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Newspaper
Mount Pleasant Times
Location
Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1926
Page
15
A Mt Pleasant city ordinance outlines nonconforming uses and building setbacks, clarifies expansion limits, and delegates interpretation to the City Commission. It sets penalties for violations, defines district boundaries, and requires public hearings for amendments.
Public notice lists property owners and interested parties as affected by a calcium chloride spreading assessment from Main Street east to Kinney Avenue. The City Clerk announces the assessment is on file for review and a hearing will be held July 6, 1926 at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time for interested persons to be heard.
The city re enacts and amends multiple prior ordinances to permit Fred S. Davis and successors to establish gas works in Mt. Pleasant Michigan. The sequence includes amendments dating from 1901 to 1929 and re enacts Ordinance 88 and related sections.
Default on a 1916 mortgage by Clarence C. Beebe to F H Dusenbury. $60.50 due. Sale set for September 25, 1926 at 10 AM at the west front door of the Mt. Pleasant Court House to pay the debt plus costs. Property is the NW 1/4 of SE 1/4 of Sec 36 T15N R6W. Prior mortgage recorded June 22 1926.
City grants Fred Davis a gas franchise with obligations to build a gas plant by December 1 1903 and operate within eighteen months. Rates start at 1 65 per 1000 for initial gas and adjust to 1 50 or lower for higher usage with a minimum 85 cents per month per meter from 1926, subject to arbitration if needed.
Crowds from Chicago and Milwaukee arrive by special trains on the Chicago and North Shore line. Thousands converge from distant cities to witness a grand liturgical pageant honoring the Blessed Sacrament.
A grand altar and a purple throne for John Cardinal Borizano dominated the scene before Lake St Marys. Twelve cardinal thrones flanked the altar as space was set for bishops and more than 5,000 priests. Amplifiers carried every word to an audience of about 1,000,000 onlookers.
Senior class speakers from area normal schools emphasized core ideals as campus buildings were damaged or "treated" after a farewell event. Names linked to Go ver's store and campus sites appear beside remarks by graduates from Owosso Clarencé Reid Ironwood and others.
Parts were taken by Emory Ingersoll Clarence Haas Arthur Tierke and George Lance and praised for acting. Costuming stage settings and make ups were exceptionally fine under Prof. Beddow guiding the production.
Entertainments and lectures of unusual interest arranged with addresses by Dr. Edwin Slosson and Dr. A E Winship. The Deveraux Players return for another series of dramas as the county commissioners’ program begins.
The passage urges perseverance in seeking truth and mentions music by Miss Sara Sisson of Central and a male quartet. It asserts that nature pays rewards and that more exercise allows more smoking without illness.
A fragmented grocery notice lists beans by type including light red kidney dark red and white beans with per unit prices. It shows live poultry prices for spring chickens heavy roosters and related items and a miscellaneous produce section with scattered figures.
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