1 NUMBER 31 BUCHANAN, MICHIGAN THURSDAY, JULY 30,1936. SIXTY-SEVENTH YEAR ___BUCHANAN : ■ ■■ HAS• MILUON-DOLLAR: ; :—• — — 4; : : : BANK —— Eight Have Narrow Escape as Truck Crushes Car in Freak Mishap Local Bank Has ncrease Kermit Washburn Butts Farm Barn Baby Thrown 40 Start Work On Sewage Plant “Red” Morelock Total Resources Are Tripled Now H ere’s At State College Destroyed by Fire In Two Years Since , the Feet ^ Is Unhurt New Well Today Must Come Here Fatally Shot Local Opening Kermit V. Washburn, Buchanan, ■ Truck Passes Over Two Fire believed to nave started Proposition is attending sessions on the cam­ A. D. Cook, Lawrence, Ind., Is from spontaneous combustion de­ Engineer Says Local Plant Clarence Coleman Shoots In- > A comparative statement show­ Children Thrown on pus at Michigan State College, Low Bidder W ith $3,395 stroyed the barn at the Butts truder When He Returns ing the growth of resources Of the East Lansing, of the 17 th annual Will Be Required When Pavement farm on the Walton Road three and Finds Him in Galien-Buchanan State Bank in summer session conference for Larger Cities Clean Up Murray’s Snow Report Contract was let to A. D. Cook, miles northeast of Buchanan, last the past five, years and especially - teachers of vocational agriculture. His Home Lawrence, Ind., for the installation Wednesday night, 55 ton of alfalfa since the moving of the main bank (News Note: Murray B. Van A carload of berry pickers The 11 day program sponsored by of trie new city well and pumping hay, a corn planter and other The right o f Buchanan to in­ to Buchanan July 18, 1934, reveals • Wagoner,' state highway commis­ driven by Aaron Anderson and the Michigan State Department of Charles (Red) Morelock, 26, was station at the corner of Smith farm equipment being destroyed stall a complete sanitary sewer a remarkable growth of resources sioner, announces that the total consisting of three men, five child­ Public Instruction and the educa­ shot and instantly killed at 11:15 street and Liberty Avenue at a with the building. without also installing a disposal and also an excellent condition. cost of snow removal on the trunk ren and one 10-months-old baby tion department at Michigan State Tuesday evening toy Clarence Cole­ special meeting of the city com­ The Buchanan fire department plant is conditional entirely on the Total resources of the bank July line system last winter to be $1,- all had miraculous escapes from College under the direction of Dr, man, local business man, who had mission Friday evening, the Law­ went to the farm with the chemi­ fact that the stream is already 22, 1934, four days after opening , 145,583.80.) death or serious injury Monday E. L. Austin, will he concluded returned from a stag fish fry and rence, firm submitting a bid cal truck and Was credited by Dr. polluted by the larger towns up here, were $311,833.80. On the evening when the car in which July 31. Instruction methods, con­ Butts with saving the home and found Morelock in his home with same date of the succeeding year - When mercuries go upon a lark they were riding was run down servation, forestry, e v e n i n g of $3,395, which was $180 lower the St. Joseph river, and the local his wife. And vault above the century mark than the nearest bidder. a com crib adjacent to the barn community will be obliged to com­ the resources totalled $634,910.94.'” - and crushed by a large Interna­ schools, farm management, farm which had already ignited when Coleman had gone to a fish fry On July 22 of 1936 the total was t- It helps a little, Murray,—thanks- crops, soils animal husbandry, The work on installation was ply with state regulations on tional semi-trailer truck loaded they arrived. The house stood only at the home of Ernest Young $1,006,271.79. • > To think of snow in drifted banks. with thirteen tons of steel. farm machinery, poultry and scheduled to begin today with A stream pollution as soon as action near the power plant earlier in the It satisfies our souls to know, L. Cox of South Bend in charge. about 60 feet from the bam, the against these larger towns now Total deposits of July 22, 1936 The accident occurred on M-GO special skills are included in the heat from the flames blistering evening, accompanying a party of Though hot, it is not always so The building housing the station under consideration is completed, Were $933,867.34 and total cash on '•’ just east of the Ralph Sebasty program. the paint. The firemen were aided friends, including Merle Wideman, hand or due from other banks wa3 - For if it busted zero then lane at 7:10 p. m. Aaron Anderson will be of brick 10x10 feet in di­ according to Charles Coie of the Charles Babcock, Charles Miller Some day it may be cool again. mension with concrete foundatiqp. by the fact that, a light wind was engineering firm of Cole, Moore & $327,757.36. This indicates that the and his crew o f young people had blowing from the south, carrying and Jerome Sebasty. At about 11 It hath a solace cool and sweet and basement, concrete roof and Geupel, in & talk before the Lions bank is ip. far more liquid* condi­ been picking berries at the. Ray the flames, away from the house. p. m. he excused himself by saying tion than the Buchanan banks To think of snow piled 14 feet, with steel doors and windows. A club, Wednesday evening. Frame aiid Ralph Sebasty farms It was necessary to watch the fire that he had to go back and take were at the close of the'boom year " When snow plow men were busting and had started home. Anderson 0. H. C. C. Trims fully automatic- deep well pump This corroborates letters receiv­ his Wife home from the theatre. gears will be installed, the depth of the all night to protect the other ed by the Record from the State and in the opening years of the said that he had driven out on buildings. According to a statement made depression. Cashier Ewing stated While bucking drifts up to-their well to supply sufficient water at Stream Control commission, stat­ M-60 and had gone several hun­ Klinger Lake The fire was discovered about .by Coleman to Chief of Police Mit­ that banks had been obliged1 to ac- _ 4 ■ ears. this place is estimated at 100 feet. ing that as soon as information dred feet, acquiring a momentum 7:15 p. m., when the flames were chell he had suspicioned More- quire a liquid condition during the Though it wore out a thousand An attendant- will not be required. was complete on amount and of about 30 miles an hour, when already bursting from the roof. ioclc for several months and be­ depression, in order to meet any trucks Elimination Flight in Fall The seven bids submitted were all sources' of stream, pollution, it is the truck came up traveling rapid­ Employees rushed to the building lieved that he would toe at his cash demands. The results of this _ • And cost above a million bucks— well under the engineer’s estimate likely that legal action will be ly and struck their car squarely Handicap Tournament and got nine dairy cows out with (Coleman’s) home that evening. necessity are reflected in the con-” Who worries now o’er waste of of $4,100. taken by Michigan to force the in the rear. The car, Studebaker considerable difficulty. The loss is He parked his ear on Chicago dition of practically all .banks now ” pelf, Continues Indiana cities to cease pollution of fordor Sedan, was shoved along estimated at $3,000, covered by in­ street opposite the Miller Lumber opened. Cashier Ewing stated that •» Migosh, I’d give that much myself! the road in front of the truck for the St. Joseph River within the yard and walked to his home on The Elimination flight in the surance. the local hank is getting its bus­ So, Murray* I do hot berate a distance and then hurled to the latter state. A member of the Sylvan Ave., approaching a side, Annual Fall Handicap Tournament iness from over a wide area, hav­ That your report Is six months side of the highway, facing in the Indiana conservation department window and turning a flash light at Orchard Hills Country Club, the ing very satisfactory deposits late, opposite direction and partly turn­ Dry-Zero Gets who spoke before a meeting of the through it. Seeing Morelock stand­ time limit for the playing of from Berrien Springs, Niles, Ga- Last spring I might have raised ed over. Four o f the children had Berrien County Sportsman’s club ing inside, he rushed to both the which ended with the close of lien, Three Oaks, New Buffalo and ’ a row, been thrown out of the car on the in ■ Buchanan last spring stated front and the rear doors hut found play Sunday, resulted in Zellers Lease on Bldg. Berrien Farmers from New Carlisle, Ind. ■. ■ But it is Oh, so timely now! pavement, the truck passing over that Indiana had an airtight law them both locked. defeating Stevens, Zimmer won by The’fine showing of the bank is two of them without the wheels forbiddig such pollution but that it He then returned to the front lot from King, Coles won by For­ Contract Let For Railway- due not only to excellent manage- ’ touching: them.