Historical events, Coldwater, Branch County, Michigan Copyright © 1998 by Marilyn Lane. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. ___________________________________________________________________ HISTORICAL EVENTS TAKEN FROM COLDWATER, MICHIGAN CITY DIRECTORIES 1897 Oct. 22 - Mrs. Bernetty Woodard died, aged 102. Oct. 24 - Dr. Wm. B. Sprague died, aged 100 Nov. 8 - Tappan shoe factory commenced business. 1898 Jan. 12 - A.V. Vanderheyden died, aged 96. Apr. 26 - Coldwater Light Guards left for Spanish-American war. June 19 - Wm. A. Coombs died. June 27 - D.B. Purinton died. Nov. 6 - Cement works began making cement. 1899 July 6 - Porter Avery suicided. July 24 - B.S. Tibbits died. Aug. 8 - Mrs. Ella Harper died, aged 95. Oct. 16 - S.M. Seely died. 1900 March 23 - J.L. Snooks suicided. May 31 - Coldwater adopted standard time. June 26 - Hon. N.P. Loveridge died. July 19 - David Bovee died. July 24 - Clarence Sherer suicided. Sept. 1 - First rural mail delivery out of Coldwater. Sept. 7 - Edwin R. Clarke died. 1901 Apr. 7 - Cutter Avenue chapel dedicated. 1902 March 16 - Treat & Son's warehouse burned; loss, $10,000. March 24 - A.B. Dickinson died. March 26 - D.H. Davis died. Apr. 11 - D.B. Dennis died. Apr. 16 - Mrs. Kate Green died, aged 112. June 14 - Geo. W. Stevenson died, aged 96. 1903 Jan. 16 - Ideal Fixture Co's factory damaged $7,000 by fire. Mar. 3 - Hon. Harvey Haynes died. April 5 - J.S. Conover died. Sept. 1 - C.D. Randall died,. Oct. 22 - Ebenezer Hyde died, aged 93. Nov. 27 - Albert Chandler died, aged 89. Nov. 30 - Lewis A. Thompson died, aged 95. 1904 Feb. 7 - North part of town flooded again. April 18 - Dr. I.P. Alger died, aged 83. June 17 - Johnson Cooperage Co. lost $5,000 by fire. Sept. 18 - Thos. W. Dickinson died, aged 89. 1905 Feb. 1 - B.R. Moore died. Feb. 12 - Dr. W.L. Andrews died. March 18 - Ex-Gov. Cyrus G. Luce died. May 18 - New city charter became law. June 13 - J.B. Hellenberg died. July 31 - Ex-Mayor S.B. Kitchel died. Aug. 28 - J.H.D. Warren died, aged 82. Oct. 15 - Ex-Mayor B.H. Calkins died. 1906 March 29 - Uri Blodgett died, aged 85. Apr. 5 - L.D. Halsted died, aged 85; resided here 70 years. Apr. 15-16 - Mr. And Mrs. R.C.Sawdey died. May 6 - Gen. J.G. Parkhurst died, aged 82. May 26 - Mrs. Kimball Parrish died, aged 89; resided here 70 years. May 27 - Mrs. Geo. Chase suicided. June 16 - John Anderson killed in a saloon row. June 28 - Kimball Parrish died, aged 88; resided here 70 years. Sept. 2 - Free Methodist Church dedicated. Dec. 11 - Soldiers' monument dedicated. 1907 Feb. 9 - Carroll Bros.' store burned; loss, $10,000. June 26 - J.H. VanAken died, aged 86; resided here 71 years. Aug. 9 - Mrs. Louisa J. Wilder died, aged 84; resided here 78 years. Dec. 14 - Mrs. Asenath Knapp died, aged 91. 1908 Jan. 9 - V.L. Nettleton suicided. Jan. 18 - J.S. Barber died, aged 84. Jan. 25 - Mrs. L.D. Halsted burned to death. Jan. 31 - Deep snow prevented rural mail carriers' trips. March 5 - North part of city flooded again. May 5 - A.R. Burrows died, aged 81. June 22 - D.C. Shaw died, aged 80. July 2 - Italian murdered west of the Lake Shore yards. Aug. 1 - Fire back of S.M. Hotel; loss, $9,000. Sept. 3 - Mrs. Mary E. Daugherty died, aged 76; first white child born in Coldwater. Sept. 24 - Harry Potter suicided. Oct. 6 - Israel Corey died, aged 94. Nov. -- - Latter Day Saints' Church completed. Dec. 1 - Rev. H.P. Eldridge died, aged 76 Dec. 4 - John T. Starr died, aged 47. Dec. 11 - Mrs. E.B. Saxton died, aged 78. Dec. 19 - Mrs. Patrick Bishop died, aged 67. Dec. 22 - Contract let to C.W. Gindle of Chicago for construction of new postoffice building. Dec. 29 - Mrs. Ellen R. Hilborn died, aged 79. 1909 Jan. 1 - Mrs. J.H.D. Warren died, aged 80. Jan. 25 - Rev. R.W. VanSchoick died, aged 66. Jan. 29 - C.J. Thorpe died, aged 74. March 19 - Harlow Williams died, aged 82; resident of the county 73 years. March 28 - The body of Sidney Brown, aged 67, was found in North Lake. April 5 - Local option carried in Branch County by 581. April 7 - George Greenwood died, aged 76. May 13 - Mrs. Maria Barnhard died, aged 87. May 20 - Mrs. C.D. Randall died, aged 73. June 22 - Cornerstone of new postoffice building laid. June 30 - Mrs. Eliza J. Jefferds died, aged 83. July 29 - Capt. J.S. Andrews died, aged 89. Nov. 8 - Rest room established in courthouse basement. Nov. 10 - Mrs. Cornelius Finney, aged 59, killed by falling down a flight of stairs. Dec. 9 - Cornelius VanIderstine died, aged 83. Dec. 16 - Mrs. Uri Blodgett died, aged 80. 1910 Jan. 6 - Thos. H. Vance died, aged 83. Jan. 10 - Edward J. Dunks died, aged 70. Jan. 14 - Albert N. Brinton died, aged 83. Jan. 14 - Six convictions, in the Circuit Court, of violating local option law; fines aggregated $200 and 194 days imprisonment. Jan. 16 - Edward L. Preston dropped dead, aged 59. Feb. 2 - Mrs. Geo. W. Collins died, aged 48. Feb. 5 - Mrs. Edmond Hall died, aged 67. Feb. 8 - Mrs. Catherine Mallon died, aged 82. Feb. 10 - Mrs. Allen J. Pratt died, aged 51. Feb. 11 - Mrs. Harriet M. Parker died, aged 83. Feb. 13 - Seventy-fifth anniversary of the organization of the Baptist Church celebrated. Feb. 15 - Lafayette M. Bassett died, aged 78. Feb. 22 - First annual banquet of R.F.D. carriers held. Feb. 24 - Erastus P. Ball died, aged 81. Feb. 23 - C.M. VanEvery, an old resident of Coldwater, died in Bronson, aged 76. Feb. 26 - The closing day of a run of eighty-two days of continuous sleighing. March 8 - Theodore G. Sheldson died, aged 75. March 23 - City Engineer Ezra Shoecraft, Jr. resigned; successor, Gardner Legg. March 25 - County Drain Commissioner O.F. Thornton arrested, charged with forgery. March 31 - Mrs. Warren A. Blye died, aged 63. April 3 - Mrs. Elizabeth Cady died, aged 95. April 3 - Mrs. Elizabeth M. Chapman died, aged 95. April 4 - A.A. Sherman elected Mayor for the fourth time. April 9 - Josephus Clark died, aged 83. April 15 - United States census enumerators began their work. April 18 - Henry V. Whitehead died, aged 66. April 23 - Charles I. Fonda died, aged 79. April 29 - John Hill died, aged 84. May 1 - Rev. Frank B. Bachelor, pastor of the Baptist Church, resigned. May 13 - Garber A. Nichols died, aged 50. May 16 - New postoffice building occupied and opened to the public. May 17 - Cornerstone of St. Charles Catholic school laid. May 17 - Jay M. See, a lad 17 years old, killed by the caving in of an abandoned well from which he was taking brick. May 18 - Thirty-sixth annual reunion of Loomis Battery held. June 6 - Mrs. Henry C. Bailey died, aged 72. June 7 - Mrs. Wealthy Hall died, aged 87. June 8 - Mrs. Emily C. Wilson died, aged 82. June 8 - Duane W. Chase died, aged 80. June 12 - Robert G. Chandler, aged 71, died from burns received in his room over Roby's drug store. June 17 - The high school graduated a class numbering thirty-five members. June 18 - Ennis J. Lockwood died, aged 74. June 24 - Forty-second annual reunion of the Coldwater High School Alumni held. June 29 - Twenty-second annual reunion of the soldiers and sailors of Branch county held. July 9 - George P. Williams died, aged 70. July 9 - John Richards died, aged 80. July 21 - Dr. George Ferguson died, aged 83. July 23 - Abram S. Kirkland died, aged 86. Aug. 5 - Frank Carpenter killed by a fall from a scaffold at the "A" mill. Aug. 12 - Mrs. Emma Trostel died, aged 73. Aug. 14 - Mrs. L.A. Hibbard died, aged 67. Aug. 16 - Mrs. I.N. Shaw died, aged 91. Aug. 29 - Niles Baldridge died, aged 71. Sept. 8 - Branch County Bar Association gave a banquet for Gen. Frank D. Newberry, who left for Granby, Colo., Sept. 17. Sept. 9 - Mrs. C.E. Wise died, aged 43. Sept. 21 - Co. A, 2d. Regt., M.N.G., left for Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, for their annual encampment. Sept. 21 - Hiram Simmons died, aged 92. Sept. 22 - Forty-fifth annual reunion of the 19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry held, entertained by L.M. Wing. Sept 27 - John W. Ives, aged 76, accidentally killed by falling through a floor at Bidelman's livery barn. Sept. 28 - James E. Jones died, aged 66. Oct. 5 - Mrs. Mahlon Smith died, aged 76. Oct. ? - Rev. C.S. Burns accepted the call to become paster of the Baptist church; duties to begin Nov. 6. Oct. 11 - Mrs. John Lippert died, aged 76. Oct. 13 - Henry F. Harbaugh died, aged 49. Oct. 14 - Mrs. J.S. Warford died, aged 74. Oct. 20 - Geo W. Peters died, aged 66. Oct. 25 - Jasper V. Sprague died, aged 57. Oct. 26 - Mrs. Mae Parker suicided. Oct. 30 - Miles E. Wattles died, aged 71. Oct. 31 - Jasper A. Fenner, who started around the world Aug. 17 with Rev. F.B. Bachelor, accepted a position as pharmacist in Tokio[sic], Japan. Nov. 1 - Martin H. Thornton died, aged 70. The sixth postman - Fred Smith - began his duties. Nov. 7 - Milk condensary secured to locate here. Nov. 13 - Samuel D. Relyea died, aged 82. Nov. 14 - Mrs. J.E. Jones died, aged 62. Nov. 15 - W.S. Chandler's home robbed of $75 worth of silverware. Nov. 21 - Chas W. Roode died, aged 53. Nov. 23 - Dr. Hawley H. Crippen was hanged in London for the murder of his wife. Nov. 25 - Mrs. J.T. Miller died, aged 62. Nov. 31 - Max Calkins lost an eye by accident. Dec. 3 - Theron W. Mudgett died, aged 86. Dec. 10 - Mrs. Elizabeth Stowe died, aged 76. Dec. 22 - Hugh W. Randolph died. Dec. 31 - Samuel Bater and wife celebrated their golden wedding. The spring of 1910 was in some respects unusual. Mercury 82 degrees in the shade March 24; heavy snow April 26; snow flurry May 31 with mercury 39 degrees. 1911 Jan. 5 - Col. Geo. H. Turner confirmed as resident member of the Board of Control of the State Public School. Jan. 6 - Earl Brown died. Jan. 8 - Leon Fellers died, aged 19. Jan. 11 - Mrs. Harriet A. Harris died, aged 84. Jan. 12 - Mrs. Georgiana Cutter died, aged 81. Jan. 14 - Mrs. Mary Edwards died, aged 50. Jan. 14 - Miss Louise V. Woodmaster died, aged 22. Jan. 19 - Humphrey Cain died, aged 89. Jan. 20 - Fred A. Smith and Addie L. Johnson married. Jan. 23 - Opening of the reconstructed Y.M.C.A. building celebrated; about 400 present. Jan. 14 - Amos Markham died, aged 80. Feb. 1 - Henry B. George died, aged 72. Feb. 10 - The southeast corner of Chicago and Clay Streets, known as the Vanderhoof place, sold to city for site for new Armory for company A for $4,600. Feb. 13 - Mrs. Mary E. Loring died, aged 71. Feb. 14 - The 16th annual banquet of the Lincoln Club held. Feb. 14 - Sylvia May Garey and L.E. Backenstoe married. Feb. 15 - Mrs. Nina Ball's dressmaking rooms over Southern Michigan National Bank burned. Feb. 18 - Nathan Fetterly died, aged 84. Feb. 18 - Chas. D. Cluff died, aged 71. Feb. 19 - Mrs. Wm. Mitchell died, aged 50. Feb. 22 - Mr. & Mrs. Alford Thompson celebrated the 61st anniversary of their marriage. Feb. 26 - Mrs. Chas. U. Champion died, aged 42. Feb. 28 - John Ferris died, aged 80. Feb. 28 - The B.H. Calkins residence badly damaged by fire. March 8 - Mrs. Caroline M. Lawyer found dead in bed. She had secluded herself from all company for several years. She left by will to the Methodist Church of this city, property valued at about $10,000. March 12 - Mrs. W.E. Goodnow died, aged 42. March 12 - Albert McPeak died, aged 28. March 14 - Reuben Taylor died, aged 74. March 14 - Arnold W. Pixley died, aged 57. March 18 - Mrs. Julia A. Wilson died, aged 53. March 19 - Michael Kennedy died, aged 76. March 26 - Adna J. Chase died, aged 57. April 1 - Daniel G. Parker retired from the employ of the Coldwater Gas Light and Fuel Co. after serving the company over 41 years. April 3 - Chas. A. Conover elected mayor by a majority of 95 over A.A. Sherman. April 6 - Blaine L. Kinney and Azelda Severn married. April 8 - Mrs. Alfred Sargent died, aged 60. April 9 - Thos. Kehoe died, aged 51. April 15 - The milk condensary started its work. April 15 - The rural mail carriers from the city were remembered by their patrons with a gift of a total of 2034 eggs for their Easter dinner. April 15 - Agnes A. Lilly, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Lilly, died, aged 31. April 16 - R.A. Hall died, aged 68. April 17 - Isaac Vanderhoof died, aged 80. April 18 - Mrs. Ellen M. Reed died, aged 82. April 21 - Mrs. Cynthia Brewer celebrated her 93d birthday. April 25 - Nicholas Lopez returned from Italy accompanied by his bride, Miss Louise Bonfiglio, to whom he was married March 5. May 3 - Orrin F. Thornton, ex-drain commissioner, arrested in Janesville, Wis., charged with forgery here. May 14 - Major D. Williams died, aged 61. May 14 - Epsworth League celebrated 21st anniversary. May 16 - Loomis Battery held its 50th annual reunion. May 18 - Council ordered 6,000 gallons of oil for sprinkling West Chicago Street. May 28 - George Jackowiak drowned by falling into the river from the Cement Co. tug. May 28 - The hottest May on record; on the 27th, the mercury stood at 96 degrees. June 8 - Roy Letherer and Hazel Milks married. June 8 - Commencement exercises of the high school graduating class held at the Opera House; the class numbered 41. June 12 - Private memorial services held at Oak Grove Cemetery, seven orders participating. June 15 - Twenty-third annual reunion of the Soldiers and Sailors of Branch County held. June 16 - Mrs. Douglas Ward died, aged 44. June 17 - Risdon S. Baldwin and Jessie Barker married. June 17 - Mrs. Elmer J. Allen died, aged 39. June 18 - Jacobs Commandery conducted its annual memorial exercises in honor of over 60 deceased sir knights who are resting in Oak Grove. June 20 - Lancaster Coffman died, aged 80. June 21 - Homer E. McConnell and Elaine E. Hatton married. June 23 - Mrs. Harriet A. Keyes died, aged 73. June 23 - Aaron Bagley died at Soldiers' Home, Grand Rapids, aged 89. June 28 - Rev. Frank B. Bachelor and Miss Ethel M. Girdwood married. June 28 - Dr. Dean A. Godwin and Miss Myrtle E. Smith married. June 28 - John W. Cole died, aged 78. June 29 - Branch County Chautauqua opened for its first session. July 1 - Mrs. Wm. R. Myers died, aged 63. July 4 - Mrs. Harvey Haynes died, aged 87; she came to Coldwater in 1834. July 4 - The mercury on this date (the 4th) rose to the 102 mark in the shade. July 7 - W.J. Bryan addressed a large audience at the Chautauqua; over 3,000 present. July 9 - Louis Flatter died, aged 53. July 13 - A.G. Leitch and Marie Blye Perrine married. July 15 - Ehrle Schmedlen and Lou Kramer married. July 18 - Mrs. Philander Alden died, aged 77. July 20 - J.G. Waddell's dry goods store badly damaged by fire; loss on goods covered by $7,000 insurance; building damaged about $2,500; insured. July 25 - Harvey Mills died, aged 92. July 26 - Ray Broughton and Fern A. Doerr married. July 27 - Arthur Cunningham killed by being run over by an automobile. July 28 - Wm. Hurst died, aged 70. July 29 - Cornelius Vroom died, aged 71. July 30 - John Swart died, aged 74. Aug. 1 - Fred A. Fox and Edna M. Evans married. Aug. 6 - Bradford Corless died, aged 80; he had lived here 75 years. Aug. 7 - E.M. McElroy, superintendent of city schools, resigned. Aug. 7 - Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Burghduff celebrated the 50th anniversary of their marriage. Aug. 10 - Miss Elizabeth Barnhart died, aged 61. Aug. 16 - Chas. A.R. Stone chosen superintendent of city schools. Aug. 16 - Pearl R. Schrontz and Harry Kohler married. Aug. 23 - Dr. Leon A. Warsabo died, aged 63. Aug. 23 - Glee Gallap & Walter R. Otto married. Aug. 28 - Mrs. Fred Fish died, aged 51. Aug. 28 - Erdine Fox & Chas. F. Hendricks married. Aug. 31 - Kathleen Pratt and James E. Thoms married. Sept. 3 - L.A. Dillingham died, aged 74. Sept. 9 - Division Street paving commenced. Sept. 10 - Evangelist Ostrom began union revival meetings. Sept. 10 - Mrs. Andrew Pender died. Sept. 15 - George F. Sharp died, aged 60. Sept. 19 - Margaret L. Chestnut and Arthur J. Conklin married. Sept. 20 - Anna E. Lewis and Frank S. Freeman married. Sept. 20 - Clara B. Hoopingarner and Joseph G. Hermann married. Sept. 20 - Garrett Jenkins died, aged 60. Sept. 23 - Mildred C. Scheneman and Irvin R. Sherwood married. Oct. 2 - John N. Parker died, aged 64. Oct. 3 - Mrs. John P. Dickinson died, aged 67. Oct. 8 - St. Charles parochial school dedicated. Oct. 11 - Josephine Parker and Wilfred Good married. Oct. 14 - Edna May Elya died, aged 14. Oct. 22 - Rev. A.L. Murray resigned the pastorate of St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Oct. 25 - Mrs. Roland Root died, aged 89; had resided here 77 years. Oct. 26 - Orrin F. Thornton acquitted of the charge of forgery. Oct. 29 - Wm. C. Sorter died, aged 74. Nov. 1 - Mrs. Geo. Fulcher died, aged 69. Nov. 2 - Mrs. Minerva Misenar died, aged 68. Nov. 5 - Harry W. Barber and Eva E. Rogers married. Nov. 12 - Mrs. Richard R. Hurst shot her husband dead. Nov. 15 - Wm. G. Moore died, aged 71. Nov. 19 - Mrs. Mary Waterhouse died, aged 81. Nov. 23 - Frank D. Richardson died, aged 62. Nov. 25 - Mrs. Charles W. Bennett died, aged 71. Nov. 25 - Francis Burns died, aged 80. Dec. 1 - Phil Abbott and Velma Close married. Dec. 7 - Loren R. Brooks and Maretta Corey married. Dec. 9 - Forest Knapp was sentenced to prison in Illinois, having pleaded guilty to the charge of horse stealing. His partner, David Mawhood, pleaded not guilty. Both had previously "confessed" to several murders, which proved to be fake stories. Dec. 9 - Mrs. N.A. Angel died, aged 58. Dec. 10 - James Carleton died, aged 82. Dec. 11 - Mrs. Margaret Myers died, aged 85. Dec. 15 - Daisy Honeywell died, aged 28. Dec. 17 - Wm. N. Sawyer died, aged 90. Dec. 21 - Alton A. Misenar, murderer of James Robinson, released from prison after serving 16 years of a life sentence. Dec. 22 - Mrs. Charlotte Odren died, aged 82. Dec. 25 - Grace Dufur married Morley Reiff of Ft. Wayne. Dec. 26 - Robert[a?] Miller and Jorge Reade married. Dec. 27 - J.A. McClure died, aged 68. 1912 Jan. 1 - Mrs. Clinton B. Fisk died, aged 79. Jan. 1 - Edward C. Edgerton died, aged 51. Jan. 2 - James B. Smullen died, aged 54. Jan. 3 - Joseph H. Conklin died, aged 79. Jan. 3 - Chief of Police Louie F. Hildebrand and Mary Swalley married. Jan. 4 - Geo. W. Trump died, aged 68. Jan. 4 - Wm. Misenar died, aged 46. Jan. 5 - Supervisors ordered another local option election. Jan. 7 - Mrs. Daniel G. Parker died; was born in the village of Coldwater in 1848. Jan. 7 - Edw. F. Pangburn and Charotte S. Ray married. Jan. 12 - Mrs. May F. Cravens died, aged 54. Jan. 12 - James Hughey died, aged 74. Jan. 14 - Florence A. Myers and Bennett H. Ackerman married. Jan. 2-16 - Record-breaking period of cold; mercury 1 to 15 below zero every night but one-the coldest portion of an extremely cold winter. Jan. 16 - Clarence Strong's son Fred died, aged nearly 4. Jan. 18 - Orlando G. Noyes died, aged 72. Jan. 20 - R.S. Biddle's house burned with its contents. Jan. 21 - Mrs. Rose Page died, aged 66. Jan. 22 - James Walker died, aged 64. Jan. 24 - Hugh Nagle and Ethel Smith married. Jan. 30 - John Calahan died, aged 52. Jan. 31 - Wm. Long died, aged 67. Feb. 1 - Geo. Mansell, a resident here 55 years, died, aged 87. Feb. 1 - Mrs. Belinda Hurst (aged 62) sentenced to prison for 4 to 15 years for murdering her husband, Richard Hurst. Feb. 3 - Alfred Sargent died, aged 69. Feb. 5 - Mrs. Jos. E. Hutchinson burned to death by the explosion of a can of kerosene oil while kindling a fire. Feb. 6 - Mrs. Maria Cunningham died, aged 80. Feb. 7 - Big local option banquet at the Y.M.C.A. building. Feb. 9 - Mrs. Lottie Blue died, aged 17. Feb. 9 - George Morrison and Edith Lennox married in San Antonio, Texas. Feb. 15 - Joseph Palmatier died, aged 78. Feb. 16 - Mrs. Chas. Wilson died, aged 66. Feb. 16 - Seventeenth annual banquet of the Lincoln Republican Club; great ovation for Milo D. Campbell. Feb. 17 - Louis Sloman retired from business after over 45 years mercantile life here; succeeded by Sloman & Gruner (Herbert Sloman and Starr Gruner). Feb. 21 - Severe blizzard; roads blockaded, railroads badly crippled. Feb. 23 - Alanson T. Kinney, justice of the peace and former sheriff, died, aged 69. Feb. 25 - D.B. Vincent died, aged 85. Feb. 26 - Wm. P. Norton died, aged 83. Feb. 26 - Mrs. Etta Pixley and John Hammer married. Feb. 29 - Mrs. Wm. Cook died, aged 65. Feb. 29 - John Harper died, aged about 75. March 1 - Mrs. Wm. VanSlyck died, aged 65. March 3 - Mrs. Cynthia Brewer died, aged nearly 94; had resided here 75 years. March 3 - Clark J. Pierce died, aged 22. March 5 - Mrs. D.C. Powers died, aged 81. March 8 - Mrs. Mae Roe, aged 48, fell dead while dancing in Pitcher's Hall. March 9 - Hazel B. Clark died, aged 9. March 10 - Mrs. Samantha Cleveland died, aged 82. March 12 - Jerome B. Tift died, aged 73. March 15 - Very heavy fall of snow. March 18 - C.A. Akin's resignation as Y.M.C.A. general secretary accepted. March 19 - Allen J. Pratt and Mrs. Belle Woodard married. March 19 - Henry E. Straight sold his interest in the Up-to-Date Coal Co. to A.J. Fiske and C.D. Filkins. March 25 - City Council granted franchises to the Battle Creek, Coldwater & Southern and the Michigan & Indiana electric railroads. March 26 - Mrs. Susan F. Andrews died, aged 78. March 27 - Mrs. Louise M. Belknap and Hosea T. Wells of Blair, Mich. married. March 28 - Chas. W. Grosse died, aged 60. March 28 - A jury in the Circuit Court gave $1,200 judgment for L.J. Gripman against Horace Kitchel for libel; case appealed. March 29 - Henry R. Putnam, a Chicago commercial traveler, died of pneumonia at the Arlington Hotel. March 31 - Fr. Hayes closed the local option campaign for the Dry side with a mammoth meeting in the opera house; largest audience ever in the building. March 31 - Mrs. John K. Deal died, aged 70. March 31 - Andrew J. Hanna died, aged 69. April 1 - Branch County voted by 1146 to remain under local option; three years ago, 581; Coldwater "dry" by 26; three years ago "wet" by 41; Chas. A. Conover re-elected mayor. April 4 - Fred E. Keyes moved his grocery stock to Jonesville. April 9 - Republican county convention; hot fight between Taft and Roosevelt advocates, the former winning out. April 11 - Major Zahniser's cottage burned at Coldwater Lake. April 15 - Belva E. Stewart died, aged 15. April 20 - Wm. H. Brown and Mrs. Lucy A. Steele married. April 21 - Mrs. Robert Phillips died, aged 56. April 25 - Mrs. Arnold Raymond died, aged 51. May 2 - City Council appointed first park and recreation commissioners, and purchased the old "C" mill site of about 7 1/2 acres on the Coldwater River; committee, Harry P. Woodward, Rev. Geo E. Barnes, Dr. F.G. Legg, W.E. Hodgman, Mrs. A.E. Robinson. May 5 - L.C. Waite died, aged 57. May 6 - The Masons purchased the Dr. Powers property for $4,000, intending to erect a temple to replace the one in use since 1860. May 8 - Ella J. Knapp married Ray H. Dickey. May 8 - Ruby Reynolds married Roy L. Dickey. May 9 - Ernestine Loveridge and Walter Bridge married. May 12 - Rev. N.B. Robbins resigned pastorate of Christian Church. May 15 - Mrs. Mary J. Allen and Mrs. Jane B. Cady died, each aged 84. May 21 - John J. Gregg died, aged 65. May 25 - Frank Kuzka died, aged 26. May 26 - J. Henry Holmes married Mrs. Bertie Scheneman of Grand Rapids. May 27 - Mrs. C.W. Spencer died, aged 52. June 5 - Charles A. Stokes died, aged 51. June 7 - Mrs. L.M. Wing fied, aged 68. June 7 - Lewis H. Mower died, aged 71. June 9 - Mrs. Samuel Trayer died, aged 72. June 10 - Isaac Clair died, aged 72. June 11 - Debate at Armory Hall on school book questions between Henry E. Straight and H.R. Pattengill. June 12 - Fred S. Brown sentenced to 60 days in jail and $150 fine for furnishing liquor in violation of local option law. June 13 - Mrs. Harry Gowdy died, aged 25. June 13 - Geo. H. Waffle died, aged 76. June 13 - Skeleton of a woman found by sewer diggers on West Montgomery Street. June 15 - Very severe storm of rain, hail, wind and lightning. June 16 - Harry D. Jones and Lydia E. Annis married. June 17 - Mrs. Mary Basom died, aged 83. June 17 - Earl Rodebaugh, aged 3, drowned in a cistern, but restored to life by physicians. June 25 - Daily Courier first appeared. June 25 - George Collard attempted suicide by jumping from a high railroad bridge while walking with an attendant from the psychopathic hospital at Ann Arbor. June 28 - Anna Oxenham died, aged about 60. July 2 - John Phibbs died, aged 72. July 4 - Chas. Edward Allen died, aged 61. July 7 - Josiah Dingmon killed by Lake Shore train while riding his bicycle on the track. July 7 - Mrs. Chas. H. Smith died, aged 70. July 10 - Mrs. D.C. Shaw died, aged 67. July 12 - Colvin Warford died, aged 65. July 12 - Mrs. A.C. West died, aged 66. July 19 - Edwin P. Fox, aged 61, dropped dead while shaving. July 20 - Warehouse of Wolverine Portland Cement Company burned; loss $75,000, insurance $20,000. July 21 - Mrs. Sarah Clair died, aged 75. July 22 - G.E. Ryder, aged 71, dropped dead. July 24 - Mrs. Bridget O'Shaughnessy died, aged 86. July 24 - Republican Progressive party nominated a county ticket. Annual Elks and Masons ball game won by Elks, 11 to 8. July 25 - Mrs. Emeline Hemingway died, aged 75. July 25 - Mrs. Lydia Ayery died, aged 84. July 25 - Miss Ada King married O.C. Tucker of Toledo. July 26 - Chautauqua opened for second annual assembly. July 27 - Luella Newton married Robert L. Brown of Lake Charles, La. July 28 - Mrs. M.F. Hiesrodt died, aged 58. July 29 - Hotel Emery passed into the hands of H.D. Truax and became the Arlington Annex. July 29 - Benj. F. Rolph crushed to death by the wheels of an ice wagon. July 30 - Announcement of coal discovery on Daniel Warner's farm. Aug. 1 - Mary J. Simons married Dr. V.M. Moore of Sparta. Aug. 1 - Kathryn Burbank married Ralph Lockwood. Aug. 3 - Hazel Conklin married Robert Connelly of Detroit. Aug. 3 - Maude M. Blake married Clyde C. Clinefelter. Aug. 3 - Mercury stood at 39 degrees, the coolest point of a cool summer. Aug. 6 - Cleone Branian and Chas. H. Snyder married. Aug. 7 - Huldah J. Hellenberg and LaVern H. Dibbert married. Aug. 19 - Mrs. John Dawson died, aged 78. Aug. 22 - Mrs. G.M. White died, aged 66. Aug. 30 - Florence Shoecraft married to James Swenson of Portland, Oregon. Sept. 4 - Fenton Daggett married Clarence Wilcox of Billings, Mont. Sept. 6 - Hiram McNall died, aged 57. Sept. 7 - Mabel Burbank and Laverne Graves married. Sept. 8 - Mrs. Mary E. Gray died, aged 77. Sept. 12 - Mrs. Nelson Thomas died, aged 44. Sept. 17 - Herbert Eldridge married Dott L. Kantz of Kalamazoo. Sept. 18 - Rolene Holmes and John P. Parker married. Sept. 19 - Darl Drinkwater crushed to death while attempting to board a fast freight train at Goshen. Sept. 21 - Mrs. P.M. Holiday died, aged 63. Sept. 21 - David E. Wolfe died, aged 53. Sept. 21 - Harry Anderson and Rose Richardson married. Sept. 23 - Mrs. Mattie Gibbs Allen died, aged 40. Sept. 23 - Solomon Good died, aged 74. Sept. 24 - Gertrude Chubb married Wm. E. Bullard of Jackson. Sept. 25 - Willis E. Goodnow and Jennie Henning married. Sept. 29 - James R. Dickey died, aged 65. Sept. 29 - Mrs. J.T. Burns died, aged 64. Oct. 1 - Floyd Nulf and Verva Whaley married. Oct. 3-6 - Presbyterian church celebrated the 75th anniversary of its founding. Oct. 5 - Mrs. A.T. Eggleston died, aged 58. Oct. 8 - Salvatore Amato killed at cement factory by being wound around a swiftly moving shaft. Oct. 9 - Homer Wickes died, aged 77. Oct. 9 - Iva B. Makyes and Rolland D. Holmes married. Oct. 12 - Joselyn Hiatt married Arnold T. Schooley of Detroit. Oct. 14 - Mrs. Electa Moore died, aged 70. Oct. 19 - Chas. E. VanDeusen died, aged 61. Oct. 22 - Geo W. Kellogg, aged 21, killed in the Warner coal shaft east of town. Oct. 23 - Marian Cook died, aged 64. Oct. 26 - Harry F. Bailey died, aged 38. Oct. 26 - Martha Arlene Fenton married Wm. J.H. Smith. Oct. 26 - Mrs. Lillie Guiteau married Chauncey Brown. Oct. 30 - Judson Bassett died, aged 58. Nov. 5 - Election resulted in great Democratic victories here, as everywhere. Nov. 5 - George Ball and Bertha Nivison married. Nov. 7 - A.R. White died, aged 71. Nov. 9 - Ralph Conklin married Charlotte Sprague of Chicago. Nov. 9 - Mrs. Wm. Holz died, aged 67. Nov. 9 - The oven in the bakery at the State Public School exploded, seriously injuring Abram Greenwood, the baker. Nov. 10 - Arthur C. Waller and Effie J. Frary married. Nov. 12 - Geo. Jewell died in Texas. Nov. 14 - P.P. Wright, a well known former resident, died in Cleveland, aged 88; from a humble position in the Coldwater freight office, he became vice president of the L.S.&M.S. Railroad Company. Nov. 15 - The Y.M.C.A. opened its twelfth annual course of entertainments. Nov. 20 - Extensive improvements and alterations completed at city water works plant. Nov. 24 - Almarion Ferguson died, aged 30. Nov. 25 - Charlotte Fletcher and Wm. W. Cox married. Nov. 26 - Mrs. Erma Landis suicided. Nov. 27 - Harry C. Zoeller and Mae G. Quinn married Nov. 27 - Announcement of marriage July 13, 1912, in Toledo, of D. Duella Dickey to Harry G. Kimball of Jonesville. Nov. 28 - Arlene Preast married John A. O'Connell of Chicago. Nov. 29 - Mrs. Oscar Becker died in Jackson, aged 58. Dec. 2 - Philip Pitcher died, aged 68. Dec. 3 - Night school opened. Dec. 3 - Mabel Godden died, aged 29. Dec. 4 - Chas. E. Sorter died, aged 51. Dec. 7 - Mrs. Mariam Scott died, aged 82. Dec. 7 - Horace J. Tift died, aged 40. Dec. 8 - Angie Pratt died, aged 68. Dec 9 - H.B. Adair badly injured, his auto colliding with a trolley car. Dec. 15 - Mrs. C.H. Gage died in Cincinnati, aged 43. Dec. 18 - Glenn Gresley and Victoria Pauletti married. Dec. 19 - Henry Cutner died, aged 46. Dec. 21 - Public skating park first used; creek dammed at foot of Division Street. Dec. 21 - Joshua Leaf died, aged 77. Dec. 23 - Ives G. Miles died, aged 83. Dec. 25 - Veva Loring married Frank A. Aiken of Fort Wayne. Dec. 25 - Otto E. Palmateer and Ethel M. Cole married. Dec. 26 - Roy Wolfe and Florence Haight married. Dec. 27 - Grace Goodnow suicided in Galesburg, Ill. Dec. 28 - Frank D. Newberry, aged 72, died in San Jose, Cal. Dec. 28 - E.L. Burdick died, aged 62. Dec. 30 - Thos. H. Bowerman and wife celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Dec. 31 - Leah M. Gallap maried W.H. Grossman of Syracuse, N.Y. 1913 Jan. 1 - C.P. Bartleson died, aged 70. Jan. 1 - Ethel O. Short married Seth L. Hutsell of Muncie, Ind. Jan. 1 - John M. Binkley married Orrisa VanValkenburgh. Jan. 7 - Bertha Mannerow married Dr. Benjamin Japink of Three Oaks. Jan. 9 - Tappen Shoe Mfg. Co. passed under new management; Coldwater Packing Co. organized. Jan. 11 - Samuel M. Williams died, aged 73. Jan. 13 - Daniel DeClute died, aged 68. Jan. 14 - Eugene J. Barney died, aged 37. Jan. 27 - Mrs. H.J. Woodward died, aged 81. Jan. 28 - Lucius P. Hibbard died, aged 78. Jan. 29 - Mrs. E.C. Whitehead died, aged 68. Jan. 30 - Silas M. Parker died, aged 64. Feb. 6 - Mrs. Jerome Mackey died, aged 68. Feb. 8 - T.J. McGrew and Mrs. Ada Whaley married. Feb. 9 - Rev. Donald MacCluer began the Presbyterian pastorate. Feb. 10 - Eugene Rouse died, aged 56. Feb. 14 - Chas. F. Howe and Ruth H. Crippen married. Feb. 19 - Mercury 62 in the shade. Feb. 24 - Eliakim Anderson died, aged 81. March 3 - Mrs. J.B. Hellenberg died, aged 69. March 3 - Mabel Andrews married Ralph L. Banks of Chicago. March 4 - Mrs. Laura Haskins died, aged 77. March 5 - Mrs. Lena Odren died, aged 23. March 6 - Lee H. Dell died, aged 40. March 13 - J.H. McLane died, aged 86. March 13 - Geo. Atyeo died, aged 84. March 16 - Mrs. Betsey M. Holway died, aged 76. March 16 - J.R. Brooks died, aged 33. March 24 - Lieu Ella Doyl married Theodore V. Dix of Newaygo. April 7 - Elmer F. Palmer, Democrat, elected mayor; Republicans elected only seven ward officers and the Progressives but one-Dr. Schultz, member Board of Education; woman's suffrage amendment defeated in the state by heavy majority, Branch County's being 1458. April 8 - Mrs. Delia A. Brodhead died, aged 67. April 8 - Retail Merchants' Association banqueted a large delegation of farmers. April 11 - Maggie F. Kennedy died, aged 30. April 17 - Mrs. Eleanor R. Estlow died, aged 60. April 19 - Mrs. Sophronia Amidon died, aged 87. April 21 - Orlando Weller died, aged 72. April 24 - Mrs. Nettie Patterson died, aged 72. April 30 - A.J.C. Post died, aged 70. May 5 - Mrs. Ansel E. Thompson died, aged 66. May 5 - Henry Butcher died, aged 75. May 9 - Mrs. Sarah J. Cassada died, aged 86. May 21 - Thirty-ninth annual reunion of the Loomis Battery. May 24 - Mrs. Luella Holden died, aged 47. May 27 - Olive Fordham died, aged 37. May 27 - Winfield Larrabee and Amy Teachout married. May 28 - Mrs. Adaline Bullock died, aged 84; Mrs. Bullock was one of a pair of long lived twins; the survivor being Mrs. Caroline Donnelly. May 28 - Mrs. Marietta Coffman died, aged 66. May 29 - Charles L. Daniels and Bertie Scheneman married. May 31 - Vina Noel and Wm. Tarr married. June 2 - Coldwater Commercial Club organized. June 2 - Tony Petruci of San Francisco died of delirium tremens in the county jail; he had over $1300 on his person. June 3 - Lynn Benjamen died, aged 27. June 6 - Francis Dorrance died, aged 7. June 6 - Gabrielle Loveridge married Chas. B. Clarke of Chicago. June 7 - High school athletes won second place in state contests in Lansing, Grand Rapids being first by a small margin. June 9 - Olive Titus and Ford Collard married. June 12 - High school graduated 46. June 14 - Reunion of county soldiers and sailors here. June 14 - Wm. VanSlyck died, aged 84. June 21 - Mrs. Mary C. Knapp died, aged 78. June 25 - First general "salesday" of Retail Merchants' Association. June 25 - Masons won annual ball game over Elks, 13 to 12. June 25 - Louis P. Johnson and Grace B. Holmes married. June 30 - Harold Hurley and Hazel Kanouse married. July 1 - Marcus Markham died, aged 84. July 2 - Florence Van Horn married Guy Smith of Sturgis. July 3 - Thirty-year franchise granted to Battle Creek, Coldwater & Southern Railroad. July 4 - Helen Phibbs, aged 17, was drowned while bathing in Palmer Lake. July 10 - Howard Hickey and Bertha Boughton married. July 12 - John N. Crist died, aged 70. July 19 - Leo A. Harper and Leora Delp married. July 20 - Howard Osborn saved a Chicago girl from drowning in that city. July 21 - Rue Rose married Lewis Nodell of Detroit. July 21 - Ray R. Stone and Leda Massey married. July 24 - Evelyn M. Root married Cary J. Cole of Kalamazoo. July 25 - Guy Finch died, aged 21. July 25 - Co. A left for Upper Peninsula to assist in quelling labor riots. July 26 - Spencer W. Vincent died, aged 80. July 26 - Sophie Clarke returned from a trip around the world. July 27 - Mercury 103. The summer of 1913 was one of the hottest and driest on record. July 28 - Mrs. L.W. Vicory died, aged 67. July 30 - Ida Nettleton died, aged 58. July 30 - Florence Hendrick married J.A. Champion of Port Arthur, Texas. July 30 - Body of Justin A. Dunham, who had disappeared four years before, found in a marsh near Tekonsha. Aug. 2 - Courier's circulation contest awarded automobile to Daniel Warner, piano to Edgar Foster, lake trips to Wm. Walker and Ambrose Talmage, victrolas to L.E. Perry and Major Zahniser, gold watches to Vera Gilson and Ruth Fellers. Aug. 6 - Nelson Thomas died, aged 55. Aug. 6 - Grafton Blakeslee died, aged 2. Aug. 6 - Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Burghduff celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary. Aug. 9 - Third annual Chautauqua opened. Aug. 11 - Bryon F. Clizbe died, aged 65. Aug. 11 - Mrs. F.W. Flandermeyer died, aged 72. Aug 11 - Mrs. Emma Erb died, aged 56. Aug. 14 - Alta Hurley married Edward Greenwich of Toledo. Aug. 15 - Mrs. L.W. Burch died, aged 37. Aug. 18 - Julia Jordan and Duane Smith married. Aug. 20 - Margaret Thomas and Clint Talmage married. Aug. 21 - Timothy Jones and Daisy Schindler marrier. Aug. 21 - Mrs. Emma Humeston married Alonzo D. Brown of Detroit. Aug. 23 - Iva Clark and Carl Markley married. Aug. 24 - Ray C. Warner, aged 24, drowned in Goguac Lake. Aug. 24 - John Granger died, aged 71. Aug. 24 - Hiram W. Wood died, aged 60. Aug. 25 - Loren E. Schultz and Esta I. Price married. Aug. 27 - Marie K. Vielhaber and Roy M. Horton married. Sept. 4 - New electric street lights in business section turned on. Sept. 9 - Mrs. S.I. Treat died, aged 72. Sept. 18 - Knights Templar field day for Coldwater, Hillsdale, Sturgis, Three Rivers and Marshall. Sept. 18 - Mrs. David Thompson died, aged 76. Sept. 21 - Philander Alden died, aged 82. Sept. 22 - Onna M. Parrish and Wm. Murdock married. Sept. 22 - Mrs. Julia E. Sheldon died, aged 64. Sept. 23 - Mrs. H.A. Wolcott died, aged 81. Sept. 24 - The Coldwater Packing Co. commenced business. Sept. 24 - Gertrude Wixson married Ralph Lapham. Sept. 24 - Ernest Shenefield married Agnes Noblet. Sept. 24 - Mildred Hodgkins married Bruce Kanouse. Sept. 25 - Georgia Pitcher married Ward J. Lucas. Sept. 27 - Vera Crandall and Jay Ammerman married. Oct. 1 - Melvin R. Edwards and Anna Waldron married. Oct. 6 - E.R. Clarke & Co.'s three-story double store collapsed, a foundation wall giving way; loss $20,000; occupants escaped unhurt. Oct. 7 - Oscar Becker died in Jackson. Oct. 7 - Lavertis Mickle died, aged 71. Oct. 8 - Merchants second "sales day." Oct. 11 - Winard O. VanGilder died, aged 77. Oct. 11 - Lina Kyser and Walter Tindall married. Oct. 14 - Louise M. Yapp married Leo G. Kramer of Detroit. Oct. 15 - Luella Taylor married Floyd G. Cochrane of Toledo. Oct. 15 - Jefferson T. Burns married Mrs. H.S. Love of Lowell, Ind. Oct. 17 - Mrs. Robt. F. Mockridge died, aged 87. Oct. 21 - First snowstorm of fall. Oct. 21 - Mrs. Sarah Blair died, aged 77. Oct. 21 - C. Junius Conover married Lorraine Fennel of Yreka, Cal. Oct. 22 - Benefit given by the Odd Fellows at the opera house for Alton Corey, a cripple, netted $182.91. Oct. 23 - Earl Crandle and Isabelle Merrifield married. Oct. 27 - F.C. Eddy married Eleanor Beigh in Battle Creek. Oct. 29 - Orlo Reed and Dorothy Cartier married. Oct. 31 - Alonzo Vandenburg died, aged 89. Nov. 1 - L.R. Johns and Mrs. Lauretta E. Brown married. Nov. 4 - Sherman D. Boone died, aged 33. Nov. 6 - Mrs. Adeline Selby died, aged 76. Nov. 8 - Mrs. Althera Ripley died, aged 81. Nov. 11 - Fred G. Taschner and Blossom Johnson married. Nov. 11-12 - Elks' minstrels receipts nearly $600. Nov. 12 - Guy S. Feller and Arlene Snyder married. Nov. 12 - Copper discovered on the Jas. H. Campbell place, 440 East Chicago Street. Nov. 13 - Mrs. Mary A. Crawford died, aged 76. Nov. 16 - Mrs. C.R. Doty died, aged 67. Nov. 19 - Earl A. Potter and Mabel Hablawetz married. Nov. 20 - John W. Culp died, aged 81. Nov. 20 - Mrs. O.A. Kyser died, aged 49. Nov. 21 - Mrs. C.H. Camp died, aged 65. Nov. 24 - Rhea Maxson died, aged 22. Nov. 26 - Fire in A.B. Walker's laundry. Nov. 26 - King's Daughters sent out 65 dinners to needy families. Nov. 27 - Blanch B. Burbank and Ralph Phillips married. Nov. 29 - Coldwater Grange celebrated its fortieth anniversary. Dec. 1 - Amos M. Gardner died, aged 80. Dec. 2 - Mrs. Phillip Pitcher died, aged 69. Dec. 4 - Marie M. Bevier married Charles A. Kolb of Battle Creek. Dec. 7 - Wm. N. Conover died, aged 76. Dec. 8 - Mr. & Mrs. F.E. Morgan celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Dec. 9 - E.R. Root presented a Maine memorial tablet to Company A. Dec. 11 - Mrs. Jane Barnes died, aged 73. Dec. 12 - Monte R. Bagley died at Davis, Mich. Dec. 13 - Ray H. Butcher and Ethel Burke married. Dec. 13 - Mrs. Mary E. Straight died, aged 76. Dec. 14 - John O'Mara fell dead in the Palmer law office; he was 72. Dec. 14 - Mrs. J.E. Strickland died, aged 50. Dec. 17 - Mrs. S.W. Driggs died, aged 86; she had resided here 75 years. Dec. 19 - James Kavanaugh died, aged 77. Dec. 20 - John H. Adams and Ada Hopkins married. Dec. 21 - Royal S. Dunham and wife celebrated their golden wedding. Dec. 22 - Helen Collins married James A. Kirkpatrick of Detroit. Dec. 24 - Grace L. Rice married Dr. Rex I. Mann of Defiance, Ohio. Dec. 25 - Henry C. Simons died, aged 69. Dec. 26 - Mrs. Louise N. Markham died, aged 73. Dec. 28 - Mrs. Mary C..A. Burch died, aged 54. Dec. 29 - Work commenced on the new Clarke block. Dec. 29 - Geo. W. VanAken, aged 85, stricken with paralysis. Dec. 30 - Mrs. Ellen Sparks died, aged 67. 1914 Jan. 1 - Harold E. Cole married Laura Lathrop of Reading. Jan. 3 - Geo. W. VanAken died, aged 85. Jan. 6 - Berthold Spriggs and Ethel Callaghan married. Jan. 6 - J. Murray Tilton died, aged 78. Jan. 6 - Mrs. C.A. Spaulding died, aged 64. Jan. 7 - Mrs. Mary L. Broughton died, aged 63. Jan. 9 - Henry Ide died, aged 77. Jan. 9 - Board of Supervisors voted to combine the offices of county clerk and register of deeds Jan. 1, 1915, and to submit the county fair question to vote of the people April 6, 1914. Jan. 12 - Small fire in Southern Michigan Hotel. Jan. 14 - F.J. Reed's store burglarized; loss small. Jan. 15 - Banquet for Thos. W. Rhodes, the civil war soldier drummer boy, now the oldest snare drummer in a Michigan band. Jan. 16 - Vernon Cluff died, aged 28. Jan. 19 - Isaac Lockwood died, aged 75. Jan. 19 - W.H. McCort's store burglarized; loss about $1,000 worth of silks. Jan. 22 - Truman C. Mack died, aged 74. Jan. 23 - Mildred M. Pitcher married Clarence F. Chaney. Jan. 24 - Walter G. Crippen died, aged 59. Jan. 24 - Mrs. David E. Sanford died, aged 65. Jan. 25 - Wava Parker and Wm. C. Hodges married. Jan. 26-27 - County corn show and farm products exhibit. Jan. 31 - LeRoy R. Palmer appointed to succeed B.B. Gorman as postmaster. Feb. 7 - Frank Stokes and Anna E. Sagert married. Feb. 8 - Chester R. Nye died, aged 40. Feb. 10 - Kathleen Lilly married John F. Skahen of Elkhart. Feb. 11 - Ursula Rose married Dana M. Lasley of Columbus, O. Feb. 11 - Wm. F. Cook died, aged 64. Feb. 12 - Nineteenth annual banquet of the Branch County Lincoln Republican Club. Feb. 14 - Devillo E. Young died, aged 47. Feb. 19 - Roy J. Adams died, aged 21. Feb. 22 - Mrs. J.W. Maloney died, aged 57. Feb. 23 - Mrs. Nancy Householder died, aged 67. Feb. 23 - Fred Thornton died, aged 55. Feb. 23 - Wm. Sharp and wife celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. Feb. 23 - Miles Culp and wife celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Feb. 24 - Sister Julian (Miss Hanley) died, as the result of a fall down a stairway. March 3 - Mrs. Harriet C. Lewis died, aged 68. March 3 - Second annual banquet of the Progressives. March 3 - John D. Kerns, aged 65, died from injuries received in a runaway. March 10 - Walter C. Cabeen and Mrs. Sadie Hagerman married. March 12 - Mrs. Sophia H. Perry died, aged 91. March 12 - Mrs. Mary E. Tucker died, aged 77. March 18 - A.L. Heimbach bought out his grocery partner, C.E. Tracy, and F.E. Calkins bought out his grocery partner, E. Nichols. March 20 - Mrs. Martha Munson died, aged 71. March 22 - Wm. King died, aged 88. March 23 - Andrew J. Hawes died, aged 68. March 25 - James M. Radebaugh died, aged 69. March 26-27 - Automobile show. March 28 - Gardner Legg and Virginia Chandler married. April 2 - Max Hildebrand died, aged 6. April 2 - Mrs. Eliza Burrows died, aged 86. April 2 - Harry D. Jones died, aged 35. April 6 - Election. Republicans elect G.E. Kleindinst mayor, M.W. Wimer treasurer and C.N. Legg justice of the peace; Democrats elect W.T. Stansell city clerk; ward offices divided; county fair proposition snowed under in the county by 1367, only Coldwater city and Girard and Coldwater Townships giving favorable majorities; Quincy's alone being 332 majority against the plan. April 10 - Twins born to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Butcher and Mr. and Mrs. Edw. Hawley. April 10 - Neil Merrill died, aged 61. April 11 - Ruth Curts and Harry L. Kempster married. April 15 - Mrs. W.S. VanBlarcum died, aged 76. April 16 - John Fitzpatrick died, aged 72. April 18 - Mercury stood at 90 in the shade; April 20, only 30, with snow. April 20 - Mrs. Eunice Whedon died, aged 88. April 22 - Bernice W. Locke and Fred E. Lockwood married. April 24 - Mrs. Catherine E. Vanderhoof died, aged 79. April 25 - John W. Canrike, Jr., married Edith Quimby of Quincy. April 25 - Mrs. Elsie J. See died, aged 80. April 28 - Flora M. Barnard and Howard C. Sweezey married. April 28 - Col. H.C. Gilbert Camp, Sons of Veterans, was reestablished. April 30 - T.E. Johnson was employed as superintendent of city schools, succeeding C.A.R. Stone. May 5 - Mrs. Hannah Dart died, aged 84. May 10 - Chas. H.D. Clapp died, aged 36. May 12 - Mrs. Ellen Moylan died, aged 82. May 12 - Mrs. Ann Eliza Granger died, aged 73. May 13 - Keller E. Norton and Jessie M. Pollock married. May 14 - Mrs. Ann Ewing died, aged 74. May 17 - I.L. Randolph died. Aged 71. May 17 - Helen A. Howe died, aged 16. May 21 - Hon. Albert A. Dorrance died, aged 87; he was one of the founders of the Republican party "under the oaks" at Jackson. May 26 - Henry C. Bailey died, aged 82; he was a boyhood friend of Mr. Dorrance, and like him, one of the oldest members of Tyre Lodge, F. and A.M. May 27 - Catherine Moran and Carl H. Rapp married. May 31 - Lewis W. Burch and Lenore Kyser married. June 6 - George Maxwell dropped dead on Chicago street, aged 72. June 9 - Edgar L. Price and Mrs. Harriet E. Lepper married. June 9 - Mrs. L.H. Gripman died, aged 80. June 10 - Wm. R. Myers and Mrs. Elizabeth Bingham married. June 12 - Annual reunion of county soldiers and sailors. June 12 - Ray R. Fisher and Beulah Carpenter married. June 16 - Clyde S. Bingham and Mrs. Ivah Hand married. June 17 - Harold Yapp and Hazel Bennett married. June 18 - St. mark's vestry accepted the resignation of Rev. C.B. Blakeslee. June 18 - Miles A. DeClute and Mrs. Viva B. Chase married. June 24 - Earle K. Stanton and Zella A. Robinson married. June 24 - Edward C. Ellis died, aged 68. June 25 - Mrs. Mary McNall died of sunstroke, aged 56. June 25 - Miles E. Lytle and Hazel N. Voorhees married. June 25 - Mrs. Jennie McLane Henderson died, aged 51. June 28 - Thos. H. Bowerman died, aged 73. June 30 - Don Dexter was sentenced to Ionia prison for not less than eight months nor more than fifteen years for forgery. June 30 - Henry Hughes, former rector of St. Mark's Church, died in York, England, aged 66. July 1 - The Daily Courier passed from the control of H.F. Gardner to a syndicate, with W.G. Cowell as manager. July 1 - Wm. S. VanBlarcum died, aged 76. July 3 - Mrs. Lottie Sorter died, aged 43. July 4 - Grand celebration; 15,000 out-of-town people here. July 11 - Mrs. Winnie M. Goodman and Edgar A. Weage married. July 13 - Severe electrical storm; Washington school and other buildings struck, none seriously damaged. July 16 - Mrs. O.W. Hoyt died, aged 80. July 17 - Janette Crippen Fisk Camp, Daughters of Veterans, was organized with 36 charter members. July 18 - Lola A. Delp and Selah M. Chase married. July 19 - Andrew J. Bennett died, aged 66. July 20 - The Daily Courier changed from a morning to an evening paper. July 21 - Theophilus A. Rockwood died, aged 66. July 21 - Alfred Chivers died, aged 68. July 22 - Clara L. Kellogg married Rev. Clyde F. Ellis, both to be missionaries to the South Sea Islands. July 22 - Spectacular aeroplane flights by Art Smith, also Elks vs. Masons ball game, Elks winning 9 to 3. Mercury 102 degrees. July 22 - Mrs. Rufus Lockwood died, aged 81. July 27 - Phillip Knapp died, aged 79. July 27 - Fourth annual Chautauqua opened. July 29 - Geo. F. Barber died, aged 64. Aug. 9 - W.M. Roberson died, aged 79. Aug. 11 - Agnes Teall and Ralph Perk married. Aug. 11 - Wm. Holz died, aged 66. Aug. 11 - Mrs. Harry Whitman, aged 28, died from an overdose of chloroform. Aug. 15 - Mrs. Mary Lockwood died, aged 79. Aug. 17 - Rev. C.S. Burns resigned the Baptist pastorate. Aug. 20 - Leo Carls and Anna Lennon married. Aug. 22 - Mrs. Ermina Dunham died, aged 60 [typo; she died on August 12.] Aug. 22 - Horace Kitchel bought the Courier, consolidating it with the Reporter. Aug. 22 - L.D. Wood and Vera Fulk married. Aug. 28 - Electric road to Battle Creek announced to be a certainty. Aug. 31 - Maud L. Fox and C.A.R. Stone married. Sept. 1 - Mabel L. Dean and Floyd R. Crow married. Sept. 5 - Mrs. Howard Draper died, aged 43. Sept. 9 - Y.M.C.A. building sold to Masons for temple. Sept. 9 - Mrs. Matilda H. Preston died, aged 80. Sept. 9 - First asphalt pavement, Marshal and South Monroe Streets. Sept. 10 - Mrs. Mary Messick died, aged 64. Sept. 12 - Margaret Hoover died, aged 23. Sept. 15 - Mrs. Mary Quackenbush died, aged 81. Sept. 16 - Mrs. W.W. Paradine died, aged 72. Sept. 19 - N.A. Angel and Mara M. Handy married. Sept. 19 - Lloyd Morgan and Eva N. Lowther married. Sept. 22 - Hezekiah Sweet died, aged 74. Sept. 22 - Richard Garnella died, aged 50. Sept. 23 - Mabel L. McLane and Harold A. Johnson married. Sept. 24 - Andrew Pender died, aged 72. Sept. 27 - Pastorates of Revs. C.S. Burns of the Baptist Church and C.B. Blakeslee of the Episcopal closed. Sept. 30 - C.E. Tracy bought F.E. Dunham's grocery. Oct. 1 - Angie Marsh died, aged 89. Oct. 7 - Esther Sloman married Dr. Karl L. Freeman of Battle Creek. Oct. 11 - Rev. J.A. Cargill closed his pastorate with the Christian Church. Oct. 12 - Una Belle Trumball and Archie W. Hutchins married. Oct. 15 - Daniel Ellis died, aged 81. Oct. 15 - Claude D. Filkins and Ella V. Bowser married. Oct. 20 - Mrs. Della B. Clark died, aged 53. Oct. 22 - Mrs. Betsey A. Witter died, aged 82. Oct. 24 - Ruth Cook and Clifford Hoopingarner married. Oct. 26 - Wm. Squires died, aged 77. Oct. 26-31 - Masonic fair; receipts, $5,000. Oct. 28 - Mrs. Martha Bowker died, aged 76. Oct. 28 - Erskin Culp terribly injured by a fractious horse. Oct. 30 - Frank Clair died, aged 65. Nov. 3 - Election gave the Democrats most of the county offices. Nov. 5 - Luman B. Gibbs died, aged 73. Nov. 6 - Libby, McNeill & Libby's plant completed, ready for business. Nov. 12 - Claude E. Reynolds died, aged 29. Nov. 16 - Albert M. Swift died, aged 61. Nov. 18 - Wallace E. Wright died, aged 69. Nov. 18 - Mrs. John Cudner died, aged 79. Nov. 22 - Joseph E. Doty died, aged 57. Nov. 23 - Frank N. Wright died, aged 63. Nov. 24 - Darrow Lowe and Leon D. Kanouse married. Nov. 25 - Edith Reed and Samuel B. Light married. Nov. 29 - Geo. S. Allen died, aged 72. Dec. 6 - Albert B. Shirts died, aged 87. Dec. 7 - Verald Kleindinst and Wesley Wilbur married. Dec. 10 - Mrs. Helen Roberson died, aged 76. Dec. 14 - Porter M. Holiday died, aged 67. Dec. 29 - Banquet of present and retiring county officers. The fall of 1914 was very remarkable for its mild temperature, terminating, however, in its final days, in snow and zero weather. The year was notable in that 57 of the deaths occurring in the city were those of people over 65 years of age, the mortality rate being phenomenally low except from that cause. 1915 Jan. 1 - Frank A. Fairbanks died, aged 72. Jan. 1 - John Sparks died, aged 85. Jan. 1 - Southern Michigan Telephone Company bought up the Bell Company. Jan. 2 - Ray Broughton's cottage at Morrison Lake burned. Jan. 4 - A.F. Wilkins died, aged 77. Jan. 9 - Mrs. Fred Farwell died, aged 40. Jan. 10 - Mrs. Mary Weeden died, aged 65. Jan. 14 - Albert F. Chandler died, aged 74 Jan. 14 - John H. Friedrich died, aged 71. Jan. 14 - Mrs. Geo. H. Allen died, aged 70. Jan. 14 - Hazel M. Miller and Vern Kyser married. Jan. 14 - Daniel G. Parker and Mrs. Vina Roblee married. Jan. 15 - Cyrus J. West died, aged 56. Jan. 21 - Mrs. Robey Meekin died, aged 74. Jan. 23 - Mrs. Caroline Donnelly died, aged 86. Jan. 23 - Henry R. Miller died, aged 78. Jan. 29 - Wm. C. Disbro died, aged 48. Feb. 1 - Rev. John Hewitt began the rectorship of the Episcopal Church. Feb. 2 - Wheat touched $1.57 here, the highest point in seventeen years. Feb. 5 - Mrs. Howard Sweezey died, aged 30. Feb. 6 - Nettie Broughton and Roy Angevine married. Feb. 8 - City voted not to adopt new charter providing for commission form of government: 594 no, 523 yes. Feb. 8 - Annual banquet of Lincoln Republican Club. Feb. 14 - Everett Evans and Elizabeth Babbitt married. Feb. 19 - Masons adopted plans for $40,000 temple, remodeling former Y.M.C.A. building. Feb. 22 - Mr. & Mrs. Alford Thompson celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. Feb. 23 - Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Sharp celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary. Feb. 23 - David H. Thompson died, aged 80. Feb. 26 - Mrs. R.V. Eligh died, aged 61. The month of February was the mildest known in twenty-five years. March 2 - Albert C. Barney died, aged 75. March 2 - Mrs. Anstress Acker died, aged 72. March 4 - Roller skating craze in full sway. March 10 - Wm. Newman died, aged 68. March 10 - Mrs. Priscilla Shires died, aged 71. March 10 - Ella Stahl married Austin A. Jeffers. March 10 - Alta Stahl married Glenn A. Fox. March 12-19 - Mr. & Mrs. C.H. Wharton died in Newton, Ill. March 12 - John C. Dubendorf died, aged 74. March 13 - Mrs. Abigail McNall died, aged 80. March 14 - Mattie Snyder and William E. Towers married. March 14 - Mrs. Johanna Keeley died, aged 73. March 16 - Charles H. Newell died, aged 60. March 16 - Chas. A. Foy and Goldie L. Vail married. March 18 - Joseph Swarbrick died, aged 69. March 18 - Mr. & Mrs. Hiram Young celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary. March 18 - Eva M. Barber and Leslie Frasher married. March 19 - Paul Smith, local option violator, was fined $50 and 20 days in jail. March 23 - Lulu P. Wood and Wm. J. Burns married. March 24 - Mrs. Mary Walker died, aged 77. March 26 - Mrs. Minerva Johnson died, aged 81. March 31 - Big mass meeting to protest against heavily advanced telephone rates on account of merging of the exchanges of the two companies. April 1 - Elliott M. Williams died; he was born in Coldwater village in 1842. April 3 - Mrs. Stephen Newman died, aged 78. April 4 - Mrs. Mary J. Osborn died, aged 82. April 5 - Charles C. Blake died. April 5 - City election, Republicans electing all except city clerk and three ward officers: F.E. Robinson, Republican, re-elected county school commissioner. April 9 - Big "get together" banquet of business and professional men. April 10 - Water in the river lowest ever known in the spring. April 11 - Mrs. Henry Nichols died, aged 52. April 14 - Peter Y. Lake died, aged 83. April 14 - Edward Fletcher died, aged 78. April 16 - Mrs. G.W. Clement died, aged 80. April 16 - Banquet of the County Y.M.C.A. April 19 - DeRight Bros., Kalamazoo, were awarded the Masonic Temple contract at $14,800. April 19 - Benjamin R. Ferguson died, aged 96. April 19 - Alden Harris suffered the amputation of his right leg. April 21 - Seth W. Driggs died, aged 85. April 23 - Mrs. Maria A. Smith died, aged 81. April 24 - Dennis Vanes sold the Venetian Theatre to Ensign Olmsted and Geo. Drinkwater and purchased the Butterworth grocery. April 24 - Ben, Alexander and Vera Filkins all suffered broken bones in an automobile tipover. April 25 - Marie Smith and Abraham Jacob married. April 28 - Gifford VanValkenburgh died, aged 77. The month of April was the warmest on record for that month. May 2 - Sacred May festival at the M.E. Church. May 3 - Martin P. Kinsman died, aged 59. May 3 - Susan Smith died; she was born here in 1835. May 3 - The vestry of St. Mark's Episcopal Church adopted plans for a parish house and awarded the contract therefor to Wm. W. Preston. May 4 - Ruth Sherman and Dr. F.R. Jones married. May 5 - Mrs. Reuben Colde died, aged 63. May 7 - Mrs. Mary Conklin died, aged 90. May 13 - Mrs. Frances Smith died, aged 59. May 15 - Episcopal chapel and adjoining block demolished preparatory to the erection of a parish house. May 18 - Mrs. Clarence Philbrick died, aged 39. May 19 - Robert F. Baldwin and Creede L. Newman married. May 20 - Mary Juliet Dorrance married Harold Wynne of Anaconda, Montana. May 21 - Mrs. Chas. Norton died, aged 84. May 29 - Mrs. Wm. E. Shaw, aged 65, suicided. May 29 - David Gardner died, aged 75. May 30 - E.C. Hilborn's residence partially burned. May 31 - Memorial Day observance in Court House Park; Hon. Geo. L. Yaple, orator. June 5 - A.M. Moffitt died, aged 77. June 8 - Mrs. A.E. Conover died, aged 63. June 9 - M.D. Greening was fined $105 and 20 days' imprisonment for violation of the local option law. June 13 - Leon H. Tyler and Mildred Hogue married. June 14 - Ruth N. Swain married Clifford N. Smith of Elgin, Ill. June 15 - Allie L. Grice and Albert C. Cheney married. June 15 - Mrs. Sarah S. Butterworth died, aged 84. June 15 - Hezekiah G. DePeu died, aged 87. June 23 - Ralph Covey and Lucile Abbot married. June 24 - McKendree O. Seelye and Marguerite Wagoner married. June 24 - John H. Sheneman died, aged 74. June 24 - Maud Buck died, aged 43. June 24 - Emilio Mancini was murdered near the cement factory; Carmie Sabatinie, charged with the crime, acquitted September 25. June 26 - Marie Talmage and Otto Eicher married. June 28 - Robert A. Macarey died, aged 36. June 30 - Raleigh Blouch and Hazel Pomeroy married. July 1 - Bert W. Brainard and June Patch married. July 1 - Mrs. Huldah Jackson married W.H. Livingstone of Bay City, Oregon. July 2 - Mrs. Emily F. Burch died, aged 76. July 8 - Rena Preston married Henry Wankleman of Cincinnati. July 12 - Maree Welch married Fred C. Baxter of Detroit. July 13 - Delbert Allen died, aged 25. July 15 - Mrs. Lydia Jones married Carl F. Crews of Wichita. July 15 - Mrs. Viola Nelthorpe married Oscar J. Upham. July 21 - Sawdey & Burch dissolved partnership. W.F. Sawdey continuing the business. July 22 - Claude Bullock died, aged 36. July 23 - Mrs. A.W. Driggs died, aged 56. July 27 - Mary Leuty Robinson married Clarence R. Spring of Detroit. July 29 - Mrs. E.W. Treat died, aged 59. July 31 - Geo. H. Allen died, aged 71. July 31 - Mabel Mahaffey and Fremont Anderson married. July 31 - Chautauqua closed, out of debt. Aug. 1 - Telephone rates advanced 25 to 50 per cent, the Southern Michigan having bought up the Bell company. Aug. 2 - Burial device industry sold and removed to Ann Arbor. Aug. 4 - Bon Ami Club purchased the old Dr. Powers residence for club house. Aug. 6 - Chelsea Wilmarth, aged 21, gored to death by a bull. Aug. 7 - Dixie Amsden and Ira Williams married. Aug. 9 - Vera Gilson married Wm. G. Primeau of Jackson. Aug. 12 - Maud Nye married Richard T. Fair of Kalamazoo. Aug. 14 - Mrs. F.J. Dunks died, aged 74. Aug. 14 - Mrs. C.V. Coggin died, aged 73. Aug. 14 - Mrs. Ruth Portner died, aged 63. Aug. 14 - Neva G. Kennedy and Hubert F. Howe married. Aug. 15 - Anna M. Singleton and Wm. J. Kollmorgen married. Aug. 16 - Annie M. Chapman married Wm. E. Bailey of Salt Lake City. Aug. 26 - Carry Draime was sentenced to the house of correction for one to five years for grand larceny. Aug. 27 - Mercury, 40 degrees; the summer of 1915 was one of the most notable on record for coolness and rainfall. Aug. 31 - Jerome Macky and Mrs. Emma Walsworth married. Sept. 2 - Mrs. L.A.W. Stevens died in San Francisco, aged 73. Sept. 2 - Morgan Lewis died, aged 59. Sept. 3 - Howard G. Osborn married Mildred Lambe of Evanston, Ill. Sept. 4 - Willis L. Osborn married Vera Maynard of Charlotte. Sept. 4 - Anton H. Vogt and Lela Harris married. Sept. 8 - David E. Sanford and Mrs. Margaret M. Leitch married. Sept. 9 - O.W. Hoyt and Mrs. Sadie E. Spencer married. Sept. 10 - Wm. E. Schultz died, aged 84. Sept. 10 - Work under way on the new $50,000 school for crippled children in connection with the State Public School, to be completed next spring. Sept. 11 - Elvin Frost and Ina R. Jacobs married. Sept. 11 - Geo. H. Brown died, aged 75. Sept. 12 - Anna Etta Stafford and Amos Barker married. Sept. 12 - Esther Cushman and Ralph Randall married. Sept. 12 - Alonzo George died, aged 87. Sept. 15 - Arden S. Hill died, aged 45. Sept. 15 - Irene Mains and Harry F. Gardner married. Sept. 22 - Arreta Cook and J. Russell Vore married. Sept. 22 - County Clerk Roy G. Moore died, aged 32. Sept. 23 - Claude Crapo died, aged 29. Sept. 24 - Mrs. James Swain died, aged 43. Sept. 25 - Mrs. Frank G. Sharp died, aged 56. Sept. 25 - Anna Blanche Manee and Ervin Norton married. Sept. 25 - Lavinia Schesler and J.E. Hutchinson married. Sept. 26 - The funeral cortege of Mrs. James Swain numbered 25 automobiles-no carriages. Sept. 28 - Pearl Adams and Woodward H. Honeywell married. Sept. 28 - Mr. & Mrs. M.T. Edmonds celebrated their golden wedding. Oct. 1 - Mrs. Mary Filkins died, aged 64. Oct. 1 - Mr. & Mrs. J.A. Fetterly celebrated their golden wedding. Oct. 4 - George D. Miller died, aged 57. Oct. 6 - Orlando E. Joslin died, aged 58. Oct. 10 - Agnes B. Fellers and Roy Hiesrodt married. Oct. 11 - Jay T. Miller died, aged 70. Oct. 11 - Larry D. Sillick died, aged 67. Oct. 14 - Esther C. Elliott died, aged 12. Oct. 15 - Henry D. Straight died, aged 7. Oct. 18 - Bon Ami Club opened their new club house. Oct. 22 - Fire partially destroyed the residence of Ratio V. Becker. Oct. 23 - Rama Cole and Emily Chapman married. Oct. 25 - County Y.M.C.A. banquet; 353 men and boys present. Oct. 28 - Udolph Sherman died, aged 79. Oct. 29 - Albert A. Nichols died, aged 69. Oct. 30 - Mrs. Mary Kennedy died, aged 69. Nov. 5 - Mr. & Mrs. W.H. Sanford celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Nov. 7 - County jail had been empty sixteen days; very few prisoners at any time-the result of no saloons. Nov. 8 - First men's union church supper. Nov. 8 - Mercury, 75 degrees in the shade. Nov. 8 - Laundry building at the State Public School burned; loss $6,000. Nov. 11 - Fox & Tyler sold out to Kingsley Bros. Nov. 13 - Bon Ami Club made $555.71 on rummage sale. Nov. 15 - R.S. Biddle's residence partially burned for the fourth time in 3 years. Nov. 15 - St. Mark's parish house complete and opened. Nov. 18 - Mrs. Cora Pender Reid suicided. Nov. 22 - Mrs. Louise M. Wells died, aged 82. Nov. 22 - Jas. S. Chandler purchased the Happy Hour Theatre. Nov. 25 - A mild Thanksgiving; mercury 65 degrees. Nov. 25 - Harmon Timerson died, aged 66. Dec. 1 - Mrs. Eliza Whitford died, aged 81. Dec. 4 - Masonic fair closed; receipts $4,200. Dec. 4 - LaVerne Godden and Mrs. Anna Godden married. Dec. 6 - Dennis Vanes sold his grocery to Albert Otis. Dec. 7 - Mrs. Elvira Clifford died, aged 41. 1916 Jan. 1 - Chas N. Legg died, aged 69. Jan. 1 - Henry Snyder bought Geo. D. Barber's restaurant. Jan. 4 - Marvel L. Hueston married T.J. Tracy of Toledo. Jan. 5 - Howard J. Hickey died, aged 24. Jan. 9 - Mrs. Jennie Langohr died, aged 48. Jan. 12 - Joseph H. Montague died, aged 82. Jan. 12 - Henry A. Wolcott died, aged 83. Jan. 15 - Alfred Milnes died, aged 71. Jan. 15 - Mrs. Ann VanValkenburgh, aged 89. Jan. 15 - A local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was organized. Jan. 17 - Mrs. D.C. Card died, aged 67. Jan. 18 - Wm. H. Magley died, aged 72. Jan. 19 - Dorothy Moon married Ray Reed of Chicago. Jan. 20 - Roy Keyes died, aged 34. Jan. 23 - Mrs. Caroline Stuart died, aged 76. Jan. 25 - Mrs. Sophia Hungerford died, aged 80. Jan. 25 - Mrs. Sarah Smith died, aged 73. Jan. 28 - Mrs. Nelson Burghduff died, aged 83. Jan. 30 - John Swain died, aged 85. Feb. 5 - Mrs. Margaret Olmsted died, aged 79. Feb. 8 - H.D. Truax sold the Arlington Hotel to W.H. Lesh and W.B. Norris. Feb. 13 - Close of six weeks' revival services conducted by Evangelist Newlin under the auspices of the Methodist, Baptist and Wesleyan Churches; 529 "hit the sawdust trail." Feb. 13 - Ralph G. Dorrance died, aged 61. Feb. 14 - Mrs. Eunice Fonda died, aged 80. Feb. 15 - Annual Lincoln Club banquet. Feb. 17 - Frank W. Holt died, aged 67. Feb. 19 - Mrs. F.E. Bennett died, aged 41. Feb. 20 - Lena E. Beers and Fred J. Krimmel married. Feb. 22 - Kirke McGrew died, aged 29. Feb. 25 - Mrs. Mary E. Stowell died, aged 71. Feb. 27 - Mrs. Barney Klink died, aged 24. Feb. 28 - Mrs. Minerva P. Cummings died, aged 90. Feb. 29 - Joseph Gattsch died, aged 61. Mar. 1 - Ema Kennedy suicided; she was 35 years of age. Mar. 1 - Katherine Herendeen and Howard Allen married. Mar. 4 - Louella M. Burton married Crist J. Seils of Grand Rapids. Mar. 5 - Mrs. Eugenia Bassett died, aged 62. Mar. 5 - Mrs. Leta Manzer died, aged 23. Mar. 5 - Mrs. Mary J. Parker died, aged 79. Mar. 8 - Alva G. Myers died, aged 52. Mar. 10 - M.E. winter picnic at Armory Hall. Mar. 14 - Melzer Demorest died, aged 86. Mar. 17 - Anthony Holland died, aged 85. Mar. 20 - John Dawson died, aged 84. Mar. 21 - Capt. Chas. S. Stuart died, aged 56. Mar. 22 - Thunder and lightning snowstorm and blizzard. Mar. 23 - "Gentle Spring"-6 above zero. Mar. 23 - Katherine McGovern, aged 77, fell dead upon O.B. Wheeler's porch. Mar. 25 - Ruth Beers and Virgil Bowser married. Mar. 26 - Wm. J. Messenger, aged 84, suicided. Mar. 27 - Mrs. Blanche Wilkins and Peter D. Keim married. Mar. 27 - Mrs. Hannah Schubel died, aged 72. Mar. 28 - Hugh Junk died. Mar. 29 - Rufus Lockwood died, aged 87. Mar. 29 - Annual convention of Monroe Presbyterial Missionary Society closed here. Mar. 30 - Mrs. J.H. Montague died, aged 78. Mar. 30 - Robert Wilson was fined $160, with sixty days' imprisonment, for bootlegging. April 3 - City election. Republicans elect Frank G. Sharp mayor and Chas. L. Keep justice of the peace; Democrats elect Wm. T. Stansell clerk, Chas. E. Faas treasurer (no opposition) and Edson S. Taylor justice of the peace; most of the ward officers Republican. Women's first vote for member of board of education. April 3 - Dr. F.B. Robison died, aged 72. April 6 - Mrs. James Doris died, aged 68. April 9 - Mrs. Julia M. Frary died, aged 61. April 9 - Mrs. Clarissa Taylor died, aged 92, who had lived here 63 years. April 15 - Mrs. Betsey Angevine died, aged 72. April 19 - Mrs. Julia Myers died, aged 61. April 25 - H.J. Woodward died, aged 80. April 27 - Mrs. Miles Culp died, aged 72. April 28 - Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett died, aged 92. April 28 - I.O.O.F. dedicated new temple. April 29 - Robert Swaffield died, aged 83. April 30 - Dale P. Rogers and Mary Darling married. May 6 - Mrs. Royal S. Dunham died, aged 80. May 6 - Michigan Association of Taxpayers and Voters organized here. May 11 - Mrs. J. Wesley Brown died, aged 82. May 13, 14 - Five inches of rain fell. May 24 - Ruth Calkins and Howard F. Barrell married. May 25 - Daniel C. Card died, aged 72. May 26 - Collins & Lockwood sold out to Stinebower & George. May 27 - Geo. S. Barker died, aged 62. May 28 - Herbert Green was killed by the skidding of his motorcycle. May 30 - Wm. T. Ball and Olive Rattray married. June 8 - Mrs. Wm. A. Coombs died, aged 75. June 8 - High school graduated 36. June 13 - Rodney R. George died, aged 44. June 15 - Arthur W. Driggs died, aged 60. June 17 - John R. Champion died, aged 83. June 17 - Edna M. Walker and Walton J. Barnes married. June 20 - Burt E. Barlow and Ida Thompson Severn married. June 23 - Lester A. Weage and Myrtle L. Maree married. July 11 - Baseball: Elks 23, Masons 3. July 12 - Mrs. Ebenezer Post died, aged 74. July 12 - Dedication of the new school for dependent cripples. July 13 - Mrs. Aaron D. Milhan died, aged 77. July 15 - L.L. Livermore of Quincy was elected county school commissioner to succeed Frank E. Robinson, resigned. July 17 - Mrs. Minnie E. Whitehead died, aged 55. July 19 - Mrs. A.W. Fox died, aged 50. July 20 - Mrs. Elizabeth Bitz died, aged 64. July 22 - Jas. R. Downs died, aged 52. July 22 - Chas. Ball died, aged 68. July 25 - Ray E. Trumbull died of infantile paralysis. July 29 - Mrs. Welthy Higgins died, aged 68. July 29 - Lyman W. Grove died, aged 83. July 30 - Edwin N. Howe died, aged 62. Aug. 3 - Mrs. M.L. Jordan died, aged 61. Aug. 3 - Mrs. Clyde Clinefelter died, aged 23. Aug. 3 - Mrs. David S. Phinney died, aged 86. Aug. 5 - New asphalt pavement completed on Division Street from Pearl Street to Park Avenue. Aug. 8 - Bessie Grove and Joseph Knoppow married. Aug. 10 - Mrs. Isabel DePue died, aged 80. Aug. 14 - Wm. Burns robbed of $118 by highwaymen. Aug. 16 - Mrs. C.V.L. Kibbe died, aged 77. Aug. 16 - Alfred E. Pearce died, aged 49. Aug. 18 - Edmund Ball died, aged 83. Aug. 22 - Mrs. Edna Bevard died, aged 52. Aug. 31 - Mrs. Adaline Sillick died, aged 89. Sept. 5 - Mrs. C.B. Pennock died, aged 42. Sept. 5 - Oral C. Marquette and Fern Davis married. Sept. 7 - C.D. Warner died, aged 76. Sept. 7 - Mrs. Harriet Zeller died, aged 88. Sept. 7 - Mrs. Chas. Willard died, aged 61. Sept. 9 - Arthur J. Crippen died in Chicago. Sept. 10 - Mrs. Charlotte Merritt died, aged 81. Sept. 12 - Loraine Layton and Jay T. Bachelder married. Sept. 14 - Geo W. Clement and Welthey A. Miner married. Sept. 16 - Jessie Campbell and Elmore V. Musselman married. Sept. 19 - L.J. Gripman died, aged 54. Sept. 19 - Glee Hart and Clarence Markham married. Sept. 20 - Flora L. Mannerow and Harold M. Parker married. Sept. 21 - Carrie Belle Willard died, aged 33. Sept. 21 - A. Wesley Merritt died, aged 74. Sept. 21 - Raymond DuBois died, aged 19. Sept. 23 - Chauncey Macky and Mrs. Elizabeth Parshall married. Sept. 23 - Rev. John Hewitt celebrated the 50th anniversary of his entry into the ministry. Sept. 28 - Otis M. Clement died, aged 77. Sept. 30 - John Deabler was killed by the overturning of an automobile. Sept. 30 - Alfred Turner and Leona Waldron married. Oct. 1 - Chas. E. Dodge died, aged 42. Oct. 3 - John R. Lucas died, aged 73. Oct. 5 - Jerusha Knapp died, aged 72. Oct. 8 - Baptist homecoming services. Oct. 8 - Mrs. Benj. Filkins died, aged 65. Oct. 9 - Carleton Hatch died, aged 30. Oct. 10 - Mrs. Fannie Brown died, aged 77. Oct. 12 - Wm. H. Harris died, aged 72. Oct. 15 - Levi W. Knepp died, aged 64. Oct. 15 - Albert Chapman died, aged 26. Oct. 16 - Mrs. John Crist died, aged 73. Oct. 17 - Mrs. Adella French died, aged 78. Oct. 18 - Cecil Juckett and Carl Krimmel married. Oct. 20 - County Y.M.C.A. banquet at Armory Hall. Oct. 21 - Wm. O'Mara died, aged 49. Oct. 22 - Aaron J. Parsons died, aged 83. Oct. 24 - Louvetta Kimble and Harry Weeden married. Oct. 25 - Rev. and Mrs. John Hewitt celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Oct. 26 - Mary Weldy married Dr. W.E. Danley of St. Joseph, Mo. Oct. 27 - Samuel L. Stowell died, aged 37. Oct. 28 - Ruth Fellers and Paul Lake married. Oct. 30 - Roland Holmes, 24, killed by the skidding of his automobile. Oct. 30 - Princess Manufacturing Company commenced operations. Nov. 4 - Golden wedding celebration of Mr. and Mrs. Russell and Mr. and Mrs. L.S. Daniells. Nov. 4 - Great "dry" demonstration and parade by children of city and county. Nov. 5 - Mrs. A.R. Grove died, aged 72. Nov. 7 - Election: County offices evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats; county gives 3,924 for state-wide prohibition and 2,332 against; 1,874 for "home rule" and 4,232 against. Nov. 10 - Mrs. C.S. Wright died, aged 84. Nov. 11 - Thos. Blouch died, aged 78. Nov. 12 - D.V. Kelley died, aged 78. Nov. 15 - Mrs. Laura O. Abbott died, aged 69. Nov. 15 - Vachel A. Donley died, aged 66. Nov. 16 - Stephen V. Evans died, aged 67. Nov. 20 - J.W. Hueston sold his business to Olds & Johnson. Nov. 24 - Chas. H. Taylor died, aged 60. Nov. 25 - Geo. Collard died, aged 64. Nov. 28 - Mrs. Sarah Kennard died, aged 93. Dec. 3 - Mrs. Geo. Lucas died, aged 76. Dec. 3 - Mrs. Chas. Denbrock died, aged 57. Dec. 4 - Mrs. Geo. W. Knapp died, aged 70. Dec. 9 - Geo. W. Fox died, aged 62. Dec. 9 - Mrs. Mary Vielbaber died, aged 58. Dec. 11 - Mrs. Huldah Nixson died, aged 76. Dec. 16 - Lyle Creel and Lillian Sanford married. Dec. 21 - Mrs. Johanna Sweeney died, aged 83. Dec. 23 - Mrs. Elizabeth Lampman and Wilson McAllister married. Dec. 23 - Park Sutton and Eva Mae Irwin married. Dec. 23 - Annie Morris and Vern Wilkins married. Dec. 23 - Herschel Hall and Winnie Crandall married. Dec. 24 - Hazel E. Zeller and Jay A. Drake married. Dec. 25 - Viola Davis and Chas. Stone married. Dec. 25 - Mr. & Mrs. E.F. Davis celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Dec. 25 - George F. Nivison died, aged 72. Dec. 27 - Mrs. Sarah Fulk died, aged 77. Dec. 29 - Mrs. Julia Weidler died, aged 69. Dec. 30 - Mrs. David Bartlett died, aged 64. Dec. 30 - Ezekiel Mix died, aged 55. 1916 - Coldwater's Nonogenarians Wm. R. Card, 195 Hull - 90 Chas. T. Cornwell, 102 Marshall - 95 Mrs. Enfield Gallap, 410 E. Chicago - 92 Mrs. Marion A. Green, 48 Division - 94 Mrs. Amelia M. Hale, 152 Morse - 93 Mrs. Olive Hayes, 115 Perkins - 90 Mrs. Sarah I. Legg, 150 N. Hudson - 92 Mrs. Sarah Rose, 61 W. Pearl - 92 Mrs. Nancy Searing, 127 Peckham - 96 1917 Jan. 1 - Fire in H.A. Tiefenthal's bakery; loss, $500. Jan. 1 - Mr. & Mrs. Thos. Osborn celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Jan. 3 - Mrs. Sophia Upson Pratt died, aged 86. Jan. 5 - Mrs. Cassie Russell died, aged 54. Jan. 6 - Frank G. Sharp and Mrs. Ida C. Chase married. Jan. 7 - George Perry died, aged 69. Jan. 9 - Agnes Young and Frank Elk married. Jan. 11 - Eggs, 50 cents per dozen. Jan. 14 - Lytton Gamble died, aged 18. Jan. 16 - Grant Eaton & Co. succeed Lesh & Norris as proprietors of the Arlington Hotel. Jan. 17 - Mrs. Mary Chauncey died, aged 73. Jan. 19 - Alonzo Cleveland died, aged 91. Jan. 19 - Mae L. Eno died, aged 33. Jan. 22 - Mrs. Ettie W. Boughton died, aged 86. Jan. 24 - Henry C. Whitley died, aged 78, died from burns sustained in his home. Jan. 25 - Joseph W. Ferns died, aged 72. Jan. 25 - Afton W. Fox and Mrs. Minnie Slagle married. Jan. 26 - Harold R. Wilder died, aged 17. Jan. 27 - Pauline L. Cowell died, aged 13. Jan. 29 - Joseph Henning died, aged 77. Jan. 30 - Mrs. Delia Cogshall died, aged 89. Feb. 1 - C.H. Compton and Mrs. Mae Lewis married. Feb. 3 - Orie B. Tift and LaRue Weage married. Feb. 12 - Mercury 20 degrees below zero. Feb. 13 - Lucius T. Goodnow died, aged 71. Feb. 15 - Company A returned home: they left for the Mexican border June 24. Feb. 15 - Hattie C. Osborn and J. Warren Watson married. Feb. 15 - Mary A. Dickinson died, aged 69. Feb. 16 - Wilbur C. Dermott, aged 18, suicided. Feb. 16 - Geo. M. Parsons died, aged 70. Feb. 16 - Mrs. Wallace Selby died, aged 56. Feb. 17 - Anna V. Relyea and Floyd Van Schoick married. Feb. 18 - Mrs. Ella V. Waite and Isaiah Walters married. Feb. 24 - Allen Corson died, aged 62. Feb. 27 - Twenty-second annual Lincoln Club banquet. Feb. 27 - Warren A. Blye died, aged 76. Feb. 28 - Chas. E. Herendeen died, aged 65. Feb. 28 - Chas. Perk died, aged 65. March 2 - Residence of A.E. Robinson badly damaged by fire. March 3 - Residence of Andrew Nachbauer partially burned. March 9 - Howard Parrish, aged 9, and Albert W. Russell, 40, died of diptheria. March 12 - Mrs. Herman Golchert died, aged 67. March 12 - Mrs. Susan B. Hunt died, aged 89. March 12 - Cuma Jean Pitcher died, aged 3. March 13-24 - Schools, churches, lodges, etc., closed on account of diptheria. March 14 - Mr. & Mrs. H.K. Saunders celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. March 14 - Henry Nichols and Hattie Harris married. March 19 - Mrs. Frances Stoddard died, aged 77. March 20 - Mrs. Phebe St. Clair died, aged 81. March 27 - Mrs. Evelyn Rockwood died, aged 59. March 27 - David Jones died, aged 65. March 30 - Chas. D. Wright and Helen Beaumont married. April 2 - City election: Citizen's ticket elects Wm. H. Friedrich mayor over Frank G. Sharp by 61 and Wm. T. Stansell clerk over Wm. S. Lockwood by 106; Republicans elect Milton W. Wimer treasurer over Smith Clizbe by 99; proposition to allow moving-picture shows on Sunday carried by 148. County defeats proposed bond issue for road-building-yes 1,628, no 3,135. April 4 - James Burns died, aged 58. April 4 - Ernest Draime and Mildred Frye married. April 5 - City council raised day laborers' wages to 25 cents per hour. April 6 - War on Germany declared. April 8 - Mrs. J.S. Troutman died, aged 65. April 18 - First warm spring day; mercury 80 in the shade. April 21 - Mrs. Frances M. Hartshorn died, aged 81. April 21 - Mrs. Marion A. Green died, aged 95. April 21 - Dean Corless died, aged 45. April 22 - Mrs. Amos Markham died, aged 82. April 24 - Chas. C. Keyes died, aged 85. April 25 - Milan Wheeler died, aged 76. April 29 - Wm. C. Newman died, aged 36. April 30 - Seward Cleveland died, aged 67. May 3 - Great war meeting in the opera house. May 5 - Mrs. Pearl Furgason and Jas. McCook married. May 6 - First Sunday movies. May 6 - Elizabeth H. Jackson and Ray E. Bowerman married. May 6 - Mrs. Mary Simons Moore died, aged 33. May 7 - Orin R. Lewis, aged 63, dropped dead. May 8 - Alphonso E. Hutchins died, aged 61. May 10 - Mrs. B.K. Robbins died, aged 72. May 13 - Hazel I. Dunham and John N. St. Clair married. May 13 - Mrs. Mary Moore died, aged 90. May 15 - Bread 15 cents per loaf. May 15 - Fred Hodgkins died, aged 47. May 15 - W.H. Schmedlen's carriage factory damaged by fire. May 17 - Mrs. Amelia Henning died, aged 76. May 18 - P.W. Hilliar died, aged 80. May 18 - Mrs. Chas. E. Reynolds died, aged 60. May 19 - Convention of United Commercial Travelers. May 22 - Mrs. Jennie Allen died, aged 79. May 22 - Ruby Vosburgh and Glenn Lytle married. May 25 - Mrs. Wm. Trumbull died, aged 42. May 26 - Frank Bailey and Ione Allen married. May 27 - David Bartlett died, aged 67. May 28 - L.S. Eldred died, aged 44. May 30 - Alex McIntyre died, aged 73. May 30 - Edgar Peterson died, aged 65. June 1 - Gertrude Higgins won first honors in state declamatory contest at Pontiac. June 2 - Remains of Edward P. Ray brought here for burial. June 2 - Ambrose David died, aged 74. June 3 - Ethyl McMurray and Frederick C. Marquart married. June 4 - Registration day for German war; city registration 292, county 1,537; mass meeting in the park. June 4 - Ruth A. Preston and Bert L. Hillborg married. June 6 - Remains of Major M.R. Zahniser brought here for burial. June 6 - Bernice I. Thomas and Hector Sheehan married. June 7 - High school 50th annual commencement; 51 graduates. June 7 - Mrs. Lydia Sheneman died, aged 76. June 14 - Iva Fern Herl and L. Dean Steffey married. June 14 - Liberty bonds over-subscribed in city and county by $28,000. June 15 - Hellen Tracy and Roland E. Benedict married. June 17 - Second annual commencement of St. Charles' parochial high school; one graduate, Frances C. Sandt. June 18 - Albert J. Dorrance died, aged 60. June 18 - David Trump died, aged 84. June 18 - City purchased $3,475 fire truck. June 19 - Albert J. Dorrance died, aged 60. June 21 - Ruth Parker and Herbert H. Bartlett married. June 21 - Wrecking of old Lanphere residence commenced on new Armory Hall site. June 23 - Fred S. Moore died, aged 82. June 23 - Guy Fox and Elsie Stone married. June 23 - Mrs. Wm. F. Waffle died, aged 72. June 23 - Residence of Samuel Larrabee struck by lightning and partially burned. June 24 - Andrew W. Hugunin died, aged 67. June 24 - Mrs. Jay Snyder died, aged 33. June 26 - Bertha E. Tyler and Clyde L. Corson married. July 2 - Mrs. Evaline J. Clizbe died, aged 69. July 5 - Mrs. Cecilia B. Bingham died, aged 88, fatally injured by being run over by an auto. July 6 - L.F. Humphrey seriously injured by the overturning of his automobile. July 13 - Daniel Bradley and Pearl Gregory married. July 14 - Maude L. Fenner and H. Ray Zull married. July 14 - Louise E. Doll and Louis B. Nelson married. July 16 - Eloise Baxter and Leo Goss married. July 18 - Public demonstration for Company A; impressive parade, several bands; crowd estimated at 20,000; proceeds for Company A, $1,683.77; cornerstone for new $45,000 armory laid. July 20 - First draft of men for German war. July 20 - Mrs. W.L. Kirk died, aged 50. July 21-28 - Annual Chautauqua. July 22 - Mrs. Ambrose David died, aged 72. July 24 - Company A mustered into United States service. July 25 - Guli M. Badour and Frank A. Dees married. July 25 - Hiram Young died, aged 85. July 26 - Mrs. Robert Rattray died, aged 46. July 28 - Merle Schmedlen and Earl G. Green married. July 28 - Remains of Mrs. Angie Smith brought here from Venice, Cal., for burial. July 29 - Explosion and fire in the coal house at the municipal water works imperiled the whole plant. July 30 - Rev. and Mrs. C.L. Barnhart celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Aug. 1 - Ethel Fellers and Clare Johnson married. Aug. 5 - Elwin E. Funk died, aged 39. Aug. 5 - Mrs. Frank A. Bedell died, aged 72. Aug. 5 - Daniel Palmatier died, aged 55. Aug. 7 - Mrs. L.E. Rose died, aged 70. Aug. 11 - Mabel E. Fonda and Clarence N. Powell married. Aug. 15 - Company A entrained for Grayling. Aug. 17 - Willis E. Hodgman died, aged 45. Aug. 17 - Mrs. J.W. Canrike died, aged 58. Aug. 17 - Gertrude D. Smith and Frank L. Craun married. Aug. 18 - Residence of Fred A. Burt damaged by fire. Aug. 18 - George W. Barron died, aged 43. Aug. 19 - Mrs. Michael Kutcha died, aged 23. Aug. 19 - Observance, at Lutheran Church, of the 400th anniversary of the beginning of the Lutheran reformation. Aug. 22 - L. Dean Simmons died, aged 6?. Aug. 26 - Stephen Newman died, aged 80. Aug. 29 - C.G. Cole and Jessie ? Kaiser married. Sept. 2 - Mrs. Joseph M. Smith died, aged 62. Sept. 3 - Mrs. Nancy A. Searing died, aged 97; she was the oldest resident of the city. Sept. 4 - Benjamin Kramer and Flossie Wilson married. Sept. 6 - Wm. M. Allgo? Died, aged 73. Sept. 9 - Alfred Hall died, aged 78. Sept. 9 - Mrs. Hannah Moses died, aged 78. Sept. 12 - Sheriff George W. Ralston was shot dead by Frank Van Tassel, an insane resident of California Township, who was later in the night killed in his house by a volley from a posse. (note under picture of sheriff: Sheriff George W. Ralston who was shot dead by Frank VanTassel, demented, whom he was about to take in custody. He was the first Branch County officer to lose his life. Mr. Ralston's death, with those of A.J. Dorrance and W.E. Hodgman, left twenty-one children fatherless.) Sept. 12 - Warren L. Parke and Florence M. Fray married. Sept. 12 - Eva Semmelroth and Wm. W. Foster married. Sept. 12 - Elmer J. Allen died, aged 52. Sept. 15 - Frank Swantek and Agnes Tobolski married. Sept. 15 - Harlow G. Raymond and Helen Urban married. Sept. 17 - Mrs. Orrilla Whalen died, aged 85. Sept. 17 - Mrs. Louise Franklin died, aged 75. Sept. 19 - Mrs. Hannah O. Moffitt died, aged 77. Sept. 19 - Twenty-one soldiers left for Camp Custer; previously sent, 3. Sept. 20 - Sarah L. Ganger and Harold E. Pierce married. Sept. 20 - Fred A. Showers died, aged 70. Sept. 21 - Monroe Truesdell died, aged 55. Sept. 22 - Chalmers Montgomery and Mildred E. Bennett married. Sept. 22 - Bessie F. Teall and Harry Gage. Sept. 22 - Mrs. Ella Brayton and Geo. W. Johns married. Sept. 27 - Mrs. Helen E. Teller died, aged 70. Sept. 29 - Marjorie Moore and Frank Leslie Treat married. Sept. 29 - Louise E. Couve and Myron E. Pomeroy married. Sept. 29 - Elmer J. Allen died, aged 52. Sept. 30 - Mrs. Anthony Bonfiglio died, aged 26. Oct. 2 - Mrs. Florence Honeywell died, aged 67. Oct. 6 - Clarence Morris and Pauline Otis married. Oct. 8 - Clare E. Wise and Ada M. Camp married. Oct. 8 - Royal S. Dunham died, aged 87. Oct. 11 - Mrs. L.L. Farwell died, aged 47. Oct. 17 - S. Jackson Sheneman died, aged 72. Oct. 17 - Jennie Weage and Walter Titus married. Oct. 18 - Louise P. Deuel and Rev. J.I. Wheeler married. Oct. 18 - Mrs. Ellen J. Foster died, aged 70. Oct. 18 - Mrs. Garrett Jenkins died, aged 57. Oct. 22 - Mrs. Elmira D. Wallace died, aged 75. Oct. 24 - Albert A. Johnson and Mrs. May Mead married. Oct. 24 - Mrs. Nellie Morris died, aged 41. Oct. 24 - Mr. & Mrs. A.P. Hawks celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Oct. 25 - Edward C. Whitehead died, aged 74. Oct. 25 - New auto fire truck put in commission. Oct. 27 - George Cook died, aged 62. Oct. 28 - Samuel Fiske died, aged 83. Oct. 30-Nov. 2 - Unusual cold and snow; one clear day in October. Nov. 3 - Lorene Taylor and Ival E. Jacobs were married in Saginaw. Nov. 4 - Mrs. Sarah Wyatt died, aged 86. Nov. 5 - Mrs. W.H. Birch died, aged 46. Nov. 7 - Lindley H. Gripman died, aged 81. Nov. 9 - Dennis Hayes, Sr. died, aged 81. Nov. 10 - Mrs. W.C. Kollmorgen died, aged 69. Nov. 12 - Jedadiah Wilcox died, aged 78. Nov. 19 - Coombs Milling Co. passed into the hands of the Amendt Milling Co. of Monroe. Nov. 24 - Serious shortage of fuel. Nov. 25 - Oliver E. Filley died, aged 77. Nov. 26 - Grace Wahl and Paul Withington married. Nov. 27 - Geo. H. Phinney died, aged 62. Nov. 27 - Edwin Dubendorf died, aged 61. Nov. 29 - Mrs. John Carter died, aged 60. Nov. 29 - Ellen Hilborn and Geo. E. Strang married. Nov. 29 - Hazel M. Keller and Harry E. Draime married. Dec. 1 - Marion E. Wright and Gorton Price were married in Ann Arbor. Dec. 1 - Mrs. Jennie Roberts died, aged 72. Dec. 1 - Mrs. Elizabeth Snyder died, aged 73. Dec. 2 - Arthur Jerome died, aged 65. Dec. 2 - Home of John K. Stachowiscz partially burned. Dec. 4 - $700 fire at Frank C. Allen's home. Dec. 5 - John Coward died, aged 85. Dec. 7 - Malachi Bernard died, aged 90. Dec. 8 - Mrs. Pearl Anthony and Theo Mohn married. Dec. 9 - Mrs. Catherine Norris died, aged 83. Dec. 9 - Cold spell unprecedented for early December; 10 below zero. Dec. 10 - Chas. W. Mannerow died, aged 71. Dec. 11 - Mr. & Mrs. S.O. Morgan celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Dec. 13 - Andrew Nachbauer died, aged 71. Dec. 13 - Mrs. Ruth Newton died, aged 73. Dec. 14 - Fremont Wood died, aged 61. Dec. 15 - Mildred M. Markley and Otto L. Richardson married. Dec. 15 - Kittie B. Taylor and Roy A. Vandenburg married. Dec. 15 - Mercury 20 below zero. Dec. 15 - Rodney Parker, aged 20, died of meningitis in Chicago on his way home from Camp MacArthur-the first death in Company A; Delbert C. Lupold died the next day. Dec. 16 - Fire in the Old Bank Building. Dec. 17 - Alexander R. Green died, aged 82. Dec. 18 - David N. Smith died, aged 76. Dec. 19 - George F. Holden and Martha A. Robinson married. Dec. 21 - Lucile L. Griffith and Charles Mobley married. Dec. 22 - William T. Doll, aged ten, rescued Greta Randerson from drowning in the Coldwater River, but himself perished under the ice. Dec. 23 - Mrs. L.L. Calkins died, aged 34. Dec. 25 - Peleg O. Carmer died, aged 78. Dec. 25 - Warner VanAken and Gladys Sapp married. Dec. 25 - Edgar Casebeer and Emma Tyler married. Dec. 30 - Mrs. C.J. Thorpe died, aged about 74. Note under a picture of Thomas Rhodes: A mere lad, he enlisted in 1861, serving through the war as drummer and soldier. As a drummer, he assisted in escorting to the train the first contingents in the War of the Rebellion, the Spanish War, the Mexican trouble of 1916, and the German War. He is the oldest band drummer in Michigan, having played in every Coldwater band during fifty-six years. Note under a reduced facsimile of a Civil War poster: Coldwater is as patriotic in 1917 as in 1861, and by a strange coincidence Capt. Roscoe Graves left on August 15 for the state rendezvous in the present war with just the same number of men as Capt. Ebenezer Butterworth took with him (145) when he left on April 29, 1861, with his brave cadets at the breaking out of the war of the rebellion. It will be noted that the above poster (shown in one-sixth original size) was issued something over four months after Fort Sumter was fired upon. 1918 Jan. 3 - Amariah G. Stevens died, aged 83. Jan. 5 - Ora E. Bacon died, aged 58. Jan. 7 - Mrs. R. Allen Hall died, aged 72. Jan. 9 - Willis Miller died, aged 65. Jan. 10 - Emily Keickhoefer and Richard Winters married. Jan. 12-13 - Blizzard; 22 below zero; all railroad trains abandoned. Jan. 13 - Mrs. Mary J. Brown died, aged 88. Jan. 18-22 - Factories closed by government order to conserve fuel; serious coal shortage country wide. Jan. 20 - Wm. B. Downer died, aged 85. Jan. 20 - Ruth Hillborg and Frank T. Abel married. Jan. 21 - Alford Thompson died, aged 87. (under a picture of Alford Thompson, wife and sons, there is a note which says: "This aged and highly respected couple lived together almost 68 years, finally passing away within a few days of each other." See Feb. 27 for Mrs. Thompson's death) Jan. 22 - Henry Doerr died, aged 60. Jan. 23 - Wm. Wimer died, aged 75. Jan. 23 - Merinous N. Nyssen died, aged 80. Jan. 25 - Mrs. A.F. Mason died, aged 65. Jan. 25 - Wm. F. Sanford died, aged 73. Jan. 26 - Hazel U. Legg and Irvin K. Manoin married. Jan. 26 - Anna Saxton and H.O. Swain. Jan. 30 - Glenn Mason, aged 16, killed by a falling tree. Jan. 25 - Mrs. G.F. Fuller died, aged 30. Jan. 31 - Roxie King and Joseph VanBlarcom married. During January the mercury fell to zero or below practically every night and thirty inches of snow fell; ground frozen six feet deep. Feb. 3 - Mrs. Marcia M. Ingram died, aged 71. Feb. 3 - Benj. Nachbauer died, aged 36. Feb. 5 - Wm. H. Bingham narrowly excaped death by taking poison by mistake. Feb. 6 - Mercury rose from 20 below zero to 34 above. Feb. 9 - David W. Weldy died, aged 81. Feb. 10 - Willet J. Potter died, aged 53. Feb. 11 - Judge John B. Shipman died, aged 85. Feb. 12 - End of several weeks' sleighing. Feb. 12 - Wm. H. Relyea died, aged 64. Feb. 14 - Francis C. Leaman died, aged 50. Feb. 14 - Wm. Abbott suicided. Feb. 15 - Mrs. Amelia Hale died, aged nearly 95. Feb. 16 - Myron Draper died, aged 66. Feb. 17 - Sheriff Nelson W. Fenner died, aged 43; making Sheriff Cline the third to hold that office within about five months. Feb. 19 - Rev. John Hewitt died, aged 73. Feb. 19 - Mrs. Lillian Barney died, aged 73. Feb. 19 - Mr. and Mrs. Cortland Clement celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Feb. 21 - Louise E. Hufnagle died, aged 69. Feb. 27 - Mrs. Alford Thompson died, aged 84. Feb. 27 - Chas. F. Stygles died, aged 77. March 2 - Public reception for Gov. Sleeper. March 6 - Adolphus E. Buck died, aged 69. March 6 - Mrs. Frank Graham died, aged 55. March 6 - Wallace J. Selby and Esther L. Young married. March 7 - Vine Warner and Stanley Hine married. March 8 - Edward Stillman died, aged 66. March 9 - Charles F. Sumner died, aged 75. March 9 - Mrs. Frances J. Bennett died, aged 78. March 17 - Great Patriotic League mass meetings at the Opera House and Armory Hall. March 18 - Roger Dorrance died, aged 6. March 19 - Wm. S. Chandler died, aged 50. March 21 - Irene Fisher and John VanDyke married. March 26 - Wilbur French died, aged 64. March 29 - Clyde Musselman died, aged 23. April 1 - City election: Frank G. Sharp, Republican, defeats Willis M. Drury, Democrat, for mayor; Wm. T. Stansell, Democrat, defeats Robt. Rattray, Republican, for clerk; Edson S. Taylor, Democrat, defeats Henry C. Clark, Republican, for justice of the peace; Edwin E. Bennett, Republican, elected treasurer with no opposition. April 1 - Ralph Selby died, aged 20. April 6 - Mrs. E.H. Mott died, aged 50. April 6 - Ruth Clark and Arthur Sloman married. April 10 - Mrs. Garber A. Nichols died, aged 57. April 11 - Mrs. E.N. Howe died, aged 61. April 20 - Mrs. A.R. Brown died, aged 80. April 22 - Alonzo A. Olmsted died, aged 80. April 22 - Mrs. Lena S. Harris died, aged 57. April 23 - Joseph M. Smith died, aged 64. April 26 - Big Liberty Day demonstration. April 27 - Ida Ferguson and Herman Kester married. April 30 - Ira F. Parker died, aged 58. May 1 - The King's Daughters burned the paper covering the final debt on their building; on the 5th the Church of Christ did the same. May 2 - Mrs. Chas. R. Moore died, aged 68. May 2 - Alma Ryder and J.W. Corwin married. May 3 - Mr. & Mrs. F.C. Wolcott celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary. May 5 - Wm. S. Hughey died, aged 51. May 6 - Geo R. Rosenbrook died, aged 72. May 6 - Mrs. S.A. Bisbee died, aged 73. May 6 - Anna E. McGrath and Paul F. Smith married. May 7 - Mrs. Margaret R. Beach died, aged 68. May 7 - Howard F. Draper and Lena Collette married. May 10 - D.K. Shields Jr. died, aged 7. May 13 - Mrs. Karl May died, aged 42. May 14 - Herman Golchert died, aged 68. May 15 - Mrs. Anna S. Walker died, aged 74. May 15 - Mrs. Mary J. Cook died, aged 82. May 16 - Mrs. Samuel Chestnut died, aged 54. May 17 - Vincent Kutchey died, aged 6. May 18 - Frank Sullivan died in the naval hospital at Portsmouth, Va. May 26 - Winfield Scott Nichols died, aged 68. May 30 - Mrs. D.B. DeLand Cady died, aged 53. May 30 - John F. Hiatt died, aged 76. May 31 - Clinton F. Bennett and Mrs. Christine Hogue married. May 31 - Lewis C. Reed died, aged 66. June 1 - Mrs. Catharine Whitbeck died, aged 77. June 4 - Mrs. W.C. Fluke died, aged 66. June 5 - Mrs. C.L. Ball died, aged 61. June 8 - Mrs. Geo. A. Burton died, aged 63. June 8 - Home of A.R. Kibbe seriously damaged by fire. June 10 - Franklin E. Morgan died, aged 82. June 11 - Anna McNit and Roy Brauker married. June 11 - Mrs. Frank B. Angevine died, aged 44. June 18 - Melburn Burns, aged 17, was killed in Battle Creek, being struck by a locomotive while riding a motorcycle. June 19 - George Snyder attempted suicide by firing a bullet into his forehead; he died Aug. 18. June 19 - Frank L. Parker was crushed to death and Grant L. Smith terribly injured by the newspaper press in the Reporter office starting up while they were inside of it. June 20 - Myrtle Allen and Donald Wheeler married. June 22 - Serious damage from frost. June 24 - Grace B. Oberlin and Frank J. Berry married. June 25 - Mildred H. Waffle and Herbert L. Sloman married. June 28 - Josiah W. Troxel died, aged 70. June 30 - Marshall P. Woodward and Frances I. McLane married. July 2 - Vaiden C. Bordner, 31, was murdered in his automobile near Jackson July 4 - James Raymond died, aged 50. July 5 - Wm. Steward died, aged 80. July 5 - Mrs. A.R. dick, aged 51. July 7 - Reuben V. Eligh died, aged 68. July 15 - Robert Sherburn killed by the overturning of his automobile. July 16 - Coldwater-Detroit motor truck freight service begun. July 17 - Wm. H. Brown died, aged 78. July 20 - Alice M. Barnard and Pattern D. Merrill married. July 20 - Albert H. Jewell married. July 21 - Fred Speaker and Wealtha E. Bragg married. July 27 - Spencer M. Youngs died, aged 59. July 29 - Lorene H. Osborn and Albert H. Jewell married. July 29 - Fred Speaker and Wealtha E. Bragg married. July 31 - Sergt. Clyde Clinefelter, 25, of Company A, killed in action in France, the first Coldwater boy to make the supreme sacrifice at the front. Aug. 3 - Vera B. Filkins and Louis L. Carpenter married. Aug. 5 - Erma Crandall accidentally fired a bullet into her head, probably incapacitating her for the remainder of her life. Aug. 6 - Mrs. Flora Benjamen and John Smith married. Aug. 5-8 - Extremely hot period; highest temperature 105. Aug. 8 - Mrs. C.H. Dickinson died, aged 62. Aug. 8 - Irene Mary Donahue died, aged 25. Aug. 11 - Mrs. Edith L. Mitchell and G. Floyd Fuller married. Aug. 13 - Benson K. Robbins died, aged 78. Aug. 19 - Nellie Gilbert died, aged 84. Aug. 19 - Hannah Greenwood died, aged 61, who had been a patient at the Kalamazoo hospital 40 years. Aug. 22 - Mrs. W.A. Fletcher died, aged 32. Aug. 22 - Mrs. John Phibbs died, aged 78. Aug. 23 - Mrs. John Bishop died, aged 56. Aug. 25 - Daniel Bradley died, aged 77. Aug. 27 - Primary election to make nominations for November election. Aug. 30 - Mammoth demonstration in the park, following news of Company A's gallant fighting in France. Aug. 31 - Mrs. Frances Harbaugh and Karl May married. Sept. 3 - Mrs. Frances Zeller died, aged 59. Sept. 10 - Mrs. Olive Abbott died, aged 76. Sept. 10 - Mrs. Alfred Yeatter died. Sept. 12 - Registration day under new law making age limits 18 to 45 for war service. Sept. 14 - Mrs. Elva Pickhaver died, aged 49. Sept. 14 - Alden Harris and Anna Brown married. Sept. 17 - Mrs. L.L. Daniells died, aged 73. Sept. 19 - Great war meeting, preparatory to the fourth liberty loan. Sept. 22 - Monster war meeting in New Armory, the first public gathering held in the building. Sept. 23 - Wm. S. Titus died, aged 54. Sept. 24 - Mrs. G.W. Harding died, aged 69. Sept. 26 - Mrs. Nelson Doty died, aged 71. Sept. 26 - Mary E. Pierce and Theodore Smith married. Sept. 28-29 - Volunteer days for fourth liberty loan. Sept. 28 - Albert A. Dorrance and Rafaela Tennant married. Oct. 2 - Edward R. Root died, aged 67. (Beneath a picture of him is the following notation: "Born here in 1851, he became one of Coldwater's foremost citizens. He served as Postmaster, as Captain of Company A, and in other public capacities. He was Secretary-Treasurer of the Wolverine Portland Cement Company and an invaluable official in St. Mark's Episcopal Church." Oct. 8 - Mrs. Marguerite Hillborg died, aged 47. Oct. 10 - Seeley A. Teller died, aged 23. Oct. 12 - Maurice Calkins died, aged 14. Oct. 13 - Sun obscured by yellow haze, caused by terrible forest fires in the northwest. Oct. 13 - Mrs. Eliza Pearce died, aged 87. Oct. 13 - Mrs. Caroline Ray died, aged 66. Oct. 13 - Lomar C. Billington died, aged 32. Oct. 14 - Schools, churches, lodges, etc., closed on account of Spanish influenza. Oct. 14 - Mrs. Adelia C. Tyler died, aged 79. Oct. 15 - Residence of Geo. Carter partially burned. Oct. 15 - Margaret Hoyt died, aged 13. Oct. 18 - Two fires at the same time: Wm. June's barn on East Washington Street practically destroyed, and F.H. Welch's residence at 35 Hull badly damaged. Oct. 19 - Lee Campbell died, aged 31. Oct. 19 - Fred B. Johnson, aged 44, and daughter Albeata, aged 5, died. Oct. 19 - Arnold Raymond and Mrs. Mary Bauer married. Oct. 20 - Margaret Moore died, aged 20. Oct. 20 - Bertha M. Young died, aged 14. Oct. 21 - Howard J. Wickes died, aged 3. Oct. 21 - Lula Bellamy died, aged 29. Oct. 21 - Alfred Turner died, aged 19. Oct. 21 - Mrs. Vina M. Tarr died, aged 23. Oct. 22 - Daniel Boyer died, aged 2 years. Oct. 22 - Mrs. Wm. J. Burns, Jr. died, aged 28. Oct. 22 - Mary McNall died, aged 3. Eleven deaths within four days, largely from the epidemic of influenza. Oct. 23 - Dorothy Tompkins died, aged 4 months. Oct. 23 - George P. Adams died, aged 21. Oct. 24 - Mrs. H.F. Fletcher died, aged 27. Oct. 24 - Edward M. Drohan died, aged 74. Oct. 25 - Mrs. C.J. Carlisle died, aged 31. Oct. 25 - Doris A. Scaggs died, aged 2. Oct. 25 - Henry B. Guiteau died, aged 43. Oct. 28 - Mrs. Jane Rogers died, aged 85. Oct. 28 - Mrs. W.C. Wilder died, aged 46. Oct. 28 - Edward D. Hollis died, aged 33. Oct. 29 - Floyd C. Nichols died, aged 17. Oct. 29 - Mrs. Sarah I. Legg died, aged 94; one of the oldest persons in Branch County and a resident here for 65 years. Oct. 30 - Mrs. Elizabeth Swarbrick died, aged 72. Oct. 30 - Floyd C. Estlow died, aged 27. Nov. 1 - First snow. Nov. 3 - Mrs. Letta Long died, aged 84. Nov. 4 - Mrs. Dora Jordan died, aged 69. Nov. 5 - Myrna Parker and Carl S. Doty married. Nov. 5 - Fall election; clean sweep for Republicans in Branch County. Nov. 6 - A. LaVerne Stansell and Leila Ebenback married. Nov. 6 - Harold G. Freeman died, aged 36. Nov. 6 - Mrs. Homer Brown died, aged 22. Nov. 7 - Great excitement on account of reported surrender of Germany's war forces. Nov. 7 - Joseph Cornelius died, aged 69. Nov. 8 - Mrs. Arthur Bidwell died, aged 31. Nov. 8 - Carl Markley died, aged 29. Nov. 11 - Great peace demonstration. Nov. 13 - Ianthis D. Miner died, aged 80. Nov. 15 - Wm. Welch died, aged 71. Nov. 16 - Mrs. Louise Squires died, aged 73. Nov. 16 - Mrs. Rollin S. Davis (formerly Kathryn Kavanagh) died in Detroit, aged 34. Nov. 17 - Rev. G.C. Lamont resigned the Baptist pastorate, leaving the third church of the city without a pastor, the other two being the Episcopal and Wesleyan. Nov. 19 - Mrs. Lillie M. Smullen died, aged 59. Nov. 19 - Mrs. J.L. Worden died, aged 66. Nov. 22 - Mrs. Lucy Parker died. Nov. 22 - Henry F. Rosenbrook died, aged 8. Nov. 23 - Mrs. John R. Champion died. Nov. 26 - News received of the death of Arthur Sloman in France Oct. 27. Nov. 26 - Samuel Knecht died, aged 68. Nov. 27 - Alma McDonald and Wm. O'Sullivan married. Nov. 27 - Frank B. Price died, aged 82. Nov. 28 - Stephen P. Gallagher and Ethel L. Stroh married. Nov. 29 - Mrs. Bertha M. Matsel died, aged 24. Nov. 30 - Geo. E. Ricketson and Lottie Harmon married. Dec. 1 - Alman T. Jenkins died, aged 46. Dec. 2 - County Drain Commissioner Eli D. Tift was almost instantly killed, his automobile being struck by a fast passenger train; he was 45 years of age. Dec. 2 - Mrs. Augustus Eldred died, aged 53. Dec. 4 - Mrs. Catherine Otis died, aged 75. Dec. 5 - Mrs. Enfield Gallap died, aged 92. Dec. 6 - Florence M. Bauder died, aged 32. Dec. 7 - Chas. Nachbauer died, aged 28. Dec. 8 - Geo D. Barrows and Mrs. Anna Odell were married. Dec. 10 - Mrs. Francis Granger died, aged 73. Dec. 12 - Wm. Young died, aged 78. Dec. 13 - Mrs. Ruby Reynolds Dickey died, aged 30. Dec. 13 - Henry Huested died, aged 80. Dec. 14 - Elsie Dorrance died, aged 20. Dec. 15 - Edith C. Buell died, aged 23. Dec. 16 - Assistant Postmaster Hal D. Crippen died, aged 50; he had served over 33 years in the Coldwater postoffice. Dec. 16 - Jacob Echtinaw and Mrs. Margaret Sorter married. Dec. 18 - Frank Newberry and Mrs. Rilla VanHossear married. Dec. 19 - Kirk R. Sheldon died, aged 79. Dec. 21 - Catherine Bowker died in California. Dec. 22 - Close of a remarkably mild autumn; but little freezing weather and but little fall of snow, with none to lie upon the ground. Dec. 25 - Ruth L. Zeller and Claude R. Peavey married. Picture of "the New Armory" with the following note: "The corner stone of this splendid building was laid July 18, 1917, and the work was completed about a year later. Its costs was $45,000. The Building Committee appointed by the State were former Captains E.D. Legg, R.G. Bishop and M.S. Andrews, with H.H. Barlow and J.C. Smallshaw. As an auditorium the great drill room will seat over 1,200 people. Recent business changes: E.A. Bidelman sells the Southern Michigan Garage to McNaughton & Warner; J.E. Pelkie sells his restaurant to Gar McOmber; the Coldwater Plumbing Co. moves from 70 West Chicago to 14 South Monroe Street. Dr. J. Wesley Hoverter of Evart locates here for the practice of medicine. There were 154 deaths in the city during 1918, which exceeds all former records, at least of recent years. 1919 Jan. 4 - Vincent Rasler and Agatha Burns married. Jan. 8 - Mrs. Melissa Chadsey and John A. Carter married. Jan. 8 - Mrs. Catherine Osborn died, aged 86. Jan. 11 - Helen Lucile Haynes and Robert A. Kerr married. Jan. 12 - Mrs. Dennis Vanes, Sr., died, aged 63. Jan. 12 - John K. Sheets died, aged 76. Jan. 12 - Joseph W. Reyonlds [Reynolds?] died, aged 86. Jan. 17 - Mrs. Jane Sharp died, aged 86. Jan. 17 - Jerome Forrester died, aged 70. Jan. 19 - Thomas Chapman died, aged 46. Jan. 19 - Mrs. Wealthy Nickels died, aged 83. Jan. 24 - David A. Merrill died, aged 86. Feb. 1 - Darius N. Tripp died, aged 79. Feb. 6 - Jerome Macky died, aged 80. Feb. 7 - Joseph A. Fetterly died, aged 81. Feb. 9 - Rev. Ila J. Bicknell died, aged 78. Feb. 10 - Bessie Kerr and Howard Swan married. Feb. 11 - Edna Cutler and C.E. Baird married. Feb. 13 - Annual Lincoln Club banquet in the new Armory, over 700 participating. Feb. 17 - Albert A. Culver died, aged 74. Feb. 17 - Clifford H. Crapo died, aged 14. Feb. 19 - Mrs. Ann Corless died, aged 83. Feb. 20 - Anna Fisk and Fred T. White married. Feb. 20 - Lena Hardy and Ray Disbro married. Feb. 23 - Henry Delaney died, aged 68. Feb. 27 - Rev. Donald MacCluer resigned the Presbyterian pastorate. Feb. 27 - Arthur J. Loomis died, aged 68. March 2 - Rev. George S. Moore began the Episcopal pastorate. March 2 - Mrs. John Hammer died, aged 56. March 3 - Mrs. Susan Kinney died, aged 67. March 3 - Arlene Burns and Geo. Ward married. March 3 - Mrs. Annie J. Dorrance and Theodore J. Nelson married. March 9 - Wm. Sharp died, aged nearly 91. March 9 - Frank Okeneske died, aged 35. March 9 - On this date came the only mentionable snowfall of the winter. March 14 - Karl May died, aged 43. March 15 - Charles Bender and Amanda Redick married. March 18 - Lewis H. Raymond and Zelma R. Finney married. March 18 - Mrs. Margaret A. Logan died, aged 59. March 20 - Close of a very remarkable mild, snow-free winter. March 22 - Mrs. Harriet Peters died, aged 86. March 22 - VanAken Bros. closed out their livery horses and vehicles by auction, the automobile being responsible; the business was founded by their father, J.H. VanAken, in 1864 and taken over by them in 1887. March 22 - Edgar D. Merrill and Rebecca Downs married. March 24 - Ruth Sparks and Lester Parks married. March 24 - Mrs. Olive Hayes died, aged 92. March 26 - Mrs. Wiley Putnam died, aged 73. March 29 - Leon L. Farwell and May Reynolds married. March 31 - Ensign Harold A. Robinson was killed in a collision of seaplanes at Pensacola, Fla; he was 31 years of age. April 1 - Mrs. Albert Culver died, aged 69. April 1 - Mrs. Nancy C. Young died, aged 83. April 3 - Mrs. S.O. Morgan died, aged 66. April 7 - City election: Starr W. Gruner, Republican, elected mayor, defeating Rev. S.W.L. Scott, Democrat; Wm. T. Stansell, Democrat, elected city clerk, defeating Mark Dunham, Republican; H.A. Close elected city treasurer without opposition; the city, like the state, gave heavy majorities against the proposed wine and beer amendment and in favor of the good roads amendment; state majority against booze, 206,936. First vote of women on an equality with men. Supt. T.E. Johnson of the city schools, elected state superintendent of public instruction. April 12 - Mrs. Chas. Sullivan died, aged 79. April 13 - Mahlon W. Brainard died, aged 84. April 14 - Mrs. Tirzah Hyde died, aged 88. April 15 - Homer Dickinson died, aged 40. April 15 - Jessie E. Quimby and Harry D. Whitman married. April 18 - Edwin D. Harkness died, aged 68. April 18 - Mrs. Ellen L. Bennett died, aged 66. April 21 - Chas. D. Kennedy died, aged 85. April 22 - Chas. S. Wright died, aged 87. April 22 - Henry Cook died, aged 81. April 26 - Mrs. I.D. Miner died, aged 77. April 29 - Edward F. Ray died, aged 67. (Note under a picture of him: "Mr. Ray was a prominent man in Coldwater for over forty years.) April 30 - Mrs. Mary J. Parker died, aged 76. May 1 - Bernice Selby and George Hotchkiss married. May 2 - Great demonstration of farm tractors, showing still further the passing of the horse as a draft animal. May 3 - Mrs. Adelbert Wickes died, aged 67. May 3 - Anna Marothy and Ernest Brown married. May 4 - Irene Bartell died, aged 21. May 6 - Robt. Preston died, aged 49. May 6 - Gladys Bollman and Frank D. Herian married. May 9 - Mrs. Effie P. Mudgett died, aged 82. May 10 - Mrs. H.N. Bidelman died, aged 78. May 10 - Coldwater subscribed $193,500 on the victory war loan, exceeding its quota by $58,550; Branch County "over the top" by $82,900. May 12 - Residence of Sherwood Wakeman damaged by fire. May 12 - Preliminary meeting of business men, with supper at Masonic Temple, looking to $65,000 bonus to secure removal of Homer Furnace Company to Coldwater; full amount raised later. May 18 - Mrs. F.H. Welch died, aged 55. May 20 - Fr. D.A. Hayes closed his pastorate of over 13 years with the local Catholic Church; his successor, Fr. Jas. P. Welch. May 20 - Ray Warner died in Chicago. May 21 - Frederick C. Wolcott died, aged 83. May 21 - Mrs. Rachel Putnam died, aged 76. May 23 - Public demonstration upon return of the remnant of Company A from France. May 23 - Retta M. Wood and Clarence A. Jenne married. May 25 - Egbert W. Treat died, aged 69. May 25 - George H. Reed died, aged 67. May 26 - Elijah Ball died, aged 82. May 26 - Mrs. J.L. Curts died, aged 61. May 26 - Mrs. Diantha Buffham died, aged 85. May 26 - Mrs. Sarah Himebaugh died, aged 73. May 28 - Viola L. Taylor and Smith B. Ferguson married. May 28 - Charles Burr died, the final result of gassing by the Germans in France; he was 21. June 5 - Mrs. R.T. Tuckey died, aged 79. June 5 - Abram L. Smith died, aged 81. June 7 - Miriam Whitehead and William Nixon married. June 7 - Mrs. Jennie Tupper died, aged 68. June 8 - Home of Mrs. Mary Waldron burned. June 12 - High School 52d annual commencement; 47 graduates. June 13 - Luman W. Vicory died, aged 72. June 14 - Mrs. Frank J. Pelling died, aged 44. June 14 - Margaret Hurley and Guy H. Gridley married. June 14 - Bernice Micklatcher and Versul Dingmon married. June 15 - Rev. E.H. Felten closed his pastorate with the Lutheran Church. June 16 - Ground broken for buildings and sidetrack of the Homer Furnace Co. June 18 - Sylvia Card and Daniel Conklin married. June 18 - Norma Wirley and Robert L. Cox. June 18 - Irene Finisy and Omar C. Ebenhack married. June 19 - Mrs. Barbara Feuchter died, aged 80. June 19 - Gladys Wiler and Glenn H. Parsons married. June 20 - Willis E. Goodnow died, aged 62. June 21 - Marvin C. Munger died, aged 86. June 23 - Louis Sloman died, aged 71. June 26 - Great celebration and demonstration in honor of homecoming soldiers. June 26 - Samuel M. Lutes died, aged 78. June 28 - Hervey C. Fisk died, aged 41. July 2 - Ada Hopkins and Clifford A. Pixley married. July 5 - Mrs. Frank L. Horton died, aged 56. July 6 - Cortland Clement died, aged 89. July 7 - Mrs. Joseph A. Fetterly died, aged 74. July 7 - Infant child abandoned in room at Arlington Hotel; adopted by F.H. Flandermeyer, proprietor. July 8 - Contarinia F. Crawford died, aged 74. July 12 - Idomenious Mickle died, aged 74. July 15 - Wayne Barber and Leona S. Faber married. July 15 - Robert Brooks died, aged 83. July 16 - Jefferson T. Youngs died, aged 57. July 17 - Lieut. Harry Runser here with his airplane, making flights with passengers at $1 per minute. July 17 - Ila Cecelia Walter and Lester R. Smith married. July 20 - Harry Oberlin and Lottie Bailey married. July 21 - Mrs. Katerhine Beers died, aged 72. July 24 - Christine Ott and Ward Hilborn married. July 26-Aug. 2 - Chautauqua. July 27 - Mrs. Abbie Foster and Dr. Henry S. Erb married. July 29 - Lane Brown died, aged 68. Aug. 3 - Ruth M. Gruner and Perry Lippert married. Aug. 5 - Mrs. L.H. Edgerton died, aged 62. Aug. 5 - Alexander Bolton died, aged 74. Aug. 6 - Charles H. Dickinson died, aged 64, his death following those of his wife and son Homer within a year. Aug. 6 - Elizabeth L. Gust and Lynn C. Main married. Aug. 6 - Ruth Miller and Harold Voorhees married. Aug. 7 - Mrs. Jane C. Hills died, aged 72. Aug. 9 - Julia Stillman died, aged 65. Aug. 10 - Samuel Bater died, aged 81. Aug. 11 - Horatio N. Bidelman died, aged 83. Aug. 16 - Esther A. Parker and Lieut. Myrl E. Bottomley married. Aug. 21 - Cecil Keel and Harry B. Hutchins married. Aug. 23 - Fern Keeslar and Philip K. Fluke married. Aug. 24 - Carl F. Ferguson died, aged 21. Aug. 27 - Mrs. Stella Randall and Vern Walsh married. Aug. 29 - Burr Osborn died, aged 32. Sept. 3 - Mrs. Edith Russell and Perry Buck married. Sept. 5 - Gladys Paradine and Louis E. Trotter married. Sept. 8 - Mrs. Catherine Helm died, aged 74. Sept. 9 - Mrs. Mary Tappan died, aged 73. Sept. 10 - Coldwater Post, American Legion, was organized, with Capt. Roscoe Graves commander. Sept. 16 - Rosamond Pollock and Leslie Woodward married. Sept. 20 - Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Jennings died. Sept. 29 - Mrs. Elizabeth Parker and Eugene Garman married. Oct. 4 - Dr. E.C. Freeland and Katharine Hurndall married. Oct. 6 - Willard B. Hutchins died, aged 65. Oct. 6 - Harold Crawford, aged 18, was killed by the accidental discharge of his shotgun, which he drew toward him in a boat. Oct. 8 - Belle Crouch and Harold Tribolet married. Oct. 14 - Mrs. Pearl Kutchey and Henry Harmon married. Oct. 14 - Fire at home of C.C. Cook. Oct. 15 - Alfred C. Sutherland died, aged 53. Oct. 15 - Victor Humphrey and Harriet Shook married. Oct. 16 - Rebecca Woodward and Alfred Gamble married. Oct. 24 - Solomon Gruber died, aged 73. Oct. 25 - Anna Pierce and J.B. Gower married. Oct. 27 - Frank Foust died, aged 64. Oct. 27 - Mrs. Letta Vanderhoof and Milton D. Kanause married. Oct. 27 - Furnace foundry plant in course of erection; also remodeling of Branch and Co. and Southern Michigan Hotel buildings. Nov. 1 - Edith Parker and Edson B. Scheidler married. Nov. 1 - Mrs. Cora G. Trotter and Wm. G. Rolf married. Nov. 1 - Edith St. Clair and George Hackett married. Nov. 4 - First snowflakes. Nov. 4 - Josephine M. Seiler and Samuel M. Ragan married. Nov. 8 - John Ambrose and wife, in their auto, were struck by a passenger engine near the railway station, carried a block on the pilot in the debris of their car, and escaped unhurt. Nov. 14 - John S. Deuser died, aged 74. Nov. 15 - Nina Lucile Clizbe and J. Merle Bennett married. Nov. 16 - Mrs. W.M. Drury died, aged 55. Nov. 16 - Mrs. Lewis Pierce died, aged 69. Nov. 23 - Mildred Juckett and Arthur R. Teeter were married. Nov. 25 - Mrs. George H. Stickle died, aged 48. Nov. 26 - Cecil Wolfe and C.H. Petty married. Nov. 27 - Thanksgiving; first snow of the season to remain on the ground. Nov. 27 - Bernice Phinney and Hugh McMurray married. Nov. 28 - Andrew Swantek died, aged 64. Nov. 28 - Gladys Hungerford and Rollin A. Kerr married. Nov. 28 - Benita VanVredenburgh and Garrett Fisher married. Nov. 30 - Mrs. Mary Olmsted died, aged 74. Nov. 30 - Kathaleen Nagle and Carl Spaulding married. Dec. 2 - Samuel Ruff died, aged 83. Dec. 2 - Odd Fellows canceled the debt on their hall. Dec. 17 - Mattie B. Rickards and Charles M. Barnard married. Dec. 19 - Mrs. Rev. James Allen died, aged 70. Dec. 23 - Municipal Christmas tree; gifts for several hundred children. Dec. 24 - Bruce Strong and Grace Shirping married. Dec. 29 - Herman Rapp died, aged 24. Dec. 31 - Rolene Gifford and Kenneth Blackman married. 1919 - Coldwater's Nonogenarians Wm. R. Card, 191 Henry - 93 Chas. T. Cornwell, 102 Marshall - 98 Mrs. Mary A. Norton, 121 S. Jeff - 91 Mrs. Sarah Rose, 61 W. Pearl - 95 Mrs. Leonora Stansell, 28 N. Monroe - 90 1920 Jan. 1 - Mrs. Susie Pierce died, aged 47. Jan. 1 - Hazel G. Wiler and Verne Z. Fillmore married. Jan. 4 - Mrs. Deborah Greenwood died, aged 83. Jan. 5 - Production commenced at the Homer furnace plant. Jan. 8 - Charles Wilson died, aged 84. Jan. 13 - Mrs. Leonora Stansell died, aged 90. Jan. 18 - Mrs. C.G. Luce died, aged 76. Jan. 18 - Gladys Sherman and Leland Forster married. Jan. 21 - William Harry Adams died, aged 78. Jan. 22 - Donald Perry and Mrs. Fanny Blodger married. Jan. 22 - Lulu B. Pelling and Garford W. Wood married. Jan. 22 - Mrs. Grace Dickinson and Clifford Bishop married. Jan. 23 - Mrs. Emily Mills died, aged 73. Jan. 25 - Mercury 19 below zero. Jan. 25 - John Franklin Loomis died, aged 88. Jan. 27 - Ruth El Alverson died, aged 4. Feb. 1 - Mrs. Elizabeth Richings died, aged 74. Feb. 2 - Mrs. Luther S. Brown died, aged 72. Feb. 2 - Mrs. B.E. Stockdale died, aged 35. Feb. 3 - Mrs. Elizabeth Willetts died, aged 87. Feb. 7 - Lloyd R. Russell died, aged 7. Feb. 8 - Mrs. A.W. Henning died, aged 59. Feb. 10 - Malvern Blackman died, aged 22. Feb. 10 - City schools closed for several days on account of illness among teachers and pupils. Feb. 13 - Mrs. Thos. Osborn died, aged 74. Feb. 14 - Mrs. Lillie M. Gragg died, aged 57. Feb. 15 - Martin Lilly died, aged 64. Feb. 16 - Mark Hadland died, aged 63. Feb. 16 - Mrs. Robert L. Smith died, aged 26. Feb. 17 - Arthur H. Pierce died, aged 46. Feb. 18 - Theo M. Olson and Haven E. Claar were instantly killed in an auto truck, being struck by a New York Central train. Feb. 19 - Annual Lincoln Club banquet. Feb. 19 - Ball & Sons' planing-mill damaged $7,000 by fire. Feb. 22 - Mrs. Eva Snyder died, aged 27. Feb. 22 - Close of three weeks' special union services conducted by Evangelist Forsythe; about 200 professed conversion. Feb. 23 - James A. Burns died, aged 72. Feb. 25 - Wilbur Kingsley bought the interest of O.R. Kingsley in the Kingsley Pharmacy. Feb. 26 - Isaac N. Young died, aged 83. Feb. 26 - Gladys A. Curtis and Lewis Yuhl married. Feb. 29 - Wm. A. VanGilder died, aged 47. March 1 - L.H. Olmstead succeeded Nelson P. Fletcher in the business of Clizbe & Fletcher, selling the Sanitary Ice Cream Co. to Amaden & Son. March 6 - Mrs. C.T. Gilbert died, aged 79. March 6 - Glenna Burch and Harold Pruyne married. March 6 - Blossom White and Dewey Scramlin married. March 12 - Jerry Moylan, Sr., died, aged 87. March 12 - Andrew Crandall died, aged 80. March 13 - John G. Smallshaw died, aged 55. March 13 - Mrs. Amy Foy Quittman died, aged 26. March 21 - Myron Ferguson died, aged 74. March 25 - Dighton W. Kimball died, aged 65. March 28 - Cyclone across the county, south of the city, caused the death of William Doubt and a Mr. Perkins, serious injuries to many, and destruction of scores of farm residences, barns and stock; loss, $150,000. City and county raised a large sum for relief. The Patriotic League voted its remaining war-time fund, $1057, and ceased to exist. March 30 - Mrs. Ellen Cahill died, aged 85. March 30 - Mrs. David Bender died, aged 72. April 1 - Mrs. Edward Ryan died, aged 38. April 2 - Mrs. Cortland Clement died, aged 78. April 3 - Mrs. Amanda Lane died, aged 88. April 3 - Mrs. Fern Jones and Herman D. Derr married. April 4 - Easter: snow, near-blizzard; two days later, 12 above zero. April 4 - Glenn M. Cleveland died, aged 28. April 4 - Mrs. Seward Cleveland and James D. McGinness married. April 5 - City election; Republicans elected to every office in the city except supervisor in the Fourth Ward, Chas. E. Earley, Democrat; Starr W. Gruner elected mayor, W.H. King city clerk, H.A. Close treasurer, Chas. L. Keep justice of the peace. April 6 - Jennie Fisher and Peter VanDyke married. April 10 - Lillian Harkness and Robert Hoy married. April 11 - Mrs. Carrie Evans Eigenherr died, aged 58. April 13 - Charles A. Spaulding died, aged 80; he had lived here 55 years. April 13 - John Gudner died, aged 89; had lived here 66 years. April 18 - Mrs. Ardella Davis died, aged 57. April 19 - Mrs. Allen J. Pratt died, aged 57. April 22 - The first warm day of a cold, backward spring. April 29 - Mrs. Burnettie Wilkinson died, aged 77. April 30 - Hazel Fenner and Howard Lockwood married. May 1 - Mr. & Mrs. Chas. W. Allen celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. May 3 - Benjamin W. Hoxter died, aged 82. May 5 - Vance Livermore died, aged 3. May 9 - E.E. Butters' barn burned with $9,000 loss. May 10 - Mrs. Richard S. Biddle, aged 37, suicided by inhaling gas. May 10 - Chas. W. Bennett and Retah B. Johnson married. May 12 - Mrs. D.S. Greenamyer died, aged 69. May 12 - Irvin E. Davis and Mrs. Jane Butterfield married. May 13 - Tobias J. McGrew died, aged 46. May 19 - Willis M. Drury and Mrs. Anna Freeman married. May 20 - First airplane delivery of goods in Coldwater; Lee Brothers, consignees. May 20 - Etta A. Burton died, aged 64. May 20 - Louis E. Hutchins and Nellie M. Relyea married. May 22 - Leo McQueen and Elsie I. Gruner married. May 29 - Mrs. H.E. Frederick died, aged 65. May 30 - Reah M. Fuller died, aged 12. May 30 - Mrs. Jessie Hendricks and Spencer W. Weage married. May 31 - Phyllis A. Jackson and William J. Bailey married. June 1 - Heavy advance in gas rates. Sugar 30c per pound, potatoes 85 per bushel, other necessities in proportion. June 5 - Roy H. Fellers and Reah Beery married. June 8 - Florence I. Seachrist and Merle S. Dubendorf married. June 9 - Mrs. Emma Bailey and George W. Harding married. June 10 - Fifty-third high school commencement; 58 graduates. June 11 - Mrs. Eva Dayton died, aged 85. June 12 - Eunice I. Hatch and John H. Snapp married. June 12 - Mrs. Jacob Echtinaw died, aged 71. June 12 - Gladys V. Crooks and Harlen R. Pelling married. June 14 - Frances Wimer and John T. Woodford married. June 15 - Edna B. Miner and Stanley E. Weage married. June 15 - Maude A. Olmstead and Harold M. Carls married. June 16 - Judge Frederick W. Knowlen died, aged 65. June 19 - Florence Davis and Maurice Steffey married. June 20 - Melba E. Brewster and Ralph M. Lobdell married. June 22 - Arlene Conant and Harry E. Lenon married. June 22 - Jane Shallshaw and Hugh M. VanAken married. June 24 - Luella E. Ransom and Carl A. Bates married. June 26 - Hazel Ruch and Orville B. Rinehart married. June 27 - Rev. Geo. S.A. Moore closed the Episcopal pastorate. June 28 - Dorotha I. Cook and Robert Owen Clinefelter married. June 28 - Mrs. Eugene E. Garrison died, aged 63. June 30 - Corola Quimby and Robert Hunter married. July 1 - Clayton C. Johnson appointed circuit judge to succeed Judge Knowlen, deceased. July 3 - Nola Casebeer and Wm. J. Burns married. July 4 - Mrs. W.H. Ward died, aged 72. July 5 - Emma Foy and Hazen Randall married. July 9 - Mrs. Milton J. Sheets died, aged 67. July 10 - Iva Decker and Theron M. Welch married. July 10 - Mrs. Diana Merritt died, aged 70. July 11 - City ball team defeated the Jackson team, 12 to 2 - its tenth consecutive victory. July 11 - New Board of Education elected, replacing the old eight-member board: Mrs. W.H. Osborn, W.H. McCort, M.W. Wimer, F.L. McConkey, S.D. Strong. July 15 - Fire entailing the heaviest loss in Coldwater's history destroyed the VanAken double three-story block: the largest losers were VanAken Bros., $40,000; Box Company, $1,500; George W. Adams, $1,200; Clarence W. Bellamy, $1,000; John B. southworth, $1,000, and many individuals smaller amounts; total, about $55,000. July 18 - John A. Leidy died, aged 73. July 18 - Lawrence Chapman was drowned while bathing at the Narrows. July 19 - Milnes Supply Company sold to Walton Kemp and C.O. Carroll. July 21 - Belle Bingham and John M. Smallshaw married. July 22 - George F. Lipps died, aged 85. July 23 - Delbert B. Baker died, aged 70. July 24-31 - Annual Chautauqua. July 27 - Mr. & Mrs. D.A. Bolster celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Aug. 3 - Mrs. Anna Williams and Charles J. Carlisle married. Aug. 4 - William Nyssen and Gussie Cluff married. Aug. 9 - Bernice Jocelyn and Clarence R. Lee married. Aug. 9 - Reo M. Ryder and Oscar W. Bateman married. Aug. 9 - City water and electric light plant seriously damaged by lightning. Aug. 12 - Simeon D. Long died, aged 76. Aug. 12 - Mrs. Sophia C. Demorest died, aged 68. Aug. 12 - Mrs. Christine Allgood and Oscar Kyte married. [date may have been reversed and be Aug. 21.] Aug. 13 - Jacob Benixonson of Brooklyn run over and killed while sleeping on the railway bridge west of the city. Aug. 15 - Mildred Seachrist and Herbert R. Hayes married. Aug. 18 - Beatrice Ryan and Frederic Kibbe married. Aug. 21 - Marriette E. Murray and William Arthur Wilbur married. Aug. 21 - Lois Ingram and Whitley B. Moore married. Aug. 21 - Wm. C. Kollmorgen died, aged 72. Aug. 24 - John L. Curts and Florence Clark married. Aug. 26 - Richard T. Tuckey died, aged 84. Aug. 26 - Bernice Newberry and Wm. B. Tuttle married. Aug. 28 - Marietta Carle and Earle S. Jones married. Aug. 29 - Rose L. Reed and Jesse G. Noel married. Aug. 30 - Herbert L. Sloman succeeded to the Sloman & Gruner clothing business. Aug. 31 - Primary election; among nine candidates for the gubernatorial nomination Milo D. Campbell of Coldwater ran second. Sept. 1 - Helen Treat and George M. Branch married. Sept. 3 - Frank E. Leonard and Irene N. Doran married. Sept. 7 - Carl Rooks died, aged 34. Sept. 9 - Ralph S. Collins and Pauline M. Johnson married. Sept. 11 - The Milnes baking interests purchased the Kloosterman bakery. Sept. 11 - Lynn Horning and Beryl Wagar married. Sept. 11 - Edward H. Mott and Mrs. Dora DePeu married. Sept. 15 - Max H. Johnson and Edith Goodwin married. Sept. 15 - Howard Fenner and Marjorie Straehley married. Sept. 17 - Luman F. Catlin died, aged 71. Sept. 21 - Hazel Kaufman and Ross Canfield married. Sept. 21-26 - Unusual hot spell. Sept. 25 - Clarence H. Rosenbrook and Mrs. Olive Burleson married. Sept. 29 - Wilfred J. Davis and Mildred I. Folgesong married. Sept. 29 - Alva Gillespie and Reva Relyea married. Oct. 1 - Mrs. Harry W. Dodge died, aged 27. Oct. 2 - Mrs. Cora Relyea and Charles Wheeler married. Oct. 2 - Gladis Smith and Ernest Ford married. Oct. 2 - Remains of Pvt. Frank Johnson of Company A arrived from France. Oct. 2 - Neal Burleson and Mrs. Ethel Draper married. Oct. 3 - Samuel Stroh died, aged 64. Oct. 4 - Chas. Sullivan died, aged 83. Oct. 6 - Daniel Bradley and Mrs. Gertrude Jordan married. Oct. 6 - Mrs. W.E. Phinney died, aged 48. Oct. 7 - Z.G. Osborn died, aged 87. Oct. 12 - Emery L. Carpenter and Margaret Inde married. Oct. 16 - Edna Staley and Dan D. Parker married. Oct. 17 - John Pitcher died, aged 87. Oct. 17 - Helen Morehouse died, aged 14. Oct. 20 - Andrew Kerr died, aged 62. Oct. 20 - Fay Bunker and Myrtie Goodwin married. Oct. 18-21 - Baptist state convention held here. Oct. 24 - Corner stone of Church of Christ laid. Oct. 27 - Mrs. Jennie Letts and Charles W. McCarty married. Oct. 27 - Mrs. Harriet Smith died, aged 79. Oct. 27 - Gladys O. Stevens and Hazen J. Swits married. Oct. 28 - First snow flurry. Oct. 30 - Ed. Cosper and Ada Gallop married. Oct. 30 - Clarence Goss and Ila Doty married. Nov. 2 - Election; Republican landslide. Nov. 3 - Alice Calkins and Roland Root Speers married. Nov. 7 - Mrs. Chas. J. Baker died, aged 34. Nov. 8 - Christopher Spofford was accidentally shot and killed while hunting in Illinois. Nov. 8 - Leora Markley and Arthur E. Cook married. Nov. 9 - Mrs. F.A. Fairbanks died, aged 73. Nov. 11 - Armistice Day celebration; parade in snowstorm; mercury at 7 A.M., 12 above zero. Nov. 12 - Mrs. Winfield S. McLane died. Nov. 13 - Mrs. Grace E. Norton and Robert J. Southworth married. Nov. 20 - Zelma Blind and George Munyon married. Nov. 21 - Mrs. Mary A. Norton died, aged 92. Nov. 21 - Dale Shay died, aged 15. Nov. 24 - Mr. & Mrs. W.H. Wieand celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Nov. 25 - Vera Larrabee and Hershel F. Snyder married. Nov. 27 - Mrs. Louise M. Norton died, aged 86. Nov. 28 - Dr. W.H. Baldwin was found dead in his office, where he had locked himself for diphtheretic treatment. Nov. 29 - Mrs. Clara Fiske died, aged 71. Nov. 29 - Chas. Mumford died, aged 49. Nov. 30 - Dr. Frank G. Legg died, aged 66. Dec. 1 - Mrs. Harriet Swaffield died, aged 77. Dec. 1-3 - Masonic circus. Dec. 2 - Roy Johnson was killed by the accidental discharge of a shotgun. Dec. 3 - Henry A. Fox and Mildred M. Slagle married. Dec. 7 - Mrs. Mary A. Reed died, aged 69. Dec. 10 - Mrs. Wm. H. Leaf died, aged 27. Dec. 13 - L.P. Green's barn burned with two automobiles; loss, $2,500. Dec. 19 - Mrs. Elsie Calkins died, aged 68. Dec. 23 - Silas W. Olmstead died, aged 71. Dec. 23 - Body of Arthur Sloman arrived from France, where he died during the German war. Dec. 28 - Helen Parker and Dr. M.F. Ballard married. Dec. 28 - Eva Ferguson died, aged 60. Dec. 29 - Irma Thayer and William A. Fletcher married. Dec. 30 - Mrs. Mary Crippen died, aged 64. 1920 - Coldwater's Nonogenarians Wm. R. Card, 191 Henry - 94 Chas. T. Cornwell, 102 Marshall - 99 Geo. Lucas, 112 Cutter Ave. - 92 Chas. Norton, 40 West Park Ave. - 90 Mrs. Sarah Rose, 61 W. Pearl - 96 1921 Jan. 1 - Beatrice Stewart and Raymond J. DeMond married. Jan. 3 - Lewis C. Huested died, aged 73. Jan. 4 - Mrs. Maude Holster died, aged 58. Jan. 7 - Mrs. L.H. Raymond died, aged 20. Jan 10 - Mrs. Minerva Holden died, aged 90. Jan. 11 - Dr. Harry B. Weeden died, aged 30. Jan. 12 - Charles S. Cornwell died, aged 75. Jan. 12 - Mrs. Ann Eliza Brown died, aged 68. Jan. 12 - Stanley P. Strong died, aged 42. Jan. 12 - Claud Linsey died, aged 29. Jan. 15 - David Bender died, aged 80. Jan. 15 - Albert S. Hungerford died, aged 75. Jan. 18 - Mrs. Mary Dickens died, aged 80. Jan. 18 - Mrs. F. E. Morgan died, aged 83. Jan. 20 - Mrs. Dalton Allen died, aged 41. Jan. 22 - Alfred C. Tuers died, aged 74. Jan. 22 - Rose Randall and Vernon G. Hedrick married. Jan. 26 - Charles E. Cobb died, aged 76. Jan. 27 - Cassius A. Vandenburg died, aged 67. Jan. 28 - Florence Leavy and Rex E. Dupark married. Jan. 28 - Incendiary fire caused J.B. Perry & Co. $1,000 loss, the Gas Co. $700 and the Southern Michigan Grocer Co. $100. Jan. 30 - A.W. Henning's store was robbed of $500 worth of goods. Feb. 4 - Philip Rosbrugh died, aged 62. Feb. 6 - Mrs. J.W. Swihart died, aged 66. Feb. 6 - Adelbert Willis died, aged 66. Feb. 7 - Charles Pierce died, aged 77. Feb. 8 - Mrs. Frances Bates died, aged 79. Feb. 9 - Mrs. Ella Skeels died, aged 73. Feb. 10 - Khrystel Hibbard and Alden H. Luckett married. Feb. 11 - Willis C. Pahl and Elzina Borgert married. Feb. 11 - Howard K. Snyder and Lucile Brown married. Feb. 11 - John C. Amendt was seriously injured, his automobile being struck by a locomotive. Feb. 12 - Mrs. J.E. Stukey died, aged 34. Feb. 12 - Joseph B. Watson died, aged 34. Feb. 14 - Mrs. Sarah E. Crawford died, aged 62. Feb. 14 - Arbell Green and Dale S. Feister married. Feb. 16 - Delta Drinkwater died, aged 41. Feb. 16 - Charles S. Dean died, aged 82. Feb. 22 - Edward F. Davis died, aged 74. Feb. 22 - Mrs. Caroline S. Schultz died, aged 86. Feb. 25 - Mrs. A.G. Rose died, aged 96. Feb. 26 - John Boyer died, aged 83. Feb. 26 - Mrs. Clarence Hall died, aged 32. March 9 - House owned by V.U. Hungerford burned; loss, $1,500; the Wm. Clark family, occupants, escaped in their nightclothes. March 10 - George W. Cleveland died, aged 73. March 11 - Mrs. Ella M. Cornwell died, aged 75. March 13 - Hiram Weeden died, aged 79. March 15 - A.L. Heimbach sold his grocery business to Jay D. Wickes. March 15 - Griffin Cole died, aged 79. March 16 - Mrs. Elizabeth Trook died, aged 81. March 16 - Harry W. Bingham and L.L. Holdridge bought the Coldwater bottling works. March 16 - Home of Samuel Knauss, Jr., robbed of most of its contents during the family's absence. March 19 - Mrs. A.J. Aldrich died, aged 78. March 19 - Helen P. Miner died, aged 8. March 20 - Jeremiah Depue died, aged 76. March 22 - Mrs. Mary E. Macarey died, aged 72. March 25 - Mrs. Cynthia Woodcox died, aged 75. March 25 - Hazel Brooks and Charles L. Bean married. March 27 - Mrs. Amelia B. Phinney died, aged 68. March 28 - Wm. E. Nivison died, aged 79. March 29 - Joel L. Rowley died, aged 70. March 29 - Residence of Mrs. Diana Hutchins badly damaged by fire. March 30 - Mrs. Mary Shay died, aged 45. March 30 - Howard Crull and Annabelle Farrell married. April 3 - Wm. S. Watson died, aged 47. April 5 - Mrs. Maude Carrigan and George Sharkey married. April 6 - Daniel G. Parker died, aged 76. April 7 - Farmers selling potatoes at 20 cents per bushel. April 9 - Lewis H. Raymond and Eva A. Eldred married. April 10 - Marguerite Allen and Wilfred Ash married. April 11 - Frank I. Post purchased the interest of Fred C. Fulkerson in the firm of Parrish & Co. April 12 - Mrs. Eleanor Burgess died, aged 83. April 16 - Ruth O. Fox and Harvey C. Cunningham married. April 20 - Edwin Cox died. April 20 - Mrs. Josephine Warner and Bert E. Beem were married. April 22 - Daisy Kadwell and Ernest Baysinger married. April 24 - Edgar A. Leach died, aged 68. April 26 - Mrs. Daniel Meese died, aged 67. April 28 - Mrs. Amelia DeClute died, aged 73. April 29 - Helen Abbott and Kenneth Hughes married. April 30 - Allen J. Pratt and Florence Treat married. May 1 - Lincoln school building damaged $20,000 by incendiary fire started by two young lads; firemen were seven hours subduing it. May 2 - Eagles moved into their new club-house, the old A.F. Chandler residence, erected 64 years ago by Dr. Kibbe. May 3 - Mrs. Eva Hiesrodt and Mrs. Kate Monroe purchased the Morgan restaurant. May 4 - Mrs. E.D. Luedders died, aged 70. May 6 - Augusta D. Hawley died, aged 78. May 12 - George Nichols died, aged 44. May 17 - George W. Clement died, aged 80. May 19 - Body of Harold Thomas, world war soldier, brought home from France. May 28 - Elspeth Rattray and Morris E. Tapenden married. May 29 - Ledyard Perry died, aged 86. May 29 - Gertrude Gripman and Ralph M. Wright married. May 30 - Chauncey R. Youngs, 22, suicided. June 1 - Ruth Hungerford and Paul U. Champion married. June 2 - Luther M. Gibler died, aged 31. June 2 - F.H. Flandermeyer bought the Arlington building for $20,000. June 2 - Floyd N. Hollister and Minnie Winkleblack married. June 3 - F.J. Reed's book store damaged by fire. June 5 - Warren Short died, aged 50. June 7 - Mabel Campbell died, aged 17. June 8 - Arlene Hilborn and Rudolph Smith married. June 8 - Omar Smith was sentenced to Jackson for two to fifteen years and Leslie Smith for one to fifteen years for stealing L.R. Green's safe from his home; they rifled it and threw it into the river. June 9 - Edith Stout (Stenger) and J.C. Spade married. June 9 - High school graduated 57. June 10 - Mrs. Frank L. Blair died, aged 61. June 12 - Julia Moylan died, aged 59. June 17 - Henry R. Jones died, aged 78. June 18 - Mrs. Alva Doud died, aged 70. June 18 - Ruth L. Snyder and LaVern Odren married. June 19 - Adolph W. Henning and Mrs. Bessie Bovee married. June 20 - Lucius M. Wing, former mayor and prominent financially died; he was born here Feb. 27, 1840. June 21 - Marjorie Fox and Max Sprague married. June 22 - David E. Sanford died, aged 72. June 22 - Dorothy Bacon and Harris F. Fletcher married. June 22 - Helen Hadley and Nicholas Yonkman married. June 22 - Maude Smullen and John J. Aalbregtse married. June 23 - Bessie Prestidge and Frank Vincent married. June 23 - Mrs. Lewis Dewey died, aged 71. June 26 - Wm. E. Shaw died, aged 74. June 26 - The Armory was damaged about $20,00 [$20,000?] by fire, supposedly of incendiary origin. June 29 - Anthony Bonfiglio and Sarah Spognolo married. June 30 - Jessie L. Treat and James Russell Swain married. July 1 - Jule Dorrance and Churchill A. Bradley married. July 2 - Julia A. Friend and Ray J. Sweet married. July 4 - Big celebration; crowd estimated at 25,000. July 4 - Armory again damaged by fire. July 5 - Frank J. Sitter died, aged 84. July 6 - Fred Bunnell died, aged 54. July 6 - Mrs. Theadocia Barber died, aged 85. July 8 - Close of excessively hot period of several weeks; nearly hottest on record. July 11 - Mrs. Henry L. Goss died, aged 66. July 12 - Fern White and Clarence W. Luedders married. July 13 - Mortimer Brown died, aged 70. July 14 - Mrs. Andrew Swantek died, aged 66. July 14 - Norma Sinclair and Joseph Minniear married. July 15 - The Palace Café was purchased by Messrs. Wilson & Hamilton. July 16 - Bertha Lockwood and Howard Paddock married. July 18 - Mrs. Geo. W. Johns died, aged 40. July 18 - McIntyre & Nulf purchased Root's East End Grocery. July 22-29 - Branch County Chautauqua week. July 23 - Gladyes Staley and Arthur J. Hunt married. July 23 - Mrs. Mary Dennison and Fred Conant married. July 24 - Mrs. Marion VanAken died, aged 76. July 24 - Marian Tarr died, aged 2. July 25 - Marie Crandall and Harold H. Palmer married. July 30 - Bertha Mumford and Charles L. Lampman married. July 30 - Fern L. Doty and Elton C. Frost married. July 30 - Edith V. Potter and Herbert M. Seeley married. Aug. 1 - Howard A. Mott and Nora E. Claar married. Aug. 1 - Mrs. Delmar Whitcomb died, aged 40. Aug. 6 - Nina Brown and Clair L. Crum married. Aug. 6 - Margaret Scherbing and Ralph W. Strong married. Aug. 6 - Mabel M. Ralston and Evan D. Bramlaeg married. Aug. 7 - Samuel O. Bowser died, aged 65. Aug. 12 - Mabel Cook and Charles Holt married. Aug. 13 - W.R. McNaughton sold his interest in the firm of McNaughton & Warner to B.R. Warner, who sold it a week later to Otis Pierce. Aug. 15 - Mrs. Neta Allen and Edwin Annin married. Aug. 17 - Public meeting to raise $18,000 bonus for the Caskey-Dupree factory. Aug. 18 - Gertrude P. Doll and Walter W. Jungblut married. Aug. 13 - Rolland Burch died, aged 19. Aug. 20 - Ora Dumaresq and Lloyd R. Barnes married. Aug. 21 - Mrs. Lewis G. Sherman died, aged 60. Aug. 22 - Arthur Hayward bought Richard Chapman's interest in the firm of Chapman & Vosburgh. Aug. 22 - Frank and Wm. Burns bought J.L. Bitz's Stag Café. Aug. 22 - Fred J. Makyes died, aged 51. Aug. 23 - Ralph L. Barrack and Edith L. Hayes married. Aug. 23 - Mrs. Ira VanOrsdal died, aged 71. Aug. 24 - Rev. James Allen and Hazel Jenks married. Aug. 25 - Leona F. Richard and Francis Bowerman married. Aug. 25 - Zella Waldron and H.W. Jefferson married. Aug. 27 - Mildred A. McCort and Harry J. Clohecy married. Aug. 27 - Christine Pray and John McFadden married. Sept. 3 - Erma L. Crandall and Wm. A. Lake married. Sept. 4 - William T. Spooner died, aged 66. Sept. 7 - Georgia Hanke and Thomas H. Ball married. Sept. 7-8 - Reunion of Eleventh Michigan Calvary. Sept. 11 - John Boyer crushed to death in heavy gear wheels at the cement factory. Sept. 13 - Lulu Chestnut died, aged 17. Sept. 14 - Helen Morgan and Clarence G. Hackett married. Sept. 15 - Annual reunion of Branch County soldiers and sailors. Sept. 16 - Mrs. Hannah M. Bevier died, aged 81. Sept. 17 - Lovina A. Wright and Neil C. Angevine married. Sept. 22 - Ninth Michigan Infantry reunion. Sept. 23 - Ground broken for Caskey-Dupree factory. Sept. 23 - The Carle and Phelps cottages burned at Morrson's Lake with about $8,000 loss. Sept. 23 - Ethel Morris and Earl Foley married. Sept. 24 - Chas. T. Cornwell celebrated his 100th birthday. Sept. 29 - Mrs. Clara Williams died, aged 79. Sept. 30 - Fred A. Smith and Addie Bickford married. Oct. 3 - James Brown died, aged 65. Oct. 4 - W.D. Tripp sued Wilbert Buck for $50,000 damages, alleging the alienation of the affections of his wife, Ione Gripman Tripp. Oct. 6 - Mrs. Lucy Sanford died, aged 76. Oct. 8 - Maude Morgan and Theodore Bernard married. Oct. 8 - Ezra Shoecraft fell dead in the Arlington Hotel. Oct. 14 - Paul L. Lake died, aged 26. Oct. 18 - Jefferson T. Burns and Elizabeth Perkins married. Oct. 19 - Ida M. Freeland and John E. Widener married. Oct. 19 - Mrs. Ida B. Hutchins and W.H. Knecht married. Oct. 22 - Boys' and Girls' fair at Grange Hall. Oct. 23 - Ida Clizbe and Floyd Hamilton married. Oct. 26 - Florence Crapo and Archie Knudson married. Oct. 26 - Flossie Crapo and Harry Prestidge married. Oct. 28 - Vera Brown and Charles McBride married. Oct. 29 - Mrs. Charlotte Loomis died, aged 82. Nov. 1 - Mrs. Frances May and Richard H. Fidler married. Nov. 2 - Iva L. Soper and Henry E. Norton married. Nov. 4 - Mrs. W.H. Kelsey burned to death. Nov. 4 - Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Russell celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary. Nov. 6 - Clarence O. Jobes and Irene McNaught married. Nov. 7 - Jay Sherman bought the Olmsted grocery. Nov. 7 - S.J. Chestnut's house badly damaged by fire. Nov. 8 - Remains of D.N. Holway brought here from Florida for burial. Nov. 9 - First snow of a remarkably fine autumn. Nov. 11 - Armistice Day celebration. Nov. 14 - Maj. Geo. H. Turner died, aged 82. Nov. 14 - Mrs. Mary C. Sherman died, aged 70. Nov. 17 - Mrs. Christina Bier died, aged 87. Nov. 21 - Edward L. Brown was seriously injured, his automobile being struck by a locomotive. Nov. 22 - City purchased a $10,650 fire truck. Nov. 23 - Mrs. A.C. Burdick died; she was born here 75 years ago. Nov. 23 - Mrs. Harriet M. Hurst died, aged 77. Nov. 23 - Wanda Hand and Earl J. Klink married. Nov. 24 - Margaret Branch and George H. Parker married. Nov. 27 - Ebenezer Post died, aged 84. Nov. 29 - M.H. Brown died, aged 68. Nov. 30 - Henry A. Hilborn and Sarah J. Marshall married. Nov. 30 - Harriett Evans and George S. Melrose married. Dec. 1 - Mrs. J.H. Sackett died, aged 65. Dec. 3 - Grace A. Walter and Archie D. Curvell married. Dec. 4 - Rev. Geo. C. Whitcomb died, aged 90. Dec. 4 - Herman L. Bornstein died, aged 66. Dec. 5 - Kemp & Carroll bought the baking business of the Milnes Supply Company. Dec. 5 - Linus B. Faurot and Mrs. Lucy Lincoln married. Dec. 16 - Elvin H. Williams died, aged 66. Dec. 16 - Milo George died, aged 67. Dec. 16 - Wm. E. Hilborn died, aged 64. Dec. 20 - Palace Café sold to Casebeer & Burns. Dec. 23 - Lela M. Sheets and Allen B. Lane married. Dec. 23 - Myron F. Smith bought Frank McIntyre's interest in the East End Grocery. Dec. 24 - Florence Hess and Carl Sanford married. Dec. 26 - Mrs. Wm. Hathaway died, aged 84. Dec. 28 - James (Jay) H. Swain died, aged 72. Dec. 28 - Mrs. Ellen Lansing died, aged 76. Dec. 28 - Chas. S. Hutchinson and wife celebtrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Dec. 31 - Geo. W. Turner died, aged 75. Dec. 31 - Hellen Abbott and Faye E. Warner married. 1921 - Coldwater's Nonogenarians Wm. R. Card, 19 S. Clay - 95 Chas. T. Cornwell, 102 Marshall - 100 Mrs. Annis Gillet, 306 W. Chicago - 94 Mrs. Lenora Grinnell, 193 Church - 90 Geo. Lucas, 112 Cutter Ave. - 93 Chas. Norton, 40 West Park Ave. - 91 1922 Jan. 1 - Iva Burley and Harold Harmon married. Jan. 5 - Florence Luce died, aged 61. Jan. 7 - Mrs. Carrie V. George died, aged 54. Jan. 7 - Mrs. Isabelle Bolton died, aged 77. Jan. 8 - Lewis Eldred died, aged 82. Jan. 9 - Nathan Jackson died, aged 80. Jan. 10 - A.S. Upson resigned as cashier of the Southern Michigan National Bank, after fifty years' service. Jan. 12 - Mrs. Olive Baldridge died, aged 70. Jan. 13 - Mrs. Sarah A. Smith died, aged 80. Jan. 15 - Mrs. Cora E. Hoglen died, aged 72. Jan. 16 - Mrs. Harriet Taylor died, aged 84. Jan. 19 - Mrs. H.M. Lafler died, aged 42. Jan. 20 - Lucile Peterson died, aged 3. Jan. 21 - Mrs. C.T. Hogoboom died, aged 77. Jan. 21 - Isaac Ridenour died, aged 79. Jan. 27 - Horace Kitchel died, aged 46. Jan. 28 - Mrs. Elba Abbott died, aged 51. Jan. 28 - Mrs. Jane Daly died, aged 62. Jan. 28 - Home of Frank Purdy partially burned; loss, $3,000. Jan. 28 - Henry J. Knepp died, aged 67. Feb. 1 - Wm. Long and Mrs. Carrie Finney married. Feb. 2 - Nellie Stout died, aged 75. Feb. 5 - Mrs. Catherine Knapp died, aged 84. Feb. 6 - Charles E. Peavey and Nina L. Crapo married. Feb. 12 - Mrs. E.D. Baker died, aged 57. Feb. 12 - Alexander Filkins died, aged 52. Feb. 13 - Mrs. Sarah J. Pollock died, aged 76. Feb. 17 - Small fire at D.C. Allen & Co's. Feb. 22 - Mercury rose to 65 in the shade. Feb. 25 - R. Milton Saunders died, aged 87. Feb. 25 - Mrs. Geo. W. Burch died, aged 70. Feb. 25 - Golda G. Cosper and Carl A. Peterson married. Feb. 25 - Helen N. Gamby and Houston Barber married. Feb. 27 - Mr. & Mrs. Dustman celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. March 1 - W.A. Fletcher bought the interest of H.F. Fletcher in their clothing business. March 6 - Mrs. Samuel Bater died, aged 81. March 9 - Vernon R. Kemp died, aged 42. March 9 - Carmen E. Selby and Chas. Howard Amaden married. March 10 - Chas. L. VanOrsdal died, aged 53. March 15 - Mrs. Helen Riley died, aged 68. March 18 - Mrs. Elizabeth Cortright and Emery A. Waterbury married. March 18 - Geo. W. Collins run over by an automobile and seriously injured. March 19 - Dr. Henry S. Erb died, aged 67. March 19 - Mrs. Clara Stuck died, aged 85. March 20 - Mrs. Wealthia Olmstead died, aged 76. March 21 - Close of a remarkably mild and pleasant winter; but spring begins with snow and cold. March 22 - Small fire at Pratt Mfg. Co.'s plant. March 24 - John Hartman (or Shiflet) died, aged 53. March 24 - Mrs. Willard Hawley died, aged 67. March 25 - Entire property of the Coombs Milling Co. sold in bankruptcy proceedings for $26,500; the property was supposed to be worth $100,000 and the liabilities were about $350,000. March 26 - John Wiler died, aged 54. March 28 - Mrs. Emily Cleveland died, aged 76. March 30 - Pearl Sperbeck and Leslie A. Dailey married. April 1 - Louis H. Raymond died, aged 23. April 2 - Smith Gillet died, aged 70. April 3 - City election, Republicans securing every office but one. April 3 - Wm. B. Keller died, aged 82. April 5 - Lenora Drerup and Lloyd Morgan married. April 6 - Mrs. Adella Knepp died, aged 61. April 8 - Mildred G. Parkinson and Clyde D. Bush married. April 17 - Nettie B. Youngs died, aged 17. April 18 - Sanford G. Jolley was killed at Waterloo, Ind., his automobile being struck by a train. April 19 - New city fire truck purchased; American LaFrance combination, chemical, hose and pumper; price, $10,650. April 19 - Rev. J.C. Robinson died, aged 86. April 19 - Rose Anton and Charles Carney married. April 20 - Leila B. Youse and Frank G. Stauder married. April 23 - Mrs. Grant Lockwood died, aged 54. April 25 - Mrs. Hiram M. Miller died, aged 55. May 4 - Mrs. Alice A. Vincent died, aged 85. May 4 - Mrs. W.A. Stevens died, aged 45. May 4 - Afton W. Fox and Mrs. Anna Parker married. May 5 - Gertrude Wilkins and Bernard Corson married. May 5 - Marie Brinkman and Harry Mintling married. May 9 - Isaac E. Corless died, aged 66. May 10 - Lester E. Weage and Lennie G. Thompson married. May 11 - Leo Perk died, aged 31. May 11 - H.E. Taylor's large poultry house burned. May 12 - Charles T. Cornwell died, aged 100 years and 8 months. May 13 - Chas. Wendorf died, aged 55. May 13 - Annual reunion of Company A, 32d Michigan Infantry. May 14 - Mabel Davis and Wayne Hayward married. May 16 - Mrs. F.G. Legg died, aged 67. May 17 - Forty-eighth annual reunion of Loomis' Battery, with only five of the aged veterans present. May 18 - Frank B. Reynolds died, aged 48. May 18 - Chrystal R. Sealock and Guy N. Kendall married. May 20 - Eva Lang and Leo Southworth married. May 21 - Mrs. Plona Dunham died, aged 66. May 26 - Francis Ryder died, aged 85. May 26 - Graydon Garvin and Nellie M. Otis married. May 27 - Chas. D. Harrington died, aged 59. May 28 - Charles W. Simmons died, aged 77. May 28 - Rev. Chas. Rufus Osborn closed his pastorate with the Baptist Church, and Rev. R.F. Mallon with St. Paul's Lutheran Church. May 29 - Albert Binn died, aged 64. June 2 - Mrs. C.M. Fenner died, aged 69. June 3 - Gladys Hamilton and Lloyd Hawkins married. June 7 - Lillian Biggs and Lloyd Bowersox married. June 8 - Ralph W. Terrill and Helen E. Nelson married. June 8 - Esther Garman died, aged 20. June 9 - High school graduating exercises; 58 graduates. June 10 - Fred G. Barber and Mrs. Mae Shaw married. June 15 - Charlotte Hawes and Thomas W. Wright married. June 16 - Mrs. Nella Welch and Frank Rashe married. June 19 - Proposition to bond the city for $190,000 to build new school building voted down, 649 to 306. June 19 - Fern Teller and Harold Clark married. June 20 - Benefit at Tibbits Theater, co-operating with popular subscription to place a monument and give proper care to the burial place of Barton S. Tibbits in Oak Grove Cemetery. [Under picture of B.S. Tibbits is the notation, "Perhaps the greatest business hustler in Coldwater's history. He died in 1899.] June 21 - Harriet Woodward and Francis Himelick married. June 21 - Wm. Eckmyre died, aged 61. June 22 - Loris M. Parker and George H. Hewitt married. June 22 - County reunion of war veterans. June 23 - Cleo French and Louis Burch married. June 24 - Kathryne Keep and Wm. G. Anderson married. June 24 - Dorothy Wood and Louie E. Legg married. June 24 - Gladys T. Beckmann and Robert W. Lipps married. June 24 - Ruth C. Stafford and Ernest W. Luse married. June 24 - John B. Williams died, aged 42. June 25 - Chas. E. Scribner died, aged 60. June 25 - Mrs. Robert Mahaffey died, aged 24. June 27 - Dorothy Penner and David C. Brown married. June 28 - Sadie Peavey and Roy H. Sperbeck married. June 28 - Byron N. Wheeler died, aged 28. June 30 - Mrs. Louvetta Weeden and Clesson F. Reynolds married. July 1 - Mabel Rice and Paul Doty married. July 1 - Mabel Minter and H.B. VanOrman married. July 3 - Lucile Nivison and Wm. C. Connell married. July 5 - Wava Crandall and Carl C. Wagner married. July 6 - Mrs. Permelia Bullock died, aged 67. July 6 - Commercial Travelers gave over 500 children a great picnic at Coldwater Lake. July 8 - Mrs. Ethel Hunt and Ora J. Stockwell married. July 8 - Wm. H. Birch and Jessie Ellison married. July 17 - Margaret Crandall and J. Wm. Haggerty married. July 18 - Mrs. Mary Keeley died, aged 87. July 18 - S.A. Bisbee died, aged 80. July 20 - Mrs. Harriet Elston died, aged 66. July 22 - Chas. Denbrock died, aged 57. July 23 - Mrs. Fred A. Burt died, aged 74. July 23 - Samuel F. Smith suicided by cutting his throat; he was 67. July 24 - City Council disbanded the old fire company; Chas. W. McCarty became the new chief. July 27 - Mrs. J. Aurie Smith and Frank Newberry married. July 28 - Mrs. Rose Latta died, aged 61. July 28 - Mrs. Fred Sutter died, aged 72. July 29 - Gloria Kaser and Harold Gates married. July 30 - James Lewis Belote died, aged 5. July 30 - Pearl Knight and Walter Arensberg married. Aug. 5 - Juanita Seaman and Elmer Mead married. Aug. 5 - Mabel Carmer and Forrest H. Ewing married. Aug. 8 - Mrs. Angeline Olmsted died, aged 72. Aug. 8 - Mrs. Ida Williams and Adelbert Wickes married. Aug. 9 - Mrs. Lena M. Shaw and Geo. W. Johns married. Aug. 14 - Mrs. Clara Gallop and Fred Howe married. Aug. 17 - Big farmers' county picnic held in Coldwater; crowd estimated at 15,000. Aug. 17 - Joyce Alice Green and Leon W. Baggerly married. Aug. 18 - Mrs. Alta Parker died, aged 55. Aug. 22 - Sparks' circus here. Aug. 22 - Mrs. Lottie Bunnell and Edw. D. Baker married. Aug. 23 - Lulu Burt died, aged 57. Aug. 29 - Dorothy B. McNaught and Arthur N. Bailey married. Aug. 31 - Carrol I. Case and Ruth Carter married. Sept. 1-9 - Very unusual hot spell. Sept. 5 - Mary Chester and John Knecht married. Sept. 12 - County primary election; three ladies nominated: Mrs. Dottie Dickey Kimball for treasurer and Mrs. Clara Hiesrodt for register of deeds on the Republican ticket, Dr. Gertrude Dobson for register of deeds on the Democratic ticket. Sept. 12 - Geo. G. Ruppert and Janet Anton married. Sept. 16 - Lawrence Ross and Beatrice Hosmer married. Sept. 16 - Carl J. Baker and Mrs. Caroline Terrien married. Sept. 16 - Chas. Ross died, aged 51. Sept. 17 - Geo. R. Pierce's cottage burned at Coldwater Lake with $3,000 loss; also Ross Rabien's, $2,500. Sept. 20 - Almeron F. Mason and Mrs. Velora Cornell married. Sept. 21 - Jay Van Wormer and Mrs. Jessie C. Smith married. Sept. 24 - Mr. & Mrs. Bartlett M. Fletcher celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. Sept. 24 - Margaret Hiesrodt and Fred C. McGregor married. Sept. 25 - Mrs. Lena K. Watson and Anton S. Johnson married. Sept. 26 - Sherwood Wakeman died, aged 48. Sept. 27 - Mrs. Edson S. Taylor died, aged 70. Oct. 1 - Mrs. Mary Wickes died, aged 76. Oct. 2 - Mrs. Marion Easterly and Frank Kennedy married. Oct. 5 - Mrs. Mamie Platt and Fred Parker married. Oct. 5 - Lavinna Reed and Jas. W. Cochrane married. Oct. 7 - Mrs. Florence Stowell Osborn and Emerson J. Fuhrman married. Oct. 13 - Herman D. Keller killed by an overturning automobile in Florida; he was 67. Oct. 13 - First frost of a very mild fall. Oct. 14 - Flossie Wood and Walter Garman married. Oct. 18 - Second vote on proposition to erect new $140,000 school building: Yes, 562; No, 342. Oct. 18 - President Burton of Michigan State University addressed the Chamber of Commerce. Oct. 19 - Mrs. Mary Bingham died, aged 73. Oct. 22 - Mrs. Frank F. McCort died, aged 49. Oct. 25 - Fremont J. Brown died, aged 64. Oct. 28 - Mrs. Harriet Evans Melrose and Wm. H. Storer married. Oct. 28 - Fire destroyed the old Taylor's Exchange building. Oct. 28 - Burt E. Barlow suicided in Washington, D.C.; he was 42. Oct. 28 - Doris Gillespie and John U. Dailey married. Oct. 29 - Edward J. Ford died, aged 72. Nov. 2 - Michael Dawson died, aged 58. Nov. 6 - Wade Memorial Hospital opened. Nov. 6 - Geo. Aebersold and Marie Hellenberg married. Nov. 7 - Election: County officers all Republican except A. Bert Cline, sheriff, Democraft. Nov. 7 - Mrs. John J. Filarski died, aged 32. Nov. 7 - Julia L. VanAken and Geo. W. Diefenderfer married. Nov. 11 - Clara Wixson and Leslie Smith married. Nov. 11 - Ethel Lockwood and Hugh Carver married. Nov. 14 - Mrs. Lavern Gresley died, aged 21. Nov. 15 - Ory Odren, 48, suicided by hanging himself. Nov. 17 - Mrs. Jane Hiesrodt died, aged 65. Nov. 17 - Chauncy Young died, aged 69. Nov. 19 - Mrs. Anna T. Andrews died, aged 77. Nov. 20 - First snowfall; very light. Nov. 22 - John P. Doyle died, aged 54. Nov. 22 - George B. Wicker and Sibille Blanch Collison married. Nov. 23 - Wm. M. Corey died, aged 85. Nov. 25 - Catherine Dorrance and Walter Lozier married. Nov. 27 - Julius B. Peavey died, aged 75. Dec. 1 - Mercury, 60 degrees. Dec. 2 - Bernard Lilly died, aged 73. Dec. 4 - Herbert Wells and Mrs. Lenna Watson married. Dec. 5 - Albert W. Gibson died, aged 74. Dec. 6 - Mrs. Louise Farnham died, aged 63. Dec. 8 - Judge C.C. Johnson narrowly escaped death by drowning near Constantine; the automobile in which he and others were riding plunged into the Fawn River; Judge W.T. Langley lost his life. Dec. 8 - B.B. Gorman appointed postmaster; began duties Jan. 1, 1923. Dec. 11 - Mrs. J.D. Payne died, aged 68. Dec. 11 - The Fred Hurley cottage at the river bridge burned; loss, $800. Dec. 14 - Thos. S. Osborn died, aged 77. Dec. 15 - Mrs. Henrietta Lyman died, aged 82. Dec. 16 - W.H. McCarty died, aged 70. Dec. 16 - Mrs. Frank L. Cox died, aged 68. Dec. 18 - Mrs. E.A. Bidelman died, aged 52. Dec. 18 - Alfred F. Terpening died, aged 79. Dec. 18 - Henry Firth died, aged 73. Dec. 19 - Mrs. Ada Sargent died, aged 71. Dec. 21 - Mrs. Hattie Harris died, aged 53. Dec. 23 - O'Neal Kanouse and Myrtle Draper married. Dec. 26 - Mrs. Clara M. Jordan and Geo. C. Noblit married. Dec. 28 - Mrs. Rose Crandall died, aged 69. Dec. 29 - Wm. F. Gillett died, aged 82. There were 130 births and 112 deaths during 1922 in Coldwater. 1922 - Coldwater's Nonogenarians Mrs. Mary Brown, 43 N. Fremont - 91 Wm. R. Card, 19 S. Clay - 96 Mrs. Matilda Collins, 153 Hull - 90 Mrs. Annis Gillet, 306 W. Chicago - 95 Orin W. Hoyt, 335 Grand - 90 Mrs. Lenora Grinnell, 193 Church - 91 Geo. Lucas, 112 Cutter Ave. - 94 Chas. Norton, 40 West Park Ave. - 92 1923 Jan. 1 - Philena J. Ryder and Morris Jackson married. Jan. 1 - Leffler & Hogue purchased the Bunnell & Lindsey barber shop. Jan. 1 - Selden Steele died, aged 65. Jan. 2 - Railway train struck and seriously injured Donald Draper, Hubert Spade, Marguerite Peppiatt and Lena Sherburne in an automobile at the Clay Street crossing. Jan. 8 - Albert A. Sherman died, aged 81. Jan. [?] - A.L. Schrader died, aged 54. Jan. 12 - Avon D. Luse and Gertrude F. [?] married. Jan. 12 - Ansel E. Thompson died, aged 77. Jan. 12 - Mrs. Clint Robinson died. Jan. 13 - Frances Fisher and Harlow Raymond married. Jan. 15 - Guy Un[?], 30, suicided. Jan. 22 - Mildred Locke and Phillip Whitten married. Jan. 22 - [?] W. Carmer and Ida B. Burch married. Jan. 26 - Mrs. Myron Smith died, aged 54. Jan. 26 - Marcello Tyler died, aged 90. Jan. 28 - Leona Snyder and Bryan Manigold married. Jan. 29 - Mrs. Flora R. Wolfe died, aged 56. Jan. 30 - Wm. A. Gilfillan died, aged 70. Jan. 31 - Bert E. Stockdale and Mrs. Anna MacDonald married. Jan. 31 - Charity ball netted $458.58. Feb. 2 - Pearce cigar store sold to Runyan Tobacco Co. Feb. 1 - Mrs. Cora Preston died, aged 48. Feb. 3 - Mrs. Margaret Pitcher died, aged 86. Feb. [?] - Russell Hall and Inda Frankinfield married. Feb. 6 - Lad and dad banquet. Feb. 7 - Mrs. Daniel Davis died, aged 68. Feb. 7 - Margaret McGregor died, aged 19. Feb. 8 - Brooks R. Amsden died, aged 77; had resided here over 50 years. Feb. 8 - An[?] M. Kyser died, aged 73. Feb. 10 - Rev. John T. Bridwell closed his pastorate with the Church of Christ. Feb. 10 - Frank B. Tuckey's house damaged $1,800 by [?]. Feb. 12 - O.J. Upham sold his grocery to Frank Sowers. Feb. 12 - Fred G. Tas[?] bought a half interest in the Benjamin barber shop. Feb. 16 - W.W. P[?] given contract to build $30,000 Methodist church house. Feb. 16 - Kenneth Park[?] died, aged 15. Feb. 17 - Daisy Leeder and Edwin Swain married. Feb. [?] - Leroy Olmstead died, aged 78. Feb. 22 - Laura May Fields, aged 4, died of diphtheria. Feb. 22 - Ansel A. Howard died in Petoskey. Feb. 26 - Roy J. [S?] house partially burned. Feb. 28 - Mrs. Garrie Pitcher died, aged 55. Feb. 28 - Arthur J. Adams died, aged 62. Feb. 28 - C.S. Vincent retired from the Kerr Hardware Company. Feb. 28 - H. Gibson sold his business property to the Standard Oil Co. and bought Conover and Loveridge blocks. Feb. 28 - S. Joe Norton bought the house at 55 Pearl for his printing office, formerly in the Conover block. March 2 - Mrs. H.L. Crum died, aged 43. March 2 - Mina Waffie and Arthur Youse married. March 3 - Mercury 62 in the shade, a record breaker for this date. March 3 - G.W. Harding died, aged 78. March 3 - Mrs. Erwin Weller died, aged 45. March 3 - [?] Cary and Marvin Venetta married. March 5 - Board of Education sold {?] bonds to a Chicago house at $4,543 premium, to finance the erection of a new high school building. March 8 - Mrs. Mary Ma[?] died, aged 83. March 8 - L.H. Edgerton died, aged 72. March 8 - Wm. R. Card died, aged 96. March [?] - Mrs. Lois E. Musselwhite died, aged 71. March [?] - Mrs. Anna Green died, aged 89. March 14 - Viva O. Hall and Eurie O. Stoy married. March 14 - Ida Shull and Everett Walker married. March 18 - Mrs. C.S. Parrish died, aged 57. March 19 - Mercury down to zero. March 19 - Auttie Knapp died, aged 78. March 19 - Harold Hickey and Sarah A. Lerch married. March 21 - Clarence L. Olds died, aged 70. March 22 - Hon. Milo D. Campbell fell dead in Washington where he had just begun serving on the federal reserve board; he was 71. [Under a picture of Milo D. Campbell is the following notation: "Mr. Campbell, who died March 22, 1923, was one of Coldwater's best loved citizens. He had served as Mayor, also in other positions of State and National importance. He was 71 years of age."] March 25 - J. Barnes Sherburne and Elsie Ginglen married. March 26 - Mrs. Abbie Erb and Chas. Randolph married. March 29 - Mrs. N.A. Reynolds died, aged 77. March 31 - Mercury almost zero. March 31 - Mrs. Pauline Gifford died, aged 82. March 31 - Lena L. Burch died, aged 45. March 31 - Otis Fry and May Butler married. Apr. 2 - Marsh fire near cemetery burned the Coffman ice house and several small cottages. Apr. 2 - City election resulted in the re-election of the old (Republican) city officers and all ward officers but three; bonding proposition (to repair paving) voted down; county voted to abolish the county farm bureau. Apr. 2 - Clara M. Gust and Albert Allard married. Apr. 2 - Iva Morehouse and J. Bentley Galloway married. Apr. 3 - Eva Vanes and Ervin Frost married. Apr. 3 - Hubbard F. Buffham died, aged 85. Apr. 6 - Clyta M. Ash and Arthur J. Hunt married. Apr. 7 - Mrs. Laura Ruple died, aged 83. Apr. 10 - Mrs. Rachel Bronson died, aged 72. Apr. 10 - Mothers and daughters banquet, with 400 in attendance. Apr. 11 - Gertie Belle Morris and Geo W. Pifer married. Apr. 15 - Rev. Henry P. Collin died, aged nearly 80; he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church over 26 years, commencing in 1878. Apr. 15 - Henry E. Frederick died, aged 78. Apr. 15 - Mrs. Z.G. Osborn died, aged 83. Apr. 20 - Louise Tribolet and J.W. Moody married. Apr. 20 - Tripp vs. Buck $50,000 damage case ended in circuit court with verdict for $2,000; covered 24 days and called out 56 witnesses. Apr. 22 - Mrs. H.C. Simons died, aged 74. Apr. 23 - Wm. M. Jackson, 53, was killed by falling from the roof of a barn. Apr. 28 - Mrs. Julia A. Dubendorf died, aged 68. Apr. 29 - Mrs. Louisa D. Shippy died, aged 84. Apr. 30 - Fire in Godden's cleaning works. Apr. 30 - Minnie Wright and Ralph O'Mara married. May 5 - Gladys M. Ebenheck and Vern E. Smith married. May 6 - Carl Rapp's residence badly damaged by fire. May 6 - Avis Easthom and George E. Barrett married. May 7 - Walter Gordon, 63, nearly electrocuted by contact with a live wire; he died May 20. May 7 - L.W. McCartney died, aged 66. May 7 - Mrs. Lovina Demerest died, aged 80. May 8 - Mrs. Maria Hurst died, aged 73. May 8 - Vera Brown and Joseph J. Jerista married. May 9 - Cold; near-blizzard. May 9 - Edwin D. Merrill suicided in Battle Creek. May 12 - Vera Biddle and Russell A. Furbrook married. May 13 - Mrs. J.M. Crocker died, aged 68. May 18 - Mrs. B.J. McHale died, aged 34. May 19 - High school track team won interscholastic track meet at Hillsdale, defeating nine teams. May 19 - Myrna Parker and Everts W. Brayton married. May 21 - Frank N. Williams died, aged 55. May 21 - Neva Crawford and Rudell Bates married. May 22 - James Scott Warford died, aged 100. May 22 - Mrs. Harry Hill died, aged 84. May 25 - Harry E. King died, aged 62. May 26 - Mrs. Mary A. Holmes died, aged 74. May 26 - Mrs. Ellen Daley died, aged 74. May 27 - Thelma Esther Fuller and Russell C. Aronson married. May 29 - Mrs. L.M. Marsh died, aged 74. May 31 - Mrs. S.P. Swain died, aged 71. June 2 - High school track team won state championship honors at Lansing, winning over 16 other schools, 30 1/2 points. June 3 - Kate Davis died, aged 62. June 3 - Mrs. Vern Smith died, aged 27. June 5 - Mrs. Wm. G. Moore died, aged 83. June 5 - House at No. 30 Williams Street destroyed by fire. June 6 - W.G. Parlow and Kathryn Gabel married. June 6 - Seventy-eight Ft. Wayne business men visited the city. June 6 - Fern Arlene Walker and Clarence H. Merriman married. June 7 - Chas. A. Shenefield died, aged 65. June 7 - High school graduating exercises: 81 graduates, largest class ever. June 9 - L.C. Coller retired after being in business here forty years. June 9 - Henry C. Clark, a native of Coldwater, died, aged 80 years. June 9 - Erma R. Smith and Harold Hazelwood married. June 9 - Mrs. Dollie Williams and Herbert Wilkinson married. June 11 - St. Charles commencement; five graduates. June 12 - Alma Wohlgemuth and Rev. Adolph G. Berg married. June 12 - Nina Clark and E.W. Bigford married. June 12 - Opening of first church vacation school, 145 present. June 13 - Mrs. L.W. McCartney died, aged 63. June 13 - Edwin Mansell died, aged 75. June 14 - Mildred Wilkins and Clarence Harmon married. June 16 - Helen Bowser and Lester Tyler married. June 18 - Fred E. Ferguson purchased the interest of Floyd Nulf in the Smith & Nulf grocery. June 18 - Wm. R. DeWater died, aged 71. June 19 - J.B. Montgomery closed his work as superintendent at the State Public School, after 25 years of service. June 20 - Blanche J. Beckwith and Russell M. Green married. June 22 - Floyd J. Storr narrowly escaped drowning in Coldwater River. June 23 - Dr. Augustus W. Ives began his duties as superintendent of the State Public School. June 23 - Mrs. Ed. O'Shaughnessy died, aged 58. June 23 - Mercury registered 100 degrees in the shade. June 23 - Bernard M. Hellenberg and Clara L. Dawson married. June 23 - Carrie Phillips and J.H. Bennett married. June 26 - Ethel Collier and Wm. D. Hawley married. June 28 - Fifteenth annual convention of Branch County Rural Letter Carriers' Association held. July 1 - Resignation of Claude L. Nash as county agricultural agent took effect. July 2 - Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Knauss celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary. July 3 - Paul U. Champion purchased the interest of Jay Salisbury in the Stag Café. July 4 - Milo D. Jones and Olive Ellen Smith married. July 7 - U.C.T.'s entertained about 500 children at a picnic at Coldwater Lake. July 7 - Mrs. Adaline M. Diener died, aged 68. July 11 - Mrs. Amanda K. Golden died, aged 84. July 11 - Wm. J. Burns, L.F. Casebeer and Clarence Beck purchased the City Restaurant of Geo. F. Carl. July 14 - Chas. E. Hodgman died, aged 78. July 14 - Worst cyclone or tornado that ever visited the city. Trees valued at thousands of dollars were ruined. No one hurt. City was in darkness in some sections for three nights. July 14 - Jay Salisbury purchased the lunch counter and billiard hall of T.G. Farnum. July 14 - Mrs. Gladys Hunt and Glen Johnson married. July 17 - Rev. R.A. Wright died suddenly near Tekonsha; he was 63 years old. Burial at Niles. July 17 - Roscoe L. Graves resigned as captain of Co. A. July 17 - Rotary Club entertained 275 State School children at a picnic at Coldwater Lake. July 20 - Silas P. Swain died, aged 77. July 21 - Paul L. Cox and Louise Preston married. July 21 - Arthur Taylor and Evelyn Mason married. July 23 - Thos. E. Walker died, aged 71. July 24 - Mrs. Carrie E. Dean died, aged 63. July 24 - In circuit court a judgment of $1,500 was confessed against the New York Central Railroad in favor of Donald Draper, who was injured in an accident at the Clay Street crossing Jan. 2. July 25 - Arthur E. Root died suddenly in park, aged 45; also Mrs. Alma A. Bates, 73. July 26 - Homer Draper died, aged 52. July 26 - Wesley Allen Peck and Lillian Belle Peck married. July 28 - Norman A. Reynolds died, aged 80. July 28 - Don P. Cushman died, aged 85. July 30 - Lieut. Leland E. Wheeler received appointment as captain of Co. A, succeeding Roscoe L. Graves, resigned. July 31 - Mrs. Harvey D. Miller died, aged 84. Aug. 1 - Fannie Moog and Roland E. Adams married. Aug. 1 - Ward Andrews succeeded C.L. Nash as county agriculturalist. Aug. 3 - Mrs. Ednah Snyder and Will D. Tripp married. Aug. 3 - Bells were tolled and stores closed for half an hour out of respect for President Warren G. Harding, who died in San Francisco Aug. 2. Aug. 3 - A successful seven-day Chautauqua closed. Aug. 3 - Co. A left for annual encampment at Grayling. Aug. 4 - Gladys Lillian Rice married Dr. G. Rexford Bullen of Jackson. Aug. 5 - Chester J. Wetzel was killed and his wife, Lena Grice Wetzel, seriously injured by the overturning of their auto. Aug. 6 - Orin W. Hoyt died, aged 91. Aug. 6 - Frederick Kenyon died, aged 64. Aug. 6 - Earl Staffeldt and Arlene Van Schoick married. Aug. 9 - Andy Cleveland and Ida Follett married. Aug. 9 - County reunion of soldiers and sailors. Aug. 10 - Largely attended public meeting in the park in memory of President Harding. Aug. 11 - Mrs. W.R. Cerrow died, aged 42. Aug. 13 - Ivan G. Crull and Ethel G. Bay married. Aug. 13 - Leola M. Ely and Earl Burley married. Aug. 16 - Mrs. Gus Smithpeter died, aged 65. Aug. 21 - Mrs. C.T. Maxfield died, aged 85. Aug. 21 - Raymond McCurley and Nellie Cherdavoyne married. Aug. 22 - Light frost. Aug. 23 - Mrs. J.A. Watters died, aged 37. Aug. 23 - Roberta M. Kantz and Prince V. Bawden married. Aug. 26 - Wellington E. Blue and Mrs. Mary L. Richmond married. Aug. 26 - John Calvin Ritter and Mrs. Eva E. Hall married. Aug. 29 - Viola Brown Simkin and Ralph A. Bush married. Aug. 30 - Geo. P. Canrike died, aged 71. Sept. 1 - Grant Eaton sold Hotel Grant to John T. Arnold. Sept. 1 - Mrs. Jennie Mowers died, aged 79. Sept. 1 - Mrs. Melissa Doty died, aged 57. Sept. 3 - Labor Day observed with Odd Fellows picnic at Matteson Lake, Catholic picnic at the narrows, and homecoming celebration at Girard. Sept. 3 - C.E. Tracy sold his business to Clarence Smith. Sept. 4 - Mr. & Mrs. James Drinkwater celebrated 57th wedding anniversary. Sept. 5 - Mrs. Cassius H. Brown died, aged 80. Sept. 7 - Mrs. Henry Kerley died, aged 83. Sept. 10 - Arlene M. Perk and Henry A. Bogart married. Sept. 10 - Mrs. Annis Gillet died, aged 96. Sept. 11 - Mrs. Catherine Warren died, aged 69. Sept. 12 - Old fair grounds sold to Kalamazoo parties. Sept. 12 - Mrs. Cora Rice died, aged 73. Sept. 14 - High school football team began their season by defeating Litchfield, 30 to 0. Sept. 15 - Mrs. Susie George and John Zunkel married. Sept. 16 - Verba Rose Kaiser and Harold C. Whitman married. Sept. 16 - Clement A. Crane died, aged 67. Sept. 18 - Frank Waldron, 47, was struck and killed by an automobile. Sept. 19 - Alfred S. Miller died, aged 94. Sept. 20 - Frank McIntyre and Lola E. Ritter married. Sept. 21 - Louis G. Re died, aged 20. Sept. 22 - Harry Selby, 46, died of lockjaw. Sept. 23 - Rev. Chas. W. Mackenzie began the Methodist pastorate. Sept. 24 - Frank P. Gibson and Frances Misner married. Sept. 24 - Vernon Weage and Doris Montague married. Sept. 26 - Richard Chapman died, aged 64. Sept. 27 - George H. Birch died, aged 33. Oct. 2 - Wiley Putnam died, aged 79. Oct. 2 - Mrs. W.H. Raymond died, aged 59. Oct. 2 - Calkins manufacturing plant sold to Secor Silo Co. of Lawton. Oct. 3 - Barry B. Wilson of Ovid fell dead in the postoffice. Oct. 5 - L.E. Eckel sold the Arlington Hotel to Thos. H. and Geo. W. Kohn. Oct. 8 - George Otis and Irene Tucker married. Oct. 9 - Lillian Kollmorgen and W.F. Dobberteen married. Oct. 10 - Mrs. A.M. Kyser died, aged 69. Oct. 10 - Lucile Hawkins and L. Hammon married. Oct. 11 - Mrs. Peter Watson died, aged 40. Oct. 11 - Grace G. Berry and Paul F. Cabeen married. Oct. 15 - Leroy B. Ward and Mrs. Daisy Hoyt married. Oct. 15 - Dr. Clyde Fenton and Marian Harris married. Oct. 16 - Mrs. J.F. Hiatt died, aged 70. Oct. 19 - Mrs. H.J. Grinnell died, aged 67. Oct. 20 - Mrs. T.C. Mack died, aged 80. Oct. 22 - George Granger and Mrs. May Johnson married. Oct. 22 - Mabel I. Radebaugh and Ralph E. Swihart married. Oct. 24 - Mrs. Mary Stinson died, aged 73. Oct. 24 - Mrs. E.F. Crawford died, aged 63. Oct. 25 - Blufford Minniear died, aged 80. Oct. 26 - Jay Gibbons was killed by an automobile in Jackson. Oct. 26 - Geo. W. Johnson died, aged 76. Oct. 27 - Chas. Smith died, aged 73. Oct. 27 - Herman F. Dibbert died, aged 69. Oct. 29 - Edrue D. Parke died, aged 64. Oct. 30 - Mrs. Matie Wixson and J.R. Simmons married. Nov. 1 - E.C. Watters bought the Ford auto business from E.C. Wheeler. Nov. 1 - Amanda Mannerow and Bert D. Sherman married. Nov. 1 - Fire in Southern Michigan office building. Nov. 2 - Mrs. Elizabeth Dubendorf died, aged nearly 90. Nov. 4 - Albert L. Rawson died, aged 65. Nov. 5 - Gertrude M. Cook died, aged 33. Nov. 5 - Peter J. Farwell died, aged 93. Nov. 7 - Watson H. Kelsey and Cassie Soper married. Nov. 10 - Mrs. Joseph Smith died, aged 51. Nov. 10 - Dorothy Soules died, aged 7. Nov. 13 - Mrs. A.E. Balcom died, aged 77. Nov. 13 - Mrs. Otis Cranson died, aged 26. Nov. 13 - Peter Watson and Mrs. Lucinda Watson married. Nov. 17 - Wynifred Pollock and Charles Upson Clarke married. Nov. 17 - Mrs. Alta M. Gillespie and Theodore L. Wood married. Nov. 17 - Mrs. Roy Birch shot her husband twice, nearly fatally, and suicided. Nov. 25 - Thelma I. Hosmer and Harold D. Lint married. Nov. 25 - Kathryn Yuhl and Ervin Burritt married. Nov. 25 - Mrs. William Denbrock died, aged 34. Nov. 26 - Mrs. Nancy Dexter died, aged 70. Nov. 27 - Adelbert L. Vandenburg died, aged 76. Nov. 28 - Anna Leone Ellis and C.F. Reamer married. Nov. 29 - Myrtle Knight and Howard From married. Nov. 29 - Dorothy Myers and Warren R. Baker married. Nov. 29 - High school football team defeated Hillsdale, 13 to 7; for the season, one game lost out of ten played. Dec. 1 - A.W. Fees died, aged 63. Dec. 5 - Mrs. Dr. Geo. Ferguson died, aged 94. Dec. 8 - Minnie Simpson and Theodore R. Wing married. Dec. 10 - J.H. Osborn sold half interest in implement business to Howard Watson. Dec. 10 - Samuel O. Larrabee died, aged 61. Dec. 11 - Mrs. Wm. H. Simkins died, aged 73. Dec. 12 - Dr. Fred H. Harris died, aged 48. Dec. 12 - Mrs. Amelia Odren died, aged 81. Dec. 15 - Margaret Rose and Richard N. Mann married. Dec. 17 - J.H. Osborn purchased half interest in Coldwater Monument Works. Dec. 19 - Mrs. W.E. Blue died, aged 63. Dec. 21 - Mrs. Elsie J. Whitman died, aged 38. Dec. 25 - Mrs. May Belle Paradine and Myron F. Smith married. Dec. 26 - Mrs. M.W. Brainard died, aged 86. Dec. 26 - Vena Frost and Stephen Soldatt married. Dec. 27 - Ralph J. Linn died, aged 5. Dec. 27 - Lucile K. Godfrey and Kenton C. Emerson married. Dec. 28 - Mrs. Margaret E. Deming died, aged 91. Dec. 28 - Mrs. Effie May Gates and Willis E. Phinney married. Dec. 29 - Mrs. Lauretta A. Hanks and Lemuel Ward married. Dec. 30 - Aaron D. Milhan died, aged 81. During 1923 four wedded couples died: N.A. Reynolds, L.W. McCartney, S.P. Swain, A.M. Kyser and their wives. The fall of 1923 was remarkably mild; no mentionable snow or severe weather up to Jan. 1. Births for the year, 115; deaths, 135. 1923 - Coldwater's Nonogenarians Mrs. Mary Brown, 43 N. Fremont - 92 Mrs. Matilda Collins, 153 Hull - 91 Mrs. Lenora Grinnel, 193 Church - 92 Geo. Lucas, 112 Cutter Ave. - 93 Chas. Norton, 40 West Park Ave. - 93 Mrs. Caroline Smith, 90 S. Monroe - 90 A.A.P. Unangst, 214 Marshall - 90 1924 Jan. 2 - Geo W. St. Clair died, aged 61. Jan. 2 - Wm. H. Ward died, aged 81. Jan. 2 - Maurice Payne and Mildred Kirkpatrick married. Jan. 5 - Mrs. C.D. Thompson died, aged 69. Jan. 6 - Mrs. E. Nelson Masters died, aged 36. Jan. 7 - Mrs. Melvin T. Edmunds died, aged 76. Jan. 7 - Adelbert E. Lockwood died, aged 81. Jan. 7 - Helen Sager and Ernest Bellamy married. Jan. 8 - Leo Hurley and Bernice Miller married. Jan. 8 - Mrs. Julia Grinnells died, aged 66. Jan. 11 - Wm. R. Myers died, aged 75. Jan. 11 - House of E.W. Dunks badly damaged by fire. Jan. 12 - Belva M. Sunday and Henry C. Carney married. Jan. 13 - Herbert A. Close died, aged 74. Jan. 16 - Arthur N. Ruple died, aged 63. Jan. 17 - Edward H. Mott died, aged 58. Jan. 18 - Nellie E. Jones died, aged 74. Jan. 19 - Dairy Association safe wrecked by burglars; $30 taken. Jan. 19 - Myrtle Corless and Harold Boyer married. Jan. 21 - Alred Woodard died, aged 5. Jan. 23 - Mrs. Agnes Gibson died in the house where she was born in 1845. Jan. 24 - Home of Nelson Masters badly damaged by fire. Jan. 25 - Robert J. Hamilton died, aged 66. Jan. 26 - Snow blockade. Jan. 28 - Hazel Sharp and Frank Rassler married. Jan. 30 - Mrs. Harry Haner died, aged 50. Jan. 31 - Mrs. Anna Henneghan died, aged 82. Jan. 31 - Mrs. C.J. Morehouse died, aged 35. Feb. 2 - Clara Ferguson and Alfred Regetz married. Feb. 2 - Minnie A. Brandt and Frank J. Corns married. Feb. 8 - David A. Fetterly died, aged 88. Feb. 10 - Mrs. Annie R. Mason died, aged 82. Feb. 12 - Josephine Henning and Adelbert Beyer married. Feb. 13 - Jesse D. Payne and Mrs. Hattie A. Wolfinger married. Feb. 14 - Ellen Preston and Herschel Rowe married. Feb. 14 - Olympic Restaurant closed its doors. Feb. 20 - Mr. & Mrs. J.E. Dermott celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Feb. 21 - More snow, more blockade; snow hauled off the business streets and alleys. Feb. 22 - Mrs. Robert Mahaffey died, aged 18. Feb. 23 - Mrs. Cora Nachbauer died, aged 66. Feb. 23 - Wm. J. Smalley died, aged 78. Feb. 24 - Mr. & Mrs. B.F. Estlow badly hurt by running their automobile into a standing freight train at Tekonsha. Feb. 26 - Rev. H.W. Jerrett resigned the Presbyterian pastorate. Feb. 27 - Mrs. Elizabeth Ives died, aged 90. Feb. 29 - Viola Martin and Charles Sumner married. March 1 - Mildred Irene Brook and Wm. Charles Smith married. March 6 - Wolf Bus Co. bought the Shelters Jackson line. March 8 - Robert B. Koons died, aged 53. March 8 - Beryl Thompson and Irvin Pruyne married. March 9 - Frederick M. Feuchter died, aged 42. March 10 - A.P. Gillette bought the Smith & Ferguson grocery and meat business. March 10 - Mrs. Gaylord Boyer died, aged 18. March 10 - Francis Hibbard and Leila Smith married. March 15 - Mrs. I.E. Gresley died, aged 52. March 16 - Kingsley Pharmacy badly damaged by fire. March 17 - Mrs. Wm. H. Milnes died, aged 49. March 18 - Charles E. Black died, aged 11. March 19 - Blanche McKee and Carl E. Lewis married. March 21 - Roscoe E. Stewart and Katherine E. Clark married. March 22 - Mrs. Harriet A. Rose died, aged 83. March 22 - Rosie Draper and LaVerne Quimby married. March 23 - Mrs. Esther Green died, aged 83; had lived in this county 78 years. March 23 - Mrs. B.M. Fletcher died, aged 87. March 27 - Charles E. Faas died, aged 57. March 27 - Rachel Shimmel died, aged 68. March 28 - Mrs. Carrie E. Strobec died, aged 57. March 28 - Mrs. D.S. Etheridge died, aged 76. March 28 - A.A. Perry died, aged 76. March 29 - Henry Dryer died, aged 78. March 31 - Joseph C. Morgan died, aged 80. April 5 - Charles A. Ruple and Alice May Garvin married. April 5 - Main Café, formerly the Olympic, reopened by Harry Lopez. April 7 - New Roosevelt high school building first occupied. April 7 - City election: Democrats elect LeRoy R. Palmer mayor, Chas. C. Fox alderman in the third ward, Chas. E. Earley supervisor and Eben Butterworth constable in the fourth ward, remainder Republicans. April 10 - E.D. Luedders, in business here 47 years, died, aged 78. April 10 - Mrs. George Quackenbush died, aged 56. April 14 - Collins Wendell died, aged 68. April 14 - Clare Walker died as the result of a collision between his automobile and that of W.J. Selby. April 15 - Mrs. Arabella Van Valkenburgh died, aged 79. April 15 - Home of J.R. Whitacre badly damaged by fire. April 18 - Mrs. Liewellyn E. Smith died, aged 75. April 19 - Louise M. Lincoln and Howard Sowers married. April 20 - Dorothy B. Bowser and Ray H. Zull married. April 20 - Imo C. Ash and Oral C. Marquette married. April 21 - Mrs. Margaret Baldwin died, aged 87. April 23 - Mrs. Elizabeth Gould died, aged 85. April 23 - Daniel Merritt died, aged 68. April 23 - Chamber of Commerce (resort division) adopted the slogan, "Coldwater for Summer," and planned an advertising campaign, which was soon in full swing. April 24 - Mrs. Hattie Harris and James Dent married. April 26 - Bertha Lincoln and Harold Hanks married. April 26 - Wells C. Cortright and Jeane Sutherland married. April 26 - Mrs. Abner Brown died, aged 66. April 26 - Manley W. Bates died, aged 61. April 27 - Rev. H.W. Jerrett closed his pastorate with the Presbyterian Church. April 29 - Lewis Dewey died, aged 77. April 30 - Mrs. B.J. Frederick died, aged 68. May 1 - Mrs. Mary A. Viets died, aged 88. May 1 - Mrs. James Drinkwater died, aged 77. May 2 - Sidney R. McNitt died, aged 77. May 3 - Carl Vielhaber died, aged 33. May 4 - Fine new Eldred Memorial Christian Church dedicated. May 5 - Ex-Mayor Frank G. Sharp died, aged 68. May 7 - Curt P. Lape died, aged 58. May 7 - Mrs. Libbie Erdle and Oliver Olinger married. May 10 - A Kalamazoo firm began selling 109 lots in "Fairfield" addition, the old fair grounds. May 16 - Wm. H. Firth died, aged 82. May 17 - Bernice Smith and Robert Watson married. May 18 - W.P. Ogden seriously injured in interurban wreck in Indiana. May 19 - Mercury stood 40 and about the same for several days. May 20 - Remains of Mrs. J.H. McGowan, 88, brought here from Washington for burial. May 21 - Harold Smith and Iva Weeks married. May 21 - Emery G. Luce died, aged 72. May 22 - Ermelinda Lopez and Nicholas Coscarelli married. May 23 - Mrs. Florence Corren died, aged 67. May 24 - E.D. Legg appointed receiver for the insolvent Coldwater Machine Works; liabilities many thousand dollars beyond assets. May 24 - Raleigh R. Munday and Anna Stansberry married. May 24 - Luella Ely and Robert Canfield married. May 25 - Mr. & Mrs. L.L. Bosserman celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. May 28 - Mary G. Foust and Paul De More married. May 28 - N.Y.C. ticket office safe blown and robbed. May 29 - Clyde Youngs and Anna Crippen married. May 31 - Mrs. Isaac Corless died, aged 67. May 31 - Alaric L. Parker died, aged 64. The month of May was notably cold and backward. There is a picture of the "Survivors of the Old Loomis Battery and Their Battle-Torn Flag" and beneath it is the following notation: "They are Geo. W. Jeffers, 85; A.R. Grove, 85; John M. Mench, 84; James Haynes, 83. In the back row are Mrs. H.C. Clark and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. F. Howe. Photographed at the 50th reunion of the Battery, in May, 1924." June 2 - Judge Johnson sentenced Lester R. Smith to prison for six months to fourteen years for raising a check, and Glen Quear for six months to one year for selling moonshine booze. June 3 - Andrew J. Gallup died, aged 85. June 5 - Marion Balcom and LaVerne Gresly married. June 5 - Fifty-seventh high school commencement; 64 graduates, 32 girls, 32 boys; departed June 9 on trip to Washington. June 6 - Thomas P. Cleveland died, aged 79. June 8 - Opal D. Butcher and Lawrence J. Monroe married. June 9 - Mrs. A.G. Stevens died, aged 78. June 9 - Mrs. Fred Markoff died, aged 72. June 11 - Amanda Warsabo and Park B. Doing married. June 13 - Mrs. Elizabeth Young died, aged 72. June 14 - Olin H. Ellis died, aged 66. June 14 - Mrs. Colista A. Cook died, aged 75. June 14 - Mrs. Mary E. Powers died, aged 69. June 15 - Leon G. Abramson and Velma T. Hibbs married. June 16 - Mr. & Mrs. Fortune R. Drury celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. June 17 - Mrs. Leo W. Carls died, aged 27. June 17 - City school census shows 43 gain. June 18 - City began using new 300,000-gallon water tank, total height, 145 feet; cost $20,000. June 19 - H. Emery Weage, 37, died of burns received in an explosion of oil. June 20 - Mrs. Evoline Bennett died, aged 66. June 20 - Mrs. Elizabeth Evans died, aged 81. June 21 - Standard Oil station manager R.G. McCurley held up and robbed of $125. June 21 - Millicent Jackett and Hubert Harpham married. June 22 - Mrs. Frank Jewell died, aged 55. June 22 - Frank H. Brace and Blanche Hutchins married. June 26 - Milo Ralston and Gwendolyn Jones married. June 28 - Estella H. Amaden and Lester G. Frost married. June 28 - Kathryn E. Brown and Howard C. George married. June 28 - Lillian Bottom and Roland L. Lucas married. June 28 - Vonda Hecox and Wm. H. Lucas married. June 30 - Helen Andrews and Guy F. Kaser married. June 30 - George Gallop and Evelyn Williams married. July 1 - Marcellus Parsons died, aged 39. July 1 - H.H. Morrow purchased an interest in the Duguid store. July 3 - Gladys Pixley and John Howard Lewis married. July 4 - Mercury 45 degrees in the morning. July 4 - Lynn Burch died, aged 59. July 7 - Viva Osborn and Russell M. McFarlane married. July 10 - Mrs. S.M. Teachout died, aged 76. July 13 - J. Barnes Sherburne and Gertrude Budrow married. July 14 - Mrs. Perry Outwater died, aged 46. July 16 - Chauncey Macky died, aged 75. July 16 - James M. Mapes died, aged 75. July 17 - Mrs. P.M. Whaley died, aged 55. July 18 - Mercury 48 degrees. July 19 - Mrs. Pitt Burch died, aged 44. July 20 - Willard A. Parshall died, aged 58. July 21 - Samuel Knauss died, aged 83. July 24 - Mrs. Eliza A. Phenicie died, aged 75. July 25 - Anna Boyd and John Wirley married. July 27 - Adeltha Downes rescued a lad from drowning by swimming to his aid at a Chicago beach. July 28 - Mrs. C.D. Sutton died, aged 61. July 29 - Mrs. Julia A. Ford died, aged 62. July 29 - Mrs. C. E. Blood died, aged 77. Aug. 1 - The Sloman clothing house became Sloman & Tyler. Aug. 3 - Mrs. Mary E. Lockwood died, aged 65. Aug. 4 - Woman bogus check swindler beat twenty local merchants out of $200. Aug. 12 - Frank M. Perry and Mrs. May Hawley married. Aug. 12 - Edward A. Knapp and Margaret L. Hotaling married. Aug. 13 - Wm. Harger died, aged 61. Aug. 16 - Mrs. Iola Corless and Samuel E. Deal married. Aug. 16 - Ida O. Barnard and Willis Goodwin married. Aug. 16 - Bernice Kemp and John C. Fisher married. Aug. 18 - Edna Rosendaul and Roy D. Rearick married. Aug. 18 - Russell Klock died, aged 25. Aug. 20 - Frank I. Post bought out Starr H. Parrish of Parrish & Post, jewelers. Aug. 22 - A.D. Ralph died, aged 77. Aug. 23 - Rena Bailey and Nichols B. Schooley married. Aug. 25 - Mrs. Amie Kemp and M.E. Brinneman married. Aug. 28 - Harriet L. Zirn and Harvey W. Johnson married. Aug. 29 - Asa Curtis, a State School boy, drowned while swimming in the river at cemetery bridge. Aug. 31 - Rev. Thomas Baxter began the Presbyterian pastorate. Aug. 31 - La Dorna Tift and Corwin G. Mollenkopf married. Aug. 31 - Bartlett M. Fletcher died, aged nearly 89; he had lived here 70 years. Aug. 31 - Samuel E. Brewer died; he was born here in 1839. Aug. 31 - Mrs. Marion Pauline Easterly and Albert C. Glick married. Sept. 1 - Betsy Edna Tyler died, aged 14. Sept. 1 - Mrs. Irvin Sherwood killed in an automobile accident. Sept. 6 - Mrs. Elizabeth Brown died, aged 83. Sept. 6 - Mrs. John Fitzpatrick died, aged 55. Sept. 6 - Oscar Ebel and Beatrice C. Whitney married. Sept. 8 - Mrs. Anne Donnelly died, aged 98. Sept. 10 - Primary election; heavy vote polled. Sept. 11 - Emery G. Hamblin died, aged 58. Sept. 12 - National Defense Day observed. Sept. 15 - Wm. Burch died, aged 78. Sept. 16 - Mrs. Gideon Long died, aged 71. Sept. 16 - Melvin T. Edmonds died, aged 86. Sept. 16 - Mr. & Mrs. E.R. Beers celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Sept. 18 - Mrs. Mattie Bedford died, aged 80. Sept. 21 - Mrs. J.J. Stevens died, aged 61. Sept. 21 - Close of revival services conducted by Evangelists Stewart and Van Evera at Eldred Memorial Church; 150 professed conversions. Sept. 23 - Cecil C. Payne and Herman J. Myers married. Sept. 25 - Mrs. F.A. Swain died, aged 50. Sept. 26 - H.A. Hamp assumed the superintendency of the State Public School. Sept. 26 - Ruth L. Brown and Clifford W. Loveberry married. Sept. 27 - Margaret Bishop and Gerald Smith married. Sept. 27 - Leland W. Zirn and Carolyn F. Davis married. Sept. 28 - Rev. W.L. Sharp closed his pastorate with the Baptist Church. Sept. 30 - Harry L. Taylor bought G.O. Pierce's interest in the Buick Garage. Oct. 1 - New paving completed, concrete replacing the first three blocks of brick laid on Chicago Street in 1898. Oct. 1 - Lucile Stevens and Russell Thomas married. Oct. 1 - Vera Logan and Homer H. Brown married. Oct. 3 - Oneita Hurley and Wm. J. Sullivan married. Oct. 4 - Mrs. Helen Howard died, aged 83. Oct. 4 - Sylvia Teachout and John Cline married. Oct. 4 - Jay Canfield and Myrna Rehm married. Oct. 5 - George D. Bussing died, aged 60. Oct. 7 - Mrs. Frank E. Walters died, aged 51. Oct. 8 - Mrs. Lizzie Atyeo died, aged 72. Oct. 11 - Elton Hutchins and Gladys Stahlhood married. Oct. 16 - Glenn D. Byers and Hazel M. Manzer married. Oct. 16, 17, 18 - Successful fair held by the merchants of the city with exhibits mainly in store windows. Oct. 17 - Beryl Swain and Elmer Davis married. Oct. 18 - Dale Isenhower and Marian Nichols married. Oct. 18 - Verne G. Smith and Florence Wagar married. Oct. 21 - First "killing" frost of a remarkably mild October. Oct. 21 - Louise E. Hess and L.D. Olmstead married. Oct. 27 - Mrs. J.J. Musser died, aged 68. Oct. 28 - Home of W.F. Stall and Lloyd Bowersox partially burned. Oct. 29 - Maxine Beach and Paul Wigent married. Oct. 30 - Carl Hickey died, aged 29. Oct. 30 - Elfred A. Smith died, aged 67. Nov. 4 - Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Russell celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Nov. 4 - Election. Branch County elected all Republican officials. Unusually heavy vote; Second War election board on duty forty straight hours. Nov. 7 - The Nelson-Neale Machinery Co. took over the former Coldwater Machine Works plant. Nov. 5 - Mildred Zull and Glenn Ashbreck married. Nov. 9 - Carl Batterson died, aged 38. Nov. 17 - First snowfall. Nov. 18 - Mercury nearly zero. Nov. 18 - Olive M. Speer and Robert Dennis married. Nov. 19 - Dell Cornell died, aged 66. Nov. 19 - Mary C. Herl and Fenton C. Flint married. Nov. 21 - Mrs. Jennie Wright died, aged 80. Nov. 21 - Mrs. Nelson Myers died, aged 54. Nov. 21 - Geo. L. Snyder bought the Edwards bakery. Nov. 22 - Zella Ingland and Ralph C. Duke married. Nov. 23 - Frank Hinkle died, aged 75. Nov. 25 - Anna M. Relyea married Sidney Coffman and Edna B. Relyea married Floyd F. Holmes. Nov. 26 - Mrs. Marion Ferguson died, aged 69. Nov. 27 - Champion Brass Works heavily damaged by fire. Nov. 27 - High school football team defeated Hillsdale, 25 to 10, and became champions of this part of Michigan. Nov. 27 - Chas. E. Tracy died, aged 61. Nov. 27 - Verlia Smith and Olen Twitchell married. Nov. 29 - Mrs. Dottie Dickey Kimball died, aged 45. Dec. 1 - Mrs. Nellie G. Conklin died, aged sixty-four years. Dec. 3 - Mrs. Frank L. Earley died, aged 44. Dec. 4 - Mrs. George W. Bailey died, aged 75. Dec. 5 - Mr. & Mrs. J.H. Van Nuys celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Dec. 6 - Mrs. Emma Rubley died, aged about 84. Dec. 6 - Mysterious disappearance of Edith Mae Clark. Dec. 6 - People's Restaurant began business. Dec. 9 - Garrie Pitcher and Mrs. E. Marie Smith married. Dec. 10 - Mrs. Frances Howe died, aged 85. Dec. 14 - Mrs. Victoria Nichols and Almen E. Cole married. Dec. 16 - Icy period, resulting from heavy rain and freezing. Dec. 17 - George Harmon died, aged 76. Dec. 17 - Wm. Holabaugh died, aged 82. Dec. 19 - James A. Ferguson died, aged 80. Dec. 23 - Mrs. R.B. Edmonds died, aged 83. Dec. 23 - Mrs. Frances Barber died, aged 73. Dec. 24 - Harry J. Bassett died, aged 63. Dec. 24 - Christine Hillborg and D. Howard Allen married. Dec. 25 - Fourteen below zero; coldest Christmas in 50 years. Dec. 29 - Grace Scott and Robert C. Fitzke married. 1924 - Coldwater Nonogenarians Mrs. Mary Brown, 43 N. Fremont - 93 Mrs. Matilda Collins, 153 Hull - 92 Mrs. Lenora Grinnell, 193 Church - 93 Samuel L. Kilbourn, 208 W. Chi. - 90 Geo. Lucas, 112 Cutter Ave. - 94 Chas. Norton, 40 West Park Ave. - 94 Mrs. Caroline Smith, 90 S. Monroe - 91 John G. Stepper, 142 Grand - 90 A.A.P. Unangst, 214 Marshall - 91 The following information is taken from the 1925 Coldwater City Directory: Civil War Veterans Coldwater and vicinity gave over 500 soldiers in the Civil War. After nearly 60 years, these 56 of those who returned from the war are still living: Ira Adams James Ferguson Thomas W. Rhodes John Allen Benjamin Filkins Edgar E. Sears C.H. Bard Francis Granger Clark Sherman Rev. C.L. Barnhart A.R. Grove John C. Stafford Charles Bender Dr. L.C. Hatton Henry Stahl C.W. Bennett Ira S. Havens John G. Stepper E.N. Billings L.L. Hawley Geo. Stewart Dwight A. Bolster John Hills Baxter H. Strong L.L. Bosserman Wm. Holabaugh S.M. Teachout Wm. Bricker J.H. Jagger Chas. R. Thompson O.D. Caldwell Geo. W. Jeffers Samuel I. Treat J.H. Clutter S.L. Kilbourn A.A.P. Unangst Reuben Cole E.E. Lewis J.H. Van Nuys Otis B. Cox H.G. McIntosh Jesse Walker L.S. Daniells A.A. McLaughlin Abram Whitbeck James Doris Dr. Geo. H. Moulton W.H. Wieand James Drinkwater Jeff Nixon B.S. Wilcox Frank L. Eaton Jacob Nodell Dr. D.H. Wood Geo. H. Eggleston Charles Norton D.S. Etheridge Lewis E. Pierce World War Gold Star Honor Roll of Branch County Following are the names of the Branch County boys who gave their lives in the World War: George P. Adams Stephen E. Herman Ernest P. Rex Claude W. Alderman Ray C. Hilton George Q. Rice Harold Berger Floyd Holcomb Eugene E. Richardson Edwin R. Bennett Richard Hower Ralph V. Robbins Joe W. Bohacz Leonard Johns Harold A. Robinson Charles D. Boley Frank Johnson Shirley J. Salts Charles R. Burr Eldridge G. King Harry L. Sherman Ralph R. Carr Frank C. Kostielny Arthur L. Sloman Roy B. Cass Michael J. Losinski Frank C. Sullivan Clyde C. Clinefelter Fred E. Luce Myles Swain C. Morris Cockle Delbert Lupold Harold Thomas John Conant Dominick Monocke Harry T. Watkins Joseph A. Demorest Tony Monocke Henry Watson Edward C. Dunn Vere Mowry Harvey Wendorf George B. Gilchrest Paul H. McKenzie Irvin Zimmerman Harry Grinnell Robert L. Nichols Fred Zurbrugg Timothy W. Greely C. Rodney Parker Cyril Henry Cornelius G. Pfirrman Superintendants of the State Public School Appointed Appointed Zelotes Truesdell March 13, 1874 A.N. Woodruff July 9, 1893 Lyman P. Alden June 21, 1875 A.J. Murray Sept. 1, 1895 John N. Foster May 9, 1883 John B. Montgomery Dec. 15, 1897 Wesley Sears June 20, 1887 Dr. A.W. Ives May 15, 1923 Chauncy F. Newkirk Sept. 1, 1889 H.A. Hamp Sept. 25, 1924 W.H. Wieand Oct. 7, 1891 1925 Jan. 1 - Hazel C. Weage and John C. Thirkield married. Jan. 2 - Mrs. Nora Parker's house, occupied by Bert Dickinson and family, burned. Jan. 10 - Kathryne Paradine and Ralph Redding married. Jan. 10 - Beulah Hanks and Merritt Yuhl married. Jan. 11 - Mrs. Sarah Ruger died, aged 81. Jan. 14 - Mildred Coffman and Wm. Clark married. Jan. 14 - Mrs. Stella Andrews and Chas. Baird maried. Jan. 17 - Mrs. J.B. Shipman died, aged 79. Jan. 21 - Henry C. Stitz died, aged 67. Jan. 22 - A.E. Robinson and wife placed in Military Park a tablet honoring world war heroes, in memory of their son Harold. Jan. 24 - Walter H. Reed died, aged 68. Jan. 24 - Loren E. Shultz and Mrs. Alice L. Brayton married. Jan. 25 - Harry R. Saunders died, aged 63. Jan. 25 - Mrs. Belle H. Smiths died, aged 79. Jan. 25 - Remains of Prof. Wm. Cary Morey brought here for burial from Rochester, N.Y. Jan. 28 - Home of Mrs. Isabel Warner nearly destroyed by fire. Jan. 29 - Mildred C. Wright and Ernest C. Vogt married. Jan. 29 - Mrs. A.D. McQueen died, aged 61. Jan. 29 - Mrs. B.H. Calkins died, aged 82. Feb. 6 - Mrs. John Robbins died, aged 69. Feb. 6 - Ira Havens died, aged 77. Feb. 8 - Hazel Larrabee died, aged 28. Feb. 8 - Mercury 62 degrees in the shade. Feb. 9 - Mrs. Harry Dodge died, aged 21. Feb. 12 - Abram Whitbeck died, aged 84. Feb. 12 - Mrs. Thos. Miller, 23, died of burns sustained Jan. 2. Feb. 12 - Grace Hiesrodt and Lyston C. Harding married. Feb. 14 - Arthur B.F. Morgan died, aged 78. Feb. 14 - James Kavalaris bought the American Restaurant from Burns & Casebeer. Feb. 15 - Mrs. Wealthy A. Clement died, aged 78. Jan. 17 [probably Feb. as it is listed with Feb. events] - Mrs. Mary A. Brown died, aged 93. Jan. 17 [probably Feb. as it is listed with Feb. events] - George A. Hayes died, aged 73. Jan. 24 - Leo Goss and S.E. Bater bought the Coldwater Baking Co. Feb. 26 - Judson B. Branch died, aged 71; Mr. Branch was in business here fifty years. Mar. 1 - Wm. Bender and Mildred Miller married. Mar. 2 - Arlo Young and Myrtle DeCombe married. Mar. 11 - Katharin Ostrander of Lansing appointed superintendent of the State Public School. Mar. 11 - Wm. Paradine died, aged 87. Mar. 13 - Edgar E. Sears died, aged 77. Mar. 13 - H.G. McIntosh died, aged 83. Mar. 13 - Mrs. Wm. Johnson died, aged 34. Mar. 23 - Mrs. Jane Fletcher died, aged 88. Mar. 23-28 - Modern Woodmen's indoor circus. Mar. 24 - Contributors sent $584 to the cyclone sufferers of southern Illinois. Mar. 25 - Thomas Rhodes, the famous drummer boy of civil war days and later, died, aged 79. Mar. 25 - Jesse Walker died, aged 87. Mar. 27 - Mrs. Sarah L. Miller died, aged 61. Mar. 28 - Mrs. Emma Parkhurst died, aged 77. Mar. 31 - Owen C. Hays and Karna Paulson married. Mar. 31 - Charles T. Maxfield died, aged 84. April 2 - Mrs. Ella M. Myers died, aged 75. April 3 - Mrs. Henry Godden died, aged 71. April 3 - Don Noyes died, aged 46. April 3 - Mrs. John Hardenbrook died, aged 67. April 4 - Ida D. Bennett suicided, aged 71. April 4 - Mrs. Jennie Gilbert died, aged 78. April 6 - City election: Nearly everything Republican, as usual; Mayor LeRoy Palmer, Democrat, and Treasurer J.L. Curts, Republican, were unopposed. April 7 - Grant U. Lockwood died, aged 58. April 8 - Mrs. Libbie Havens and Wm. Hughes married. April 11 - Doll oil station (a pioneer tavern building) burned with $3,000 loss. April 11 - Rosa Richardson and Charles Farris married. April 14 - Geo. W. Bailey died, aged 80. April 15 - Fred W. Moore died, aged 58. April 15 - Sarah A. Echtinaw and James S. Ogden married. April 18 - Dr. E.C. Freeland sold his dental business to Dr. R.G. Alexander. April 18 - Cletus V. Isenhower and Mrs. Dora Neisius married. April 18 - Winifred L. Hayne and Carl G. Unroe married. April 19 - Rev. A.G. Berg closed his pastorate with St. Paul's Lutheran Church. April 20 - Mrs. Lena Gruner and Elmer B. Bowen married. April 21 - Mrs. Ory Odren died, aged 57. April 21 - Mrs. Annie Shumway died, aged 69. April 26-May 2 - "Boys' week;" officers for one day, Raymond Massey mayor, Homer Howes city clerk, Starr Bennett treasurer. Arthur Ball justice of the peace; the boys made 182 arrests and collected $181 in fines. April 29 - James W. Campbell died, aged 75. May 1 - Arlene Keeler and Robert A. Sherman married. May 3 - Mrs. Charlotte Cutbush died, aged 71. May 4 - Mrs. Polly Fry died, aged 79. May 5 - Snowstorm. May 8 - A.J. Furgason died, aged 68. May 9 - Tablet to the memory of Gen. F.D. Newberry unveiled in Military Park by Company A Spanish War Veterans. May 9 - E. Nelson Masters and Mrs. Mildred Cornell married. May 15 - Mrs. Chas. Donihue died, aged 36. May 16 - Alfred Linsey died, aged 78. May 16 - Ethelena Cerrow and Coral R. Stetler married. May 20 - Milton J. Sheets died, aged 78. May 20 - Mercury about 90 degrees; May 23, mercury 29 degrees with snow flurries-both record breakers for the dates. May 25 - Frank E. Walter and Barbara P. Prieorsky married. May 28 - Mrs. Matilda M. Coillins died, aged 93. June 3 - Irving L. Stansell and Ina L. Eckert married. June 3 - Irene Fox and Howard Johnson married. June 4-6 - State U.C.T. convention here. June 4 - Chas. V. Coggin died, aged 83. June 4 - Chas. W. Smiley and Carolyn E. Hayward married. June 5 - Mrs. C.H. Bard died, aged 84. June 6 - John H. Walker and Gretchen Wood married. June 11 - High school commencement with 99 graduates, most of whom joined in a trip to Washington; Nellie L. Driggs resigned after nearly half a century's work as teacher; Supt. I.F. King succeeded by Chas. F. Hamilton. June 11 - Irene L. Swihart and Ledger J. Maxwell married. June 12 - Byron M. Miner died, aged 71. June 15 - Ledger Pierce and Marjorie Treacher married. June 16 - Chas. Warpup and Ada L. Shroll married. June 18 - Robert Jones narrowly escaped death when his automobile was struck by a locomotive. June 20 - Alice E. Harris and Howard W. Roeser married. June 20 - Mrs. P.A. Sweezey died, aged 66. June 22 - Glema Crandall and Edwin E. Dean married. June 26 - Samuel L. Kilbourn died, aged 90; Mrs. Kilbourn, 84, died nine days later. June 27 - Coldwater's first radio broadcasting. June 27 - Jeanette Palmer and George J. Rogers Jr. married. June 27 - Mrs. Lena Wetzel and Carl E. Greise married. June 27 - Irene Behnke and Leon Richardson married. June 27 - Leta Dollimore and Duane Sanford married. June 28 - Mrs. Jennie Sweet died, aged 74. June 28 - Scott B. Stout died, aged 75. June 29 - Howard Mott, 27, died of injuries received the day before, when his bicycle collapsed under him. July 1 - Mrs. Minerva McLaughlin died, aged 76. July 4 - Esther Farris and Zolvy Pierce married. July 4 - Selma Schmittfranz and Fred H. Kaiser married. July 5 - Edgar Barrell of Toledo died here while visiting his sister, Mrs. L.L. Bosserman. July 13 - Annual school meeting: Clark lot ordered bought for $1,250; Bert R. Warner, Warner B. VanAken and Chas. F. Clarke elected members of the board to succeed Frank Purdy, W.J. Sweet and C.F. Strong. July 16 - Mrs. Elizabeth Rosenbrook died, aged 78. July 17 - Mrs. Emil Stroh died, aged 64. July 18 - Geneva Jordan and Clarence Loveless married. July 18 - Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Rogers celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. July 19 - George Johnson, 16, drowned in Morrison's Lake. July 20 - C.D. Sutton, postman, retired after 33 years' service. July 21-28 - Chautauqua. July 22 - Mildred I. O'Shaughnessy and Nicholas Kavalaris married. July 27 - Paul R. Warpup and Julia B. Curtis married. July 27 - Erma Duke and Raymond Warring married. July 31 - Mrs. Moses Smith died, aged 78. Aug. 1 - Margaret Murray and Milton Arthur married. Aug. 1 - Linus Heydon and Ruth Monroe married. Aug. 2 - Mark J. VanAken died, aged 63. Aug. 8 - Mr. & Mrs. M.D. Gust celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary; their ten children were all present. Aug. 8 - Forrest B. Hillyer and Grace I. Alleman married. Aug. 9 - Mrs. Martha Barnard died, aged 88. Aug. 10 - Lynn Roby and Pauline Wickard married. Aug. 10 - Mrs. Sarah A. Kennedy died, aged 84. Aug. 12 - Carl C. Nelson and Lola R. Huntington married. Aug. 14 - Wm. W. Hoyt died, aged 36. Aug. 15 - Miriam Gripman and Richard C. Baker married. Aug. 15 - Wm. R. Cerrow and Mabel Hartshorn married. Aug. 17 - John J. Bishop died, aged 72. Aug. 22 - Kathryn Woodward and Lowell McConkey married. Aug. 29 - Frank L. Wolfe and Edith Russell married. Aug. 29 - Mrs. Ida B. Hutchins and Harvey B. Snyder married. Aug. 30 - Mrs. Alida Knight died, aged 58. Aug. 30 - Rev. W.S. Mesnard closed his pastorate with Eldred Memorial Church. Sept. 1 - L.L. Livermore, county school commissioner, resigned after nine years' service; succeeded by Fern E. Bickford. Sept. 4 - George W. Klock died, aged 79. Sept. 4 - Pearl Allene Boyer died, aged 18 months. Sept. 4 - Champion Brass Works sold to Albert Salomon of Milwaukee. Sept. 6 - Rev. T.J. Huegli began his pastorate with St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Sept. 9 - Ruth Byers and Philip Robinson married. Sept. 9 - George Harmon died, aged 72. Sept. 9 - Wm. L. Russell died, aged 64. Sept. 9 - Virgil Hodge, aged two years, died of carbolic acid poisoning. Sept. 10 - Irwin M. Gunther took over the management of the shoe factory. Sept. 11 - Mrs. Mary E. Vail died, aged 64. Sept. 12 - Wineburg's store opened. Sept. 16 - Dr. Fred A. Spade died, aged 47. Sept. 17 - Marshall Sanford and Ruth Scott married. Sept. 18 - County Fair Association formed with C.W. Andrews president and M.W. Wimer treasurer. Sept. 18 - Mrs. Adaline Sherman died, aged 80. Sept. 18 - Mr. & Mrs. David H. Sorter celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Sept. 19 - Dennis Vanes sold the Tibbits Theatre to Nicholas Pappas of Hillsdale. Sept. 19 - Wilford Ash and Rowena Boone married. Sept. 19 - Gaylord L. Boyer and Tressa Kimber married. Sept. 20 - Mrs. Mary A. Johnson died, aged 75. Sept. 21 - Ira R. Adams died, aged 80. Sept. 25 - Lyman S. Foglesong died, aged 72. Sept. 26 - Louis Landsman opened his clothing store. Sept. 26 - Joseph A. Conklin died, aged 80. Sept. 29 - Herbert M. Blake died, aged 70. Sept. 29 - Mr. & Mrs. H.A. Chase celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Oct. 1 - Ruth Warner and Chas. A. Merritt married. Oct. 2 - Patrick Kelly died, aged 66. Oct. 3 - Hellen Smallshaw and Edward Vincent married. Oct. 5 - John A. Dustman died, aged 78. Oct. 5 - Mrs. Martin Mannerow died, aged 70. Oct. 6 - Mrs. A.A. Stetler died, aged 67. Oct. 7 - John Whittaker and Mrs. Ada C. Gallop married. Oct. 9 - Mrs. Alice Huested died, aged 74. Oct. 10 - Willard G. Moore and Augusta Gallop married. Oct. 10 - Gladys Bingham and Sidney D. Smith married. Oct. 12 - Special school meeting to vote on proposition to erect building for manual training; only 10 opposing votes. Oct. 15-17 - County fair. Oct. 17 - Leona McGrew and Leon VanOrsdal married. Oct. 17 - Clara L. Crissman and Chester R. McConnell married. Oct. 20 - Ground broken for $6,500 manual training building for city schools. Oct. 21 - Mrs. Harriet Wood died, aged 63. Oct. 21 - Wm. H. Clark died, aged 70. Oct. 21 - Standard Oil safe blown for $300. Oct. 23 - Mary L. Messenger died, aged about 64. Oct. 24 - Andrew Harger and Florence L. Volk married. Oct. 27 - Mrs. Mary Field died, aged 86. Oct. 27 - Three inches of snow; mercury 17 above zero; four days later, 14 above-record breakers. Oct. 29 - Franklin L. Eaton died, aged 85. Oct. 31 - Big Halloween frolic. Oct. 31 - Edna Parish and Lester Manwarren married. Oct. 31 - E.C. Watters sold the Ford agency to Andrew VanLopik. Nov. 2 - Robert Green and Margaret A. Lowther married. Nov. 5 - Mrs. E.A. Miner died, aged 80. Nov. 5 - Hazel Crull and Andrew Jackson married. Nov. 7 - Grace Floy Strong and Orlo Young married. Nov. 10 - Pauline Seney and Walter Miller married. Nov. 11 - Mrs. Anna Shellenbarger died, aged 84. Nov. 12 - Mrs. Lillian Unroe and Earl Pepper married. Nov. 16 - Frank E. Miller died, aged 57. Nov. 19 - Mrs. Belle Sanders and Glenn Myers married. Nov. 21 - Nelson Myers and Olive Case married. Nov. 21 - Eva C. Gilbert and Howard F. Hill married. Nov. 22 - Rev. A.C. Shaw began his pastorate with the Church of Christ. Nov. 22 - Mr. & Mrs. John Vogel celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Nov. 26 - Lelah H. Kaiser and John K. Young married. Nov. 26 - Mrs. Belle Holdridge and Pitt Burch married. Nov. 27 - Mrs. Nettie B. Fackey died, aged 48. Nov. 29 - Mrs. Emma Cutler died, aged 63. Dec. 2 - Dr. B.R. Ferguson died, aged 71. Dec. 3 - Lydia E. Ketchum was killed by an automobile driven by Arthur J. Dorris. Dec. 6 - Benjamin Peterson died, aged 59. Dec. 7 - Wm. Dean died, aged 69. Dec. 8 - City voted 595 to 316 to extend franchise of the gas company another thirty years. Dec. 10 - Leo McQueen, Frank Brady, Harold Carls and Albert Norton were terribly burned at the city plant by an electric flash. Dec. 11 - Hary Birch died, aged 21. Dec. 12 - Esther Bertram died, aged 19. Dec. 12 - Flora Birmingham and Edward C. Lublow married. Dec. 13 - Frank S. Dorman died, aged 67. Dec. 15 - Patrick Leavy and Bessie Denbrock, his fiancee, were killed in an automobile which overturned on a curve near Albion. Dec. 16 - Bonus of $8,000 raised for Yatter factory, to take over the Princess plant. Dec. 21 - About 1,000 children given Christmas entertainment atTibbits Theatre. Dec. 22 - Mrs. Mary J. Stockdale died, aged 79. Dec. 22 - Mrs. Milly A. Boes died, aged 65. Dec. 22 - Mrs. Rhoda M. Coe died, aged 91, widow of former Lieut. Gov. Coe. Dec. 24 - Wilma D. Canon and Russell R. Alleshouse married. Dec. 26 - Fauna C. Wolfcale and R. Dale Harvey married. Dec. 28 - Frederick J. Dunks died, aged 90. Dec. 28 - John J. Easthom died, aged 70. In the 1926 Coldwater City Directory, there is a picture of a tablet with the following inscription: FRANK D. NEWBERRY VOLUNTEER SOLDIER BORN AT ROCHESTER, MICHIGAN JUNE 23, 1840 DIED AT SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA DECEMBER 28, 1912 CIVIL WAR 1861-1863 PRIVATE DCRYEES ZOU ST3 N.Y. INF. MICHIGAN NATIONAL GUARD ENLISTED 1875 COMMISSIONED CAPT. CO. 1 2ND REGT. 1876[?] LIEUT. COL. 2ND REG. 1885 - INSPECTOR GENERAL 1891 SPANISH AMERICAN WAR 1898 CAPT. CO. A 32ND MICH. VOL. INF. PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION 1899-1901 CAPT. CO. A 30TH U.S. VOL. INF. ERECTED 1925 A.D. BY HIS COMRADES OF CO. A 32ND MICH. VOL. INF. Under the tablet it says: The Newberry Memorial Tablet. Placed in Military Park by his old Company of the Spanish War. Capt. Newberry was also a veteran of the Civil and Philippine Wars. dz