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THE WATERVLIET RECORD VOLUME 55 WATERVLIET, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1937 NUMBER 27 Pipestone Township TAX AliOTMENT WAS Centennial To Be BODY OF CHICAGO MAN WATERVLIET PAPER LEWIS BROTHERS BIG ESTABLISHED BY THE Held August 8th DR0WNED1NPAWPAW MILL EMPLOYEES TO By Buyers And Truckers THREE-RING CIRCUS MISS JEAN SMTTH AND Tribute Will be Paid to the Early LAKE JUNE 26,FOUND HAROLD RENNE PLIGHT Committee Waited on Officials at COMlNGHEREAUG.il COUNTY COHNISSION Pioneers at Shanghai With Im- • VOWS AT WATERVLIET PICNIC ON LABOR DAY Lansing—Effect of New Regula- pressive Program. tions is Felt on Fruit Market. A wedding of special interest to Body of Oscar Corteville Located County's Maximum Fixed at 4.2 The Pipestone township centen- Watervliet and Coloma people is With Labor Day only a month The big fruit market at Benton First Circus to Visit Watervliet in Mills, Sllfht Hike Over Last nial celebration will be held at Late Tuesday Near Newton Re- that of Miss Jean Edith Smith, of away, the Watervliet Paper Com- Harbor has this week felt the effect Many Years. "Bigger and Better" Coloma, and Harold Smith Renne, Year's. Shanghai on Sunday, August 8th, sort. pany is now making plans for a big of the new regulations of the public Is Slogan of Show Company. when tribute will be paid to the of Watervliet, which occurs at 8 picnic for Its employees on that date, utilities of Michigan regarding early pioneers and the hardy men o'clock Thursday evening, August 5, which is Monday, September 6. trucks for hire and on Monday the and women who came later and After being in the waters of Paw at the Watervliet Methodist Epis- Louie J. Scheid has been named truckers and buyers went on a Berrien county's maximum tax cleared the land and made their Paw Lake for over six weeks the copal church. chairman of the general committee strike, refusing to purchase any of Advance agents of the Lewis Bros, three-ring circus were in the city limit under the 15-mile limitation homes in Pipestone township. Old body of Oscar Corteville, 27, of 6040 The ceremony Is being performed to arrange for the affair and with the produce offered until late in the Monday billing the town for the big statute was set at 4.2 mills per one friends will be greeted and reminis- Blackstonc avenue, Chicago, was by Dr. Frank B. Bachelor, of Kala- other commlttes at work a program afternoon, creating one of the worst attraction that is coming this way on dollar of valuation by the Berrien censcs exchanged in the forenoon located late Tuesday afternoon float- mazoo College, and it will be wit- will be worked out that will be of traffic jams that the market has Wednesday of next week. August 11. county tax commission, which con- and in the afternoon a program will ing on the top of the water near the nessed by the immediate families of interest to the large number of em- seen this season. Late in the after- cluded its hearing of objections from be given telling the story of the Newton resort, on the northwest the young couple, other relatives ployees at the plant. noon a truce was reached and the A circus, the like of which has never townships, the county, villages and and close friends. Miss Ruth Sin- yet been shown here, will put on an settlement and growth of Pipestone side of the lake. While plans are Immature at pres- buying began, and on Tuesday the school districts as to the amounts clair, of Climax, a college roommate exhibition at the athletic field both township and the village of Shang- ent, it is decided that a basket din- market was again operated as usual. allocated them for the coming year. Sighted by Fisherman of the bride, is maid of honor; Mrs. afternoon and evening on that date, hai. Quartettes, solos and sketches ner will be arranged and that the Helen McKean, Watervliet, matron Committee Visited Lansing and the circus-minded public will The county's rate last year was will aid the narrator in depicting Olgy Talbot, of Benton Harbor, was picnic will be "bigger and better" of honor; Gale Patterson, Watervliet, On Tuesday morning a committee be given a real treat in a two-hour 3.5 mills. This year's increase was to the history. A public address sys- fishing from a boat near the spot, than last year. There will be a best man, and ushers arc Willard went to Lansing for an Interview performance that will be put on at take care of increased expenses for tem will enable everyone to hear and sighted the floating body, which sports program In the afternoon and debt service on road bonds and the the program. Everyone is expected he reported ashore. It was badly de- Renne, of Parchment, brother of the with the utilities commission, seek- 2 In the afternoon and again at 8 in groom, Eugene McKean of Water- in the evening a dance, of course, at the evening." recently completed infirmary im- to bring his or her own lunch. Coffee composed. Woodward's pavilion. ing a solution of the problem. provements at Berrien Center. may be obtained on the grounds and Sheriff Charles L. Miller and Dep- vliet and Robert Robbins of Benton Those who presented the case for There are daring aerialists and There was some question as to The St. Joseph city schools were tables and chairs will be furnished. uty Leslie Speese assisted with its Harbor. Following the wedding the fruit belt were Rep. Dean Mor- acrobats that will stage some thrilling A large collection of antiques wil' removal from the lake to the Esal- ceremony a reception for the family just where this year's picnic would ley. of New Troy; Secretary of State feats. There will be wild and do- allowed a 10 mill rate, and Benton be held, but it now seems assured Harbor 6.5 mills. be displayed and anyone having horst mortuary, Benton Harbor, and close friends will be given at Leon D. Case, Rep. W. P. B. Jarvis mestic animals presented In sensa- the Hartford House. After a that Woodward's, at the west end tional acts, showing training to per- The higher rate for St. Joseph was anything belonging to pioneers is and burial was made In Crystal (all of whom were in Lansing); urged to bring them so that others Springs cemetery Wednesday after- short honeymoon trip, Mr. and Mrs. of Paw Paw Lake, is the ideal spot Erich L. Kerlikowske. Coloma fruil fection. Lions will appear In a attributed to the school building for this annual get-together. program there. may enjoy this bit of history. noon. Renne will reside north of Coloma. grower and nurseryman; James J. steel arena, there will bo elephants, At the close of the program at the Mr. Corteville was drowned on Relatives frbm out of town who Jakway, Benton township fruit dogs and clowns, oodles of them. Niles was given four mills and school house, a three and one-half the afternoon of June 26, when he are here to attend the wedding are 18th Annual Reunion grower; R. B. Coilis, Benton Harbor Ponies, too. with clever riders. Tom Buchanan received 3.5 mills. ton boulder will be unveiled by a and his family and other relatives Mr. and Mrs. Albert M. Coombs, of commissioner; Market Master R. D. Cooper, famous western movie star, Watervliet, the fifth city in the descendant of the first white child came to Woodward's resort for a Cincinnati, Ohio, and Mr. and Mrs. Of Watervliet Forty Krieger; M. F. Allred, truck opera- and a riding wonder, will be there county, drew no mill rate proper for born in Pipestone. The boulder will picnic. While waiting for dinner to H. G. Williams, of Milwaukee, Wis., tor; and Joe E. Wells, of The News- astride his S20.000 beauty, "Storm its schools, such as the other cities be played in the Shanghai cemetery be prepared, the young man donned relatives of the bride, and Mrs. Year Club August 11 Palladium. King," to perform in some of his received, since its schools must pro- over the grave of the first pioneer. his bathing suit and started out in a Florence Blackman, of Berea, Ohio, After the hearing the commission most thrilling feats. Lewis Bros, vide for most of the children at- an aunt of the groom. circus is classed as presenting some A bronze box made by El^worth boat for a dip In the lake. About 40 The 18th annual reunion of the ruled that fruit haulers going to tending from Watervliet township. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Lake to preserve the historic records minutes later, when he failed to re- Watervliet Forty Year Club will be Benton Harbor for produce will not of the best horse acts In circusdom. Villages will be allowed 0.10 of a of the township will be placed un- Mrs. Roger B. Smith, of Coloma, turn to shore, his relatives became held Wednesday, August 11, at the be forced to take out Michigan pub- Kiddies Get Your Courtesy Tickets mill if they require it. and graduated from Thornton high der the boulder which is erected by alarmed and instituted a search. high school auditorium. This or- lic utility plates, and local haulers school at Harvey, Illinois, in 1933, This newspaper has made ar- Sodus is the only one of the 22 Harvey Franz and Victor Ferguson. The empty boat with the man's ganization was formed 18 years ago operating to distant points with Ber- and from Kalamazoo College last rangements with local merchants to townships in Berrien county this wrist watch on the seat was found and is composed of ladies who at- rien and Van Buren county products spring.