for some years in the black ash and hoop business The yard was located on the corner where Kemp store stands to the Coy home which is now the Baur property These hoops were used in the manufacture of sugar and salt bar-lels In those days the stave and hoop business was an inportant industry Mr and Mrs Allen owned the house now belonging to Mr Fred Skirlo of Daytona Beach Florida which was the home of Mr parents and the property now occupied by the hospital Mr and Mrs Allen cared for Mr Isaac Keller a resident carpenter After Mr Keeler passed away Dozer an attorney who lived on West State Street now tenement house came to Mr Allen and gave him a long envelope Mr Alien was about to leave for Caro on a business trip and he handed the envelope to Mrs Allen When he teturned from Caro his wife said you know what was in that No replied Mr Allen I did not take the time to open Mrs Allen then told him it contained the deed for the home and the lots1 in connection given by Mr Kellor to them ready to record An appricia-tion of their kindness in his last days (Continued on fourth page) voicts rnoM hie past Taken from Crescent of 20 Years Aqo Tve wandered to (lie vlllase Tom: sat beneath tho tree Upon the school house playground which sheltered you and me But none were loti to ureet me Tom and few wore left to know That played with us upon the green some twenty years Friday Mav 21 1909 Eugene Arliitthii-li him puiclnr-ed Mrs James reddonce property on South Main Herbert Knlh Inis passed ids examination as a pharmacist and Ins seen-ed a position in Squires' drug store at Marine City Mrs Clarence Mills and two children of CiUNimville armed Mondayevening to Wait her purrai- Mr and Mrs Cooperand Imr patents Mr and Mrs Frank Mills laken From the Crescent Columns of 10 Years Ago Friday May 23 1919 Eugen Achenbach has purchased the tenent house of A Hofmeister on street which was built three years ago Buhl received word Monday that his son Reginald had arrived In Detroit and would go to Camp Custer from where he would be discharged from service The many friends to Miss Robey Neal were surprised to learn Suturday when she was in town that she was Mra Mayon Hoard She was married in Detroit May 10 A quiet but interesting wedding occurred Tuesday" Ma 20 1919 at high noon at the home of Mr and Mrs Georgq Brady when their younger daughter Bernice became the wife of Mr Golthelf Metzger -m- i Dangerous Cout The imwl powerful breakers ore to be found the msi nf ilulnen In Afrlcu alien lliert is couslnnt west erly swell (rout tho Atlantic Mrs Nicholas Gave the Address The Mother and Daughter Banquet was well attended last Thursday evening One hundred and one mothers and daughters appeared to the surprise of the committee for seating A fifth table was quickly laid and where there appeared to extra room another cover and chair were placed until all were comfortably seated The decorations were pink hand-i-iiule carnations and pink flutted bands The menu was dainty yet satisfying and the serving was quite perfect Fourteen Boy Scouts and two boys were exceptionally well tutored and did their work in a commendable manner Mr Chas Achenbach was chief of the chefs George Sperro and Ed Dickie were his able assistants Others who assisted in the kitchen were lb Warner Kirkpatrick Walker Rilley Hillis Babcock Clinton Widemnn and Will Brady lev Nicholas and Raymond Babcock vitro chiefs for the dining service The committee for general ar-tangements were Rev Nicholas and Babcock superintendent of the Sunday School Mrs Nicholas and Mrs Nesman were in charge of the I rogram which was given in the church auditorium Mrs Knkpatiick acted as toastmaster An orchestra composed of Mother? and Daughters rendered several pleasing selections Mrs Nesman Miss Fawn and Miss Zimmer sang a tiio duet and solos and Geraldine King and Olive Luther rendered re-i Itations Mrs Nicholas gave the address If the Mother and Daughter banquet increases in attendance as it did this year the church dining room will not hold the next one One hundred diners is about the capacity of the dining room fred Hageman and Family Expected Here to Visit Mr and Mrs Fred Hageman of bhuwnee Wyoming are expected to arrive in Unionville next month about the 22nd The Overland people were entertained at their home and in their yard Monday evening July 11 1927 and they will not only be welcomed by their parents Mr nd Mr: Fred Hageman and family iut by the Overland group Mr and Mrs Hageman also entertained some of the Overland people over night last year in July and assisted with the wonderful dinner served at his home CLAYTON PURDY DETROIT LAWYER TO BE MARRIED In Detroit Free Press ap pcared a picture of Miss Dorothy Cudlip Truettner whose engagement to Mr Clnyton Calvin Purdy was announced at a tea given in the bride-elects home Saturday Miss Truett-uer is a daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Frederick Truettner of Ken-ington Road Grosse Pointe She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and a member of Delta amma soiority Mr Purdy was born in Unionville the younger son of the late Mr and Mrs Purdy and is a graduate of the College of Law of the of BIG ATTRACTION COMING TO TEMPIE 1IIEAIRE The management of the Temple Theatre have arranged for a big picture next Tuesday and Wednesday May 2Sth and 29th with Victor Mclaglen Belle Bennett Neil Hamilton Constance Howard Ethel Clayton and Philippe DeLaeyall stars Also 8 Vaudeville Talking Acts Synchronized in sound Don't miss it Coming Auction Sales Gustaf DeBoever having had to give up his furm on account of high water will have an auction sale of his slock and utensils at the farm 4 miles west and VA miles north of Unionville on Monday May 27th He has a large sale and It will begin promptly at 12 List and particulars on last page Ernest Luther auctioneer The funeral for Mr Charles Day last week Thursday was largely attended The floral tributes were many and very beautiful These were handled for undertaker' Achenbach by six Boy Scouts About twenty-five autuomobiles accompanied the family to Bay City for the burial where they were met by Bay City friends Mrs Nesman and Mrs Edwin Eck-feld furnished the music at the house and Mrs Florence Day-Moore at the cemetery Those who were here from out-of-town were Mr and Mrs Miller of Cleveland Mr and Mrs Frank Bears and daughter and Mrs sister of Detroit Mrs Arthur Neal and son Norman of Flint Mr and Mrs Colburn of Grand Blanc Mr and Mrs Greer of Dearborn Mrs Florence Day-Moore and sister Miss Edlow Day of Bay City The pallbearers were: Messrs Rll-ley Hillis Joseph Bell Otto Hemlch George Brady Edwin Eckfeld and Frank Currey Former Unionville Girl Graduated at Douglass Wyo Miss Wilma Hageman only daughter of Mr and Mrs Ernest Hageman of Douglass Wyoming gradautes this week from high school Miss Hageman was born in Unionville and has several relatives here It was at Miss home the Overland party were entertained Sunday July 10 last year and naturally the Overland friends were quite Interested in her graduation especially because of the long distance covered each day or week for her to reach the school some eighteen miles The mode of transportation was by bus to the city school Several gifts were sent the young lady postmarked Unionville First National Gathering The first national agricultural convention was held In Washington June 24 I8ri- Delegates were present from 32 states and the District of Columbia.