Jackson Michigan News and Information, News for Jackson MI

We continue with our theme of “Albion, 100 Years Ago.” November 2, 1922. “Born today to Mr. and Mrs. John Shimkus, Sheridan Township, a son.”

“The front of the building owned by Harvey Sweet on S. Superior St. occupied on the ground floor by the Sugar Bowl confectionery, is being repainted.”

November 3, 1922. “Arthur S. Wildt of Concord has purchased the plumbing and heating business of O. H. Gale and will continued at the same location, at the rear of the Gale Hardware.”

November 7, 1922. “If you inadvertently leave any $50 bills in your clothes when you send them to Avery, don’t worry. J. T. Adams tells us of a half century note that found its way to the cleaning establishment in a coat belonging to Charles C. Blakeley. The bill was promptly returned before its loss was discovered.”

“Considerable difficulty is being encountered by workmen who have been attempting to locate a leak in a gas main leading into the basement of the lunch-room of Frank Reichow, in the Fox building on S. Superior St. It has been necessary to tear up the sidewalk and also the pavement in front of the place to get at the pipe.”

November 9, 1922. “Inventor of War Gas Here Friday Evening. Dr. Winfred Lee Lewis, who will speak in the college chapel Friday night at 8 o’clock on Organic Chemistry at Work is the originator of Lewisite Gas, one of the most deadly weapons ever devised for use in War.” Three drops of Lewisite gas will cause death.”

November 11, 1922 “The Service Caster and Truck Company of Kansas City, MO, a concern manufacturing steel roller bearing casters for small trucks, will locate in Albion, as the result of action taken last evening by the Albion Realty Company to provide the company with a factory site and a suitable factory building.”

November 13, 1922. As Ray Bricker and his family of E. Cass St. were motoring about two miles west of Jackson Saturday evening about 7 o’clock, someone fired a bullet at their car, just missing the machine. Two other cars, passing the same spot, not far behind Mr. Bricker’s car, were also fired upon.”

November 17, 1922. “The city has placed signs in the alley just south of the Commercial & Savings Bank, warning drivers that it is for eastbound traffic only.”

November 23, 1922. “The trial of Sam Kuzulka, Mike Kuble and Sockra Morsee of this city, charged with the assault and robbery of Thomas Bruzell, local Lithuanian laborer, is scheduled to occur today in circuit court at Marshall.”

“Floyd Starr, head of the Starr Commonwealth, is to give an address Saturday before the Assyria Farmers’ club at Bellevue. He will take several of the Commonwealth boys with him and they will give one of their programs before the club.”

November 24, 1922. “The three Albion men who had a trial in circuit court yesterday at Marshall on a charge of assaulting and robbing Thomas Bruzell were convicted, the jury lasting but about an hour and a half.”

“Tomorrow afternoon’s Albion-Kalamazoo football game begins at 2 o’clock. A number of special police in plain clothes, will be on hand to handle the crowds and especially to look after the railroad crossings near the entrance to Alumni field.”

“A new apparatus for garages called the Turn-Auto has been installed in the Noble Garage on Michigan Av. And is the first of its kind to be seen in this city. It is a machine for turning autos on their sides so that the mechanics may work on their under parts without the usual laborious process of lying on their backs.”

November 27, 1922. “Chief of Police Clyde Stoddard and Night Patrolman David Sutton consummated the arrest of Tony Kulinich, who lives on a farm near Pulaski and works at a local manufacturing plant, about 6:30 this morning on Austin Avenue on charges of violating the liquor laws. Five gallons of “white mule” liquor were found in a jug in his Ford roadster. The officers claim that Kulinich has been one of the most flagrant bootleggers that ever worked this section.” November 29, 1922. The three men convicted have received their sentences from Judge Walter H. North. Each is to serve from 2 to 15 years in Jackson Prison.”