t o THE PLYMOUTH MAIL -------------------THE HOME NEWSPAPER— VOL. 43, No. 39 PLYMOUTH, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUG. 14, 1931 >1.50 PER YEAR FIVE CENTS NEW GENERAL MANAGER FOR BEST PLAN FOB THE BLUNK BROTHERS’ STORE CIVIC LOYA So rapid and extensive has been the growth of the business of tlie | Blunk Brothers department store in The values offered RESIDENTIAL Plymouth, that they have found it , WILL DIRECT SHRUBS, TREES necessary to engage II. S. Wright, 1 elsewhere long experienced department store l manager, to become general man­ only SMM bigger PARTSOFCITY ager of the store. IN NEW MRNW Mr. Wright will assume his new ' duties at once. He will move his «<• >t w tt o i x j Zoning Committee Outlines family here from Detroit within the MlSS Nellie Huger Selected Excellent Progress Being The Ideal System For next two weeks, and plans to make Plymouth his future home. For Important State Made On County’s Great­ Community For over 15 veal's he has been Position associated with leading department est Improvement stores throughout the country. He This article is number six in the Tlie Michigan Federation of Music Exceptional care is being taken by series on the subject of City Planning has at times been manager of four Clubs has chosen Miss Nellie Beatrice different stores for the National workei's of Wayne county employed in and Zoning taken from the city plan­ Huger of Plymouth to direct the music building the beautiful jxirkway from ning and zoning primers prepared by Bellas Hess company, and necessar­ in churches throughout the state this the United States Department of Com­ ily has an experience that will year. Rouge Park through Plymouth to the prove of great value in his efforts fish hatchery in Northville, not to merce under the direction of an ad- The purpose of the sacred music de­ destroy any of the natural shrubs and visorly committee appointed by Presi­ to expand the business of the Blunk partment is to have all the choirs fed­ Bros, store. trws that are at present growing in dent Hoover at the time he was Secre­ erated. programs will be presented by the^fields of the newly acquired park­ tary of Commerce. It has been prepar­ Mr. Wright announces that the federated choirs in cities, districts and ed especially for Plymouth Mail read­ same policy that has made the by massed choirs throughout the state way land. Blunk store such a success in past Patches of what some under other ers by the Plymouth committee that at the annual convention next April. circumstances might brand as brush, is making a study of this question. years will be continued. He plans The state music library located in HUNDREDS OF SPECIAL to add several new departments in have been trimmed up and made to Residential Districts fliej/sntre library building in Lansing, the immediate future. is in charge of the state department of look like exjuiisive shrubbery. “In most communities the districts One of the first improvements to DOLLAR DAY BARGAINS Tliis is esix'cially true in the field where the people dwell are far greater II. S. WEIGHT sacred music. Miss Huger will pro­ be made will be the immediate, lu- mote the supimrt and use of this li­ just south of the present Gass Benton than those in which they work and j of an exte hidies' 'ready-to-wear department. As '•onditiiins I PLYMOUTH MERCHANTS MAKE park along tlie Plymouth-Northville do business. Different families haveliav require. eonsidcrablc brary. road. The high growing grass has min will be added, giving to Plymouth a store There will be conferences and sum­ BIG CUTS FOR BENEFITS OF different desires in the way of homes. ; (]2.tr wj|j j((? uol better than department stores in nianv ties , btH'ii trimiuixl and already the field Most prefer to live in one-family , lnlu.h iarger than this, mer sciiools of sacred music through- I CAREFl’L RI VERS mt the state during the year, under ' I once used for pasture lias taken on houses, on quiet streets, with grass ) Both Irving and Arthur Blunk exjiect to spend a considerable portion Miss Uuger's leadership. ibe appearances of a landseajxxl area. and trees about them. Many families ■ „f rlieir time in the store, as health will permit, although Mr. Wright will I When this issue of tlie Plymouth Along the Rouge River oil the east that can afford these advantages, more, j„- charge of all details under the new arrangement. It will also Mail reaches you, the regular mid­ | and north sides of Plymouth all the often those without children, still pre- »p» both the brothers considerable additional time to expand the business summer Dollar Day sales of Plymouth trees, vines and natural shrubs have fer to live in apartments, frequently to an(j ly them an opimrtunity to broaden their field of activity from Ithe TOBEFEATURED merchants stari—and never before ; been yearefully saved and additional avoid personal responsibility for up- (,ujsjde. have such bargains Iwen offered as trees and shrubs planted wherever <11- keep of the dwelling and to have eas­ Their host of friends will be pleased to know that it is their purpose E now. ‘ rectors of the jxirk project thought it 0 ier access to the city center. Others [n remain j„. • and to be associated with the business. A Both today and tomorrow, Friday would be advantageous. assume this mote crannied manner of' and Saturday, you will find in the fol­ Excellent progress is being made .on living because of lack of bouses for AnnualHome-Comingat lowing listed stores special bargain the grading work. The new byjdge rent, the short term of their residence IN 90 FOOT FALL prices that wilio appeal io the most 1 lliai i< being built across ibe river on in one city, or other circumstances. Northville-Wayne County careful buyer. : the north side of Plymouth i< rapidly The fact remains, too, that many ex­ Newburg To Be Held On Living necessities, articles you have nearing completion. The bridge is of isting dwellings in our cities do not SIATE KIWANIS C. It. Osborne, 34 years old. was in- Plans One of Best Fairs stantly killed Tuesday afternoon long desired but have hesitated in buy­ tlie same general style as are the other conform to the standards of the single ing. because of the cost, clothing, jewel­ I structures in the jwirk system, anil con­ family homes that most families Saturday, August 22nd about 4:<X) o'clock, when he fell 90 It Ever Held I feet from the new water tower that I ry. furniture, shoes—in fact there is forms in a most artistic way will) the would prefer. I absolutely nothing you may desire that I general landscaping In that locality. "Wise city planning can do much to i is being erected at flie Detroit House | According to Nelson Schrader, presi­ The annual Newburg Ilome-coming LEADERS HERE of Correction farm, two miles west on i is nut offered on these two Dollar | The grading from the Six-Mile road make one-family houses available to dent of the Northville Wayne County will be liebl on the school grounds Sat­ tlie Phoenix Itoad. ! Days. j is rapidly nearing eompletion. The more families. It encourages a let­ urday afternoon, August 22, instead l-'air Association. Unit organization is north to the Wayne County fair ter distribution of centers of employ­ International Convention In some way while working about going out of its way to make Plymouth I The merchants who have gone into of August 29. as previously announced. tlie new tank, be lost his balance and this plan io help build Plymouth busi- grounds is rapidly nearing completion. ment. and thereby reduces the number This being the 100th anniversary nf Day. Thursday, August 27, the biggest 'Phe new park road runs directly west of employees who must live near the Delegates of ’28 Meet Wiis hurled to his death. The body and best that the fair has ever ar­ I ness. to do the tiling which aids in Newburg school, there will be an aje I was badly crushed in the fall, 1 bringing new customei’S to town and of the Cass Benton park across prop- business center. By providing an ade­ propriate program under the direction Here Tuesday ranged. quate. coordinated street system it re­ j Osborne bail been rooming at the Already Secretary Floyd Northrop I t.. offer something sjieeial to regular 1 erty foilneriy ownisl by Phil Grennan. of Mrs. Lydia Joy McNabb. There | home of Mrs. Grove on Itose street in Plymouth customer.s ft-el that the bar- It is expected that work will start on duces delays in transit, and so makes , ivill also be a liorse-slioe pitching con- lias conferred with many Plymoutii the new bridge back of the Northville wider areas for dwellings available 1 ( llu. ]>rizcs heln., Plymouth was greatly honored Tues­ i Plymouth, while here assisting in the boosters about tlie plans, and lie ho'fi^S : gains of this sale are the best "buys’ day. in having tlie reunion of the Mich- ...................•oustrue;ion of the new wati-r towe that the day will be as imixirtant and they have ever put forth. fair grounds as soon as the bridge within a 2iv>m time for travel Iimboti i.l,,„„titli nierilimiu. igan Kiwanis party who at I ended! the | Mrs. Grove • near Plymoutii is completed. S' whlcrSf "Xol'i'lo Ste! Tit,, full list will Ir. publish,.,I m-xl ateil that he was an ac- as satisfactory as was Plymouth day The Plymouth Chamber of Com- Kiwanis International convention in ! complishcdplishcii musician and one of the last year, if not better.