A merica ,fewith Periodical Carter • CLIFTON AVENUII • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO PAGE FIVE TilLWIWYIJEWISlidiRONICIL6 PONTIAC PONTIAC, The Jewish Rook In Palestine Clemens—Built By the Eneary And Sacrifices Of Real Pioneers ).1•90‘11Wis.W. 1•89AWili.9.1S%%aeveWIAltlalatCatli %18%.%rtlaN% We Wish All Our Jewish Friendsltrid' Pa- lms a Happy and Prosperous New -Year. By Dr, M. Robinson. Rosh Hashonah Greetings. SEASON'S GREETINGS Bassett & Smith, Inc. Realtors G N kUltEli, Sales Director. 41I 4 Pontiac Office: 20 West Lawrence Street. Phone 4845. "WE COLLECT" Or There Is "NO CHARGE" Commercial Collecting Company LARUE, President. 412 Pontiac Bank Bldg. Phone 817 WALTER 20 Years of Satisfactory Service Pontiac, Mich. • • • • • • • PAT W. YARNOLD, Prop. Tires — Tubes — Vulcanizing — Hood Tires Batteries — Rental — Repairing — Recharging We Service All Makes. 140 NORTH SAGINAW STREET Pontiac, Mich. Phone 2415 7==11111n., Greetings C. W. BURRIDGE Anything in Real Estate Established 1902. A HAPPY NEW YEAR! .1= Room 1, Oakland Theater Bldg. "Printing That Leaves An Imprint." Pontiac, Mich. GREENWOOD PRINTING CO. JACK GREENWOOD, General Manager. Commercial Printers. 161/2 E. Lawrence St., Pontiac, Mich. Phone 1541. Boulevard I N N Greetings Pryale Construction Co., Inc. DALBY General Contractors DRUG CO. 405 PONTIAC BANK BLDG. Rosh Hashonah Greetings. ACME LUMBER CO. JAMES B. LEACH, Manager. Pontiac Branch: 111 North Saginaw St. Pontiac, Mich. Phones 2391-R; 3765 Fourth Floor. Phone 290. --- — — GREETINGS 0. A. Graff Sheet Metal Contractor 54 NORTH PARKE ST. Phone 3095. FAMOUS G SHOE REPAIR CO. MODERN SHOE REPAIR WORK The "FAMOUS WAY" is a "DIFFERENT WAY" PONTIAC, MICH. 18 EAST PIKE ST. Phone 1302. Metal Roofs, Skylight.. ;pedal Gutters and Conductor.. Greetings Haken & Harrington Plumbing and Heating Next to Fire hall. H 2 81/2 NORTH SAGINAW ST., PONTIAC, MICH. Phone 446. I1. ATRINS AND SON, Proprietors New Year's Greetings, A. L. NIQUE Real Estate Rentals Property Management 609.610 Poriti•c Bank Building '9 In Phone 4077 PONTIAC, MICH. OTEL ARNACK Rosh Hashonah Greetings. Phones: (lace 4818: House 1523. ISENBERG MERETSKY Iron and Metal Co. Pontiac, Mich. Wholesale Dealers in IRON AND STEEL SCRAP 0 Greetings. BertW. Hiamson Real Estate Graders and Packera of Waste Material Insurance 78-86 Wessen Street, Pontiac, Mich. Phone 2114 14.16 CROFOOT BUILDING Residence l'hones: Phones: Office 4730; Res, 3468 City Property and Foram 0 %MI Isenberg: 1950-J Meretaky: 2725-W I I l GRATIOT TIRE SHOP I FREDE'S ■ 8 North Perry Street The Season's Greetings. I o Pontiac, Mich. Pontiac, Mich, Rosh Hashonah Greetings. J. LEHNER Civil Engineer Greetings of the Season. B & l Auto Supply Co. Priehs Motor, Sales LA SALL E All Accounts given prompt attention Detroit Office. Eleventh Ft. Guaranty Trust Bldg. Phone Cad. 3292. It is a tradition that about I7911: In the meantime, however, vari- Christian Clemens, then a business oue enterprises had started in and I nun of Detroit, was attracted to about the village, !Mill(' of which the site of Mt. Clemens when on ttroved long lived and a great a surveying trip to th General benefit to the community, and f, Cass, his personal friend and later nanoe of which net the usual tinan• of Governor of, and United States vial disasters and failures of busi- Senator from, 'Allichigan. At tiny miss enterprises. Among the tat- 103 MACOMB ST. PHONE 11 rate, Clemens soon after purchased ter nisi; be mentioned the attempt I The spiritual center of the new the rights of the possessors in two to dig a canal from the Clinton Jewish life in Palestine is without private claims, which covered a river to the Kalamazoo river, and ,e Mt. 1•1(.1riens, Mich. doubt the large Notional I.ibrary large portion of the present City thus open a waterway from the / in Jerusalem, This is the "national of Mt. Clemens, and located and southerly end of Lake Michigan to home" of the Jewish book which started 11 Sl.ttlrIll•nt un thin site Lake St. Clair- - nn enterprise for thousands of years has been some time before the war of 1812, which it was hoped would equal in t. wandering homeless in exile and and built the first house in the set- importance and success the Erie has suffered persecution together tlement on the westerly site of Canal in New York state. list with the Jew, its creator and car- what is now North Broadway, be- this not met disaster by the ex- 0; rier. Every ship which brings to tween Market and New streets. travagancv and corruption attend- the shores of Palestine companies 1■ 1 Christian Dutch ing its construction and the finan- I Companion Car to Cadillac—From $2495 to $2685, of Jewish pilgrims and pioneers, blood and descent, was born in vial avalanche that followed the carries also crates of Jewish books Pennsylvania in January, 1768, too-extensive efforts of the young f. o. b. Detroit. front every part of the Diaspora, and came to Detroit in 1795 and territory to develop itself, it prob. seeking sanctuary and a respect- engaged in the manufacture of ably would have resulted in Mt. able existence in the Jewish Home- lent her Ile later married Eliza- Clemens being put on the map at I — land. Entire buildings in Jerus- both very early date. The attempt to ■■•■■ ••••••••••• ■ %%••%•%••%% ■ •%%%WiMIGIMIMVPA.IMICsa beth Allen, widow of Dr. Data Al- slew are literally smothered with len: and their family and the step build this canal brought to NIL ...a.A.VisaA• Veskaeteat,%1110 •14 Jewish books written in all the children of Clemens all lovated at , Clemens and its vicinity from the civilized languages of the world, Mt. Clemens and took an active many wh•' played am and the spiritual stream swells and part in the early development of active part in the development of flows swiftly on. the village. Col. John Stockton, t lao community later, among then, A Very Happy New Year to All My The nucleus of the National Li- who married Mrs. Clemens' dough- I he Snook, Traver, Shook families Jewish Friends. brary which was created by Dr. ter by her former marriage, was and others. Another of the short- Joseph Chasanovitch of Bialistock probably the most active and in- ived industries that started at this before the war, has grown today flusintial man in political, legal 111111 I ime was the gin. , factory, which into a great treasure house of Jew- business circles during the early I sought the Hall and Grovier fami- ish thought for all time. here is life of the village, and her full lies, who had been operating a found whatever Jewish genius has brother, James C. Allen, was not glass factory in New York state. created, both in joy and in sorrow , far behind in public activities. The This was located at the extreme since the Jews became a people four daughters of Christian Clem-, end of th, village., where later and began to think for themselves. its married, respectively, Dr. stood the salt well and the original C The National Library, however, George Lee, the first physician of Pumping station for mineral wa- will not limit itself to Jewish the village; William Canfield, a ters. Also a ;small and undoubt- learning but aims to become uni - merchant and farmer; Edward C., sally very temporary enterprise CONSTRUCTION. MUNICIPAL AND vernal in Ito scope and interest. Gallup, one of the earliest !n•r was 0 pottery factory located C About its nucleus of Jewish books chants of the village, who con - where now stands the Mt. (lumen TOPOGRAPHIC ENGINEERING it also gathers the finest in the tinned his business activities until Ravings Ilatik• literatures of other civilized peo- the seventies, and Henry D. Terry. About this time, or a little later, SUBDIVISION AND INDUSTRIAL plea. Our central library therefore a brilliant member of the bar, who began the development of the becomes a rich treasure house of shwe also in military activities, stave industry, which proved to be SURVEYS world culture, a fountain of the and after the Civil War removed a long-lived and very successful spirit of the new Jewish Common- to Washington. industry for this part of the coun- F CIA,RICH BANK BUILDING wealth of Palestine. The War of 1812 stirred it so try. The country shoat having Intellectual circles throughout much activity among the Indians been very he2eily timbered, and the world have officially recognized against the settlers who kept al- as it grew in agricultural impor- Phones—011ice 17, Residence 440 Mt. Clemens the Jewish National Library even legianie to the United States that tance and was cleared for tillage, as they have the establishment of it became necessary for all the the material for staves was nat- e the Jewish Homeland. University English speaking residents of Mt. urally plentiful find cheap. This professors, writers and philanthro• Clemens to seek refuge in Detroit, stave industry early developed by the Jenney and Hathaway families piste, both Jews and Gentiles, are and Clemens, staying in Detroit asay10 8%‘ % % %% %% % % WalaWS 11.1•13634%%W iN IX311141114 14341 43811.%1•14111 everywhere forming committees at that time, undoubtedly cement- at mills located at the extreme for the purpose of collecting books ed his friendship for and influence east end of the village, was kept and money for it whether in Eng- with the men who were prominent up by Snook, Groesbeck and 1' 1111 ,1 We Wish All Our Jewish Friends and Patrons a land, Spain, Poland, Switzerland in the development of Michigan, Landeghem, even until the early Happy and Prosperous New Year. or in North and South America. and therefrom probably resulted years of the twentieth century. The site of the old glass factory Esthonia has sent iron shelves for touch benefit to Mt. Clemens in later the fifties became the the books; the British, French and later years. scene of an attempt to find oil, 0 • Prussian Governments have con- In 1818 the County of Macomb tributed large collections of books. was set of by the territorial au- which resulted in striking a vein Of particular interest is the fund thorities and included not only all created by Professor Mugrini of of the present county but that Italy to establish a special depart- 20 times that territory, stretching ment for Italian Judaica. Germany north nearly to Saginaw and west also is entering in competition to the principal meridian. Largely A Happy New Year with Italy in creating a similar de- through the influence, no doubt, To Everybody partment in the German language. of Clemens, the Village of Mt.. It appears that the intellectuals of Clemons was designated as the 0 o the whole world are anxious to ex- county seat, although it then in- piate for their sins throughout the eluded little more than a few scat- centuries towards the Jewish book tering log residences and stores. which has been persecuted and This same year Clemens platted mutilated, burnt and annihilated. the village, which included the dis- Many wealthy Jews and patrons trict between Market street, of education are also among those Cherry street, the river and a line helping to build up the great in- joining the river end of Terry tellectual center. Industrious schol- street with the southerly end of ars and energetic collectors, who Cherry street, in the rear of where PAUL hOIN•FIL Prop. 27 NORTH GRATIOT have spent the major portion of now stands the Olympia Hotel-- their lives in collecting the literary this line being the southwesterly 48 Crocker Blvd. Mt. Clemens, Midi. products relating to every branch line of the private claim owned by Mt. Clemens Phone 145 of human thought, often present Clemens. • %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% their treasures to the Library, not Before the coming of Clemens, only in their wills but sometimes there had existed a settlement 1■ 1•\\\\ WIl ■ \\\WW ■ 11811 ■11■1■ \\WRIOILII. also during their lifetime. The 1..- usually spoken of as the Tucker brary at the present time possesses , Settlement down the river, bring ant i ques, rare and little known made up of the sons and their tsar Season's Greetings To You collected by passionate lies of William Tucker, who had Season's Greetings. book-addicts through a period of i two kidnapped in his early years many years. Here are also found a d brought up by the Indians n it books on every subject and in and to whom the Indian chiefs in every language, works of art and the intellectual food of the nations token of their friendshp deed- iii a large section of the had lands ly- of the world. A Mr. Daoud of ' of along the river and Lake St. DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE London recently contributed one ('.lair. thousand very rare books in menu- To the west of the Clemens set- To script written in Arabic and Per We go anywhere at any time. script, Elmer R. Lagass••, Prop. and dealing with Biblical re tletnent and located in the vicinity 5 Prompt, Courteous, Careful. search and Oriental Philology. PHONE 241 the river, was a settlement crosses the Moravian drive now Lowest Rates in the City: Another important collection of where Japanese pictures and art work 159 NORTH GRATIOT Settlement, hail or grown up Mt. Clemens Office, 108 N. Gratiot Ave. was deeded to the Library through known as the which Moravian I. onnor around the homes of the Connor the will of a lady. Opposite Clemens lark. Our National Library is rapidly family, which remained when the I _ _ Mt. Clemens, M job. becoming a world center for art rest of the Moravian missionaries .7 Wlel • LI MIL •• 0101 01011101 and literature and a time will come abandoned their mission in 1786. - At the time Mt. Clemens was when scholars and research work ers from all countries of the world thus founded and platted,. un• will come to drink from the intel- doubtedly the roads existing 'con- leetual fountain on Mt. Zion. The aisted of meandering trails which New Year's Greetings A Happy and Prosperous New Year to All Library has in its possession now led to these Tucker and Connor one hundred and thirty thousand settlements and along the river Our Friends. books and is regarded already as and lake to Detroit and the other the largest Jewish library in the various settlements of French pio. world. There are sections for nears who had spread out from "Jewish scientific literature," Ara_ Detroit along the water courses. big literature, medicine, math,. This platting of the village and the matics and even one for Esptr- establishment of it IN the judicial We Do Overhauling and Repairing on ants. Forty-five thousand people center of the new county, and the borrowed hooks from the library erection of a toe court house and PAINTING and All Makes at Care. in the preceding year. The read- jail in 1819 on the site of the pres- DECORATING ing room is always crowded with ent court house brought a marked Phone 1967 18 E. Broadway CONTRACTOR all sorts of people from newspaper activity and prominence to the yil- correspondents to Catholic priests, lage. Its location in what was Mt. Clemens, Michigan. Phone 126 scholars, students and readers of practically the extreme southeast 46.48 North Ave. light fiction. Seventy thousand corner of the extensive territory readers visited the reference rooms then called the County of Macomb Mt. Clemens. during the past year, exclusive of endangered, of course, its p•rma- the many thousand tourists and nent hold upon the county seat, o-o-oo-o*****G00oo-o0H04**********Gotu>oo04000-040440 the generally curious visitors. and it was undoubtedly slue quite The universal recognition ac- largely to the influence of Clemens corded the National library has among the powers that were that brought it into international prim- in the settling of the new coun- A Happy New Year Best Wishes for a Happy New Year. inence. Recently at a world con- ties out of the territory in the gress of librarians in I'rague it original Macomb County, consider- was represented by Dr. Hugo Berg- ation was had for the interests of GILBERT man, its Chief Librarian, who was Mt. Clemens. The little settlement grew in it elected Honorary Chairman of the Congress. It was here for the first very slow and desultory fashion AUTO SUPPLY time that a conference of librari- until the decade of the think,. ans ever heard an address deliv- when the success of the Erie ('anal ered in Hebrew. Dr. Bergman pre• and the growth and enterprise of ssories f.Y livery car. ,kutii sented before the Congress a new the country generally caused a Auto tops and trimming. "We Serve to Sell Again." system for cataloguing "Judaica" large influx of Eastern settlers which earned a great deal of din- seeking new homes, who came west Auto glass. Phone 312 23 N. Gratiot Ave. tinction both for him and the Jew- largely by the waterways, the Erie ish Homeland. The National Li- Canal and Lake Erie to Detroit, 40 New St. Phan. 1300 Mt. Clemens, Mich: brary keeps also in close touch and spread out into the then com• with the great libraries in Leipzig parativety unknown territory of and Cairo and recently was repro- Michigan. Clemens then interest- Mt. Clynuins. 0000000040 sented at the convention of the ed in his village three Eastern American Library Association in mon, Rodney 0. Cooley, Edward Washington. Brooks and Enoch Jones, who in. 0 The only thing found lacking tared into an agreement for the for the Library has been a suitable purchasi• of the three private Rosh Hashanah Greetings i! It, building. Such a structure is now claims then owned by ('lemon., or Wc Wish All a Happy and Prosperous 0,, being built on Mt. Scopus near th, such portions thereof as he hail New Year. I Hebrew University. The Library not already sold out in lots. They supplies the necessary reference undertoLk to develop the little vil. It books to the students and faculty lags and platted out • large adi- II of the University. The late David dition thereto, covering the por- Woltsohn, the famous Zionist tion to the east and north of the leader, had left a fund for the original plat, naming their addition construction of the Library build- after their surveyor, Mallet. The Funeral Director and Licensed ing which will take about • year' death of Mr. Cooley. the only one Auto Ac and • half to complete. One hun- of the three who attempted a tier. Embalmer. dred and forty Jewish pioneers are manent residence at Mt. Clemens, Gas and Oil. industriously quarrying the stone and the disastrous effects of the 44 PINE ST. for the edifice and the beautiful financial panic of 1837, resulted 304 CASS AVENUE temple of the Jewish book is rap- • decided s•t-back to the village $ Po s 977 Night Call, Phone 197. Mt. ('lemons idly rising on the sacred soil. and compelled Mr. Clemens to re• take the title to the lands which Phone 1583 Mt. Clement ; 0 He who sows on the sands does I the three pioneer promoters had ....vi.N.qvN.....4 ,01....N. .tiswomMcg Tos.s.,7".7 not reap Bah. purchased. %.10;w0. tx. 4.111111.11" (Editorial Note: In this article Dr. M. Robinson, the noted Eu- ropean journalist now residing in Palestine, writes an account of • the National and University Library in Jerusalem.) Pontiac, Mich. ROBERT W. ■I•■■■■■■■ TAXI ■■■■■■■■ Krause Auto Shop ECKERT Fleming & Miller Ice Cream co. PETER A. BENOIT . JOHN ■■■■;■:■ J. STARK ■