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) .... • Q /i' CaSS CITY CHR ONICL,E. ' ..... -- .......... .2 .... ' : i77 " t-- ........... ....... ITHUMB BOYS ARRIVE business block on the site, though they 10p ~ I Directing machinery f°r ~n ''°wn ~our own home'" campaign should be do not at/present anticipate commen- HOME FROM OVERSEAS a general committee of representative cing building operations until next citizens with the mayor or some one spring. The following soldier boys from y LOAN wh° c°uld represent him as chairman" Thumb counties arrived at New York The committee should be made up of from overseas within the past week: PAS[O NAY BOYS AND GIRLS INTER- men and women who enjoy the confi- Corp. J. C. Anthes, Cass City. i ESTED IN CLUB WORK dence of the community. The commit- Srg~. Chas. Donnelly, Cuss City. CITIZENS OF THIS TOWNSHIP tee should at 0nee begin a drive to get GAGETOWN, OWENDALE, PIG- Joseph B. Theaker, Bad Axe. W. D. RIGGS, BELOVED EDUCA- Eldred Charles, County Y. M. C. A. corporations and individuals to build EON AND CASEVILLE CITI- Donald L. Davidson, Cros;~ell. SUBSCRIBE QUOTA IN - TOR, GAVE VERY SATISFAC- secretary, informs the Chronicle that homes. During the war committees Sidney D. Peter, Ubiy THREE I)AYS. ZENS PRESENT CLAIMS. TORY SERVICE HERE. he has been asked to take charge of have been educated in ways in prose- Elmer W. ~eck, Pigeon. the Boys and Girls Club Work in Tus- Curing the so-called drives. It is easy ~heank Holshoe, Owendale. cola county. This dub work will be to profit by the experience of the Lib- Secure Approval of Legislative Com- A~q~old C. Emting, Ruth. F~neral Service Held Wednesday in addition to his regular "Y" pro- Tuscola Co. Has 62 per cent of Quota erty Loan, Red Cross, war chest or Le~tie Do Ford, Care. other Campaigns. In some cases these mittee to Extend Branch Afternoon; Interment Made gram. Any group of boys and girls Subscribed; Four TownsMps Rolston ~. Wylie, Fairgrove. interested in pig, sheep, calf, rabbit, same organization~ can be utilized in to Caseville. Scott Falconer, Brown City. at Detroit "Over the Top." 'the home owning and building cam- potato, corn or other dub project who > Myrte Mahanna, Carsonville. would like to be organized at once for paigns. Roland H. Starr, Shover. business, can have the service and When the Earle Memorial Highway Thomas Meyer, Hai'bor Beach. Tuscola county citizens had 62 per Cass City citizens were pained to was laid out and the plans approved Chas. R. Bowles, Care. help of the county secretary. cent of her $750,000 quota subscribed hear of the death of W. D. Riggs, su- Club work of this kind gives the by the committee, Gagetown, Owen- Leon H. Workman, Vassar. yesterday afternoon and Elkland, Den- LETTEB FRON THE tmrintendent of the public schools, at very best possible ~raining to all boys dale, Pigeon and Casev~lle citizens Gee. V. Nosine, Carsonville. mark, Columbia and Fremont town- his residence on Main St. west Mon- and girls interested in the above saw at once they were missing" a good Claude House, Branch. ships had their quotas oversubscribed CAPITOL North day evening. He had been seriously ill projects. Already several clubs are STATE thing and they held a hurried con- Pierre D. Medcatf, Care. early in the week. Other townships for many weeks, but of late had been lunder way in. the county and of course ference and determined to use their containing villages had about 80 per best effm~s to secure an extension of some better and big many friends ithe first come are the first served. Both Hou,~es Grinding through the hoped for his ultimate recovery. cent of their quotas subscribed, but the Case City branch to reach their I MOTS[~ STO~K [}FFERI~ Waiter D. Riggs was born in Ing- strictly rural townships were not so Usual Mass of Bills as Ses- towns. ham county, Michigan, on Nov. 28, fortunate as farmers are unusually sion Ends. Jos. Rankin and Paul Woodwo~h, ~H~_~ 1868, and on Jan. I1. 1894, was united busy and severat had not taken the beth of Bad Axe, Henry Waterworth marriage with Nan C~. at tirae to respond on the volunteer days. of Chandler township, Dr. Wurm and in Sweet By William Lee Calnon. WilIiamston, ~ich. Mr. Riggs was a Etkland township even surpassed John Campbell of Pigeon and J. L. graduate of both the Michi- the excellent record she had made in --Lansing. Mich. Purdy of Gagetown were named as Michigan SecurHies Commissio~ Say~ g-an Stage Normal College and the previous campaigns and went "over The closing days of the 1919 reg- deled:ares to go to Lansing Dealers Are Not Registered Here University of Michigan. ~fhe former That !s th:ei Approxiraate increase the top" in the thre6 volunteer days. ular session of the Michigan legis- and present their proposition to the under Blue Sky Law. K;anted him a life certificate in 1899 Per One Thousand Dof Early Wednesday evening', the town- lature find both houses grinding authorities at the state capital. "We ship war board announced that Elk- seem'ed the approval of theroad and and degree of Bachelor of Pedagogy lar Valuation. through the usual mass of bills ac- ia 1902. The Iatter granted him the 1and was $2,500 over her quota of cumulated by the process of each bridge committee of the legislature to In the Chronicle's issue of April i1, $45,000. Several citizens, realizing the house holding back the bills of the extend the Cuss City branch to reach an advm~isement was printed, offering` excellent investment which the Victo- the four villages," J. L. Purdy, the must be prepared to face other. The last qix or seven days of for sate an unnamed motor truck Michig~an ry Loan bonds represented, oversub- Gagetown banker, informed the ~n increase of som.e $6,000,000 in the the session always see as many bills stock at so-called "opportunity pri- i scribed ~heir individual quotas and finally adopted as the entire previous Chronicle~ "This extension was em- ces." The stock was offered by Tor- state budget for 1919 ~md 1920. De- I,consider themselves fortunate to pos- bodied in the original highway bill. tailed figures on the total of appropri- portion of the session. roy & Co., Inc., New York Stock bro- i sess these securities. The campaign Drain bills came to the fore in the Commencing at Case City, the Earle kers, and the adve~+tisement was ations to be spread upon the tax at- '.is by no means over in the toivnshi~ house in the closing days, after long Memorial highway is continued to the placed with the Chronicle by a reputa- ready passed by the legislature and and "it is the, aim of the board to place delay in committee. They were mess. west three miles to the town line, [~)le advertising agency who assured those probable of passage indicate [Victory Loan bonds in the possession thence north to Gage.~own, and again ures that had been prepared on the l the newspapers with whom the adver-. that somewhere between $24,000,000 l of all citizens who are financially abte north to within ~ mile of both Owen- recmnmendation of a comm~ssma t tisi~)g was placed that the proposition and $25,000,000 will be needed during: to purchase them as it is a patriotic dale and Pigeon and thence to Case- ensuing years care which Gov. Sleeper had investigate /was a firs~ elass and legitimate one. the two to for the duty to subscribe. Local banks are ville." expenses of state. It means an in- the drain situation in the state. Farm- The Michigan Securities Commis- !:uthorized to take subseriotions and TMs addition to the Earle highway sion has investigated the proposition creased tax of about 50 cents on each er members of the house objected to is pleasing- news to this community as all who have not already done so are and t;he unnamed stock turned out to $i,000 valuation. The tax last year aske.i to take their ~uotas within the the biJts, principally because of a it places Cass City on this splendid for state purposes was about $3 per provision that drain could be ordered ~,highway connecting it with the four be that of the Fulton i~otor Truck Co. next week. A member of the war of ~sland, which, manufac- $1,o00. on petition of ten per cent of the ~villages to the north as well as the Long while board has suggested that the names turing an apparently successful me-- In the face of war conditiofis, war of those who fail to subscribe their ~roperty holders affected, instead of i main line of the highway on the east. prices, scarcity and high cost of la- tot truck, has an unenviable reputa- quotas be published as a reminder for fifty per cent. as now. ~As now planned, the highway will run tion in New York's stock market cir- bor, the exi~ences of the prohibition them to fulfitI their duty; Supporters of the drain bills con-~across the entire township of Etkland. situation, Michi~'an's obligations alon~" tended thai: some legislation had' cles. ,~loanen~ of Subsc~ptions. such the line of war relief and the wave of to be enacted in order that hundreds This :~tock is nov approved by this public sentiment for drastic improve- The Treasury department has an- of thousands of dollars of federal aid CAPT. 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