Cass City C Hronicle I Volume 24, No
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/' >. CASS CITY C HRONICLE I VOLUME 24, NO. 3. CASS CITY, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1929. EIGHT PAGES. ~ ..... I munity Owes the Child," Dr. C. Hed- scholars. The littl e tots sat on seats ger. Structure Erected by Pioneers Ends in fr°nt °f the desks with their little ] C~S~ CITY THIRD IN ,ALBERTROHRBtCH It is to be regretted that it is im- BUILDINIIREACH[S END bare feet dangling back and forth. ] possible to make this an open meet- Its Usefulness as Municipal Building ing, but lack of facilities for accom- aBna~<fft~eheodt¢:f swf: o~ blackboard:] DISTRICT eONT[ST HIS LIF[ {moda~ir, g ~he grou~s makes ~his ~m- OF P!JB[! S[RV!C[ I possible. There are 17 groups taking 4iiiiii dinner baskets. A 'tenplate' stove iiiil;!! the work with approximately 250 completed the furniture of the room. In Fit of Bitterness, Inhaled members. Each group member is al- Early "S~h0olh0use ~ Used for "Never was monarch prouder of his Shorthand and Typewriting lowed one guest Those outside regu- realm, than was the young girl who Students Participated at Illuminating Gas at Flint lar groups, wishing to attend, should M~y Purposes in\ Cass City Friday. see Co. Agr'l Agent D, B. Jewell, so Since 1870. there began the responsible task of Midland Saturday. ] training young ideas; and never whre that it mightbe possible to make subjects more faithful, devoted or do- special arrangements. In a fit of bitterness toward his The building which has housed the cile than the band of children, ranging Competing with several larger wife, who had caused his arrest on council rooms and fire department in age from three to fourteen years, high schools, students• of Cass City a charge of assault and battery, Al- CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR for many years has been sold by the who came to school day after day all went to Midland Saturday to partici- bert Rohrbach committed suicide in SOCIETY ELECTED OFFICERS village council and is being separated that summer, pate in the district shorthand and a rented room by inhaling illumiaat- and moved to different points in Cass "In those days we had no county typewriting contests. Cass City superintendent of schools. The trus- placed third. ing gas Friday at Flint. The Christian Endeavor met City. The council room part will be tees in each district examined teach- . In the district comprising 13 couri- Albert Rohrbach, son of George Wednesday evening at the Presbyteri- placed on the residence lot of Albert ers, granted certificates and made con- ties, eight high schools entered con- Rohrbach of Cass City, was born an church for a business and social Creguer on Oak street where it will tracts with the teachers for each term testants. Midland schools placed first July 16, 1899, in Ontario. He came meeting. During the business meeting serve as a garage. The front part of school. I think the trustees in with a total of 48 points; Arthur to Cass City with his parents when the following officers were elected: used for a fire hall will be moved, to Elkland in 1864 were Levi Alwood, Hill, Saginaw, second place with 19 a boy, living" here until about five President, Miss Blanch Stafford; vice a vacant lot south of the R. D. Keat- Mr. Walmsley and Mr. Striffier. My points; Cass City, third, with 14 years ago, when he went to Flint. president, Miss Bernita Taylor; secre- ing residence. Mr. Keating, B station salary was $3.50 per week. I boarded points; Caro, fourth, with 13; Pin- He was married to Miss Alice tary, Miss Evelyn Robinson; treasur- : agent of the Standard Oil Co., ex- Louise Griffin August 27, 1925. To er, Miss Elizabeth Seed. Games were pects to use the building as a store- Turn to page five. conning, fifth, with 6; Sebewaing and this union one son, Clifford, was played and refreshments were served. house for Standard Oil products. Tawas City, tying for sixth place, born. Back in 1870, the part of the build- Funeral services were held Mon- ing with the cupola shown in the ac- Cass City students placed in the period, the visitors added several day at the funeral home of William companying picture was built as a three events in which they were en- scores and the contest appeared any- PASSlN OF KINOSTON Loss at Flint and the body brought schoolhouse on Seeger street, on the tered, securing second and third in one's game the last few minutes of to Cass City for burial in Elkland THE W[E[ IN THE site now occupied by the residence of ,~,,,,,e~,,,~.U,,,U|,|,,,,WN~,~PI0N[[~ first year shorthand, third and fifth play. Cass City won with a 15-14 cer~aetery. Rev. Douglas of Flint of- ~0NV[~I011 H[~[ Robert Ajar, sr., or thereabouts. in first year typewriting and third in ficiated. [ SCOre. Miss Paulina McKenney and Miss team typewriting. Miss Grace Beach Members of Cass City's first team He leaves besides his wife and' Alice Tanner were among the first is their instructor in the commercial were James Lewis, H. Wo Holmes, STATE [[OI;LTUR[ son, Clifford, two years otd, his fa- teachers. Later an addition was built Mrs. Caroline Leek King Came department of the local schools. Frederick Pinney, Ben Benkelman, C. ther, George Rohrbach, of Cass Winners of first and second places M. Wallace and Frank Haven. to the north. Here the boys and City, one brother, Emanuel of Caro Rehgmus Workers of Tuscola A Resume of the Matters Which girls of the "seventies" and early to Tuscola County in any event are entitled to certifi- A very small audience witnessed in 1880. cares and to entrance in the state and one sister, Mrs. Melzer Thane of t Met{ May 8 for an All-day the contests. Are Claiming Attention "eighties" studied hard acquiring a Reese. knowledge of the three R's. Among contest at Kalamazoo May 18. A cer- t = Conference. of Solons. these, older residents will recognize tificate has been received here for LAST P. T. A. MEET OF the names of Charles Travis, John, Mrs. Caroline King passed away at presentation to Lucite Knight, who TAKES MOTOR TRIP TO Tiltie, Adeline and Louisa Krapf, Ma- the home of her daughter, Mrs. placed second in first year shorthand. The annual convention of the Tus- Michigan Press Association. YEAR NEXT MONDAY ry Mahoney, Andrew, George, Wil- Frank Hutchinson, on Tuesday morn- Winners in the events were: CANADA ~am AGE OF 96 cola County Council of Religious Ed- Lansing Bureau, liam and Chas. Seed, Mamie and Hat- ing, April 30, after several months' First year typewriting 1st, Elsa ucatibn will be held at the Evangeli- April 26, 1929. tie Feutehwanger, Jessie and Frank illness. Funeral services were held Mast, Pineonning; 2nd, Elvera Ka- cal church at Cass City on Wednes- The last Parent Teachers' Associa- Mr. and Mrs. A. Mathews and May 10 is being insisted upon as Doying, Emma and Samuel Lenzner, at the M. E. church at Cass City sischke, Tawas City; 3rd, Reeva day, May 8. tion meeting of the year will be held daughter, Miss Mary, of Windsor, the final day of the present session Eri Doming, Chas. Nash, Paulina, So- Thursdayafternoon, conducted by Freiburger, Cass City; 4th, Hannah The first session opens at 9:30 with Monday evening, May 6, at the high Ontario, and Newman Haywood of and all hands are on deck trying to phia, Emma, Lydia and Theopholis Rev. Geo. Hill, the pastor. Interment Menzel, Sebewaing; 5th, Evelyn Ra- registration of delegates. Rev. C. F. school. Mrs. A. A. Ricker will give a Detroit visited last week at the homes swab things up and get the most im- Ahr, Minnie Laing, Rosa Seeger, Til- was made in Novesta cemetery. The duschel, Cass City. Smith, pastor of the church, will con- report of the state P. T. A. conven- of Mr. Mathews' sisters, Mrs. Eunice portant work out of the way before da Muntz, Sarah Dixon, George, Leek Ladies' Aid attended the funeral Advanced first year typewriting~ duct the worship which will be fol- tion held at Lansing April 18 and 19. Crafts and Mrs. Mat Parker. Their the old ship of state makes port. Archie and Carrie Hiteheock, Hannah in a body. t st, Mabel Sugnet, Midland; 2nd, lowed by the appointment the find- An address will be given by Miss mother, Mrs. Susan Mathews, accom- of Committees almost without exception and Ella Fox, Etta and Angeline A1- Caroline Teeples was born Nov. 20, Marjorie Babebck, Caro; 3rd, Ella ings committee. At 10:20, four 15- Pearl Turner of Lansing. Miss Turner panied her son to his home in Canada are committing wads of bills to dark' vers, Ada Armstrong, Kitty MeLarty, 1851, at Tyrone, Livingston County, Zimmerman, Midland; 4th, Eleanor minute addresses on "Needs and is a member of the lecture staff of to spend some time and to visit an- crypts in the legislative mausoleum Alex, Anna and Minnie Bottsford, Michigan. On Nov. 20, 1872, she was ~erzberg, Saginaw; 5th, Dorothy Conditions as We See Them" will be the Bureau of Education of Michigan other son, Dan Mathews, who suf- and are reporting out only bills of Tillie Miller, Henry Colbourn, John married to Eli Leek of Highland and Baxter, Saginaw. given by T. M. Clay, superintendent Department of Health. Her subject fered a stroke a few weeks ago. major importance, so that many pet Henry Waldon, Byron Sherwood, made their home in Oakland County Advanced second year typewriting of the Vassar Schools, Dr.