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CHIEF OF POLICE

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Burt Englebrecht

DRAIN COMMISSIONER
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NEW AND USED CARS

81 CASS AVE

PHONE 1156

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Greetings and Best Wishes

Harry J. Miller

DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE

REALTOR—INSURANCE

Office, 108 N. Gratiot Ave.

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ELKIN'S

HOTEL

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SAM COHEN. Prop.

FRED MILLER, Mgr.

"I Sell the Earth and Insure Its Contents"

Phone 751-W

Mt. Clemens

Barron Block

31 T CLE.NIENS

NAME FIRST USED
WHEN VILLAGE WAS
PLATTED IN 1818

Roseville Garage
& Sales Co.

CHEVROLET SALES AND SERVICE

Gratiot Ave., Opp. Gratiot Airport

QUALITY AT LOW COST

PETER .1. 110FBAUER, Prop.

MT. CLEMENS, MICH.

Was in Honor of Christian
Clemens, Here First in
1795.

Greetings

Or, Alfrrh A,

ii:Moutption

The 11111111 1 Of Mt. Clemens is
more than it century dd , having
first been affixed to this town in
ISIS when the heart of the vil-
Physician and Surgeon
lage was platted by Judge Clem-
ens. The judge, then plain Chris.
Telephone 335
Linn ('lumens and a member of a
surveying party under Lewis Cass,
Office and Residence:
is credited with first having appre-
ciated this district sufficiently to
58 North Walnut Street
want to settle here. The survey-
ing party passed through in 1795.
MT. CLEMENS, MICII.
In 179:1, (lumens returned to find
occupants, including John Brooks
and his distillery and various other
squatters, who later claimed title r.
to the lands.
Greetings and Best Wishes
In
Clemens had obtained
possession and occupancy of pri-
vate claim UI , bought the Brooks'
still and moved it to the site of
what was later t be George Truc-
ker's hums .
N1t. Clemens was
called "Whiskey-none" (whiskey-
maker) by the Indians bet.aussr of
the presence here of the distillery.
The other principal private claim:
where now lies the city of Mt.
(lenient; Were VII), 511, 173 and
512, with which are associated the
names of Henry Conner, Henry
AUTOMOBILE AND RADIO
Tucker, Edward Hazel and James
Abbott.
27 Market St.
How Named.
Phone 270
In the same year that Mt. Clem-
MT. CLEMENS, MICH.
ens was named in honor of Chris-
st.
tian Clemens, that keen and fore
sighted gentleman was instrumen-
tal in having Macomb County laid
out by the governor and of having
A Happy New Year
Mt. Clemens made Cu' seat of jus-
tice on March It, ISIS. On May
5, the governor and judges appro-
priated $100 for a courthouse and
rail at Mt. Clemens, This struc-
ture, a square-timbered, log affair
Was built in 1819 by Capt. Benja-
min ‘Voodworth. The lower floor
served as a jail, the upper as court-
house, church and school room. A
prisoner set fire to it in 13:39, hop-
ing to escape, and was nearly
Established in 1877,
burned to death before rescued.
Opposite Public Library
In 1810 was built a new court-
house, the predecessor of the pres-
ent one.
Phone 717 - W
The first vessel built in Mt.
Clemens was the "Harriet" named
MT. CLEMENS, MICH.
after Judge Clemens' eldest daugh-
ter. It was launched in the Clin-
ton River in 1021, only. eight years
after the distressing experience of
the Boyer family of father and
four sons who were kidnapped
from their homes near Mt. Clem-
ens and taken into the forest by
Indians, but later ransomed or ref.
cued after harrowing adventures
with the Redskins. During the
War of 1812, all of the residents
Permanent Waving, Marcelling
in this section had fled to the fort
Finger Waving, Scalp
at Detroit for protection, includ-
Treatment
ing Mr. Clemens.
Prom'nent Figures.
All Lines of Beauty Culture
Names of some of the person- •
ages who figured in Mt. Clemens'
DAVID MEDDAUGH, Prop.
early history before incorporation
as a village. include Thomas Ash-1
66 North Gratiot Ave.
ley, tavern keeper; Ezekiel Allen,
Phone 579
builder; Thomas Wattles, the first
I village blacksmith whose shop was
MT. CLEMENS, MICH.
on Gratiot about where the Medea

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Slratinitio (grrriiitgo

Phone 700

MT. CLEMENS, MICH.

Michigan

Rosh Hashonah Greetings to Our
Many Friends

BANNOW DRUG
CO., INC.

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Eugene Beque

GRANITE AND MARBLE WORKS

WE MAKE JEWISH MONUMENTS

300 North Ave.

Phone 959-J, Res., 959-M

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Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous
New Year

MT. CLEMENS
STORAGE AND
BATTERY
COMPANY

SERVICE LAUNDRY

"BATTERIES"

137 Hubbard Ave. Phone 1271

DUNCAN B.
HUBBARD

JACK WILSON, Prop.

We go anywhere at any time.
Prompt, Courteous, Careful.
Lowest Rates in the City

Romeo was

We Wish All Our Jewish Friends
and Patrons a Happy and
Prosperous New Year

Assistant Prosecuting Attorney

Marie J. Behnke

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Deep Wells Are Source of
City's Famous Supply.
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POWERS FIRST
FOUND IN 1870

Hotel now is; Henry Halsey, who •
has the distinction of la'ing the
first man buried in Clemens Park;
Dr. Chamberlain, ID. Thompson,
Dr. It. S. Rice and 1/1., George
Lee, who married 31r. Clemens'
eldest girl, Harriet; IVilliarn
saddler; Robert I'. El-
dredge, James AVilliains, Oliver,
l'hapoton, Nun :11o•, a cools'''.
'fho village was first incimpor-
atm! on :Starch 13, 18:17, the char-
ter providing for a president, re-
corder and six trustees. l'anic that
gripped people': attention at this
time til 7 1.7 1117, to have taken the citi-
zens' minds my of carrying out the
charter's provisions.
SO when
things 111110011 down again, the vil-
lage was incor'por'ated again on
April I, 1851 and Daniel Lutes !m-
eanie first president. The last pres-
ident before ineurpnrat ion as a
in
April 1879, was Charles S.
Groselieck. The first connection
with the outside world by other
than stage-coach and boat came in
18.59 when the 3lichigan Division
of the Grand Trunk 13ailway built
through Nlacomb County under the
nane of the Detroit, Chicago and
Gi.and Trunk Junction Railway .
Company.

Mt. ('lemons is known the world
«nor were discovered accidentally
in 1s70.
A 1 011111:111 . 0 rganizod to pros-
ley' for oil drilled the first 5,7 1 7 11 in
1 ,7 415 but after a depth of 1,:300 feet
nos reached the plans were chang-
id and a new company was organ-
ized for the manufacture of salt,
Inr it was found that the water
they struck possessed great quanti-
ties of brine. However, because
ether minerals hindered the manu-
facture of that commodity the
$100,000 corporation disbanded the
project as unprofitable.
Luckily the curative properties
of these waters were discovered
about this time and were first used
by liner Kellogg, at that time pro-
Charter Changed.
prietor of a flour and feed mill on
Again, in 1913, growth led to a
Itreitilway. Ile and n Mr. Tromb-
feeling of t he necessity for a
li were the first "bathers." The
change in the city's antique char-
first physicians to revognize the
ter to a ciomoission form of gov-
virtues of the mineral water, its it
1 , 15111 1 la 1117 called , was I/1'. Abner ernment, then quite modern but
since become obsolete.
'('he l'17111-
Hayward who used it in treatment 111iSSi1717
to revise the :barter was
fns rheumatism and various skin elected April
9, 1913. It consist-
diseases.
ed of Henry It Chapatiol, Nlartin
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First Bathhouse.
Crodeer, August %V o lt% Ent,
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A short time after the first bath-
Nunneley, F. P.
A. T.
hnuse was built at the corner of
Denaldson and \Villiam F. Nark.
Jones and Water streets by finan-
cial contributions Of Slt. Clemens Though the revised charter it as
adopted by the ionimissinn on Ap-
citizens and placed under the su-
ril 11 and approved by Governor
pervisien of Dr. Henry Taylor and
S al.
' rhos was 111 173 111111 the lVoolbridge N. Ferris on May 2(1.
1914, it wins !lot until Nliv. 5, 1918,
Original Bath }louse and the AV- that
t le voters approved it.
ery
(nail the 1/11•S-
This charter, under which Mt.
ent Park Hotel—bee:one known
r•'ri
Clemens is now long governed,
thriaighout the width and breadth
(Sr t h e country for the marvelous provides for electinn of a mayor,
four cioninissimmrs, two justice
cork, that were being Ol'ectial of
011 1 1/17 /1C0 and a constable. The
thriaigh the agency of the mineral
mayor is ex-officio n commissioner
waters.
SHOFARS
and
chairman of the commission.
A Mrs. Tralman of
1. Used by Beni-Israel of Bombay. 2, 3, 7. In the Great Syna-
He has the right to vide but not
g
the first bath under the su-
gogue, Aldgate, London. 4. From Bagdad, eighteenth century. 5, 0.
In veto. 13y majority vote, the
S. In the United States National Museum, Washington. 8. Wit n pervision of a physician in the commission appoints for one-yea-
doctors loon,' in a rubber bath tub.
carved Hebrew inscription (after Wetzstein). 10. Alleged to belong
terms a clerk, treasurer, assessor,
Ilnyvimir her malady—rheumatism
to the pre-expulsion period (1200) of English Jews. 11. In the pos.
beard of review, attorney and en-
- was cured.
gineer.
session of Mrs. E. F. Aaron, New York. 12. In the possession of
The governteent is di-
Since that time eight houses
I the late A. I. Cohen, London. 1:3. In the possession of F. I.. Cohen,
vided into departments, each in
have been built in this order: Me- charge of
Sydney, N. S. W.
a conimissioner; public
dth. Fountain, l'ark, Clementine.
affairs, finance, public safety,
The Shofar, the ancient ritual horn of Israel,( represents, next to
('5 Is vial, St. Joseph, Plaza, and
the reeds, the oldest surviving form of wind-instrument. As a rule it is
streets and public property, water-
Olympia. All of these are extreme- Works
incorrectly translated "trumpet," or "cornet," but its etymology shows
and sewers.
ly 'linden' in their equipment and
it to signify either "tuba," or more accurately, "clarion." It is men-
ability to assure liiunt Clemens ,,T
tioned frequently in the Bible, Talmud and late Ilebliew literature. It
Behavior is a mirror in which
increasing popularity as x health
everyone display's his own image.
was the voice of a Shofar, "exceeding loud,• issued from the thick and pleasure resort,
—Gnethe.
•• cloud of Shod, that made all in the camp tremble,
First Hotel.
In the Pentateuch the use of the Shofar is prescribed for tile
The
first
hotel
to
cater
ta
seek-
D a trihneoru rneelei' gtni :nu ts oc: rethnewriNi i.w
is. Moon and solemn feasts, as also for pro.
..rs of renewed health was the Av-
ery. The Sherman House which
A Happy New Year to All
preceded it was purely a commet.-
dal hotel. The Avery hose
Our Jewish Friends
it,$
burnt to the grouitil in October,.
1906.
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The number of modern hotels
( 1-75;
which now abound in Mt. Clemens
have been built during the period
24 ' 4+
b •tween 1892 and the present time.
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Among these are the Colonial.
' Olympia, Nleilea„ Park, Clemen-
' tire, Murphy, Sa. Joseph, Plaza,
Elkin, and a host of others.
69 North Walnut St.

MAYOR

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Funeral Director

Greetings

DAVE'S BARBER AND
BEAUTY SHOP

Quality Launderers for Particular People

C. R. BOYER, Prop.

MT. CLEMENS, MICHIGAN

Wet Wash — Flat Work — Rough Dry Finished i
Work. 24-Hour Service. Rug Cleaning

SANITARY—TRY US ONCE

Season's Greetings

SYD. T. THOME

Electrical Contractor and Dealer Since 1911

Wiring, Fixtures, Fans, Motors, Radios
and Supplies

63 Macomb Street

Telephone 3

MT. CLEMENS, MICH.

Our Best Wishes to You for a Happy and
Prosperous New Year

The Braun Clinical Laboratory

LEO N. BRAUN

STANLEY .1. PELTIER, B. S. M S

Phone 1386•W

Phone 306

Chemical and Bacteriological Examinations
Portable X-Ray

Office Hours 9 A. M. to 5:30 P. M.
Office: Phase 816. 16 5o. Grstlot Ave.

MT.

CLEMENS, MICH.

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