Monroe County Oral History Index BUSINESSES - L-Z La Hood’s Beauty School: Waddell 12 La Mour Printing: Rye 1 Laboe Fishery: Waddell 16 Lakeside: Munson II 9 Lamour Printing: Waddell 7 Lamour's Printing: Binns 4 Lamson’s Department Store: Baker 4 Langs Jewelry: Waddell 6 LaSalles: Rauch 11 LaTress Beauty Shop: Waddell 13 Lauders Grocery: Waddell 6 Lauer’s Store: Manausso 6 Lauer’s Store: McWebb 41 Lauer’s: Boos 6 Lauers Department Store: Gutman 32 Lauers Dept. Store: Waddell 6 Lauers Grocery: Boes 7 Lauer's Saloon: Boes 5 Lauers: Conlisk 15 Lauers: McWebb 7 Laurer’s Store: Stoner 3 Lauwer's Clothing: Boes 5 Lauwers Variety Store: Holcomb 7 La-Z -Boy: Waddell 13 La-Z-Boy Chair Co.: Shoemaker 4 La-Z-Boy Chair Company: Meyer 8 La-Z-Boy Chair Company: Savage 9 La-Z-Boy Chair: Metz 3 La-Z-Boy Manufacturing Company: Smith 34 La-Z-Boy: Cousino 7 La-Z-Boy: Jones 8 La-Z-Boy: Morris 4 La-Z-Boy: Rossi 14 La-Z-Boy: Sefcik 22 La-Z-Boy: Waddell 14 La-Z-Boy:Mignano 6 Lazette Fishery: Waddell 16 Le’Fever’s Dance Studio: Bonifacio 11 Leak Stamping: Waddell 10 Leckler Shoe Store: Elmer 9 Lee Stamping Co.: Strimpel 5, 8 Lee’s Barber Shop: Gillespie 9 Lee’s Store: Yoas 9 Lepel’s Cidermill: Bashaw 2 Libbey Owens Ford: Harbaugh 6 Libbey Owens Glass: Kreps 6 Lion Store: Bernitt 7 Little Gem: Eber 13 Loftenbiez Clothing: Boos 6 Loose Store: French 3, 4 Loranger Mill: Bert 13 Lotus Flour: Boos 15 Lotus Hotel: Bert 7 Lotus Hotel: Champagne 2 Lotus Hotel: Eber 7 Lotus Hotel: McWebb 29, 53 Lotus Hotel: Minney 11 Lotus Hotel: Munson (3) 3 Lotus Hotel: Rye 3 Lotus Hotel: Willets 7 Lotus: Munson III 3 Louie’s Barbershop: Boos 12 Louis Shoe Store: Boes 4 Lowery’s Clothing Store: Koppelman 9 Luce Novelty Shop: Bert 3 Luft & Eaton Clothing: Bonifacio 3 Luftner Store: Gertz 1 Lumber mills – Dundee: Meyer, Cli. 5 Lutheran Old Folks Home Assoc.: Deinzer 1 Lyon-Clark’s Grocery: Boos 5 Maeco: Poupard, B. 8 Malones: Binns 11 Mann (Hat Store): McWebb7 Manns Music House: Gutman 41 Marathon Oil Company: Knaggs 12 Martin Shoe Store: Cloum 1 Martin Shoe Store: Savage 8 Martin’s Shoe House: Boos 6 Martin’s Shoe Store: Gutman 27 Martins Shoe Store: Stocking 7 Martins Shoe Store: Vuich 7 Martins: Gutman 26 Martins: Rossi 12 McGrauphlin Variety Store: Holcomb 6 McLachlin State Bank: Koppelman 4 McMillin Print Shop: Bert 3 Meadowbrook Farm Dairy: Young 1 Meier’s Bookstore: Gutman 38 Meiers: Waddell 6 Meijer’s: Masserant 7 Meijers: Kennedy 6 Meinsinger’s: Chapman Jr. 8 Meirers Bookstore: Gutman 26 Meizinger Furniture Shop: Bernitta 7 Melonako’s Drugs: Boos 9 Mercy Hospital: Binns 2 Mercy Hospital: Cousino 5 Mercy Hospital: Cusumano 6 Mercy Hospital: Dise 6 Mercy Hospital: Kaper 14 Mercy Hospital: Minney 3 Merle Norman Shop: Imo 12 Merls Gas Station: Knaggs 15 Mertz Drugstore: Gutman 5, 26 Messina Concrete: Noble 13 Meyer: Doty 4 Meyer: Gutman 37 Meyer’s Bookstore: Boos 6 Meyer’s Bookstore: Seitz 3 Meyer’s Greenhouse: Strimpel 8 Meyers: Kocsis 9 Michigan Bell Telephone Co.: Berns 5 Michigan Bell: Eber 14 Michigan Bell: Folk, L 2 Michigan Bell: Kennedy 1 Michigan Chair Co. of Grand Rapids, Mich.: Shoemaker 4 Michigan Gas Co.: Willets 3 Michigan Motor Freight Yellow Transit: Burkett 6 Michigan Steel: Covington 11 Michigan Telephone Co.: Parmelee 15 Midway Music Box: Harris, O. 4 Milan Elevator: Rigel 5 Milan Ford Motor Co.: Anger 6 Milan Foundry: Stocking 2 Milan Meat Market: Conlisk 16 Milan Meats: Conlisk 7 Millers Saloon: Conlisk 3, 14 Miss Mary Mann Millinery: Gutman 32 Mitchell Paper Mill: Rye 5 Mitchell’s Bookstore: Boos 6 Mitchell’s Card Store: Waddell 6 Mitchell’s Paper Mill: Boos 17 Mitchels: Munson II 4 Mobil Gas Station: Rodziewicz 2 Monroe Aluminum Co. of America: Cowell 9 Monroe Auto Equipment Co.: Cowell 4, 6, 7 Monroe Auto Equipment Co.: Henrich 5, 6 Monroe Auto Equipment: Colpaert 1, 7 Monroe Auto Equipment: De Sloover 2, 5, 15 Monroe Auto Equipment: Dise 4 Monroe Auto Equipment: Folk 2 Monroe Auto Equipment: French 10 Monroe Auto Equipment: Fuhrmann 4 Monroe Auto Equipment: Garty 8, 9 Monroe Auto Equipment: Gawronski 6, 7 Monroe Auto Equipment: Giarmo 9 Monroe Auto Equipment: Metz 3 Monroe Auto Equipment: Morris 16 Monroe Auto Equipment: Munson (2) 7 Monroe Auto Equipment: Munson 10 Monroe Auto Equipment: Pace 3, 7 Monroe Auto Equipment: Parker 1 Monroe Auto Equipment: Pipis 21, 22, 25, 26 Monroe Auto Equipment: Rauch 7 Monroe Auto Equipment: Raymo 6 Monroe Auto Equipment: Rossi 14 Monroe Auto Equipment: Sontag 4 Monroe Auto Equipment: Stocking 7 Monroe Auto Equipment: Stoner 6, 7 Monroe Auto Equipment: Stoner, L. 1, 6 Monroe Auto Equipment: Ucci 3 Monroe Auto Equipment: Waddell 10 Monroe Auto Equipment: Willets 4 Monroe Auto Supply: Sordini 5 Monroe Bakery: Graves 1 Monroe Bakery: Liparoto, L. 7 Monroe Bank & Trust: Elmer 9 Monroe Bank & Trust: Gere, D 12 Monroe Bank & Trust: Harris, P. 8 Monroe Bank & Trust: Waddell 1 Monroe Bank and Trust: Heck 2 Monroe Bank and Trust: Henrich 5 Monroe Bank: Gere, D 13 Monroe Binderboard: Boos 17 Monroe Binderboard: Boudrie 12 Monroe Building Supply: Pillarelli 9, 10, 11 Monroe Cabinet Factory: Sontag 7 Monroe Candy Kitchen: Boos 8, 9 Monroe Democrat: Poupard, B. 2 Monroe Democrat: Stoner 5 Monroe Evening News: Bernitt 7 Monroe Evening News: Calkins 1 Monroe Evening News: Cowell 4, 6 Monroe Evening News: Elmer 10 Monroe Evening News: Gawronski 4 Monroe Evening News: Gertz 3 Monroe Evening News: Imo 9 Monroe Evening News: Leyshock 2 Monroe Evening News: Munson (2) 3 Monroe Evening News: Munson 8 Monroe Evening News: Poupard B. 2 Monroe Evening News: Rauch 10, 14 Monroe Evening News: Shoemaker 1 Monroe Evening News: Stoner 5 Monroe Evening News: Yerkes 11 Monroe Evening Newspaper: Gawronski 1 Monroe Fruit: Boos 14 Monroe Glass Factory: Foshag 1, 2 Monroe Hardware: Bert 3 Monroe Hospital Dise 6 Monroe Hospital: Cousino 4, 5 Monroe Hospital: Frey 4 Monroe Hospital: Hatcher 8 Monroe Hospital: Kaper 14 Monroe Hospital: LaRoy 1 Monroe Hospital: Licina 6 Monroe Hospital: Ong 4, 12, 13 Monroe Insurance Co.: Smith, R. 14, 15 Monroe Lumber Co.: Conlisk 4, 14 Monroe Lumber Co.: Shoemaker 3 Monroe Lumber: Kaper 8, 9 Monroe Paper Mill: Salisbury 21 Monroe Paper Products: Chapman 5 Monroe Paper Products: Kaper 6, 8 Monroe Paper Products: Noble 15 Monroe Paper Products: Rathke 5 Monroe Paper: Metdepenningen 10 Monroe Power Plant: Dubke 4 Monroe Power: Fix 9 Monroe Savings Bank: Moyer 1 Monroe Scrap Co.: Pillarelli 10 Monroe Shopping Center: Liparoto, L. 5 Monroe State & Savings Bank: Rossi 12 Monroe State Bank: Binns 14 Monroe State Bank: Golden 7 Monroe State Bank: Gutman 1, 6 Monroe State Bank: Koppelman 4 Monroe State Bank: Morris 8 Monroe State Bank: Pilette 3 Monroe Steam Laundry: Imo 1 Monroe Steam Laundry: Knapp 2 Monroe Steel Casting: Cloum 1, 6 Monroe Steel Casting: Wright 6 Monroe Steel Castings: Burkett 12 Monroe Steel Castings: Covington 11, 15, 18, 22 Monroe Steel Castings: Munson 10 Monroe Steel Mill: Miller 1 Monroe Tool Co.: Strimpel 6, 8 Monroe Upholsterers: Bunkleman 6 Monroe Water Co.: Berns 2 Monroe Water Plant: Munson, M 7 Monroe Water Supply Co.: Berns 1 Monroe Welding: Boos 17 Monroe Welding: Pipis 16 Monroe Woolen Mill: Imo 1 Moonlight Coal Company: Morris 10, 11 Mooreville telephone: Sweet 7 Morrisons: Bowman 2 Mortamores: Moyer 1 Mrs. Miller Millinery Shop: Koppleman 13 Mrs. Spicer’s Ice Cream Parlor: Kahlbaum 1, 6 Munch’s: Cloum 1 Munches Store: Gutman 7 Munches: Manausso 7 Munches: Schmidt 2, 4 Munchie Ice Cream Parlor: Gutman 33 Munchkins Corner: Bernitt 7 Myers: Jeffrey 7 Nadeau & Webber Funeral Home: Binns 11 Nash (automobile) franchise: Geiman 4 National Hotel: Bowman 5 National Quarry (Lima, Ohio): Rogers 8 National Steel: Ong 18 Neuhausel Brothers: Jacobs 6 Newport Bank: Gaynier 13 Newton Plant: Maloney 1 Newton Plant: Marshall 4 Newton Plant: Meyer 2 Newton Plant: Munson 4, 6 Newton Steel Co.: 10 Newton Steel Co.: Berns 4 Newton Steel Co.: Bicking 1,2,3, 13, 18, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28 Newton Steel Co.: Binns 13 Newton Steel Co.: Boudrie 1, 2, 5, 6, 11, 12 Newton Steel Co.: Burkett 3, 11, 18 Newton Steel Co.: Colpaert 1, 2 Newton Steel Co.: Covington 15, 17 Newton Steel Co.: Davis 1, 4, 5 Newton Steel Co.: Dise 2 Newton Steel Co.: Fix 4, 8 Newton Steel Co.: Giarmo 2 Newton Steel Co.: Harris, O. 1, 5 Newton Steel Co.: Leyshock 2, 10 Newton Steel Co.: Little 2, 3, 14 Newton Steel Co.: Ong 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 Newton Steel Co.: Parks 5, 6, 7, 9 Newton Steel Co.: Pipis 1, 2, 4, 5 Newton Steel Co.: Poupard, B. 3 Newton Steel Co.: Strait 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 Newton Steel Co.: Switney 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 15 Newton Steel Co.: Ucci 12 Newton Steel Co.: Waddell 8 Newton Steel Co.: Willets 5 Newton Steel Co.: Wright 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 Newton Steel Co.: Yerkes 4, 5 Newton Steel Co.: Zast 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Newton Steel Co.-Ohio: Parks 3 Newton Steel Company: Agusta 15, 20 Newton Steel Company: Chapman 3 Newton Steel Company: Cousino 13, 14 Newton Steel Company: Meyer 8 Newton Steel Company: Smith, R. 14, 15 Newton Steel Corp: Burkett 2 Newton Steel Mill: Baker 1 Newton Steel Mill: Marshall 1 Newton Steel Mill: Metz 3 Newton Steel Mill: Meyer 1 Newton Steel Mill: Munson 7 Newton Steel Plant: Gallagher 2 Newton Steel Plant: Gaynier 1 Newton Steel Plant: Schankin 3 Newton Steel Plant: Smith, R.