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Morning Star, February 28, 2025, pg. 8 We continue with our theme of "Albion - 100 Years Ago." March 3, 1925: "Another remarkable and epoch gift of large size to Albion College, the third within the past two years, was made public today by Dr. John L. Seaton, who announced at the chapel services today that a group of donors whose identity was not announce, will provide the magnificent sum of $200,000 to provide for the immediate erection of a women's dormitory." "J.J. Thwaites, proprietor of the Radio and Furniture store in the new Recorder building on W. Center St. has taken over the building formerly occupied by Charles Florence on W. Center St. This is being renovated and will be part of the Radio and Furniture company's retail establishment." "In a letter to the Recorder from Washington, D.C., Dr. Washington Gardner states that he has tendered his resignation as U.S. Commissioner of Pensions, effective March 4, and that he expects to return to his home in Albion within the next few days." "Anna Lou Ross, 16-year-old colored girl from this city, was sent to the girls' industrial home in Adrian Saturday by Probate Judge Blaine G. Hatch of Marshall, after the girl's grandmother, with whom she had been making her home, declared that she was incorrigible. March 5, 1925. "Albert Trader, is being held in the county jail at Marshall and Charles Face of Marshall is in a critical condition at his home in that city as the result of an altercation occurring about 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Dowling farm, about four miles from Marshall in Marengo Township, in which Trader is alleged to have shot Face in the back of the head." March 24: "Trader is the man who recently shot Charles Face when Mrs. Face went to her farm to collect rent." March 13, 1925. "A liquor still, in full operation, was found this afternoon by a party of local and county officers in the cellar of the residence of Martin Rudick on Austin Avenue." "Dr. John Seaton to be Inaugurated on June 16th. Ceremonies for New President of Albion College Will Be the Big Feature of Commencement Week." March 16, 1925. "The People's Coal Mining Company, owner of the coal mine located four miles north of Albion on the Clark St. road, has been reorganized and the property has been taken over by a new company known as the Southern Michigan Coal Company, it became known today." "Charles Beardsley, 72, of Homer, probably the oldest man ever convicted of violating the prohibition law in Calhoun County, was sentenced Friday to service six months in Jackson prison following the shortest criminal trial on record in years. The aged man pleaded his own case, using the defense that he did not know that three-gallon jugs of whiskey, that officers had found in his Ford, were in the machine. He claimed that he had been the victim of a plot." March 19, 1925. Homer Man has Terrible Death at Linton Farm. The dead body of Edward Brewer, aged about 55, was found blackened and charred and his clothing all burned off except for his shoes and rubbers, on the John Linton farm, three and a half miles southwest of Homer Wednesday. The discovery of about two gallons of alleged moonshine whiskey in Brewer's home and the finding of a partly filled bottle of the same stuff not far from the body led the authorities to believe Brewer was under the influence of liquor when he attempted to light his pipe and set fire to his clothes, his death resulting." March 21, 1925. "All motor vehicles owned by the city have received appropriate number plates from the state, including the motorcycle used to chase speeders." March 23, 1925: "The Central School was entered and completely ransacked Sunday night by thieves who got away with about four dollars in cash and two dollars in postage stamps, taken from the teachers' desks. Every room in the building was gone through. An attempt was made to open the big safe in the office of Superintendent Don Harrington but the combination failed to respond to the efforts of the thieves." "Mrs. Mandana Warner, Albion's oldest resident, celebrates her 98th birthday Wednesday, March 25. She is spending the winter at the home of a granddaughter in St. Paul, MN." March 26, 1925. "Rev. Walter E. Craighead Beaten by the Military Authorities of Roumania. How he received a beating and threats of death at the hands of military authorities in Roumania is plainly told in a letter which has been received by Rev. F. R. Vine of the 1st Baptist Church of this city from Walter Craighead, missionary from the local church who is located in Balti, Roumania. Mrs. Craighead was formerly Miss Hazel Thomson, Broadwell St. of this city." March 27, 1925. "The cheering announcement was made today by the Malleable Iron Company that its plant has gone back on a six day a week basis and will be operated for the first time, on Saturday, for several months. The Malleable concern is now taking on men as fast as it can get them, which is another fine bit of news for this community." March 30, 1925. "Law enforcement officials received a telephone call Sunday afternoon from some person unknown, asking them to go to House N. 26 in the Albion Malleable Company's addition. Arriving at the house and finding the door ajar, they walked in and immediately a familiar smell assailed their nostrils. Following the trail down to the cellar they found a liquor still in full blast and about three gallons of freshly made moonshine, all of which they confiscated. Mike Maklemchuk, the proprietor of the place, was arrested and taken to the city jail." "Ed Pietkewicz, Austin Ave., who was arrested by local officers recently on a charge of selling liquor, was bound over to the circuit court Saturday, the bail being $1,000. If Pietkewicz is convicted of this charge it is expected that he will be returned to the state prison at Jackson, from which he has been out on parole for several months after having served time on a manslaughter conviction in 1922."
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