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Morning Star, February 27, 2022, pg. 6 We continue with our theme of "Albion 100 Years Ago." March 2, 1922. "The Baptist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, Free Methodist and colored churches of Albion will be united in a day of prayer at the Methodist church on Friday, March 3 beginning at 9 o’clock." March 6, 1922. "Clarence Wochholz, son of A. F. Wochholz of Marengo, left today for Alhambra, CA, where he has accepted a position in a bank. He will make his home in that city with his uncle Otis Lewis, a former Albion resident." "The local authorities have as yet been unable to locate Titus Marshall, wanted here on a warrant charging him with the desertion of his wife and children. Monday night of last week, after cashing in all his local assets, he motored to Jackson where he left four of his children, by a former marriage, with two sisters residing in that city and turned over his Buick car to one of his sisters. Marshall told his sister on Jackson it is said that he was going away and that there would be no use of a search being made for him. It is thought that he left money with his sisters for the care of his four children in Jackson." March 7, 1922. "William Helrigle, formerly a student of Albion College, underwent an operation for appendicitis yesterday morning at the Bronson hospital at Kalamazoo. He is getting along nicely." "The city has just received three carloads of cinders from the Michigan Central, from the Jackson junction, and expects to receive a car a day for the next week. A cinder walk is now being built between the Dalrymple School on S. Ann St. to Mechanic St., to give the school children a short cut to the school from the southwestern section of the town." March 8, 1922. "A $3,500 loss was caused shortly after 3 o’clock this morning by a fire in the grocery store of Lucas Deen, formerly the Mike Dubina grocery, located at the southeast corner of Austin Avenue and Albion Streets…..The building, owned by John Koloski of Jackson, will require about $500 to put it back in shape." March 10, 1922. This evening at 8 o’clock at the W.C.T.U. auditorium, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gale of this city will give their well-known entertainment "Songs and Stories of the Red Man." March 13, 1922. "The bids for the new high school building will be closed Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock and the school board will meet Wednesday evening to open and consider them." "The grocery stores located in the Albion residential districts do a bigger business than many Albion people think. For instance, at the Cottage grocery on W. Center St, operated by L. B. Spencer, close to 3,000 customers were waited on during the month of February." March 15, 1922. "A party of local officers, including Chief of Police Clyde Stoddard, Deputy Sheriff G. U. McCarty, and City Constable Clarence Faust swooped down on the residence of W. H. Taylor, colored, at 608 W. Michigan St at noon today, and as the result of the raid, Taylor was arrested, charged with the manufacture of liquor….Mrs. Taylor broke down and cried when the officers were in the house. "I told him not to do it," she said. "He knew he was breaking the law but he wouldn’t quit when I asked him to." March 17, 1922. Headline: "Petitions for Eastern Time are Received. Petitions Containing Nearly 600 Signers are Presented to City Council for Annual Change in Time." March 20, 1922. "The assault charge against John Wochinski, charged with wielding the knife with which John Wisek, Austin Avenue resident, was badly cut in what officers state was a drunken brawl on Austin Avenue a week ago Sunday night, was dismissed this morning by Justice W. S. Price when Wisek withdrew the complaint." March 21, 1922. "It is said that the Albion Order of the Moose is trying to obtain the state boxing license formerly held by the Hanlon Post of the American Legion, the latter having given it up. If the lodge is successful, it will hold a series of boxing and wrestling shows in its building on W. Porter St." "The case of the people vs. Titus Marshall was still pending in Justice W. S. Price’s court today, no settlement having been reached. Mr. Marshall states that reports to the effect that he left his wife and child in a penniless condition with no means of securing food and clothing, were erroneous, as he says that he left money for their use when he left Albion." March 24, 1922. "Hurley Block Changes Hands. The Hurley Block on the west side of N. Superior St. adjacent to the Michigan Central Railroad tracks, owned by O. J. Teller, became the property this morning of Clayton B. Granger." "Workmen are preparing to move the former S. S. Berry residence, at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Berrien St., to make way for the new high school building." March 25, 1922. "Charles B. and Earl Mead of Battle Creek, who received the contract for building the bridge across the Kalamazoo River at Marengo, expect to begin work about the middle of May." March 27, 1922. "Three Albion People Killed by Michigan Central Flyer. Three victims, all residents of this city, were claimed Sunday afternoon at 2:41 at a crossing a mile and a half west of Marengo when the fast westbound Detroit-Chicago special No. 15, struck a Ford roadster containing the three Albion people. The dead are: Edgeter Van Meter, Mrs. Agnes VanMeter, and Donald VanMeter, nephew of the couple. March 30, 1922. Headline: "Council Votes to Establish Eastern Time. Time Change to Come April 20 and Extend Through November 12."
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