We continue with our theme of “Albion, 100 Years Ago.”
September 1, 1923:
“Caster Factory to Start Work About Sept. 10. Actual production will start at the new plant of the Service Caster and Truck Company, located west of the city waterworks, about September 10. The caster company recently decided to come to Albion from Kansas City, Missouri.”
“The 1924 Emancipation celebration of the colored Masonic order will be held in this city on August 1, 1924, it has just been announced.”
September 4, 1923:
Donald F. Herrick, Albion’s new city manager, arrived in the city Monday from Schenectady, N.Y., where he was head of the Italian Swales department of the International Electric Company.”
“Robbers broke into the First M.E. Church of this city, presumably Monday night, secured $4 in cash from a desk in the office of the pastor, Dr. W.W. Diehl, and badly damaged the church safe by knocking off the combination dial, it was discovered this morning by the church treasurer, E. N. Parsons, who entered the building to remove and deposit in the bank the sum of $200, last Sunday’s church collection, which had been placed there by him for safe-keeping until today.”
September 10, 1923:
“Miss Anna Adams and Mrs. Charles Stevenson have recently come to Albion from Indianapolis and have purchased the former Griffin property at 801 E. Cass St. with the intention of opening a “Poll Parrot” shop, which will be a combination tea room and gift shop.”
September, 11, 1923:
“No Parking signs are being placed by the city today on Michigan Ave. between Huron and Berrien Sts., which will prohibit the parking of vehicles for the entire block in front of the Central School. This was done at the request of the school authorities for the furtherance of greater safety for the school children.”
September 14, 1923:
“The exterior of the new Sheldon Memorial Hospital on S. Superior St. has been completed by the Schumacher Construction Company. The Company will begin the remodeling of the South Ward School building, which will be made into a home for the nurses.”
September 18, 1923:
“Patrick Fanning, caretaker at the municipal bathhouse on S. Hannah St., has submitted his report to City Manager Donald F. Herrick, which shows that during the time the bathhouse was open, from May 30 to Sept. 14. It was used by no less than 12,812 persons, most of whom were children.”
September 20, 1923:
“George Encke, proprietor of the Bungalow Fruit Farm, a short distance north of Albion, remembered the Recorder office this morning with some of his prize melons.”
September 22, 1923:
“That the Ku Klux Klan has been making plans for an organization in Albion has become apparent within the past couple of days. An organizer from Battle Creek has been here, attempting to rent some local hall for an open meeting to be held some evening next week.”
September 26, 1923:
“666 At the College. The total enrollment of students at Albion College is now 666 with young people still reporting at the registrar’s office. President John W. Laird expects the number to go over 700.”
“The liquor case of the people vs. Mrs. Alexandria Demski Shelengewich, who was arrested in this city, has been put over to the next term of the circuit court.”
September 28, 1923:
“Green Rosier, a colored man about 51 years old, residing at 11 N. Eaton St. was run down by a switch-engine in the local yards of the MCRR at 12:30 this afternoon and died half an hour later. The accident occurred near the railway stockyards. He was walking to the Albion Malleable Iron Company’s plant where he was employed, when the accident occurred.”
