HEADQUARTERS FOR.FIRST CLASS JOB PRINTING mxxxxn Roxholder SIXTY-FIFTH YEAR BUCHANAN. MICHIGAN THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1932. N U M B E R 24 EVROLET Local Merchants To Hold Three-Day Selling Campaign This Week GUN BATTLE ON FRONT STREET Now Here’s MERCHANTS HOST FARMERS HEAR PLAN FOR REDUCTION TAXES FRIDAY MORNING the TO PUBLIC AT Burglars Interrupted by Alva Bates, Escape with $1,000 Proposition 1 Car Crash at THE PRINCESS NILES-BUCHANAN I MICH. TAX GEORGE FOULKES KEROSENE STOVE in Ladies’ Silk Wear. Moccasin and 3d The usual peaceful quiet of FOR FEMININE HIGH FLYERS Free Show Tickets to be Giv­ Front street was punctuated early en to Every Purchaser; Mo­ ROAD BIDS ARE Street Monday __ Bi Haws PAYERS EXPLOSION IS Friday morning by a rapid stac­ tion Film of City Activities Mrs. Howard Gilman crashed cato of shots in the course o f a When ladies hop into their planes to be Exhibited. $16,000 LOWER to soar o'er the Atlantic, into a tree at the corner of Moc­ CAUSE OF FIRE gun battle between A lva Bates, casin avenue and Third street on Though surging thousands rave merchant police, and two un­ "The show will be free and the Monday afternoon, when she at­ and roar in demonstrations Road Board Gets Bids for known miscreants who were de­ goods as near free as we can tempted to turn the corner at too George Foulkes Delivers Mrs. Grace M. Rogers Badly frantic make them,” is the challenge Both Black Top and Con­ tected in the course of a.raid*'on I sing the men they leave behind high speed to avert a crash with Smashing Attack on Ex­ Burned When She Rushes which the local merchants are crete at $20,000 Mile. another car driven by Clem Binns. the silk goods in the Boardman with anxious hearts and ach­ placing before the public in the Mrs. Gilman was driving west on travagance of Govt. Into House to Save store, and who escaped with goods ing whose value is estimated by Mr. three-day sales campaign which Low bids for the construction of Third street and Binns was driv­ Pet Dog. The guys that stay at home to opened this morning in stores rep­ Boardman at from $800 to §1,000. the remaining 1.506 miles of high­ ing north on Moccasin avenue. A hall crowded to full capacity mind the house and do the resenting every line of merchan­ Flames believed to have origi­ Bates states that he was mak­ way pavement construction on When it appeared that the two greeted the speakers from the baking dising activity in the city. cars were about to crash, Mrs. nated in the explosion of a kero­ ing his usual rounds about 3:30 a. To wash the clothes and mend the the Niles-Buchanan road were in Michigan. Taxpayers Association, m., and was walking west on the A s an unusual feature of this the neighborhood of §20,000 per Gilman turned but was unable to sene stove destroyed the kitchen hose and sweep and do the sale, the merchants are presenting last Friday evening at the Wagner furnishings and badly damaged north side of Front street oppo­ mile for the same type installed by negotiate the comer, colliding grange hall to hear the only prac­ churning, free tickets to the Princess theat­ with and breaking the pole of the kitchen and living room inter­ site the state hank building when And dust the rugs and kill the the A J. Lang Construction Co. tical solution that has yet been he saw a man emerge from er to every purchaser at their for §36,000 per mile last year, ac­ the street sign and hitting a tree. iors at the home of Mrs. Grace bugs and keep the home fires stores. They have made arrange­ presented to the farmers of this Murphy Rogers at Fourth street Boardman’s w ith an armload of cording to advices from St. Jo­ The radiator of her car was badly locality for reduction of farm burning, ments with Manager Homer Mor- damaged but she was unhurt. and Moccasin avenue Tuesday goods. Bates started across the The men who have to stay behind seph last night. taxes. The men and women as­ street toward him when he sud­ ley fo r the free entertainment of The low bids for both the "black morning. because the home ties bind their guests at matinee and even­ sembled lent an attentive ear to denly dropped his armload and them, top” type installed on the west the program outlined and on its Mrs. Rogers had started a fire fired in his general direction with ing shows today and tomorrow. end and a twenty foot concrete in the kerosene stove to heat wat­ The Men, The matinees w ill begin at 2:30 conclusion, favorable comments a sawed-off shot gun, the volley The Men, with a three-foot stone shoulder were heard on all sides. er, setting it on the kitchen floor. lodging in the front of the A."& p. m. and the evening shows at were reported to be less than $150 She then went out to feed her The Worried Little Men, 7:30. The meeting was called to order P. stores front. Bates fired back The Men they leave be­ apart, each approximately $16,000 by John Gunyon, the master of the pony. A fter she had been out sending three shots, one of which An attractive feature in con_ per mile under the terms of the Active in organization of rural about five minutes, she stated that hind: them! nection with, this show will be the AWARDED N. W. grange, and tile speakers were in­ drilled a neat hole in the wooden contract let to the Lang Construc­ troduced by Mrs. Charles Hess, taxpayers. she saw the curtains of the room standard in the angle of the plate presentation of the motion pic­ tion company last year. ablaze, and rushed back to the N o Undertakers Represented tures taken by Chris Callahan of the grange lecturer. The princi­ glass window, striking the iron ”1 do not feel that it would be County Engineer John Bateman pal speaker of the evening was house to find the entire kitchen brace behind it and deflected representative scenes in the local stated that the bids would be tak­ good policy for me to offer spe­ Mr. George Foulkes of Hartford, Elizabeth Kiehn interior full of flames and smoke. straight across the window into schools and business and indus­ en, under advisement for a few She summoned aid from the neigh­ cial rates during the present dis- trial section. The feature film Michigan, known as "The Dirt the wall on the west side. tression," stated T. D. Childs, well days. Was Outstanding Student at Farmer,” who has been conduct­ Graduated From City bors. Earl Beck, Ralph DeNar- Another man rushed out of the will be “Local Boy Makes Good," The board of supervisors voted do and Ed Ashbrook arriving and known local mortician when ap­ with Joe E. Brown collaborating Local School Over Period ing these meetings throughout the store and fired at Bates with ;a proached by the accredited repre­ at the April session to complete counties of VanBuren, Allegan and College of Detroit turning a stream of water on the revolver and the two disappeared with Dorothy Lee in the presenta­ the construction this summer, as of Many Years. fire through a kitchen window. sentative o f the Record for ad­ tion of this popular comedy, based Berrien since the first of the year. around the corner, where appar­ the bonds had already been is­ It would appear that Mr. Foul­ Mrs. Rogers, unable to enter vertising in the great Sales Drive on the play by Elliott Nugent. Miss Jane Habicht, member of Miss Elizabeth Kiehn will he ently they had a car waiting with sued. kes is one of a number of large through the kitchen, broke the. edition, “ too many local business The local merchants have sever­ the Buchanan high school gradua­ graduated from the Detroit City the motor running. Bates ran men might want to take advant­ al thousand tickets to give away land owners who find their prop­ College, Teachers Department, to­ glass in the front door, unfasten­ to the comer and fired three more ting class this year, has been no­ erties emperiled by the ever in­ ed the lock and rushed into the. age o f them.” free to_ their customers, and Man­ tified that she has been, awarded day, receiving the degree of shots at the rear of the car, a creasing tax burden. smoke-filled interior to find her blue sedan, apparently shattering ager Homer Morley requests that Mrs. J. Kelley a scholarship o f $150 value to be Batchelor of A rts, with a life First in War, First in Peace as many as possible take advant­ The following are some of the certificate as an art instructor. pet Boston terrier, Pal, whom she the rear glass. applied on tuition charges at the had left in the house. The men A rt Johnston, local; battle-scared age of Lie afternoon matinee in Presents Pupils Northwestern University, with the high lights of his speech. She plans to accompany Miss The car turned east on Chicago “This is hot a political gather­ who were carrying out the fur­ .—pardon us, we mean bottle- order that the seating capacity of assurance of an additional $50 in Welling, head of the art depart­ street and thence soutli on Days scarred-—veteran, was reported to 300 may not be overtaxed, at the In Annual Recital ing it is a meeting together of ment, to an art convention in New nishings attempted to stop her hut avenue and out of town on the case she elects to attend that she ran into the flame filled kit­ be »the first man to park his car evening shows.