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A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW
YEAR TO OUR JEWISII FRIENDS
FRIENDS AND PATRONS
Best Wishes for a Happy New Year
Season's Greetings
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Carl C. Eschenburg
AUGUST VON BOESELAGER, Prop.
N. Gratiot Avenue on Rapid Line
Phone 668
MT. CLEMENS, MICH.
Electrical Contractor and Dealer Since 1911
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Park Hotel
and Baths
are World Renowned for the Treatment of
Rheumatism, Gout, Neuralgia, Neuritis,
Nervousness. Physicians and Chemises Pro-
munce them Specially Beneficial in these
Cases.
Phone 808
20 N. Broadway
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THOMAS G. LONGSTAFF, Mgr.
Holiday Greetings for All
MT. ('LEMENS, :1114'11.
John N. Tucker
Fuel — Builders' Supplies — Coal — Wood
Concrete Block Manufacturer
Phone 40
Foot of. Park Avenue
Mt. Clemens, Mich.
MT. CLEMENS HISTORY INTERESTING
The Season's Greetings
Marshall & Squier
for Economical Transportation
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cial avalanche that followed the before 187.... • a small bath house
too-extensive efforts of the young located where the Park Hotel is
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territory to develop itself, it prob- now located was erected and the
Growth of Bath City Places It Among World Leaders as a ably would have resulted in Mt. large houses standing on the cor-
Clemens being put on the map at a net of East and Jones streets (li-
Resort for Health and Rest; Christian Clemens
very early date. The attempt to rectly opposite were turned into
the Traditional Pioneer Settler.
build this canal brought to Mt. boarding houses where those af-
Clemens and its vicinity from the flicted with rheumatism and skin
81 CASS AVE
PHONE 1156
Tradition has it that about 1796 present courthouse
brought a East many families who played an diseases found lodging and board-
Christian Clemens, then in busi- marked activity and prominence to active part in the development of ing. The wonderful cures effected
the
village.
Its
location
in
what
the
community
later,
among
them
by
the
baths
caused
the
clearing
Mt.
Clemens,
Mich.
ness in Detroit, was attracted to
the site of what is now Mt. Clem- was practically the extreme south- the Snook, Traver, Shook families away of all the houses on the
ens, when on a surveying trip with east corner of the extensive tern- and others. Another of the short- block facing East street (now East
General Cass, who later became tory then called the County of Ma- lived industries that started at this Broadway) between Jones and
governor of Michigan and repre- comb endangered, of course, its time was the glass factory, which Park avenue, and the erection of
sented this state in the United permanent hold upon the county brought the Hall and Grovier fami- a large frame hotel covering the 0000*0000000000000000000000000000000008000000000 0
seat, and it was undoubtedly due lies, who had been operating a larger part of that block by the 000004000000000-0000000000000000000000000000009000
States senate.
influence of glass factory in New York state. Avery Brothers in the year 1880
The interesting story of Mt. quite largely to the
Clemens among the powers that This was located at the extreme —a time which represented the
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Clemens, here retold from Lester's
were that in the settling of the end of the village, where later only period of Mt. Clemens that
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new counties out of the territory stood the salt well and the original could be called a boom. At this
the beginning of the nineteenth
in the original Macomb County, pumping station for mineral wa- same time the precent courthouse t;,
century. Clemens started a settle-
tem. Also a small and undoubt- was built and pavements began to
ment on thin site before the war of consideration was had for the in. tally
very temporary enterprise be laid in the city, and a large in-
1812 and built the first house in teresta of Mt. Clemens.
The little settlement grew in a was a pottery factory located crease in population was observed.
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the settlement on the westerly
very slim and desultory fashion where now stands the Mt. Clemens About this same time also, the ef-
side of what is now North Broad-
forts of Romeo to secure the re-
until
the
decade
of
the
thirties,
Savings
Bank,
way, between Market and New
when the success of the Erie Canal
About this time, or a little later, moral of the county seat from Mt.
st recta.
development of the Clemens received its quietus, and
The war of 1812 stirred up no and the growth and enterprise of began the
incorporated
much activity among the Indians the country generally caused a stave industry, which proved to be Mt. Clemens became
Soon thereafter the
large
influx
of
Eastern
settlers
a
long-lived
and
very successful in- as a city.
against the settlers who kept al-
legiance to the United States that seeking new homes, who came west dustry for this part of the country. Medea company was organized
it became necessary for all the largely by the waterways, the Erie The country about having been and erected a bath house on the
English speaking residents of Mt. Canal and Lake Erie to Detroit, very heavily timbered, and as it corner of Cass and Gratiot, and a
years later the Fountain Hotel
Clemens to seek refuge in Detroit, and spread out into the then cons- grew in agricultural importance e few
and Bath House were erected on
and Clemens, staying in Detroit at paratively unknown territory of and was cleared for tillage, th
Michigan.
Clemens
then
interested
material
for
staves
was
naturally
North
Gratiot. The bath industry
that time, undoubtedly cemented
his friendship for and influence in his village three Eastern men, plentiful and cheap. This stave has proved so successful and the
Rodney 0, Cooley, Edward Brooks industry early developed by the benefits derived from the baths has
with the men who were prominent
and Hathaway families at been so thoroughly established us
in the development of Michigan, and Enoch Jones, who entered Jenne),
and therefrom probably resulted into an agreement for the pus- mills located at the extreme east permanent that there now exist in
chase
of
the
three
private
claims
end
of
the
village, was kept up by the city nine wells and bath houses
much benefit to Mt. Clemens in
then owned by Clemens, or such Snook, Groesbeck and Van Lande- era connected with its own hotels
later years.
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portions
thereof
as
he
had
not
chew,
even
until the early years and boarding houses.
In 1518 the County of Macomb
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was set off by the territorial au• already sold out in lots. They un- of the twentieth century.
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loge and platted out a large addi- later in the fifties became the Paper called the Statesman in
of thepresent county but about
20 times that territory, stretching tion thereto, covering the portion scene of an attempt to find oil, 1840, and the Macomb Counts. .
to the east and north of the nrigi- which resulted in striking a vein of Herald in 1848. Mr. Clemens ha •
north nearly to Saginaw and west
nal plat, naming their addition water so strongly impregnated with rarely been without two newspa-
to the principal meridian. largely
through the influence, no doubt, of after their surveyor, Mullet. The salt that' instead of going further perm and for no small portion of
death of Mr. Cooley, the only one in search of oil the enterprise was the time has had a third. At pres-
Clemens, the Village of Mt. Clem-
of the three who attempted a per- changed and salt was manufac- eat the field is filled with the Mt.
ens was designated as the county
seat, although it then included lit. manent residence at Mt. Clemens, tured there for a considerable pe- Clemens Monitor, operated in con-
and the disastrous effects of the rind. However, the minerals in the nection with many of the weekly
tle more than a few scattering big
financial panic of 1837, resulted in water prevented the obtaining of papers about the country, by .1. E.
residences and stores. This same
a decided set-back to the village a first-class quality of salt and the Nellis A Son Company, and the
year Clemens platted the village,
and compelled Mr. Clemens to re- cheap fuel which the salt wells of Mt. Cletnens Leader, a daily news-
which included the district between
take the title to the lands whch the Saginaw district were able to paper with the Mt. Clemens Pres ,
Market street, Cherry street, the
pioneer promoters had obtain in the refuse of the lumber as a weekly adjunct, operated by
river and a line joining the river the three
mills caused too sharp a competi- the Leader-Press Company.
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end of Ilerry street with the south- purchased
tion and prevented the profitable The flank of Macomb, which
Enterprises Started.
erly end of Cherry street, in the
manufacture of salt here to any maintained a precarious existence
In
the
meantime,
however,
vari-
rear of where now stands the
large extent. This discovery of for two decades or more through
Olympia hotel—this line being the ous enterprises had started in and
the medicinal quality of the •a- the panic of 1837, and finally sue-
which
about
the
village,
some
of
Two Yards — One Service
southwesterly line of the private
proved long lived and a great ters, in the early seventies, led to cumbed during the financial crisis
claim owned by Clemens.
North Avenue at G. T. Railroad
Phone 1682
benefit to the community. and the abandonment of the salt enter- of 1857, represented the first and
Clemens' Influence.
prise and the development of what only banking venture of Mt. Clem-
At the time Mt. Clemens was some of which met the usual finan- has proved to be Mt. Clemens' most_ ens until the formation of the pri-
Mt.
Clemens—Halfway
thus founded and platted, un- cial disasters and failures of busi-
characteristic industry, health- vote bank of Tilden A Co. in the
doubtedly the roads existing con- ness enterprises. Among the lat-
early 70's. This organization Wan '-
giving baths.
sisted of wandering trails which ter may be mentoned the attempt
One unique and remarkable in- succeeded by the Mt. Clemens Say- -
to
dig
a
canal
from
the
Clinton
led to the Tucker and Connor set-
dustry of Mt. Clemens, started sirs Bank, organized June 1, 1877.
tlements and along the river and river to the Kalamazoo river, and
bark in its early history, has been which now for a period of 50 yearo
lake to Detroit and the other vari- thus open a waterway front the
that of the Donaldson Brothers, has had a most steady and remark-
ous settlements of French pioneers southerly end of Lake Michigan to
which started with a small black- able growth, its present footings
Lake
St.
Clair
—
an
enterprise
who had spread out from Detroit
smith shop on the corner of ala- amounting to upwards of $4,500,-
along the water courses. This which it was hoped would equal in
next banking enterprise
comb and Walnut streets, and has 000.
importance
and
success
the
Erie
platting of the village and the es-
developed by steady progression to of Mt. Clemens was that of Ulrich
tablishment of it as the judicial Canal in New York state. lint a large factory located at the junc- A Crocker, a private hank, which
this
not
met
disaster
by
the
ex-
center of the new county, and the
tion of Broadway and Clinton a few years later was incorporated
erection of a log courthouse and travagance and corruption attend- streets. Founded by the three as the Illrich Savings Bank. It
jail in 1819 on the site of the ing is construction and the finan- brothers, William S., Andrew T., has always kept its office at the
COMPLETE EQUIPMENT
and Thomas Donaldson, it has of corner of Broadway and Macomb
LATHES, DRILLS, SHAPER, MILLER, PRESSES
late years beet- conducted under streets and has well merited the
the corporation and been engaged success and (• osperity which has
Jobbing and Repair Work
in the manufacture of sleighs and marked its career. In 1960 was
agricultural implements of all organized the Citizens' Savings
Day and Night Service
kinds. The successful operation Bank, with Andrew T. Donaldson
of this individual plant in these as president and Milo N. Davis as
308 North Avenue
Phone Your Order 959-R
days of trusts and combinations cashier. This, the third bank of
Mt. Clemens, Mich.
speaks volumes for the ability with Mt. Clemens, has maintained its
which it has been managed. banking office on Macomb street
In 1901 and 1902 there was where now located, and carried on
DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE
erected the sugar factory, now, a successful and progressive hank-
operated by the corporation known ing business with profit to its
We go anywhere at any time.
as the Mt. Clemens Sugar COM. stockholders and satisfaction to its
pony, established just at the east- patrons. The First National Bank
Prompt, Courteous, Careful.
ern outskirts of the city, and is of Mt. Clemens, located at the car-
Lowest Rates in the City.
one of the outstanding industries net of Gratiot and New streets,
of the place. Similarly, at the has been organized and opened its
western side of the city, are lo- banking office during the year of
Mt. Clemens
N. Gratiot Ave.
mated the factories of the National 1920.
The Jewish population of Mt.
Candy Company and the Mt. Clem-
ens Pottery Company, each with Clemens, chiefly of comparatively
large factories in which are con- recent origin, has erected a fine
ducted progressive, profitable and synagogue on South avenue.
successful enterprises.
For inveterate faults a new pun-
I Baths.
The Uni
REAL PIONEERS BUILT MT. CLEMENS
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NEW AND USED CARS
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The BATHS
of Arethusa
Mt. Clemens, Mich.
ELEGANT ROOMS — EUROPEAN PLAN
Sanitary — Luxurious — Convenient
"Write for Circular"
A Happy and Prosperous New Year to All
The Modern Press
Macomb
Theater
, Mt. Clemens,
Michigan
The Season's Greetings
MT. CLEMENS
LEADING
PRINTERS
Stephens Lumber
Company
PHONE 147
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Greetings to All My Friends
HARRY GOULETTE
Plumbing and Heating Contractors
Electric Pumps, Automatic Water Softeners
Septic Tanks
Phone 1860
135 Smith St.
We Wish You All
a Happy Neu, Year
MT. CLEMENS, MICH.
Lumber, Lath, Posts, Interior Finish and All
Building Material
Modern Equipment for Special Work
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
HERBERT RONDO
'she
MACHINE SHOP
Season's Greetings
We Wish All Our Jewish Friends
and Patrons a Happy and Pros-
perous New Year
eAt
76 TAXI
Season's Greetings
J. F. GATZ & CO.
Office, 108
Michigan Federated Utilities
of
Mt. Clemens
"Your
GAS
Company"
Ice—Wholesale and Retail
Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous
New Year
Service Laundy
Quality Launderers for Particular People
C. W. WALTON, Frou.
137 Hubbard Ave. Phone 1271
Mt. Clemens, Mich.
If It Is Done With Heat You
Better With Gas
Can Do
36 N. Broadway
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MT. CLEMENS, MICH.
Phone 247
Wet Wash — Flat Work — Rough Dry
Finished Work, 24 Hours Service
Rug Cleaning
SANITARY—TRY US ONCE
However, the one industry ishment.
which has made the name of Mt.
he who
Clemens known from one end of
hoards
squanders
the country to the other is its through others.
baths. In the early 70's the me-
Who threatens most is he who
dicinal qualities of the waters at
Lake Shore Road and Cherry
MT. CLEMENS •
Phone 944
Phone 162
the salt well were discovered and most loth fear.
Our Best Wishes to You for a Happy and
Prosperous New Year
Poultry Troubles
Are largely eliminated by the right feeds. Properly fed flocks
are protected from disease. Feed "Common Sense" and watch
your pullets grow strong and lusty.
SEIBERT & KEIL
Mt. Clemens, Minh.
Phones 900 and 901
Greetings and Best Wishes
Harry J. Miller
REALTOR — INSURANCE
"I Sell the Earth and Insure
its Contents"
Opposite Western Union Telegraph Company
Phone 751-W
Mt. Clemens
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