Be Sure to Register for Lowell Day Plan
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THIS ISSUE CONTAINS- LEDGER 8 Pages 6If. Columns ENTRIES 1U0 Inches BelnK a Collection of Various Topics of Local and FORTY-FIFTH YEAR LOWELL, MICHIGAN, SEPTEMBER 23. I9.')7 No. 19 General Interest THE WOBBLY STOCK MABKET Needed Home Modernization New Beauty Shop rTHE STOCK MARKET is a tem- 5,000 More Trees 24 Duck Eggs Opens Here Monday peramental creature. Like Would Be Boon To Labor aome folks full of nerves, it varies Be Sure To Register from high elation to extreme de- A new and modernly equipp'd pression. At one moment it is step- To Be Planted in Kent County's 53.901 one and (cent cf Kent County's 61.200 fam- Five Years Ago, beauty shop will open here next ping high and conjuring up golden two-family houses offer a potential Hies own their homes and that Monday under the proprietorship visions of fat dividends. Not many market for $2,600,038 worth of non-farm dwellings, occupied by of Claudt Thome, well known local days may pass before it is down in modernization, according to a na- the owners, number 35,899 and have barber. Mr. Thorne recently com- the dumps. Municipal Forest tion-wide, county-by-county study, in average value of S5,077. 1,000 Ducks Now pleted a comprehensive course in The market during recent days For Lowell Day Plan based on government statistics. Other interesting data disclosed ail phases of cosmetology, gradua- had two startling breaks. Wall just completed. % telephones and 22? automobiles| ting from one of the state's best street compiains that the regula- The survey is part of an investi- per 1.000 people in the county. The known institutions. Ho has also tion on its stock exchange, requir- Trees Now In gation being conducted to deter-j national average Is 110 phones and Sanctuary Here passed the State examination, re- ing purchasers of securities on mine the amount of home modern-. 163 cars. In Michigan, Washtenaw ceiving high marks and has been New Community Enterprise margin to put up 50 per cent of the Show Fine Growth izatlon that is still needed and to'County has the most telephones per Given Approval officially licensed under the laws price in cash, makes it difficult to seek ways of stimulating activity In 1.000 people with 157 and Roscom- of Michigan. Mr. Thorne will he Starts Next Wednesday sustain prices when there is a this Important branch of the coun- mon County Is at the top of the assisted by two licensed opera- No one suspected that with the move to sell stocks. An additional 5,000 pine seedlings try's second laigest employer of automobile classification with 353. tors, Miss Esther Richardson and Many people watch the stock will be planted In the Lowell labor—the construction Industry. Keweenaw County is at the bottom placing of six ducks and three Miss Jewell Richardson. market too much. They study Its of the telephone list with less than drakes in the spillway below the Sponsored by the wide-awake J" municipal forest next spring. When The modernization quota Is based Mr. Thorne has recently com- Wluit—"LowHI Days." gyrations so attentively, that they on an estimated billion dollar mar- one telephone per 1,000 people and King feed mill outlet In 1932. a business and professional people of this has been accomplished it will pleted extensive improvements at When—Every Wednesday, be- forget to keep their eyes on their ket for the entire United States. Baraga County has the fewest cars flock of ducks, numbering nearly his shop and has installed the lat- Lowell, a bli; program of commun- make a total of 25.000 pine trees in ity enterprise gets under way here, glnniiiB Sept. 2». own work and business. Probably the plot. The Ledger understanJs It was also shown that 65 per per 1,000 people with 110. a thousand would be swimming est type of new equipment and on Wednesday. Sept. 29, when the Where—On the *treet<i of Low- If everyone would attend strictly to that the plan is to continue this around below the mill five years furnishings for carrying on beauty | first of a series of Lowell Days' ell. his own job for the next few weeks, work until approximately fifty later. The late Frank T. King se- culture work. Three new depart- will be held. The events will be What lime—At 2 o'eliick on the the stock market will recover its acres are covered with growing cured a couple of dozen wild mal- ments have been added to the shop, lard eggs at Grand Rapids In the held every Wednesday afternoon streets; lit t o'clock In the calm, and see the clouds breaking pine. Along Main St. the walls of which are attractive sponsor places. again. spring of 1932 and had them hatch- and restful. and provide many advantages for The planting of 20,000 pine seed- What to do—Keglster before Railroad Problems ed at the Foreman Hatchery. They those who are In Lowell each week, , lings on the property of the village The barber shop business will he the first day al any of the FIGHTING TO THE DEATH Opening day last Saturday at were then placed In the care of a Engineered by the Board of | at the pumping station half a mile conducted as formerly by Bernie sponsors. Haner's new location, 209 E, Main- workman at the mill and were Trade with all of the members ' IVTADAME Chiang-Kai-Shek, wife north of town, was started on April Bedell and an assistant with Mr. How nnieh does It cost—Abso- st., proved very successful. More large enough by fall to permit working hard during the past few of the head of the Chlnei* 9, 1930 as a memorial to the soldier Discussed Here Thorne personally active In both lutely nothing. than 200 souvenirs were given away their being placed In the spillway weeks to organize the program. government, has Issued a state- dead of the World War and as a branches of the business. Read the Who is eligible—Every person to visitors, including a card table below the feed mill. The ducks Lowell Days promise to be a big ment saying that her people are conservation project. At this site opening announcement on page In Ibis area over the age of nearly fifty high school students set, a set of dishes and a water were kept there for five years, be- attraction for all of the people resolved to fight to the death Roob H. Allie, traveling repre- three of this Issue. 16 years, except local business planted 10.000 trees, under the sentative of the Michigan Rail- pitcher and glass set. ing fed and protected from their within driving distance of Lowell. against the invasion of Japan. The All of the details may b learned and professional people and Chinese, though not well armed guidance of R. F. Kroodsma, ex- roads' Association, spoke Wednes- natural enemies. From the tiny their famlllps. tension forester at Michigan State When the fire siren sounds in flock, the ducks Increased to about at any of the places of business wlth_ modern fighting equipment, day noon before the Rotary Club The four o'clock hour—Promp- College: Ray Palmer, Kent County He was introduced by program Lowell next Wednesday at 4:00 p, five or six hundred which were sponsoring these events, who are and 'though they have been con- m., it may mean major honors to Wee Willie Wins identified with an insignia card tly at four o'clock, which Is sidered a submissive nation in- fcrester: K. K. Vinlng, county chairman, Fred H. Swarthout. H.s loosed this spring, being allowed to agent; G. D. Cook, graduate for- you i: ycu are in a Lowell business which will be displayed in their the exact time of the major clined toward pacifism, are show- taik dealt with the problems of m p nnd ov n FIa, River hut ester and Board of Trade member; the railroads and the methods they place at that time, if you are here ^_ _ i! . l ^ . .. Willie Wep- show windows. Names of all of part of the program, the fire ing a courage that arouses admira- at 2:00 p m. on that day you are being fed regularly to attract them siren will sound, which means and W. J. Smith, high school have sought for a solution. He man who 1 s f the sponsors are publshed in an tion. eligible to participate in minor £. |0 ,ho ni"1- that every registered person Smith-Hughes teacher. Dinner was spoke first of the injustices with coaching at Di- f advertisement in this issue of the . There have been many wars in honors. Early spring floods washed out must be in one of the spon- served by the Lowell Board of which the railroads were forced to mondale High Ledger which shows at a glance which the masses of the soldiers _ I the first nests but this did not dis- soring business or profess- Trade to the workers and the t-ees contend, in sp.te of which they c ur e ie school this year. who the sponsors are. did not seem to know or care much The indiscretion of a local hunter ® ®*» }^ ducks, they went ional places at that time in were planted in one day. were forging ahead with greatly a ieac ar ( about the Issues involved. In this in shooting one of the Mallard ' ' ) ' raised flock after flock his first year What Is IT? The next year another 10.000 trees improved passenger and freight order to he eligible to partici- war of the yellow races, the Chi- ducks from the flock on the river 'lucklings that attracted the nt- out of Central were planted under the same sys- services.